Pratica di Shadowing: How to Explain Complex Accounting Problems to Anyone! - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Do you remember the last time you had to explain a complex accounting problem to someone?
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And then after about five seconds of trying to explain, you get lost.
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The person you're speaking to gets lost.
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You know I don't speak Spanish.
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In English, please.
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And then it just turns into a mess.
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In today's class, I'm going to give you a five step process to be
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able to explain complex accounting problems in a simple way so that everyone will understand.
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If you've been following the channel for a while, you know that I love structures and frameworks to help students communicate more efficiently.
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And in today's class, I'm going to give you one more.
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Generally when we have a problem, our first instinct is to try and share it with someone.
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We get really excited.
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Sometimes we get a little bit panicky.
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and in our rush to explain what the problem is We actually give them all the details, but we don't tell them what the actual problem is.
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I was watching this great interview the other day with Simon Sinek, and he was saying that when you're explaining something complex, You need to make it so simple
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that it's repeatable because if it's repeatable it's understandable
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and that's what your goal should be
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when you're trying to explain a complex accounting problem make it so simple and concise
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that the person listening can repeat it back to you.
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And that's exactly what our five step process aims to achieve.
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Okay, so let's look at the first step.
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What's the issue?
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We want to give one sentence that describes what the problem is.
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We want to prepare the listeners brain for the information that they're about to receive.
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So let's imagine it's a revenue recognition problem.
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If I was speaking to a finance person, they'll know what revenue recognition means.
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But if I'm talking to a non -finance person, they would have no idea what I'm talking about in most cases.
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So I want to be very careful with the words I choose.
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So I would say something like, we discovered
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that the revenue on one of our contracts was recorded in
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the wrong month you notice here the word i used was recorded
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because that's a word everyone's going to know step number two is what is the specific issue
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and what is the impact on the business.
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So I could say the revenue was recorded before the service was delivered
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and this caused our Q2 revenue to be overstated by $50 ,000.
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Here, over -stated means that the number was too high.
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If you want the opposite of that, you can say, understated.
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If I was speaking to someone outside of finance, I'd probably give them an extra sentence, just something that explains how this problem is going to affect their area.
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So for example, if I was speaking to someone in sales, I would say that means that the commissions we calculated in Q2 were incorrect
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or if I was speaking to someone in commercial, I might say that Our rebates have been calculated incorrectly or our revenue share was wrong in Q2.
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So we'll need to fix it.
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Just before I forget, there is a free PDF download of this class with all the vocabulary and structures.
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as well as some other complex accounting problems.
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The link to that PDF is in the description of this video.
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Step three is what is the cause?
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So I could say, We used the contract date instead of the delivery date.
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Step 4 is: How do we prevent it happening again?
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So you can say, we have set up a 30 minute training session with a data entry team to do a review of the input procedure.
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- And the last step is how do we fix it?
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What's the solution?
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so i would say we have corrected the overstatement in q2 and moved the revenue into Q3.
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If I put everything together, it should now look like this.
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We discovered that the revenue on one of our contracts was recorded in the wrong month.
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The revenue was recorded before the service was delivered and this caused our Q2 revenue to be overstated by $50 ,000.
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The issue occurred because we used the contract date instead of the delivery date.
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We've set up a 30 minute training session with the data entry team to do a review of the data input procedure.
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We've corrected the overstatement and moved the amount to Q3.
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You notice here with the example, I keep the language very simple and easy to understand.
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Thank you.
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I worked with a CFO once and he said, "You don't win any awards for using more words." And that's a problem I see with English learners.
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Their focus is on trying to show off, to use the most sophisticated words,
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But your focus should be trying to get your message across in the most efficient way using the least amount of words.
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The last piece of advice I would give you is always prepare
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and practice a few times before you go and speak to someone.
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Remember, keep it simple if the person wants more details they'll ask you
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if you like today's class let me know in the comment section below remember
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that there is a free pdf of everything we learned and you can find that in the description of this video
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Contesto e sfondo

Spiegare concetti complessi, come quelli della contabilità, in modo semplice è una sfida per molti. Nel video, l'istruttore condivide un metodo pratico per comunicare chiaramente, anche con chi non ha competenze finanziarie. Questo approccio non solo migliora la comprensione, ma è anche un ottimo modo per esercitare la pratica di conversazione in inglese, specialmente se usi la tecnica dello shadowing in inglese.

5 frasi chiave per la comunicazione quotidiana

  • "We discovered that the revenue was recorded in the wrong month" (Abbiamo scoperto che i ricavi sono stati registrati nel mese sbagliato): semplice e diretto, usa vocaboli comuni.
  • "This caused our Q2 revenue to be overstated by $50,000" (Ciò ha fatto sì che i ricavi del secondo trimestre fossero sovrastimati di 50.000 dollari): spiega l'impatto in modo concreto.
  • We used the contract date instead of the delivery date (Abbiamo usato la data del contratto invece di quella della consegna): identifica la causa senza jargon.
  • We have set up a 30-minute training session (Abbiamo organizzato una sessione di formazione di 30 minuti): propone una soluzione pratica.
  • What's the solution? (Qual è la soluzione?): stimola la partecipazione e mantiene il dialogo fluido.

Guida passo passo per lo shadowing

Per sfruttare al massimo il video e migliorare la pronuncia inglese, segui questi passaggi: 1. Ascolta un frammento di 5-10 secondi e ripetilo immediatamente, imitando l'intonazione e il ritmo. 2. Concentrati sulle parole chiave (es. "recorded", "overstated") e assicurati di pronunciarle correttamente. 3. Ripeti il processo per ogni step del metodo: così impari a strutturare le tue frasi in inglese in modo chiaro. 4. Dopo alcuni tentativi, registra te stesso e confronta con l'originale: noterai i progressi nella fluibilità. Lo shadowspeak è un modo divertente per imparare l'inglese con YouTube, perché ti fa sentire parte della conversazione!

Ricorda: la chiave è la costanza. Ogni minuto di pratica ti avvicina a una comunicazione più efficace, sia in contabilità che in qualsiasi altro contesto.

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.

Tecnica dello shadowing: leggi la guida completa passo dopo passo →