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The End My six-year-old sister opened the classroom door during my exam and started crying.
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Mommy said I'd find you here!
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You promised to buy me donkey milk for my skin!
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And not ostrich milk!
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What am I supposed to do with it?
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Uhhhhhhhhh!
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The teacher ran to calm her down, and while she was hugging her, my sister handed me a paper that had my essay written on it.
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Okay, I feel better now.
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I hope you fail your exam.
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Writing an essay about whether manufacturers should be responsible for the
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effects of the chemicals used in their products was harder than giving birth, I swear!
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Five minutes later, I submitted the essay, and when the teacher left, my classmate said, Who is that girl?
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You don't even have a sister, or even a mom.
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You're an orphan. And smart.
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She's someone I hired.
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Ask Brain 2 wrote me the essay.
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And how are you so sure that's a good essay?
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Oh, it's not the first time, and I always get an A+.
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In a matter of hours, I was the most popular girl in school, and kids started asking me for all types of advice on which apps could help give them an edge.
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Is there an app to get someone to fall in love with me?
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What about an app that could make me a million bucks?
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That's when I got a brilliant idea!
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I could start making my own apps!
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How much are you willing to pay?
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Oh, by the way, my name's Paige, and I live with a family of gangsters.
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Before I continue my success story, please like and subscribe.
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Technically, we're not really a family.
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That six-year-old girl I hired, her name is Spot.
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Yeah, weird, I know.
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Me, Spot, and my best friend Felix met in an orphanage.
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I'm the smart one.
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Like Einstein's smart, but when I was younger, I was really small for my age.
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So the other kids used to pick on me.
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Hey, Shrimp McNugget, get out of my way.
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They'd push me down in the playground and take all my toys.
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I quickly figured out that I needed some muscle.
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That's when I found Felix.
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Felix was dumb as dirt, but strong as an ox.
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So we made an arrangement.
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I taught him everything I knew, and he took care of the bullies.
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A few years later, some stupid family wanted to adopt me, but they refused to take Felix.
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There was no way we were going to let them separate us.
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So I came up with a plan.
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I found this really old couple online.
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I mean, like, dinosaur old.
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They lived in this huge house and had a bunch of money.
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They would have been the perfect parents, except...
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What's that you say, honey?
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You want a mop?
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No, I want you to adopt us!
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How is the crop?
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Oh, it's doing well, dear.
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Thanks for asking.
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Have a good day!
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It was so frustrating!
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That night, me and Felix snuck into a science lab, and Spot was our lookout.
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I borrowed a few things to make a supersonic hearing aid, and added a couple more features, like super hearing and super strength, that I knew those old people would like.
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Hey, try this!
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Wow!
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I can hear!
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What was that?
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What was that?
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That's a bird!
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What's that smell?
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I farted.
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Sorry.
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Look, honey!
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I can walk and run and jump!
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I can pick up this car!
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I told the old couple they could keep my gadget if they adopted me, Felix, and Spot, and they agreed.
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The next day, we moved into this huge house.
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We had our own rooms, and I had my own science lab in the basement.
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And the best thing was that the old people let us do whatever we wanted.
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I spent all day in my lab making gadgets and apps.
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I made a robot that brushed Spot's teeth and washed her hair.
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No!
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Anything but the shampoo!
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Please don't!
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Felix liked to cook, but he always burned the food.
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I made him an assistant chef to help him out.
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This is unacceptable!
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This chicken tastes like poo!
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It flipped over a couple of tables and sent Felix crying to his room a few times, but the food was delicious!
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My new parents invested a ton of money into my gadgets.
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Come to find out, they were just a sweet old couple.
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They were leaders of a notorious underground gang that...
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Hold on, editor!
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Cut that out of the video, please!
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I'm not supposed to talk about that.
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You won't tell anyone, right?
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If you do, you'll end up sleeping with the fishes.
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Okay, they get it.
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Don't scare them, guys.
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We're watching you.
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And listening, too.
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Anyway, moving along.
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After a while, I got bored and enrolled in a fancy high school.
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Felix and Spod weren't interested in school.
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They liked to sleep in all day, go on shopping sprees, and run other errands for our parents.
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My first day of school was pretty lame.
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I was smarter than the teachers, and the kids didn't like me much liked me much.
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They even made fun of my green hair.
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What?
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Green's my favorite color.
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Then I caught this boy named Lucas checking me out.
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He was popular, captain of the football team, super smart, last president two years in a row, and even volunteered in a food kitchen on the weekends.
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That is, when he wasn't doing a photo shoot.
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Did I tell you he was a teen model?
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Yuck, I could barf.
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Did he walk out of an MSA video or something?
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Lucas was so not my type, but he didn't get the hint.
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During lunch, he sat beside me.
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I mean, seriously, There were a dozen open seats.
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Hey, Paige.
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Is this seat taken?
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Yeah.
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I was saving it for Nunya.
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Who's Nunya?
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None of your business.
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He eventually cornered me in science class.
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Somehow, he convinced the teacher to pair us up for a project.
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Lucas and I started spending time together.
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He was almost as smart as me.
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His sparkling brown eyes, his perfect hair, and handsome face were nice to look at.
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But there was one thing that really annoyed me.
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He was such a goody two-shoes.
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I'd never met anyone so honest.
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One time we went to a coffee shop and the barista gave him change.
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We were all the way across town when he realized that she'd given him an extra penny, so he insisted that we walk all the way back to return it.
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It's a penny, it's no big deal.
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Plus, I'm tired and my feet hurt.
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But he couldn't rest until he returned it.
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On my birthday, Lucas bought me a shirt, but it was the wrong size, so we went to the store to return it.
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And we ran into this woman who had on a hideous dress and she caught us staring.
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Young man, what do you think?
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Does this dress look good on me?
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You look wonderful.
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The moment we left the store, Lucas started freaking out.
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I shouldn't have lied to that poor woman.
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That was wrong.
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I should go back and tell her the truth.
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And Lucas, being Lucas, found the woman and told her the truth.
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I'm sorry, ma'am.
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That dress is horrible.
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It makes you look like a cow.
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The woman punched Lucas in the face and stormed off.
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Later, when I put a cold bag of peas on Lucas' eye, I asked him why he was so obsessed with being honest.
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I just think it's the right thing to do.
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Speaking of honesty, I really like you, Paige, and I was wondering, maybe you liked me too?
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By then, Lucas had grown on me.
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He was less annoying than all the other kids at school, and he made me laugh.
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You're cool, I guess.
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Cool enough to be your boyfriend?
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Out of nowhere, Lucas held my hand.
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He took the peas off his face and stepped close to me.
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I mean, our faces were inches apart, and then I don't know how, but suddenly we were kissing, and to my surprise, I liked it.
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After that, we were officially dating and life was pretty good.
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But then everything turned upside down.
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Felix, Spott and my parents came home from one of their vacations.
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Paige, it's terrible.
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We lost all of our money.
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I was in shock.
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Just a week earlier, we had at least two million dollars in the bank.
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My parents explained that they spent all of our money investing in my gadgets.
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They stored my gadgets in a bunch of warehouses downtown, but someone burned them all down and we lost everything.
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All of the warehouses caught fire?
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How is that possible?
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What about the insurance?
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Did you report it to the police?
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There's no insurance.
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And the police, well...
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Ahem.
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Just one second.
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Hey, editor.
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We'll need a bit of privacy.
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It's about the family business.
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No problem.
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I guess they can hear the rest.
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Gotcha.
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So we're gonna lose the house?
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And the cars?
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And a bunch of bad guys are after us.
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We kind of owe them too.
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Always so much excitement.
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I forgot how much fun it is being a gangster.
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Oh, um, businesswoman.
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What am I supposed to do about it?
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You're the brains of this operation!
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Save us!
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And that's when I decided to make a new app called P.Mind Soup Juice.
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Yeah, that's not the real name and the app doesn't exist anymore, but it was awesome.
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I cleverly designed a game where kids had to keep paying money to play the higher levels.
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And when they reached level 7, they got a ticket for the million dollar national lottery.
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Of course, no one ever wins that thing, right?
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But the kids were hooked.
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They were using up all their pocket money and even stealing their parents' credit cards to keep paying and playing.
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And I was getting richer by the day.
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Wow, Paige.
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This is awesome.
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This is almost enough to pay off our debts.
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You're my hero!
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You're the best.
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But things got a little complicated with Lucas.
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One day after school, he showed up at my house.
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You have to shut down P-Mind Soup Juice.
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Why?
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It's unethical.
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No, it's not.
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Yes, it is.
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Don't be such a goody-two-shoes.
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Paige, everyone's getting addicted and it's driving all the kids crazy.
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I need my pea mind soup juice.
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You can't take it away from me!
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It's just an app.
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It's not my fault they're too dumb to turn it off.
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You have the highest IQ and you could use it for good, but you're using it to ruin people's lives.
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Plus, if the principal finds out you're making money off of these kids, you'll get expelled.
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Everyone loves pea mind soup juice.
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No one's gonna tell.
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The principal doesn't ever have to know.
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I know.
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What's that supposed to mean?
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I love you, Paige, but what you're doing is just wrong.
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If you don't shut it down tonight, I'll have to tell the principal.
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I tried to convince Lucas to change his mind, but he just stormed off!
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And to make matters worse, I caught Felix and Spot listening from the upstairs window.
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And that's when the war between Lucas and my family began.
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We can take care of him for you.
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I can punch him in the nose.
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I can hit him with a rock!
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He'll never remember a thing!
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Or I can bake him a special pie.
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No, you're not doing any of that.
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Lucas is my boyfriend, and I think I love him.
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Love?
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Yuck.
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He's not even your type.
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Oh, honey, that boy doesn't love you.
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He wants to rat you out.
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You'll get suspended, and he won't stop there.
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He'll try to bring this whole family down.
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Believe me, we know.
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I told my family I'd take care of it.
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The last thing I wanted was Lucas' heart.
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I went over to Lucas' house, and his parents' car wasn't in the driveway, so he was all alone.
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I tapped on the window to wake him up and accidentally broke the glass.
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Help!
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Help!
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Intruder!
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He was so scared.
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It could have been because I had a mask covering my face, but it was really cold outside.
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And what else are you supposed to wear when you're climbing into someone's window at night?
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I mean, duh, it's practically a uniform.
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Lucas grabbed a flyswatter and started waving it around.
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Lucas, it's me.
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What the heck are you doing climbing through my window at midnight?
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I needed to talk.
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Please don't tell the principal about Pemine Soup Juice.
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I've made my decision, Paige.
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My family needs it to pay our bills.
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Can't your parents borrow the money from their friends?
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What about their savings?
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That's easy for you to say.
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Your family's rich with dozens of rich Then the craziest thing happened.
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I spotted Felix's Robot Chef in Lucas's driveway, and it started pounding on the door.
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What is that?
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I got a FaceTime call from my family.
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What's going on?
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We all discussed it, and we decided that RoboChef, that's what we're calling him now, can take care of our little Lucas problem.
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What do you mean, take care of?
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Then RoboChef broke down the front door.
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Ooh, that's loud.
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What's that noise, honey?
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It's RoboChef.
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Oh my, get out of there!
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My phone lost its signal, and then RoboChef smashed through a couple of walls, then charged up the stairs!
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We have to go, now!
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I grabbed Lucas.
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We climbed out of the window and hopped on my bike.
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I rode as fast as I could.
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RoboChef was on our tail!
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What is that thing?
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It's a robot I made.
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Can you turn it off?
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RoboChef, shut down!
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RoboChef, slice them dice!
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It's gone crazy!
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What do we do?
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I had to think fast, and then I remembered.
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I had an emergency remote in my bedroom drawer that could shut RoboChef down.
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Hold on!
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Lucas held tight as I turned a corner.
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My heart pounded and my legs throbbed as I rode faster and faster.
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Then, the worst thing happened.
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My front tire hit a rock, and Lucas and I flipped over.
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I sprained my ankle, and Lucas scraped his knee really bad.
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Lucas held me in his arms as the crazy robot drew closer.
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This is it.
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He's gonna turn us into Lucas and Paige Puree.
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A Luke Cage or a Pecos.
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What are you talking about?
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It's our names combined, like a couple's name.
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We never got to choose one, you know, like Bennifer, Kimye, and Brangelina.
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Shut up!
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I've got a better idea.
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Lucas pulled me close and kissed me.
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Then he climbed to his feet and glared at the robot.
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Come on, you stupid robot.
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Let me introduce you to my little friends.
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Lucas showed the robot his fists, and the robot couldn't stop laughing as it marched towards us.
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I knew we were gonna be goners, but out of nowhere, my family appeared.
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Get away from my sister, you crazy bot!
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Spot threw a rock at the robot's head.
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Felix body slammed it and then gave it to people's elbow.
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My mom smashed a pie in its face, and my dad picked it up and threw it so far
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that it landed in a trash heap a couple of miles away.
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Hey!
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My dad still had his super strength, by the way.
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My family was impressed that Lucas had risked his life to save me.
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And Lucas was so thankful that my family saved both of us, that he decided not to tell the principal about P-Mine's soup juice.
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I won't tell, but you still have to shut it down.
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But what about my family?
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They still need money.
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I have an idea.
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My family met with Lucas' dad, and after he saw the footage of them kicking that robot's butt, he hired my family to run security for his company.
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After a couple of years, my family made so much money that they started their own security business
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and started traveling the world protecting celebrities and famous politicians.
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As for me and Lucas, I agreed to shut down pea mind soup juice and live an honest life.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B1 si basa sul video “My Wonderful Story of Being Different”. Questo video contiene 328 frasi e 2748 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 13:59. Chi parla va veloce, circa 197 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Solo il 80% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| robot sostantivo | /ˈɹoʊ.bɑt/ | robot |
| soup sostantivo | /sup/ | minestra, brodo |
| gadget sostantivo | /ɡæd͡ʒ.ɪt/ | aggeggio |
| essay sostantivo | /ˈɛs.eɪ/ | saggio, ricerca |
| climb verbo | /ˈklaɪ̯m/ | arrampicare, scalare |
| annoy verbo | /əˈnoɪ̯/ | irritare, seccare |
| pea sostantivo | /piː/ | pisello |
| gangster sostantivo | /ˈɡæŋ.stəː/ | gangster, mafioso |
| driveway sostantivo | /ˈdɹaɪvˌweɪ/ | passo carrabile, strada privata |
| borrow verbo | /ˈbɑɹ.oʊ/ | prendere in prestito |
| warehouse sostantivo | /ˈwɛə(ɹ)haʊs/ | magazzino |
| smash verbo | /smæʃ/ | frantumare, sfracellare |
| adopt verbo | /əˈdɑpt/ | adottare |
| flip verbo | /flɪp/ | capovolgere, spadellare |
| chef sostantivo | /ʃɛf/ | chef, capocuoco |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| shut down verbo | spegnere |
| find out verbo | scoprire |
| come up with verbo | ideare, escogitare |
| end up verbo | andare a finire, finire |
| figure out verbo | scoprire, rendersi conto |
| go back verbo | tornare |
| pay off verbo | corrompere |
| pick up verbo | tirare su, sollevare |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- What am I supposed to do with it?
- How much are you willing to pay?
- What's that you say, honey?
- Did I tell you he was a teen model?
- Can't your parents borrow the money from their friends?
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Frasi condizionali if + frase, will/would + verbo — una condizione e il suo risultato | If you do, you'll end |
| Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — i verbi seguiti dalla forma in -ing | started crying · started asking · start making |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — un’azione in corso in un momento del passato | was hugging · wasn't doing · was saving |
| Superlativi the -est / the most … — il massimo o il minimo di un gruppo | the most popular · my best · the best |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 60 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, don't, gonna. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: unethical /ʌnˈɛθɪkəl/, thankful /ˈθæŋkfəl/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: smash /smæʃ/, chef /ʃɛf/, shoe /ˈʃu/, examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, shampoo /ʃæmˈpuː/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, unethical /ʌnˈɛθɪkəl/, notorious /nə(ʊ)ˈtɔː.ɹɪ.əs/, unacceptable /ˌʌn.ækˈsɛp.tə.bl̩/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: warehouse /ˈwɛə(ɹ)haʊs/, hideous /ˈhɪd.i.əs/, heck /hɛk/, hint /hɪnt/, hug /hʌɡ/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: robot /ˈɹoʊ.bɑt/, soup /sup/, gadget /ɡæd͡ʒ.ɪt/, warehouse /ˈwɛə(ɹ)haʊs/, smash /smæʃ/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: gadget /ɡæd͡ʒ.ɪt/, gangster /ˈɡæŋ.stəː/, smash /smæʃ/, examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, classmate /ˈklæs.meɪt/
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 robot, soup, gadget.
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.