Pratica di Shadowing: English Speaking Practice - Speak with me! (Shadowing Method) - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube

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Hello, lovely students, and welcome back to English with Lucy.
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I have a very special lesson for you today that's going to help you practice your speaking and pronunciation skills in English.
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Today, we're going to do some shadowing.
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You are going to become my shadow.
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Shadowing is a repetition technique that can help improve your pronunciation and aid you to sound more natural in English.
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In addition to the amazing speaking practice you're getting in today's lesson, I've also created a free PDF that you can download.
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It has the full transcription, plus some new vocabulary, some more information on how to shadow effectively, and a quiz to test what you've learned.
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If you'd like to download that, just click on the link in the description box.
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You enter your name and your email address.
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The PDF will arrive directly in your inbox.
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After that, you will automatically receive my free weekly lesson PDFs, plus all of my news, course updates, and offers.
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Also, you're here because you want to improve your English speaking.
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The link is in the description box.
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Okay, before we begin your speaking practice, I want to explain what shadowing is and what I'm going to ask you to do in this video.
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When shadowing, you repeat what someone is saying with as little delay as possible.
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It's not repeat after me, it's speak along with me.
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So while I speak, you speak too, trying to match my speech patterns, my intonation and pronunciation.
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This is a great way to improve your speaking, especially if you don't have anyone to speak with.
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It feels a bit weird at first, but once you understand and know the technique, You can use literally any audio you want to practise more.
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Just choose a person who you want to sound like and go for it.
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Okay, I'm going to tell you a story about something slightly embarrassing that happened to Will and me last week.
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Some of the vocabulary might be new for you.
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Don't worry, I've put a full list of vocab in the PDF.
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When shadowing, the primary focus is not on the grammar or the vocabulary.
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It's on mimicking the pronunciation of the speaker.
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First, just listen to me.
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Then we'll talk about the pronunciation.
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Then you can practise.
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The other night, Will and I were sitting down to dinner when we heard a thump above our heads.
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That's our first sentence.
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Did you notice anything about my pronunciation?
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I want to point out a couple of features that will help you sound more natural when you're shadowing me.
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Firstly, I used a schwa when saying Will and I, and I elided or dropped the d sound in and.
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will and I, not will and I, will and I.
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I also used a weak form of were, were, to, to, and the article a, a.
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That was just before thump, a thump.
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And did you hear which word was most stressed in that sentence?
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Thump, that was the most interesting and surprising information.
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Okay, let's practise together now.
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Speak along with me.
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The other night, Will and I were sitting down to dinner when we heard a thump above our heads.
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Good, if you want more practise, just pause the video, replay that part.
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Here's the next part of the story.
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Listen first.
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We live in an old house, so we just shrugged it off and started eating.
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There was another louder thud, and then what sounded like footsteps.
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Creepy, right?
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So before you speak along with me, I want to point out one feature of connected speech in that sentence, catenation, which is when a consonant sound at the end of one word joins with a vowel sound at the beginning of the next.
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You saw this in living and old, living and old, and shrugged it off, Shrugged it off.
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Live in an old.
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It's almost like old starts with N.
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An old.
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Live in an old.
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Let's practise again.
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Now say it with me out loud.
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We live in an old house, so we just shrugged it off and started eating.
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There was another louder thud and then what sounded like footsteps.
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Okay, the next part.
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Just listen.
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I am not joking when I tell you the hairs on my arms stood on end.
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Even Will looked a bit shaken, which is not like him at all.
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He called our dog Diego for company and went upstairs to investigate.
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Okay, a few things to point out here before we try this together.
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Firstly, I didn't use a contraction with I am, I am.
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You probably know that we almost always use contractions rather than full forms when we're speaking, especially in informal situations.
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But here I chose to use the full form for emphasis.
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I also stressed not.
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You also heard assimilation with the words on my.
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The n in on became on my.
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There are also examples of intrusion in the text.
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I am, my arms, to investigate.
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Between I am and my arms, I inserted a y sound.
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and between to and investigate, to investigate, there was a wha sound.
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Now let's practise together.
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I am not joking when I tell you the hairs on my arms stood on end.
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Even Will looked a bit shaken, which is not like him at all.
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He called our dog Diego for company and went upstairs to investigate.
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Great, okay, here's the final part of my story and your shadowing exercise.
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Listen first.
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Moments later, Diego came bounding down the stairs with a tennis ball in his mouth.
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What do you know?
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A bunch of tennis balls had fallen off the top of the wardrobe and rolled down the landing.
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And there you have it.
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Will and I felt a bit silly, but Diego was really happy.
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All right, before you do your final shadowing, there are just a few things to point out.
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One, notice how I said, what do you know?
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What do you know?
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This is an informal contraction and these are really common in speech.
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And the final thing is that I said, Tennis balls had fallen.
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Tennis balls had fallen.
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Balls had had a weak form.
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Instead of saying balls had, balls had.
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Okay, do it with me.
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Let's do your final shadowing practise.
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Moments later, Diego came bounding down the stairs with a tennis ball in his mouth.
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What do you know?
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A bunch of tennis balls had fallen off the top of the wardrobe and rolled down the landing.
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Okay, how did you do?
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Were you able to speak along with me?
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If not, don't worry.
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Shadowing is quite an advanced technique and it takes time and practise and a bit of humility to master.
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But it's a really valuable way to practise lots of different features of pronunciation and to try to sound a bit more like a native speaker if that's what you're looking to achieve.
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Let me know if you enjoyed this lesson and if you'd like to do some more shadowing lessons, I'd love to make them for you.
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Don't forget to download the free PDF.
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The link is in the description box.
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And you can claim your $10 of LanguaTalk lesson credit by messaging the support team with the code SPEAKING10 after your first lesson purchase.
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The link for that is also in the description.
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Just visit EnglishwithLucy.com if you want to learn more and enroll in one of my English courses with me.
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I will see you soon for another lesson.
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Mwah!
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Perché praticare la conversazione con questo video?

Praticare la conversazione in inglese è fondamentale per migliorare non solo la tua fluidità, ma anche la tua pronuncia e la comprensione orale. Con il video di oggi, avrai l'opportunità di utilizzare una tecnica chiamata shadowing, che consiste nel ripetere subito dopo il parlare di un altro. Questa metodologia non solo rende la pratica di conversazione in inglese più coinvolgente, ma ti permette anche di assorbire strutture e intonazioni naturali della lingua. Utilizzando il shadow speech, diventi un vero "ombra" dell'oratore, aiutandoti così a suonare più autentico e sicuro durante le tue interazioni in inglese.

Grammatica ed espressioni nel contesto

Nel video, il relatore utilizza diverse strutture grammaticali e frasi chiave che possono essere molto utili. Ecco alcune delle espressioni più rilevanti che puoi notare:

  • "will and I": Qui si nota l'uso della schwa, una vocale neutra che rende la frase più fluida e naturale.
  • "a thump": L'uso dell'articolo indeterminato "a" è perfetto per introdurre un nuovo termine frasale, in questo caso "thump," che aggiunge suspense alla narrazione.
  • "to" come forma debole: Quando viene pronunciato, "to" spesso suona diverso a seconda del contesto; qui è pronunciato in modo rapidamente che dimostra la naturalezza della conversazione.

Queste strutture sono ottimi esempi di come il linguaggio si utilizza nei contesti quotidiani. Imparare l'inglese con YouTube offre una vasta gamma di esempi come questi che possono aiutarti a interiorizzare le espressioni più comuni.

Trappole comuni nella pronuncia

Quando si pratica il shadowing in inglese, ci sono alcune parole e suoni che possono risultare complicati. Ecco alcune delle trappole più comuni:

  • "thump": La pronuncia della "th" può essere difficile per molti studenti; lavora per chiarire questo suono che è fondamentale per una corretta intonazione.
  • Schwa: Questa è una delle vocali più comuni nella lingua parlata, e il suo utilizzo in parole come "and" (sconvolto) può confondere chi non è abituato a sentire la pronuncia naturale, spesso riducendo il suono a una semplice "n".
  • Accenti regionali: A seconda dell'accento dell'oratore, alcune parole possono variare significativamente; è utile ascoltare diversi accenti per affinare la tua comprensione.

Affronta queste sfide con il shadowspeak e migliora progressivamente la tua capacità di comunicare in inglese. Con la pratica costante e il giusto materiale, la tua sicurezza crescerà e ti sentirai pronto a conversare in qualsiasi situazione!

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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