Pratica di Shadowing: Linking sounds rules #1 & 2 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Hi everyone!
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Welcome to Hello Spoken English.
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I am your host, Anne.
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When you say, how are you, to someone, sometimes they say, good you.
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What did they say?
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What is it?
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It is good and you.
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If you move to North America, you will probably hear it every day,
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but the first time you couldn't understand it and even thought that they were not speaking English.
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Probably because most of the people who live in other countries had never heard those kinds of sounds before.
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Why do they speak like that?
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It would be easier if they spoke it word by word, like good and you.
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Unfortunately, native speakers don't speak like that, just like you don't speak your native languages that way.
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The first time it makes you frustrated and makes you want to give up learning English, but it's not your problem.
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You haven't had the chance to hear real spoken English, and you haven't learned how to make sounds like native speakers.
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We are here to teach you
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and train you how to master linking sounds in order to hear spoken English step by step.
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Today, we will talk about the linking sounds rules number one and number two.
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The first rule is consonant and vowel blends.
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When a word ends with a consonant and the next word starts with a vowel,
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the sound can be blended. For example, hold on.
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You can see hold ends with the consonant sound d and on starts with the vowel sound o.
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So the sound is blended.
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Hold on.
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Please don't say it like hold on.
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And another example is sleep in.
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Sleep ends with the consonant sound P and in starts with the vowel sound I.
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The sound is blended as well.
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Sleep in.
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Don't say it like sleep in.
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Sleep in is the natural sound.
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Let's take a look at it with a sample sentence.
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Hold on a second.
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Can you pick up some milk for us at the store?
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Consonant and vowel blended.
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Hold on.
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Consonant and vowel blended.
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Anna.
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Consonant and vowel blended.
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Pick up.
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Consonant and vowel blended. For us.
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Consonant and vowel blended.
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Us at.
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For us at.
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If we write the sentence by pronunciation, we can change it like this.
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Hold on a second.
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Can you pick up some milk for us at the store?
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Please listen and repeat after me.
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Hold on a second.
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Can you pick up some milk for us at the store?
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Please speak it in a loud voice.
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Hold on a second.
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Can you pick up some milk for us at the store?
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Let's practice more with an exercise.
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I will say a sentence three times, and you will tell me what I said.
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She is an old friend of mine.
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She's an old friend of mine.
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She's an old friend of mine.
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Did you get it?
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I said she is an old friend of mine.
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We can find rule number one in many places here.
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Consonant and vowel blended.
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She's an.
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Consonant and vowel blended.
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An old.
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She is an old.
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Consonant and vowel blended.
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Friend of.
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If we write the sentence by pronunciation, we can change it like this.
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She's an old friend of mine.
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Please repeat after me.
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She's an old friend of mine.
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Speed it up, please.
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She's an old friend of mine.
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The next rule is when the same or similar sounds meet together.
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You can make them into one sound, not two separate sounds, especially if the same sounds meet together.
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You need to make the sound a little bit longer. For example, this style.
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You can see there are the same S sounds, so you need to speak it with one S sound, this style.
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Can you hear that I make the S sound a little bit longer?
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Please don't say this-a style.
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Another example is need to.
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The D and T are similar sounds.
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You can skip one of the D or T sounds.
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Need to or need do.
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Don't say it like needa to.
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If you speak like that all the time,
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you won't hear the sounds when native speakers are speaking long sentences with their natural speed.
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Let's take a look at it in more detail in a sample sentence.
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I think this song is about the singer's black cat.
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The same S sounds, so you can pronounce one of the S sounds for a little bit longer.
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This song.
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Consonant and vowel blended, song is.
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And consonant and vowel blended, is about.
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Song is about.
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The T and the TH are similar sounds.
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About the, not about a the.
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And the last one is the same K sounds.
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So, you can skip one of the K sounds.
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Black cat.
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I think some of you might have a question here.
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The K and C are different sounds.
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So why can we skip one of them?
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You have to know a very important thing here.
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In English, spelling is not equal to the pronunciation.
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All the linking sounds rules we are teaching you are based on pronunciation.
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C in cat is a K sound, so you can pronounce one K for a little bit longer.
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If we write the sentence by pronunciation we can change it to this.
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I think this song's about the singer's black cat.
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Please repeat after me.
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I think this song's about the singer's black cat.
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Speak it in a loud voice, please.
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I think this song's about the singer's black cat.
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Let's move to the exercise.
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I will say a sentence three times.
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Please tell me what I said.
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You don't need to prove it to them.
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You don't need to prove it to them.
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You don't need to prove it to them.
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I said, you don't need to prove it to them.
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The D and T are similar sounds.
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You can speak one of them, need to, and consonant and vowel blended, prove it.
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The last one is the same T sounds, so you can skip one, it to.
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Prove it to.
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If we write the sentence by pronunciation, we can change it to this.
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You don't need to prove it to them.
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Please repeat after me.
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You don't need to prove it to them.
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Louder please.
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You don't need to prove it to them.
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Is it difficult and so complicated?
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Don't worry about that.
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We are not teaching them in a typical way.
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We will provide you with tons of different actors' voices and teach you the rules millions of times during our lectures.
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We believe you will be familiar with them soon.
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So far, you have learned our basic lectures.
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Now you are ready to join in our real lectures.
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Come and join us explore the new way to enjoy spoken English.
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I will wait for you at our first lecture.
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See you soon guys.
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Have a good one.

Perché esercitarsi a parlare con questo video?

Il video che stai per esplorare offre un'opportunità unica per migliorare la tua pratica di conversazione in inglese. Anziché limitarsi a insegnare vocaboli e frasi, si concentra sull'aspetto fondamentale della comunicazione: come i madrelingua collegano i suoni tra le parole. Questo tipo di shadow speech è essenziale per comprendere e partecipare a conversazioni reali, in cui le parole si fondono naturalmente. Chi guarda il video avrà modo di ascoltare esempi pratici di come si pronunci una frase, inclusa l’intonazione e il ritmo, elementi chiave nel parlare l'inglese fluentemente.

Grammatica ed Espressioni nel Contesto

Nel video vengono analizzate alcune strutture linguistiche chiave che possono essere particolarmente utili per chi vuole imparare l'inglese con YouTube. Ecco alcune frasi significative prese dal discorso:

  • Hold on: Questa espressione viene utilizzata per chiedere a qualcuno di attendere un momento. È un ottimo esempio di collegamento di suoni, dove la finale di "hold" e l'inizio di "on" si uniscono.
  • Pick up: Spesso utilizzato nel contesto di raccogliere qualcosa, permette di orecchiare come le consonanti e le vocali si amalgamano nel parlato fluente.
  • For us at: Qui vediamo come più parole possano unirsi per formare un’unica frase continua fluida, dimostrando l’importanza dell’uso naturale della lingua inglese.

Trappole Comuni di Pronuncia

Uno degli aspetti più difficili per chi impara l'inglese è la pronuncia, specialmente quando si tratta di suoni che si collegano. Il video offre esempi chiari su come evitare errori comuni:

  • Hold on non deve essere pronunciato come "hold on", ma piuttosto come un'unica espressione: "holdon". Questo rende il suono molto più naturale.
  • Sleep in: Attenzione a non trattare le due parole separatamente. Dovresti cercare di pronunciarle come un'unica entità, "sleepin".
  • La mancata fusione dei suoni può rendere difficile per gli ascoltatori comprendere il tuo messaggio, rendendo la pratica di conversazione in inglese ancora più cruciale.

Prendendo esempio da questo video e praticando le tecniche di shadowspeaks, avrai la possibilità di migliorare notevolmente la tua capacità di comunicare in inglese in modo fluido e naturale.

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.