Pratica di Shadowing: Repeat-After-Me + Shadowing Practice | 'TH' Sounds in English - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube

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Hey guys!
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Welcome or welcome back to my channel.
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I'm Claire, a native speaker from the US,
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but I'm also an English teacher and I'm a professionally trained singer.
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So I have been trained in the international phonetic alphabet.
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And if you don't know what that is,
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it is the alphabet that covers all the sounds that exist internationally for every language.
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So of course, Some languages do not use certain sounds that others do,
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but if you learn the phonetic symbols that match the sounds,
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especially ones that don't exist in your native language,
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that can really help you to better understand those sounds every time you run into them.
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Now, one of the trickiest sounds
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that non-native speakers struggle with in English is the voiced and unvoiced sound that is usually represented by TH.
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So the TH sound in English is formed by placing your tongue between your teeth
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and lightly pressing the tip of your tongue to the bottom of your front teeth.
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To achieve the voiced TH sound,
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gently place your fingers on your throat and feel the vibrations when you make the sound.
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So you can feel that vibrating.
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The unvoiced th sound you won't be able to feel any vibrations on your throat.
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So for that one you're just pushing air through the teeth and the tongue without bringing the vocal cords together.
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So without those vibrations.
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So to help us practice both of these voiced and unvoiced TH sounds in English,
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I'm going to take you through a repeat after me and then shadowing practice.
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So it's pretty simple.
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First, you will just repeat after me and then you will say it
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with me at the same time matching my pronunciation and inflection.
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So that's a practice we call shadowing.
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If you aren't familiar with my other shadowing videos,
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I have a playlist here on my channel that I will link here.
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So go check that out if you found this practice useful.
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All right, let's get started.
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English made easy with Claire.
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So first, repeat after me.
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This year, this year, our first word here uses the voiced TH sound.
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So you will feel the vibrations.
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This, this year.
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My mother wanted to do something special for her birthday.
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Good.
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So here we have another voiced TH sound.
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Mother.
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Mother.
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So this one's a little bit faster because it's in the middle of the word,
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but you still should feel those vibrations.
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Mother.
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Um, mother.
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And then the second word with TH uses the unvoiced sound.
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And again, this one is quick because it comes in the middle of the word.
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Birthday.
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Birthday.
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No vibrations.
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Birth.
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Birthday.
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Okay, let's say that whole sentence again.
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Repeat after me.
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This year my mother wanted to do something special for her birthday.
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The first thing she said was...
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The first thing, thing, unvoiced,
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the first thing she said was,
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I don't want a big party.
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I don't want a big party.
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Instead, we drove through the countryside to a quiet little spa.
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Threw, through.
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That's an unvoiced TH sound.
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Instead, we drove through the countryside to a quiet little spa.
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Repeat again.
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Even though it was simple.
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Though, though.
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This word looks a lot like through,
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but it has the voiced TH sound.
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So we'll feel that here.
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Though.
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Though.
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Even though it was simple,
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it felt like the perfect getaway.
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It felt like the perfect getaway.
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In the afternoon, in the afternoon,
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we decided to sunbathe by the pool.
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So just after initially saying this word sunbathe,
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can you guess if it's voiced or unvoiced?
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Say it a couple times to yourself.
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This one is voiced.
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We can feel the vibration.
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Sunbathe.
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Sunbathe.
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And it might not be so obvious because it comes at the end of the word.
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We wouldn't generally in rapid speech really pronounce it slowly bathe, right?
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But this one is voiced.
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Sunbathe.
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Sunbathe.
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In the afternoon, we decided to sunbathe by the pool.
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Later on, she enjoyed a long, relaxing bath.
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So here, bath looks very similar to bathe,
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but they have different pronunciations.
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Bath uses the unvoiced TH.
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Bath.
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Bath.
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Later on, she enjoyed a long relaxing bath.
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At the end of the day,
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at the end of the day,
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my mother smiled and said, smiled.
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That's an often mispronounced word.
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Smiled.
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This was exactly what I needed.
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This was exactly what I needed.
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Repeat the whole sentence after me.
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At the end of the day,
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my mother smiled and said,
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this was exactly what I needed.
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Okay, now for our shadowing practice.
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So you are going to say the whole story with me at the same time.
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Repeat this part of the video as many times as you like until you feel comfortable,
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especially with the voiced and unvoiced TH sound.
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Here we go.
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This year, my mother wanted to do something special for her birthday.
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The first thing she said was,
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I don't want a big party.
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Instead, we drove through the countryside to a quiet little spa.
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Even though it was simple,
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it felt like the perfect getaway.
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In the afternoon, we decided to sunbathe by the pool.
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Later on, she enjoyed a long, relaxing bath.
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At the end of the day,
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my mother smiled and said,
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this was exactly what I needed.
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All right, so I hope that repeat after me
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and shadowing practice helped you a little bit better to understand the th sounds in English
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and the difference between the voiced and unvoiced.
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It's a really tricky sound if you don't have it in your native language,
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so don't be discouraged if you aren't getting it immediately after this video.
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Like I said, you can repeat this video as many times as you need
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and practice slowly trying the different sounds on your own.
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And over time, the more shadowing practice you do,
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the more comfortable and confident you will be in producing these sounds.
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Let me know in the comments if you have any other pronunciation requests for future videos like this.
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Of course, if you are a member of my YouTube channel,
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you get priority reply.
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So click the join button below to find out more about that.
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Give me a like and subscribe to my channel so that you don't miss out on my future shadowing practice videos.
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And I will see you in the next one.
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Bye.
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Benvenuti nella nostra pratica di conversazione in inglese! Oggi esploreremo un suono specifico della lingua inglese, rappresentato da "TH", e come migliorare la pronuncia inglese attraverso esercizi di shadowing. Questo video è guidato da Claire, un'insegnante di inglese e cantante professionale dal vivo negli Stati Uniti. Utilizza l'alfabeto fonetico internazionale per insegnare in modo efficace le sfide fonetiche che gli studenti possono incontrare, in particolare il suono "TH", che spesso risulta difficile per chi parla altre lingue.

Le 5 Frasi Chiave per la Comunicazione Quotidiana

  • This year - Questo anno (voiced TH)
  • My mother - Mamma (voiced TH)
  • Birthday - Compleanno (unvoiced TH)
  • Thank you - Grazie (voiced TH)
  • Three times - Tre volte (voiced TH)

Queste frasi coprono sia le espressioni quotidiane sia l'uso pratico del suono "TH", fornendo uno spunto per esercizi di shadowing.

Guida Passo-Passo al Shadowing

Per affrontare la difficoltà del suono "TH", segui questi semplici passaggi per una pratica efficace:

  1. Ascolta attentamente: Prima di iniziare, assicurati di ascoltare il suono "TH" nel contesto delle frasi. Fai attenzione alle vibrazioni quando il suono è "voiced".
  2. Ripeti dopo di me: Inizia ripetendo le frasi una alla volta. Concentrati sulla posizione della lingua e sulle vibrazioni nella gola.
  3. Pratica di shadowing: Una volta che ti senti sicuro, prova a dire le frasi all'unisono con Claire. Questo non solo migliorerà la tua pronuncia, ma ti aiuterà anche a sentirti più a tuo agio con l'intonazione naturale dell'inglese.
  4. Rivisita e ripeti: Non esitare a rivedere i video e ripetere gli esercizi più volte. La pratica costante è la chiave per migliorare la pronuncia inglese.
  5. Applica nella vita quotidiana: Cerca di usare queste frasi e suoni in situazioni reali. Più utilizzi questi suoni, più diventeranno naturali.

Ricorda, con dedicazione e pratica, migliorerai nel parlare e nella comprensione dell'inglese. Se sei interessato a imparare l'inglese con YouTube, torna spesso per nuovi video e pratiche di shadowing su questi suoni complessi. La tua abilità parlerà per te!

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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