Pratica di Shadowing: Does Tate McRae Know Her Lyrics? - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Oh my god, I'm literally scared of all these.
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I'm hiding behind these cards.
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People are gonna think I'm a freak.
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Hey cute jeans, take mine off me.
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This is the first line in Sports Car.
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This honestly was such a fun song to write.
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We wrote it so quickly it was like i remember writing sports car
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and revolving door in the same day
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and we were just on a roll we were having
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so much fun we were just being stupid musically it was
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taking a lot of risks for me i mean doing a
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whisper chorus as a pop girl in a pop song where i usually love a
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super melodic chorus was a bit of a risk for me
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and i didn't know what people were going to think of
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it there was no ulterior meaning it was just a song
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about exactly what it says i now like love performing it's
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one of my favorites i got to work with bardia who's an unbelievable music video director
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that feels like so long ago now
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that i filmed this i think we had 15 different looks
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which is insane in one music video day to pull off
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that many we wanted to have all these different versions of myself
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and the whole twist of the video was that i was watching it
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and i was taking control of the narrative of my career
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and all these different characters i could put on i I honestly don't know that many sports cars.
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I think like a Ferrari or like a Lamborghini or something.
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I don't know, I don't drive a sports car.
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Oh my God.
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Fix your fucking self, because I'm scared of myself.
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Okay, this was in my song, Tip for Chat.
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I love this song.
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I remember coming out of the studio, we wrote in this little closet in Nashville, like the weirdest little spot.
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I was exhausted.
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I just finished a show and we had like four hours to write a song and this was so euphoric feeling.
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I think when you 100 % get exactly how you're feeling out on paper
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and there's no weird emotions attached to it or it comes across exactly how you want it, it's such a satisfying feeling.
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I remember playing it for my best friend Finley right after being like, I think I like this song, but I can't tell yet.
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I might not release it.
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And it was Finn's favorite song.
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He was obsessed with it.
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And so I dropped it and it was really fun.
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Oh my God.
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All of these are like the most insane lyrics.
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Like, holy shit.
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I'm hiding behind these cards.
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This song is anything but love off my So Close to What Deluxe.
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This was my most unhinged song I've ever written in my life, I think.
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Again, I wrote this with Julia Michaels who I wrote Sports Car with.
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This was one of those songs where I was like, I want a really classical chorus.
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I want trap beats.
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And this again came so fast.
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We wrote this in 20, 30 minutes.
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She's a Sagittarius, so she's very spicy and fiery, and I'm a Cancer, so I'm very reserved and whatever.
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And she always pushes me over the edge when it comes to lyrics.
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Whenever I think of them, I'm like, I can't say that, and she's like, you have to say that.
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So it was really fun.
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It was a cool process.
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The biggest difference between Tatiana and Tate, honestly, I think it's just the persona that I put on when I go on stage.
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Or maybe it's just like a placebo that I've created in my head where
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as soon as I lock into this other person, I could get on any stage and not feel a single nerve.
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It feels like Tatiana is like every single coach I've ever had, my mom, my dancers.
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It feels like I have like a gang up there with me like spiritually and in my like aura.
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I feel so powerful.
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I feel like I could do anything.
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Thank you.
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Okay.
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I see you eyeing me down but you'll never know much past my name.
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This is from Greedy.
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I love the song.
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I remember this time of my life so clearly.
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It was 2023 and I felt like I was just transforming so much and I think I was 19, and I was like, I need to make big shifts in my life.
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Like, I feel like a new grown woman.
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I've been living in LA since I was 17.
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And I just knew that I wanted to make pop music.
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And I knew I had to get in with really great pop songwriters and learn as much as I could about it.
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Gritty was one of our first swings in this album.
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And for the longest time, I hated the song.
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And then Tether convinced me to release it, which thank God.
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I'm a big tweaker so I write the songs and I could go in like 20 times, 60 times and rewrite a million lyrics.
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And for this one it initially started as obvious
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that you want me but I said I keep to myself and I was like this is lame, like why?
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Don't keep to yourself, you're 20, you're like having fun.
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So then when we cracked like obvious that you want me
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but I said I would want myself I think I was like this feels like it's radiating the feeling I wanted.
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I have a very specific memory of me
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and Jason Momoa on SNL doing like a little tick -tock to it
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and I remember the song had just come out
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and just just feel like I had like a viral song
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and Jason Momoa was singing to it I was like this is crazy
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and I was on SNL it was the coolest day of my life okay doesn't mess you up
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that you had it and you lost it this is from nobody's girl this is It's such a fun song to me.
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I wrote this coming off of my European tour.
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I just had been spending so many weeks in the grass, in Munich, and in Vienna,
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and all these places, and I was just very spiritually in tune.
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And I felt like writing this song described exactly how I felt at the time, when I was just like, I feel like I should be so sad right now, but I feel very free are you still
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nobody's girl I am that's private okay baby
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I ain't saying you don't know me well it's just not the shit I need baby baby I just not the
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This song was just kind of talking about how relationships feel the most impactful through actions
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and I think really vulnerable moments and sometimes all the extra shit is like so
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unnecessary and that's what was the premise of the song.
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All right, this is, I can't tell if you want to kill me or if you want to kiss me.
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This is for my song, Like I Do.
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This was one of the last additions to my album.
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My whole album had gotten leaked at this point, and I was like, let's just go make music by myself.
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I don't want to meet anyone in here, and we started writing this song.
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This was like a freestyled chorus on the mic, and then this little bit was so fun to write.
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Just talking about that obsession feeling when you feel like someone's staring at you and you're like,
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I literally can't tell if you want to murder me right now or if you want to be in my skin.
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And so I think that was the idea of it.
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about things I never met.
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X's, this is X's.
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All of these songs are such Hail Mary songs that happened in moments of lightning strikes of inspiration.
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We had to finish up the album so fast after Greedy came out.
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And I went to the studio with Tedder and I was like, I wanna write the most pop song we've ever written.
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and we just started writing this and again it happened in like an hour
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and a half two hours then we filmed the music video like three weeks later
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and I remember the music video is this was
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so fun I just felt like I was fully getting to tap into this like pop character
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that I dreamed of in my head and pictured in my head for so long
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god I'm literally scared of all these okay
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if you say she's nothing to worry about then why'd you close your eyes
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when you said it out loud um this is such a throwback this is she's all i want to be
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i wrote this as a ballad
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when i was 17 with greg kirsten then i remember being
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like hey can you just like try putting electric guitars on this
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and he did and it turned into this like big pop song It's
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so funny to see my perspective on everything when I was 17, 18, because I was just so insecure and in my head all the time.
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And this was a perfect depiction of how I felt at the time living in L .A.
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I just think as you get older, you obviously get a lot more self -assured.
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And at the time, I was just so sad.
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I mean, I still feel like I am sad sometimes, but I was constantly, like, manifesting.
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I felt like really.
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negative things i try to avoid that sometimes in songwriting because i think
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the power of your tongue is so true and what you write is so real it all comes out
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all right now suddenly you're asking for it back could you tell me where'd you get the nerve
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this is from my song you broke me first which i wrote when i was 16.
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This was kind of my first big hit, which was a fever dream because I was still finishing high school.
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I remember doing hundreds of radio interviews, like mid -math class.
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It was just such a grind.
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I remember I was stuck in Calgary, like being like, get me to LA.
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This is insane.
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And I was in my basement the whole time just doing Zoom writing sessions.
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It was brutal.
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I knew I just wanted to pursue this as a career and that I couldn't really do it from my home.
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I wanted to be in with all the songwriters and the producers.
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It wasn't necessarily L .A in particular, it was just like wanting to be in the mix and just like start my career.
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I was so sick of high school at that point.
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This was about, I think it was a mix between a crush I had
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and a friend I had and it was two of them together
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and I remember just feeling so betrayed
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and let down by my probably ex -best friend at age 16
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and my crush being like rejected I wrote one song in
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LA on a writing trip came back got this song back like four months later
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and then just dropped it like it was the simpler times
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and I would just like write and drop just upload on Spotify immediately
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oh see now we're finishing on a wholesome note thank god people are gonna think I'm a freak
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okay I think about a hundred thoughts
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and you are 99 this was the first song I ever wrote not ever like
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but I ever wrote and published on YouTube and I was 13
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and I titled it I wrote a song dot dot dot
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and wrote it in 20 minutes put it online
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and within like a week this thing had like 30 million views
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and my parents were like what the hell is going on and it was what started this all
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now I look back I'm like okay you were a fetus I was like I'm
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so broken and so tortured i think it's so beautiful
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that i literally had no fears at all about putting all
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my feelings online for like two years during high school i think that's pretty ballsy
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and i give props to myself for that at 13 to just be like okay let's do it

Cosa imparerai

Questo video è una vera gemma per migliorare la pronuncia inglese e la fluidità nella conversazione! Tra le skill che potrai esercitare ci sono: la capacità di seguire un discorso spontaneo con pause e emozioni, l'uso di espressioni colloquiali (come "Oh my God" o "holy shit") e la comprensione di come i nativi raccontano storie personali con dettagli vividi. Ottimo anche per pratica di conversazione in inglese, perché impari a strutturare racconti su esperienze creative, come scrivere canzoni.

Ascolta questi suoni

Nella dialogue, ci sono molti esempi di connected speech e riduzioni tipiche dell'inglese parlato. Ad esempio: "I'm literally scared" diventa "I'm 'litterly scared" (la "t" si appiattisce), "it was like i remember" diventa "it was like I 'member" (la "r" si lega alla parola successiva). Ascolta anche come "gonna" (da "going to") e "wanna" (da "want to") sono usati costantemente: sono essenziali per parlare come un nativo! Non dimenticare le pause per l'emozione, come quando Tate dice "Oh my God" con un tono alto: queste influenzano il significato tanto quanto le parole stesse.

Parla come un nativo: ritmo e stress

Per imitare il ritmo di Tate, focalizzati sul stress nelle parole chiave. Ad esempio, in "This honestly was such a fun song to write", le parole "honestly", "fun" e "write" sono accentuate per dare enfasi. La sua intonazione sale nelle domande o nelle espressioni sorprese ("Oh my God, I'm literally scared...") e scende nelle affermazioni decise ("This again came so fast"). Per esercitarti, usa il metodo del shadowing: ripeti le frasi subito dopo di lei, cercando di copiare il tono e la velocità. Pagine come shadowspeaks o un shadowing site possono aiutarti a registrare e confrontare la tua pronuncia. Ricorda: la chiave è la fluibilità, non la perfezione! Anche le pause e gli errori "umili" (come quando Tate dice "I'm hiding behind these cards") rendono il discorso più naturale.

  • Pratica con frasi corte: "Hey cute jeans, take mine off me" (focus sulla connessione tra "take" e "mine").
  • Imita l'emozione: "I think I like this song, but I can't tell yet" (toni dubbiosi, pausa dopo "but").
  • Usa i riduzioni: "we were just on a roll" diventa "we were just onna roll" (lega "on" e "a").

Con questi esercizi, migliorerai non solo la pronuncia, ma anche la capacità di comunicare emozioni, un aspetto cruciale per la pratica di conversazione in inglese. E ricorda: ogni minuto di shadowing ti avvicina di più a parlare come un nativo!

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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