Pratica di Shadowing: Jenna Ortega Creates a Sculpture of Herself | Vanity Fair - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

Can I be completely honest?

Because I just chose clay because I haven't touched clay in like 12 years.

But I think you guys may have overestimated my abilities.

Oh, I'm going to figure it out.

But just so you know, I don't even know what that means.

Hi, my name is Jenna Ortega and today I'm going to attempt a self-portrait with clay. Who is this middleman?

Who is it?

Yeah, what does he do?

This is my guy.

Here we go.

I had to have been six or seven.

My parents weren't home.

They were doing either at work or back to school night or something.

So my older sister was watching me.

And she was watching the movie Man on Fire with Mark Anthony and Dakota Fanning and Denzel Washington.

and I saw young Dakota in that movie.

Her performance made me so emotional and I felt

so invested in her character and her story and what happened that it made me want to do that.

Her performances were always so mature.

She felt like a grown woman trapped in this tiny,

you know, sweet little girl's body and mind and imagination that I think I was just captivated by her.

She was so fascinating.

And as someone who was close to my age, I just kind of clung onto her because I thought she was the coolest.

When my parents came home, I told them, I said, you know that movie Man on Fire?

And they said, why were you watching Man on Fire?

And I said, I'm gonna be the Puerto Rican version of Dakota Fanning.

And then they laughed and then we all went to bed and forgot about it, or at least they did.

And then I just kind of harassed them for years and years until they let me do it.

I think my mom gave me this monologue book to kind of shut me up

because she did not want to take me to LA to join this crazy business.

I memorized so many of those just to show my parents

that I was invested and that I was willing to work hard

and make something real and tangible out of this interest of mine.

I started watching a ton of movies, a ton of shows, things that maybe were even out of my depth

because I was so fascinated and curious and wanted to sound like I knew what I was talking about.

I think I almost became an actor out of spite because they didn't take me seriously,

so I showed them and I was lucky enough to fall in love with it and have this connection with it.

But yeah, whenever they came home from school, it was reading the book.

I used to say that I want to be a nurse.

I have siblings who are entering the medical field.

My mom is an ER nurse all her life.

I need something to be obsessed with.

I would love to be an investigative journalist, where you just kind of delve into what's going on in the world and being able to inform people.

It's a job that never gets boring, kind of like what I do now.

That or maybe a historian of some sort where I just randomly

know a lot about something that other people probably wouldn't think twice about.

To me, there's nothing more attractive

or enticing about a person than someone who speaks on something

that that they're really passionate about and you learn a lot from those people.

This is a meat man, I'm sorry, this is so ugly.

Like he's just a meat man.

The show that I do right now, I have to play the cello and I don't play the cello

and I want it to look real so that cellists don't look at it and call me mean names.

My teacher told me that as long as I looked confident in my movements

and I was strong and stoic and fully embodied the character that it would be fine.

She told me that I just needed to approach everything I do in life with the confidence of the average white man.

And that changed my life.

I feel better.

I was nervous to even do this because I ramble like crazy.

So I was like, man, what am I going to talk about for all this time?

And then I just remembered, how would an average white man do this?

And he probably would have shown up with mismatched socks.

I just feel like a lot of things are sound bites now.

People's attention span is, I feel like it's rapidly decreasing.

And I don't know if that's just because scrolling and TikTok, I think that's what we all say and that's kind of what we assume.

But I think a lot of times when you do an interview now, people are just waiting for that one bite or the one headline.

And the things that they ask you to touch upon are often trends and viral clips and moments and things that, yeah, sure, it's fun to acknowledge and appreciate and talk about.

But I feel like the internet doesn't know when to quit it or when to drop something.

And then when they do drop something, it's brutal.

It's just very sheet mentality, bandwagon mentality, and I feel like people oftentimes don't even read a full interview anymore.

They read a tweet of something that somebody said that probably is misworded, and then it's that.

I don't know, it's just very hostile.

It's a new time.

Yeah, especially because I'm a rambler.

I feel like I have all of these different trains of thought going on in my head at all times.

I'm terrified to see everything that I've said written down because it makes no sense.

So much of my job is socializing and communicating with people that I forget to do that with myself.

I get fearful of the way that I interact with people because I leave a social interaction and I think, oh man, I didn't even sound like myself.

And it's like, you don't even know what yourself would sound like.

Writing is very informative for me in that way.

I think when I write, oftentimes I just get to come up with the best version of myself.

Everything is cleaner.

It's more to the point.

I have a better vocabulary.

I was on like an hour flight to get here because I didn't have reception or anything for this hour flight.

I read through this journal that I've had for the past year

and I was so fascinated because it was my life but it almost was from a different perspective.

It almost didn't feel like mine so it felt like I was meeting someone again

and I think that that's wonderful as well to have documentation of how you're changing and growing as a person.

It's the first time I've actually really looked back at my writing

and been grateful and appreciative towards myself for taking the time and making that a priority.

I'm starting to feel adjacent to myself again.

I think there was a time where my life went through such a transformative experience that I felt very lost.

I didn't have enough time to connect with myself.

I felt like an image of myself was being projected that I didn't resonate with.

It's very easy for me to become very pessimistic and in my head and negative about things.

And I've kind of seen my language become more constructive rather than harmful.

I don't think I would have picked up on that

or been able to appreciate that had I not had that written down and documented.

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He kind of, on accident, is looking like one of the aliens from Mars attacks, I think.

101

I never said he was going to be pretty.

102

And I actually think he's more interesting if he's not.

103

Oh, I forgot that I could use this.

104

With the character that I do or the jobs that I play, everything is very dark and horror,

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comedy, and I think that oftentimes people think that that's what I'm like.

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And don't get me wrong, I love dark humor.

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I love the jobs that I work on.

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They're so much fun and entertaining for me.

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But I think people would probably be surprised to know that I'm a little bit...

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I don't want to do an interview and go, I'm silly or anything like that.

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But I am, I don't think I'm as intense as maybe I always come across, which is fine.

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I think because the character Wednesday has been such a thing, which I'm so, so great before and is so incredible and entirely unexpected, I think oftentimes people just see me as that.

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I don't know what makes me unique.

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I think that's kind of somebody else's job.

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No, it's not.

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I guess you kind of have to figure that out for yourself.

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Just took my nail off.

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Don't look.

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I've got my Wednesday nails on under here.

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I think we're just going to set this to the side and not worry about it.

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I appreciate how curious I am.

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I do think I ask a lot of questions.

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I'm very, very analytical about things and I feel like I'm more interested in observing

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and taking in and being aware of what's going on around me.

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Sorry, this man, he's dying on me.

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Right now I'm reading books that are around my job that I'm doing right now.

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I brought Frankenstein, I brought Dracula, I brought all of the darker books that I have.

128

I have like a Clockwork Orange, but I'm currently reading a music reviewer named Mark Fisher, who I'm just learning about.

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I don't know, he just speaks about his opinions and views on things and somehow ties it to these artists.

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I went into the bookstore trying to get capitalist realism.

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They didn't have that book but they had his last book.

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Just having a moment. Or this guy.

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I love to run and I used to love to run while I was younger.

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I get to

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I get to put all my energy towards that or have some sort of endorphin release based off of that, which is incredible and amazing and really exciting.

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I want to wrap this guy up.

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I can give him nice little pants and bows and things.

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Did I say that I can't multitask? Because I can't.

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I think you're cooler if you're weird.

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I think it's probably better to exercise any sort of self-expression whenever you can, even if that means walking down the street and if you want to walk in a zigzag, walk in a zigzag.

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We're creatures of habit and routine, and if you're able to break that and remind yourself that you have free will and can do whatever you want, I think that that's really beneficial.

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That's labeled as weird, even though it's not really weird, because whatever societal standards or whatever is trending or important online tells you otherwise.

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And I think that that's so lame.

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And if we all look the same and sound the same, then we're screwed.

145

My friend told me to make a bowl, and I should have.

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But now we have this guy.

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I think he has a story.

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I think he has a background.

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I think he's a survivor.

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I should have been more considerate towards this man, and I wasn't.

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What are you going to do?

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He's got a little bow.

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His arms will go like that.

154

There you go.

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There's your meat man.

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And his name is, we're gonna go with Gherkenberger.

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He came here today, he dressed well and put himself together

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and put one foot in front of the other

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and I think he's a great role model for young people today

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because with any sort of belief in yourself or any sort of ambition

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or drive despite your hardships you could end up in a 45 minute long self portrait Vanity Fair interview.

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Thank you.

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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questo video contiene 162 frasi e 2032 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 10:47. Chi parla va veloce, circa 188 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Solo il 81% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

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

Parola	Pronuncia	Significato
clay sostantivo	/kleɪ/	argilla, creta
curious aggettivo	/ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/	curioso, interessato
nurse sostantivo	/nɝs/	infermiera, infermiere
invest verbo	/ɪnˈvɛst/	investire
bite verbo	/baɪt/	mordere
portrait sostantivo	/ˈpɔɹtɹət/	ritratto
nail sostantivo	/neɪl/	unghia
mentality sostantivo	/mɛnˈtæləti/	mentalità
pants sostantivo	/pænts/	calzoni, pantaloni
belief sostantivo	/bɪˈliːf/	credito, credenza
horror sostantivo	/ˈhɒɹ.ə/	orrore
label sostantivo	/ˈleɪ.bəl/	etichetta
ugly aggettivo	/ˈʌɡli/	brutto, laido
priority sostantivo	/pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/	priorità
sheet sostantivo	/ʃit/	foglio

I phrasal verb che sentirai

Parola	Significato
write down verbo	sottoscrivere, annotare
come across verbo	dare l'impressione, avere l'aria
come up with verbo	ideare, escogitare
go through verbo	attraversare

La grammatica di questo video

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

Struttura	Nel video
“Used to” used to + verbo — un’abitudine o uno stato passato che non è più vero	used to say · used to love
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa	was just captivated · was invested · be obsessed
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso	haven't touched · I've said written · I've actually really looked
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa	someone who was · someone who speaks · across, which is

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 63 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, don't, didn't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

I suoni “sh” e “zh”: sheet /ʃit/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, reception /ɹɪˈsɛp.ʃn̩/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/
Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/, priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, unexpected /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/

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 clay, curious, nurse.

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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