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-And finally, New Rule. -(AUDIENCE CLAP) Let's all give it up for soccer being the greatest sport.
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-Now-- -(AUDIENCE CHEER AND APPLAUD) No, no.
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Not the game itself. That sucks.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGH) I mean, there's more scoring at a Star Trek convention.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGH AND APPLAUD) But...
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But I am loving that the World Cup has brought to our shores all these people who are doing Americans the service of reminding us, just when we needed it on our big 250 birthday, that actually, this place is kind of awesome.
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-And-- -(AUDIENCE CHEER AND APPLAUD) And yes, I know, how dare I, how privileged when there are so many problems and threats and people left behind. All true.
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I could give you the statistics where we are not good enough and have done so many times.
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Infant mortality rate, 54th in the world.
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Women in government, 85th.
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Overdose deaths, lack of health insurance.
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Yes, many problems.
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But that's because the name of our country is America, not Utopia.
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And the appropriate comparison isn't to the Eden you might imagine.
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It's to every other place on Earth.
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We can't be more perfect than what's in your mind.
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We can only be more perfect than Belgium.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGH) which I bet has nicer airports, but trust me, has its own problems.
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And I never saw anyone getting ecstatic about being there, but that's exactly what I've been seeing here for the last month.
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Social media flooded with videos of slack-jawed soccer tourists wandering around America, positively gushing about everything we take for granted, reminding us what America looks like from the outside, not through the lens of some influencer explaining why watering your lawn is violence.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGH AND APPLAUD) Just regular people looking around and saying, "Wow, these people live like rock stars!" Look at this Japanese guy trying Texas barbecue.
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Amazing! I love it!
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(AUDIENCE LAUGH AND APPLAUD) Last time he was that excited, he was rubbing himself against a stranger on the subway.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGH AND APPLAUD) British people are walking through Costco like they're touring the Vatican on mushrooms.
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One European guy said, "This is the biggest tourist attraction I can have as a European.
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It's like a museum." He was talking about Walmart.
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-(AUDIENCE LAUGH AND APPLAUD) -It's true. I swear.
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Our comfort foods, supermarkets, big box stores, stadiums, they're blowing their minds.
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"You can buy a ceramic beaver wearing sunglasses?" Fuck yeah, you can.
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-(AUDIENCE LAUGH AND APPLAUD) -And...
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And you can buy mayonnaise by the gallon.
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This guy can't believe pizza comes in a size this large.
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1.26 kilos...
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of Pizza. (AUDIENCE LAUGH) Wait until they see our asses.
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-AUDIENCE MEMBER: Yeah! -(AUDIENCE APPLAUD) "American food is insane," said another one.
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"Tried a hot dog today, American delicacy, and oh my God, why does the sausage taste so good?" Well, it's the rat hair, but we just know how to do it.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGH) We know how to do it.
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(AUDIENCE CHEER AND APPLAUD) Listen to this.
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There are thousands of people from countries we think of as prosperous and advanced who have come here and are now saying they can no longer go on in life if they can't get ranch dressing.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGH) One woman from Sweden said, "Why did no one tell me ranch sauce is like crack?" (AUDIENCE LAUGH) Because it's not. Your crack must suck.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGH AND APPLAUD) Really, I never heard anyone say, "This crack is like eating ranch." (AUDIENCE LAUGH) But plainly, plainly, we have a lot of things here we assumed everyone has, and they don't.
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They came here for soccer and can't believe you can watch it while having a beer.
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Yeah, they don't have that in Europe.
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Let that sink in.
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In the paradise you think the rest of the world is, they can't drink beer in public without beating the shit out of each other.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGH) And have you seen Europeans reacting to air conditioning?
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Like it's some exotic experimental technology?
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Every summer, they're sitting in a 400-year-old stone building, sweating through their Speedo underwear, as opposed to America, where we ask the question, "What if my living room didn't cause heat stroke?" (AUDIENCE LAUGH AND APPLAUD) Here's my favorite foreign visitor testimony from this month.
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I feel like I've been lied to my entire life about America.
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This beach is insane.
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Like just as good as Australian beaches.
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But if you log onto the news, everything's bad.
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Everything's terrible.
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It's not. It's absolutely fucking amazing.
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(AUDIENCE CHEER AND APPLAUD) Well...
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Thank you for that perspective, Australian dude who probably just stole somebody's American girlfriend.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGH) There actually are some good things about us.
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Even with all the ICE nonsense, we have more immigrants than the next four countries combined.
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We have to fight for it, but still have freedom of speech and assembly and trial by jury.
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Even if you're found guilty, you can still ask a Kardashian to get you a pardon.
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(AUDIENCE CHEER AND APPLAUD) Other countries struggle just to have water.
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Here, we make it put on a show.
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In the desert, no less.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGH AND APPLAUD) We have drive-throughs for both church and sex toys.
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That's right.
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You can buy a dildo, then ask the Lord to forgive you for it without ever leaving your car.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGH AND APPLAUD) We have the strongest intellectual property, the most innovative R&D, the highest GDP, the most valuable companies, and the most trillionaire.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGH) Now look, maybe it's a coincidence, but I think it's something in the American system and character that we have the highest number of Nobel Prize winners and invented the light bulb, the telephone, the smartphone, the airplane, personal computers, and the party-sized bag of Xxtra Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
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(AUDIENCE CHEER AND APPLAUD) Plus, you can believe in whatever crazy religion you want here, and 24 states have legal weed, and our pop stars can juggle knives.
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Happy 4th, everybody, -and have a great month of July. -(AUDIENCE CHEERING) We'll see you back here on July 31st.
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Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.
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Perché esercitarsi a parlare con questo video?
Il video di Bill Maher offre un'opportunità unica di praticare l'inglese parlato in un contesto divertente e coinvolgente. La sua abilità di raccontare storie e usare l'umorismo rende l'apprendimento dell'inglese più accessibile e interessante. Utilizzando il shadow speech o shadowspeak, puoi seguire il suo esempio per migliorare la tua pronuncia inglese e acquisire fiducia nel parlare. Il contesto del video, che esplora l'interazione culturale e le differenze tra gli Stati Uniti e l'Europa, ti permette di ascoltare espressioni idiomatiche e frasi colloquiali, rendendo l'applicazione delle tue competenze linguistiche più rilevante e pratica.
Grammatica ed espressioni nel contesto
Durante il video, Bill Maher utilizza diverse strutture grammaticali e espressioni che possono essere utili per chi apprende l'inglese:
- Domande retoriche: Maher pone domande che stimolano la riflessione, come "You can buy mayonnaise by the gallon?" Questo tipo di struttura è utile per cominciare conversazioni o per enfatizzare un'idea.
- Uso della negazione: Espressioni come "It's not Utopia" aiutano a negare idee preconcette, offrendo un modo per discutere le realtà in modo più critico.
- Comparazioni: Frasi come "we can only be more perfect than Belgium" mostrano come esprimere valutazioni relative. Imparare a fare confronti può arricchire il tuo vocabolario e il tuo stile di conversazione.
Trappole comuni nella pronuncia
Ci sono diversi aspetti della pronuncia che possono risultare difficili per gli studenti. Ecco alcuni punti chiave da considerare:
- Parole ingannevoli: Termini come "barbecue" e "delicacy" possono avere suoni che non si trovano in italiano, rendendo necessario un shadowing in inglese attento. La corretta articolazione di queste parole è essenziale per una comunicazione chiara.
- Intonazione e ritmo: Il modo in cui Maher usa l'intonazione per enfatizzare le sue battute può essere imitato per migliorare la tua espressione orale. Ascolta come modifica il tono e prova a riprodurlo.
- Accento americano: Familiarizzarsi con alcune peculiarità dell'accento americano, come la pronuncia di "r" e "a", ti aiuterà a essere più comprensibile e a sentirti più sicuro quando parli inglese.
Praticando con questi spunti e integrando il shadowing, potrai non solo migliorare la tua pronuncia inglese, ma anche arricchire il tuo lessico e la tua capacità di esprimerti in modo più naturale e fluente.
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.