Pratica di Shadowing: give me 7 min and i'll make you a completely different person... - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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What if I told you that your life could look completely different in just three months?
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I'm serious.
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And it all takes just this one thing that I'm about to tell you in this video.
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If you are unhappy with where your life is at now, I want to share with you my story and who I used to be.
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And my life was completely different three months ago.
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I used to hate the version of myself.
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I felt that I wasn't important.
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And that I was a shell of a man, an insecure man
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and in three months everything changed so if this sounds like something you are experiencing
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please watch this video you will not regret it my name
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is nate i'm 22 i graduated college about three months ago and around
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that same time i started content creation i had no idea
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where i wanted it to go i was like what am
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i doing with this thing i want to be an influencer i want to post content
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but the underlying truth was i was scared i was scared
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of what people were going to think about me i was
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scared of what my friends were going to say the people
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that i went to high school with went to college with and
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when i graduated college something hit me i had an epiphany
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i had this reframe in my mind something completely changed it changed the chemistry in my my brain.
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I hated the idea of graduating college.
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I was like, I don't want to leave my house.
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I'm leaving my friends, the people that I've known, the life that I've built the last four years and it's ripped away.
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Time is ripping away this thing and you can't hold on to it.
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And I hate it.
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I was so unhappy with the fact that I was losing this life
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that I could not keep and I had to leave this town,
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my college town, and go to this new one that was five hours away for my internship, which I was very glad about,
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but I was also the fact that I couldn't just stay in college because I loved college.
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I loved this life.
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What hit me was on the drive up to that new town for my internship.
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I realized that you cannot control the things that happen to you,
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but the only thing you can control is how you respond.
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I was forced to experience
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something I couldn't control and I figured complaining and worrying about it
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and living in this depression of bro I hate that this thing happened to me will not bring that life back.
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It makes no difference and it only makes you suffer more.
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So I looked at the two options.
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I lost this life that is a fact if I complain
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and try to hold on to it or if I accept it
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and move on the same outcome happens I lost it
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and I will not get it back and
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that changed everything for me it completely changed my life I
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started from then on I am going to live every single day to stop worrying about what happened in the past,
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my old life, the things that I regret and the things I did
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and I messed up and things I wish I could hold onto, I can't do anything about that anymore.
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I have no control over it.
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And the future, that hasn't happened yet.
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So why worry about it when the only thing that affects the future is what you do now.
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Past is already done and the future hasn't happened yet.
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The present is the only place you can make a difference to both.
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Sit with that for a second.
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The present is ever changing.
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There is no moment in time where you can stay.
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What I just said, it's gone.
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It just passed.
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I can't take that back what I just said.
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So think about that.
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Every single decision you have made in the past is done.
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It doesn't matter.
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So wallowing in it and regretting what happened only leads you to suffer more.
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And this realization, it led me to discover a new philosophy called stoicism.
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If you're not familiar with stoicism, I highly recommend looking into it.
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This is the foundation of the philosophy that changed my life.
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Stoicism is based on taking action in your days.
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Every single day, this is my mission.
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Live with intention.
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Every single day, you can't control what happens to you.
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Don't focus on the past.
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Don't focus on the future.
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Focus on the now, the present.
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That is the only thing you can make a difference to.
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You can't control the weather, what happens in nature.
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You can't control the things people say and think
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and do to you only thing you can control is what you do now
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if you want to look more into stoicism i highly recommend
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reading meditations by marcus aurelius you can get it on amazon amazing book i'm not sponsored i started reading it
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and it's crazy because the way that i've been living the past three months, once I found stoicism, I was like,
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bro, this is exactly the way
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that I've been living of course it feels freaking amazing of course I feel the best I ever have because someone
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Marcus Aurelius 2,000 years ago discovered the same thing
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that is fascinating to me and so
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if there's anything you can take away from this video today just realize the power of action
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taking action and the decisions you make now
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and how it will trickle throughout your life and compound
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and your days will just get better and better and better
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and eventually you will look back at your past
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and go wow I have done a lot and
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when you make a mistake how instead of regretting it can I learn from it
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and get one percent better
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and that's the whole thing living with intention every day don't
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focus on on the past don't focus on the future focus on the now three months it will be
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so ingrained into your life
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that i guarantee you you will not even look back you
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will go who even was i i was just drifting through life
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and now i take action and i'm becoming the man
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that i've always wanted to be
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if no one has ever told you this before i love you i believe in you
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if you want to do hard things you can do hard things
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if this video resonates with you subscribe i'm going to be releasing
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so many more videos like this check out my shorts they're funny they relate to some of the thoughts
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that i share in these videos these are more formatted for
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going more into depth check out my instagram that's where the whole thing started Again, I love you.
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I believe in you.
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Go and kill another day.
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See you tomorrow.
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Obiettivi di parlato per questo video

Questo clip aiuta a raggiungere un importante traguardo nella fluency: la capacità di esprimere emozioni e riflessioni personali in modo naturale, con una struttura logica. Ideale per chi vuole migliorare la conversazione quotidiana, soprattutto quando si parla di cambiamenti di vita o sfide personali. Grazie al racconto autentico di Nate, puoi esercitarti a seguire un flusso di pensiero coerente e a usare frasi che connettono il passato, il presente e il futuro.

Banca di frasi riutilizzabili

  • "What if I told you that..." (E se ti dicessi che...): perfetto per aprire un discorso provocatorio o una storia.
  • "I had an epiphany" (Ho avuto un'illuminazione): utile per descrivere un momento di cambiamento mentale.
  • "You cannot control the things that happen to you, but the only thing you can control is how you respond" (Non puoi controllare le cose che ti accadono, ma l'unica cosa che puoi controllare è come reagisci): frase chiave per parlare di resilience.
  • "Living in this depression of..." (Vivere in questa depressione per...): modo efficace per esprimere un sentimento di disagio profondo.
  • "The future hasn't happened yet" (Il futuro non è ancora successo): semplice ma potente per riflettere sul presente.

Correggi i tuoi punti deboli

Questo video è ottimo per esercitare il shadow speech (o shadowspeaks), una tecnica che consiste nel ripetere immediatamente le frasi dopo il parlante, imitando la pronuncia, l'intonazione e il ritmo. Il tono colloquiale di Nate e le pause naturali aiutano a migliorare la pronuncia inglese, soprattutto per i suoni come "th" in "thing" o "that", e a capire come enfatizzare le parole chiave (es. "completely changed"). Inoltre, la varietà di frasi lunge e corte ti insegna a gestire la respirazione durante il parlato, evitando di "bloccare" la voce. Per sfruttarlo al massimo, ripeti il video più volte: la prima volta ascolta attentamente, la seconda inizia a ripetere a bassa voce, la terza cerca di corrispondere al ritmo esatto. Così migliorerai non solo la pronuncia, ma anche la confidenza nel parlare inglese a lungo. Ricorda: l'impegno giornaliero con il shadow speak è la chiave per trasformare la tua capacità di esprimerti.

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — un’azione iniziata prima e ancora in corsoi've been living
“Used to” used to + verbo — un’abitudine o uno stato passato che non è più veroused to be · used to hate
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessoI've known · hasn't happened · have made
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fawas forced · is already done · is done

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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