Pratica di Shadowing: Eminem - Mockingbird (Lyrics) - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Yeah, I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now, but hey, what daddy always tell you,
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straighten up little soldier, stiffen up that upper lip, what you crying about, you got me?
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Haley, I know you miss your mom And I know you miss your dad
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when I'm gone But I'm tryna give you the life that I never had I can see you sad, even when you smile Even when you laugh, I can see it in your eyes Deep inside you wanna cry,
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cause you're scared I ain't there Daddy's with you in your prayers No more crying, wipe them tears Daddy's here, no more nightmares We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it Laney uncle's crazy, ain't he?
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Yeah, but he loves you girl and you better know it What are we got in this world?
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When it spins, when it swirls, when it whirls, when it twirls Two little beautiful girls looking puzzled in a daze I know it's confusing you, daddy's always on the move Mama's always on the news,
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I try to keep you sheltered from it But somehow it seems, the harder that I try to do that The more it backfires on me, all the things Growing up as daddy, that he had to see Daddy don't want you to see,
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but you see just as much as he did We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me But things have got so bad between us, I don't see us ever being together ever again Like we used to be
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when we was teenagers
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But then of course everything always happens for a reason I guess it was never meant to be
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But it's just something we have no control over And that's what destiny is But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep Maybe one day we'll wake up and this'll all just be a dream Now,
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us little baby, don't you cry Everything's gonna be alright Stiffing at a bulletproof, little lady I told ya,
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daddy's here to hold ya through the night I know mommy's not here right now
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And we don't know why We feel how we feel inside It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby, but I promise, mama's gonna be alright It's funny,
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I remember back one year when daddy had no money Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up
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and stuck them under the tree And said some of them were from me, cause daddy couldn't buy them I'll never forget that Christmas, I sat up the whole night crying Cause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job
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But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom And at the time, every house that we lived in either kept getting broken into
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and robbed You dropped a shot up on the block
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and your mom was saving money for you in a jar Trying to start a piggy bank for you
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so you could go to college Almost had a thousand dollars, till someone broke in and stole it And I know it hurt
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so bad it broke your mama's heart
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And it seemed like everything was just starting to fall apart Mom
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and dad was arguing a lot
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so mama moved back on the traumas in a flat One bedroom apartment
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and dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara
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And that's when daddy went to California with his CD
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and met Dr. Dre And flew you and momma out to see me But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me Then you started seeing daddy on the TV
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And momma didn't like it And you and Lainey were too young to understand it Papa was a rolling stone, momma developed a habit
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And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it I'm just sorry you were there
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and had to witness it Press hand cause all I ever
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wanted to do was just make you proud Now I'm sitting in this empty house Just reminiscing, looking at your baby pictures It just tricked me out to
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see how much you go through grown it's almost like your sisters now wow i guess you pretty much are
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and daddy's still here laney i'm talking to you too daddy's still here i like the sound of
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that chair it's got a ring to a donut mama's only
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gone for the moment now little baby don't you cry everything's gonna be all right slipping
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that up all the bunk little lady i told you daddy's
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here to hold you through the night I know mommy's not here right now, but we don't know why We feel how we feel inside It may seem a little crazy,
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pretty baby But I promise, mama's gonna be alright And if you ask me to,
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daddy's gonna buy you a Markin' Bird I'ma give you the world I'ma buy a diamond ring for you, I'ma sing for you I'll do anything for you to see you smile
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And if that Markin' Bird don't sing and
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that ring don't shine I'ma break that birdie's neck I go back to the Julo, sold it to ya And they can meet every carrot F* with that

Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B1 si basa sul video “Eminem - Mockingbird”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: daddy, baby, momma, mom. Questo video contiene 42 frasi e 899 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:05. Chi parla va veloce, circa 220 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 83% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
backfire verbo/bækˈfaɪə(ɹ)/avere effetto contrario
bulletproof aggettivo/ˈbʊlɪtpɹuf/antiproiettile
doughnut sostantivo/ˈdəʊnʌt/ciambella
reminisce verbo/ˌɹɛm.əˈnɪs/rammentare, rievocare
stiffen verbo/ˈstɪfən/irrigidire
carrot sostantivo/ˈkæɹət/carota
confuse verbo/kənˈfjuːz/confondere
puzzle sostantivo/ˈpʌzəl/mistero, rompicapo
wipe verbo/waɪp/asciugare, pulire
scare verbo/skɛɚ/spaventare, impaurire
teenager sostantivo/ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/giovane, adolescente
trauma sostantivo/ˈtɹɔm.ə/trauma
shine verbo/ʃaɪn/brillare, splendere
nightmare sostantivo/ˈnaɪt.mɛɚ/incubo, brutto sogno
wrap verbo/ɹæp/avvolgere, avviluppare

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
fall apart verbocadere a pezzi
go through verboattraversare
grow up verbocrescere
wake up verbo/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/svegliarsi

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Past continuous was/were + -ing — un’azione in corso in un momento del passatowas saving · was just starting · was arguing
Possibilità con “might / may” might/may + verbo — qualcosa di possibile ma non certomay not always make · may seem
Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — i verbi seguiti dalla forma in -ingkept getting · started seeing
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un piano o qualcosa che si vede arrivaregonna be · gonna buy

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 28 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, gonna, I'm. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: shine /ʃaɪn/, shelter /ˈʃɛltə/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: bulletproof /ˈbʊlɪtpɹuf/, doughnut /ˈdəʊnʌt/, reminisce /ˌɹɛm.əˈnɪs/, carrot /ˈkæɹət/, confuse /kənˈfjuːz/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: backfire /bækˈfaɪə(ɹ)/, carrot /ˈkæɹət/, wrap /ɹæp/, habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come backfire, bulletproof, doughnut.

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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