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This is you.
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You have all the knowledge in your mind.
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Now you are presenting to people who in your mind,
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in your mind, they are senior and they potentially have more knowledge than you
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and they have some sort of authority or leverage over you.
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What do I mean?
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If you do a bad job, if you give a bad explanation, you are going to embarrass yourself in front of them.
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They will think you're not that smart.
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They will not trust you as much anymore.
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They decide your career, whether you get promoted, whether you get a pay raise.
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So you have a lot hanging in the air.
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So in your mind, what you start to do is you start to question yourself.
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why do you do this you're thinking I know my stuff
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but these people are more senior than me what
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if they know something that I don't know what
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if I think I know the right answer but
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when I say it it's actually not the right answer
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and I'm going to make a fool of myself
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so now in your mind what you're doing is you're trying to manage risk
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if I say something will I say the right thing
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Will they find out that it's not actually the right thing?
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What if I think this is the right thing, but it's not?
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So you're trying to, you're looking for some sort of safety in this situation.
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So you're scared.
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I think I know my stuff, but if I say it out loud, they don't like me.
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All of a sudden, they think I'm stupid and I might lose status.
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This fear of being wrong, this fear of people will find out that I don't actually know, it holds you back.
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So then you have the words, but all of a sudden when they come out, you start hedging the words like,
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yeah, so maybe we could try this.
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Like I had a little bit of a look on this thing and maybe, you know, one of the things we could try.
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Notice the language tends to soften.
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What I'm doing is I'm not committing to my words.
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So instead of saying, I've looked at the data.
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This is what we should do.
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This is me committing.
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I have looked at the data.
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This is what I think we should do.
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I have high conviction in what I'm saying.
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But if I had the same knowledge, but I'm afraid I might be wrong, then the words come out differently.
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Yeah, so maybe this is one thing we could consider.
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Of course, if you have other plans, that's okay.
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So I look into the data, and I'm thinking, what if we try to do it like this?
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Can you see the difference?
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So what am I trying to do?
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I'm trying to soften the impact of what I'm saying.
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Because if I don't, if I'm not committing to what I'm saying too much, then you might not think I'm stupid.
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You might think, oh, well, it was just an idea Yasser was sharing.
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He wasn't going all in on it.
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So even if he's wrong, whatever, it's okay.
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But if you go all in on the idea, all in on the thought, you say something with high conviction, and you tend to be wrong,
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then people will think, well, this was a terrible idea that Yasser came up with.
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We can't trust him for anything ever again.
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So that's why people don't commit when they speak.
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And when they don't commit, they hold back, they shrivel, and it doesn't come out with certainty, okay?
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So this is my first theory, that you are speaking to superiors, and you keep second -guessing that whatever you're saying might not be right,
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or these people are the judge of the information.
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They know better than me, so I just need to give enough information to appease them.
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Like, is this right?
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Is this right?
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Am I saying this the right way?
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You're trying to put out a fire before you even know there's a fire.
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A lot of us do this.
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When we go into a job interview, we're very defensive.
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When you go into a pitch, we're very defensive.
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So two things you can do about this.
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One is realize some things you know about more than the other people.
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They want you to speak because they weren't there.
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So if you were a project manager, you were leading a project, they want to know, hey, what's happening with this project?
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They have no knowledge of it.
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So they're relying on you.
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So take that as a privilege that, hey, they're asking for my opinion.
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I want to share that with them.
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Number two is you want to ask yourself, why does your mind believe that there is a risk in you opening your mouth?
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Now, this might very well be the case
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because maybe your boss is the type of person who you open your mouth
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and all of a sudden you say something to them and they don't like it and they publicly berate you.
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Now you're afraid of embarrassment so you don't open your mouth anymore.
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Maybe there's no psychological safety built in there.
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So maybe there's a real consequence of opening your mouth.
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For a lot of people, what also happens is this, talking to superiors, there's something called authority anxiety,
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which is you have an anxiety of people who are superior than you in the social hierarchy.
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So this could be your parents, this could be your teacher, this could be your boss.
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You're just afraid of disappointing people who have higher authority because if they don't like you,
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it might affect your place in society and you might not have a job, you might get fired, you might get embarrassed, right?
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For a lot of people, this develops early in their childhood.
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early in their childhood.
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So maybe your parents were, hey, do this, or I'm not going to love you,
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or get good grades, or you're not going to get my approval, whatever it might be.
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So now, as a kid, we have learned, I must bow down to my parents.
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I know for me, in my culture, your parents can never be wrong.
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Even if they are wrong, you cannot say it because it's you speaking up to authority.
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So your parents are always right.
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Your teachers are always right.
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Your boss is always right.
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Whoever's the eldest, most superior, they're always right.
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What does this train you to do?
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It trains you to always appease to superiors.
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So now whenever I'm opening my mouth, I'm second guessing it all the time.
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So superiors, ask yourself why this is happening.
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Why is it that you feel all frozen up and your conviction goes out the window, even though you know your material?
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And that's one reason.
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The second reason could be a more technical reason.
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This could be, maybe you have no fear of superiors.
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Maybe you have no issue around authority.
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Maybe it's the tone with which you say it.
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Maybe it's the tone with which you say it.
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It's simply, you just don't know what certainty sounds like.
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So, for example, if I said,
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I am wearing a black shirt today.
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let's say this is what i'm this is a sentence
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that i want to say
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if i were to say it with 100 conviction how would i say as
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if i know for a fact
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that my shirt is black i would say
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i am wearing a black shirt today did you sense any hesitation in my voice did you sense
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that i'm trying to appease you in any way did you sense that i'm scared about my opinion hopefully not
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I'm wearing a black shirt today.
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But what if I said, I'm wearing a black shirt today.
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I am wearing a black shirt today.
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Almost sounds like a question and I'm telling you something.
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So you can tell me if I said it right and I can say all the right things.
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But if I say it like this,
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then it sounds like I'm asking a question and I'm not sure myself and I want you to tell me.
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So can you see how the tone affects how much conviction you speak with?
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So number one, superiors.
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Number two, your tone.
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Do you sound like you believe in what you're saying?
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And number three, I'm just going to leave this last one in there.
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Your face.
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Now, you might think, what do you mean, Yasser?
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You want me to get plastic surgery just so I can have more conviction?
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Maybe.
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I don't know.
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No, don't do that.
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Your face, the face that you make can affect how much conviction you speak with.
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So for example, if I were to say, let's say the same phrase.
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If I were to say, I'm wearing a black shirt.
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If I just make my face, I give myself a giant grin before I speak like this.
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I look like a psychopath, but go with me.
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You're like this.
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And then I say, I am wearing a black shirt.
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Notice how the words just came out with high energy, with high excitement.
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If I look like this, I'm wearing a black shirt.
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Notice how I didn't purposely try to lower my volume.
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It just followed my face.
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Whatever my face did, my volume and my body followed.
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So for a lot of people, when they speak with conviction, if someone's asked, if they're asked a question,
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hey, tell me about this presentation or tell me about this project,
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And immediately, yeah, so they lead with the face so the other person can just read their face right away.
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All the conviction goes out the window.
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So one of the first things you want to do if you want to speak with high conviction is, this is very strange, don't move.
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Especially in a job interview, right?
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When you're asked a question, some people have this deer in headlights look where it looks like they were just shocked by the question.
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So I'm in a job interview and I'm just sitting and the interview asks, so why should we hire you opposed to the other five candidates?
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Well, you know, there's many reasons that you should, can you just see it on my face?
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How am I going to speak with conviction when I'm making that face?
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So the first thing you do is, why should we hire you?
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That's a good question.
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There are three reasons that I believe that I can do X, Y, Z.
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Notice how slow and controlled the movement is.
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I'm not frazzled by your question.
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So these are three things that you can look into that will affect the conviction with which you speak,
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your relationship with superiors and people of authority, the tone with which you speak, and the face you make when you're speaking.
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Aditya hope that answered your question.
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If you're in a leadership role and you struggle to speak up in meetings and presentations and be perceived as a leader, this is for you.
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Because knowing is not the same as doing.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Employees Who Speak Like This Become Executives Fast”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: speak, conviction, superior, shirt, wearing. Questo video contiene 174 frasi e 2013 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 10:57. Chi parla va veloce, circa 184 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 87% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| conviction sostantivo | /kənˈvɪkʃən/ | convinzione |
| superior aggettivo | /sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/ | superiore, sovraordinato |
| tone sostantivo | /ˈtəʊn/ | tono |
| commit verbo | /kəˈmɪt/ | affidare, impegnarsi |
| sudden aggettivo | /ˈsʌd.ən/ | improvviso |
| anxiety sostantivo | /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/ | ansia, ansietà |
| hire verbo | /ˈhaɪɹ/ | assoldare, noleggiare |
| defensive aggettivo | /dɪˈfɛn.sɪv/ | difensivo, difendente |
| freeze verbo | /ˈfɹiːz/ | gelare, ghiacciare |
| scare verbo | /skɛɚ/ | spaventare, impaurire |
| transform verbo | /tɹænsˈfɔɹm/ | trasformare, modificare |
| certainty sostantivo | /ˈsɝtn̩ti/ | certezza |
| shock sostantivo | /ʃɔk/ | trauma, trauma emotivo |
| explanation sostantivo | /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/ | spiegazione, esplicazione |
| pitch sostantivo | /pɪt͡ʃ/ | tiro, lancio |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| find out verbo | scoprire |
| go out verbo | uscire, andare fuori |
| check out verbo | investigare |
| come up with verbo | ideare, escogitare |
| hold back verbo | fare complimenti |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- What if I think this is the right thing, but it's not?
- Can you see the difference?
- Am I saying this the right way?
- What does this train you to do?
- Do you sound like you believe in what you're saying?
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | I've looked · have looked · have learned |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | people who in · person who you · people who are |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | were just shocked · be perceived |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 73 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, you're, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: conviction /kənˈvɪkʃən/, presentation /ˌpɹɛzn̩ˈteɪʃn̩/, shock /ʃɔk/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: superior /sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, psychological /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: hire /ˈhaɪɹ/, hierarchy /ˈhaɪ.ə.ɹɑː(ɹ).ki/, hedge /ˈhɛd͡ʒ/, hesitation /ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: commit /kəˈmɪt/, defensive /dɪˈfɛn.sɪv/, freeze /ˈfɹiːz/, shock /ʃɔk/, pitch /pɪt͡ʃ/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, transform /tɹænsˈfɔɹm/, embarrassed /ɪmˈbæɹ.əst/, clarity /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/, embarrassment /ɪmˈbæɹ.əs.mənt/
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 conviction, superior, tone.
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.