Pratica di Shadowing: Birthday Girl | Max Amini | Stand-up Comedy - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

Creazione lezione...
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Okay, I'll try.
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Go.
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Su-en.
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Su-en.
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C-O.
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Yeah?
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Su-en.
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Not bad, yeah?
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No, not bad.
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Not bad.
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Did you move to US to go to school or you're a spy?
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You're the cutest, most beautiful spy I've ever seen.
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Student?
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No, I'm working in an international organization.
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International organization?
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Wow.
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Sounds like a Chinese job.
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Nobody can organize everything international.
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Did you just make that up?
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So what is that?
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Like what do you internationally organize?
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I have co-workers from different countries.
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You have co-workers from different countries.
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You sound like a spy, I swear to God.
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We all walk together to destroy America.
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Who's the girl next to you?
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Is she your friend?
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Oh, you got a black friend?
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This is really international right now.
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Friend, what's your name?
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Lisa.
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Oh, thank God, Lisa.
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Tell something to change your name to Susan.
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So you guys are friends, and you're friends through the international organizing?
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No?
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You just made friends where?
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Living in a same building.
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You live in the same building?
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Okay, Lisa.
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Have you done a background check on her?
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So Lisa is your American friend, right?
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Yeah?
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African.
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Oh, you're African.
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You're not even American.
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What country in Africa?
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Namibia.
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Libya?
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Namibia.
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Namibia.
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I know exactly, Nabibia right next to Uzbekistan by Ukraine.
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Nabibia.
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And have you guys learned from each other's culture?
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Very similar.
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Very similar.
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Oh, African and Chinese.
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Very similar.
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Can I see you twerk?
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I just want to see the similarity.
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Lisa, do you have any fortune cookie in your pocket? From Africa!
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Bella, thank you for coming by yourself.
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That makes me very happy.
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That's so nice.
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What do you do?
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Are you a dancer?
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That bag is not for...
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Really?
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Radiology?
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In the radiology center?
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You strip?
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That's so fun!
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Can I come there and take a picture?
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I would love for you to do my x-ray.
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You'll find something amazing. And are you single?
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I'm actually a recent widow.
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You're actually, you're a recent widow.
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Aww.
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Give her a big round of applause for coming out and laugh.
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Yes!
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Wow!
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Oh, my love.
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You're so sweet.
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I feel really guilty about the stripper joke I made about you.
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I take it back.
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Oh, Bella.
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You're very sweet.
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I love you.
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I really love you and I wish you such an amazing rest of your life.
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Yeah?
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Because you never know what's gonna happen.
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And I want you to live every moment to the fullest.
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You made my night.
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And the fact that somebody is going through such a hard time and they come to watch comedy.
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It's very special.
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You're so young.
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You're so beautiful.
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You should go out there and meet people and find love
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and live life every day knowing that it's not a long journey.
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We're all going to go to the same place as your husband
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and where my dad is and everybody else who's lost a loved one.
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They know life is fast.
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So let's live it today because that's going to make them happy.
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Yeah?
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Any other widows in the audience?
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I have a huge widow following.
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What is the word for a man who loses his wife?
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If a woman is a widow, what is a man?
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A widower?
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A man who loses his wife is a widower?
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I didn't know that.
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You know why?
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Because men never complain when their wife dies.
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Is it somebody's birthday?
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Ah, it's your birthday.
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So what did you think is gonna happen?
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You put the crown and we're all gonna be like, Oh my God!
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Your birthday girl is here!
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Okay, fine.
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Give her a big round of applause for her birthday.
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Is it the four of you came out together?
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Your four friends besties?
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So let's figure this out.
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Yeah, let's give the birthday girl some love.
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Sweetheart, what's your name?
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Nicole.
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And where are you guys from?
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California.
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What the fuck are you doing in there?
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What nice friends.
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You guys are such beautiful friends.
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You like her so much that you're like, we put this ridiculous crowd
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on our head in front of 1,500 people
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and we sit there like okay let him pick on us and make us feel stupid as we are.
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Nicole what do you do?
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You do beauty stuff?
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Botox and fitness?
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You do that or you receive that?
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Both?
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You put some on?
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So right now you're having a good time because I can't tell.
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Okay, good.
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I need you.
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I need you to hold. Do that.
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How wonderful.
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It's your birthday.
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You know, you're such a darling.
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For your birthday, I'll do something very special.
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I'll pretend I'm a candle.
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Everybody got the joke where Cal State Floor is in.
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She's Googling it.
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What's going on?
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Is it Halloween?
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Why is it going to be a candle?
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Your white girl got it real too fast.
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Callie got it so fast that, guys, this is amazing.
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You came with a card in your head.
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Are you the daughter of the lady that gave me the card last time?
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Oh, you're sweet.
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Where's your mom?
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She's in Iran.
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She's in Iran right now.
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She got captured?
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Can you help out the situation?
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Oh, your mother is so sweet.
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Her mom came to my show last year.
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She gave me a card, and I read the card, and I opened the card.
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I didn't read the card, because when I opened the card, I realized she put her number, and she gave me her address.
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Now my stepdaughter showed up tonight.
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Good to see you, my love.
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Now there's another letter.
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And this is from your mom, too?
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This is from both of you?
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Thank you, from international organization.
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Thank you.
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Oh my god, the book!
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Jerry Maxwell.
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Oh my god.
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Tell your mom I love her so much I've licked her letter, okay?
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Mommy!
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They're such a beautiful family, yeah?
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Make sure you come every year and bring your card.
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Okay, I'll put it here and she's my whole world.
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Oh, I'm gonna cry.
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I'm a very emotional person.
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People don't believe me.
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But I'm gonna take this home, I swear to God, I'll take it before I go to bed, I'm gonna read it, okay?
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She has a message for me?
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In this, in this, or is it separate?
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Oh, so you give me the card and there's a message verbally.
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What is the message?
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She doesn't like you.
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She told me that she doesn't like me.
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She loves.
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That she loves me.
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I was just going to read the card.
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Now I'm going to have to read it and masturbate.
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Tell mom I said that, would you?
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Tell her that.
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Sincerely.
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Nicole, I take the candle off the table.
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I'm sorry.
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I only got one shot in this situation.
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I have to give it to mom here.

Perché praticare la conversazione con questo video?

Praticare la conversazione attraverso video di stand-up comedy, come "Birthday Girl" di Max Amini, offre una modalità divertente ed efficace per migliorare la pronuncia inglese e la comprensione orale. Questo video presenta interazioni leggere tra il comico e il suo pubblico, creando un contesto informale ideale per apprendere nuove espressioni e strutture linguistiche. La comicità consente di relazionarsi a situazioni quotidiane e di riconoscere le sfumature dell'inglese parlato, fornendo un'opportunità unica di imparare l'inglese con YouTube.

Grammatica ed espressioni in contesto

Nell'intervento di Amini, possiamo notare alcune strutture grammaticali interessanti che aiutano a costruire conversazioni. Ecco alcune chiavi:

  • Domande retoriche: Frasi come "Did you just make that up?" sono comuni nelle conversazioni informali e stimolano la riflessione e la partecipazione degli interlocutori.
  • Utilizzo delle congiunzioni: Espressioni come "and you're friends through the international organizing?" mostrano come le congiunzioni possano essere usate per connettere idee e aggiungere fluidità al discorso.
  • Frasi condizionali semplici: La struttura "If you live in the same building…" è utile per formulare domande su possibili situazioni e creare un dialogo coinvolgente.
  • Espressioni idiomatiche: La frase "I'm working in an international organization" dà un'idea immediata della professione, rendendo la conversazione più colorita e realistica.

Trappole comuni nella pronuncia

Durante il video, vi sono alcune parole e accenti che possono risultare impegnativi da pronunciare. Ecco alcuni suggerimenti per evitare trappole comuni:

  • Organize: Questo termine può risultare difficile – attenzione alla pronuncia [ˈɔːrɡənaɪz] per evitare errori comuni.
  • Beautiful: Fate attenzione alla pressione sulla prima sillaba, [ˈbjuː.tɪ.fəl], per suonare naturale.
  • Namibia: Questo è un nome geografico che può essere sfidante; la pronuncia corretta è [nəˈmɪbiə], da vocalizzare con chiarezza.

Incorporare il shadow speak mentre seguite il video può aiutarvi a sviluppare una maggiore fluidità e sicurezza, quindi provate a ripetere le frasi di Amini! L'obiettivo è ravvivare il linguaggio e far fronte alle sfide della pronuncia 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.