Pratica di Shadowing: Read Books That Challenge Your Mind - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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The main thing is to always finish books and don't just choose things
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that you think are entertaining and fun because that's going to make you lazy
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and it's going to make you weak and it's make you always look for things that are entertaining, fun and distracting.
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You want things that are going to challenge you constantly.
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How to read more books.
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I think a lot of problems that I'm reading about in the papers and in online is that in colleges, et cetera, young people are not taught to read entire texts.
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They're given passages, citations, chapters, but they're not reading the whole thing because it's so difficult to get through an entire text.
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And what you want to do is you have to do kind of resistance training.
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And what I mean by that is the following.
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If everything in life were easy and pleasant and fun, we would never get anywhere.
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When you go to the gym, if you use weights, it's creating resistance.
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And the more resistance you have, the stronger you get.
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And it's not necessarily fun in the moment as you're lifting weights, but slowly you start developing muscle, you start developing confidence, you start looking good,
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feeling better, and it does become kind of pleasant.
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But the resistance is what makes you stronger.
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If you could press that 200 pounds, it was like that, it was so easy, there wouldn't be any value.
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But the fact that it's more resistance, the stronger you get.
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Everything in life is like that.
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So reading is a form of resistance.
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Because when you enter a book, you don't know what it is.
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You don't know exactly how much fun, how entertaining it will be.
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There's an element of boredom.
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I can even say that about my own books.
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There are passages I find that are probably a little bit boring and slow, but you want that.
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You want the slowness.
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You want the boredom.
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You want things that don't interest you and you want to push through and you want to read the entire book.
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And so you want to train yourself to finish books and not constantly be going from one to another to another.
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That will train you so that you will have like a reading skill and you will have the patience.
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And what I often do when I read a book that I hate, that is boring, and I make myself read all the way through, I kind of take angry notes about it.
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I go, God, this is ridiculous.
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This is so stupid.
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I hate this.
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This guy doesn't know what he's talking about.
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You can react to the book.
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You can have a dialogue with it, but you want to be able to have the patience to get through a 400, 500, 600 page book.
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So think of it like you're going to the gym.
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So a 200 page book will be kind of easy and it could be a subject that interests you.
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Choose something that's a little bit difficult and a little bit complicated.
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So it's more like pressing 200 or 300 pounds.
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It's hard.
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It's not easy, but it's training the mind to be patient.
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Also look for books that are going to challenge you.
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That maybe it's not how you feel politically about the world.
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It's not how you feel spiritually about the world.
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It's something that's a little bit outside what you would normally encounter.
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It's not something that other people, that your friends talk about.
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So you're challenging yourself with content that is difficult or that is not what you normally believe in or not from
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the circle of friends and influencers that you normally pay attention to.
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That's also resistance.
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It's training you to open your mind to different ways of thinking.
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I often, when I write a book, I deliberately read a book that completely contradicts what I'm saying
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so that I can open my mind to other ways of thinking.
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The main thing is to always finish books and don't just choose things
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that you think are entertaining and fun because that's going to make you lazy and it's going to make you weak.
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And it's make you always look for things that are entertaining, fun and distracting.
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Right.
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You want things that are going to challenge you constantly.
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All right.
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And the longer the book, the better.
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I mean, take one of Robert Caro's books about LBJ.
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They're about 800.
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They're over some of them.
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I think some of them are over a thousand pages long.
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They're very exciting.
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They're very interesting.
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But if you read one of those books, you have to maintain your patience, your concentration for quite a long time, go through that entire book that will train you.
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Reading is a process of slowing down, right?
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Your mind is moving too fast right now.
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You're kind of going all these things that are distracting you right on the internet, et cetera.
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Reading is slow.
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It's slow.
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You have to take things slowly.
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You have to be patient.
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You have to go page by page.
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You have to absorb ideas.
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Please, I beg you to train your mind like you train your body to go through something that's a little more difficult, a little more challenging, that's going to take some time for you.
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That's the way to develop the habit of wanting to read and to have the patience to read more books.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “Read Books That Challenge Your Mind”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: resistance, reading, entertaining, train, page. Questo video contiene 78 frasi e 910 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:50. Chi parla va veloce, circa 189 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 89% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 12 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| entertain verbo | /ˌɛntəˈteɪn/ | divertire, intrattenere |
| patience sostantivo | /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/ | pazienza |
| distract verbo | /dɪˈstɹækt/ | distrarre |
| boredom sostantivo | /ˈbɔɹ.dəm/ | noia, tedio |
| bore verbo | /boɹ/ | annoiare, tediare |
| contradict verbo | /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈdɪkt/ | contraddire, contestare |
| excite verbo | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | stimolare, eccitare |
| slowness sostantivo | lentezza | |
| absorb verbo | /æbˈsɔɹb/ | assorbire, incorporare |
| deliberately avverbio | /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/ | intenzionalmente, deliberatamente |
| politically avverbio | politicamente | |
| react verbo | /ɹiːˈækt/ | reagire |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| get through verbo | /ɡɛt ˈθɹu/ | superare, farcela |
| go through verbo | attraversare | |
| slow down verbo | rallentare, decelerare |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 19 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come they're, don't, you're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: patience /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/, citation /ˌsaɪˈteɪʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: influencer /ˈɪnflu.ənsə(ɹ)/, deliberately /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: patience /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/, distract /dɪˈstɹækt/, contradict /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈdɪkt/, excite /ɪkˈsaɪt/, absorb /æbˈsɔɹb/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: distract /dɪˈstɹækt/, absorb /æbˈsɔɹb/, react /ɹiːˈækt/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come entertain, patience, distract.
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.