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Hello everybody.
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Welcome to this English course.
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In today's video, I'm going to tell you about nouns.
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Because in English, nouns are very important.
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They are the basic element of a sentence.
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So if you want to speak English, you need to know about the different kinds of nouns.
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And I'm going to try and teach you as well as I can.
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Let's get started.
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Okay, so let's start with concrete nouns.
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Now in English, concrete nouns are people,
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places or things, including animals that you can see,
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that you can smell or taste or hear or touch.
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So you can basically use your five senses.
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Let me give you a few examples.
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If we talk about people, you could say, a man or a teacher.
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Or me, Fanny or Mr. Smith.
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If we talk about places, you could say, a house, a school.
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You could name a city like London.
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Very nice city.
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Or a beach.
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And if you talk about things, you could say a shoe.
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You could say a marker.
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You could talk about a dog.
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Or food like a pizza.
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These are concrete nouns.
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Okay?
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Now let's move on to abstract nouns.
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So abstract nouns, unlike concrete nouns,
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are ideas, concepts, And you can't see an idea.
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You can't smell a concept.
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You can't taste an emotion or hear it or touch it.
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So they are nouns.
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They are things that exist.
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But you cannot see them or taste them.
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You can't use your five senses.
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To give you a few examples, we could talk about love or time or religion.
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tools.
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These are all words that represent ideas, concepts.
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Okay?
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They're abstract nouns in English.
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Now let's get into more detail about nouns.
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Let's now see the difference between common nouns and proper nouns, which are very important in English.
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So common nouns and proper nouns refer to people, places, things, ideas.
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Let's see a few examples.
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We could talk about people.
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For example, a woman.
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That's a common noun.
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But if we talk about a specific woman,
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for example, me, Fanny, that becomes a proper noun with a capital F.
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Because, and you should know this, proper nouns are always capitalised.
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You could talk about places.
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A city.
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That's a common noun.
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But then you can name a specific city.
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Let's take a great city, London, of course, with a capital L.
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Remember, proper nouns, always capitalised.
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We can talk about things.
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For example, an animal.
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Let's take a dog dog.
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That's a common noun.
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But if we take a specific dog like Snoopy, capital S.
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That's the proper noun.
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If we talk about things again but for example a car, that's a common noun.
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But if we name the brand, the specific brand of the car like Volvo, that's a proper noun and it takes a capital V.
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And finally, we can say a team, common noun.
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But if we name a specific team, for example, the best football team,
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Manchester United, then that's a proper noun and it's capitalized.
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Now mind you team is a special word
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because it's called a collective noun in English because it refers to a group of people.
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So collective nouns can be used as singular nouns or plural nouns.
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But we will talk about this again later.
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So now that we know a lot about nouns in English, let's practice finding nouns in a sentence.
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Okay?
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First, In my class at Oxford University, I have many friends.
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My best friend is Jan.
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I have a lot of love for her.
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Jan has a cute dog.
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Its name is Juju.
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What are the nouns in these sentences?
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If we take the first sentence, In my class at Oxford University, I have many friends.
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We have class and friends.
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These are common nouns.
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We also have a proper noun.
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Oxford University.
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We know it's a proper noun because it's capitalised.
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The second sentence is, My best friend is Jen.
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Now in this sentence, the noun is friend.
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Common noun.
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And there's also the word, Jan.
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It's also a noun, but a proper noun.
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As you can see, it's capitalised.
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Then, I have a lot of love for her.
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What noun can you see?
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Of course, love.
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Remember the abstract noun we talked about a few minutes ago.
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And finally, Jan has a cute dog.
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name is Juju.
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What nouns can we find?
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We can see Jan again, proper noun.
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Dog, common noun.
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But also name and Juju.
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Name is a common noun.
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Juju is the proper noun.
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It's capitalised.
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As you probably know, I haven't mentioned I or her or it.
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They are also nouns but they are pronouns and they're considered a different category in English.
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We will talk about them in another video.
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Great job, guys!
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Thank you for watching my video.
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I hope you now have a better understanding of nouns in English.
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Please keep practicing.
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Practice makes perfect.
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I'm sure you will very soon be able to recognise nouns in a sentence.
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Please make sure to watch my next video as I keep on talking about nouns.
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See you!

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Lo scenario: Imparare i nomi in inglese, base per la conversazione

Immagina di voler parlare inglese in modo fluido: per descrivere persone, luoghi o sentimenti, hai bisogno di nomi. Nel video, una insegnante spiega i tipi di nomi in modo semplice, partendo dai concreti (visibili, tattili) come "pizza" o "casa", fino agli astratti (idee, emozioni) come "amore" o "tempo". Conoscere queste differenze è fondamentale per costruire frasi corrette e comunicare chiaramente, soprattutto nella pratica di conversazione in inglese.

Frasi e collocazioni utili da memorizzare

  • Concrete nouns: people, places or things (Nomi concreti: persone, luoghi o cose)
  • Abstract nouns: ideas, concepts, emotions (Nomi astratti: idee, concetti, emozioni)
  • Proper nouns are always capitalized (I nomi propri sono sempre con la lettera maiuscola)
  • A common noun refers to a general category (Un nome comune si riferisce a una categoria generale)
  • You can use your five senses (Puoi usare i cinque sensi)

Queste espressioni ti aiuteranno a capire e spiegare i nomi in qualsiasi contesto, migliorando non solo la grammatica ma anche la pronuncia inglese se le ripeti a voce alta.

La tua sfida: Shadowing per padroneggiare i nomi

Ora è il momento di mettere in pratica il shadowing in inglese (o "shadowspeak"), una tecnica efficace per imparare con i video. Riproduci il video e ascolta una frase alla volta (ad esempio: "Concrete nouns are people, places or things"). Pausa e ripetila immediatamente, cercando di imitare l'intonazione e la velocità dell'insegnante. Concentrati sui nomi: "people", "places", "things" – senti come vengono pronunciati? Ripeti per 5-10 minuti, e noterai come la tua pronuncia diventa più naturale. Questo esercizio non solo rafforza la memoria ma anche la confidenza nella conversazione. Non ti preoccupare se sbagli: l'importante è partecipare!

Con questo video, hai fatto un passo verso l'abilità di usare i nomi correttamente. Continua a praticare con il shadowing, e soon la tua pratica di conversazione in inglese diventerà più fluida. Forza, puoi farlo!

La grammatica di questo video

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

StrutturaNel video
Superlativi the -est / the most … — il massimo o il minimo di un gruppothe best · My best
Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — i verbi seguiti dalla forma in -ingpractice finding · keep practicing
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisione, una promessa o una previsionewill talk · will very
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un piano o qualcosa che si vede arrivareI'm going to tell · I'm going to try

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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