Pratica di Shadowing: British Slang & Expressions - Part 2 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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Hello!
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This is Elliot from ETJ English and welcome to another lesson.
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So about a month ago I made a video
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and I was teaching you some useful British English phrases
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and it had a really good reaction so I thought today why not do the same thing again.
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I'm going to give you some more, some more useful phrases which you will hear a lot.
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There's some slang terms in here and there's also some phrases.
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So here's five for you.
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We'll start with number one.
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So number one is peckish.
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Now this you might have heard before, we say it a lot in England, and it means to be slightly hungry.
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Not really hungry, just slightly hungry.
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So I could say to you, I'm feeling a little bit peckish.
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Do you have any chocolate, for example?
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And that just means I'm feeling a little bit hungry.
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Do you have some chocolate?
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Do you have you know anything any kind of food?
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So if you're a little bit hungry not starving but just hungry you can say that you're feeling peckish.
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Number two we've got fortnight.
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This is used a lot especially in business English.
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If I've ever got any business English students I will usually say this
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and teach them this word fortnight and it's a very common British slang term
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it is slang and but it is used in a professional manner a lot of the time
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and basically a fortnight is two weeks it's a period of two weeks
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so 14 days is a fortnight
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so let's say I'm going on a holiday for two weeks
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I could say I'm going on holiday for a fortnight or
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if I've taken some time off work I could say I'm
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taking leave from my work for a fortnight I have a fortnight off work
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so fortnight that's another one for you and that is a British phrase
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if you said
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that in America wouldn't be quite the same I don't think
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they'd really know what we're talking about number three we've got skint this is a good word.
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I enjoy hearing this word in England.
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It's not a good word.
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It's not something you want to be saying yourself if you're skint.
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It basically means if you're skint, you're without money.
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You don't have money or you don't have very much money.
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Let's say your friend has asked you out for dinner.
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You're going for a meal together or something.
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You could say, sorry, I can't make it.
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I can't come to dinner with you.
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I'm absolutely skint and that would just mean I haven't got enough money to come out with you.
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You could say I don't have enough money but
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if you want to sound more British use a bit more kind of British lingo then you could say I'm skint.
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So it's just one that I thought I would give you in case somebody says it to you.
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Number four we've got cheeky.
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I also like this word we use it a lot with kids
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but it's not just something we say for kids
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if you're cheeky then you're kind of doing something rude
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but not really rude it's kind of charming at the same time kind of interestingly intriguingly rude
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or naughty we might say so for example let's say let's say without a kid a kid is always cheeky.
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They might say a comment which is rude
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but is sweet at the same time
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but I'm gonna give you one in an adult situation let's say I've got a friend
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and this friend is very rich he's got lots of money I wish
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but he's got lots of money
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and I could say to him you've got loads of money
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it wouldn't hurt you just to give me maybe a few pounds and that's a cheeky comment that's me saying
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well you've got loads of money why can't you give me some it's just a cheeky comment
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and he might reply and say don't be so cheeky
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or he might just say that's cheeky
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and that's just how we would use the word cheeky it's
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quite a common one like I said especially with kids they're
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full of cheeky comments number five is fancy now there's a lot of different ways we use the word fancy
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when I was preparing this lesson and I thought about the word fancy.
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First thing I thought about was when you fancy someone.
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If you are a boy or a girl and you fancy someone, let's say you say to them I fancy you,
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that would mean that you find them attractive, maybe you like them.
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It's something used more by younger people but you might hear it in movies,
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you might hear it in different situations but I I wouldn't worry about using it in this way.
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But you could also use the word fancy by saying, fancy a drink?
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Let's say that I was inviting a friend out to go for a drink, maybe.
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For a beer, let's say.
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We're going to go to the pub and drink some beer.
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I could say, do you fancy a beer?
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And that's just like saying, do you want to come out with me and grab a beer?
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Have a beer to drink.
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Also, let's say we have a menu at our table we're
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having a meal together I could say what do you fancy
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or does anything take your fancy
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and this is like saying is there anything you want from
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the menu do you like the look of anything what are you going to buy what do you fancy
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so it's two different ways of using the word fancy
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and something can also be fancy and that means it's quite posh, quite cool.
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For example, let's say I was wearing a smart suit, a really nice suit, a nice watch, some rings.
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I was looking quite rich and quite powerful.
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Someone would say, oh you look fancy and that would mean you know you're looking smart, you're looking rich and posh.
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So that's three different ways of using the word fancy.
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So there you go, there's another five.
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It It was highly demanded by all of you that I made another video like this.
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And if you enjoyed it, please tell me in the comments section below and I'll make more.
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I'll keep making these British English videos if you are really enjoying them.
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Your comments create this channel.
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They make me decide what I put on here next.
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When I have the time, I try and reply to all of your comments.
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So that's it for today's video.
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It really helps me out.
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If you'd like to book a Skype English lesson with me
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and start learning some real British English or preparing for an IELTS test,
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the link will just be in the description below and it's easy to book your first trial lesson with me.
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Hopefully I will speak to some of you soon and I will see you all in the next lesson.
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Thank you for watching.
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Che imparerai in questa lezione
Questo video ti introduce a frasi e slang britannico usati quotidianamente, perfetto per migliorare la tua comprensione e la tua pronuncia. Oltre a imparare vocaboli specifici, potrai esercitarti a "shadow speech" (ripetere immediatamente dopo l'audio) per acquisire il tono e la velocità tipici dell'inglese britannico. È un modo divertente per avvicinarti alla lingua reale!
Vocabolario e frasi chiave
- Peckish: Significa "un po' affamato", non "mangiando per la fame" ma una fame leggera. Esempio: "I'm feeling peckish – do you have a snack?" (Ho un po' di fame, hai un spuntino?)
- Fortnight: Un termine molto usato, anche in contesti professionali, per indicare "due settimane". Esempio: "I'm going on holiday for a fortnight" (Vado in vacanza per due settimane).
- Skint: Se sei "skint", non hai soldi. Esempio: "Sorry, I can't go out – I'm skint" (Mi dispiace, non posso uscire, non ho soldi).
- Cheeky: Descrive un comportamento "un po' impertinente" ma spesso in modo giocoso. Esempio: "The kid made a cheeky comment" (Il bambino ha fatto un commento un po' impertinente).
Consigli per la pratica con shadowing
Per esercitarti al "shadow speak", riproduci il video a velocità normale e ripeti ogni frase immediatamente dopo l'host, cercando di imitare la sua intonazione e la sua pausa. Se la velocità ti sembra troppo alta, usa la funzione di rallentamento di YouTube (imposta la velocità a 0.75x). Concentrati su come "peckish" e "cheeky" vengono pronunciati con una "e" breve, e su "fortnight" che ha un accento sulla prima sillaba. Un "shadowing site" o semplicemente ripetere con il video ti aiuterà a rendere la tua pronuncia più naturale. Ricorda: la chiave è la costanza – anche 10 minuti al giorno fanno la differenza! Imparare l'inglese con YouTube è un modo efficace per combinare divertimento e apprendimento.
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.