Pratica di Shadowing: I really need to stop taking life so seriously - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

Creazione lezione...
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so
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hello good morning my friends how are you doing welcome back
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to another video it is the end of the week
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and this was an especially stressful week
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because i've been trying to record my piano grade 7 exam
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and it's just very very stressful you get in your head
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a lot i even tried to start this video yesterday
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and recorded a couple of clips
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but i think you can just see how anxious i was anyway let's play some of that
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i have been trying to record my grade 7 exam
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which i have to send to the examination office so
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that i can get my certificate for grade 7
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and I think I already have one recording
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that I'm quite okay with sending but I'm not super super proud of it
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and so I've been trying to record it over the past couple of weeks me
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and Luna are chilling and I decided I needed a break
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and so I'm going to be drinking a little bit of coffee
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and then trying a couple more times and call it a day
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if it's taking too long
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because you're not actually supposed to try too many times in a row
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because then you'll stop making dumb mistakes and wish me luck
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Oh my gosh, so many mistakes
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Wow Wow
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oh my gosh what kind of loaf is this
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I am just way too in my head I think these past couple of days
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and making things harder for myself than they need to be.
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I feel like a lot of the times you are in your own way,
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it's your mind that's keeping you from doing the things that you want to do because you keep believing that you can't, that you are not capable,
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all of these silly things that you have proven to be wrong over
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and over again but you know it feels like you need unlimited proof so that you can believe in yourself finally.
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I don't even know, my mood is just kind of sticky, it feels like it's not flowing it's kind of catching on to certain things
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and letting those things dictate how i feel throughout periods of
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time a couple of hours a couple of days let's see
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if i can change things around tomorrow start feeling a little bit brighter
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and so today i want to just really take this day to do things
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that i enjoy and
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that calm me down my monstera leaf already opened up this is my half white leaf
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that I was telling you about last video and she just looks
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so beautiful I am so excited
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when this monstera came to me she only had this leaf I think
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and this one was developing and this one was nowhere to be seen
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but it came through this week and wow it just looks
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so beautiful I love her today we're going to be having some plant care to do, plant watering, plant pruning.
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Okay, one thing at a time.
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Let's do it.
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Okay, I'm going to check the weather.
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I think it's supposed to be rainy.
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We have lots of clouds, lots of humidity.
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I'm going to go to the next video you
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I'm going to start by checking which of my plants need water, looking at roots and propagations.
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I counted them yesterday and I realized I am the proud plant mom of 32 kids
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and so you know their schedules are quite different
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and they have different needs in general and
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so i'm just going to be doing a full run through monstera still does not need water
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so maybe tomorrow and i will do this for all of them
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and for my propagations i basically take the little glasses out
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and i look at the roots i see
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if there's any algae i see if the new growths are sprouting
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which in this case all of these green sprouts thingies they are new growths
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so that's good news and then we have my philodendron propagation
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which has a little leaf which it didn't have before
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and it has two very large roots as you can see
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and there is going to be a new leaf unfurling from here
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and this is basically what I'll be doing for all of them trying to look for any rotten materials
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so like leaves that rotted and fell into the water
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because you don't want that contaminating the water so
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that needs to be removed
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and then for my potted plants i just stick my finger in them
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and i check that there is still moisture in the upper layers
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so all i'm going to do to this one is prune
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it a little bit i've been pruning it for the past couple of weeks as to stimulate growth
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and it has been helping
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because i think this shoot is reaching a little bit higher
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iv propagation this was my second propagation i ever did
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and it has a little bit of algae as you can see
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so this needs to be cleaned
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and this was my first ever iv propagation she was just a little baby cutting
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and now during the summer she really really started to move
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may need a little bit of water from what i'm seeing
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all of these are new growths these are new growths so it's very nice
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I took care of my plants
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and I decorated my brother's envelope I wrote him a letter for his birthday
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and I think I'm still going to add some more things
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but I just didn't want it to be plain it's his birthday today
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so and now I'm going to go get ready
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so we can try out this new cafe I don't know
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if they're going to allow me to record in there but never hurts to try Bye!
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It's a really really beautiful day out and I'm really glad I decided to walk instead of take my car.
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It looked like it was going to rain but I don't think it is anymore.
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Alright, now I have to muster up the courage to ask if I can record at the cafe.
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Wish me luck fellows.
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Good morning!
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Good morning!
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They allowed me to record without any problems and
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so I think I'm getting a little bit more confident in my skills of asking if I can Thank you very much!
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Thank you!
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And I asked for a latte and a piece of orange cake
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and so I'm going to be having that while I read Passion According to GH by Clarice
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I used to come to this cafe a lot last year when it was under another ownership
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and I got to know the owner
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and it was really fun I used to be here by 8am every morning just before I went out
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and recorded They closed in August which made me very very sad
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because I was so used to coming here you know but now they are open again.
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The guy working here already sounds super super nice and outgoing and so I'm really excited.
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I'm really happy about having this place again.
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oh that was really really nice it was
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so great to go back to a place that i spent
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so much time in and the new owner seemed really really excited about the fact
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that he was you know now running the little cafe kiosk thingy
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and now I'm going on a walk to refresh my brain
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because I've been going to a lot of different places
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but it feels like I'm always in the car
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and I've been taking less walks than I probably should
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so I'm going on a little one currently find a place to sit down have a smoke
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and then my mom just texted me
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because she needs a specific thing for my brother's dinner today
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which is just a little gift that she wanted to give him
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but she hasn't been able to find it
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so I'm going to try a specific store that I think might have it
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this is one of my favorite spots to walk in i used to run here too
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when i ran oh my gosh that was such a great habit
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and i i lost track of it i stopped doing it one week
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and then i never picked it up again
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but i used to run here a lot
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and it's also quite nice to walk i think I think I'm going to go through the trees.
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One year.
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One year.
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Look at this.
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I just love walking in between trees, hearing the sound that the shoes make in the leaves.
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Like, kkkk.
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I love it.
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All right, roll this thing.
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Is it my best work yet?
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Probably not.
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But you know what?
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It is what it is.
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Porto Balastre is opened.
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I finished reading Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own and I really really enjoyed it.
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It was a very very great surprise.
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I didn't rate it 5 out of 5 just because I am very strict with my 5 star reads.
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but I gave it a 4 .8 which is pretty close
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and I just really loved the way that everything was written
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and explained and thought of and now I'm reading my second Clarice.
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Clarice to me is really tough
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because I feel like she writes in a sort of a stream of consciousness way
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but her way of writing is very difficult to understand I
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guess to me it seems very all over the place
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but in a good way but it's just a way
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that I think is tougher to understand just
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because there isn't a clear structure I think
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but I'm loving it I have already marked a couple of
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pages sorry book lovers I mark my pages like this just
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because I don't have to buy post -it notes and I don't have to carry post -it notes.
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I used to always carry my post -it notes inside of my book but then they would fall, then I would lose them, then I would have to buy more
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and it just seemed like a waste of money when I can just fold the pages.
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At the end of the day I think everybody should use their books
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and read however they like there's a lot of people that
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when they see my books they're like oh my gosh it's ruined
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but i don't think of it
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that way i think of it as like you know i really love this book
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so much i marked a lot of different things
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that made a lot of sense to me
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or sparked something in me of joy or of curiosity
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or whatever it was and i love going back to my books and being able to
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check my annotations and check the pages that I marked that had an impact on me and I do it quite often.
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Ever since I started reading in 2024 I have read 55 books which is not very much.
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I know that some people read that per year or per half a year.
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Do you even enjoy the books at that point?
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I don't know.
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I don't want to judge, right?
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But I'm a little bit of a slow reader.
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I really like taking my time
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just to make sure that whatever this author wrote is really resonating with me that i'm really
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taking in because it's such a big thing to write a book it's usually a process
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that lasts a year a couple of years you know it takes a lot out of a person
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so i really love to enjoy it deeply
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and before 2024 i was always the type of person
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that said she didn't like to read
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but i think that's one of those things like how can you not like to read
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when there are so many different genres you probably just haven't found the one
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that you like the most you know and that was definitely the case for me
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did you hear the cicadas
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I think I was just really needing a day where I'm not trying to record my exam or thinking about my exam.
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At the end of the day, it's really not that deep.
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Nothing is that serious.
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I know my pieces very well and I have already recorded one exam that I think I'm quite proud of.
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But I definitely could do better.
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And so that's what I've been trying to do now.
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But at the end of the day, I already have that recording to fall back on.
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I just take it too seriously.
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I take everything so seriously and it really ruins a lot of things for me, you know
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There is no need time is so short and fleeting
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and here I am Going about my days taking everything
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so seriously as if it matters that much So I've been trying to just enjoy the process of things
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Without trying to make them The most perfect thing I've ever done in my life.
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I suppose.
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I don't know
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I'm sorry.
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I have a car tripod now.
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I was thinking of going on a road trip one of these days.
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I'd really love to take you guys along but I tried many different ways of
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Attaching my camera to the car somehow and it just never worked
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And so I finally got a proper car tripod It may not be the most stable But it does the job,
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you know, and so I'm going to go to the store where they probably sell a couple of key rings now
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to see if they have the one
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that i know my brother would like to get they didn't
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have what we were looking for at the store sadly my
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mom wanted to get my brother a gecko key ring just
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because geckos are a very big symbol of the town where
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we grew up at they say they are sold out
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and the next one only arrives in 15 days
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so now i'm going to go back home
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and start editing this video maybe relax a little bit more just take things slowly do things mindfully and just enjoy
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We're doing a little in -game section.
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A lot of people have...
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Ooh, a lot of people have told me that maybe I could create a gaming channel, but...
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I don't know.
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I'm not super good at playing any of the games I play, or good in general.
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I just really love playing games.
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It's one of my favorite hobbies.
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And I have been having some fun today with playing a couple of League games.
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So I thought we could maybe do some of these...
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...gaming moments inside of the videos.
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I don't know.
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Yeah, I was just trying to make it a little bit more interesting to show you
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that I was playing League of Legends instead of just recording from the back, which I think is also cool, but it's definitely different.
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Can I do anything here?
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No. I don't deal damage.
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Not enough anyway.
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Oh, I think I kill him.
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Wait, look.
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Yes.
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Yes!
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That was really clunky.
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I wanted to ask you about that.
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What do you think about the little gaming moments?
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It's not going to be anything like remarkable, like me doing a really cool play or anything, just gaming and chatting for like three minutes in a video.
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I think that could be fun.
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But I don't know.
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Let me know.
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you Bruh
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I am pretty hungry so I'm just going to make two scrambled eggs
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my secret for scrambled eggs is to add a little bit of milk because it adds fluffiness Well, it's not my secret.
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It was my mom that told me.
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I know that some people use mayonnaise.
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I'm drinking leftover coffee from this morning. with my eggs.
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It's been around four hours and I've been switching in between editing,
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playing sections of my pieces to practice them and playing League of Legends.
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And it has been a really great afternoon so far.
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And also I'm still planning on doing a live stream today.
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It's going to be a surprise live stream.
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I usually don't stream on these days of the week.
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I love live streaming.
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That's another one of the best parts of doing content creation.
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Live streaming is probably the most fun.
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Just getting to interact in real time with everybody.
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I just love it.
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Alrighty, it is almost time to leave for dinner.
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I got ready, redid my makeup and I am having an apple and I will also be having a cigarette.
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Okay, it's all about balance.
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What can I say?
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today has really felt very refreshing the whole day itself
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i feel like i was just needing to take a day to just do the things
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that i like to do without guilt
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and without pressure i feel like pressure is a very big thing all self -imposed by the way
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but sometimes that's the worst because it doesn't end you know
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if you have pressure from your parents to do well in
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school well at least one day you're going to move out
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no matter how long that's going to take well in this
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economy self -imposed pressure doesn't leave unless you learn how to stop pressuring yourself so much you know
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and ever since i can remember i've been pretty hard on myself
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but then again self -imposed pressure doesn't leave if you don't stop it
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but also the good part is
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that it's all up to you to stop doing this to yourself you know
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so i don't know i'm conflicted between thinking it's better
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or worse maybe that's not the point at all it's just
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that i have to recognize that i'm doing this
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and ruining good days for myself days
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that could have been calm peaceful amazing happy joyful
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and turning them into a big headache of task after task
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that has to be completed to perfection for what i don't know ask this one because i'm not sure
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it's probably some sort of a defense mechanism i would say
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me trying to prove to myself look look you can do great things you are a valuable human being
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which i've been realizing a lot of things about myself
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that aren't good
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because it's basically just me setting myself back in a lot of different aspects in my life it's tough
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because these are ways of being and doing and behaving
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that i've had forever and realizing them i guess is the first step understanding
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that they are there and that i would like to change them is good
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but now there's this work that needs to be done in the two change
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and sometimes i don't even know how to
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because this has been the way that i've operated and
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so it feels like the most natural
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or the only natural way for me to be i'm really
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liking the rosy cheek i think i put a little bit
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more blush than i usually do i don't know i try to do a different makeup
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but i always end up doing the same one i always do
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because it's the one i know how to do also another thing is
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that i think that sometimes i just think too much
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and i ponder a lot and I think that's cool
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and all but a little bit more action maybe would be beneficial too.
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It's not that I don't act, but I think that I think a lot before acting.
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And there's a certain line.
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It's good to think before you do things, but not to a point where you're only thinking and not actually doing the things themselves, you know.
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And so planning is only useful if you actually take your plan into action someday, soon.
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I'm going to go to the next video.
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Hi, I arrived 30 minutes earlier than I needed to.
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This is a recurring thing that I do.
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I always arrive way too early.
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I would love to know how many hours of my life I have lost due to waiting, because I'm always way too early.
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So I think I'm just going to walk up and down this street to make a little bit of time.
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And then when it's finally time for dinner, I will climb up to the restaurant.
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Sorry about the trash can.
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I just really like watching the train pass and I wanted to show you a little bit of it.
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I don't know if you want to go to the restaurant, but I don't know if you want to go to the restaurant.
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I don't know if you want to go to the restaurant.
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I'm a perfect boy.
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I don't know if you want to go to the restaurant.
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I don't know if you want to go to the restaurant.
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I don't know if you want to go to the restaurant.
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I don't know if you want to go to the restaurant.
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I don't know if you want to go to the restaurant.
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I'm going to turn it over to my head.
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You can't get the camera on my head.
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This chest is really cute.
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It's really cute.
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It's a cat.
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I think I'm going to turn it over to them.
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I'm going to turn it over to my head.
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Alrighty, you cannot see anything but I already got home.
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And I'm getting ready to start streaming soon.
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AKA I have to turn these lights on which I do by doing this and this.
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Alright, now this is the backdrop.
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I haven't done a night stream in a pretty long time.
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So I know it's going to go well, but it's going to be a different kind of fun.
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I'm already in my pajamas.
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and yeah, PC is on, all I have to do is start wait, I'm in the flow state?
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just kidding bro, I'm the slowest Rubik's Cube solver in the world who is your biggest hear me out?
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Hugh Glory, okay?
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Hugh Glory, Dr. Howes what do you mean you're not hearing me out?
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Liz, it's not my problem, you have bad taste See you soon, my friends Thank you so much for today Bye Hello there,
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my friends I just finished the live stream And it was so fun, as always It was a really, really fun time We talked about a lot of different things
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And I just appreciate you guys so much more Than I can put into words
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So thank you for being there And thank you for being here for watching
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if you're still watching
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and yeah i think i'm going to finish this video here
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it has been a great day thank you for being with me through this
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and i'll see you all in the next one bye

Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questo video contiene 348 frasi e 3822 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 29:11. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 131 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 84% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole meno comuni del video, con pronuncia e significato:

  • examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/ (sostantivo) — esame, visita. The act of examining.
  • leaf /lif/ (sostantivo) — foglia. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
  • gosh /ɡɑːʃ/ — perbacco, accidenti. A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.
  • egg /ɛɡ/ (sostantivo) — uovo. An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell…
  • ruin /ˈɹuː.ɪn/ (sostantivo) — rovina. The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
  • arrive /əˈɹaɪv/ (verbo) — arrivare, giungere. To reach; to get to a certain place.
  • edit /ˈɛdɪt/ (verbo) — redigere, elaborare. To change a text, or a document.
  • stressful /ˈstɹɛsfəl/ (aggettivo) — stressante, logorante. Irritating; causing stress.
  • refresh /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/ (verbo) — rinfrescare. To renew or revitalize.
  • finger /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ (sostantivo) — dito, dita. A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb, and the corresponding part, irrespective of including a thumb, in many other…
  • stable /ˈsteɪ.bəl/ (sostantivo) — stalla, scuderia. A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.
  • cloud /ˈklaʊ̯d/ (sostantivo) — nuvola, nube. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
  • hungry /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ (aggettivo) — affamato, avere fame. Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
  • deeply /ˈdi(ː)pli/ (avverbio) — in profondità, estremamente. To a deep extent or degree; very greatly.
  • mood /muːd/ (sostantivo) — umore, cattivo umore. A mental or emotional state, composure.

I phrasal verb che sentirai

  • go on /ˈɡoʊˌɒn/ (verbo) — continuare. To continue in extent.
  • look at (verbo) — guardare. To observe or watch.
  • do in (verbo) — uccidere, finire. To kill or end; to defeat.
  • look for (verbo) — cercare, ricercare. To seek.
  • ask for (verbo) — chiedere. To request; to order.
  • end up (verbo) — andare a finire, finire. To bring to a conclusion.
  • go back (verbo) — tornare. To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
  • go through (verbo) — attraversare. To travel from one end of something to the other.

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 120 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, don't, I've. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, refresh /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/, trash /tɹæʃ/, ownership /ˈoʊnɚʃɪp/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, certificate /səˈtɪf.ɪ.kɪt/, mechanism /ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/, unlimited /ʌnˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/, beneficial /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come examination, leaf, gosh.

La grammatica di questo video

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

StrutturaNel video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — un’azione iniziata prima e ancora in corsoi've been trying · have been trying · i've been pruning
“Used to” used to + verbo — un’abitudine o uno stato passato che non è più veroused to come · used to be · used to coming
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohave proven · hasn't been · have already marked
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fabe seen · be removed · be cleaned

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.

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