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Who are the loveliest people in the world?
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They're not the famous ones, or the respected ones, the worthy ones, and the powerful ones.
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They're the ones you haven't really heard of, who long ago shed their pride, who can tell you frankly how lonely and sad they are,
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who can face their self-hatred and accept their regrets.
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They aren't just unhappy – there are plenty of boring and frightening ways to be that.
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They've come to an optimal perspective on their unhappiness.
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You could tell them about the strangest,
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oddest, most lamentable things about you and know that they understood it all at once from the inside.
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There are no follies around sex or status, love or money that they aren't fully acquainted with.
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They want to get to the howl inside you because they're so familiar with the howl inside them.
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They aren't remotely attached to seeming sane.
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They long ago ceased attempting to appear normal.
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They know that life is mostly pain, mystery and error, and they'll never try to persuade you otherwise.
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They will never be so mean as to try to cheer you up.
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They can be trusted because they've had the courage to fathom their full propensities to cowardice and corruption.
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They don't give a jot about your reputation because they know enough about what people in general are like.
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They combine a thorough misanthropy for the group with a deep love and tenderness for the individual.
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They've been through their obsessions with love, public esteem, career triumph and positivism, and they've come out the other side.
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They can let their humour get very dark because the gap between their hopes and their experience is so wide.
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They've gone into the weirdest bits of themselves and will therefore understand the oddest bits about you.
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They don't expect life as a whole to go right, and against a backdrop of despair, they can laugh with exceptional richness and glee.
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These are the sort of people you want in the prison cell, or on the way to the scaffold, in the trenches, or in the bed next to you on the cancer ward.
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These are the kinds of people we need
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so many more of in our lives and should try so hard to be for others.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello C1 si basa sul video “How to Spot the Loveliest People in the World”. Questo video contiene 24 frasi e 381 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 2:31. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 151 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 82% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| howl verbo | /ˈhaʊ̯l/ | ululare, gannire |
| cowardice sostantivo | /ˈkaʊɚdɪs/ | codardia, viltà |
| fathom verbo | /ˈfæðəm/ | capire, comprendere |
| frighten verbo | /ˈfɹaɪ.tən/ | spaurire, spaventare |
| lamentable aggettivo | /ləˈmɛn.tə.bəl/ | lamentabile |
| misanthropy sostantivo | /mɪˈsæn.θɹə.pi/ | misantropia |
| positivism sostantivo | /ˈpɑzɪtɪvˌɪzm/ | positivismo |
| propensity sostantivo | /pɹəˈpɛnsɪti/ | propensione, tendenza |
| richness sostantivo | /ˈɹɪt͡ʃnəs/ | ricchezza |
| scaffold sostantivo | /ˈskæf.əld/ | impalcatura, ponteggio |
| tenderness sostantivo | /ˈtɛn.dɚ.nɪs/ | tenerezza |
| unhappiness sostantivo | infelicità | |
| backdrop sostantivo | /ˈbæk.dɹɑp/ | scenario |
| sane aggettivo | /seɪn/ | sano (di mente) |
| trench sostantivo | /ˈtɹɛnt͡ʃ/ | fosso, trincea |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 15 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come they've, aren't, they're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: fathom /ˈfæðəm/, misanthropy /mɪˈsæn.θɹə.pi/, thorough /ˈθʌɹoʊ/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: obsession /əbˈsɛʃən/, exceptional /ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: lamentable /ləˈmɛn.tə.bəl/, misanthropy /mɪˈsæn.θɹə.pi/, positivism /ˈpɑzɪtɪvˌɪzm/, propensity /pɹəˈpɛnsɪti/, exceptional /ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: howl /ˈhaʊ̯l/, humour /ˈhjuːmɚ/, hatred /ˈheɪtɹɪd/, unhappy /ʌnˈhæpi/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: acquaint /əˈkweɪnt/, cowardice /ˈkaʊɚdɪs/, richness /ˈɹɪt͡ʃnəs/, scaffold /ˈskæf.əld/, tenderness /ˈtɛn.dɚ.nɪs/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: fathom /ˈfæðəm/, misanthropy /mɪˈsæn.θɹə.pi/, scaffold /ˈskæf.əld/, backdrop /ˈbæk.dɹɑp/, attach /əˈtæt͡ʃ/
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 howl, cowardice, fathom.
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.