Pratica di Shadowing: Rich vs Wealthy - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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excuse me sir sir how did you get rich i'm not rich i'm not rich buddy i'm wealthy you're wealthy
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so what's the difference between rich
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and wealthy well rich is having enough money for her
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and her brother
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and me to do pretty nice things wealthy is having enough money for her great grandkids do pretty nice things
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so how old were you when you became a millionaire 29.
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now i go all over the world interviewing millionaires
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and billionaires to help the younger generation can i get a
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minute with you fresh in it real quick yes how much
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are you worth today can i take a guess you can more than 20 million?
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Yes.
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More than 30 million?
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Yes.
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More than 50?
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Get in the ballpark.
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How did you make your millions?
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Started in the insurance industry, man.
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I quit my job as a W -2 employee working for someone else
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and I started doing the exact same job but did it for myself and made myself rich instead of other people.
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In your opinion, what keeps people broke in today's world?
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Middle class people trying to pretend they're rich is the absolute death sentence, man.
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And you see it in middle America all the time.
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And it often comes from the lies they were told in the W -2 corporate america landscape they got
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that big job title they're 35 years old well now they
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have two kids they bought their wife a mercedes they think they should have a second home
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because they're going to airbnb it out on the side
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and their kids and travel hockey
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and all this other stuff they're keeping up with the joneses
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dude how much you make bro 225 last year okay cool how much are you saving of
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that you're not you're going negative you're losing 30 grand each
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year you're spending more than you're making dude trying to keep up with your neighbors
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and your neighbors are in the same dame sam position is you be worried about
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that guy that's in
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that eight hundred thousand dollar house that's worth ten million somebody wants to take
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that leap they want to leave that nine to five what's
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that first actionable step that they should take start looking at your job today as paid training
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so many businesses fail what is the stat like over 90 percent of businesses fail it's
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because people enter industries that they're not familiar with you got some accountant
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that thinks he could run a bar
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because he's been a customer at a bar before someone wants to open a bowling alley why
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because they like bowling like people do stupid stuff like
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that all the damn time if you look at your job in the industry
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that you're in look around what could you do better?
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How much time is wasted in that office each day?
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How much corporate minutia is there and how many inefficiencies are there?
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Could you offer the same service that your employer is currently offering and doing it in a more efficient way?
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Start wrapping your head around that and once you have that solution, quit and go do it.
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What is the best advice you ever got throughout your career?
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If you're walking through a field and there's a pile of dog shit there
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and you happen to step in the pile of dog shit, well, that's okay.
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You're just some dude that stepped in a pile of dog shit.
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It's all right.
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But on your way back home, walking through that same field, you step in that same pile of dog shit, you're a freaking moron, man.
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You got to learn from your mistakes.
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You've got amazing advice, my friend.
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Thanks, brother.
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Thank you so much for your time and I appreciate you.

Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questo video contiene 57 frasi e 628 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 2:26. Chi parla va veloce, circa 258 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

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

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
wealthy aggettivo/ˈwɛl.θi/benestante, abbiente
pile sostantivo/paɪl/mucchio, catasta
millionaire sostantivo/ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/milionario
efficient aggettivo/ɪˈfɪʃənt/efficiente, performante
hockey sostantivo/ˈhɑ.ki/hockey
buddy/ˈbʌdi/amico, compagno
landscape sostantivo/ˈlan(d)skeɪp/paesaggio, panorama
pretend verbo/pɹəˈtɛnd/fare finta, fingere
employer sostantivo/ɪmˈplɔɪə/datore di lavoro, datrice di lavoro
wrap verbo/ɹæp/avvolgere, avviluppare
dame sostantivo/deɪm/dama
stat avverbio/stæt/immediatamente
leap verbo/ˈliːp/saltare
alley sostantivo/ˈæl.i/vicolo, calle
accountant sostantivo/əˈkaʊn.tənt/contabile, ragioniere

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
keep up with verbotenere dietro a

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 fawere told · is wasted
Consigli con “should” should + verbo — dire che cosa è meglio fareshould have · should take
Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — i verbi seguiti dalla forma in -ingstart looking · Start wrapping
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — qualcosa che succede adesso o in questo periodois having · they're keeping · you're going

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 19 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, they're, I'm. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, actionable /ˈæk.ʃə.nə.bəl/, minutia /maɪ̯ˈn(j)uːʃ(iː)ə/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: millionaire /ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/, actionable /ˈæk.ʃə.nə.bəl/, minutia /maɪ̯ˈn(j)uːʃ(iː)ə/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come wealthy, pile, millionaire.

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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