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I don't usually try to make my books as they come out better known by putting them onto social media

but I make an exception in the case of this book which has just come out last week called Essays.

What I have learnt about myself and the world with cover with me in my woodland path.

I'm doing that because I've been surprised,

indeed enormously warmed by the reception of a few of the

key people who've been involved in the process of bringing this book to publication.

I remember it as a book

which I wrote at the suggestion of my wife shortly after Covid

when she said write down what you've learned about your life

and so on and I started to dictate some short essays

and I greatly enjoyed it

and it ended up in 240 very short essays roughly modeled on the idea

and memory of Montaigne's essays but much much shorter.

And when recently I thought I would publish it, I thought, well, this is a useful book and I want it out there.

But some of the people, several of the people who were closely acquainted with it, thought it was really special.

And so I'll indicate their views by quoting them a little bit.

But basically to tell you of the structure, it is, as I say,

a number of essays on anything that struck me as useful and interesting and quirky.

For example, under the letter L, it's alphabetical, on the leaning tower of Pisa,

on liberty, on libraries, on limited good,

on loneliness, on losing, on love, on lying.

Well that's a tiny cross section and you can see that it covers serious and less serious subjects.

So what do my colleagues and friends say about it?

Well there's a forward by our close friend Baron JC von Fetten

and he writes as a Frenchman who was a great admirer of Montaigne

that in some ways my essays are go beyond Montaigne.

They are shorter, more succinct, more accessible.

And he starts his short forward as follows.

Essays may well constitute Alan MacFarlane's ultimate contribution to human knowledge.

It is written for scholars and the wider public alike.

The book is the result of 60 years of deep anthropological research conducted across the world,

using observation as its primary method and extracting knowledge through a rigorous process of analysis and reflection.

The reader will therefore find in each essay a remarkably practical set of insights and answers.

And he ends, after decades of experience, research and reflection, and after writing dozens of books,

McFarland has succeeded in turning his analytical gaze both upon the world and upon himself.

The result is essays, a work that distils lifetime search for wisdom.

The second person who has commented was the person who edited the book,

my friend Irene Galstian, and she's written about this several times in emails,

but this is a small extract from one email.

As you become a long-time reader of these essays, their effect on you goes to a different level.

And this is where they truly shine.

Well, shine is too vigorous a word for what I am trying to describe.

It's more like a glow.

With repeated reading, these little talks are calming in a way that can't be explained by their intellectual content alone. So those are two.

And then there's a wonderful postscript by Qin Yuchen,

who is translating the book into Chinese.

And I'll just read one part of her remarkable and beautiful postface.

What the letters do for me is what these essays did when I first read them.

They come in like air from outside.

The anxiety of my generation is real enough.

The rungs, as he put it, have gone from the ladder we were all brought up to climb.

What struck me was how precisely these small essays answer that predicament.

A letter written at first light by an 80-year-old grandfather,

who is also one of the great historical anthropologists of his time,

lifts you clear of all that and sets you down somewhere higher up and further off, from which the trouble is visible in its true proportion.

Old, general, survivable, shared with everyone who has ever lived.

We are not the first age of anxiety, he says, nor will we be the last.

I know of no better remedy.

And indeed, some of these essays which have gone up onto social media like YouTube and Chinese social media

have elicited those same sentiments from people who have heard them.

So, as I say, it's on Amazon Essays by Helen McFarlane,

and I think you may share their feeling.

It's a book which has a lot of my final and deeper reflections in it,

and I'm proud that my close friends anyway, think it's really worthwhile.

Thank you.

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Questa lezione di conversazione di livello C1 si basa sul video “Essays what book is SD 480p”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: essay, reflection, letter, written. Questo video contiene 65 frasi e 810 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 7:06. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 114 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Solo il 79% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

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

Parola	Pronuncia	Significato
litter sostantivo	/ˈlɪt.ɚ/	lettiera
extract sostantivo	/ˈɛkstɹækt/	estratto
admirer sostantivo	/ædˈmaɪ.ɹɚ/	ammiratore, ammiratrice
alphabetical aggettivo	/ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪ.kəl/	alfabetico
anthropological aggettivo	/æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/	antropologico
anthropologist sostantivo	/ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/	antropologo
elicit verbo	/ɪˈlɪsɪt/	provocare, suscitare
enormously avverbio		enormemente
predicament sostantivo	/pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt/	situazione difficile
vigorous aggettivo	/ˈvɪɡəɹəs/	vigoroso
dictate verbo	/ˈdɪkˌteɪt/	imporre, comandare
loneliness sostantivo	/ˈloʊnlinəs/	solitudine
gaze verbo	/ɡeɪz/	fissare
worthwhile aggettivo	/ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/	che vale la pena
remedy sostantivo	/ˈɹɛmədi/	rimedio

I phrasal verb che sentirai

Parola	Significato
write down verbo	sottoscrivere, annotare

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	has just come · have learnt · I've been
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa	book which has · people who were · person who has
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa	who've been involved · is written · can't be explained

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 9 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'll, I'm, can't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

I suoni “th”: anthropological /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/
Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: alphabetical /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪ.kəl/, anthropological /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, predicament /pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt/, analytical /ˌæn.əˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: extract /ˈɛkstɹækt/, acquaint /əˈkweɪnt/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, elicit /ɪˈlɪsɪt/, postscript /ˈpoʊst.skɹɪpt/
/æ/ — più aperta della “e”: extract /ˈɛkstɹækt/, admirer /ædˈmaɪ.ɹɚ/, alphabetical /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪ.kəl/, anthropological /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/

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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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