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It is a beautiful day here in San Diego, California.
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I'm sitting on top of a lifeguard tower watching this massive swell come in
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because apparently we're in the middle of a hurricane and as a result there's some pretty good waves.
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But I just finished a five and a half mile run, feeling incredible, feeling blessed.
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And I wanted to make this video because I wish
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that my 18 to 24 year old younger self could have had this
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because it would have made a big difference in my life.
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and someone recently asked me they said how do you stay
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so calm yet ambitious at the same time
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and it was a really good question
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because in my past I had always been like so anxious
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and stressed and put so much pressure on myself to go out
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and achieve all these goals that I had set for myself as well as these expectations
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that I felt from other people not that they had ever explicitly said that they expected certain things from me,
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but I was putting this pressure on myself that I needed to go out and achieve these certain things.
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Whether that was material success, getting a certain type of job, making a certain amount of money, getting a certain type of house,
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or maybe it was relationships, like getting a girlfriend, getting engaged, marrying her, having a family,
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or just the type of person that I wanted to be.
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All of these different aspects of life where it's like, okay, there's a lot of expectation and pressure from other people,
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from myself that I want to live up to.
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And I have to do so much in order to make that happen.
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And it always seemed like no matter what I was doing, it was never enough, right?
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And not even like never enough for other people, but for myself.
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I always felt like I could be doing more.
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No matter how much I achieved in the day, I was like, I need to be doing more.
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We got a little drive -by from a tractor right here.
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Check that out.
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And yeah, it wasn't fun.
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It wasn't fun to experience that, always thinking like, I need to be doing more.
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And it always had me thinking about the future a lot as well.
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What's next?
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What am I going to do?
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What are the next steps that need to happen?
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And I'd always be thinking 20 steps ahead.
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and now more than ever I live
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so much more in the present obviously I still think about the future
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but I'm much more present
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and grounded in my life I'm gonna wait for this tractor to go by
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so I'm much more present in my life now and
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that has helped tremendously and kind of the thought exercise that has helped me
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is if I asked you whatever goal you have do you have full faith that that will happen, irregardless of time.
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Maybe it takes a year, five years, 10 years, could be 20 years.
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Do you have full faith that that goal, whatever you want to happen, will actually become a reality?
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If the answer is yes, then you don't have to stress at all because you just told me that you have full faith it'll happen.
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If you have full confidence in something that will happen, why would you stress about it?
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Right?
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Maybe the question is, I have full faith that it'll happen and I thought it would happen a lot earlier, but it hasn't happened yet.
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And so as a result, I am stressing because of that.
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If that's the case, I have this belief that everything happens for a reason and everything's happening in perfect timing.
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And so if you have an expectation of a certain timeline of something happening and it hasn't happened yet, it is my belief that
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It has not happened because you are not fully ready to actually receive whatever it is that you are desiring.
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Maybe you are not the type of man that is capable of handling that type of pressure, the type of success.
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Maybe you need to develop into a higher version of yourself to actually be capable of receiving it.
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Maybe if you did receive it, you wouldn't be ready for it.
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And as a result, something way worse would happen in your life
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and you would squander the opportunity and so there are experiences
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that you need to go through in your life before you can fully appreciate
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and actually be worthy of achieving whatever you're desiring.
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And so stay on the path that you're on because eventually it will happen.
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If you believe it is inevitable, the time does not matter, right?
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When it happens, it could happen in a year, it could happen in five years.
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If you know it's going to happen and it will happen, just enjoy the ride.
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The flip side of this is
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that you might think well I don't have full faith
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that it's going to happen
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and that's why I'm stressed that's why I feel this pressure
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I have this this need to be able to go out wake up early get after
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it do everything I can in my power to make sure that I have more faith that this will happen.
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And I totally understand that because I've gone through similar thoughts and experiences as well.
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And what I came to realize is all of that extra pressure
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and stress and anxiety that I was placing on myself wasn't actually helping me perform better.
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It's okay to acknowledge the fact that, hey, I might not be where I want to be at
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or where I think I'm capable of being at and therefore I need to improve.
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Acknowledge that that is the truth.
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Stay calm in that belief and do the things that are necessary to get better.
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But if, you know, I'm big into sports.
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Like if I'm working, if there's a team, if there's a quarterback that I'm working with or that I'm betting on,
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whatever it is, that feels the absolute pressure of the expectations of going out
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and winning a championship that season and
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that he has to do absolutely everything in his power to go do it
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and every single day he's just stressed he's never actually in flow state
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and so there are incredible athletes
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that I look up to I've been watching the Saban documentary
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and it's just like so inspirational motivational that guy he has full faith full belief in his ability and the process,
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but he's not outcome oriented.
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He's not worrying about going out and winning a championship.
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Sure, that's the expectation, but all he thinks about is what can I do today in this moment?
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How can I make sure that the process, the things that I'm doing are actually going to lead to success?
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And when he talks about the game, it's not an entire game.
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It's just a segment of six second plays and the more six second plays that you can win
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The more likely you are to actually win the game
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and the more games you win the more likely to win a championship so
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He's never actually thinking about winning a championship.
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It's about showing up putting in your full effort doing your assignment executing your job
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and doing it with enthusiasm with grit with intensity every single play and And so with myself,
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that's kind of what I realized over the last couple years where it's like,
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all that matters is that I just show up and do my best.
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I don't need to stress too much about what's going to be happening next week, next year.
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Did I wake up and execute the plan for today and do so to the best of my ability?
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If I did, I have nothing to worry about because I can't do anything more.
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If there is something that I can do additionally, then I'll do it.
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most of the time though, we become these like productivity efficiency addicts where we think
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that we have to be the most efficient person in the entire world and always be doing something productive.
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And if we're going for a walk, we have to be listening to a podcast.
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And if we're, you know, in the shower, then we got to throw the podcast on as well.
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And we have to be calling people and always doing X, Y, and Z in order to make sure that we're making progress. And that's great.
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And if that's your MO, go out and do it.
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But to me, there's more to life than just going out and achieving all sorts of success.
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There are also parts of life of being a human being.
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And that means sitting back, going out in nature, enjoying the present moment,
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taking a breath and realizing everything is going to be okay.
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You've made it this far in life.
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You've already had a tremendous amount of success.
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And on top of that, you are so much more educated and experienced
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and mature through all of those experiences
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that the past does not dictate the future because with all of the knowledge you have for yourself,
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you're only going to continue to do better and perform better and achieve more.
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So the past is not a predictor of the future.
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And I think that oftentimes that was always my expectation.
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The trajectory of my past was going to indicate the trajectory of my future.
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And that's just not the case.
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We cannot indicate or we cannot predict the trajectory of our future because we're constantly learning, experiencing, growing, and things are always changing, right?
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10 years ago, you never would have guessed that AI would be
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so accessible to everyone and that you'd be able to save
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so much time and have so many questions answered and be
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so much more efficient that there are people that are starting companies.
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There are one man companies that are worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Never would have thought about that 10 years ago.
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So if you're trying to predict the future 10 years ago and your success and you're in the tech space, like you probably would have failed.
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So my point being, stop worrying so much about the future.
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It's only stressing you out.
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It's not benefiting you.
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The thing that's going to help you the most
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be grounded in the present focus on the things that you can control
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the effort that you give the mindset that you have
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And just do your best.
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Do your best.
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Stay calm.
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Be a human being.
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Experience the full array of emotions, but focus on being a little bit more positive.
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And if you do that, it's pretty magical.
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You'll start to see that things start to get a lot better. So that's it.
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Enjoy the day.
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Maybe go outside.
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Check out Mother Nature. And, yeah.
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Hope you have a good day.

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Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “If You're Stressed About Your Future, Watch This”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: happen, faith, pressure. Questo video contiene 146 frasi e 1837 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 10:35. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 174 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 88% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

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

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
expectation sostantivo/ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/attesa
belief sostantivo/bɪˈliːf/credito, credenza
distress sostantivo/dɪˈstɹɛs/angoscia, pena
trajectory sostantivo/tɹəˈd͡ʒɛktəɹi/traiettoria
efficient aggettivo/ɪˈfɪʃənt/efficiente, performante
indicate verbo/ˈɪndɪˌkeɪt/indicare
acknowledge verbo/əkˈnɑ.lɪd͡ʒ/riconoscere, ammettere
podcast sostantivo/ˈpɑdˌkæst/podcast, audioprogramma
predict verbo/pɹɪˈdɪkt/profetizzare
execute verbo/ˈɛksɪˌkjuːt/giustiziare
tractor sostantivo/ˈtɹæktɚ/trattore
anxiety sostantivo/æŋˈzaɪ.əti/ansia, ansietà
aspect sostantivo/ˈæspɛkt/aspetto
marry verbo/ˈmæɹi/sposare
efficiency sostantivo/ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/efficienza

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
go out verbouscire, andare fuori
wake up verbo/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/svegliarsi
check out verboinvestigare
go through verboattraversare

Frasi da ripetere

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

  • What am I going to do?
  • You've made it this far in life.
  • You've already had a tremendous amount of success.
  • It's only stressing you out.

La grammatica di questo video

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

StrutturaNel video
Frasi condizionali if + frase, will/would + verbo — una condizione e il suo risultatoif you did receive it, you wouldn't be
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohas helped · hasn't happened · has not happened

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 42 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, we're, you're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “th”: worthy /ˈwɝ.ði/, breathe /bɹiːð/, athlete /ˈæθ.liːt/, enthusiasm /ɪnˈθuziæzəm/
  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, efficiency /ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, trajectory /tɹəˈd͡ʒɛktəɹi/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, efficiency /ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/, documentary /ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tɹi/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: belief /bɪˈliːf/, distress /dɪˈstɹɛs/, efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, indicate /ˈɪndɪˌkeɪt/, acknowledge /əkˈnɑ.lɪd͡ʒ/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/, tractor /ˈtɹæktɚ/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, aspect /ˈæspɛkt/, marry /ˈmæɹi/

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  2. Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come expectation, belief, distress.

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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