Pratica di Shadowing: Nobody Believed Me! - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Have you ever felt completely invisible to the world?
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Hi, I am Anna.
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I am a very quiet and shy girl.
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I do not have many friends.
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Today, I am looking at Lily.
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She was my best friend.
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But now, she only plays with Sophia.
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My life at home is also very difficult.
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When I was a little child, my real mom and my dad divorced.
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My real mom moved to another city.
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I miss her every day.
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Now, my dad has a new wife.
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She is my stepmother.
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She is not a bad person.
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But she does not love me.
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Of course, everything's fine.
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Last year, my stepmother had a baby boy.
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Look at our beautiful baby.
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My dad and my stepmother only care about the baby.
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They forgot my birthday last week.
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I always eat dinner alone in my bedroom.
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I am so lonely.
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Yesterday, a terrible thing happened at home.
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I went to the kitchen to get some water.
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Suddenly, I saw a broken milk bottle on the floor.
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The cat did it.
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But my stepmother ran into the kitchen.
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She looked at the broken glass.
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Then she looked at me with angry eyes.
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Anna, did you break the baby's bottle?
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You are so careless.
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You always make trouble in this house.
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No, it was the cat.
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I didn't do it.
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I looked at my dad.
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I wanted him to believe me.
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but he just sighed and shook his head.
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Anna, go to your room now.
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Say sorry to your mother tomorrow.
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My heart broke into a thousand pieces.
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My own father believed a stranger, not his daughter.
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I ran to my room and cried until morning.
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The next morning, school was the only place I wanted to go Because I had Lily.
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Lily was always kind and friendly to me.
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Anna, what is wrong with you?
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I am totally fine.
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But everything changed when Sophia came back to our school.
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Sophia is rich, beautiful, and very confident.
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Lily and Sophia started talking every day.
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They go to the park together.
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They study together.
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I tried to talk to Lily yesterday.
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What is it?
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But Sophia looked at me very coldly.
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She does not like me at all.
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Lily, let's go to the luxury cafe.
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The weather here is too boring.
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Okay, Sophia.
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Goodbye, Anna.
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See you later.
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See you later.
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Lily waved at me.
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But she walked away with Sophia.
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My hands were shaking.
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I wanted to cry right there.
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But Sophia did not stop there.
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She wanted to destroy my life completely.
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During gym class, I left my backpack near the locker.
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Sophia saw it.
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She opened her pocket and dropped her expensive diamond necklace into my bag.
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Ten minutes later, Sophia started crying and shouting in front of everyone.
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Teacher, my diamond necklace is missing.
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I saw Anna standing near my locker earlier.
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What?
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I didn't touch your locker.
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That is a lie.
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The teacher walked to my bag and opened it.
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She pulled out the shiny necklace.
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Everyone gasped.
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I looked at Lily.
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her eyes were full of shock
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and sadness I wanted Lily to say Anna is not a thief but Lily stayed quiet
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she didn't say a single word the teacher gave me a warning but my soul was already dead
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I ran to the restroom locked the door
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and cried quietly suddenly I heard voices outside It was Sophia and her friend Nora.
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They were laughing.
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Did you see Anna's face?
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It was so funny.
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Now Lily knows that Anna is a poor thief.
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Yeah!
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She is like a sad ghost.
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Lily will never talk to her again.
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You are so smart, Sophia.
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Their words were like knives in my heart.
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Sophia did everything to make Lily hate me.
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And it worked.
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i lost my family and now i lost my only friend after school it was raining heavily
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i saw lily standing near the gate she looked at me and ran to me with her yellow umbrella
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anna you are completely wet where is your umbrella please listen to me about today I looked at Lily's kind eyes.
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But then, I saw Sophia standing far away, looking at me with a triumphant smile.
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For the first time in my life, I felt a giant anger inside me.
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I pushed Lily's umbrella away.
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Stop it, Lily!
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Go back to Sophia!
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I do not need your fake pity!
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I do not need anyone anymore!
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Lily was very shocked.
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She froze under the rain.
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I turned around and ran away as fast as I could.
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I am running in the heavy rain right now.
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My clothes are wet, but my heart is completely on fire.
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The shy, quiet Anna died that day.
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From then on, I did not need Lily, Sophia, or anyone else to make me happy.
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Can a lonely girl stand up and find her own happiness?
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If you want to see my new journey, please like this video and subscribe to our channel.
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You can vote for the next story there.
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Hey, do you know why I really hate Anna?
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Leave your thoughts in the comments below.
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See you.

Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B1 si basa sul video “Nobody Believed Me!”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: lily, Sophia, anna, looked, ran. Questo video contiene 120 frasi e 867 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 7:23. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 117 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. 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:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
stepmother sostantivo/ˈstɛpmʌðə/matrigna
necklace sostantivo/ˈnɛkləs/collana, girocollo
umbrella sostantivo/ʌmˈbɹɛl.ə/ombrello, parapioggia
locker sostantivo/ˈlɑ.kɚ/armadietto
thief sostantivo/ˈθiːf/ladro, ladra
lonely aggettivo/ˈloʊnli/solo, solitario
shake verbo/ˈʃeɪk/scuotere, agitare
restroom sostantivo/ˈɹɛstˌɹum/bagno, servizi
careless aggettivo/kɛɹ.ləs/inaccurato, negligente
backpack sostantivo/ˈbæk.pæk/zaino
sadness sostantivo/ˈsædnəs/tristezza
bore verbo/boɹ/annoiare, tediare
sigh verbo/saɪ/sospirare
pity sostantivo/ˈpɪt.i/pietà
subscribe verbo/səbˈskɹaɪb/abbonarsi

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
run away verboscappare, fuggire
stand up verboalzarsi in piedi
turn around verbogirare, girarsi

Frasi da ripetere

Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:

  • Have you ever felt completely invisible to the world?
  • Anna, did you break the baby's bottle?
  • Anna, what is wrong with you?
  • Lily, let's go to the luxury cafe.
  • I didn't touch your locker.

La grammatica di questo video

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

StrutturaNel video
Past continuous was/were + -ing — un’azione in corso in un momento del passatowere shaking · were laughing · was raining
Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — i verbi seguiti dalla forma in -ingstarted talking · started crying
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — qualcosa che succede adesso o in questo periodoam looking · is missing · am running

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 4 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come didn't, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “th”: stepmother /ˈstɛpmʌðə/, thief /ˈθiːf/, cloth /klɒθ/
  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: shake /ˈʃeɪk/, shout /ʃaʊt/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: necklace /ˈnɛkləs/, thief /ˈθiːf/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/, triumphant /tɹaɪˈʌmfənt/, careless /kɛɹ.ləs/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: backpack /ˈbæk.pæk/, sadness /ˈsædnəs/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come stepmother, necklace, umbrella.

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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