Pratica di Shadowing: How do I Remember the English Words| Tips to Learn better - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Hello everyone and welcome back to the podcast.
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I'm Sahar and today I want to talk about something that people ask me about all the time.
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How do I remember English words?
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And especially, how do I learn new vocabulary?
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Now that I'm an English teacher,
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you might think that Because I'm a teacher, I know every English word,
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and I never forget anything.
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But honestly, that's not true.
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I forget words too.
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There are words that I have known for years, and there are also words that I sometimes forget.
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And actually, learning vocabulary has been one of the most interesting parts of my English journey.
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Because the way I learn vocabulary today is completely different from the way I used to learn it.
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When I was younger and I was learning English, I thought vocabulary meant memorizing.
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I thought if I wanted to improve my English, I had to learn as many words as possible.
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So I would take a notebook and write down a long list of English words and their Persian meanings.
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You know, my mother tongue is Persian.
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I could sometimes learn 20, 30 or even more words in one day.
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And when I finished, I felt really proud.
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I thought, wow, I learned 30 new words today.
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But there was a problem.
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I didn't really learn those words.
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I only remembered them for a short time.
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Maybe that evening, I could remember most of them.
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Maybe the next day, I could still remember some of them.
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But a week later, when I saw the same words again, many of them looked completely unfamiliar.
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And that was incredibly frustrating.
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I remember looking at my vocabulary notebook and thinking, I started this word before.
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How can I forget it?
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At that time, I thought there was something wrong with my memory.
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I thought maybe I wasn't good at memorizing
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but as I became more experienced as a learner
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and later as a teacher I realized
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that my memory wasn't the problem my method was the problem
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I was trying to memorize words instead of learning them I was collecting words instead of building a relationship with them.
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And that sounds like a small difference.
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But it completely changed the way I learn English today.
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One of the first thing I changed was the number of words I tried to learn.
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Before I continue, I want you to write for me in the comments that how many words do you memorize a day?
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Tell me please.
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okay one of the first things I changed was the number
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of words I tried to learn I stopped trying to learn huge lists I realized
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that knowing 10 words really well was much more valuable than knowing 50 words for two days
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so instead of asking myself how many words did I learn
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today I started asking how many words can actually remember and use
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that question changed my learning completely I also stopped learning words
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completely by themselves this was a very important change before I
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would see a word write the translation next to it
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and move on but now when I meet a new word I want to see how
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that word behaves I want to know what words usually come before it what words usually come after it
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and how people actually use it in real in real conversation for me a word becomes much easier to remember
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when it has a story around it for example if I learn a word
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while reading an interesting story I remembered where I cite I remember the situation I remember the sentence
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and sometimes I even remember what I was thinking when I cite
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that is very different from memorizing a random translation from a vocabulary list
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and this is one of the biggest lessons I learned I
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don't try to force my brain to remember every new world
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instead I try to give my brain enough opportunities to meet the world again this is something i didn't understand
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when i was a beginner i thought
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if i studied a word once i should remember it forever
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but that's not how memory works you can learn something today and forget it tomorrow
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that doesn't mean you failed it it means your brain needs to meet
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that information again so i started reviewing vocabulary differently i didn't sit down every day
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and try to memorize my entire vocabulary notebook instead i let old words come back naturally i would see them
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while reading i would hear them in podcasts i would notice them in videos
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and sometimes i would use them when i was speaking
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or teaching and every time every time
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and every time i met the word again it became a
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little more familiar after some time i noticed something really interesting
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i didn't have to translate the word anymore i just understood it
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that was a huge moment for me because
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when you are a beginner you often see an english word and immediately search for the
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mother tongue mother tongue meaning but eventually you want to move you want to move away from that
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you want the english word to have a meaning directly in your mind you don't want to go through
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your mother tongue every time and for me reading and listening were two of the biggest reasons
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this started happening i spent a lot of time around english i listened to english even
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when i wasn't actively studying i watched videos i listened to conversations i read things
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that were interesting to me and because of
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that i kept meeting the same vocabulary again
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and again sometimes i would learn a word on monday
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and completely forget it by wednesday then i would hear it again on friday
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and suddenly i would think oh i remember this word then maybe two weeks later i would see it again
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and this time it felt even more familiar that's how vocabulary
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slowly become permanent for me not by sitting for hours
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and repeating the same word not by trying to memorize hundreds of words in one night in one night
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but by allowing the same vocabulary to come back into my life again
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and there was another thing
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that helped me a lot I started paying attention to the
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words I actually wanted to use this might sound obvious
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but it's extremely important there are thousands
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and thousands of English words you don't need all of them you need the words
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that are useful for your life your work your interests
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and the kind of English you want to speak
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when I was learning English I used to think every word was equally important But now I know that's not true.
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Some words are extremely useful.
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Some words are much less common.
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And some words are simply not necessary for your current level.
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So I became much more selective.
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And that made learning vocabulary feel much easier.
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I wasn't trying to carry the entire English dictionary in my head.
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I was building my own personal vocabulary.
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And honestly, that made me much more confident.
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Because instead of constantly thinking about everything I didn't know,
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I started noticing everything I did know and
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that changed my relationship with english i stopped thinking i don't
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know enough words i started thinking i know a lot
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and i can keep adding to it and
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that small change in mindset made a huge difference but there was still one problem i was still forgetting some words
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so in the second part I'm going to tell you what
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I did then I want you to pay attention to my
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tips to my experiences I'm here to help you to speak English
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and just I want you to support me
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and my channel by liking by subscribing and by writing small
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and short comments thank you so much if you have any question about memorizing.
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If you have any question about memorizing, you can write for me in the comments.
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You know that I answer all of the comments.
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Thank you guys.
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Good luck and have a very good journey in learning English.
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See you.

Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B1 si basa sul video “How do I Remember the English Words”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: word, english, learn, vocabulary, learning. Questo video contiene 118 frasi e 1360 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 11:25. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 119 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 83% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

Le 13 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
vocabulary sostantivo/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/vocabolario
memorize verbo/ˈmɛm.əˌɹaɪ̯z/memorizzare, imparare a memoria
notebook sostantivo/ˈnoʊtˌbʊk/blocco, taccuino
beginner sostantivo/bəˈɡɪnɚ/principiante, debuttante
podcast sostantivo/ˈpɑdˌkæst/podcast, audioprogramma
mindset sostantivo/ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/mentalità, modo di pensare
selective aggettivo/səˈlɛktɪv/selettivo
translate verbo/tɹænzˈleɪt/tradurre
behave verbo/bɪˈheɪv/comportarsi, agire
subscribe verbo/səbˈskɹaɪb/abbonarsi
dictionary sostantivo/ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/dizionario, lessico
differently avverbio/ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/differentemente, diversamente
actively avverbio/ˈæktɪvli/attivamente

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
come back verbotornare
go through verboattraversare
sit down verbosedersi, accomodarsi
write down verbosottoscrivere, annotare

La grammatica di questo video

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

StrutturaNel video
“Used to” used to + verbo — un’abitudine o uno stato passato che non è più veroused to learn · used to think
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohave known · has been
Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — i verbi seguiti dalla forma in -ingstopped trying · started asking · stopped learning
Past continuous was/were + -ing — un’azione in corso in un momento del passatowas learning · was trying · was thinking

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 19 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come didn't, I'm, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, unfamiliar /ˌʌnfəˈmɪli.ə(ɹ)/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: memorize /ˈmɛm.əˌɹaɪ̯z/, notebook /ˈnoʊtˌbʊk/, cite /saɪt/, podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/, frustrate /ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/, translate /tɹænzˈleɪt/, actively /ˈæktɪvli/

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 vocabulary, memorize, notebook.

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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