Pratica di Shadowing: American English Connected Reading ｜IELTS Speaking: Describe a trip you took by public transport - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Hey, what's up?
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It's Alex.
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Today I want to talk about a sample answer to the IELTS question Describe a trip you took by public transport.
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In this sample answer, we'll see a way to answer
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when you can't really think of anything in your own experience that answers the question.
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Let's have a look.
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To be honest, I almost never take public transport.
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to be honest to be we link those two sounds together not to be
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but to be honest to be honest I almost never almost
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never the T in almost disappears almost never take public transport the k sounds at the end of take
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and public disappear they turn into glottal stops take public transport.
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I almost never take public transport.
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We can also make the last T in transport into a glottal stop.
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I almost never take public transport.
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I have my own car, so I just drive wherever I need to go.
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So I.. we want to link those together.
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So I just.. so I just drive.
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Now, just drive just ends with t, and drive begins with d, so we link those together.
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I just drive.
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I just drive wherever I need to go.
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Same thing with need to, need to go, need to go.
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But recently I saw a report online about a British guy.
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But recently, the t in but turns into a glottal stop.
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I saw a report.
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I saw a report.
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Saw a.
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Those are two slightly different vowels.
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Saw.
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Saw a report.
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It almost sounds like I'm making the vowel in saw particularly long.
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Saw, saw, saw a report.
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I saw a report online.
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Report online.
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That T in report turns into a tap.
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Report on, report online.
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It links up with the A in online.
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About a British guy, about a, again we have another tap, about a British guy who challenged himself to see how far
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he could travel by city bus in 24 hours challenged himself the h in himself disappears
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to see to turns into to it gets very heavily reduced
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how far he could travel we make the h in he disappear
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and we link could travel how far he could travel by city bus it's not city it's city City.
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This is the American pronunciation.
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In the United Kingdom, it's city.
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But in the U.S., we weaken that to a little tap.
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City.
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City bus.
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He carefully planned everything out beforehand.
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Planned everything.
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We link those sounds together.
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And then the T in out turns into a glottal stop.
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everything out beforehand.
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Then he left at three in the morning to take the first bus out of London.
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Then he disappears.
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Left at three.
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The t in at turns into a glottal stop.
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Left at three.
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Three in the morning.
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Kind of link in the together and link it to three.
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Three in the.
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three in the morning to take to take turns into to
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take to take the first bus out of London here first bus turns into first bus the T completely disappears
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and of could turn into a we could also keep it as a small
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and weak of first bus out of London first bus out
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of London both are fine I don't know how many times he had to transfer, but he eventually made it all the way up to some city in the north.
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I don't know.
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We won't change this to don't know, I don't know.
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We'll say I don't know, don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
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I don't know how many times he had to transfer.
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He had to, he had to, we weaken had and to, he had to, he had to transfer.
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But he eventually, But he turns into buddy.
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That's another tap of the T.
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Eventually.
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He eventually.
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We add a yuh sound.
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He eventually made it all the way up to some city in the north.
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Made it all.
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Made it all.
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The d and t here get reduced.
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Made it all.
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Made it all the way up to some.
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Up to.
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Up to.
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Those consonants get kind of blended together.
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Up to.
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Up to.
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All the way up to some city in the north.
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In the connects together as well. In the. In the.
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Some city in the north without ever taking a long-distance bus.
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Without ever.
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Again, we tap that T.
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Without ever.
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Out ever.
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Without ever.
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Without ever taking a long-distance bus.
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I'd love to try a crazy travel challenge like that someday.
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I'd love.
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D-l.
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D-l.
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We link those sounds together.
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I'd love to.
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I'd love to try.
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To try turns into to try.
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I'd love to try a crazy travel challenge like that someday.
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Before the S, the T turns into a glottal stop.
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Like that.
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Like that someday.
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To be honest, I almost never take public transport.
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I have my own car, so I just drive wherever I need to go. But recently, I saw a report online about a British guy who challenged
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himself to see how far he could travel by city bus in 24 hours.
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He carefully planned everything out beforehand, then he left at 3 in the morning to take the first bus out of London.
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I don't know how many times he had to transfer, but he eventually made it all the way up to some city in the north without ever taking a long-distance bus.
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I'd love to try a crazy travel challenge like that someday.

Informazioni su questa Lezione

In questa lezione, ci concentreremo su come rispondere a una domanda tipica dell'IELTS riguardante un viaggio svolto con i mezzi pubblici. Attraverso l'analisi di un campione di risposta, esploreremo tecniche efficaci per associare e collegare i suoni in inglese americano, migliorando la fluidità e la naturalezza della pronuncia. Questa sessione sarà particolarmente utile per gli studenti che desiderano migliorare le loro abilità di pratica di conversazione in inglese e utilizzare il metodo di shadowing in inglese.

Vocabolario e Frasi Chiave

  • public transport - mezzi pubblici
  • almost never - quasi mai
  • drive - guidare
  • report - rapporto
  • city bus - autobus cittadino
  • challenge himself - mettersi alla prova
  • planned everything out - pianificare tutto
  • how far - quanto lontano

Consigli per la Pratica

Quando pratichi l'inglese utilizzando il shadowing, è fondamentale prestare attenzione alla cadenza e al tono del parlante. Nel video, Alex parla con un ritmo piuttosto naturale ma scorrevole, quindi prova a seguire il suo esempio. Ecco alcuni suggerimenti pratici:

  • Ascolta attentamente - Prima di iniziare a ripetere, ascolta il video per catturare le sfumature della pronuncia.
  • Ripeti subito dopo - Prova a ripetere ciò che ascolti senza aspettare troppo. Questo ti aiuterà a migliorare la tua fluidità.
  • Fai attenzione ai suoni che si collegano - Come notato nel video, il modo in cui le parole si uniscono è cruciale; pratica pronunciare frasi come "I just drive" e "need to go" fluidamente.
  • Pianifica le tue sessioni di pratica - Dedica del tempo specifico alla pratica di shadow speak in modo da rendere questa tecnica parte della tua routine.

Utilizzando queste tecniche di shadowing site, non solo migliorerai la pronuncia ma anche la tua capacità di comprendere le conversazioni quotidiane in inglese. Buona pratica!

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.