Pratica di Shadowing: F1 Nico Rosberg - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Nico Rossberg.
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Where's his journey taking him?
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At 24 years of age, he's already been all over the world.
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Formula One makes it possible.
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And almost wherever he goes, he gets by well.
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No wonder, as he speaks four languages fluently.
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Nico Rossberg, an exemplary racing driver.
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Born with speed already in his veins, thanks to Father Kiki.
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My father raced himself.
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He was a Formula 1 driver himself.
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In fact, winning the world championship in 1982 with Williams.
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So literally in the same position I'm in now, more or less.
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And so I grew up with it really.
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I was always there watching him and it always fascinated me.
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So I thought one day I'd like to do it myself.
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So then step by step I tried go-karts and enjoyed that and then started doing some competitions and started winning.
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And that's when it really gets you hooked onto it because winning is just an amazing feeling.
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And that's how I just progressed step by step all the way to where I am now.
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In the 2006 season, Nico Rosberg then ultimately got his first Formula One drive, racing for the Williams team.
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Although it was acknowledged that he had great talent, he failed to make a lightning start, often due to bad luck and the car at his disposal.
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Nevertheless, his star began to rise, if only modestly.
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The greatest success to date for the Wiesbaden board driver, second place in the 2008 night race in Singapore.
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After many disappointments, a reason to smile and an incentive to push on in 2009.
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Last year in general it was quite a poor season for us.
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We had some highlights which were nice but in general it was a bit of a struggle.
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So we can definitely do better this year
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and I hope we can do a lot better this year which would be really nice for the whole team.
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Indeed, he's very much a team player.
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Smart, technically clued up, and a guy with a good work-life balance.
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Monaco is where he calls home.
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He enjoys living, relaxing and training here in the sun of southern France.
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When I grew up here, I came here when I was very young, just a toddler.
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Then I went to school here.
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All my friends are here and all my regular haunts.
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So this is quite simply home and that's why I also really like spending my time here. to make it.
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smile a little bit because there are some of the characteristics of youth.
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You know, I know it all and I can get the job done.
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But the truth is he does know most of it and he does get the job done.
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And in that respect, considering his age to say someone 20 and 40 years ago of the same age,
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he is so much more advanced in his career and in terms of maturity.
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In other words, I guess I'm saying the youth of today has seen more,
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done more, will achieve more by the age of 21 than they probably would have done 20 and 40 years ago.
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And Nico is typical of that new type of young man.
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That sounds like a very satisfied team boss.
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And this year Nico Rosberg can continue to employ his talents for Williams' benefit.
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However, which team he'll be racing for in 2010 is still an open question.
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His contract with Williams is up.
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And despite some minor successes this year, Rosberg's hunger for victory seems certain to take him to one of the top championship contenders.

Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “F1 Nico Rosberg”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: Nico, Williams, step, Formula, racing. Questo video contiene 48 frasi e 588 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 3:56. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 150 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 86% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

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

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
exemplary aggettivo/ɪɡˈzɛmpləɹi/esemplare
fluently avverbiocorrentemente
modestly avverbiomodestamente
haunt verbo/hɔnt/infestare
contender sostantivo/kənˈtɛn.dɚ/contendente, rivale
vein sostantivo/veɪn/vena
toddler sostantivo/ˈtɑdlɚ/bambino, bambina
maturity sostantivo/məˈtjʊəɹɪti/maturità
employ verbo/ɪmˈplɔɪ/impiegare, ingaggiare
incentive sostantivo/ɪnˈsɛntɪv/incentivo
characteristic sostantivo/ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/caratteristica
satisfy verbo/ˈsætɪsfaɪ/soddisfare, accontentare
disappointment sostantivo/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/delusione, disappunto
technically avverbio/ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/veramente, tecnicamente
hunger sostantivo/ˈhʌŋɡɚ/fame

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
grow up verbocrescere

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 4 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, he'll, I'd. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: exemplary /ɪɡˈzɛmpləɹi/, maturity /məˈtjʊəɹɪti/, characteristic /ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/, disappointment /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: haunt /hɔnt/, hunger /ˈhʌŋɡɚ/
  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: fascinate /ˈfæsɪneɪt/, haunt /hɔnt/, incentive /ɪnˈsɛntɪv/, characteristic /ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/, disappointment /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: fascinate /ˈfæsɪneɪt/, characteristic /ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/, satisfy /ˈsætɪsfaɪ/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come exemplary, fluently, modestly.

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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