Pratica di Shadowing: David Gilmour At Later... with Jools Holland - The Interview (2024) - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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A marvellous studio this evening with acts, brand new acts, great legends, all sorts of people.
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And speaking of great legends, one of the greatest guitar players of all time, and great singers, great songwriters, the lot, we have David Gilmore.
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Thank you.
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Very nice to see you.
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So, congratulations on your number one album, Luck and Strange.
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I was talking to Matt Johnson and it was his first album for 25 years.
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But this is your first album for nine years.
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That's still quite...
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It's not 25, but it's quite a gap.
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Why is it so long?
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There have been a lot of albums over a lot of years, and I'm slowing down a little bit at this point in my life.
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It sounds great.
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I'm working all the time, but without a timetable, and it just takes a while.
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Next one will be much quicker, I promise.
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You think?
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Good, OK.
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We'll all stand by for that in a couple of years' time.
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Luck and Strange, great title.
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Where does that come from?
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Well, it's Polly's lyrics to a track,
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which is a jam session that we did in 2006 with Rick Wright playing the keyboards on it.
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We've repurposed it for this
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and the lyrics are about the temptations of the sort of lifestyle
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that I've had and other people in our business have had.
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You know all about those yourselves.
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Well, how difficult it is to resist those temptations.
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Yes, I mean, that Piper's call is, you know, summoning you to follow and you find it hard to resist.
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Always somebody, but also temptations and diversions.
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It's always something to divert you, what you're trying to get with the music you're trying to do. That too.
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But that's sort of a, these things are a long way in the past.
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And Polly is, of course, a great author.
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Very good title of that book, Lying in Bed.
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Great title, that double meaning there.
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But she's been doing some of the words, but also you've had other family members helping, haven't you?
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Well, Romani, my daughter, is singing lead vocal on one of the tracks for the next song we're going to do.
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Her voice is amazing, I have to say i heard her songs maybe 10 years ago or something
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and she was good then now she's absolutely incredible she sang
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with your band didn't she my big band she sang uh la vie on rose
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made us all weep it was beautiful when she was 13 yeah exactly
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because you are noted as one of the world's great guitar
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players does the flow come out more easily i suppose um would the right piece of music
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and the right words inspiring you there are still moments where
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it comes flowing out very naturally other times takes a bit
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more work now you've just done some triumphant shows in rome
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at the ancient circus maximus home of the chariot races yes the you know gladiators
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and all 150 000 people it used to hold until julius caesar up the capacity to 250 000
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but we only used a tiny bit at at one end, a measly 15,000 people.
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Well, that's pretty good.
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And there were no chariots or anything.
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Nope.
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But of course, the question you just played in Rome, the question I know a lot of people are going to be asking, what did you have to eat?
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Well, Italy is a legendary place for food.
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I love Italian food, of course.
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But we were a little bit stuck in a very lovely hotel which had a brilliant restaurant.
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In a moment you're going to do the closing song on the show and Roman is going to sing it.
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What is it you're going to be doing?
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It's called Between Two Points.
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It's a song by a band from the 90s called the Montgolfier Brothers.
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Two guys who wrote this lovely song, lovely vulnerable song that Polly and I both listen to on a regular basis.
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Until we came to the thought one day that Polly suggested that we do a cover version.
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I thought we don't do cover versions, but on this occasion it's such a great song.
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It's definitely worth it.
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It sounds absolutely wonderful.
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And congratulations on a wonderful record that's gone to number one, quite rightly.
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Thank you very much, David Gilmore.
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Thank you, Julian.
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Lovely to see you again. And now...

Per chi è questo video?

Questo video è ideale per gli apprendisti di inglese a livello intermedio o avanzato che vogliono migliorare la comprensione della conversazione spontanea e la pronuncia. È perfetto per chi cerca di esercitarsi con un linguaggio naturale, ricco di espressioni colloquiali, e per chi si interessa di interviste artistiche. Grazie alla discussione fluida tra David Gilmour e Jools Holland, è un'ottima risorsa per la pratica di conversazione in inglese e per il shadowing in inglese, poiché la velocità e l'intonazione sono realistiche ma non eccessivamente veloci.

Parole e modi di dire da rubare

Ecco alcuni espressioni standout dal dialogo, utili per arricchire il proprio vocabolario:

  • "A marvellous studio": Un modo elegante per dire "uno studio meraviglioso". Utile per descrivere spazi o eventi positivi.
  • "Repurposed": Riutilizzare, adattare a un nuovo uso. Esempio: "Hanno repurposed la vecchia fabbrica in un teatro".
  • "Piper's call": L' "invito del pifferaio", metafora per una tentazione irresistibile. Deriva dalla fiaba di Hamelin.
  • "Triumphant shows": Spettacoli trionfali. Utile per parlare di eventi di successo.

Come migliorare la pronuncia: focus sulla pronuncia di David Gilmour

David Gilmour ha una pronuncia britannica standard, con un tono calmo e una articolazione chiara, perfetta per il shadowing. Ecco due consigli per imitarla:

  • Intonazione leggera: Gilmour usa poche variazioni di tono, soprattutto nelle risposte lunghe. Concentrati su mantenere un flusso costante, senza alzare la voce eccessivamente. Un shadowing site può aiutarti a seguire il ritmo in tempo reale.
  • Elisioni soft: Nelle frasi come "it just takes a while", la "t" in "it" e "takes" è quasi silenziosa. Imita questa softness per rendere la tua pronuncia più naturale. Usa tecniche di shadowspeak per esercitarti a ripetere queste elisioni senza sforzo.

Con la pratica regolare, questi consigli ti aiuteranno a migliorare la pronuncia inglese e a sentirti più a tuo agio nella conversazione.

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.