Pratica di Shadowing: NYU's 2020/2021 Commencement Student Speaker Amy Dong - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Please welcome Amy Gung, who received the Bachelor of Science from the Leonard N.
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Stern School of Business in 2020,
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and who will now address her fellow alumni.
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Hello class of 2020!
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And class of 2021, we're glad you're here too.
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To all of us, I lift an imaginary toast goblet to say congratulations on officially graduating again.
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My name's Amy, but if you don't know who I am, that's totally cool.
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I got dinner a month ago with a few study abroad friends from 2017
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and our conversation literally started with someone pointing at me and saying,
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oh my god, I totally forgot you existed.
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We all laughed and then we admitted to each other just how far and long ago everything NYU felt.
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Things like study abroad, exams, even each other.
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Today, with all of us gathered here at Yankee Stadium,
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of course we're reminded about everything NYU again.
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Today, we all chose to consciously hit pause on our now adult lives to take a look back.
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And because this isn't a normal commencement,
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and because these past two years haven't been normal years,
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I'm sure I'm the first one who's told you that,
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I'll forego the usual let's go change the world speech
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and instead ask us all to spend the next few minutes on the past.
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If I asked you to recall one memory at NYU that'll last you for a lifetime,
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I'm sure you'd have one.
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In fact, not just one,
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but dozens and hundreds that made you want to come back here and celebrate today.
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I know that I've been thinking about this particular moment for a long time now,
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because for me, to be standing here is nothing short of a miracle.
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In 2017, after my fall semester in Prague,
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I was diagnosed with an eating disorder and told I was lucky to be alive.
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I was extremely underweight, had a shrunken heart,
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and was this close to having a heart attack in my life.
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I was pulled out of NYU in the spring and I spent it at home alone,
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recovering my weight and more importantly, my sense of self.
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What did it mean to be alive?
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To live a life truly worth living?
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And when I returned, I felt acutely aware that I was lucky to be able to do the smallest things.
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like walk in the city,
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see a friend, even go to class.
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I knew I had been granted a second chance at life,
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so damn it, I was gonna make it worthwhile.
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And then, thank you.
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And then COVID hit and we all went home again and we all graduated remotely in front of our computer screens.
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And then it wasn't just me,
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but all of us who had to think about or rethink what we really wanted out of life.
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In my case, I moved to Taiwan.
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I went to go teach English under a Fulbright scholarship.
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And everything was really good for a couple of months.
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And then last April, I almost lost my life for the second time in a freak train accident.
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Two of my friends, including my roommate at the time,
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were not as lucky.
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Now I'm telling this story not to evoke pity or to make you sad, I promise.
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I'm telling it because I bet every single one of us sitting here
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or standing here has experienced loss or grief or sacrifice in some way over the last few years.
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And in spite of it all,
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we are here today with our friends and family and we are very much alive.
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And if that isn't the definition of resilience,
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I don't know what is.
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And though we've lost much, we've also gained much.
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We've gained perspective.
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We've gained patience for our others and also for ourselves.
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And we've gained a collective sense of how precious life really is.
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Near-death experience or not, we've all had to grapple with the meaning of life these past few years.
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And at the wise old age of 23,
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I think I found the answer.
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For me, the meaning of life is twofold.
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One, it's about enjoying the passage of time.
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It's about looking forward, yes,
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but it's also about looking back like we are today
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and just appreciate every single beautiful moment
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that we've been able to collect in this short amount of time we call one life.
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And the second part is recognizing just how short life can be if nothing else COVID taught us this.
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So class of 2020, if there's just one thing you take away from this speech today,
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it's that you matter.
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Your life matters.
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Your time
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matters and
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because our time here as a family as a human group
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we owe it to ourselves to take advantage of every single moment thank you and congratulations again
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Thank you.

Perché praticare parlando con questo video?

Questo video di Amy Dong, una studentessa di NYU che condivide le sue esperienze e riflessioni sul percorso di laurea, offre un contesto unico per pratica di conversazione in inglese. La sua storia è toccante e autentica, e permette di immergersi in un discorso che affronta temi universali come la crescita personale e le sfide della vita. Attraverso la sua testimonianza, gli studenti possono apprendere non solo il lessico e le espressioni tipiche, ma anche come esprimere emozioni e pensieri complessi in inglese. Ascoltando attentamente, è possibile migliorare non solo la comprensione, ma anche la capacità di rispondere e interagire durante le conversazioni.

Grammatica ed espressioni nel contesto

  • Uso dei tempi verbali: Amy utilizza diversi tempi verbali per descrivere eventi passati e le sue esperienze personali, permettendo agli studenti di osservare come narrare storie in inglese.
  • Frasi condizionali: Frasi come "se chiedessi" e "se potessi" forniscono un modo efficace per esplorare ipotetiche situazioni. Questo è fondamentale per sviluppare un discorso più articolato.
  • Espressioni colloquiali: La giovane speaker usa frasi informali e colloquiali che rendono il linguaggio più accessibile e autentico, rendendo più facile identificarsi con i suoi messaggi.
  • Riflessività: L'uso di domande retoriche come "Cosa significa vivere realmente?" stimola la riflessione e incoraggia l'uso di strutture interrogative.

Trappole comuni di pronuncia

Durante la visione del video, è importante prestare attenzione a parole e frasi che possono presentare difficoltà di migliorare la pronuncia inglese. Ad esempio, ascoltare attentamente come pronuncia "congratulations" e "miracle" può aiutare a riconoscere suoni e accenti difficili. Inoltre, Amy utilizza pause strategiche e variazioni nel tono per enfatizzare i suoi messaggi emotivi. Provare a shadowing in inglese su queste parti del suo discorso può migliorare significativamente la tua fluidità e la capacità di parlare in modo più espressivo. Infine, l’idea di shadow speech può essere applicata per imitare non solo le parole, ma anche il ritmo e le intonazioni.

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.