Pratica di Shadowing: American English Connected Reading ｜Restaurant review - 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 we're going to look at the connected readings in a sample of ordinary English from a restaurant review
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that I found online.
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Let's take a look.
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This restaurant looks so generic and boring from the outside.
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This restaurant, restaurant, we don't pronounce that a-u in the middle, restaurant, looks so, looks so,
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we connect those two s sounds, looks so generic and boring.
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AND boring becomes and boring.
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That D at the end of AND.
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Some speakers do different things with this.
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I personally make it a very very weak D.
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My tongue is in position to say D but it doesn't really say it.
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It just goes straight to B. And boring. And boring. And boring.
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So generic and boring from the outside
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that I didn't go for years from the outside the yeah
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yeah the outside we put a yeah there from the outside
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that I didn't go for years that I
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that I we link those two words together and the final T in
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that turns into a flap that I
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that I didn't go didn't didn't that's a glottal stop instead of a T at the end,
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didn't go for years. For years.
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For turns into for. For years.
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Assuming that it was an overpriced tourist trap.
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That it wasn't.
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That it wasn't.
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It's funny to me how all those four words kind of combine into one very quick thing, because they're not the focus of the sentence.
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That it wasn't.
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Assuming that it was an overpriced...
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Assuming that it was an over...
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That it was an...
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That it was an overpriced tourist trap.
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Overpriced tourist trap.
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The D and T connect together, and then the T and T connect together.
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Overpriced tourist trap.
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Now, some people say tourist.
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I say tourist.
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This is one of those words that has multiple acceptable pronunciations in American English.
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Tourist trap.
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Tourist trap.
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I say tourist trap.
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I finally went and I was very pleasantly surprised.
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Went.
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That T at the end turns into a glottal stop.
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I finally went and I was very pleasantly surprised.
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Pleasant-ly.
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There's another glottal stop T there.
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Pleasant-ly surprised.
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Surprised.
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Not sur-prised, but surprised.
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I got the seafood plate.
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I got the seafood plate.
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I got the.
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Got the.
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We connect those T's together.
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Got the.
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Got the seafood plate that had, that had, that had, that had, that turns into a very very short word.
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That, that, that had, that had to, that had to, that had to, d and t connect together.
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Two of the best shrimp I've ever eaten.
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Two of the best shrimp.
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Now of the we could say other or of the.
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Two of the best, two of the best, two of the best shrimp.
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But that T in best disappears, and the two S sounds connect.
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Best shrimp.
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Two of the best shrimp I've ever eaten.
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Eaten.
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Eaten.
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We have a glottal stop there.
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Eaten.
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A crab cake.
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Grilled fish.
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Grilled fish.
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Again, that D kind of weakens before that F sound grilled fish,
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grilled fish, grilled fish, and mashed Okinawan sweet potato,
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and mashed, now that D disappears because we connect the N with M,
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and mashed, and mashed, and mashed Okinawan.
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Now with mashed Okinawan, the D sound is pronounced completely, but it's connected to the next syllable.
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Mashtokinawan.
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Mashtokinawan sweet potato.
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Mashtokinawan sweet potato.
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That T in sweet turns into a glottal stop.
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Sweet potato.
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Sweet potato.
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All over a Thai coconut cream sauce.
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Same thing for the T in coconut.
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Coconut cream sauce.
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It's a little bit expensive.
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It's a tap and it's kind of hard to say.
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We had two taps there.
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One in little and the other in bit.
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Little bit expensive.
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For what you get compared to other places.
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For what you get.
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For what you get.
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For what you get.
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For what you get.
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Now even though you is a pronoun, that's an important word, we still don't really stress it here.
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For what ya, for what ya, for what ya, because the stress is going to be on get.
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For what you get, for what you get compared to other places.
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Get, that T disappears, turns into a glottal stop.
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Get compared to, get compared to other places.
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Compared to.
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And those D and T sounds link together, and the vowel in TO reduces to UH,
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compared TO, compared to other places, compared to other places.
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Now, right there, I did a linking sound between two other,
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two other, or tother, tother.
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You can put the linking sound in, or you can choose to leave it out.
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It's your decision.
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Compared to other places.
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Compared to other places.
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They both sound just fine to me.
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But I still look forward to going back.
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But I, we tap that T in but I, still look.
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Connect those L sounds together.
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Still look forward to.
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Forward to.
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Now we have that same thing where two connects with forward to forward to forward to going back.
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This restaurant looks so generic and boring from the outside
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that I didn't go for years assuming that it was an overpriced tourist trap.
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I finally went and I was very pleasantly surprised.
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I got the seafood plate that had two of the best shrimp I've ever eaten, a crab cake, grilled fish,
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and mashed Okinawan sweet potato all over a Thai coconut cream sauce.
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It's a little bit expensive for what you get compared to other places, but I still look forward to going back.

Informazioni su questa lezione

In questa lezione, ci concentreremo sulla pratica della lettura connessa in inglese americano attraverso una recensione di un ristorante. Imparerai come collegare le parole nella lingua parlata, migliorando la tua fluidità e comprensione dell'inglese colloquiale. Questa lezione è particolarmente utile per chi desidera affinare la pronuncia e acquisire familiarità con le espressioni quotidiane. Attraverso l'ascolto attento e l'imitazione, potrai migliorare la pronuncia inglese e perfezionare il tuo shadow speech.

Vocabolario e frasi chiave

  • generic - generico
  • boring - noioso
  • overpriced tourist trap - trappola per turisti sovrapprezzata
  • pleasantly surprised - piacevolmente sorpreso
  • glottal stop - fermo glottale
  • tourist - turista
  • connected speech - discorso connesso

Consigli per la pratica

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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.