Pratica di Shadowing: Are you following your dreams? ⏲️ 6 Minute English - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube

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6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Neil.
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And I'm Beth.
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When I was a boy,
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I wanted to be a fireman when I grew up.
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How about you, Beth?
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Did you have any childhood dreams?
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I wanted to be an astronaut and fly to the moon.
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When we're young, most of us have big dreams and plans for the future.
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Unfortunately, as we grow up,
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these childhood dreams often get lost in the adult world of jobs,
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money, families and careers – but not for everyone.
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Daisy from New Zealand and Herman from Argentina are two people who decided to follow their childhood dreams.
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They wanted the world to become a utopia – a perfect,
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ideal society where everyone is happy and gets along with each other.
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In this programme, we'll be hearing how Daisy and Herman made their dreams come true,
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not by changing the world, but by changing themselves.
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And as usual, we'll be learning some new vocabulary too.
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But before that, I have a question for you, Beth.
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Following your dreams can be tough,
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but not following them can leave you regretting all the things you wanted to do but didn't.
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In 2012,
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Australian nurse Bronnie Ware wrote her best-selling book The Top 5
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Regrets of the Dying after interviewing terminally ill patients about their life regrets.
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So, what do you think their top regret was?
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Was it a I wish I hadn't worked so hard,
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b I wish I had followed my dreams,
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or c I wish I'd made more money?
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Well, I'll guess it's b they wish they had followed their dreams.
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OK Beth, I'll reveal the correct answer at the end of the programme.
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The first dreamer we're going to meet lives in Riverside,
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a peace-loving community in New Zealand where everyone shares everything.
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Riverside members work for the community's businesses,
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including a farm, a hotel and a cafe.
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All the money they earn is collected and shared between everyone equally.
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Daisy, who was born in East Germany, joined Riverside in 2004.
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Here she explains her belief in sharing to BBC World Service programme The Documentary.
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What I think I always believed in is
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that the sharing of resources can provide a group of people with quite a great advantage.
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But it doesn't matter how many hours you work or what work you do.
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Everyone is getting the same amount.
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And that is something that many people outside of Riverside really struggle with
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and where they are often getting this communism label attached to us.
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Because it seems so outlandish for people.
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Riverside isn't a communist community.
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In fact, people with many different political views live there.
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But Daisy says that local people struggle with the idea that everything is shared.
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If you struggle with an idea,
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you find it difficult to accept or think about it.
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Daisy also says some local people call Riverside outlandish, strange and unusual.
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Our second group of dreamers are a family, the Zaps.
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In 2000, childhood sweethearts Herman and Candelaria Zap bought a vintage car
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and set off from Argentina to travel around the world with less than three and a half thousand dollars in their pockets.
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22 years and three children later,
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they have visited over a hundred countries,
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meeting with countless people and experiences on the way.
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Here, Herman Zapp explains to BBC World Service's The Documentary how following his dream has changed him for the better.
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I am so happy with Herman that is now now that I know now,
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not the one who wanted to conquer the world,
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but the one who was conquered by the world.
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I learned so much from people.
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It's amazing how the more you meet people,
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the more you know stories,
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how much more humble you become because you notice that you are a beautiful,
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tiny piece of sand, but a very important piece of sand like everyone is, right?
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After many years travelling, meeting new people and hearing their stories,
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Herman is more humble, not proud or arrogant.
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He no longer wants to conquer the world to control it by force.
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Rather, he has been conquered by his experiences.
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Hermann compares himself to a beautiful but tiny piece of sand
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and uses the phrase a grain of sand to describe things which are insignificant in themselves,
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but at the same time are an important part of the whole.
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Daisy and Herman are rare examples of dreamers who followed their dream and found a happy life lived without regret.
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Which reminds me of your question, Neil.
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Yes, I asked about Bronnie Ware's book,
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The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying.
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What do you think the number one regret was, Beth?
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I guessed it was B, not following your dreams.
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Which was the right answer!
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Not having the courage to follow your dreams was listed as the top life regret.
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At least we have people like Daisy and Herman to remind us dreams can come true.
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OK, let's recap the vocabulary from this programme,
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starting with Utopia, a perfect world where everyone is happy.
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If you struggle with an idea,
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you find it difficult to accept.
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The adjective outlandish means strange and unusual.
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To conquer something means to control it by force.
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Someone who is humble is not proud or arrogant.
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And finally, the phrase a grain of sand describes something which is both insignificant yet somehow important.
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Once again, our six minutes are up.
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Bye for now.
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Goodbye.

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Informazioni su questa lezione

In questa lezione di "6 Minute English" della BBC, esploreremo il tema dei sogni e delle aspirazioni personali. Attraverso la storia di Daisy e Herman, due persone che hanno deciso di seguire i loro sogni, rifletteremo su come le esperienze di vita possano trasformarci e arricchirci. Gli studenti praticheranno vocaboli relativi ai sogni, alle esperienze di vita e al concetto di condivisione. Inoltre, si approfondiranno strutture grammaticali come l'uso del condizionale e frasi di confronto, che possono essere utili in contesti di conversazione sia informale che formale, come nel caso dell'IELTS speaking.

Vocabolario e frasi chiave

  • Dreams (sogni) - Aspirazioni personali che desideriamo realizzare nella vita.
  • To follow your dreams (seguire i propri sogni) - Impegnarsi attivamente per realizzare le proprie aspirazioni.
  • Utopia (utopia) - Un ideale di società perfetta in cui tutti convivono felicemente.
  • To struggle with (lottare con) - Avere difficoltà a comprendere o accettare qualcosa.
  • Grain of sand (grano di sabbia) - Una metafora per descrivere come ognuno di noi sia una parte importante di un tutto più grande.
  • Outlandish (strano, bizzarro) - Qualcosa che appare strano o difficile da accettare.
  • Humility (umiltà) - Un atteggiamento di rispetto e modestia nei confronti di se stessi e degli altri.

Consigli pratici per questo video

Per migliorare la tua pratica di conversazione in inglese attraverso questo video, ti consigliamo di:

  • Shadowing: Ascolta attentamente le parole e prova a ripeterle immediatamente. La velocità di parola di Neil e Beth è moderata, rendendo il video adatto a chi sta migliorando la pratica di pronuncia.
  • Accento: Presta attenzione all'accento britannico, che potrebbe differire da altri accenti inglesi come quello americano. Questo aiuterà ad affinare la tua comprensione.
  • Argomento: Poiché il tema riguarda i sogni, le esperienze di vita e le emozioni, potrebbe essere utile riflettere sulle proprie aspirazioni mentre segui il video. Prova a collegare i concetti espressi con la tua vita.
  • Ripetizione: Non esitare a riascoltare parti del video per afferrare meglio il significato di frasi più complesse. Questo ti aiuterà a costruire fluenza e sicurezze nelle tue conversazioni future.

Con questi consigli e la pratica regolare, potrai migliorare le tue abilità linguistiche e aumentare la tua sicurezza nel parlare inglese!

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.

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