Pratica di Shadowing: Business Partner B2 Unit 1.1.1 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Different businesses have different styles.
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We talk about the culture of a company,
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and this might mean its dress code or the way in which its staff communicate with their managers.
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Gravity Payments is a credit card processing company based in Seattle.
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It organizes the authorizations of fund transfers for credit card transactions.
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Its clients are retailers who accept card payments for purchases,
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and it aims to cut the cost of processing card payments.
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Gravity Payments, this is Corinne.
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Gravity Payments has grown quickly,
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from a small startup to a profitable mid-size operation.
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Company culture changed for the hundred employees of Gravity Payments when their boss,
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Dan Price, announced the company's minimum salary would go up to $70,000 a year.
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Effective immediately, we're going to put a scaled policy into place
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and we're going to have a minimum $70,000 pay rate for everyone that works here.
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And he cut his own salary from $1 million a year to $70,000.
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Curious if anyone has any questions.
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Let me see if I can find that for you.
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Corrine Ward in customer support used to have a long commute.
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Now she can afford to live close enough to walk to work.
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I'm able to afford, you know,
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the cost of living in Seattle, which is incredible.
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Gravity Payments, this is Alyssa.
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Alyssa O'Neill used to make $21,000 a year before coming to Gravity Payments.
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Now she makes almost $60,000 a year as a customer support representative.
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She's paid off her car loan,
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credit card debt, and moved into a better home.
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It's something I never could have imagined.
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Following the announcement, Dan Price was praised as America's best boss,
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and the company received a flood of job applications and new client inquiries.
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But there were negative effects as well.
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Gravity lost a few of its most senior staff.
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They felt their skills and experience were not recognized in the new more equal pay structure.
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Over time, however, Gravity reported a 75% increase in revenue and 67% increase in new clients.
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Harvard Business School researched the changes at Gravity Payments.
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Some of their success might be attributed to increased productivity on the part of the workers now who,
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you know, feel respected and understand that they're going to have a hard time finding another job that pays so well.
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But it also has generated a lot of publicity and that has been good in terms of pulling in business.
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Tom Osborne is a client of Gravity Payments.
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To me, if they're running their business in a way that their staff feel better about being part of the company,
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work harder with their customers,
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to me as a vendor, that's a good thing.
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And another good thing seems to be happening at Gravity's headquarters.
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The staff are up to something.
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We had tried to think of a way that we could thank Dan for what he's done for us.
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Customer support representative Alyssa O'Neill got the ball rolling.
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We have one more gift for you.
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All right.
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It's outside, though.
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Alyssa convinced the other employees to contribute hundreds of dollars each.
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They bought Dan a Tesla car worth $90,000.
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Are you kidding me?
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No. It happened.
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It was like it was meant to be.
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Oh my gosh!
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I'm really surprised by his reaction.
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Thank you.
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In the short term, Dan Price's strategy seems to have been a success,
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particularly in creating a new culture at Gravity Payments.
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And only time will tell if it's going to be a long-term success or whether other companies will take the same approach.

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Perché praticare il parlato con questo video?

Questo video offre un’opportunità unica per migliorare il proprio inglese nel contesto aziendale. Parlando di cultura aziendale, presentazioni e sviluppo personale, gli studenti possono apprendere vocaboli e frasi utili per comunicare in ambienti professionali. Utilizzando tecniche di shadow speech, è possibile ascoltare attentamente e replicare le espressioni dei parlanti, migliorando così la fluidità e la confidenza nel parlato. Praticare il parlato con questo video consente anche di sviluppare una maggiore comprensione del gergo commerciale e delle dinamiche di team, aspetti spesso sottovalutati nella formazione linguistica tradizionale.

Grammatica ed Espressioni nel Contesto

Nel video vengono utilizzate diverse strutture grammaticali e espressioni chiave. Ecco alcune delle più importanti:

  • Future Simple: "We're going to put a scaled policy into place." Questa forma indica un piano o un'intenzione, utile per esprimere decisioni aziendali.
  • Present Perfect: "Gravity has grown quickly." Questo tempo verbale è fondamentale per comunicare esperienze o sviluppi passati con rilevanza presente.
  • Comparativi: "more equal pay structure." I comparativi sono utili per confrontare aspetti e per esprimere superiorità o inferiorità in vari contesti, inclusi ambiti professionali e salariali.
  • Modal Verbs: "might be attributed." L'uso dei verbi modali conferisce incertezza e possibilità, elementi chiave in una comunicazione aziendale efficace.

Praticare queste strutture linguistiche nel contesto della cultura aziendale aiuterà gli studenti a migliorare la pronuncia inglese e a sentirsi più sicuri durante le conversazioni in inglese.

Trappole Comuni nella Pronuncia

Alcune parole e frasi nel video possono presentare difficoltà di pronuncia. Ecco alcuni punti da considerare:

  • Gravity Payments: Attenzione alla pronuncia della "G" e della "P" iniziali, poiché possono facilmente essere confuse se non si presta attenzione.
  • Seattle: La pronuncia della "S" seguita dalla "ea" può risultare difficile; è importante praticare per evitare errori comuni.
  • Customer Support: Praticare questo termine può aiutare a evitare confusione, specialmente nella transizione tra le vocali.

Incorporando queste espressioni e pratiche di pronuncia nelle sessioni di shadowspeak, gli studenti potranno apprendere a imparare l'inglese con youtube in modo più efficace e naturale.

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
“Used to” used to + verbo — un’abitudine o uno stato passato che non è più veroused to have · used to make
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fawas praised · were not recognized · might be attributed
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohas grown · has generated

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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