Pratica di Shadowing: How To Do An American Accent FAST - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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Welcome everybody to the Actors Academy.
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So today we're going to be talking about how to do the American accent.
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And specifically this is going to be how to do a general American accent.
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That's how we have to specifically categorize this topic.
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Because there are a lot of different, you may call them accents or dialects, whatever wording you like to use.
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People will interchange them differently.
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But if you're from New York or you're from Texas or you're from California, you're going to sound a little bit different depending on where you're from.
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Today though we're going to be talking about the general American accent.
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This is what people think of most when they think of the American accent.
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This is when you're going and you're watching movies and you're hearing an American.
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This is what you're usually hearing.
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So that's why we call this the general American accent.
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So the first sound that we're going to be starting with are the R sounds.
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And words like car, bar, far.
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We have a strong R sound.
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Far, car, bar.
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Whereas with a British accent, you might go car.
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Where's the car at?
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Or the bar.
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You want to go and hit those R's hard.
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Car, bar, far.
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You're hearing those R sounds.
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But now, if you go overboard with this, of course it's going to sound a little bit weird.
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Car, bar, far.
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You're just going to sound weird.
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With any accent that you're learning, you can go too far.
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You can always bring it back a little bit, but it's always very easy to go too far, especially when you're first learning.
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When you're learning that first, go ahead and make those mistakes.
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That's fine.
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But bring it back.
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Don't just keep going car, bar, far.
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You have to roll into those R's car, bar, far.
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Some people think it helps to think about the R sound being a little bit more back in the throat.
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If that helps you, you can use that.
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But really, hear the sounds.
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Car, bar, far.
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You're basically saying car, and then you're hearing that R sound.
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As if you're just saying R.
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Car, far, bar and then when you don't have those weird pauses like I'm doing, it'll sound like car, far, and bar.
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Same is going to go with our ER sounds.
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So with ER in words, say like better, or father, or mother, we have those ER sounds.
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Father, mother, better.
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With the American accent, you hear those R's.
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It's something that you're going to really notice when it comes to the American accent.
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So it'll be father, mother, not father, mother, ER.
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We hear those R sounds in there, father, mother.
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So if you can get those R's, that'll really start to help you sound a little bit more American because we're really strong when it comes to those R's.
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Again, you can go overboard, though.
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You can go mother, father, better, and that will make you sound like a really weird person.
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So if you want to avoid sounding weird and you just want to sound normal, tone it back a little bit.
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As you're learning these accents and as you're going through, you can decide how strong you want to go, how soft you want to go because you can, you have that ability.
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There are some people who are stronger with their Rs and there are some people here who are lighter with their Rs.
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But in general, you're still gonna hear those Rs in there, whether that be with ARs or ERs.
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So now we're going to be talking about the medial Ts and words like say little.
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When we say little here in America, we change our Ts into Ds.
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If you're a British speaker, there are two things that you would do with those Ts.
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Sometimes you may leave the Ts out.
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You may go little, you may not even hear the Ts.
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Or you go a little bit stronger with the Ts and you go little.
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But in America here, what we do is we change those Ts into to d's, little.
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This of course is not going to apply to all words because there are words that will not change those sounds,
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but for the most part medial t's are going to be changing from t's into d's.
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That's what you're going to be getting most of.
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So the next one we're going to be talking about are the words the and the.
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You spell them the same way but we say them differently depending on the context of what we're talking in.
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Sometimes we may say the animal or sometimes we may say the park.
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When do we use the, when do we use the?
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A good rule of thumb that will really help you with this is thinking the.
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We say the when we have a vowel come afterwards.
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So the animal because a comes next.
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Or as we have a consonant comes next, then it will be the.
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So for example, the park.
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So anytime you're trying to find out when to use the or when to use the, this is the process you have to go through.
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If we say the park, it sounds a little bit weird.
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Where like the park, it doesn't sound right in our ears when we hear it.
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So if you're trying to have an American accent and you say, where is the park?
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People are going to be like, what?
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The park?
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No, it's the park.
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Where is the park?
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The same could also be said a little bit for the word the animal.
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You could go and say the animal.
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It's not as weird, but most likely you're gonna hear us say the animal because it flows more, it rolls off the tongue.
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So a general rule of thumb is make sure if a vowel comes next, you say the.
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If a consonant comes next, you say the.
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So I hope this all makes sense for you guys.
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This is a really quick video in order to have an American accent fast.
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I hope you guys liked this video.
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Make sure you subscribe to the channel so you can be up to date with everything.
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There's always new videos coming out every single week.
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If you're an actor, this channel really helps you out because if you have different accents, this is, I believe it's our fourth one that we've now put out.
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When it comes to accents, the more tools that you have in your pocket, your arsenal when you're an actor, the better that you have a chance of maybe booking a part.
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So hey, if you can do four different accents, well, there may be a role one day where you have to have a different accent
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and you can audition for that part.
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If you just wanna learn an accent for fun and you're not trying to be an actor, just want to know accents well then this is also great for you too.
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I'm also going to be leaving our 10 hour acting master class down in the comment section
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and in the description if you're interested in that if you're an actor and I'll see you guys all next time.
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Thank you guys.
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Bye Thank
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you.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B1 si basa sul video “How To Do An American Accent FAST”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: sound, accent, bar, park, weird. Questo video contiene 100 frasi e 1223 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 5:57. Chi parla va veloce, circa 205 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 90% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 13 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| accent sostantivo | /ækˈsɛnt/ | accento |
| consonant sostantivo | /ˈkɑn.sə.nənt/ | consonante |
| vowel sostantivo | /ˈvaʊ.əl/ | vocale |
| thumb sostantivo | /ˈθʌm/ | pollice, dito grosso |
| depend verbo | /dɪˈpɛnd/ | dipendere |
| differently avverbio | /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/ | differentemente, diversamente |
| categorize verbo | /ˈkætɪɡəˌɹaɪz/ | categorizzare |
| audition sostantivo | /ɑˈdɪʃən/ | audizione |
| pause sostantivo | /pɔːz/ | pausa |
| subscribe verbo | /səbˈskɹaɪb/ | abbonarsi |
| anytime avverbio | in qualsiasi momento, in qualunque momento | |
| throat sostantivo | /ˈθɹoʊt/ | gola |
| arsenal sostantivo | /ˈɑːsənəl/ | arsenale, deposito armi |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| go through verbo | attraversare | |
| find out verbo | scoprire | |
| go ahead verbo | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | procedere, andare avanti |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- That's how we have to specifically categorize this topic.
- This is what you're usually hearing.
- You're just going to sound weird.
- That's what you're going to be getting most of.
- When do we use the, when do we use the?
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Frasi condizionali if + frase, will/would + verbo — una condizione e il suo risultato | if you can get those R's, that'll really · if you're an actor and I'll see |
| Possibilità con “might / may” might/may + verbo — qualcosa di possibile ma non certo | may call · might go · may leave |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — qualcosa che succede adesso o in questo periodo | you're going · you're usually hearing · You're hearing |
| Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un piano o qualcosa che si vede arrivare | we're going to be · is going to be · you're going to sound |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 51 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, we're, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: thumb /ˈθʌm/, throat /ˈθɹoʊt/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, categorize /ˈkætɪɡəˌɹaɪz/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: accent /ækˈsɛnt/, consonant /ˈkɑn.sə.nənt/, overboard /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌbɔː(ɹ)d/, depend /dɪˈpɛnd/, categorize /ˈkætɪɡəˌɹaɪz/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: accent /ækˈsɛnt/, categorize /ˈkætɪɡəˌɹaɪz/
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 accent, consonant, vowel.
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.