Pratica di Shadowing: American English Connected Reading | IELTS Topic: Describe an occasion when you lost sth - 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'd like to look at the connected sounds in a short text to answer the question, describe an occasion when you lost something.
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Let's take a look.
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It's funny.
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The first thing that comes to mind isn't something very expensive.
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It's funny.
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When you begin a sentence with the word it's, I sometimes notice that people completely drop the i part,
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and they just begin with it's funny, it's funny, it's funny.
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They kind of connect the it's to the next word.
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It's funny.
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Now this doesn't always happen.
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If someone's speaking a little bit more clearly, they wouldn't do this, and it wouldn't happen quite so obviously in the middle of a sentence.
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It's funny, the first thing that comes to mind, the first thing, you know, the t in first thing gets deleted,
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the first thing that comes to mind, that, the T in that, turns into a glottal stop, that, that comes to mind,
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isn't something very expensive, isn't, the T in isn't also turns into a glottal stop, isn't something, isn't something.
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And now if I say this faster, I might say isn't something, and remove the T entirely, no glottal stop, isn't something, isn't something.
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Or if I'm speaking a little slower and clearer, I'll say isn't something.
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Isn't something with a glottal stop.
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But I just happen to have.
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But I just happen to have.
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But I, that T in but turns into a tap before I, and the T in just gets deleted because it's in front of a consonant.
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Just happen.
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But I just happen to have.
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But I just happen to have a very strong memory about it. About it.
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Here about that T turns into a tap. About it. About it.
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I was waiting for a bus.
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I was waiting for a bus once. For a.
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Here for a turns into for a.
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I was waiting for a for a bus once and I left some sunglasses.
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An-ni.
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That D in and disappears a lot of a time.
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And I, and I, and I left some.
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So here the T in left some gets removed.
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Left some sunglasses.
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And I left some sunglasses on the bench.
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On the, on the bench.
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That N and TH connect together.
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On the bench.
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Once I was in the bus and driving away, in the bus, just like on the, we connect in the.
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The N and TH connect together.
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In the bus and driving away.
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Here, and, because it's between two consonants, we remove the A and the D sounds.
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N driving becomes bus and driving.
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Once I was in the bus and driving away, bus and driving away, it's just an N sound.
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I saw them out the window.
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Now here, I saw them.
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That's a little bit extra clear.
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We could say, I saw him.
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I saw him out the window.
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Saw him.
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We could remove the th entirely.
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That's okay.
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I saw him out the window.
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Here, out the, we connect that sound together, and you could think of it as a glottal stop plus th,
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out the, or you could think of it as the t connecting into th, out the.
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Both are fine.
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I saw him out the window and knew they were gone forever.
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Window, new.
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Here, window.
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Well, this consonant's a little bit softer than s, so we have a little bit of an e sound.
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Window, and it's not just an end sound.
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So I'm removing the d.
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It's not just window, n, new.
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It's window, when, when, when.
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So we have a small uh sound.
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Window-wen-nu.
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Now the d gets removed.
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Window-wen-nu.
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And the two n sounds, after the d gets removed, the two n sounds get connected.
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And new they were gone forever.
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It's been almost 15 years.
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Almost 15?
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The t disappears between s and f.
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Almost 15 years since then.
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And I still try to take.
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And I still...
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We remove the D in AND I.
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And I still try to take.
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Here to gets reduced quite a lot.
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Try to.
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Try to.
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That T is kind of a very light dd sound.
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Try to.
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Try to take.
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And the vowel is reduced too.
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Try to take better care of my sunglasses.
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Here of turns into uh before an M sound.
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Better care of my sunglasses.
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care of my sunglasses.
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It's funny, the first thing that comes to mind isn't something very expensive, but I just happen to have a very strong memory about it.
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I was waiting for a bus once and I left some sunglasses on the bench.
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Once I was in the bus and driving away, I saw them out the window and knew they were gone forever.
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It's been almost 15 years since then, and I still try to take better care of my sunglasses.

Informazioni su Questa Lezione

In questa lezione, esplorerai le connessioni sonore in un breve testo relativo al tema "Descrivi un'occasione in cui hai perso qualcosa". La pratica di conversazione in inglese non si limita solo al vocabolario, ma include anche l'apprendimento di come pronunciare frasi in modo naturale e fluido. Analizzeremo le tecniche di collegamento delle parole e come le lettere possono essere omesse o modificate nel linguaggio parlato quotidiano, aiutandoti così a migliorare non solo la tua pronuncia inglese, ma anche la tua capacità di comprensione.

Vocabolario e Frasi Chiave

  • It's funny - È interessante
  • First thing that comes to mind - La prima cosa che mi viene in mente
  • Glottal stop - Interruzione glottidale
  • Left some sunglasses - Ho lasciato degli occhiali da sole
  • On the bench - Sulla panchina
  • Driving away - Partendo
  • Out the window - Fuori dalla finestra

Consigli per la Pratica

Per massimizzare i benefici di questa lezione, ti consiglio di utilizzare la tecnica dello shadowing in inglese. Questo metodo prevede di ripetere immediatamente ciò che ascolti, seguendo il ritmo e la tonalità dell'oratore. Inizia ascoltando la sezione lentamente e cerca di imitare esattamente i collegamenti e le ommissioni delle lettere. Ad esempio, presta attenzione a come "isn't something" può essere pronunciata come "isn't somethin'" in un contesto veloce. A seconda della velocità del discorso, cerca di adeguare il tuo ritmo. Se l'oratore parla veloce, prova a non fermarti tra le parole; invece, unisci i suoni come fanno i madrelingua. Questo ti aiuterà a migliorare la tua fluidità e la tua capacità di esprimerti naturalmente in inglese.

Utilizzare le tecniche di shadowspeaks ti permetterà di familiarizzare con gli aspetti meno evidenti della lingua parlata. Inserisci ogni giorno brevi sessioni di pratica, concentrandoti sulle frasi chiave e sulle connessioni sonore. Con il tempo, noterai un significativo miglioramento nella tua pronuncia inglese e nella tua conversazione.

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.