Pratica di Shadowing: IELTS Speaking Test- Band 6.5 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Let's start off by talking about your studies.
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Do you work or do you study?
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Yeah, so I study fashion, fashion design and fashion business.
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And I want to launch my own brand soon.
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So yeah, that is my current situation.
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What's your favorite part of your studies?
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I have a passion for fashion.
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So like everything we learn is just for me an eye opening and getting to know the industry from professionals.
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It's just amazing for me.
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And I grew up in a place where it's like all this industry is not so accessible for us.
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So here it made me see on real life how fashion works, how the industry works, how creative works.
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And yeah, this is what I like about my studies, like touching it.
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Is there anything you don't like about your studies?
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Well, yeah, as I said,
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there's this fun part, but there's also the part where you get to see also the industry negative parts.
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where when you hear about fashion, you think it's all glamorous and fun and parties and after parties and fashion shows,
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but it's also the hard work and sometimes it gets toxic.
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Sometimes it really occupied your whole life or occupies your whole life.
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So yeah, that was for me like shocking at first, but I guess that's life.
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And what do you hope to do in the future with your studies?
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Yeah, so as I said, I want to launch my own brand.
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So this is why I started fashion in the first place, because I always dreamed about having my own thing
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and giving my creativity a space to express itself because I always felt like I have something to give to the world.
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And fashion for me was the way.
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Now let's talk about your lifestyle.
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What do you like to do in your free time?
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Oh, I like to do a lot of sports.
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I like to go to the gym and go for long walks and do a lot of pilates.
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And I like to hang out with my friends.
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and I like to do a lot of journals just to like, you know, get the thoughts out.
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Yeah, but I'm really passionate about sports.
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So like I'm always like looking for new sports and training.
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Do you have a busy social life?
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No, I like to be an introvert.
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Yeah, I don't like to be everywhere and with a lot of people.
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It gives me anxiety.
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I feel like chaotic.
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So I prefer to be with close people, close circle, people who I know and who knows me.
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And that I feel the most genuine with.
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Can you describe your ideal day off, like Saturday or Sunday, something like that?
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Oh, I love day off.
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So I just wake up and I mostly go to the beach to take a long, long walk and enjoy my coffee there.
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and I like to listen to a lot of podcasts about topics
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that I like whether it's fashion or business or sports
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or wellness and then I like to meet my friends for lunch
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so we discuss our week
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and we chit chat um yeah then I like to go home
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and just reset take a shower and put some mask on watch some movies, series, and just like, you know,
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to wind down and to feel like I'm rubbing the wig.
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Is there any activities that you would like to start in the future that you haven't started yet?
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I wanted to learn how to play battle because it's everywhere here.
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So I feel like this pressure of trying this sport, but I'm just, I don't know.
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I feel it's a little bit intensive.
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Now let's talk about podcasts.
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What are some of your favorite podcasts?
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I like podcasts about two topics, mainly business, where founders talk about their businesses
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and what are the issues they faced along the way
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and how they hire employees based on what and basically their whole journey.
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And the other thing is about girl empowerment.
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Because as a girl in this,
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you know, world, I find it really boring to hear other women talking about their struggles
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and how they overcome it and what helps them
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and how to stay in your femininity in a world full of masculinity and hard things.
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What activity are you normally doing when you're listening to podcasts?
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Are you doing something or are you just doing nothing and just focusing on the podcast?
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Yeah, so cleaning the dishes or taking a walk.
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Yeah, that's like whenever I'm cleaning the dishes or the house, I put the podcast or whatever.
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I'm taking a long walk.
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And do you prefer podcasts where there's just one person speaking or multiple people speaking at the same time?
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I don't mind really, as long as the topic is really interesting to me.
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And I know that the person is someone I know that it's worth trusting.
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Like he has some impact on other people's words.
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Yeah.
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Do you think that podcasts help you improve your English?
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I think a lot.
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Yeah, because for me, whenever I hear a podcast, sometimes I try to rephrase what they said.
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So like in my mind, I'm trying to like say the words that they said or trying to copy the accent sometimes.
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So yeah, yeah, that helped me a lot.
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Now let's talk about housework.
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Do you do the housework at home?
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Yeah, I do.
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I do.
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I really love to clean my place and do the housework and take care of myself.
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Is there any housework that you refuse to do or you don't like doing?
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No, I really enjoy it.
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It's like something I don't know how to explain it, but I really enjoy it.
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Were you given chores as a child?
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Choice.
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Chores.
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And so those are little jobs around the house,
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like picking up, doing the dishes or taking out the trash that parents sometimes give their children.
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Yeah, it was always the dishes.
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That's where I developed my love for doing the dishes.
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People always ask me, like, how do you love doing the dishes?
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But I just can't explain it.
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It was my job.
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So now I'm stick to it.
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Yeah.
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So I would like to own one luxury item or in general,
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anything that is Roberto Cavalli vintage dresses.
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I'm inspired so much from Roberto Cavalli and mostly how the dresses is feminine in a way that is unapologetic.
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And it's inspired mostly by animals, which feels for me spiritual.
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so like I love this connection between spirituality and animals and other
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lives with fashion and a redesign is really sexy
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and the reason I really want to own them is
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because I think everything vintage is much more powerful for me
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because I feel it's more authentic in a way where now luxury houses tend to
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you know go with the trends so I feel like
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when it is vintage it was to be it used to be
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the real designer vision and you can see the passion in it
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and you know not everyone can own them
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so that's a plus every woman wants to be special
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so yeah this is what i like about those dresses
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and i can name a few designers more that i write that i like to have their vintage dresses.
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That's the end of part two.
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Well done.
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Okay, so we've been talking about luxury items, and we're going to continue to talk about expensive items and rich people.
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Which expensive items do young people want the most?
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Wow, now it's obvious.
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The Perkin, the Mini Kelly,
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it's everywhere it's it's it's the way to say i am the ed girl in today's world
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so i think it's in every girl bucket list for now um i think
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that made the birkin less special
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because it's originally has been made to be this exclusive item that not anybody can has or own it but now
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it's just everywhere so I think we should move on.
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So those are the items that young people find attractive what about expensive things
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that older people find attractive are they the same or are they different?
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That's an interesting question I think it depends on how much
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you want to spend on an item as a young or an old rich individual.
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But I think for rich people, they tend to more spend on items that are investments more than showing off.
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So I like to think that old people want to buy more watches or houses or maybe vintage cars
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more than what bag is trendy.
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But in terms of women, I still think that old women, they want to feel the young spirit again.
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They want to follow the trend sometimes.
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Do you think people are more likely to buy luxury goods for themselves or for their loved ones?
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I think for their loved ones.
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Because first, it's a way to describe your love.
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And it's always also give you more satisfaction in a way.
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because you know you're making the other one
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or your significant other happy it's not only about luxury it's
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it's about like anything I feel like it's always you feel better
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when you buy someone else something rather than buying to yourself and but we should also spoil ourselves because we deserve it.
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Do you think luxury goods and being rich makes people happy?
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Oh, it's not the main reason, but it makes people's life easier.
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For example, when you have that aspect figured out, which is the financial aspect.
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So now like you have more time to think about the other things.
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Maybe you're not happy, but at least you're comfortable.
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You can solve your problems in a more comfortable way without feeling like you need to survive.
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That's the end of the speaking test.
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Did you feel different from the start of the test to the end of the test?
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Yeah, for sure.
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In what way?
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I felt more confident.
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I felt the flow is like more flowing.
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Yeah, it's just in terms of confidence and stress.
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I think you really grew into the test.
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You were way more confident and fluent and sure about what you wanted to say at the end compared to the beginning.
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At the beginning, you were a little bit unsure, a little bit nervous, you were making more mistakes, and then you just gained more and more confidence.
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The good news is that a good examiner will recognize that, and they won't judge you on the first few questions.
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They'll judge you on the entire performance,
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and they'll really take into consideration a good examiner will notice that you gained in confidence and your ability,
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your performance improved as you went through.
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So for someone like you who's a little bit nervous at the start, I don't know if I'm scary, but some examiners will be scarier than me.
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On test day, not all examiners will be that way.
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There are human beings.
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Some of them are tired.
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Some of them are grumpy.
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Don't let that put you off.
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So let me give you some feedback on part one, part two and part three, and then I'll give you your scores.
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So part one, I say you were a little nervous at the beginning of part one
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but you did grow into it
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and you did get much better as it went through most of your answers were quite good though
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and you were developing your answers enough you were answering the
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questions properly you were staying on topic one thing to be
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careful of is is i think i asked about what you did in your free time
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or what sports you did and you just listed lots
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and lots of activities and lots and lots of sports it's much easier to pick one sport Instead of football,
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Pilates, yoga, basketball, walking, pick Pilates.
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Like, why do you like Pilates?
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Where do you do it?
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How often do you do it?
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It's often easier to talk about things in a deeper way than to go wide and just list everything that you can.
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So if they ask you, for example, what's your favorite food?
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Instead of being like, I like Thai and Chinese and Indian and pizza and pick one.
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I like Thai because of this reason, this reason, my favorite dish is this.
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I like this restaurant.
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It just helps you become a lot more fluent than trying to think of the next thing
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and the next thing and the next thing.
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Does that make sense?
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Yeah.
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But overall, part one was really, really good.
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I thought you did an excellent job with part two.
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I really liked the vocabulary that you were like.
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It was just one high level phrase or word after another.
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I think you were quite lucky with the topic that you got.
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Not everybody will get the topic that they feel passionate about.
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One thing that you could do is sometimes they will ask you, they will give you something that is quite vague, like talk about a book that you read.
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So you're very confident talking about fashion.
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You could say, oh, I got a book on Chanel or Tom Ford or something like this, or even something like talk about a place that you visited.
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Oh, I went to Dubai because Dubai mall has the best shopping in the world
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or something like so you're kind of you can't do
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that for every question but steering it towards things
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that you feel like you love sports you love fashion you love business
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when i asked you about the podcast you were talking about femininity
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and womanhood and things like that and
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when you were talking about topics you were very confident
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or very familiar with your answers were much better yeah when i asked you about things you were not so sure about, you struggled a little bit.
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And interestingly, your grammar and vocabulary was much worse whenever you were talking about things that you were uncomfortable talking about.
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And it was much better, even your grammar was better when you were talking about topics that you felt comfortable talking about.
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Because the level of English that you're at, you're having to think a lot about what's the right word, what's the right phrase, what's the right tense,
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on top of what content should I be talking about.
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So when you're talking about fashion, you don't really have to think about the content.
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So you can focus your brain subconsciously.
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It's focusing, there's more power going to that part of your brain.
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So again, try to steer it towards topics that you're familiar with.
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But an examiner, a good examiner will notice that and they will throw some topics at you that you're not expecting
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just to see how you cope with it.
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And they won't judge you just on when you're talking about luxury goods because you're so good at that.
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They'll judge you on the whole test.
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So just be aware of that.
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Again, part three, really good development.
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And I like the vocabulary that you were using there, like talking about it girl and the fashion business
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and girls want to be spoiled and want to feel special and all of these different things, which is really, really good.
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Again, it's a topic you seem very confident about talking about.
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Part three, you won't always get topics like that.
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So I would really recommend practicing different topics and becoming comfortable with that.
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I think your main enemy is your nerves.
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It gets showed at the beginning and maybe getting something that you feel uncomfortable talking about.
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So it just comes through practice and developing that as a skill.
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Let's talk about the things that you did well in terms of your scores and things that you need to work on.
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Your fluency is quite good, but especially when you're talking about unfamiliar topics,
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you can tell that your brain is really searching for the next word and the vocabulary.
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That's not a criticism.
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That's just how we deal with languages and what that we're learning.
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Are you translating from Arabic?
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Yeah, actually.
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Yeah.
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Okay, so that I thought that because the part of your brain
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that deals with translation is different from the part of your brain that deals with producing the actual words.
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Okay.
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So you are accessing one part of your brain, translating from Arabic and taking it, putting it into another part of your brain and producing that.
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Yeah.
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If you wanted to get a very high score for fluency, you would have to start thinking in English.
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It depends on what kind of score that you're hoping to get, But if you wanted a band eight or a band nine,
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you would have to stop translating and start thinking in English.
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And that would mean that you do a lot more practice of, for example, listening to a podcast in English completely,
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thinking about it in English and then talking about it
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or writing about it in English and getting into the habit of doing that.
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Also, when you're learning new words and phrases, don't use any translation.
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Don't put the Arabic beside it.
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Put the English word, the meaning in English, an example sentence in English.
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You could use synonyms, collocations, all these different things in English.
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So it's forcing you to start thinking in English.
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It's challenging and it's a lot of work.
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It really depends on your goals.
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Like if you want to work, for example, if you wanted to work in the fashion business in New York
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or London and you needed or you wanted to do a master's in fashion or something like that, you might want to consider taking that step.
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At the minute, you're around about seven for fluency, which is good.
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It means that you have no problems there.
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But band eight, band nine is more like native level.
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If you wanted to do that, you could.
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At the minute, for your life goals, I don't really think that you need to.
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Probably your biggest strength is vocabulary.
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So, for example, you're talking about being inspired, feminine, unapologetic, inspired by spiritual spirituality, designer's vision.
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It's authentic, excellent vocabulary.
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You can tell that you've studied luxury goods and fashion.
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And the good news is that you have learned so much great vocabulary.
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But to get one of the higher scores for vocabulary, you would need to do it at that level for lots of different topics.
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To get a band eight or a band nine, I would have to ask you about multiple different things.
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And you can use words at that level for that topic.
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I would need to test you again on very unfamiliar topics to see what your real vocabulary level is.
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It was interesting at the beginning in part one when you were talking about unfamiliar topics, your vocabulary wasn't as good.
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So I think that you're around a band seven for vocabulary.
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If you wanted to get to a band eight or a band nine, you would need to start reading and listening to podcasts and things like that about topics that you're unfamiliar with.
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It's uncomfortable, but all growth is uncomfortable.
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I agree.
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So the two areas that you need to work on, one more than the other, the vast majority of your pronunciation is clear.
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So what an examiner will be thinking about is, do I understand every word that she's saying?
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To get about seven, eight or nine, every word needs to be 100% clear.
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99% of your words are clear.
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Some words are not.
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So let me give you some examples.
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I have something to give to the word.
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I wanted to learn how to play battle, to feel like I'm rubbing the wig.
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There's only a few times where I'm like, battle?
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What is battle? Or word?
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What do you mean world?
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It's only a few times that that happens, but it's enough that you wouldn't be able to get one of the higher scores.
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You wouldn't be able to get about seven, eight or nine.
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Also, because your native language is Arabic, the rhythm of your speech, your word stress is, and this is not a criticism.
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It's just the fact that you're an Arabic speaker is influenced by your native tongue.
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If I didn't show you and I just said, listen to this person, are they a native English speaker?
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No one would say yes, they're deaf.
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They'd say they're a very good English learner.
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They speak English at a very high level.
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But we can tell you that they're definitely not, you know, a native speaker or at that level just yet.
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It's not that you have a problem with certain words.
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It is you have a problem with certain sounds in English.
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English is made up of several sounds
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which are different from our Arabic is made up of lots of different sounds that are different from English.
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English is made up and every language has different sounds.
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The sounds that you have a problem with are the ones that are very different from your native tongue from Arabic.
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So it's not about fixing your entire pronunciation.
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It is about identifying what are those problem sounds or problem words in English and fixing those.
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You would need to work with a coach or a teacher to do that.
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Or you could just speak into your note taking apps and Apple Notes.
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And it will, when you say paddle, it will say battle.
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And you know immediately, oh, I've pronounced this incorrectly.
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And a good way, if you wanted to improve your vocabulary at the same time,
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would be maybe listen to a podcast and then talk into your phone and kind of summarize the podcast.
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Be like, I learned this.
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And then it will show you the words that you're mispronouncing.
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Because you know the words in your head.
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You can notice them.
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You need to hear them.
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So you get a band six for pronunciation.
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The biggest issue you have is grammar, especially when you're talking about unfamiliar topics.
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You're missing words sometimes.
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The industry negative parts.
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I like to do a lot of journals.
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I like to be an introvert.
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Instead of I am introverted.
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Oh, I love day off.
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Instead of I love days off. So you're mixing up.
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Sometimes it's a vocabulary issue.
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Sometimes it's a grammar issue.
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But you're mixing things up from time to time.
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You're not doing this in every sentence.
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But a lot of sentences have small grammar mistakes in them.
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None of the mistakes are terrible.
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As in none of them are major.
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As in I don't understand you.
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but they're just too frequent for me to give you one of the high scores.
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You would get around about six for grammar.
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That would be the thing that I would work on the most if I was you.
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But overall, you would get 6.5, which is about the average score for speaking.
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So how long have you been learning English or speaking English?
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Seriously?
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Speaking English seriously for a year.
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A year?
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Yeah.
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You're fine.
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You're going to be absolutely fine.
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And so 6.5 after one year is actually amazing.
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The fact that you can speak so fluently and so well about topics that you're passionate about,
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that tells me that in six months to a year, you're going to be able to speak about any topic at that level.
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So I would be very surprised if we met in a year's time that your English is still at that level.
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I think you're going to improve massively.
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because if somebody is speaking at that level so quickly, it normally means that they're going to continue at a similar pace.
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So I would not worry about you at all.
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You're doing extremely well.
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Thank you.

Lo scenario: Una conversazione reale per l'IELTS Speaking

Il video mostra un dialogo tipico dell'IELTS Speaking Test, dove un candidato risponde a domande su studi, lifestyle e futuri progetti. Queste situazioni reali sono perfette per esercitarti: impari a esprimere opinioni, descrivere abitudini e usare un linguaggio naturale, proprio come nella vita quotidiana. Ecco perché il shadowing in inglese è una tecnica efficace: ripeti le frasi immediatamente dopo il parlante, imitando intonazione e ritmo, per migliorare la pronuncia inglese e la fluidità.

Frasi utili e collocazioni da memorizzare

  • "Launch my own brand": "Lanciare la mia propria marca" – una collocazione essenziale per parlare di progetti professionali.
  • "Eye opening": "Aprirmi gli occhi" – perfetto per descrivere esperienze che ti insegnano qualcosa di nuovo.
  • "Wind down": "Rilassarsi" – usato per parlare di come si fa a calmarsi dopo una giornata impegnativa.
  • "Close circle": "Circolo stretto" – per indicare i amici e le persone più vicine.
  • "Reset": "Ricominciare da zero" – utile per descrivere il momento di riposo per ricaricare le energie.

La tua sfida: Shadowing per migliorare

Ora è il tuo turno! Prova il shadow speak: riproduci una parte del dialogo (ad esempio, la risposta sulla "giornata ideale") e ripetila immediatamente dopo il parlante, cercando di imitare ogni dettaglio. Concentrati sulla pronuncia inglese e sul ritmo: le pause, l'accento sulle parole chiave. Fai questo per 5-10 minuti al giorno – noterai che la tua fluidità e la comprensione auditiva miglioreranno velocemente. Ricorda: il shadowspeaks non è solo ripetere, ma "diventare" il parlante per un attimo. Se sbagli, non ti preoccupare – l'importante è praticare con entusiasmo!

La grammatica di questo video

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

StrutturaNel video
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fahas been made · be spoiled · being inspired
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohaven't started · We've put · has been made
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosapeople who I · out, which is · things, which is

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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