Pratica di Shadowing: Psalm 65:9 || Reflection - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

Creazione lezione...
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All right, let's gather our thoughts.
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In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, one God.
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Amen.
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How's everybody doing?
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Glory be to God.
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May you hear the word of life, our brother Kalab and our sister Fikir.
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We're going to do a quick pop quiz, pop quiz.
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All right.
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We can either choose one specific person or we could like answer as a group.
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What do you guys want to do?
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As a group?
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Specific person.
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Okay, okay.
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Is anybody bold enough to answer these two questions?
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It's on the Mesmer Explanations, and it's not really hard.
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So anybody bold enough?
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Mikias?
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Okay, Mikias rose his hand.
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It's okay, it's okay.
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No?
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Okay.
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We'll answer as a group then.
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What season are we currently in?
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Season of what?
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Rain.
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Everybody say with me, season of?
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Rain.
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All right, second question.
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This season tends to go all the way up until what? Which holiday?
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Yes, New Year's, New Year's.
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All right.
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So that being said, hopefully we're, you know, really engaging in these spiritual conversations, these spiritual talks.
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So for the psalm for today, it's Psalm 65, verse 9, if you guys can repeat after me.
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You care for the land.
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A little louder, a little louder.
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You care for the land. and water it.
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You enrich it abundantly.
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The streams of God are filled with water.
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Amen.
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So St. Athanasius actually mentions that this specific psalm and this specific portion of the psalm is actually the thanksgiving portion, right?
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We're giving thanks to our God.
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We're giving thanks because He does so many things that we tend to not notice, and he cares for not the things that are alive, but actually the things that are not even living,
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like the waters, the land.
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In other words, we call him our caretaker, our caretaker.
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He takes care of the trees, makes sure that the trees have leaves, the filtered ground has crops, and makes sure that the streams are filled with water.
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All right.
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We actually pray this during the liturgy.
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You know that time when the deacon actually says, Seguro, we're all down for like 10 minutes.
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Hopefully it's not like nap time or anything like that, right?
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But in that prayer, he says,
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we pray for the water of the rivers that God may fill them to their due measure and bounds.
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So when you hear this psalm, when you hear these prayers, you tend to think of it physically, which is great.
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But there's also the spiritual side.
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All right?
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See, back then, in the Old Testament, people had to walk thousands of miles just to get to the river, especially if there was a drought.
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They needed to go to a river in order to filter and allow their crops to grow.
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But right now, did you guys know that that living water is within you?
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John 7, verse 37 and 39, it says, On the last day of the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out,
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saying, It wasn't a regular saying.
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He's crying out to everybody here, pleading, saying, please, he's begging for you. And he says what?
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He says, If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
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He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.
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You see, right there, right there in your own hearts.
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You don't have to walk thousands of miles.
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It's already within you.
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Right now what he's saying is, he's saying, let me take care of you.
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You tried it your way.
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It didn't work.
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Why not come to me?
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See, the minute you open up your heart to him, blessings will never stop.
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Just like in the river, the water never stops flowing.
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And then, all of a sudden, your life will be enriched abundantly.
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Let's go back to the psalm.
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The first line it says, you care for the land and you water it.
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See, if the land didn't have water, it would be dry.
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It wouldn't be able to live to its fullest potential.
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See, the land is actually your heart.
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Your heart.
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But with this land, if you open that door to Christ, you will be able to live to your fullest potential.
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So my question is this, what worries you the most?
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What gets you nervous and anxious the most?
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Because whatever that worry is, it's driving you away from Christ, rather than you allowing yourself to open that door so that the living water could come out.
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So then the question really becomes, do you really believe?
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Like back to the verse, it said what?
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He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.
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If your heart was genuinely having this beloved water, you would feel peace, you would feel patience, you would feel calmness.
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But all of a sudden, for some reason, we stress, we're anxious.
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Do we have peace in our own heart?
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Why?
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Do I really believe?
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He takes care of the land, the rivers, the things that are not even alive, the birds in the sky,
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the animals, but we tend to question if he cares about us.
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It's a personal opinion, personal opinion.
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Who do you guys think worries the most in your life?
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Personally, I think it's my parents, 100%.
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Especially the mothers.
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The mothers, bro, y'all are different.
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Y'all are different level.
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They're always asking me questions like I'm an adult now, right?
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Their favorite question is, yo, did you eat?
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Did you eat?
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Every time, first question.
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And specifically, I remember when I was growing up, my mom's biggest worry was like if I,
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you know, were to like genuinely be close with Christ.
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And she would always push me in these certain events, makes me like come to church Sunday morning.
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And like you could see, you could genuinely see the worry on her face, on her body.
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And it was stressing her out.
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But then all of a sudden, like she kind of stopped, like she kind of let go a little bit.
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Obviously she asked the questions in here and there, but she would never like force me.
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And you could see the worry in her heart actually vanished.
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At the time I'm like, yes, thank God, like finally I could sleep in, right?
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But I realized later on eventually that she gave that worry to God.
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She did her part.
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She asked me, hey, you should come.
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You should go to this.
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But then she would also make sure that she prays about it.
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She would communicate to God, the caretaker, to take care of this situation, to take care of me.
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And if it wasn't for her prayers, honestly, God, I would not be in his house at this very moment.
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See, she gave that worry to God.
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Why?
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Because she believed in him, believed that he was genuinely the caretaker.
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Funny enough, yesterday we had the men's fellowship event.
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I don't know if our brother James is here, but our brother James is a beloved husband.
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And he was telling us a story about how his wife ended up coming up to him very worried, very confused.
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I want to take this route.
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I want to get into this college.
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I'm worried.
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What should we do?
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And obviously, you would suppose that the man has the answer.
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But what did he say?
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He said, honestly, I don't even know.
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But you know what we can do?
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Let's give it to God.
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Let's pray about it.
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See, I know for sure As you can see now That their lives are enriched abundantly Why?
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Because they gave that worry to God What are you worried about?
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Is it a specific outcome of a certain conversation? Is it your future?
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Your job?
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The love of your life?
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because whatever that is, is driving you away from God.
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Give it to God.
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Pray about it.
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Ask the caretaker to do his job, and you do your job by letting us come to him, as it says in the verse,
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but also drink of the cup.
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You come, and you give, and you drink the cup. So, same question.
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I'll leave you guys to that to ponder about.
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What worries you the most and how have we given it to God?
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So that being said, we'll call up youth choir.
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We'll be to God.

Che cosa imparerai in questa lezione

In questa lezione, praticherai l'ascolto e la pronuncia inglese attraverso un dialogo vivace e spirituale tratto da un video su YouTube. Imparerai a seguire un tono colloquiale, a capire espressioni comuni e a migliorare la tua fluenza con tecniche come lo shadowspeak (o shadow speak). Ideale per chi vuole esercitarsi con contenuti reali e motivanti!

Vocabolario e frasi chiave

  • Pop quiz: Un quiz improvviso, spesso usato in contesti informali.
  • Season: Stagione (nel video si parla della "season of rain", la stagione della pioggia).
  • Caretaker: Cuidador, persona o entità che si occupa di qualcosa (in questo caso, Dio come "custode" della terra).
  • To enrich abundantly: Arricchire abbondantemente (frase chiave del salmo, utile per la pronuncia).
  • Liturgy: Liturgia (termine religioso, ma utile per contesti specifici).
  • Engaging in: Immergersi in (es. "immergersi in conversazioni spirituali").

Consigli per la pratica

Per migliorare la pronuncia inglese con questo video, usa la tecnica dello shadowing: ascolta un frammento corto (2-3 secondi), poi ripeterlo immediatamente, imitando il tono, l'intonazione e la velocità. Il dialogo è colloquiale e veloce, ma con pause naturali: usa queste pause per "catturare" il suono. Ecco alcuni consigli:

  • Focus su brevi frasi: Ripeti frasi come "How's everybody doing?" o "You care for the land" per esercitare la fluidità.
  • Imita l'energia: Il speaker è entusiasta, quindi usa una voce alta e vibrante, come se stavi parlando a un gruppo.
  • Usa un shadowing site per velocizzare la pratica: carica il video e ripeti i frammenti in loop finché non li senti "naturali".
  • Non temere gli errori: la chiave è la ripetizione. Ogni ripetizione ti aiuta a "memorizzare" il suono corretto.

Imparare l'inglese con YouTube è un modo divertente e efficace: questo video, in particolare, combina contenuto spirituale con pratica linguistica. Con lo shadowspeak, migliorerai non solo la pronuncia, ma anche la confidenza nel parlare. Inizia oggi stesso e sentirai il progresso in poche ore!

La grammatica di questo video

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

StrutturaNel video
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fabeing said · are filled · will be enriched
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohas said
Past continuous was/were + -ing — un’azione in corso in un momento del passatowas growing · was stressing · was telling
Consigli con “should” should + verbo — dire che cosa è meglio fareshould come · should go · should we do

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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