Pratica di Shadowing: Leonardo DiCaprio (UN Messenger of Peace) at the opening of Climate Summit 2014 - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube

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Please welcome newly appointed United Nations Messenger of Peace, Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Please welcome newly appointed United Nations Messenger of Peace, Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Thank you, Mr. Secretary General, Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, and distinguished guests.
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I am honored to be here today.
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I stand before you not as an expert, but as a concerned citizen, one of the 400,000 people who marched in the streets of New York on Sunday
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and the billions of others around the world who want to solve our climate crisis.
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As an actor, I pretend for a living.
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I play fictitious characters, often solving fictitious problems.
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I believe that mankind has looked at climate change in that same way, as if it were a fiction,
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as if pretending that climate change wasn't real would somehow make it go away.
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But I think we all know better than that now.
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Every week we're seeing new and undeniable climate events, evidence that accelerated climate change is here right now.
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Droughts are intensifying, our oceans are acidifying, with methane plumes rising up from the ocean floor,
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we are seeing extreme weather events and the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets melting at unprecedented rates, decades ahead of scientific projections.
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None of this is rhetoric, and none of it is hysteria.
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It is fact.
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The scientific community knows it.
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Industry knows it.
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Governments know it.
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Even the United States military knows it.
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The Chief of the U.S.
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Navy's Pacific Command, Admiral Samuel Locklear, recently he said that climate change is our single greatest security threat.
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My friends, this body, perhaps more than any other gathering in human history,
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now faces this difficult but achievable task.
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You can make history or you will be vilified by it.
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To be clear, this is not about just telling people to change their light bulbs or to buy a hybrid car.
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This disaster has grown beyond the choices that individuals make.
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This is now about our industries and our governments around the world taking decisive, large-scale action.
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Now must be our moment for action.
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We need to put a price tag on carbon emissions and eliminate government subsidies for oil, coal, and gas companies.
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We need to end the free ride that industrial polluters have been given in the name of a free market economy.
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They do not deserve our tax dollars.
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They deserve our scrutiny.
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for the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.
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The good news is that renewable energy is not only achievable, but good economic policy.
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This is not a partisan debate.
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It is a human one.
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Clean air and a livable climate are inalienable human rights.
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And solving this crisis is not a question of politics.
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It is a question of our own survival.
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This is the most urgent of times and the most urgent of messages.
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Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living, but you do not.
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The people made their voices heard on Sunday around the world, and the momentum will not stop.
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But now it is your turn.
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The time to answer humankind's greatest challenge is now.
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We beg of you to face it with courage and honesty.
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Thank you.

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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.