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A lot of people think that powerful professional communication is just words
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and it's knowing how to use your mouth sounds to get what you want, but that's not really it.
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It all starts with the foundation of how you view yourself
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and how self -aware you are as you navigate your life and how you feel about yourself.
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I always say the way that people talk to other people is actually a reflection of how they talk to themselves.
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So the most important and powerful thing
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that you can do for your communication is actually to work on your self -confidence
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and your self -awareness first because
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if you feel good about yourself you are automatically going to improve your communication skills
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if you are somebody who is looking to become more self -aware the first thing that's
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so important for you to do is to understand
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that you are not perfect nobody's perfect
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we're just works in progress don't think of yourself as a person who needs to be perfect all the time
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but instead think of yourself as somebody who is continuously growing
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and you're always seeking out ways that you can become a better person.
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If you're an introvert, if you're shy, if you're more animated, that's great.
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You can be exactly who you are and be the most professional version of yourself.
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You don't have to change your personality to be professional.
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You just need to make a few tweaks here and there to make sure that your communication is coming across
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as you intend it to be.
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you know a lot of people think
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that confidence is just the loudest person in the room the person who takes up the most space
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but that's actually not really confidence true confidence is being relaxed
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and joyful not caring about what other people think not
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because it's not important but because you are proud of yourself
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and what you're doing and you stand firm in what you value
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so if you are somebody who is looking to improve your confidence,
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the number one tip that I have is something called be your own best friend.
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Nobody spends more time with you than you spend with you.
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So the way that you talk to yourself matters.
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And we all have this internal voice in our head that's going 24 -7 and it is our number one critic.
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And so the most important thing that you can do today is first just recognize that voice.
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You don't need to judge it.
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You don't need to shame it.
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You don't even need to try to turn it off.
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You just need to recognize that it's there.
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And then And the second step is to start responding to the voice.
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Now, internally, you don't want people to think that you're crazy.
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You just want to do it quietly to yourself.
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But when the voice is saying, you're going to mess up this meeting, you can gently respond, no, you're not.
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You're so prepared.
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Like, they hired you to do this job.
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You do a great job.
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You're not a perfect person, but you're prepared.
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And you're going to go in and you're going to crush it.
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And so just practicing kind of responding to yourself the way
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that you would if you heard a best friend critiquing themselves this way.
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You keep it real.
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You're not just buttering their ego, but you also are encouraging and you're realistic.
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You're kind of giving yourself these reality checks.
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If you are trying to improve your articulation skills,
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one of the quickest and easiest ways to do that is to simply hang out with articulate people.
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The people that you hang out with have such a huge impact on the way
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that you act and the way they behave and the way that you see the world and the way that you speak.
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For example, if you're hanging out with a bunch of kids who are speaking
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Gen Z slang, you're going to pick that up.
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Versus if you're spending a bunch of time in a big consulting company, you're going to start to pick up all that consulting jargon.
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Try to hang out with articulate people as much as you can.
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And a lot of people say, oh, well, Erin, I don't have access to a room full of learned scholars.
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And so my number one recommendation is to actually listen to podcasts with really articulate people or listen to presidential speeches.
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Put articulation in your ears and you will be shocked at how it just subconsciously levels up your articulation skills.
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Another tip that I love to give and people hate to hear is that you should record yourself on video.
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It is one of the quickest ways to supercharge your communication and it is so painful, I know, but it gets easier.
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Trust me, I know.
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I film myself every single day.
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You become more self -aware of how you look.
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And you might be doing things that you didn't even realize.
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For example, before I started recording myself, I would twirl my hair a lot.
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And I had no clue I was doing this.
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Nobody gave me feedback.
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I had no idea.
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And I realized that it's actually really, really distracting.
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So when you film yourself, you'll notice all these little things that you do.
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And it is the quickest, and I'm not saying painless, but it is the quickest way to improve your communication and your self -awareness.
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A mistake that I see so many people make is
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that they're either way too brief and they just jump right into things
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or they go on way too long and they ramble and they go on tangents.
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So a cure that I have for this is something I like to call sandwich your thoughts.
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So anytime you communicate, especially in a group setting or a meeting or something like that,
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you always want to open with acknowledging what was said before, add what perspective you have or opinion you have,
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and then end with signaling what can happen next. For example, let's say you're in a meeting and your colleague really likes direction too
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but you think that direction three is a way better option.
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Instead of just jumping in and saying, no, option three is better.
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Or going on a long tangent about how
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Kelly's right about option two, but you're wondering, cut that out.
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Instead, you're going to say to your colleague, option two looks really great.
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Here's how I feel that option three would be better for the client.
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What do you think?
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That's it.
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A super simple sandwich.
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The next communication strategy actually has nothing to do with you speaking, and it actually has more to do with you not speaking.
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You might have heard the term active listening before, which basically just means that you are fully paying attention to the person who's speaking to you.
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Instead of doing what most of us do and thinking about what you're going to say next,
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you are fully, fully listening to every word that they're saying, and you're trying to understand the intent behind why they are saying what they're saying.
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The mistake that so many people make is that they just think about what they want to communicate out,
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and they don't necessarily consider the audience that they're speaking to.
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So the better of an active listener that you can become, the better that you can understand the people that you're speaking to,
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the better you can cater your communication to that audience.
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And lastly, a super practical tip for most of us is to just stop talking.
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Stop betting against yourself.
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Stop discounting yourself.
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Stop saying, does that make sense?
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Just cut it out.
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Just be done.
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Say what you need to say and let there be silence.
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Silence is okay.
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See?
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “How to sound like you belong in every room”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: communication, speaking, self, confidence, option. Questo video contiene 108 frasi e 1329 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 6:35. Chi parla va veloce, circa 202 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
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| skill sostantivo | /skɪl/ | abilità, capacità |
| silence sostantivo | /ˈsaɪ̯ləns/ | silenzio |
| awareness sostantivo | /əˈwɛɹ.nəs/ | coscienza |
| communicate verbo | /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/ | comunicare, informare |
| colleague sostantivo | /ˈkɒliːɡ/ | collega |
| necessarily avverbio | /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/ | necessariamente, a tutti i costi |
| practical aggettivo | /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/ | pratico |
| membership sostantivo | iscrizione, appartenenza | |
| shock sostantivo | /ʃɔk/ | trauma, trauma emotivo |
| encourage verbo | /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ | incoraggiare, raccomandare |
| ear sostantivo | /ˈɪə̯/ | orecchio, orecchia |
| butter sostantivo | /ˈbʌtɚ/ | burro, butirro |
| hire verbo | /ˈhaɪɹ/ | assoldare, noleggiare |
| discount sostantivo | /ˈdɪskaʊnt/ | sconto |
| cure verbo | /kjɔː/ | curare |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| come across verbo | dare l'impressione, avere l'aria |
| mess up verbo | incasinare |
| pick up verbo | tirare su, sollevare |
| take up verbo | sollevare, prendere |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- You don't need to judge it.
- You don't need to shame it.
- You just need to recognize that it's there.
- You're not a perfect person, but you're prepared.
- You're kind of giving yourself these reality checks.
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | somebody who is · person who needs · person who takes |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | will be shocked · was said · be done |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 42 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, don't, they're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: shock /ʃɔk/, crush /kɹʌʃ/, reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, articulation /ɑɹˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: articulate /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, continuously /kənˈtɪnjuəsli/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: hire /ˈhaɪɹ/, behave /bɪˈheɪv/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: articulate /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/, silence /ˈsaɪ̯ləns/, awareness /əˈwɛɹ.nəs/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, sandwich /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: sandwich /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/, practical /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/, feedback /ˈfiːdˌbæk/, relax /ɹɪˈlæks/, podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/
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 skill, silence, awareness.
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.