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And then finally, Finally!
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A letter arrived one morning.
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My hands were trembling so much, I almost ripped the letter trying to open the envelope.
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Dear Drizella My delegation has been extended and my duties have grown.
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I'm far too busy now to keep up with our correspondence.
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I hope you understand.
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and wish you well.
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Prince Henry.
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I read it three times, as if expecting other words to magically appear the more I stared at the paper.
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But that was it.
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Just this cold, impersonal letter after all these months.
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I told myself that he was really busy with big, important things.
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It had been almost a year since he left, and people can change.
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It's not like he ever said he loved me or promised me anything.
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And of course, there was nothing left to do now but move on with Dignity and grace.
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I found great comfort in pastries and gained a lot of weight.
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I considered becoming a nun but decided against it since nuns aren't allowed to curse.
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I went to the village witch and said a friend was asking about ways to hex a prince.
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I started writing a vicious breakup letter to Henry.
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Then realized you can't break up with someone you were never technically with, so I ate more pastries.
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Then I started running at dawn,
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lost all the weight, and used Cinderella's stupidly good skin and hair stuff But no matter what I did,
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it didn't dull the ache of missing someone who...
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didn't miss me back anymore.
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It had been months since that last letter, and I had picked myself up and moved on.
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So I wasn't expecting my stomach to lurch when an official invitation arrived from the palace, announcing a grand ball in honor of the prince's return.
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Great, other people could honor him.
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I wasn't going.
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Besides, Anastasia was terrified of dancing, and Mother wouldn't be up for it either.
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Over the past few months, she'd grown very weak and was always tired.
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I'd asked a couple of doctors to examine her, but they had no answers.
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Cinderella had been on top of her care, of course.
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Always fluffing her pillows, rubbing her feet, making her special herbal teas.
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And the thought had crossed my mind more than once.
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What exactly was she putting in those concoctions?
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I didn't think she was beyond slowly poisoning a woman for her inheritance.
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I'd thrown the invitation in the trash.
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But sometime later, Cinderella came into the living room, clutching it to her chest.
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You're invited to a royal ball, can you believe it?
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Oh, I've never been to a proper ball or worn a ball gown.
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the palace.
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I know I'm not invited, but maybe I could go, if you could take me with you?
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Yeah, no. We're not going.
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Royal balls are dull.
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Take our invitation and go, love.
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I'll arrange a carriage for you.
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You deserve to have some fun.
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Yeah, there was no cute fairy swishing a wand and going bibbidi -bobbidi -boo.
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Just my own mother handing Cinderella one of her finest gowns,
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a string of Naturally, Cinderella's feet were impossibly tiny and delicate.
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And she couldn't borrow shoes from us ogres.
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And off went Cinderella, looking like a vision.
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Since she was finally out of the house for a few hours, there was no way I wasn't going to snoop through her room.
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Which was, as I suspected, disgustingly perfect.
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Had a speck of dust, and everything was arranged with military precision.
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psychopath.
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I rifled through her drawers, opened her wardrobe, peered under the bed.
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I didn't find some secret stash of poisons or a diary confessing to slow murder.
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I wasn't even sure what I was looking for, and I was beginning to feel stupid.
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I turned to leave when suddenly, My elbow bumped into a picture frame on her vanity, knocking it to the floor.
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I cursed under my breath as I picked it up.
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Luckily, nothing was broken, and the picture had just come out.
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As I was placing it back in, Something slipped out.
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A folded piece of paper tucked away carefully.
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And when I opened it, I recognized the handwriting instantly.
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I would have known it anywhere!
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"Dearest Drizella, I'm so sorry I haven't written in a while.
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A sudden, strange illness gripped me, and I was too sick to be moved or even lift my head.
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The royal court kept quiet to avoid panic, and it took me months to recover.
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Even now, the physicians say the worst is not over.
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I am healthy otherwise, but my vision has been compromised permanently.
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They expect it will continue to worsen until I lose it entirely, perhaps within a few months or a year.
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Before that happens.
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Before I lose my ability to pen down words myself, I need to tell you that I'm in love with you.
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I'm not the man you deserve, but if you could ever imagine a future with me, one where I will not have my sight but you will have all my heart.
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I would ask you to marry me.
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Yours always, just Henry." I read it again and again and again.
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My knees gave out, and I sank to the floor.
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He had loved me.
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He had wanted to marry me.
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He had needed me when he had gotten such terrible news.
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And I'd never even known!
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I'd spent all this time thinking he'd forgotten me so easily, but it wasn't true.
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None of it was true.
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But Cinderella had known.
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How had she gotten this letter?
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Had she stolen it before it reached me?
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Did she intercept others too?
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Did Henry get mine?
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The broken sound escaped my throat.
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I wasn't crazy or paranoid.
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I'd been right about her all along.
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Suddenly, the sound of the front door opening snapped me back to reality.
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Cinderella had returned from the ball.
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I rose to my feet, pure rage surging through my veins.
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She'd taken everything from me, but this time, she wasn't getting away with it.
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I ran downstairs and found Cinderella by the fireplace, humming softly.
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And I lunged towards her and grabbed her hair.
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Oh my god, what are you doing?
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I shoved the letter in her face.
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Why do you have this?
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What did you do?
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What did you say to him?
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Her blue eyes went wide, then slowly she smiled.
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And before I could react, she grabbed the letter from me and flung it into the fire.
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What letter?
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I saw red as I screamed and tried to yank her hair from her skull.
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She managed to pull away from me, but I grabbed her dress, tearing away the silk.
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She shoved me, and I stumbled back as I ripped the pearls from her throat.
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Mother and Anastasia came running in at the noise.
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What is happening?
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Okay.
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She's attacking me!
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She's gone mad!
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Get her out of here!
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I swear I will kill her if you don't...
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You don't know what she's done!
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She stole him from me!
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What?
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Who are you talking about?
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Henry!
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The Crown Prince!
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We were in love.
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He wanted to marry me.
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Mother and Anastasia just stared at me like I was speaking a foreign language.
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She's crazy and jealous!
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She's always hated me!
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Drizella, you've lost your mind and you're scaring us!
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No, I'm not crazy!
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I'll prove it!
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I tore up the stairs, running to my room.
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I flung open the chest under my bed where I'd kept all our letters.
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They were gone.
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All of them.
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I stumbled back down the stairs, half mad with grief and rage.
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I charged at Cinderella again, but Mother blocked my path and shielded her.
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You will not come near her again, you hear me?
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Enough!
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sank onto the dirt floor, sobbing until my whole body hurt.
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I didn't know how much time had passed, But eventually, the door creaked open, and Anastasia walked in softly, kneeling beside me.
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If you say you talked to the prince if you say you loved him I believe you.
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You?
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You do?
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I knew you were hurting this past.
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I mean, I know what eating your feelings looks like.
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"But you just shut me out.
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I wish you hadn't." I leaned into her, the way we used to when we were little girls, feeling scared of thunder.
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and she pulled me into a warm hug.
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Thank you.
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I didn't sleep a wink that night.
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Henry's letter replaying itself over and over in my mind.
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Tomorrow?
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I was going to the palace.
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I didn't have a plan or some speech prepared.
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I just knew I had to see him and I wasn't coming back home without doing it.
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It was soon after dawn that I prepared my horse to leave.
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when a servant handed over a letter.
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"Important news!
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By decree of his majesty, members of the royal family will be visiting each household in this town today." "What?
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Why would the royal family be doing that?
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Would Henry be among them?
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I didn't know what was going on, but I had to stay back for the visit." "Cinderella was probably still holed up in Mother's room, which was good for her,
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because if I saw her face, I would tear her apart." I paced around impatiently, looking out the window for any signs of the royal delegation approaching.
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I thought I'd get a better view from the attic, so I ran up.
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And as I stood there, with my face pressed to the window, suddenly, the hair on the back of my neck stood up.
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I turned, and Cinderella was standing in the doorway, her eyes gleaming.
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Before I could run towards her, she slammed the door shut, and I heard the lock click.
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Let me out!
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You crazy witch!
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Let me out!
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And when I saw the royal delegation arrive at our house, I felt manic.
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I kicked and banged and screamed until my throat was raw.
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But no one heard me.
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Why was the royal family here?
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What was Cinderella doing?
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Finally, I heard someone running up the stairs, and the door burst open.
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The prince, he's here!
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He's here, and he just, he just asked Cinderella to marry him.
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The words punched the air out of my lungs.
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You have to go, you have to stop him, hurry!
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preparing to leave.
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And there he was.
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Henry was standing beside Cinderella, his hand cradling hers gently as he bent to kiss her fingers.
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"Henry, no!
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You can't marry her!
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You don't know who she is !" Everyone froze, including him.
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He slowly turned to me, squinting his eyes hard. And then...
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His face hardened to stone.
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I told you, I told you she would never let me escape.
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Henry, whatever she's told you, It's all lies!
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Address me properly, miss.
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It's Crown Prince Henry.
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Okay, Crown Prince Henry!
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You cannot marry that two -faced witch!
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A ripple of murmurs went through the small crowd gathering around us.
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I need a moment alone with her.
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He led me forcefully into the stables away from everyone and slammed the door behind us.
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You are the biggest liar I've ever met!
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And it was just a poor, abandoned girl that you and your family made your slave?
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I felt like he'd slapped me in the face.
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She didn't even dare tell me her name yesterday at the ball.
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She said she sneaked away because she wasn't allowed to exist freely.
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Not even for a night.
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Then she ran away before I could even ask who she was.
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All I had was her slipper she left behind by accident.
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And then imagine, looking for her, and finding that you're the villain in her story!
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Henry...
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She's a manipulative psychopath.
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She stole my letters.
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She stole yours.
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I didn't even know you were sick or losing your sight.
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Stop thine.
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It was your handwriting on the letter I got, where you told me you couldn't be with me because of my illness, where you said it would be better to end things before they really even began.
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I never wrote that letter.
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She faked it.
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I think she always knew about us right from the start.
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Our letters forged your handwriting and had been spying on us all along just to ruin things between us one day?
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I know it sounds crazy, but it's true.
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For a second, a shadow of doubt crossed his face, and I thought he might believe me. But then...
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His jaw tightened.
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No. You didn't want me.
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And now you just don't want her to have me either.
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My heart felt like it would explode.
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You met her last night.
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How can you marry someone you don't even know?
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Hahaha!
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As if time is a guarantee of anything!
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I knew you for much longer, but it turns out I didn't know you at all!
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She knows about my ailment, and she accepted me as I am.
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And even though I've lost most of my sight now, when I look at her, she glows like an angel.
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She's kind and beautiful and good.
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I know she will save me.
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And I will save her from you.
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As he started walking away, I felt something break inside me, like a monster being unleashed.
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Maybe it's a blessing you're going blind, Henry.
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I hope it happens faster for your sake.
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It's better if you're spared from seeing the snake you're marrying.
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Or the fool you've become!
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And I wouldn't have married you anyway.
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A blind fool is no prince, only a burden.
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Mind your tongue when speaking to your prince, and if you ever cross my path again, I will have you exiled.
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I walked out after him and watched from a distance as he took Cinderella's hand, lifted her into the royal carriage,
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and rode away, taking every dream I'd ever dared to have with him.
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What was it that Henry had called me?
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Ah!
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Yes.
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The villain in Cinderella's story.
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And that she would save him, and he would save her, from me.
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Yes.
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Her beauty was so bright, It even enchanted an almost blind man.
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It made everyone else look ugly.
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I calmly stepped over to the oil lamp and knocked it over.
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Then I stood back and watched as the flames ran up the curtains,
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lit up the walls, ate up her belongings, gobbled up all her lies.
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The whole room blazed, and it felt good.
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The fire spread faster than unexpected.
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The house was old and the walls half the estate was gone.
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Mother, heartbroken and sickly, packed up what little we had left and moved in with some distant relatives.
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Anastasia went with her. And me?
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Well...
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I was declared unwell.
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Hysterical and quite dangerous.
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I was locked up in a sanatorium.
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Just a fancy word for a prison with prettier walls.
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Anastasia tried to visit me regularly the first few years, bringing me sweet treats and books But over time, the visits got fewer.
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And eventually, They stopped altogether. And so...
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Here I stayed.
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my name forgotten, just one half of the Ugly Stepsisters Duo.
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The real question is...
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Did Cinderella get her famous happy ending?
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Honestly?
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I don't know.
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The crown prince had a relapse of his disease a few years later.
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And this time, he did not survive it.
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I'm sure Cinderella wore black for a while and looked stunningly tragic, but I doubt she really mourned him.
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Because I don't think she was capable of loving anything, or anyone.
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But who knows?
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Maybe she lived happily ever after anyway, bedecked in jewels and finery, admired and beloved by the people.
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and with a whole castle to scrub to sparkling perfection.
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Anyway, this is how my story ends.
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It's so depressing, isn't it?
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But don't worry.
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This version won't stick.
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Because no one really wants the truth.
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Not when the truth is ugly and the liar is beautiful.
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Hey, before you click away, can we talk?
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Like, really talk?
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You just spent time with me and my story.
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Not 30 seconds, not a quick swipe.
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actual time and that's Kind of rare now, isn't it?
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Look, I get it.
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TikTok is addictive.
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Those quick dopamine hits one after another, But here's the thing: Do you remember any of those videos from last week?
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Last month?
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They blur together, don't they?
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But a story, a real story sticks with you.
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It changes how you see things.
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Maybe after watching mine, you'll think differently about the villains in other stories.
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Maybe you'll question: Who's really telling the truth?
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That's what stories do.
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They don't just pass time.
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They change us.
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We're fighting to keep this alive.
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Every animation you see took weeks.
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Every character, every expression, every scene, crafted by humans who believe stories matter.
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We could pump out three -minute clips with AI voices reading Reddit posts.
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We could chase trends.
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We'd probably get more views.
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But we don't.
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Because you deserve better.
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Here's the truth: platforms push short -form content because it keeps you scrolling longer.
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But we're not trying to steal your time.
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We're trying to earn it, to give you something worth those minutes.
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So if this story made you feel something, anything, then please, share it.
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Not for the algorithm, not for us, but for everyone who's hungry for real stories and doesn't even know it yet.
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Send it to that friend who says: I wish movies were like they used to be.
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Drop it in the group chat where people actually discuss things.
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Because every share is a vote.
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A vote that says, "Yes, storytelling matters." Yes, we still want narratives that challenge us, surprise us, make us think.
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The art of storytelling survived thousands of years, from cave paintings to campfires, to Shakespeare to cinema?
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Don't let it die on our watch not for a five -second dance trend.
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Help us prove that in a world of infinite scroll, some things are still worth stopping for.
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Share this story.
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Save storytelling.
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It sounds dramatic.
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Because it is.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “Cinderella Story For Adults - PART 2”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: letter, Cinderella, Henry. Questo video contiene 326 frasi e 3021 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 19:54. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 152 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Solo il 79% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| handwriting sostantivo | /ˈhændɹaɪtɪŋ/ | scrittura, grafia |
| storytelling sostantivo | narrazione | |
| villain sostantivo | /ˈvɪl.ən/ | canaglia, furfante |
| delegation sostantivo | /dɛlɪˈɡeɪʃən/ | delegazione |
| stairs sostantivo | /ˈstɛɹz/ | scala |
| invitation sostantivo | /ɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/ | invito |
| psychopath sostantivo | /ˈsaɪkəʊpæθ/ | psicopatico, psicopatica |
| stumble verbo | /ˈstʌmbəl/ | scivolare, inciampare |
| pastry sostantivo | /ˈpeɪstɹi/ | pasticceria, paste |
| shove verbo | /ʃʌv/ | spintonare |
| softly avverbio | /ˈsɔftli/ | delicatamente |
| carriage sostantivo | /ˈkæɹɪd͡ʒ/ | carrozza |
| stare verbo | /stɛɚ/ | fissare |
| dull aggettivo | /dʌl/ | spuntato, smussato |
| arrange verbo | /əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/ | disporre, ordinare |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| back down verbo | cedere |
| come back verbo | tornare |
| get away with verbo | farla franca, cavarsela |
| go through verbo | attraversare |
| hand over verbo | cedere, trasferire |
| keep up with verbo | tenere dietro a |
| look out verbo | fare attenzione, stare attento |
| run away verbo | scappare, fuggire |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- You're invited to a royal ball, can you believe it?
- Had she stolen it before it reached me?
- Why do you have this?
- What did you say to him?
- How can you marry someone you don't even know?
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Frasi condizionali if + frase, will/would + verbo — una condizione e il suo risultato | if I saw her face, I would tear |
| “Used to” used to + verbo — un’abitudine o uno stato passato che non è più vero | used to when · used to be |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | has been extended · aren't allowed · was arranged |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | has been extended · I've never been · haven't written |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 85 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come didn't, don't, wasn't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: psychopath /ˈsaɪkəʊpæθ/, algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/, thunder /ˈθʌndɚ/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: delegation /dɛlɪˈɡeɪʃən/, invitation /ɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/, shove /ʃʌv/, vicious /ˈvɪʃəs/, perfection /pɚˈfɛk.ʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: delegation /dɛlɪˈɡeɪʃən/, invitation /ɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/, inheritance /ɪnˈhɛɹɪtəns/, correspondence /ˌkoɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dəns/, altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: handwriting /ˈhændɹaɪtɪŋ/, inheritance /ɪnˈhɛɹɪtəns/, happily /ˈhæp.ə.li/, hurry /ˈhʌ.ɹi/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: stairs /ˈstɛɹz/, psychopath /ˈsaɪkəʊpæθ/, shove /ʃʌv/, carriage /ˈkæɹɪd͡ʒ/, arrange /əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: handwriting /ˈhændɹaɪtɪŋ/, psychopath /ˈsaɪkəʊpæθ/, carriage /ˈkæɹɪd͡ʒ/, slam /ˈslæm/, attic /ˈætɪk/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come handwriting, storytelling, villain.
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.