Pratica di Shadowing: Japan's Anti-Procrastination Café - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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This is the world's first anti-procrastination cafe.
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And of course it's in Japan.
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All of the coolest stuff is in Japan.
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In this cafe, once you enter, you aren't allowed to leave until all your work is done.
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You write out all of your goals for the evening and choose one of three difficulty levels.
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Level 1 is a verbal confirmation with the staff upon leaving that you completed everything you set out to do.
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So, it's pretty simple and honestly it seems quite easy to get out of doing the work in this one.
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You can just lie whenever you're leaving, just lie to the staff like, yeah, I got my work done.
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That's by design though, this is the easiest difficulty.
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Level 2, which is normal difficulty, sees a staff member check in on you every hour.
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And finally level 3, the hardest difficulty, has staff members frequently standing directly behind you and applying pressure.
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That one seems a little excessive, but hey, I mean, if you've got a deadline for tomorrow and you work well under pressure, you gotta do what you gotta do.
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Customers pay around about 85p or a little over a dollar every 30 minutes, and with that they get Wi-Fi and charging ports for their laptops.
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Interestingly though, there are no food products to buy at all.
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The only beverages are self-served tea and coffee that come at no extra charge.
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Which you might really need, because the owner is so committed to you finishing your work, that he will keep you there even if it means staying past cafe opening hours.
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But apparently the people of Tokyo really love this place, and is incredibly effective at helping them achieve their goals.
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Could this really be the answer to the world's procrastination problem?
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I'll just have to see for myself.
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Okay, so maybe I don't have the budget to just go to Japan and go to one of these actual anti-procrastination cafes, but what I'm going to do is experiment to see how this actually works.
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I went to my local cafe with an excessively long to-do list
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and I was not going to leave until I completed everything.
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Let's see just how effective these anti-procrastination cafes really are.
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Okay, so I just got out of there, I actually got everything I wanted to get done, done, to a really high quality, much faster than I thought I would.
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So I got it done faster than I thought I would, and to a higher quality than I thought I would.
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Now at this point these cafes probably seem amazing, and you're probably wishing you had these in your local area, but there is a caveat here.
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You see, I've tried sitting down for other big work sessions before in other cafes
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and libraries as I'm sure most of you watching have as well, but I wasn't nearly as productive.
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With the difference being, every time I've done it before, I was doing work that I just didn't care about, I just didn't naturally enjoy.
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Whereas this time it was something I was genuinely passionate about, YouTube.
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People are always looking for a quick fix and a hack for procrastination, and sure those things can work in the short term,
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but in the long term you're always going to struggle if you don't actually enjoy your work at all.
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But hey, even the most passionate workers procrastinate sometimes, so these cafes are perfect if you're just looking for that little bit of extra incentive to meet the deadline.
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And who knows, maybe one day Tokyo won't be the only city to have their local anti-procrastination cafe.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B1 si basa sul video “Japan's Anti-Procrastination Café”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: cafe, procrastination, difficulty, anti, staff. Questo video contiene 34 frasi e 615 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 3:18. Chi parla va veloce, circa 187 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. 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:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| procrastination sostantivo | /pɹəʊˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/ | procrastinazione |
| café sostantivo | /ˌkæˈfeɪ/ | caffè, caffetteria |
| passionate aggettivo | /ˈpæʃənɪt/ | appassionato |
| deadline sostantivo | /ˈdɛdˌlaɪn/ | scadenza, termine |
| caveat sostantivo | /ˈkæviɑt/ | avvertenza, avviso |
| excessively avverbio | /ɪkˈsɛsɪvli/ | eccessivamente |
| procrastinate verbo | /pɹoʊˈkɹæs.tə.neɪt/ | procrastinare, ritardare |
| interestingly avverbio | è interessante che… | |
| beverage sostantivo | /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/ | bevanda |
| verbal aggettivo | /ˈvɜː.bəl/ | verbale |
| incentive sostantivo | /ɪnˈsɛntɪv/ | incentivo |
| confirmation sostantivo | /ˌkɑn.fəɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/ | conferma |
| genuinely avverbio | /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/ | veramente, genuinamente |
| excessive aggettivo | /ɪkˈsɛsɪv/ | eccessivo |
| productive aggettivo | /pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/ | produttivo |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| write out verbo | appuntare, emettere |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | I've tried · I've done |
| Superlativi the -est / the most … — il massimo o il minimo di un gruppo | the coolest · the easiest · the hardest |
| Comparativi -er than / more … than — confrontare due cose | faster than |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — qualcosa che succede adesso o in questo periodo | you're leaving · you're probably wishing · are always looking |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 19 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, didn't, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: procrastination /pɹəʊˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/, confirmation /ˌkɑn.fəɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: procrastination /pɹəʊˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, excessively /ɪkˈsɛsɪvli/, procrastinate /pɹoʊˈkɹæs.tə.neɪt/, confirmation /ˌkɑn.fəɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/, caveat /ˈkæviɑt/, procrastinate /pɹoʊˈkɹæs.tə.neɪt/, beverage /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/, incentive /ɪnˈsɛntɪv/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: procrastination /pɹəʊˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, café /ˌkæˈfeɪ/, cafe /ˌkæˈfeɪ/, passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/, caveat /ˈkæviɑt/
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 procrastination, café, passionate.
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.