Pratica di Shadowing: How I REALLY Learned Languages | Slow English Story for English Learners - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Hello, welcome back to English with Eleanor.
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Today we're in the garden and having a coffee
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and I'm going to use slow English to tell you about my experience learning languages.
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so I have learned a few different languages
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so far I started learning French when I was probably nine
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or ten years old and I started learning that through classes that my school
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offered so I didn't have any private tuition or anything like
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that and it was just a class that was offered as part of my school day and I really liked it.
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I don't know why but I just really enjoyed those classes
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and the feeling of being able to say even something really basic in another language.
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It felt amazing.
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So when I went to secondary school,
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aged 11, I learned French on a more regular basis there.
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And I also started learning German.
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I enjoyed both of those languages,
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but when I was probably 17 I got a different teacher for German
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and that made a huge difference to how much I enjoyed the language
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because this teacher didn't really seem to inspire us to love the language.
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There were also entire parts of our final exam that she didn't teach us,
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so consequently we got fail marks in that paper,
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even though we got better marks in the ones that she had prepared us for.
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So this experience with this teacher and the fiasco with the exam put me off German,
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kind of turned me a little bit against it also I
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suppose I didn't enjoy it as much as French not only
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because of the teacher but also because of the sound of the language German just
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I'm sorry but it doesn't sound quite as beautiful to me as French does.
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So I started learning Spanish in a night class.
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So after my school I went to the college and I attended a night class
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in Spanish so that I could get a flavor for the language
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and I could see if it was something that I wanted to continue later.
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So I enjoyed Spanish and because I was not having good experience with German and I really enjoyed French,
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I decided to study French and Spanish at university.
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So my experience studying these languages was in a quite controlled environment.
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So I was studying in a school situation,
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which meant that we were learning very systematically.
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We were learning grammar and vocabulary by topic and we maybe weren't speaking a lot,
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but we were learning the basics of how the language worked.
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And then when I went to university,
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there was more of the same,
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more of the systematic learning of the language.
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when I was about 20 I went to Geneva for my Erasmus year
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and when I was there I stayed with a Swiss family
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and I will never forget the first night that I spent with that family because I arrived just in time for dinner
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and the family had three children.
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The mom was pregnant with her fourth child and there were three children there and they were aged seven,
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five and two.
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And I remember the seven-year-old girl asking me a question in French and I didn't know what she was talking about.
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It took me a bit of time to figure out what she was asking and how to answer.
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It was about whether or not I liked organic food and I remember feeling so
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lost because I had been studying French for like 10 years by
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that point and at university and at school I had very good grades
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and I was writing essays about French politics and you know deeper issues
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but when it came to the everyday conversation and just talking casually with other people
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that felt like the hardest thing I'd ever had to do
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and now as a teacher I see that with students as well
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because they maybe they know some of the higher level vocabulary but they really struggle
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when it comes to just maintaining a natural conversation.
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Now I am starting to learn Portuguese.
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I'm learning Portuguese in a different way.
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I'm learning Portuguese in a different way because I am learning it in a more communicative way.
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From the students that I have had,
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I have seen that there are basically two types of learners.
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There are the learners who learn very systematically and they're afraid to speak
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if they don't know the grammar perfectly or they don't know the vocabulary that they feel they need.
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So this fear of not being perfect almost prevents them from communicating.
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And then there are the other people who have no fear of communicating and they can talk and talk and talk.
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But it's not grammatically accurate and maybe they don't have the correct vocabulary.
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but they learn to communicate earlier and I think
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that gives them the confidence to continue learning and continue communicating and building and that confidence is very motivational.
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So with Portuguese I am learning not systematically at all because
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if you asked me to do a grammar exercise I would probably be lost
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but I can maintain a basic level of conversation with a person who is a native speaker when I need to.
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And so it has been really interesting for me to compare these two ways of learning
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because they both have pros and cons.
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And I think it's probably best,
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like in most situations, to find a middle ground
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and to find a situation where you have enough confidence to communicate
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but you are still concerned about the way that you are speaking
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and the grammar that you are using and the vocabulary that you need.
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So it's not easy to find this middle ground and it takes practice.
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It's always good to have people to talk to so
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that you can practice your language and it's even better if they are people who are
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sympathetic and understanding and who you know aren't going to laugh at your mistakes
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or criticize you for not being perfect
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so i don't know about you i don't know what your language learning experience has been like.
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Maybe you can identify with one of these types of learners that I was talking about.
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Let me know in the comments because I'm curious and let me know what languages you have been learning.
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Probably English but maybe there are others too.
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So let me know in the comments.
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I'd love to hear from you and don't forget to hit like and subscribe and I'll see you next time.
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Thank you.

Perché praticare il parlare con questo video?

Questo video offre un'opportunità unica per imparare l'inglese con youtube grazie alla narrazione lenta di Eleanor. Ascoltare una lingua parlata a un ritmo più lento aiuta a comprendere meglio il lessico e la struttura delle frasi, rendendo più facile la ripetizione e l'apprendimento. Utilizzare il metodo dello shadow speak permette di imitare il parlante, migliorando così la fluidità e la confidenza nell'utilizzo della lingua. I benefici del parlare in questo contesto includono non solo l'acquisizione di nuovo vocabolario, ma anche la possibilità di assimilare le intonazioni e le espressioni naturali dell'inglese.

Grammatica ed Espressioni nel Contesto

Nell'esperienza di Eleanor, emergono alcune strutture grammaticali e espressioni chiave che sono utili per chi sta imparando la lingua. Ecco alcuni esempi:

  • Utilizzo del tempo passato: Eleanor parla delle sue esperienze passate con verbi al passato, come 'ho imparato' e 'ho avuto', che sono fondamentali per raccontare storie.
  • Frasi comparativa: L'uso di 'non solo... ma anche...' per esprimere le differenze tra l'apprendimento del francese e del tedesco, stimola la comprensione delle comparazioni.
  • Domande retoriche: La domanda della ragazza di sette anni, "Ti piace il cibo biologico?", è un buon esempio di come formulare domande in modo naturale.

Praticare questi esempi di grammatica e struttura tramite shadow speech aiuta a migliorare la comprensione e la produzione orale.

Complicazioni di Pronuncia Comuni

Durante il video, ci sono diverse parole e suoni che potrebbero risultare difficili per gli apprendenti. Ecco alcune indicazioni:

  • Il suono 'r': In inglese, il suono di ‘r’ può essere complicato, specialmente per chi parla lingue come l'italiano, dove 'r' è pronunciato in modo diverso.
  • Parole multisillabiche: Termini complessi come 'organico' possono essere difficili da pronunciare correttamente. Questo è un ottimo punto di partenza per esercitarsi con la migliorare la pronuncia inglese.

Utilizzando il video come guida, puoi ascoltare più volte e ripetere ad alta voce, applicando le tecniche di shadowspeak per migliorare la tua pronuncia e rendere il tuo inglese più naturale.

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.