Pratica di Shadowing: How To Effectively Leverage Skip Level 1 1s - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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One thing that happens pretty frequently at these tech companies, especially big tech companies, is a skip level one -on -one, which basically means you don't talk to your direct manager, you talk to their manager.
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So you know, someone who's kind of two steps removed.
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So I'm curious, in these skip level one -on -ones, what have you seen as the most effective way to take advantage of that time with this skip level?
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From the perspective of the engineer, I think one of the best uses at the time is
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that you can take it as an opportunity to try to understand the broader strategy of the company
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or the broader strategy of the organization that you're a part of.
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One question that you can try asking at your skip level to try to get
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that is to just ask them what their priorities are, right?
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Ask them like, hey, what are the top three things
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that you're working on as the skip level and person who's responsible for this organization?
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What are the things that you think are going really well for the organization?
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What are the things that are keeping you up because you think that they're not going very well for the organization?
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And I think
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that all of it is meant to help engineers build a better understanding of the strategy around the product
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and the business that they're a part of.
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And so hopefully when it comes time to you making technical choices in your job as an engineer, you'll have a better frame of reference for making those tradeoffs.
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Totally.
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And actually, I think it goes back also to this idea about a nose for impact, right?
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If your skip level manager says, hey, here are my top three or four priorities, and you can't draw a line from the stuff that you're working on to one of those three things, you're probably not working on the right thing.
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So yeah, I'm also curious about how, is there an opportunity or a place in a skip level one -on -one to basically provide a status update and say,
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hey, here are the challenges that I'm facing on my team, or maybe with my own manager, is that appropriate ever in a skip level?
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So I would say there's two things that maybe are a little counterintuitive, but I really encourage with skip level one -on -ones.
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And one is be candid.
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There's no need for you to try to impress your skip level.
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There's honestly not much value in that. If anything, I think the best way to for both people to get
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good value out of the time is for you to give a really honest view
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because one reality for skip level one -on -ones is
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that they operate oftentimes at an altitude where they have blind
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spots you know there are some things about their organization
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that they just don't see because they're not in the day -to -day work right
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and so you as the engineer
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if you're able to you know give concrete examples of interesting things
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that they should be aware of i think that's something
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that they would really value and then the second part of this
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that i would say is um you know be willing to challenge their ideas uh i i can tell you
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that in the skip level conversations
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that i've had where i was a skip level um those
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were actually always the most interesting conversations to me uh when
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when my ideas were challenged and and the reason I say that is because,
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you know, I care a lot about the whole team being bought into what we're doing, right?
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And if I say something that an engineer that I really respect calls BS on, I think there's a pretty good chance that,
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you know, at face value, there are other engineers on the team that would call BS on it as well, right?
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And so like, as the skip level, I want diagnose that.
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I want to get to the root cause of why there's disagreement.
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Maybe it's that I didn't explain my point of view or the company's point of view well enough in a particular situation, but I could also be wrong.
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I think getting a different perspective, an honest perspective, especially from an engineer that I really trust, that's some of the most valuable time that I can spend.
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Totally.
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And I feel like the other aspect is that, you know, the skip level managers probably happen infrequently, but they're not happening on a weekly or bi -weekly basis.
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They might happen once a month or once every quarter.
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And so I imagine that that's super valuable, not only for you as a skip level, but also as an ISEE to get that broader perspective.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I think so.
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You know, it's because it's a relatively rare perspective that you get, you know, it's, there are ways in which I think
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that time can be used in a way that's really effective
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and and it really all just comes down to being forthcoming with each other about what you see
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “How To Effectively Leverage Skip Level 1 1s”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: skip, engineer, perspective, organization, manager. Questo video contiene 56 frasi e 866 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:37. Chi parla va veloce, circa 187 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 88% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire. 9 delle sue 56 frasi sono domande: un buon esercizio per l’intonazione interrogativa e le risposte brevi.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
11 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| skip verbo | /skɪp/ | balzare, saltellare |
| curious aggettivo | /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/ | curioso, interessato |
| priority sostantivo | /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/ | priorità |
| encourage verbo | /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ | incoraggiare, raccomandare |
| concrete aggettivo | /ˌkɑnˈkɹit/ | concreto, reale |
| aspect sostantivo | /ˈæspɛkt/ | aspetto |
| impress verbo | /ɪmˈpɹɛs/ | impressionare |
| forthcoming aggettivo | /fɔɹθˈkʌmɪŋ/ | prossimo, venturo |
| disagreement sostantivo | /dɪsəˈɡɹiːmənt/ | discussione |
| diagnose verbo | /ˈdaɪ.əɡˌnoʊs/ | diagnosticare |
| oftentimes avverbio | /ˈɔf.ənˌtaɪmz/ | frequentemente, ripetutamente |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| go back verbo | tornare |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | is meant · were challenged · being bought |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | have you seen · i've had |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 19 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, they're, I'm. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, disagreement /dɪsəˈɡɹiːmənt/, counterintuitive /ˌkaʊntəɹɪnˈtuɪtɪv/, infrequently /ɪnˈfɹiːkwənt.li/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: skip /skɪp/, curious /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/, encourage /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/, concrete /ˌkɑnˈkɹit/, aspect /ˈæspɛkt/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: aspect /ˈæspɛkt/, altitude /ˈælt.ɪˌtjuːd/, candid /ˈkæn.dɪd/
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 skip, curious, priority.
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.