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Some people show their gratitude by doing things with actions.
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Like opening the door for others.
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Like helping an old lady cross the street.
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Like saying good morning, good afternoon, or good evening to a random person on the street.
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Like my friend cooking for me.
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and not waking me up so that I could get a good rest.
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But I do think we don't express our gratitude enough verbally.
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To your family, to your parents,
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to your friends, we should get more used to expressing what exactly we're grateful for about them.
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If it's the support they give us, the safety we feel around them,
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or simply because they're there, their presence in our lives.
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And time is the most valuable thing that we have.
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So just showing up, being grateful for those details is important.
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And expressing them however you can.
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I know for a lot of people it's difficult to express their gratitude verbally.
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so they'll show their gratitude in other ways.
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Like I said, with actions, maybe by giving things.
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Not everybody feels comfortable expressing those things.
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But I encourage you to try if you don't do it often.
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Try expressing your gratitude and showing that to someone you love today.
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We don't always know if tomorrow is assured.
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So say what you want to say today.
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Why wait until we almost lose someone to then appreciate them?
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Why do we have to wait for something terrible to happen? To feel appreciative.
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Don't forget the small moments.
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Don't forget to notice.
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Now, another good question I have for you.
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How does traveling change the way we appreciate our homes,
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our lifestyles, our environment?
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I think when you travel, it gives you a fresh perspective.
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A perspective that is difficult to see when you're doing the same thing and hanging out in the same spaces every day.
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If you're enjoying this video, be sure to like it so that we can help more people grow in English.
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And if you haven't subscribed yet, I think you'd really enjoy coming to these lessons once a week.
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Keep enjoying the video.
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At least when I travel, I'm looking around at the people,
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at the buildings, at the trees, listening to the sounds and the language around me.
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And I'm like, wow, this place is incredible.
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Even though it's exactly the same as my home country.
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It always makes me feel super grateful for my home country as well as the place I'm traveling in
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because I go home and I think it's
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so cool here too how did I never realize
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that the people here are so friendly the food is so delicious the culture is so rich that's why I love traveling.
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What do you think?
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Have you ever gone to another country and appreciated it a lot more than your home country?
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Think about that and take that same attitude and use it where you live.
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Notice how amazing the place you live is is and why tourists would go where you live as well.
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If you had to write a thank you letter, an appreciation letter to someone in your life,
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who would it be to and what would it say?
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You see, for me, if it wasn't my friends or my family,
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I think it would be to all the people who were kind
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and patient and understanding with me when they didn't know me,
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they didn't know what I was going through.
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and they still decided to be kind.
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I mostly think about my time in Thailand when I wasn't having a good time,
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when I had to be in lots of uncomfortable situations.
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And I still remember all of the people.
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for some reason.
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There was nothing special or crazy about these people,
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but I remember them because I was going through a very difficult time and those people were kind
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without knowing about my situation.
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So if that's what I'm most grateful for,
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something that those people probably don't know I'm that grateful for,
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then imagine how you can make someone feel today just by
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being kind just by choosing to open the door for
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that person choosing to smile choosing to be patient choosing to
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give I know I will today I hope you enjoyed our little conversation.
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This video was a little different.
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It was a lot of improvisation, just a lot of questions that I answered on the spot,
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and it's a lot more advanced than my regular content.
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But I hope you guys enjoyed this.
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I hope I changed your perspective a little bit,
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and I hope that you find something to be grateful for today.
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We have meaningful conversations like this in my English community.
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If you're interested, we speak, we connect, and we grow together.
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So you can join the waitlist.
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The community is closed at the moment, but I might be opening in a couple months.
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So join the waitlist so you can know and you don't miss out on the opening.
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If you enjoyed this video, remember to like it and subscribe to join me every week in these conversations.
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I'll see you guys next week.
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Remember, never stop learning.

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Perché esercitarti a parlare con questo video?

Questo video è una risorsa perfetta per chi vuole migliorare la comprensione e la pronuncia inglese, soprattutto con l'approccio del shadowing in inglese. Il dialogo è naturale, ricco di contesti quotidiani come l'espressione del ringraziamento e i viaggi, quindi ti aiuta a familiarizzare con frasi utili nella vita reale. Praticare con esso non solo rafforza la tua capacità di ascoltare, ma anche di replicare il tono e l'intonazione, fondamentali per comunicare in modo fluido. E se usi la tecnica del shadow speak (ripetere immediatamente dopo il parlante), noterai velocemente un miglioramento nella pronuncia e nella confidenza!

Grammatica e espressioni nel contesto

Analizziamo alcune strutture chiave del video:

  • "Some people show their gratitude by doing things with actions": L'uso di "by + gerundio" per indicare il modo in cui si fa qualcosa. Utile per spiegare azioni e motivazioni.
  • "Why wait until we almost lose someone to then appreciate them?": La struttura "Why + verbo" per porre domande retoriche, che stimolano la riflessione. Ideale per discutere di temi emotivi.
  • "It gives you a fresh perspective": "Gives + pronome + sostantivo" è una frase semplice ma potente per esprimere l'effetto di qualcosa. Ottima per descrivere esperienze come i viaggi.

Trappole di pronuncia comuni

Nel video, alcuni vocaboli possono creare difficoltà: gratitude (pronunciato /ˈɡrætɪtjuːd/, con l'accento sulla prima sillaba), perspective (/pərˈspektɪv/, con "per" debole) e appreciative (/əˈpriːʃətɪv/, dove la "t" è quasi silenziosa). Attenzione anche all'intonazione nelle domande retoriche, che scende alla fine, a differenza delle domande informative. Usare un shadowing site per esercitarti a replicare queste sfumature può aiutarti a superare queste trappole e a migliorare la pronuncia inglese in modo efficace.

La grammatica di questo video

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

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Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fais assured · is closed

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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