Pratica di Shadowing: American English Connected Reading 美式英语连读（上）｜TV（part one) - 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 we're going to look at a sample IELTS part 2 answer to the question, Describe a TV show that you watched but didn't enjoy.
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Let's take a look.
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Honestly, I don't watch a lot of TV.
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Honestly.
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We don't say honestly, that T disappears.
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Honestly, honestly, I don't watch a lot of TV. So don't watch.
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Don't watch.
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That T becomes a glottal stop.
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I don't watch a lot of TV.
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A lot of.
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So here I mentioned in a previous video that you can say a lot of TV or a lot of TV, depending on your mood and how formal you're being.
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Here, I'm not speaking very formally.
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This is a more relaxed answer, and it might be better to speak a little more formally in an IELTS exam.
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Here I'm saying a lot of TV, just to give you an example of relaxed, casual speech.
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A lot of TV.
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Honestly, I don't watch a lot of TV, and I actually can't remember the name of this particular show.
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An-I-actually.
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An-I-actually.
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So we're not saying and I.
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We're linking and I to an I, and we're putting a y here.
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I actually, I actually.
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And I actually can't remember.
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Can't remember.
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That T becomes a glottal stop.
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Can't remember.
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The.
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This the is spoken in a very low tone and it's reduced.
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Can't remember the name.
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Can't remember the name of this particular show.
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Of this particular show.
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Here I could say, the name of this, but that's a little bit too informal even for me.
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The name of this particular show.
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Particular.
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Particular.
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It's not particular, it's per.
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Particular.
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The name of this particular show.
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But I do remember, but I.
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These words are connected together, but I, with a tapped T, but I.
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But I do remember that a few years ago, that a, same thing, the T is tapped, it's not a glottal stop.
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I'm not saying but I, or that a, I'm saying but I, that a.
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I do remember that a few years ago, I was watching TV with my friend, and we came across.
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So the D in friend doesn't disappear.
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It's not a glottal stop, but it's spoken really lightly.
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Friend-en.
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Friend-en.
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But the d in and does disappear.
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Friend and we came. And we. And we.
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With my friend and we came across a new show.
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Came across a.
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Came across a.
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This a connects to a cross.
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Came across a new show that both of us just hated.
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That both of us just hated.
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That, here the word that is reduced.
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That both of us, of us, is connected together.
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Both of us just hated.
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Just hated.
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Since hated is stressed in the sentence, I don't reduce anything around it.
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Just hated.
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Full full pronunciation of just, just hated.
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It was a cartoon about a family in the 1970s.
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It was, this it is a glottal stop.
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It was, it was a cartoon about a family, about a.
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This t in about connects to the a, and it's a tap. About a. About a.
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About a family in the 1970s.
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In the is reduced.
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In the 1970s. In the.
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A family in the 1970s.
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And I think the dad might have been a factory worker.
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and I think the dad might have been a factory worker.
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Might have been a.
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I don't say might have been a.
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I'm speaking more informally.
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Might have been a factory worker.
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Might have been a factory worker.
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You can use this in a lot of sentences.
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Might have been a.
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I think the dad might have been a factory worker.
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I don't remember much of the plot.
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I don't remember.
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Don't remember.
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That's a glottal stop.
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Don't remember.
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Much of the.
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I'm not saying much of the.
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I'm saying much of the.
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Much of the plot.
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This is more reduced because much of the is de-stressed in the sentence.
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Much of the plot.
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But I do remember.
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But I do.
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But I do.
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Those words are connected together. But I.
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That's a tap.
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But I do remember.
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But I do remember that none of the characters were interesting at all.
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That, remember that, it's not that, remember that, that, that none of the characters,
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I'm not saying none of the, none of the, none of the, none of the characters were interesting at all.
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It's not interesting, interesting, interesting,
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interesting at all, at all, at all.
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It's not at all, it's at all, at all, with a tap for the T, at all, at all.
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And none of the jokes, same thing, none of the becomes none of the.
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None of the jokes really landed.
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If a joke lands, it means that it has a good reaction from the audience.
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None of the jokes really landed.
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We sat through a few episodes.
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We sat through.
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There's a glottal stop first here, then I say through.
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Sat through.
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Sat through.
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Sat through-a.
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Through-a.
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I add a wuh here.
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Sat through-a.
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Sat through a few episodes to see. To see. To. To see.
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It's not to see. To see.
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to see if it would get better.
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It would.
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Another glottal stop for it.
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It would get better.
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Get better.
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Another glottal stop for get.
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It would get better.
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And instead, the D here disappears.
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It's not a glottal stop.
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It's not an instead.
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It's an instead.
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An instead.
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An instead, it just got worse.
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So just got becomes just got in a glottal stop, the T disappears.
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Just got worse.
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The T in got becomes a glottal stop.
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Got worse.
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Got worse.
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Honestly, I don't watch a lot of TV, and I actually can't remember the name of this particular show.
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But I do remember that a few years ago I was watching TV with my friend, and we came across a new show that both of us just hated.
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It was a cartoon about a family in the 1970s, and I think the dad might have been a factory worker?
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I don't remember much of the plot, but I do remember that none of the characters were interesting at all, and none of the jokes really landed.
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We sat through a few episodes to see if it would get better, and instead it just got worse.

Perché esercitarsi a parlare con questo video?

Praticare la parlata inglese attraverso questo video è fondamentale per chi desidera migliorare la propria fluidità e naturalezza. La conversazione di Alex offre un esempio chiaro di come il linguaggio parlato in inglese possa differire dalla forma scritta. Utilizzando frasi colloquiali e un ritmo più rilassato, gli studenti possono capire come connettere parole e frasi, migliorando la loro capacità di comunicare in contesti quotidiani. Seguendo questo metodo di shadowing, si può migliorare la pronuncia inglese e rendere l'inglese parlato più accessibile e meno intimidatorio.

Grammatica & Espressioni nel Contesto

In questo video, Alex utilizza diverse strutture grammaticali e frasi che sono comuni nel linguaggio parlato. Ecco alcuni esempi significativi:

  • Connettori informali: L'uso di espressioni come "but I" mostra come si possano collegare le idee in modo fluido.
  • Contrazioni: Termini come "can't" invece di "cannot" rendono la conversazione più naturale e meno formale, importante per il shadowing in inglese.
  • Espressioni colloquiali: Frasi come "a lot of TV" dimostrano la varietà di linguaggio usato nel parlato quotidiano, fondamentale per chi pratica shadowspeak.

Trappole Comuni di Pronuncia

Nel video, ci sono alcune parole e frasi che possono risultare complicate per chi sta cercando di migliorare la propria pronuncia. Ecco le più comuni:

  • Glottal stops: La T in frasi come "can't remember" viene spesso pronunciata come un suono più leggero o addirittura omessa. È importante praticare questa pronuncia per suonare più naturali.
  • Riduzioni tonali: Parole come "the" possono essere pronunciate in modo molto attenuato, come in "the name of this particular show". Questa riduzione è spesso trascurata dagli studenti, ma è cruciale nel parlato veloce.
  • Collegamenti tra le parole: Frasi come "and we" diventano "and we" con una congiunzione veloce, un aspetto chiave da padroneggiare per chi pratica il shadowing.

Utilizzando i consigli di questo video e praticando regolarmente, puoi raggiungere una maggiore competenza nell'inglese parlato. Ricorda, ogni esercizio è un passo verso il miglioramento!

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.