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But my mom had bought me gym shorts that was my exact size and extra small.
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So that wasn't very cool because it came down mid -thigh.
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And apparently back in the day that was called a John Stockton.
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And the same kid next to me, that bully next to me, he's like, Hey, hey, look at that.
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Hey, don't wear your pants like that.
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Pull your pants down, man.
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Pull your pants down.
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And I was like, who's the gay one now?
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But I didn't know what to do.
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Everybody was looking at me, and this kid kept saying, pull your pants down.
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So I was like, oh, .
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I've seen Shawshank Redemption.
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Maybe that's just how it works in America.
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So I start pulling down my shorts all the way down to my knees, all the way down to my ankle.
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And the same kid, the bully next to me, he's like, hey, what are you doing?
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Don't pull him down all the way.
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That's gay.
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And I'm like, what is not gay in this country?
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And apparently this other kid next to me, he's like, hey, don't pull them down all the way.
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Just sag them a little bit.
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Just sag your pants.
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And I didn't know what sagging your pants meant.
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Apparently that's a cool hip -hop thing to pull your pants down halfway down your butt.
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So you show everybody your ahole.
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And apparently that's the only not gay way to wear your pants in America.
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I had no idea.
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All these weird American things I wasn't used to.
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Eventually I learned how to speak English by watching a lot of TV, mainly BET Rap City.
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Because that was my .
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I want to be cool and nothing cooler than BET Rap City, right?
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Every music video was a slice of somebody's American dream.
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The first music video I saw was Jay -Z's Big Pimpin'.
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You guys remember that ?
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Jay -Z's Big Pimpin' was the greatest music video of all time.
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It was Jay -Z and his boys on a yacht pouring champagne on this beautiful woman's face for like four minutes.
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I was like, this is America?
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It's amazing.
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That's all I wanted to do.
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Like before I even wanted to get into the stand -up, that's all I wanted to do.
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I want to be a rapper.
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I want to be like
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Jay -Z and Big Pimpin'.
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So I started my own rap group in high school.
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It was a true story.
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It was me, my black friend Julian, and my other friend Yuji, who was half black and half Japanese.
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So we had perfectly one and a half black dudes and one and a half Asian dudes.
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And we called ourselves the Yellow Panthers.
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I know.
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I wish I was making this up, but I'm not.
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The Yellow Panthers was a real rap group.
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And we had a real rap song.
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It was called Underground Railroad Builder.
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I was confused.
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Eventually, I became a good Asian American, and I went to school to get an economics degree
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because that was the easiest degree that can still appease my Asian parents.
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but then after i graduated i didn't want to do like econ or finance
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so i went up to my dad i was like dad
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i don't want to do any of this i want to go try
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and do stand -up
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and he's like what's a what's a stand -up
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you mean like a talk show i was like yeah sure talk show whatever you want to call it okay
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but i want to go pursue my dreams and he was like no pursue your dreams how you become homeless.
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I was like, no, no, dad, dad, things are different now.
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We're in America, okay?
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In America, we're supposed to do what we love.
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He was like, no. Everyone does what they hate for money and use the money to do what they love.

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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Asian Mother Trauma : Jimmy O. Yang”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: pants, pull, rap, America, Jay. Questo video contiene 66 frasi e 661 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 3:59. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 166 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Solo il 81% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
pants sostantivo/pænts/calzoni, pantaloni
pursue verbo/pɚˈsu/perseguire
bully sostantivo/ˈbʊli/bullo, spaccone
confused aggettivo/kənˈfjuːzd/confuso
economics sostantivo/ˌiːkəˈnɒmɪks/economia
knee sostantivo/ni/ginocchio
butt sostantivo/bʌt/culo, sedere
pour verbo/poɹ/versare
halfway avverbio/ˌhæfˈweɪ/a metà strada
slice sostantivo/slaɪs/fetta, trancio
ankle sostantivo/ˈæŋ.kəl/caviglia
champagne sostantivo/ʃæmˈpeɪn/champagne, sciampagna
yacht sostantivo/jɑt/panfilo, yacht
thigh sostantivo/θaɪ/coscia
appease verbo/əˈpiːz/placare, pacificare

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
stand up verboalzarsi in piedi
pull down verbotirare giù, abbassare

Frasi da ripetere

Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:

  • Hey, don't wear your pants like that.
  • And I was like, who's the gay one now?
  • You guys remember that ?
  • That's all I wanted to do.

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 14 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, didn't, I'm. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: pants /pænts/, confused /kənˈfjuːzd/, economics /ˌiːkəˈnɒmɪks/, butt /bʌt/, slice /slaɪs/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: pants /pænts/, halfway /ˌhæfˈweɪ/, ankle /ˈæŋ.kəl/, rapper /ˈɹæpɚ/, champagne /ʃæmˈpeɪn/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come pants, pursue, bully.

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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