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Patrick Jane can look at someone for five seconds and tell that they're lying, having an affair, hiding something, or about to completely lose their s*.

And the weird part is, a lot of what he does isn't actually made up for the show.

Jane isn't psychic.

He's just ridiculously good at noticing what people accidentally reveal, and even better at tricking them into revealing more,

because half the time, he doesn't actually know the answer.

He says something, watches your reaction, lets you give him the missing information, and then somehow makes you feel like he knew it all along.

And once you understand his tricks, you start noticing just how much information people give away without realizing it.

So, I broke down the techniques Patrick Jane uses to read people, from figuring out when someone's lying,

to getting people to tell you things without ever asking them a question.

Cold reading.

The first trick

Jane uses is cold reading.

But instead of explaining it, let me do it to you first.

You're the kind of person who can be very social when you're comfortable.

But you also need time completely alone.

You've had people assume things about you that aren't actually true.

And there's probably something you've been thinking about changing in your life for a while now, but you haven't fully committed to it yet.

Sounds weirdly accurate, right?

Except I know absolutely nothing about you.

I gave you statements that sound personal while being broad enough to fit an insane number of people.

And your brain did the rest.

When I said people misunderstand you, you probably thought of a specific person.

When I said there's something you want to change, you decided what that thing was.

I never had to know.

You filled in the blanks for me.

And this is part of what makes Patrick Jane look almost psychic.

He doesn't always walk up to someone already knowing their entire life story.

Sometimes he'll throw out a statement that is specific enough to get a reaction, but flexible enough that he can adjust depending on what happens next.

And there's one thing that makes this work significantly better.

Certainty.

Imagine I look at you and say, you, uh, seem like maybe you've been having problems with someone close to you.

That sounds like I'm guessing.

But if I look directly at you and say, you've been having problems with someone close to you.

Now, your first thought probably isn't, How could she possibly know that?

It's who is she talking about?

Your brain starts searching your own life for evidence that makes my statement true.

And the second you react, even slightly, I have more information than I had five seconds ago, Jane can then narrow it down.

Someone you're romantically involved with.

They disappointed you recently.

And suddenly, it looks like he pulled an incredibly specific fact out of nowhere.

But he didn't start with this specific fact.

You let him there.

And there's another version of this that is honestly even more useful

because you can use it in completely normal conversations without pretending to be psychic.

It's called elicitation.

The basic idea is ridiculously simple.

If you want information from someone, sometimes don't ask them a question.

Say something slightly wrong instead, because people have an almost irresistible urge to correct you.

Let's say you want to know how much someone working at Walmart makes.

You could ask, how much do you make?

Now they know exactly what information you want.

Maybe that feels invasive, so they don't tell you.

Instead, you say, I heard

Walmart actually pays really well now, like $25 an hour.

And they go, what?

No, they don't.

I make $15.

You never asked.

Or imagine someone tells you they went out last night and you want to know who they were with.

Don't immediately ask, who did you go with?

Try, went with your friends?

And they might automatically respond, no, I went with my sister.

Again, they corrected you.

And people tend to love correcting things that are wrong.

But deliberately getting something wrong becomes a lot more interesting

when you think someone is lying

because Jane can insert a completely false detail into somebody's story just to see what they do with it.

Imagine someone tells you, I was near the mall around 8 last night.

You respond, oh, so you probably saw that huge car accident outside.

Apparently the road was completely blocked.

There was no accident.

You just made that up.

Now watch what happens.

Someone who genuinely remembers being there might look confused.

What accident?

I didn't see anything.

But someone who is actively constructing a story has another problem.

They don't know the accident is fake.

Oh yeah, actually, I think I did see something happening over there.

So you push a little further.

Yeah, apparently there were police everywhere.

And suddenly, yeah, that's probably what I saw.

They're now giving you memories of an event that never happened.

But Jane doesn't only listen to what people say.

Sometimes the most interesting part is what happens before they even answer.

And this is where people completely misunderstand body language.

You've probably heard things like they crossed their arms.

They're defensive.

They looked away.

They're lying.

No. Because what if they always cross their arms?

What if they hate eye contact?

One gesture tells you almost nothing.

What Jane pays attention to is change.

Let's say I suspect you stole something from me.

If I immediately walk up to you and say, did you steal my necklace?

I'm already watching nervous body language, but that doesn't tell me much.

You might just be nervous because some lunatic is accusing you of stealing a necklace.

So instead, I talk to you normally first.

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How was your day?

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Where have you been?

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And while we're talking, I'm quietly learning what you look like when you're comfortable.

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Maybe you naturally make a lot of eye contact.

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Your hands move constantly when you talk.

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You're leaning back.

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Your voice is relaxed.

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That's your baseline.

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Then I casually mention, by the way, something weird happened.

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My necklace disappeared yesterday.

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And suddenly your hands stop moving.

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You sit up.

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Your answers become shorter.

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And now I'm interested.

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because I didn't decide that rubbing your hands means you're lying.

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I noticed that you changed when I mentioned the necklace, and you want to look for more than one change.

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This is where clusters come in.

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Crossing your arms by itself could mean absolutely nothing.

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But if the subject changes, and suddenly someone crosses their arms, starts self -soothing, their voice changes, and their previously expressive body becomes unusually still,

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now you have something worth paying attention to, and don't fall for the biggest cliche of all.

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Liars avoid eye contact.

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Some people do the exact opposite.

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If someone knows avoiding eye contact makes them look suspicious, they might stare directly at you because they're actively trying to look believable.

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So don't ask, are they making eye contact?

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Ask, is this how they were behaving 30 seconds ago?

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That's the real trick.

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But none of these tricks work particularly well if you're not actually paying attention.

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And this is probably Patrick Jane's biggest advantage over everyone around him.

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He notices everything.

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Imagine Jane meets a man for the first time.

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He looks at his hands and says, You recently stopped wearing your wedding ring.

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The guy immediately looks confused.

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How did you know that?

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It sounds psychic.

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Until you look at his hand, there's a pale strip of skin around his ring finger.

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Where the rest of his hand has been exposed to the sun, that's it.

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The information was sitting there the entire time.

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Everyone could see it.

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Jane was just the only person actually looking.

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And once you start doing this, you realize people are basically walking around carrying evidence of their lives all over them.

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Look at someone's hands.

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Maybe there's dirt underneath their fingernails.

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Maybe there are calluses in very specific places.

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Look at their clothes, their shoes.

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What's worn out?

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What do they keep checking?

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What do they immediately hide when somebody walks into the room?

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None of these details necessarily mean anything on their own.

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The interesting part is putting them together.

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Imagine someone walks into a coffee shop wearing an expensive suit.

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At first glance, you'd probably assume they have money.

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But then you notice the suit doesn't fit particularly well.

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Their shoes are much cheaper than everything else they're wearing.

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The tag on their briefcase is still attached and they keep adjusting their watch like they're not used to wearing it, suddenly there's another possibility.

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Maybe this isn't how they normally dress.

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Maybe they're trying to impress someone, job interview, first date.

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Now you don't know that yet, but you've noticed something worth investigating.

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Jane notices a detail, creates a hypothesis, and then looks for something else that either supports it or destroys it.

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And you can actually practice this.

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The next time you're sitting somewhere public, pick one person and give yourself 30 seconds.

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Just notice.

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What can you know for certain?

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What can you reasonably guess?

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And most importantly, what are you assuming with absolutely no evidence?

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Because those are three completely different things.

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Another exercise is watching a reality show with the sound completely off.

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Then turn the sound back on and see how catastrophically wrong you were.

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And you probably will be wrong sometimes.

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That's actually the useful part, because you're training yourself to separate.

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I noticed this. From.

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Therefore, this must mean that.

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Jane is ridiculously good at the first part, and that's why he can make deductions from things everybody else walked straight past.

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Because most of us think we're observing the world around us.

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We're not.

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We're filtering out almost all of it.

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Your brain decides what seems important and throws everything else into the background.

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But start deliberately looking at the things you normally ignore.

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The hands, the shoes, the objects, the tiny changes in behavior.

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And suddenly there's an entire layer of information that was always there.

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You just weren't looking at it.

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Play dumb.

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And the last trick might be my favorite because it goes against what almost everyone naturally wants to do.

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If you want to read people better, let them underestimate you.

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Most people spend an insane amount of energy trying to prove that they're smart.

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Jane does the opposite.

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He acts on serious.

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He asks questions he probably already knows the answer to.

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Sometimes he deliberately lets someone believe they're smarter than him.

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And that's useful because the moment somebody thinks they have you figured out, they stop worrying about whether you have them figured out.

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Think about it.

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If you knew you were sitting across from someone whose entire job was analyzing every word you said, you'd immediately become more careful.

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You'd think before answering, you'd watch your expressions, you'd reveal less.

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But if you think the person sitting across from you is slightly clueless, you relax.

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Maybe you explain something you didn't need to explain.

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Maybe you correct them.

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Maybe you say something you would have filtered if you thought they were actually paying attention.

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And suddenly, while you're busy thinking, God, this person is an idiot.

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They're learning everything about you.

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There's actually a perfect example of how powerful underestimation can be in the mentalist.

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Tommy Volker pretended to have an intellectual disability, and because everyone had already placed him into the category of someone harmless,

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someone who couldn't possibly be calculating what was happening around him, they stopped treating him like someone capable of deceiving them.

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And that assumption helped hide the fact that he was the killer.

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Obviously, I'm not suggesting you fake an intellectual disability to psychologically profile your friends, but the principle underneath it is useful.

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People reveal more when they don't feel like they're being observed.

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So sometimes, don't correct someone immediately.

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Let them explain.

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Ask the obvious question.

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Let them think they know more than you.

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And if someone completely misunderstands you, you don't always need to rush to prove them wrong.

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Watch what they do when they believe their assumption is true.

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Because sometimes being underestimated gives you something being impressive never will.

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Information.

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And when you put all of Jane's tricks together, you start realizing something.

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Patrick Jane isn't actually reading minds.

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He knows how to make people show him.

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And that's probably the biggest thing you can actually learn from him.

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Stop trying to magically decode every crossed arm, every look, every tiny movement.

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Get curious.

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Pay attention let people talk, and most importantly, stop focusing only on what people are deliberately trying to show you,

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because people are constantly telling you who they are.

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Most of the time, they're just assuming you aren't paying attention.

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Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “How To Read People Like Patrick Jane”. Questo video contiene 220 frasi e 2145 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 10:44. Chi parla va veloce, circa 200 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 87% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

Parola	Pronuncia	Significato
trick sostantivo	/ˈtɹɪk/	inbroglio
reveal verbo	/ɹɪˈviːl/	rivelare, gettare la maschera
deliberately avverbio	/dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/	intenzionalmente, deliberatamente
necklace sostantivo	/ˈnɛkləs/	collana, girocollo
psychic sostantivo	/ˈsaɪkɪk/	sensitivo
steal verbo	/stiːl/	rubare, derubare
shoe sostantivo	/ˈʃu/	scarpa, calzatura
ridiculously avverbio	/ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs.li/	ridicolmente, irrisoriamente
naturally avverbio	/ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/	naturalmente
confused aggettivo	/kənˈfjuːzd/	confuso
insane aggettivo	/ɪnˈseɪn/	insano, pazzo
pretend verbo	/pɹəˈtɛnd/	fare finta, fingere
intellectual aggettivo	/ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃʊəl/	intellettuale
filter sostantivo	/ˈfɪltɚ/	filtro
actively avverbio	/ˈæktɪvli/	attivamente

I phrasal verb che sentirai

Parola	Pronuncia	Significato
figure out verbo		scoprire, rendersi conto
give away verbo		regalare, dare via
go out verbo		uscire, andare fuori
throw out verbo	/ˈθɹəʊ ˌaʊt/	buttare via, rigettare
wear out verbo		fare fuori, consumare

Frasi da ripetere

Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:

You could ask, how much do you make?
Don't immediately ask, who did you go with?
Try, went with your friends?
How did you know that?
What can you know for certain?

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

Struttura	Nel video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — un’azione iniziata prima e ancora in corso	you've been thinking · you've been having
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso	You've had · You've probably heard · have you been
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa	isn't actually made · has been exposed · is still attached
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa	person who can · Someone who genuinely · someone who is

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 74 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come they're, don't, you're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

I suoni “th”: underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, hypothesis /haɪˈpɒθɪsɪs/, soothe /suːð/
I suoni “sh” e “zh”: shoe /ˈʃu/, assumption /əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/, unusually /ʌnˈjuːʒuəli/
Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: deliberately /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/, ridiculously /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs.li/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, intellectual /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃʊəl/, disability /dɪsəˈbɪlɪti/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

/h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: nowhere /ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/, behave /bɪˈheɪv/, hypothesis /haɪˈpɒθɪsɪs/, harmless /ˈhɑɹmləs/
Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: trick /ˈtɹɪk/, necklace /ˈnɛkləs/, psychic /ˈsaɪkɪk/, confused /kənˈfjuːzd/, pretend /pɹəˈtɛnd/
/æ/ — più aperta della “e”: naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, relax /ɹɪˈlæks/, actively /ˈæktɪvli/, narrow /ˈnæɹəʊ/, accidentally /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

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Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
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