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Hello friends.
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Today we are going to learn English with comprehensible input.
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Now if you don't know, if you don't already know, comprehensible input is where a native speaker, a native speaker like me,
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English is my native language, a native speaker speaks slowly and uses photos,
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videos, drawings so that you can understand what I am saying.
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So today we are going to have fun.
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We're going to have fun and learn English.
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And I am going to tell to tell you three things.
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Three things that are very, very annoying.
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They are annoying.
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Okay?
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What does annoying mean?
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Well, Mosquitoes are annoying.
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Ow!
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Get out of here! So annoying.
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Mosquitoes are annoying.
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When you are on an airplane and there is a baby crying, that's annoying.
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Waaaaaah!
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Shut up that baby!
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Shut that baby up!
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It's annoying me!
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Okay, that's a little mean.
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But babies crying on airplanes, that's annoying.
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So, today I'm going to tell you three things, three weird things that I find really, really annoying.
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Well, before I tell you the three super annoying things, let me tell you, my name is Kyle.
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And here on my channel, Pensando Inglés, for over four years,
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I have been making content like this to help English learners like you to learn and understand my native language.
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So if you need more content like this in your life,
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give the video a like and subscribe because I bring you new content like this every week.
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And on my channel, there are already hundreds, hundreds of videos with hours and hours of comprehensible English.
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So, subscribe to the channel if you haven't already.
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Alright, let's talk about some annoying things.
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So, first we will talk about something that annoys me and maybe you never, never thought about it.
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It's a weird thing.
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And, in fact, I just thought about it yesterday when I saw my wife.
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I saw my wife doing this.
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Let me show you what my wife did yesterday that annoyed me so much.
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Okay guys, now maybe you could not tell in
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that video what the annoying thing is but let me show you
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and explain it to you it really annoys me
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when people put on their shoes like this they smash the back down I'll try
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and find you a picture a better picture they smash the back down
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and just stick their foot on like that because they are too lazy.
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Too lazy to put their shoe on the right way.
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They're too lazy to put their shoe on the right way
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so they just take their big stinky foot and smash and smash it down.
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They smash it down.
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I don't like that.
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I think that that is annoying and I'll share a little story that really annoyed me when I was a teenager.
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When I was a teenager I saved up my money by doing jobs like cutting grass and things like that.
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I saved up my money and I bought some nice shoes.
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Some Michael Jordan shoes like this.
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I bought some Michael Jordan shoes like that
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and my dad he took his big stinky foot and he smashed the back of and used my shoes.
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He did not ask me, hey Kyle can I use your shoes?
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No, he just took his big stinky foot and smashed the back of my Michael Jordan shoes.
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How disrespectful and how annoying.
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Okay, the next, the next thing that really annoys me, the next dumb thing that really annoys me,
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people who do not close close their mouths.
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People who walk around or they just sit down and keep their mouths like this. That annoys me.
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I think that that is so annoying.
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And when I see it, it makes me furious, angry.
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It makes me mad.
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And in the video that I made about great insults in English, You might call these people mouth breathers.
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Wow, guys, a bird just flew right by my head.
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I hope that was caught on camera.
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That was pretty cool.
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Mouth breathers. So annoying.
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And, guys, this is a weird one.
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And what made me think about this is that I saw an advertisement on TV.
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Okay?
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An advertisement.
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You know what an advertisement is.
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It's a commercial, it's a small little video of a company trying to sell you something.
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But there was a comedian, A comedian.
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Now guys I use the
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air quotes to say comedian because to me this person is not funny at all
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and I really kind of want to punch this guy.
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Punch him.
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I don't know why.
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Do you guys ever see somebody famous and just want to punch them?
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All right guys tell me in the comments who is the one famous person that you would like to punch.
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Please tell me guys.
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I can't wait to read your comments.
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So anyway, the famous person that I would punch is this guy.
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This guy's name is Pete Davidson.
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He's a comedian, but he's not funny at all.
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Maybe you're a Pete Davidson fan.
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I don't know, but something about this guy annoys me so much.
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So really, he could be somebody on my list of things that annoy me.
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This guy That annoys me.
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But what he was doing in the commercial was leaving his mouth open when he wasn't talking.
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And it annoys me so much for some weird reason like, close your mouth.
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Why is your mouth open?
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Imagine I'm sitting here telling you guys about English,
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but every time that I stop talking I just leave my mouth open like this.
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You guys would be giving me comments like, close your mouth, that's annoying.
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So that's what he was doing in the commercial.
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He was talking for a minute and then leaving his mouth open and it annoyed me so much.
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And it reminded me why I don't like to watch TV.
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Anyway, that's my second really annoying thing.
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When people don't close their mouths when they're not talking.
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That's annoying.
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Okay guys, now for the third and last.
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Third and last thing that really annoys me.
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And guys, I saved this one for last because I think that it is the worst.
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It is the worst one.
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Well, maybe.
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Pete Davidson with his open mouth is pretty bad too.
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So, what is the third thing that really annoys me?
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Well, it is when middle-aged men, middle-aged men, sneeze.
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Achoo!
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Achoo!
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Okay, hold on, guys.
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Let me explain.
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Let me explain a couple of things first, okay?
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First, what does middle-aged mean?
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Middle-aged is somebody that is in between 40 and 60 years old.
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Okay?
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In between 40 and 60 years old, we call middle-aged.
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All right?
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Now, let me talk about the sneezing part.
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There's a lot of reasons people might sneeze, right?
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Maybe they're sick.
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Oh, I don't feel good.
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I'm sick.
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I have a cold.
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Okay?
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When you're sick, sometimes you sneeze.
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Maybe they are allergic to cats like I am.
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I'm allergic to cats.
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If I touch a cat and then touch my face, I will start to achoo, achoo, achoo.
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I'll start to sneeze.
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Okay, so sneezing is not annoying.
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It's natural.
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It's part of life.
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Everybody sneezes.
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But middle-aged men, men between the age of 40 and 60, when they sneeze, it makes me mad, guys.
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It makes me mad, okay?
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A normal person sneezes.
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When I sneeze or you sneeze, it's like this.
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Achoo!
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Achoo!
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Oh, sorry, guys.
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Achoo!
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Right?
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It sounds like that.
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Now, guys, there's some older men, middle-aged men between 40 and 60 years old that I work with.
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And when these guys sneeze, it's like this.
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Why?
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Why?
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There is no reason to sneeze like this.
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Guys, I promise they do it like that.
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It's almost like their wives, their wives do not give them any attention at home.
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So now they want to come to work and get attention or something.
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I don't know.
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But that's how they sneeze.
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And that makes me almost as mad as Pete Davidson's face does.
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Okay?
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An old man sneezing like this is almost as bad as Pete Davidson's face that I want to punch.
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Okay?
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So, guys, if you sneeze like a middle-aged man, please calm down, okay?
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Please don't do that anymore because it is so annoying.
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And if you are a middle-aged man and you sneeze like that, tell me in the comments below why.
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Why do you do that?
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I am 33 years old.
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So in seven years, seven years, I will be 40 and I will be middle-aged.
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I really hope that on my 40th birthday I don't start to sneeze like this.
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Achoo!
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I really hope not.

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Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B1 si basa sul video “Improve Your English Listening with Comprehensible Input”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: annoying, sneeze, mouth, annoy, aged. Questo video contiene 170 frasi e 1458 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 11:23. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 128 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

Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
annoy verbo/əˈnoɪ̯/irritare, seccare
sneeze verbo/sniːz/starnutire
achoo/əˈt͡ʃuː/eccì, ecciù
shoe sostantivo/ˈʃu/scarpa, calzatura
smash verbo/smæʃ/frantumare, sfracellare
punch sostantivo/pʌnt͡ʃ/pugno
comedian sostantivo/kəˈmiː.di.ən/comico, commediante
comprehensible aggettivo/kɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/comprensibile
stinky aggettivo/ˈstɪŋki/puzzolente, puzzoso
advertisement sostantivo/ˈædvɚˌtaɪzmənt/pubblicità, annuncio
lazy aggettivo/ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)/pigro
allergic aggettivo/əˈlɝ.d͡ʒɪk/allergico
airplane sostantivo/ˈɛɹˌpleɪ̯n/aereo, aeroplano
subscribe verbo/səbˈskɹaɪb/abbonarsi
teenager sostantivo/ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/giovane, adolescente

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
back down verbocedere
save up verboraggruzzolare
calm down verbocalmarsi, tranquillizzarsi
shut up/ʃʌt ʌp/chiudi la bocca, stai zitto
sit down verbosedersi, accomodarsi

Frasi da ripetere

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

  • Alright, let's talk about some annoying things.
  • I can't wait to read your comments.
  • Why is your mouth open?
  • Anyway, that's my second really annoying thing.
  • Why do you do that?

La grammatica di questo video

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

StrutturaNel video
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosapeople who do · People who walk
Past continuous was/were + -ing — un’azione in corso in un momento del passatowas doing · was talking
Possibilità con “might / may” might/may + verbo — qualcosa di possibile ma non certomight call · might sneeze
Superlativi the -est / the most … — il massimo o il minimo di un gruppothe worst

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 27 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, I'm, I'll. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: shoe /ˈʃu/, smash /smæʃ/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: comedian /kəˈmiː.di.ən/, comprehensible /kɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/, advertisement /ˈædvɚˌtaɪzmənt/, disrespectful /dɪs.ɹɪˈspɛkt.fəl/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: sneeze /sniːz/, smash /smæʃ/, punch /pʌnt͡ʃ/, advertisement /ˈædvɚˌtaɪzmənt/, allergic /əˈlɝ.d͡ʒɪk/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: smash /smæʃ/, advertisement /ˈædvɚˌtaɪzmənt/

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 annoy, sneeze, achoo.

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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