Pratica di Shadowing: How to Become Extraordinary (or Not) - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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If you're like me, you're probably binge watching your 81st video right now.
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Hey, I can't blame you.
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I do the same shit.
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But you know, it's funny watching YouTube all the time or being on social media all the the time,
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you're always exposed to the most extraordinary parts of human experience.
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For instance, I can get on YouTube or Instagram
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and I can instantly see a guy pick up a thousand pounds off the floor
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and he's got arms like the size of my toilet bowl.
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Or I can see an eight-year-old who's better at piano than I am at anything, really.
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You see this encouragement of the extraordinary all over pop culture.
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You see it in talk shows, you see it in inspirational figures, you see it in commercials, and you especially see it in the self-help industry.
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One of the biggest things that's sold to you in the self-help industry is
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that we all have this special extraordinary thing inside us, and it's just waiting to get out.
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All you need to know is the secret to get it out of you.
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That unless you're doing something incredible with your life, then it's somehow wasted.
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I think this is bullshit.
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In fact, I think the problem isn't so much us, we've lost track of what normal, good human experience is actually like.
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First of all, most of us are going to be ordinary at the vast majority of things that we do.
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Second of all, even if you are able to lift a thousand pounds off the ground or whatever,
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doesn't necessarily make you a good father or a good friend or or even a good person.
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These extraordinary things that we're exposed to while being super cool
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and entertaining aren't necessarily the most important metrics to be gauging our lives on.
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So this is a bell curve and
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if you wanted to graph most human skills and activities
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and put all the people who are the very best on the right
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and all the people who are very worst on the left, what you end up getting is a nice bell shape.
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The vast majority of people are in the middle somewhere, and as you get out to either extreme, there are fewer and fewer people at those extremities.
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When we see something like, I don't know, Michael Jordan slam dunking, he's in the 99.9th percentile.
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He's one of the best human beings that has ever lived.
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He's on this part of the bell curve.
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He's so far on this end of the bell curve that you can't even see what's over there.
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He doesn't even show up on the graph.
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And then you take somebody like, I don't know, this guy, he's so much worse than everybody.
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He's on the other end of the bell curve.
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What all this great technology and media has done to us is that we are constantly exposed to the extremes, to the tail ends of the bell curve,
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while we go outside and our day-to-day life is in the fat, boring middle.
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But Mark, if I'm not extraordinary, what do I do with my life?
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And it's like, well, who says you need to be extraordinary to have a valuable and meaningful life?
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In fact, I would argue that some of the most important things in life are not extraordinary at all.
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Things like raising a kid well, things like taking care of your health, being an honest and good person to your friends and family.
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These are not extraordinary things.
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In fact, they are the most ordinary things.
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And I think they're ordinary things for a reason, because they're the most important.
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And there's a paradox to this as well.
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If you want to do one of those extraordinary things, the way you do it is by doing the ordinary extremely well for a long time.
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For instance, that dude who lifts a thousand pounds, I mean, he's probably been hitting the gym three hours a day for the last 25 years.
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There's nothing extraordinary about going into the gym and lifting slightly more weight than you did last time.
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When you compound that over the course of decades, you end up with an extraordinary result.
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But if you go into it looking for the extraordinary result, you're going to create false expectations and you're just going to feel like shit about yourself.
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And so there's this contrast.
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Our actual lived experience is, I'm just like everybody fucking else.
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But our expectation is, is I should be jumping out of planes in a wingsuit and fucking landing on Mount Everest.
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It's one of those things that while the intention is very good, I think it causes more suffering than it resolves.
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So I say fuck being extraordinary.
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Let's bring back the ordinary.
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Let's bring back being average.
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Because if we're being honest, we're all pretty average most of the time.
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And that's okay.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “How to Become Extraordinary”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: extraordinary, bell, curve, ordinary, exposed. Questo video contiene 58 frasi e 831 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:45. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 175 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 86% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| curve sostantivo | /kɚv/ | curva |
| expose verbo | /ɪkˈspoʊz/ | esporre, evidenziare |
| expectation sostantivo | /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/ | attesa |
| graph sostantivo | /ɡɹæf/ | grafico |
| extremity sostantivo | /ɪkˈstɹɛməti/ | estremità |
| percentile sostantivo | /pɚˈsɛn.taɪl/ | percentile |
| dunk verbo | /dʌŋk/ | schiacciata |
| binge sostantivo | /bɪnd͡ʒ/ | bisboccia, sregolatezza |
| paradox sostantivo | /ˈpæ.ɹəˌdɒks/ | paradosso |
| encouragement sostantivo | [ɪnˈkʌɹɪd͡ʒmənt] | incoraggiamento |
| entertain verbo | /ˌɛntəˈteɪn/ | divertire, intrattenere |
| metric aggettivo | /ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/ | metrico |
| bore verbo | /boɹ/ | annoiare, tediare |
| gauge sostantivo | /ˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/ | calibro, unità di misura |
| meaningful aggettivo | /ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/ | significativo, sensato |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| end up verbo | andare a finire, finire |
| pick up verbo | tirare su, sollevare |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- Hey, I can't blame you.
- Let's bring back the ordinary.
- Let's bring back being average.
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | we've lost · has ever lived · has done |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | people who are |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 22 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, we're, can't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, inspirational /ˌɪnspəˈɹeɪʃənəl/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, extremity /ɪkˈstɹɛməti/, inspirational /ˌɪnspəˈɹeɪʃənəl/, encouragement [ɪnˈkʌɹɪd͡ʒmənt]
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come curve, expose, expectation.
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.