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6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Neil.
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And I'm Beth.
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What's up, Beth?
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You look a little sad.
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Well, recently I've been spending lots of time with my cat and houseplants, if you know what I mean.
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I'm feeling a bit lonely.
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It might help to know that you're not the only one feeling lonely.
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Loneliness has been called the modern epidemic.
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Although millions of us live together in towns and cities, more and more people report feeling lonely and unconnected to those they live close to.
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Loneliness can affect anyone.
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And while everyone's experience of loneliness is different, its effects can be serious.
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Research has shown that loneliness puts people at greater risk of many health issues, including dementia and heart disease.
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So how can loneliness be fixed?
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In this programme, we'll be hearing about one project in the Netherlands aiming to do just that.
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And as usual, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well.
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But first I have a question for you, Beth.
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Here in the UK, an organisation called The Campaign to End Loneliness has been offering advice and support since 2011.
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So according to the campaign, what proportion of British adults report feeling lonely at at least some of the time.
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Is it a 29% b 39% or c 49%?
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Erm, I would guess it's 39%.
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OK Beth, I'll reveal the answer later in the programme.
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Feeling lonely is not necessarily the same as being alone.
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Some people can happily spend lots of time on their own, while others may be surrounded by people but still feel disconnected.
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So what do we mean when we say we feel lonely?
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Here's Myra Anubi, presenter of BBC World Service programme People Fixing the World, explaining what loneliness means to her.
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It's that feeling when you crave people's company and you find it hard to connect, or maybe you just feel left out with no one to turn to.
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Now, feeling lonely isn't just uncomfortable.
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When it's experienced over time, it's been associated with health issues like a higher risk of having depression, dementia or even heart disease.
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When we're lonely, we crave people's company.
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We want their company a lot.
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We might also feel left out – unhappy because we're not included in what others are doing.
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And maybe we have no one to turn to – no one we can go to and ask for support and help.
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Someone who suffered all these feelings was Bep de Bruun.
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In 2013, Bep, aged 74, was found dead at her home in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
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Her death wasn't suspicious, but it shocked the whole country because it turned out she'd been dead for 10 years.
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Bepp had lost contact with her only child and kept to herself in her apartment.
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So when she died sometime in 2003, no one realised.
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Bepp's tragic story inspired a national campaign to combat loneliness, including one project called Omar's Soup, a kitchen bringing lonely elderly people together with school children and students to make soup.
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Omar means grandma in Dutch and the project encourages young people to spend time with their grandparents' generation.
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Here, Claire Bates, reporter for BBC World Service programme People Fixing the World, explains how the project got started.
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Well, it's run by two young guys called Max Cranendijk and Martin Canters.
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And now they were concerned their grandparents' generation were becoming isolated and lonely.
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And meanwhile, they had lots of student friends who had free time.
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So, they thought, why not try to bring these two generations together through making soup?
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Omar's Soup was started by Max and Martin, two local guys, or men.
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They wanted to involve their student friends because they had lots of free time.
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Time when they do not have to work or study and can do what they want.
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Max and Martin found the perfect way to help elderly people who felt lonely by bringing them together with students.
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If you bring someone together, you help people or groups to become friendly or to do something together, especially something they wouldn't usually do, like make soup.
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Omar's soup has been a big success and has spread to other cities across the Netherlands, including Rotterdam, the hometown of Beppe de Bruyne, making her tragic death the spark for something much more hopeful.
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I think it's time to reveal the answer to your question, Neil.
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Right, I asked you what proportion of British adults report feeling lonely at least some of the time?
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And I said it was 39 per cent.
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Which was the wrong answer, I'm afraid, Beth.
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Sadly, the correct answer is even higher – 49 per cent of adults, that's around 26 million people in the UK, making it even more important to reach out and connect with others.
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OK, it's time to recap the vocabulary we've learned in this programme, starting with the verb crave – to have a strong wish or desire for something.
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If you feel left out, you're unhappy because you've been excluded from something.
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To turn to someone means to go to someone and ask them for help or support.
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A guy is an informal way of saying a man.
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Free time, also called leisure time, is time when you do not have to work or study and can do what you want.
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And finally, the phrasal verb, to bring someone together, means to help people or groups become friendly or do something together, especially if they usually don't.
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Once again, our six minutes are up.
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But if you're feeling lonely, remember you're not alone.
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So reach out by joining us again next time here at 6 Minute English.
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Goodbye for now!
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Bye!
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Contesto & Sfondo

Nel video "Fighting loneliness with soup", presentato da Neil e Beth, viene esplorato il tema della solitudine nella società moderna. Nonostante viviamo in contesti affollati come le città, molte persone si sentono isolate e disconnected. Questo fenomeno è caratterizzato da esperienze uniche per ogni individuo, ma le conseguenze sulla salute possono essere gravi. Discussioni come quella di Neil e Beth ci portano a riflettere su come affrontare la solitudine attraverso progetti comunitari, come "Omar's Soup", che riuniscono diverse generazioni per creare legami significativi.

Le 5 Frasi Chiave per la Comunicazione Quotidiana

  • Feeling a bit lonely - Sentirsi un po' soli.
  • Loneliness has been called the modern epidemic - La solitudine è stata definita un'epidemia moderna.
  • It's that feeling when you crave people's company - È quella sensazione quando desideri la compagnia delle persone.
  • No one we can go to and ask for support - Nessuno a cui possiamo rivolgerci per chiedere supporto.
  • Together with school children and students - Insieme a bambini e studenti delle scuole.

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  1. Ascolta un segmento breve del video, magari una frase chiave, e pausa.
  2. Ripeti la frase cercando di emulare l'intonazione e il ritmo dell'oratore. Focalizzati su come pronuncia le parole. Questo è fondamentale per migliorare la pronuncia inglese.
  3. Controlla il significato delle parole nuove. Se incontri frasi difficili, annotale e approfondiscile.
  4. Riascolta la stessa frase più volte, fino a quando non ti senti sicuro di ripeterla senza pause e senza errori.
  5. Prova a collegare le frasi tra loro, per esercitare la fluidità. Usa i tuoi appunti per adattare il tuo discorso.

Utilizzare il shadow speech in questo modo ti aiuterà non solo a migliorare la pronuncia, ma anche a sentirti più sicuro nel comunicare in inglese. Non dimenticare che imparare l'inglese con YouTube può diventare un'attività coinvolgente. Inizia a praticare oggi stesso!

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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