Pratica di Shadowing: American English Connected Reading | Food You Tried For The First Time - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

Creazione lezione...
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Hey, what's up?
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It's Alex.
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Today, let's look at the connected sounds in a short answer
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where you're saying what you tried for the first time at a restaurant.
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Let's take a look.
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It seems crazy now.
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It seems crazy.
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So here the T will turn into a glottal stop.
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It seems.
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It seems crazy.
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At the beginning of the sentence, the whole word it, because it's such a short
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and common word gets reduced quite a lot and it blends with the next word.
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It seems, it seems crazy, it seems crazy now, it seems crazy now, but I was already in college,
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but I, we tap that t in but, but I was, was.
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We reduce that uh in was, and that's just a very short quick uh sound.
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But I was already in college.
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Connect the in with the sound in college.
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But I was already in college, already in college, the first time I had boba.
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The first time.
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The first time I had boba.
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So here the two T sounds in first time connect.
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The first time I had boba.
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I'd never heard of it.
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I'd never.
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So we're going to put that D and the N together, and it's called a nasal release.
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It's the N coming out of your nose as your tongue is saying D.
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I'd nn.
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I'd never.
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I'd never heard of it at all when I was growing up.
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Heard of it at all.
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We're going to connect all of these short words here.
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Of it at all.
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The word at gets kind of reduced to something sounding quite a lot like the word It.
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Heard of it at all.
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Heard of it at all.
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Heard of it at all.
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I'd never heard of it at all when I was growing up.
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When nigh connect the nuh to the i sound, and was also gets that same reduced vowel.
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I'd never heard of it at all when I was growing up.
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The city I grew up in didn't have, didn't have.
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Glottal stop there with the T before the H.
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Didn't have.
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The city I grew up in didn't have much in the way.
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Much in the.
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So we connect the N and the TH together. In the.
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Didn't have much in the way of Asian food or dessert places.
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Asian food or dessert places.
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Now here this word or I could choose to break up the sentence and add some emotion to it, Asian food or dessert places,
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or I could link them together and I could say Asian food or dessert places.
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If I link them together and I don't give any emotion to the sentence, or turns into er.
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Asian food or dessert places, Asian food or dessert places.
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So here, dessert, there's a glottal stop there for the t, dessert places, dessert places back then.
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I remember being really surprised.
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I remember.
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So here, I remember.
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That first syllable in remember gets kind of reduced or blended with I.
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I remember.
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I remember.
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I remember.
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I remember being really surprised.
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Really is the reduced form of really, and most people use really in connected speech.
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I remember being really, really surprised when I...
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Surprised when I...
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Connect that D and the W there.
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Surprised when I...
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It sounds kind of funny to connect it with no words around it.
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Really surprised when...
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Surprised when I tried boba.
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Tried boba.
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In the same way, we're going to connect D and B here.
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Tried boba.
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Tried boba.
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Tried boba for the first time.
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For turns into for.
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Tried boba for the first time.
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Connect the T and the T there again.
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First time.
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I was like.
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I was like.
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So here was connects to I, and the vowel in was gets reduced.
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It's much shorter.
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I was like, I was like, I was like, do you eat these little pearls? Do you? Do you?
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So here, d is the reduced form of do.
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Do you eat becomes do you eat? Do you?
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Do you eat?
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Do you eat?
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Do you eat these?
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So we want to connect you and eat.
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We do that with a little wha sound.
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You, you eat, you eat these.
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Then we take the tea in eat and turn that into a glottal stop.
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Do you eat these little pearls?
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Do you eat these little pearls?
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Do you just only drink the tea?
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Do you just, just, just, so just, the uh sound turns into something closer to I.
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Just, just, do you just only drink the tea?
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Also, the tea in just disappears in fast speech.
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Do you just, do you just, do you just only drink the tea?
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Only drink the tea?
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What are you supposed to do?
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What are you supposed to do?
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So here, what are you turns into what are you?
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What are you supposed to do?
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Here, supposed, supposed drops that I from the first syllable.
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Supposed becomes sposed.
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What are you supposed to do?
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Sposed.
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Connect the D and the T here.
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Supposed to.
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And we reduce the vowel in two, but then we have the full vowel for do.
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What are you supposed to do? To do.
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What are you supposed to do?
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In this video, I'll read the text twice.
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First, with all the natural sound changes, but at a lower speed.
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Then, at a normal speed with all the sound changes again.
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Let me know in the comments which one you like.
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Are you looking for a single course that explains all the connected speech rules, plus gives you thousands of sentences to practice with?
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I've put together a full pronunciation course, focused exactly on how American English really sounds.
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Believe me, this has been a huge amount of research on my end, and it's full of all the little details that they never tell you in textbooks.
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All you have to do is follow along and let the repetition do the work.
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I'll put the link in the description, but now let's get back to the video.
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It seems crazy now, but I was already in college the first time I had boba.
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I'd never heard of it at all when I was growing up.
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The city I grew up in didn't have much in the way of Asian food or dessert places back then.
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I remember being really surprised when I tried boba for the first time.
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I was like, do you eat these little pearls?
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Do you just only drink the tea?
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What are you supposed to do?
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It seems crazy now, but I was already in college the first time I had boba.
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It seems crazy now, but I was already in college the first time I had boba.
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I'd never heard of it at all when I was growing up.
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The city I grew up in didn't have much in the way of Asian food or dessert places back then.
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I remember being really surprised when I tried boba for the first time.
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I was like, do you eat these little pearls?
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Do you just only drink the tea?
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What are you supposed to do?

Perché praticare il parlato con questo video?

Questo video offre un’ottima opportunità per migliorare le tue abilità di conversazione in inglese, grazie all'approccio del shadowspeak. Attraverso la tecnica del shadowing in inglese, puoi ascoltare attentamente come i madrelingua pronunciano le parole, facilitando così la tua comprensione e la tua capacità di parlare. Il contesto dell'esperienza del cibo, raccontata in modo personale, rende il materiale più coinvolgente e facilmente ricordabile. Un aspetto chiave di questo video è la riduzione delle parole e la connessione tra suoni, che simula conversazioni reali, aiutandoti a adattarti meglio alle dinamiche della lingua parlata.

Grammatica ed espressioni nel contesto

  • Riduzione delle parole: Frasi come "I'd never heard of it" mostrano come le parole possono essere abbreviate. La tecnica shadow speech si concentra su questa riduzione per rendere il parlato più fluido.
  • Collegamento dei suoni: L'espressione "the first time" è un esempio di come due suoni possano connettersi, migliora la fluidità della lingua parlata. Utilizzando queste connessioni, il tuo parlato diventerà più naturale.
  • Uso del glottal stop: L'istruttore menziona l’uso di una pausa glottale in parole come "it seems". Questo aspetto è fondamentale da praticare per evitare errori di pronuncia comuni e migliorare la tua espressività.
  • Formulazioni colloquiali: Espressioni come "didn't have much" rappresentano modalità colloquiali di esprimersi, che puoi apprendere e imitare per suonare più naturale nella conversazione.

Trappole comuni di pronuncia

Alcuni aspetti della pronuncia si rivelano particolarmente impervi. Parole come "college" e "boba" possono sembrare semplici, ma la loro pronuncia fluente richiede attenzione ai dettagli. Inoltre, la fusione di "in the" in "in the way" è altro esempio dove si può facilmente perdere la chiarezza se non si praticano correttamente. Attraverso il shadowing site, puoi esercitarti a pronunciare queste frasi in modo efficace, affinando la tua capacità di riprodurre i suoni correttamente. Ricorda, l'obiettivo è quello di trovare il giusto equilibrio tra chiarezza e velocità, permettendoti di partecipare a conversazioni vivaci in inglese senza esitazioni.

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.