Pratica di Shadowing: Fluency in 10 Minutes a Day - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Most students spend years studying English, but many don't practice speaking English,
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either because they don't know how or they have no one to practice with.
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So today, I'm going to show you a simple 10-minute fluency routine
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that you can do on your own at home to become more fluent in English.
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Hello, it's Keith from the Keith Speaking Academy, here to help you speak English more fluently.
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Now then, many teachers will tell you to be more fluent, just practice more.
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Yes, but how?
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You see, the truth is, you are not fluent in English, maybe because you're speaking English word by word.
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And when you speak English word by word, it takes longer to process and you speak more slowly.
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What native speakers and proficient speakers of English do is we speak in chunks, groups of words.
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And when you speak in chunks, then you're processing more quickly, you can speak more fluently.
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So in today's video, I'm going to show you some common chunks with simple examples you can start practicing with.
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and at the end of the video, a simple 10-minute fluency routine using this chunking method.
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Are you ready?
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Let's begin.
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So, as I mentioned, chunks are groups of words, two or three words that we say together as one sound.
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There are many kinds of chunks.
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There are grammatical chunks, lexical or vocabulary chunks, opinion chunks, frequency chunks.
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For example, let's take some grammar chunks, okay?
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Word by word, we've got I would like to.
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Chunking, I'd like to.
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I'd like to help.
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I am looking forward to chunking.
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I'm looking forward to.
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I'm looking forward to coming.
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Or better, I'm looking forward to going.
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You can repeat these with me.
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I can't help.
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I can't help smiling.
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You hear its one sound.
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You should have.
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You should have told me.
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And notice with grammar chunks, be careful if the word coming after is a noun or a verb.
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And if it's a verb, is it the infinitive or the turund?
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Vocabulary chunks, there are many, for example, word by word, to go for a something.
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Chunking, to go for a walk,
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to go for a run. To have a shower.
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To have a shower. to have a wash.
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Chunking is like one sound.
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Frequency chunks.
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From time to time.
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But chunking from time to time.
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Without fail.
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Now and then.
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Now and then.
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Every once in a while.
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Okay?
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So you can see with these chunks, once you start speaking and thinking in chunks like sounds,
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these chunks act as building blocks.
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And if you're speaking in this way, you're going to be processing more quickly and you're going to be speaking more quickly, but more fluently as well.
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If you practice these over time, you'll get better and better.
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Now, repeating is okay, but it's not enough.
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Let's look at a more complete fluency routine you can do every day.
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Okay, the 10-minute fluency drill, there are two parts.
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There's the drill practice and the real practice.
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The drill practice is like if you're a footballer and you're down the gym and you're training,
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doing repetitions, repeat, repeat, repeat, that's the drill practice.
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The real practice is like doing the sport, playing the game, playing football for real.
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Okay?
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So you've got two parts.
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Let's look at the drill practice first.
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And in the drill practice, there are four things.
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Repeat the chunk.
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Make a phrase.
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Repeat the phrase several times.
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Change something in the phrase.
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Let me show you this with three different chunks.
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Okay.
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First of all, let's take I'd like to.
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That's the chunk, right?
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Word by word, I would like to.
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Chunking, I'd like to.
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Make a phrase.
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I'd like to learn.
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I'd like to learn Spanish.
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Repeat several times.
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I'd like to learn Spanish.
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I'd like to learn Spanish.
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Change something.
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We could change the noun.
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I'd like to learn Japanese.
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I'd like to learn Arabic.
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Just changing something, okay?
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So, we can change the noun.
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Let's take another chunk.
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I am looking forward to...
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chunking.
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I'm looking forward to...
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I'm looking forward to having dinner.
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So, we repeat several times.
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I'm looking forward to having dinner.
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I'm looking forward to having dinner.
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Changing something, we can change the verb.
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I'm looking forward to preparing dinner.
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I'm looking forward to eating dinner.
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I'm looking forward to enjoying dinner.
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Got it?
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Great.
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A third chunk, let's take a vocabulary chunk, to go for a.
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I go for a walk i go for a walk repeat
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i go for a walk i go for a i go for a walk
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we could change the verb we could change the vocabulary let's change the person
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i go for a walk my dad goes for a walk my wife sometimes goes for a walk So,
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we're changing the person.
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Notice you're also using the grammar, changing go to goes.
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So, we can change the verb.
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You can change the tense.
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You can change the noun, the verb, the tense, the person, anything.
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It's all fluency practice.
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Got it?
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Let's look then at the second part.
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That's the drill practice.
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Let's look at the real practice.
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Okay, next real practice.
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And basically here we are combining chunks to make meaningful sentences.
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Okay, often two chunks, maybe more.
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For example, I'd like to go for a walk.
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I'd like to go for a walk.
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Something like that.
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Now the tip is you want to look for natural combinations.
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For example, grammar and vocabulary chunks are a very natural combination right?
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I'm looking forward to going for a walk.
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I can't wait to learn Japanese.
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I can't wait to learn Spanish.
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You should have gone for a walk because now it's raining.
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Okay?
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So we're combining chunks to make simple but meaningful sentences.
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Another common combination is activity and frequency.
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I go for a walk from time to time.
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I go for a walk every morning without fail.
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Okay, remember as you're doing this focus on the chunk.
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I go for a walk every morning without fail.
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It's that sound not word by word.
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Adverbs and habit.
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By and large, I go for a walk in the mornings.
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Again, very common combinations.
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Next, you can also make little stories.
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It's just putting the sentences together to make a story.
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Don't make a good story.
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It can be a stupid, illogical story, but you're just practicing, okay?
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It might look a little bit like this.
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I'd like to go for a walk.
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Actually, I'm looking forward to going for a walk.
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I've been looking forward to it for hours.
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By and large, I go for a walk in the mornings.
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However, today, I'll go for a walk in the afternoon.
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Hey, not bad.
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A final tip here.
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Record yourself doing it.
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Video, audio recording, but do that.
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Listen back and see if you can feel the chunks and how you can improve.
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Okay, let's move on.
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So summarising this is your 10 minute fluency routine.
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Repeat the chunk.
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Make a phrase.
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Repeat it several times.
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Change something.
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The noun, the verb, the person.
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Combine two chunks.
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Create a mini story.
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And this is your routine.
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10 minutes every day, you're going to build up your fluency in no time.
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To practice more, I do have a PDF, which you can go and download.
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With this, there are common chunks from common situations, for example, at work, at home, socializing.
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Just be careful.
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You know I'm not a big fan of word lists
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and I don't recommend you get a big list of chunks and just go through them.
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Just choose two or three from a particular topic or situation and practice them.
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And then practicing on your own is great.
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practicing in real life with real people is also really, really good, right?
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So do that in your real life.
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If you don't have a chance to speak to other people, come and join me.
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Come and join the IELTS Speaking Gold course.
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Not only do we have a self-study course full of language grammar vocabulary for IELTS, but also live lessons, Zoom meetings,
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breakout rooms, speaking practice rooms where you get to practice with real people around the world on the course.
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And that is really going to level up your fluency.
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If you're not preparing for IELTS, I have something for you.
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Coming soon, the Speaking Fluency Club.
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This is brand new, coming in a few weeks.
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The Speaking Fluency Club is aimed at upper intermediate advanced level students.
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It's not a course.
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It's a club.
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We'll have live lessons, Zoom meetings
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and speaking practice rooms where you will get a chance to actually practice speaking with other students at that level.
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So it's aimed at the higher level, upper intermediate B2, advanced C1 levels.
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It's coming soon.
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So keep your eyes open.
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In the meantime, nice chunk.
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In the meantime, thank you so much for watching the video.
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It's been a pleasure, as always, chatting to you.
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Take care.
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I'll see you soon.
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Oh, and let me know in the comments what you think of the video.
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All right, then.
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Take care now.
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Bye-bye.
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Thank you.

Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questo video contiene 197 frasi e 1535 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 12:43. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 121 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Solo il 81% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
chunk sostantivo/t͡ʃʌŋk/pezzo, tocco
drill sostantivo/dɹɪl/trapano, punta
verb sostantivo/vɝb/verbo
vocabulary sostantivo/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/vocabolario
routine sostantivo/ɹuˈtin/routine, tran tran
phrase sostantivo/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/espressione, polirematica
grammar sostantivo/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/grammatica
noun sostantivo/naʊn/sostantivo, nome sostantivo
frequency sostantivo/ˈfɹiːkwənsi/frequenza
combine verbo/kəmˈbaɪn/combinare, mischiare
fluent aggettivo/ˈfluənt/fluido
lesson sostantivo/ˈlɛs.ən/lezione
meaningful aggettivo/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/significativo, sensato
intermediate aggettivo/ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/intermedio
meantime sostantivo/ˈmiːntaɪm/frattempo, contempo

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
look forward to verbonon vedere l'ora
build up verboaccumulare
go through verboattraversare

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 59 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, I'd, you're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: combinations /kɑmbɪˈneɪʃənz/, proficient /pɹoʊˈfɪʃ.ənt/, repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/, socialize /ˈsoʊʃəlaɪz/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, intermediate /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/, combinations /kɑmbɪˈneɪʃənz/, grammatical /ɡɹəˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/, illogical /ɪˈlɒ.dʒɪ.kəl/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come chunk, drill, verb.

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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