Pratica di Shadowing: Everyday English: Talk About Your Job | American English Connected Reading - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Hey, what's up?
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It's Alex.
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Today, let's look at the connected sounds in a short piece where somebody is explaining what kind of job they do.
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Now, this isn't actually my job.
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I just made this up.
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But let's take a look anyway.
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I'm a freelance drone photographer.
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I'm a freelance drone photographer.
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So there's not really any changed sounds here in this first sentence.
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But pay attention to how the sounds connect.
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I'm a free, I'm a freelance drone, drone photographer.
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All of these sounds connect to each other, the vowels and the consonants.
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I'm a freelance drone photographer.
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I own a couple different types of drones and people hire me to get aerial photos for them.
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I own a couple different types of drones.
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I own a couple different types.
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Different types.
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We connect the two T sounds together.
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Different types.
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And look at this.
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I'm not saying different.
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That first E in different is completely removed.
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I'm not saying different types.
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It's just different.
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Different types.
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I own a couple different types of drones.
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Here, of, before the consonant in drones, removes its sound.
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Types a drones.
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Types a drones.
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I own a couple different types of drones.
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And people hire me.
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And people, and people hire me.
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Now this is interesting and usually loosens its sound.
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It's normally an and people right and people but before a sound often turns into a sound.
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So it becomes and people and people hire me and people hire me.
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Now you can only say this if you're speaking quickly.
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As soon as you're speaking slowly, these connected sound rules don't usually apply.
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So if you're speaking slowly, and people hire me, and people.. now suddenly I'm saying every letter in the word,
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but as soon as I start speaking quickly, it's, and people hire me, and people hire me, and people hire me to get.. hire me to get..
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so the word to gets reduced a lot here.
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hire me to get aerial photos.
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So here to get ariel, there's a tap there, to get aerial photos, to get aerial photos.
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Hire me to get aerial photos for them.
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Forum.
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Forum.
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Now I could say for them, both are fine, but here aerial photos forum.
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Forum.
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The important part is that we're taking out the TH in them.
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Aerial photos for them.
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Most of my clients are businesses who want images for an ad campaign.
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Most of my clients, we take out the v in of again, most of my clients, sir, sir, most of my clients are businesses.
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You might have seen sometimes the apostrophe R E spelling of R.
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Most of my clients are businesses.
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You might have seen sometimes the apostrophe R-E spelling of R.
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Most of my clients are businesses.
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Now, in American English, we don't normally write that.
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It's very uncommon to see apostrophe R-E after an ordinary noun like clients, for example.
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But we say it like that.
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Most of my clients are businesses.
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Most of my clients are businesses who want images.
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Who want images.
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Here the T gets completely removed from want.
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Who won images for an ad campaign.
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For an ad campaign.
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Here for turns into fur.
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For an ad campaign.
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Like car dealerships or small farms.
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Like car.
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Like car dealerships.
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Here the K in like and the K in car connect together.
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Like car dealerships or small farms.
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or turns into just er, or small farms.
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I also sometimes do work for developers.
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I also connect these two vowel sounds together.
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I also sometimes, I also sometimes do work for developers.
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Here we're changing for into fur, for developers, for developers, for developers who want images of the land they're thinking about buying,
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who want images.
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And we're going to take out that T after the N before a vowel.
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Who wan images, who wan images of the land they're thinking about buying.
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Of the turns into a the.
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Wan images of the land, of the land there of the land they're thinking about buying
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and this is a series of complicated changes here of the land there
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so when I say land the D disappears and the N connects to the TH
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images of the land they're thinking about buying of the land they're thinking about buying.
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So we have two words here that end in ing, thinking about buying.
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In a lot of fast speech, the ing just turns into in.
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This happens to me if I'm speaking really informally, but if I'm speaking a little bit more formally, like if I'm talking about my job,
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I'll probably keep the ng sound at the end of an ing word thinking about buying instead of thinking about buy-in
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finally the t in about turns into a glottal stop thinking about thinking about about buying
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so whether you're saying ing or just in for the thinking
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and buying words the t in about will always turn into a glottal stop in fast speech.
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I'm a freelance drone photographer.
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I own a couple different types of drones and people hire me to get aerial photos for them.
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Most of my clients are businesses who want images for an ad campaign like car dealerships or small farms.
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I also sometimes do work for developers who want images of the land they're thinking about buying.

Contesto e Background

Nel video "Everyday English: Talk About Your Job", il relatore, Alex, spiega alcuni aspetti fondamentali dell'inglese parlato quotidiano, concentrandosi su come i suoni si connettono tra loro. Alex finge di essere un fotografo freelance di droni, e attraverso questo esempio, ci guida ad un'analisi dettagliata dei suoni e delle pronunce che rendono il discorso fluido e naturale. Questo tipo di contenuto è estremamente utile per chi desidera imparare l'inglese con youtube e migliorare la propria comprensione dell'inglese parlato.

Le 5 Frasi Chiave per la Comunicazione Giornaliera

  • I'm a freelance drone photographer. - Indicativa della professione.
  • I own a couple different types of drones. - Importante per descrivere oggetti di cui si possiede più di uno.
  • People hire me to get aerial photos. - Utilizzata per spiegare il servizio offerto.
  • Most of my clients are businesses. - Utile per parlare dei clienti e del target di riferimento.
  • Different types of drones. - Esempio di profonda comprensione di soggetti specifici.

Guida al Shadowing Passo Dopo Passo

Per affrontare la difficoltà specifica di questo video, ti proponiamo una guida al shadowing in inglese. Questo esercizio ti aiuterà non solo a migliorare la tua pronuncia inglese, ma anche la tua fluidità e comprensione auditiva.

  1. Ascolta il video attentamente: Prima di iniziare, ascolta il video senza interruzioni. Presta attenzione ai suoni connessi e alla cadenza del relatore.
  2. Ripeti frase per frase: Inizia con frasi brevi. Dopo aver ascoltato una frase, fermati e ripetila ad alta voce, cercando di imitare la pronuncia e il ritmo.
  3. Associa i suoni: Nota come certe lettere e suoni si mescolano. Ad esempio, osserva come "and people" diventa "an people" nella pronuncia rapida. Prova a ripetere queste connessioni.
  4. Utilizza il video come testo di riferimento: Se possibile, segui il video con un trascritto o annotazioni scritte. Questo ti aiuterà a visualizzare i suoni mentre li ascolti.
  5. Pratica regolarmente: Includi il shadowing site nella tua routine di apprendimento. Allenati quotidianamente per assimilare meglio la pronuncia e migliorare la tua pratica di conversazione in inglese.

Applicando questi suggerimenti, vedrai un miglioramento significativo nelle tue capacità comunicative in inglese. Non dimenticare che la chiave per migliorare la pronuncia inglese è la pratica costante!

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.