Pratica di Shadowing: Don't Worry, No One Cares - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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We tend to begin our lives with a deeply unrepresentative experience:
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that of being surrounded by people who care to an extraordinary extent about us.
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We look up from the dreams and confusions of early infancy and may find a smiling face or two,
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observing us with the utmost tenderness and concern.
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They watch us as a rivulet of saliva leaks slowly from the corner of our mouth
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and rush to wipe it away as if dabbing at a precious canvas, then indulgently stroke the fine, soft hairs on our delicate scalps.
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first smile.
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The applause rings for days when we take our initial steps, giggle, totter, fall and bravely try to resume our progress.
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It isn't just at home.
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At school, the best teachers encourage us when we find something difficult.
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They understand we might be shy.
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They are keen to detect and encourage the early tentative signs of our particular talents.
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Then, of course, we grow up and we're inducted into a horrific reality.
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We exist in a world of astonishing indifference to almost everything we are, think, say or do.
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We might be in late adolescence when the point really hits home.
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We might be in a bedsit at university or wandering the streets of the city at night on our own,
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when it occurs to us with full force how negligible a thing we are in the wider scheme.
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No one in the crowds we pass knows anything about us.
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Our welfare is of no concern to them.
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They jostle against us on the pavements and treat us as a mere impediment to their progress.
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We are tiny against the towers and brightly lit flashing advertising hoardings.
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We might die, and no one would even notice.
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It may be a stern truth, but we make it all the more so by focusing only on its darkest dimensions.
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We remain grief -stricken by how invisible we are, yet we cease to put this bracing thought to its proper philosophical purpose.
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that of rescuing us from another problem which is gnawing at us all the
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while an ongoing and highly corrosive sense of self -consciousness.
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In another side of our minds, we haven't accepted the indifference of others at all.
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In fact, we know and suffer intensely from just how much, as we feel sure, Others, are thinking of us.
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We are extremely worried about how high -pitched and odd our voice sounded
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when we asked the waiter for a bit more milk.
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We are certain that the sales attendant noticed how out of shape our stomach is.
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The people in the restaurant where we're eating alone are undoubtedly spending considerable time wondering why we have no friends.
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At work, they're still dwelling on that slightly stupid thing we said last month about the US sales strategy.
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A person we went to bed with four years ago is
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to this day thinking ill of us in some powerful but undefined way.
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We don't really have any evidence for this and yet it can feel like an emotional certainty.
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it can feel intuitively clear that our foolishness
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and less than impressive sides are being noted and dwelt on all the time by everyone at large.
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Every way in which we depart from what the world considers to be normal, upstanding and dignified has been registered by the widest constituency.
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To liberate us from this kind of punitive story, we may need to conduct a deliberately artificial thought exercise.
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We may have to set ourselves the challenge of examining how long we spend on the foolishness or just existence
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of other people.
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How we think
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and feel about other people we don't particularly know is perhaps the best guide to the workings of the average human imagination.
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To pretty much the rest of the world, we are the very same sort of strangers or casual acquaintances as we know and deal with in our own daily experience.
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And now here, the results can be surprising.
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Imagine that we are in an elevator, standing next to someone on our way to the 20th floor.
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They think they know that we disapprove of their choice of jacket.
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They think they know that we should have picked another one and that they look silly and pinched in this one.
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But in reality, we haven't noticed the jacket.
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In fact, we haven't noticed they were born, or that one day they're going to die.
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We're just worrying about how our partner responded when we mentioned our mother's cold to them last night.
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Or imagine it's well on the way into the last bit of a two -hour meeting
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that we sense that a colleague's hair really is a bit different today, though we can't quite put a finger on how,
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even though they spent a small fortune on their cut and thought intensely about the wisdom of visiting a new salon.
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In other words, when we take our own minds as a guide, we get a far more accurate
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and far less oppressive vision of what is likely to be going on in the heads of other people
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when they encounter us which is, in the nicest way, Not very much.
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This kind of news is both very bad and strangely good.
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On the one hand, no one may notice when we die.
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On the other, they are also sure not to have noticed
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when we spill some orange juice down our front or do our hair the wrong way.
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It's not that we or they are horrible.
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Our lack of caring isn't absolute.
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If we really saw a stranger in trouble in the water, we would dive in.
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When a friend is in tears, we are sympathetic.
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It's just that for the most part, we need to filter.
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Our everyday lack of care occurs for a perfectly sane and forgivable reason.
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We need to spend most of our waking energies on navigating and doing justice to our own intimate concerns.
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Once we've had to think about our relationship, our career, our finances, our health, our close relatives, our offspring, our upcoming holidays, our friends and the state of our household,
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there's just going to be very little time left to reflect on the suddenly high -pitched voice of a customer
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or the outfit of a colleague.
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We are owed the upside of an otherwise tragic insight.
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We shouldn't just suffer from the indifference of other people.
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We should, where it matters, properly reciprocate it.
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We shouldn't merely suffer from being ignored, we should accept the liberation implicit in the fact that we are being so.
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And then in turn, we should embark more courageously on those situations
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and adventures where a touch of foolishness is always going to be a possibility, like the start of a new business, a romantic invitation, or asking a question at a conference.
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We may fail, but we can believe with new certainty that almost no one will give a damn if we do.
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An idea that may, above anything else, help to contribute to our future success.
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Something which, as we now know, no one's going to much notice or care about anyway.
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At the School of Life, we believe that confidence is a skill we can all learn.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questo video contiene 83 frasi e 1217 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 7:22. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 165 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 82% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| suffer verbo | /ˈsʌfɚ/ | soffrire, penare |
| occur verbo | /əˈkɜː/ | verificarsi |
| encourage verbo | /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ | incoraggiare, raccomandare |
| pitch sostantivo | /pɪt͡ʃ/ | tiro, lancio |
| jacket sostantivo | /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/ | giacca |
| certainty sostantivo | /ˈsɝtn̩ti/ | certezza |
| finger sostantivo | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | dito, dita |
| ignore verbo | /ɪɡˈnɔː/ | ignorare |
| relative sostantivo | /ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv/ | parente, congiunto |
| rescue verbo | /ˈɹɛs.kjuː/ | salvare |
| rush verbo | /ɹʌʃ/ | affrettarsi, correre |
| everyday aggettivo | /ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/ | quotidiano, giornaliero |
| extent sostantivo | /ɪkˈstɛnt/ | estensione |
| household aggettivo | /ˈhaʊshoʊld/ | domestico, casalinghi |
| impressive aggettivo | /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/ | impressionante, spettacolare |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| grow up verbo | crescere |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | being surrounded · being noted · has been registered |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | haven't accepted · has been registered · haven't noticed |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | people who care · problem which is |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 16 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come haven't, we're, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: rush /ɹʌʃ/, flash /flæʃ/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, casual /ˈkæʒ(u)əl/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, considerable /kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, invitation /ɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/
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 suffer, occur, encourage.
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.