Pratica di Shadowing: Public Speaking For Beginners - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

In this video, I'll share public speaking tips for beginners.

So if you're just getting started in your stand-up speaking experience, this video is for you.

So let's unpack the details.

Hello there and welcome to this channel, Communication Coach.

If you're never tuned in yet, this channel is here to help rising leaders increase your personal impact

so you can lead the people around you with more excellence and today we're talking about communication skills specifically.

If you haven't had a lot of experience doing stand-up speaking, I'm going to give you some do's and some don'ts that'll help move you in the right direction.

And as we talk about these do's and don'ts, I want you to pick out which ones you think would help you the most,

and feel free at any point to comment in that section below the video.

So I said do's and don'ts, we're actually going to start with the don'ts and then give you the do version of it.

So that's the way we'll organize it.

So the first pair goes like this.

Don't ramble and get long-winded.

Anytime a speaker is disorganized and weaves all around, it's very hard to follow what he or she is talking about.

And instead, what you want to do is give a nice organized and concise message.

That means you have to take the time beforehand when you're preparing to create a nice introduction, body, and conclusion.

Make sure you have clear main points and there's a transition statement between each main point,

your audience is really going to appreciate an orderly presentation of your ideas

and it's much more likely that they'll remember what you said

and really that's the whole point of speaking to them in the first place.

The next don't is don't look with your eyes in the wrong places.

You want to not look over people's heads

or not look at the floor and not stare at the ceiling or scan around like that,

what you want to do is look directly into a person's eye long enough to finish a thought

and then move on and look directly into the next person's eyes long enough to finish a thought.

One public speaking teacher told me, one thought, one look.

In other words, about a sentence or a half a sentence and then move on to the next person.

Now this is very difficult to do if you're not used to it.

It can feel very awkward looking right into someone's eyes, but you have to gear up for this because that's what audiences want.

We want people to connect with us.

If you're not looking into our eyes and making us feel like we're part of this, then you're not going to have much of an impact.

The next thing you want to do is don't, rather, this is a don't, don't clutter up all your notes with too many details.

A lot of times we're tempted to jam our notes

or our PowerPoints with everything we want to but the result is when we're nervous in the moment,

we end up just locked into our notes and looking down the whole time and reading and sounding really stiff, really wooden, and you're not going to again connect with people.

So what you want to do instead is pare down your notes

so that you can just have a conversational style with your audience.

And again, as you're practicing, you have to whittle down those notes so that all you have is like talking points, like a little grocery list of items that you're going to talk about,

and it almost forces you or at least frees you to connect with people,

to look up, and to have a nice normal conversation with them and your natural personality.

The next don't is you don't want to load up your slide with all complicated animations and text.

And one of the reasons is you don't want to stare at it and read from it.

The other reason is that it's very hard to follow what's going on if your slides are jam-packed with detail.

What you want to do instead is make sure your slides nice

and clear and simple and help you make whatever point you're making in that particular moment.

A rule of thumb that I like to use is

if you're spending more than about two

or three minutes on each PowerPoint slide then you're probably wasting your time

and I don't recommend using more than a couple of slides per presentation anyway

if you're a beginner because people tend to over rely on the slides

and load up each single slide with way too much.

The next don't is don't Don't fidget.

Don't fidget with your hands.

Don't fidget with your feet.

Don't pace back and forth aimlessly because you're nervous.

What you want to do instead is have nice confident posture where you stand in one place for a little while.

And then if you want to move with a purpose, move, stand another place for a while, and then share another part of your message.

Move for the purpose, stand still, share some of your message.

Don't just pace, have nice confident posture.

Same thing with your hands.

You want to use gestures and emphasize your ideas with your hands.

You don't want to fidget and put them in your pockets

or play with a pen or do anything else weird or distracting like that.

That's a big part of how you come across non-verbally

and I recommend that when you're practicing you work on this as well.

And the last don't and do is how you use your voice.

What you don't want to do is speak too softly, use a lot of fillers like um and ah and so.

What you want to do is have a confident voice where

you speak loud like to the back of the the room with a nice clear volume.

Aim for the back of the room because think about it.

You have to reach those people.

The other thing you want to do is emphasize your key words with the sound of your voice

and also pause after you share a key idea or a key thought.

Pause for a minute silently.

Don't fill it up with an um or an ah.

The pause is much more effective.

So here are some do's and don'ts, some tips for beginners.

Again, as I mentioned, where do you see yourself in here?

Which one do you think would help you the most in this list?

I would love to hear your comments in that section below.

So thanks, God bless, and I will see you in the next video.

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Contesto e sfondo

Il video "Public Speaking For Beginners" è una risorsa preziosa per chi inizia a approfondire l'arte del parlare in pubblico, offrendo consigli pratici per migliorare la comunicazione e l'impatto sul pubblico. Nelle lezioni, l'istruttore enfatizza l'importanza di una presentazione organizzata, del contatto visivo e di un approccio conversazionale, elementi chiave per chi vuole esercitarsi nella pratica di conversazione in inglese e nella comunicazione efficace.

Consigli chiave per il public speaking

Organizza il messaggio: Evita di divagare; struttura l'introduzione, il corpo e la conclusione con punti chiari e transizioni. Questo aiuta il pubblico a seguire e ricordare il contenuto.
Mantieni il contatto visivo: Non guardare al suolo o oltre le teste delle persone. Usa la regola "un pensiero, un'occhiata" per connetterti con l'audience e creare coinvolgimento.
Semplifica le note: Riduci i dettagli nelle note per evitare di leggere mechanicalmente. Usa punti chiave per parlare in modo naturale e mostrare la tua personalità.
Slides chiari e semplici: Evita animazioni complesse e testi densi. Le slide dovrebbero supportare il discorso, non distrargli. Un consiglio: massimo 2-3 minuti per slide e poche di esse per presentazione.

Guida passo passo per lo shadowing

Per esercitarti con questo video, usa la tecnica dello shadowing (o "shadow speak"): ascolta un frammento, ripetilo immediatamente imitando l'intonazione e il ritmo. Ecco come procedere:

Seleziona un frammento: Scegli 1-2 minuti di video, ad esempio la parte sul contatto visivo o sulle note semplici.
Ripeti a voce alta: Dopo aver ascoltato, ripeti le frasi cercando di corrispondere al tono e alla velocità dell'istruttore. Usa un shadowing site per registrare te stesso e confrontarti.
Analizza i dettagli: Presta attenzione a come l'istruttore usa pause e enfasi. Ad esempio, quando parla di "talking points", la pronuncia è chiara e conversazionale: imita questo stile per migliorare la fluency.
Esercita la conversazione: Dopo lo shadowing, riassumi i consigli in modo spontaneo, come se stavi spiegandoli a un amico. Questo rafforza la pratica di conversazione in inglese e la capacità di comunicare idee organizzate.

Questo metodo aiuta a internalizzare le abilità di public speaking e a parlare con più confidenza, sfruttando al massimo le lezioni del video.

La grammatica di questo video

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

Struttura	Nel video
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — qualcosa che succede adesso o in questo periodo	you're just getting · we're talking · is talking
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un piano o qualcosa che si vede arrivare	I'm going to give · we're actually going to start · is really going to appreciate
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisione, una promessa o una previsione	I'll share · that'll help · we'll organize
Obbligo: must / have to / need to dire che qualcosa è necessario	have to take · have to gear · have to whittle

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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