Pratica di Shadowing: English Word Stress - 5 Reasons you MUST learn to stress words correctly. - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Hi, I'm Lisa.
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In this video, I would like to give you five reasons why it's important
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for you to speak English with the correct word stress and rhythm.
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And I will give you examples of what happens
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when people don't stress the right word in a sentence or when they don't stress the right syllable in a word.
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Knowing how to correctly stress and reduce words in English is such an important part of speaking English clearly and correctly.
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Here is the first reason why you need to know how to stress words correctly in English.
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You might be difficult to understand even if you're pronouncing each sound correctly in English.
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A native speaker's brain is used to a specific pattern, a specific melody when they're hearing other people speak.
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I will show you a video, an example of when I was teaching a group of students
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and I didn't understand what one of of my students said
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because he didn't follow the pattern of the melody that I was familiar with.
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I was teaching a group of Japanese students in Los Angeles.
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They were all graduate students at UCLA and USC, and they were talking about their profession.
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And let's listen to what happened when one of them was talking about his work as a lawyer in Japan.
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My specialty as a lawyer is corporate law and emanate.
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So what's your specialty?
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What's your specialty?
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My specialty as a lawyer is corporate law and M&A.
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M&A.
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M&A.
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Good.
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My Japanese student said that his specialty as a lawyer is corporate law and M&A.
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Listen to the stress.
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M&A.
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M&A means mergers and acquisitions, and this is a subspecialty within law.
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But I didn't understand what he said because he said it like this, M&A.
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The word stress pattern for abbreviations is that we stressed the last letter.
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So we say M&A, not M&A.
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We would also say LA, UCLA, FBI, and so on.
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And if people make a mistake in that type of pattern, the native speaker might get confused.
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So when he said M&A, I thought, what is M&A?
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What does that word mean?
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But when we changed it, M&A, the brain understands that this is an abbreviation.
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Let me give you one more example.
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I was working with a Russian doctor.
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She's working in the United States and she needs to speak English every day at work with her patients.
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And she said, Lisa, please help me with this sentence.
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Every time I say this sentence, my patients look at me and they don't understand what I'm saying.
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Please teach me how to say it correctly.
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And this was a sentence.
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She said it like this.
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Would you like a refill?
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Would you like a refill?
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And they didn't understand what she meant.
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Would you like what?
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And I explained to her that she was stressing the wrong part of the word.
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She was stressing the second syllable, but she should have been stressing the first syllable.
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Listen to this, Refill.
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Refill.
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So when she changed it and she started saying, would you like a refill?
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Everybody suddenly understood her.
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So you see, this is very, very important.
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Repeat after me.
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Would you like a refill?
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We stress the first part of the word, making that one small adjustment, that one small change in stress changed everything.
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From that point on, people can understand her.
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And here's a second reason why stressing the correct word is so important in English.
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If you stress a different word in a sentence, people might misunderstand your true intentions, the true meaning of what you're trying to communicate.
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Let me give you an example.
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Look at this sentence, I want to talk to you.
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Six little words.
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Listen to this.
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I want to talk to you.
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I stressed I.
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listen to this one I want to talk to you listen to this one I want to talk to you
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and listen to the next one I want to talk to
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you all of these sentences have a slightly different meaning
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if you say it like this I want to talk to you
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that means I don't want to talk to him I want to talk to you
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and sometimes that can sound dictatorial authoritarian angry even like you're in trouble I want to talk to you.
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Here's another example.
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Please fix this.
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If you say, please fix this, it's just kind of a natural sentence.
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It's a natural command.
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It's not too strong.
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It's not too aggressive.
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But if you stress please, and you say it like this, please fix this, it might sound more urgent or more passionate.
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And here's another example.
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Instead of saying, do you understand?
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If you say, do you understand?
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It might sound kind of aggressive, kind of hostile.
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Do you understand? Do you?
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Do you really?
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Or do you understand?
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That's a different meaning.
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Everyone else understands, but do you understand?
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When we change the words we stress, we change the meaning.
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Let's get back to the first example.
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If you say, I want to talk to you, it's I'm the one that wants to talk to you.
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The other people maybe don't.
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I want to talk to you.
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The natural way would be, I want to talk to you.
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We would stress talk the most.
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That's the key word.
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That's the word that holds the most meaning.
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You can also say it like this.
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I want to talk to you.
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In that case, it means I really do.
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I do want to talk to you.
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Don't you believe me?
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I want to.
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Why don't you think that I want to talk to you?
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Pay attention to this.
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Listen to the way native speakers stress words.
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In your native language, the stress could be very different.
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Maybe the first part of the sentence gets stressed or maybe the last part of the sentence gets stressed.
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Same thing for words.
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Maybe the stress is often on the first syllable
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and that's true of many languages and some languages have stress on the last syllable.
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That also can change the meaning.
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For example, if you say desert or dessert or if you say record or record.
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These are different meanings of words.
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Pay attention to this.
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Listen carefully.
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Listen actively and try to imitate native speakers and try to follow the melody of the speech, the music of the language.
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And you will start to hear which words they're stressing and which words they are reducing.
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Let's go on to reason number three.
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If you stress all words equally, your speech will probably sound boring and mechanical like a computer generated voice.
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You have reached area code 8182489321.
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It's difficult to listen to those types of voices.
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Also, your voice will not sound passionate.
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You will sound unenthusiastic.
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Let's pronounce that word.
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That's a difficult word to say.
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Unenthusiastic.
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We have a TH sound and then a Z sound and then a S sound.
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These three together are difficult to say quickly.
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Let's say them slowly first.
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Unenthusiastic.
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Let's say it more quickly.
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Unenthusiastic.
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So if you don't stress any word, you will sound unenthusiastic.
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You will sound like you're not really passionate about what you're talking about.
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Be careful about this.
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Maybe in your language, each word is stressed equally, and each word is pronounced separately.
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So when you're speaking English, this is not the kind of speech you should use when you're giving a presentation or when you're on a job interview.
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Also, in daily conversations with people, it's nice to have passion and enthusiasm when you speak.
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All right, let's go on to the fourth reason.
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Stressing words in English will force you to slow down.
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If you tend to speak quickly, whether it's in your language or in English, chances are people might have a hard time understanding you.
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Chances are you're not stressing any word.
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But when we stress words, we're automatically forced to slow down.
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We open our mouth more and we prolong the stressed vowel sound.
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So when I say, I want to talk to you, that ah in talk is big.
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And we do it like this.
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Ah, I want to talk to you.
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I want to talk to you.
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Instead of, I want to talk to you.
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Listen, I want to talk to you.
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It opens your mouth.
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It slows you down.
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Let's watch another video where I was teaching that same Japanese group of students.
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Takahiro is an MBA student at UCLA.
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I was correcting him and when he said the sentence correctly with the right stress, he sounded so much better.
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He slowed down and he was very easy to understand.
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Let's listen and then we will practice what he said.
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Perfect.
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Now, can you put the paper down and try to recognize this sentence?
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So, what happened when you joined the recruiting event?
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When I joined a recruiting event in Boston, I got a chance to talk with people from consulting companies.
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Wow, that's amazing.
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I think we should all say that sentence.
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When I joined the recruiting event in Boston, I got a chance to talk to people from consulting companies.
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People from consulting companies.
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People from consulting companies.
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People from consulting companies.
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People from consulting companies.
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Excellent.
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Good job.
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Takehiro said, when I joined a recruiting event in Boston, I got a chance to talk with people from consulting companies.
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So we stressed recruiting instead of event because that's a compound noun.
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The first word gets stressed and the second syllable of recruiting gets stressed.
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So we pronounce that oo clearly, recruiting event.
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Recruiting event, we slow down on the oo.
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That's the stressed syllable of the stressed word.
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When I joined a recruiting event in Boston, I got a chance to talk with people from consulting companies.
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Once again, we stressed the second syllable of the word consulting
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and we stressed the word consulting not companies because once again it's a compound noun consulting consulting companies
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consulting companies and let's say the whole sentence again
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when i joined a recruiting event in boston i got a chance to talk with people from consulting companies
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if word stress is difficult for you in the beginning keep practicing it'll get easier Takehiro made good progress on that day.
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And the final reason that you need to practice English word stress is sometimes
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when you change the stress you change the meaning.
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Listen to this.
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I live in the White House.
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I live in the White House.
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Listen again.
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I live in the White House.
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I live in the White House.
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When we stress white that means this is the place where the President of the United States lives.
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He lives in the White House.
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But I have a house in Los Angeles and my house is white.
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Therefore, I live in the White House.
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But the President of the United States lives in the White House.
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Two different meanings.
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If you would like to learn all of the rules of English word stress, you can get my course, the American Accent Course.
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I go into a lot of detail about this really important topic.
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Meanwhile, I want you to listen to native speakers and imitate the way they are stressing words.
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In the beginning, it might be difficult for you
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because most likely you have the patterns of your own language that are influencing how you are speaking English.
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And this takes time to change.
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The brain is familiar with certain patterns, but these patterns can be broken with lots of practice.
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The more you practice, the more quickly you can make changes.
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And then, these changes will be permanent
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and it will be natural for you to have the correct rhythm and melody of English.
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Thanks for watching and keep practicing your English.
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To get the two courses, the American Accent course and the 400 advanced words you must know for fluent English,
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go to AccurateEnglish.com.

Contesto & Sfondo

Nel video di oggi, Lisa sottolinea l'importanza di utilizzare correttamente l'accento nelle parole inglesi per migliorare la comunicazione. La padronanza dell'accentazione è fondamentale non solo per la chiarezza, ma anche per garantire che i madrelingua comprendano facilmente ciò che vogliamo trasmettere. Lisa condivide alcune esperienze di insegnamento dove diversi studenti, provenienti da culture linguistiche diverse, hanno faticato a essere compresi a causa di una cattiva accentuazione. Questa situazione evidenzia come anche i suoni pronunciati correttamente possano risultare oscuri se l'accento non è posizionato dove ci si aspetta.

Top 5 Frasi per la Comunicazione Quotidiana

  • What's your specialty? – Cos'è la tua specialità?
  • M&A – Fusioni e acquisizioni.
  • Would you like a refill? – Vorresti un ripieno?
  • Corporate law – Diritto societario.
  • UCLA, FBI – I nomi delle istituzioni richiedono un'adeguata accentuazione.

Queste frasi evidenziano non solo l'importanza dell'accento, ma anche come la paura di sbagliarsi possa inibire la pratica di conversazione in inglese. Imparare a pronunciare correttamente queste espressioni può migliorare notevolmente la tua capacità di comunicare.

Guida Passo-Passo per il Shadowing

Segui questi passaggi per affrontare le difficoltà di pronuncia e migliorare la tua accentuazione grazie alla tecnica shadowspeak:

  1. Ascolta attentamente: Riascolta la clip e fai attenzione all'accento e al ritmo delle parole. Focalizzati sulle frasi chiave che hai appena imparato.
  2. Ripeti: Inizia a ripetere le frasi ad alta voce, cercando di imitare non solo le parole, ma anche il tono e il ritmo. Questa è la base della shadowing site e ti aiuterà a migliorare la pronuncia inglese.
  3. Analizza i punti critici: Identifica quali parole o frasi ti risultano più difficili e concentrati su di esse. Ad esempio, prova a pronunciare "refill" con l'accento corretto sulla prima sillaba.
  4. Usa un diario di apprendimento: Tieni traccia dei tuoi progressi. Scrivi quali frasi hai migliorato e quali ancora necessitano di lavoro.
  5. Pratica regolarmente: La chiave per migliorare è la pratica costante. Usa tecniche di shadowspeaks tutti i giorni per rendere naturale l'accentazione alla tua comunicazione.

Seguendo questi passaggi e concentrandoti sull'accentazione, migliorerai non solo la tua pronuncia, ma anche la tua fiducia nel parlare inglese. Ricorda, l'accento gioca un ruolo cruciale nell'essere compresi!

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.