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It's hard to be human.
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Cats don't have to work very hard to be cats.
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They're really just naturally good at it.
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But we actually have to do a lot of work to be good humans.
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You have to do a lot of work to be good at relationships.
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You have to do a lot of work to be good at friendship.
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You have to do a lot of work to be a good leader.
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You have to do a lot of work to be a good colleague and co -worker.
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It actually takes a lot of work.
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And the people who show up at a company, and the company makes them a promise, which is, and by the way,
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this is the exact promise.
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When people start at my company, they get a phone call from me, and I tell them two things.
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Number one, you're a part of something bigger than yourself.
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And our little team is having an unbalanced impact in the world, and you were a part of it, right?
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So I start with why, and I tell them about the movement that they are now a part of.
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And then I always say the same thing.
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I have one expectation of you, that you take yourself on.
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And whether you stay with us for a short term
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or a long term and whether you love it here
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or whether you hate it here I expect you to leave here a better version of yourself because you worked here.
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We will give you some of those resources and
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Some of those resources are I expect you to do the work by yourself, but that is my expectation of you and
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I think that's really important because what that does for a human being is to know that you know
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So work is sometimes good days and bad days
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and we have personality conflicts and we make good decisions and we make bad decisions.
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But the belief that I'm coming to work and simply because I'm showing up to work, I'm going to be a better parent,
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I'm going to be a better friend, I'm going to be a better spouse.
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Like just because of work.
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One of my favorite companies is a company called Barry Waymiller.
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Led by my dear friend and mentor just passed away a couple months ago, Bob Chapman.
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And Bob, they implemented a listening course at the company.
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And it was all voluntary, and it was meant to help with communication inside the organization.
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Because we're bad listeners, right?
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Most people are bad listeners.
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And it was done for business reasons.
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And a few early adopters took the course and almost to a tee the response they got from the,
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from those who took the course were my relationship with my kids is better, my marriage is better, I'm learning to,
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I'm learning how to resolve conflict better myself.
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They talked about the fact that they were growing and
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that their personal relationships were growing even though it was meant for work.
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And that's because what people forget is that we're the same human beings at work or outside of work.
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You know, the only difference is the clothes I wear, the table I sit at.
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It's me.
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The reason my family and my friends love me is me.
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The reason my colleagues and my co -workers love me is it's me.
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And so if you're acting differently in one of those two places, in one of those two places you're lying.
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And we want to help people to bring their full selves to work.
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Thank you.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “It's Hard To Be Human”. Questo video contiene 48 frasi e 605 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 3:04. Chi parla va veloce, circa 197 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. 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:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| worker sostantivo | /ˈwɝ.kɚ/ | lavoratore, operaio |
| resource sostantivo | /ɹɪˈzɔːs/ | risorsa |
| expectation sostantivo | /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/ | attesa |
| colleague sostantivo | /ˈkɒliːɡ/ | collega |
| listener sostantivo | /ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/ | ascoltatore, ascoltatrice |
| naturally avverbio | /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/ | naturalmente |
| belief sostantivo | /bɪˈliːf/ | credito, credenza |
| friendship sostantivo | /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/ | amicizia |
| differently avverbio | /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/ | differentemente, diversamente |
| implement verbo | /ˈɪmpləmənt/ | mettere in pratica, attuare |
| resolve verbo | /ɹɪˈzɑlv/ | risolvere, accordarsi |
| cloth sostantivo | /klɒθ/ | stoffa, tessuto |
| voluntary aggettivo | /ˈvɑ.lənˌt(ɛ)ɹi/ | spontaneo, volontario |
| spouse sostantivo | /spaʊ̯s/ | sposo, sposa |
| mentor sostantivo | /ˈmɛn.tɔː/ | mentore, pigmalione |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| pass away verbo | scomparire, mancare |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | was meant |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | people who show · those who took |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 14 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, you're, we're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, voluntary /ˈvɑ.lənˌt(ɛ)ɹi/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: resource /ɹɪˈzɔːs/, colleague /ˈkɒliːɡ/, belief /bɪˈliːf/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, implement /ˈɪmpləmənt/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come worker, resource, expectation.
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.