Pratica di Shadowing: Do you like garlic? ⏲️ 6 Minute English - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube

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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Neil.
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And I'm Beth.
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It smells delicious, sizzling in oil,
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and it's great for keeping vampires away.
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But don't eat it on a first date.
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I'm talking, of course, about garlic.
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Neil, do you like garlic?
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Oh yes, I love garlic.
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I had a very garlicky meal last night.
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Mmm, I know I can smell it from here.
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Here is Jason Chan, an Australian chef who specialises in Asian cuisine,
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and Paul Eric Jensen, a Danish chef living in France,
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talking about their love of garlic to BBC World Service programme The Food Chain.
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I love garlic because it's a versatile ingredient that can be used for cooking and offers various health benefits.
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We use it a lot.
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So from stocks to soups and in vegetable dishes,
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meat dishes, there's very certain a clove of garlic in somewhere.
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Yeah, it's unimaginable not using garlic.
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Jason loves garlic because it's versatile,
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meaning it can be used in many different ways.
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And Paul thinks cooking without garlic is unimaginable,
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meaning it's difficult to imagine because it would be so bad.
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love garlic or hate it.
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In this episode, we'll be finding out more about this versatile, strong-smelling food.
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And as usual, we'll be learning some useful new words and phrases as well.
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And remember, you can find all the vocabulary from this episode on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
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Now Beth, I have a question for you.
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It's a little-known fact that of the 600 varieties of garlic,
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many grew only in the former Soviet Union and were unavailable in the West until the fall of communism in the 1990s.
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So, which of the following varieties of garlic grew in the former USSR?
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Is it a rock'n'boll, b fire or c resig?
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Oh, I have no idea.
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I'm going to guess fire.
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OK, we'll find out if you're right at the end of the programme.
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Garlic is much more than just a cooking ingredient.
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For centuries, garlic was an important food throughout ancient Egypt,
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Greece and Rome, as well as India and China.
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It was the Roman Empire that brought garlic to European countries like France.
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And everywhere garlic grew, it was praised for its health-giving powers.
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Here, BBC presenter Rumela Dasgupta asks author
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and garlic expert Robin Cherry about garlic's medicinal uses on BBC World Service's The Food Chain.
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And what kind of illnesses or conditions would they have treated, for instance?
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Everything from cancer, scurvy, the plague,
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respiratory ailments, it was used as an aphrodisiac.
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Garlic was used to treat respiratory ailments.
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An ailment is another word for an illness or minor health problem.
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So a respiratory ailment is an illness of the lungs.
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In ancient Greece, garlic was also used as an aphrodisiac,
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a food or drink believed to increase sexual desire.
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But interestingly, this was the same reason why some cultures avoided eating garlic altogether,
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including a religious group from India called Jains.
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Yes, Jainism is an ancient Indian religion,
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like Hinduism and Buddhism, based on the idea of uhimsa, or non-violence.
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But unlike many Hindus and Buddhists,
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Jain's definition of non-violence includes plants and vegetables.
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Jains don't eat garlic because uprooting the plant kills both it and the soil ecosystem it grows in.
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Here's Sonal Ved, a Mumbai-based cooking show host and author of many books on Indian cuisine,
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explaining another reason why Jains avoid garlic to BBC World Service programme The Food Chain.
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According to Hinduism also, garlic is considered a food which is called the tamasic food.
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It is believed to stimulate desire,
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passion, aggression, and that's why they abstain from eating those kinds of food
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because it is believed to impact your spiritual growth and also your mental clarity.
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Jains abstain from eating garlic.
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If you abstain from doing something,
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you choose not to do it.
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For example, you might abstain from tobacco or alcohol because you know they're bad for your health.
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Like the ancient Greeks, Jains believed that garlic stimulates sexual desire.
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The verb to stimulate means encourage it or cause it to develop and grow.
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Modern medicine has confirmed some of these ancient beliefs about the health benefits of garlic,
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including reduced blood pressure and better gut health.
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OK, Neil, isn't it time you revealed the answer to your question?
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Yes, Beth, I asked you which variety of garlic grew in the former USSR and I said fire.
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Was I right?
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You were absolutely correct.
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Fire or Georgian fire is a hot white garlic from the Republic of Georgia in the former Soviet Union.
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OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learned starting with versatile,
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an adjective meaning to have many different purposes or uses.
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The phrase, it's unimaginable, is used to say
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that something is difficult to imagine because it would be so good or so bad.
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An ailment is an illness or health problem.
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An aphrodisiac is a food or drink believed to increase sexual desire.
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If you abstain from something,
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you choose not to do it.
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And finally, to stimulate means to encourage something or cause it to grow.
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Once again, our six minutes are up.
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If you've enjoyed this episode,
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then head over to our website,
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bbclearningenglish.com, where you'll find a quiz and worksheet to practise the vocabulary you've learnt.
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See you again soon but for now it's goodbye.
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Goodbye.

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Informazioni su questa lezione

In questa lezione, imparerai a conoscere l'aglio, un ingrediente molto amato in molte cucine del mondo. Attraverso il dialogo di chef diversi, esplorerai le varie applicazioni culinarie dell'aglio e le sue proprietà medicinali. Questa lezione non solo ti fornirà informazioni interessanti, ma offrirà anche nuovi vocaboli e frasi utili che potrai praticare. L'obiettivo è migliorare le tue abilità di conversazione in inglese, in particolare grazie alla tecnica del shadowing. Utilizzando l'approccio del shadowspeaks, potrai affinare la tua pronuncia e fluency mentre segui il ritmo della conversazione.

Vocabolario e frasi chiave

  • Versatile: che può essere utilizzato in molti modi diversi.
  • Immaginabile: difficile da concepire.
  • Ailment: una malattia o un problema di salute minore.
  • Aphrodisiac: un alimento o una bevanda che si crede aumenti il desiderio sessuale.
  • Clove of garlic: spicchio d'aglio.
  • Respiratory ailments: patologie respiratorie.
  • Cooking ingredient: ingrediente culinario.
  • Health benefits: benefici per la salute.

Consigli per la pratica

Quando pratichi il tuo inglese, soprattutto attraverso tecniche come il shadowing, è importante prestare attenzione al ritornello e al tono della conversazione. In questo video, il parlato è chiaro e ben scandito, il che ti permette di seguire facilmente. Ecco alcuni consigli pratici:

  • Ascolta attentamente il video più volte per familiarizzarti con il contenuto.
  • Fermati dopo frasi chiave e prova a ripeterle immediatamente seguendo il ritmo dei relatori; questo è il tuo momento per utilizzare il shadow speech.
  • Utilizza un shadowing site per trovare altri materiali simili che ti possano aiutare a migliorare ulteriormente la tua pratica di conversazione in inglese.
  • Registra te stesso mentre parli e ascolta per identificare aree di miglioramento nella tua pronuncia e fluidità.

Praticare queste tecniche non solo migliorerà la tua abilità di parlare in inglese, ma renderà anche l'apprendimento più coinvolgente e divertente.

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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