Pratica di Shadowing: RE2 Unit 8A - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

The Polos, Marco, his father Niccolo,

and his uncle Maffeo had been traveling for three and a half years when they finally achieved their objective,

a long -awaited meeting with the powerful Mongol leader Kublai Khan.

The historic event took place in 1275 at the Khan's luxurious summer capital in Chengdu,

in what is now northern China.

Kublai Khan was surprisingly informal as he greeted his tired guests.

Welcome, gentlemen.

Please stand up.

How have you been?

How was the trip?

Marco Polo's trip had, in fact, started more than 9 ,000 kilometers away in Venice when he was just a teenager.

His father and uncle already knew Kublai Khan from a previous visit nine years earlier, when they had spent a short time in Chengdu.

On this second trip, the Polos stayed for 17 years before they returned home.

They made themselves useful to the Khan and undertook various missions and tasks for him.

It is likely that the Khan considered it an honor that these Europeans, who were rare in China,

had made this extremely difficult journey and he took the opportunity to make good use of their skills and knowledge.

While he was in the service of Kublai Khan, the most powerful man in people and in lands and in treasure that ever was in the world,

Marco Polo was able to learn and experience many things that were new to Europeans.

In his travel journal, he wrote that Kublai Khan's palace was the greatest he had ever seen.

He admired the Khan's recently completed new capital, Dadu, whose streets were so straight and so broad.

The city was located in what is now the center of Beijing, and Kublai Khan's city planning can still be perceived in the straight,

broad streets of China's modern capital.

We learn from Marco Polo that, in the administration of his empire, Kublai Khan made use of a fast and simple message system.

Horse riders, spaced every 40 kilometers, allowed messages to cover 500 kilometers a day.

As soon as one horse had run 40 kilometers, the next horse would run the next 40 kilometers, and so on.

Marco also learned the secret of asbestos cloth, which is made from a mineral and doesn't catch fire.

Paper money also took him by surprise, since it was not yet used in the West at that time.

Homes were heated with black stones which burn like logs.

These stones were coal, unknown in most of Europe, and were so plentiful that many people had a hot bath three times a week.

Although the Khan did not want his visitors to leave, the Polos finally received permission to return home in 1292.

Marco continued his observations while on the ocean voyage by way of Sumatra and India.

After he returned home, Marco completed a book about his trip, full of details about his amazing cultural experiences.

It was probably the single greatest contribution to geographical knowledge ever made to the West about the East.

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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Le parole che ritornano più spesso: Khan, Kublai, Marco, Polo, kilometers. Questo video contiene 33 frasi e 491 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 3:30. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 140 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

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

Parola	Pronuncia	Significato
uncle sostantivo	/ˈʌŋ.kl̩/	zio
palace sostantivo	/ˈpælɪs/	palazzo
bath sostantivo	/bɑːθ/	bagno, vasca da bagno
skill sostantivo	/skɪl/	abilità, capacità
log sostantivo	/lɔɡ/	tronco
objective sostantivo	/ɒbˈd͡ʒɛk.tɪv/	obiettivo
contribution sostantivo	/ˌkɑntɹɪˈbjuʃən/	contributo
treasure sostantivo	/ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/	tesoro
gentleman sostantivo	/ˈd͡ʒɛn.təl.mən/	gentiluomo, galantuomo
observation sostantivo	/ˌɑbzɚˈveɪʃn̩/	osservazione
surprisingly avverbio	/səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/	sorprendentemente, a sorpresa
teenager sostantivo	/ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/	giovane, adolescente
cloth sostantivo	/klɒθ/	stoffa, tessuto
mineral sostantivo	/ˈmɪn.ə.ɹəl/	minerale
rider sostantivo	/ˈɹaɪ̯.dəː/	cavaliere, motociclista

I phrasal verb che sentirai

Parola	Significato
stand up verbo	alzarsi in piedi

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

I suoni “th”: bath /bɑːθ/, cloth /klɒθ/
I suoni “sh” e “zh”: contribution /ˌkɑntɹɪˈbjuʃən/, treasure /ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/, observation /ˌɑbzɚˈveɪʃn̩/, luxurious /lʌɡˈʒʊəɹi.əs/
Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: contribution /ˌkɑntɹɪˈbjuʃən/, surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/, luxurious /lʌɡˈʒʊəɹi.əs/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: palace /ˈpælɪs/, bath /bɑːθ/, log /lɔɡ/, objective /ɒbˈd͡ʒɛk.tɪv/, cloth /klɒθ/
/æ/ — più aperta della “e”: palace /ˈpælɪs/, geographical /d͡ʒiəˈɡɹæfɪkl̩/, asbestos /æsˈbɛs.təs/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

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

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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