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Are you bilingual?

Trilingual?

You might have a better brain than me, and you might live longer.

Hola hombres, esta tres.

That doesn't work.

That's my name is the number three.

Thanks, mom and dad.

What was I in Spanish class?

Manuel, I think?

Hola, me amo Manuel.

I don't like that either.

I think I'm just going to stick to English for now.

Thanks for tuning in to DNews, everybody it looks like bilingualism isn't just useful when you're traveling,

or when you're trying to order food at your favorite restaurant,

or if you're trying to figure out what those girls on the train are talking about across from you, and if it's your shoes.

No, it also could help you live longer.

They know this because when they tested English -speaking seniors, the ones that were bilingual answered quicker.

Without getting too deep into the technical and medical details, bilingual brains are better at switching between major tasks,

like languages, and simultaneously filtering out superfluous information.

Obviously, this is really beneficial throughout people's lives, but if you enroll children in a bilingual school, it will not only help them learn to learn,

but keep their brain agile throughout their life.

It's not the only way.

You can also exercise, do stimulating tasks, or even do the crosswords.

And they've all been shown to keep your brain spry.

Although this is the most fun, unless you want to know what 77 down is vacation destination for sandwich lovers.

Ooh, Delhi!

Ha!

You know, India, Delhi.

Now that you're all jazzed to learn Cantonese or whatever, let's have science stomp on your bilingual dreams for a minute.

After about 12 months, you begin to filter out sounds that aren't found in your language,

which is why my German friend Nina can't really do the sound very well, and I can't do the, you know, the U with the dots.

I can't do that.

They're just not part of our learning.

That being said, it is of course possible to learn new languages, but it's better to be exposed early, like before you're four years old.

If living longer isn't a good enough reason for you to learn a new language, then perhaps this will help.

Look, we're about to get real deep.

Words are just an outward expression of emotions and thoughts.

They don't really mean anything on their own unless we assign them meaning.

Design student Pei Ying Lin created this infographic of untranslatable emotions.

My favorite shortcoming in the English language is that chasm that exists between liking someone and loving someone.

You might really like them or whatever, you might adore them, but that's a little trite.

The infographic shows that Italian and Korean have a word for love that's specifically for friends, family, inanimate objects, and pets.

We have to use the same word to express romantic love to our wife

or our husband as we would express to our mom or our dog or a really nice painting.

That is insane.

Here are some other words that we don't have that show up in other cultures.

I'll probably pronounce some of them really badly.

In Japan they have a really weird one, bakushan, which has to do with a beautiful girl but only when viewed from behind.

This one is really good.

It's Filipino and it has to do with seeing something cute and wanting to pinch or squeeze it.

And it's called giggle.

In Mexican Spanish they have a word for when you feel embarrassed for watching someone else's humiliation.

That's pena ajena.

You get the picture.

So there are a lot of words that English just doesn't have that express these emotions.

So not only can you learn another language, maybe you can just learn these and that'll help you live longer.

I mean, probably not a lot longer, like a few hours.

But hey, at least you can express yourself better.

Have you ever made up a word?

I'm sure you have.

I know I do it all the time.

Leave your made up word down in the comments

and give a definition so that we can all start using your fake words and maybe they'll become real words.

So thanks for watching and ti voglio bene,

which is the Italian word for I really care about you but I don't love you like a romantic partner.

So it would be nice if we had a word in between like and love.

Thanks for watching.

I'm Trace.

See you later.

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Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Bilingual Brains are Better”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: word, learn, language, bilingual, longer. Questo video contiene 69 frasi e 756 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 3:59. Chi parla va veloce, circa 190 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 83% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

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

Parola	Pronuncia	Significato
bilingual aggettivo	/baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/	bilingue
emotion sostantivo	/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/	emozione
romantic aggettivo	/ɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/	romantico
filter sostantivo	/ˈfɪltɚ/	filtro
pet sostantivo	/pɛt/	animale da compagnia, animale d'affezione
badly avverbio	/ˈbæd.li/	male
insane aggettivo	/ɪnˈseɪn/	insano, pazzo
vacation sostantivo	/veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/	vacanza
jazz sostantivo	/d͡ʒæz/	jazz
tune sostantivo	/tjuːn/	melodia
lover sostantivo	/ˈlʌvɚ/	amante
destination sostantivo	/dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/	destinazione, meta
shoe sostantivo	/ˈʃu/	scarpa, calzatura
simultaneously avverbio	/ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/	simultaneamente, allo stesso tempo
beneficial aggettivo	/ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/	benefico

I phrasal verb che sentirai

Parola	Pronuncia	Significato
make up verbo	/ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/	comporsi
figure out verbo		scoprire, rendersi conto

Frasi da ripetere

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

That's my name is the number three.
I don't like that either.
They're just not part of our learning.
Look, we're about to get real deep.
Have you ever made up a word?

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 26 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, don't, can't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

I suoni “sh” e “zh”: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, shoe /ˈʃu/, beneficial /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/
Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, simultaneously /ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/, beneficial /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, humiliation /hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/, inanimate /ɪnˈænɪmət/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: romantic /ɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/, pet /pɛt/, jazz /d͡ʒæz/, sandwich /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/, dot /dɑt/
/æ/ — più aperta della “e”: romantic /ɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/, badly /ˈbæd.li/, jazz /d͡ʒæz/, sandwich /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/, embarrassed /ɪmˈbæɹ.əst/

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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.

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