Pratica di Shadowing: Ronald Reagan Jokes about Communism - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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I have a new hobby.
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I am collecting stories that I can actually prove are told among the Russian people.
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They make them up themselves, they tell them between themselves, reveals they've got a great sense of humor, and they've also got a little cynical attitude about things in their country.
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The story was an American and a Russian arguing about their two countries, and the American said, look, in my country I can walk into the Oval Office, I can pound the President's desk and say,
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Mr. President, I don't like the way you're running our country.
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And the Russians said, I can do that.
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The Americans said, you can?
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He says, yes, I can go into the Kremlin, to the General Secretary's office, pound his desk and say, Mr. General Secretary, I don't like the way President Reagan's running his country.
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I didn't tell this one to Gorbachev.
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you know there's a 10 year delay delay in the soviet union of delivery of an automobile
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and you go through a quite a process when you're ready to buy
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and then you put up the money in advance this man he laid down his money
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and then the fellow he was in
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that was in charge said to him okay come back in 10 years
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and get your car and he said morning or afternoon And the fellow behind the counter said,
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Well, ten years from now, what difference does it make?
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And he said, well, the plumber's coming in the morning.
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Less than one family out of seven in the Soviet Union owns an automobile.
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Most of the automobiles are driven by the bureaucrats.
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So an order went out one day to the police that anyone caught speeding.
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Anyone, no matter who, gets a ticket.
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Well, Gorbachev came out of his country home, his dacha.
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He was late getting to the Kremlin.
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There was his limousine and driver waiting.
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He told the driver to get in the back seat he'd drive, and down the road he went.
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They passed two motorcycle cops.
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One took out after him.
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And pretty soon he's back with his buddy, and his buddy says, Well, did you give him a ticket?
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And he said, No. Well, he said, Why not?
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Oh, he said, Too important.
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Well, he said, we're told to give anybody a ticket, no matter who it is.
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Oh, he said, no, no, this one was, I could, well, he said, who was it?
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He said, I couldn't recognize him, but his driver was Gorbachev.
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One of the heads of state
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that I met with on this visit told me the story about the two fellows in the Soviet Union
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that were walking down the street, and one of them says, have we really achieved full communism?
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Is this it?
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Is this now full communism?
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And the other one said, oh, hell no, things are going to get a lot worse.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questo video contiene 39 frasi e 488 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 2:45. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 177 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 87% 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
automobile sostantivo/ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/automobile, auto
desk sostantivo/dɛsk/scrivania
buddy/ˈbʌdi/amico, compagno
delay sostantivo/dɪˈleɪ̯/ritardo
communism sostantivo/ˈkɒmjᵿnɪz(ə)m/comunismo
argue verbo/ˈɑɹ.ɡju/discutere, dibattere
reveal verbo/ɹɪˈviːl/rivelare, gettare la maschera
collect verbo/ˈkɑlɪkt/raccogliere, bottinare
cop sostantivo/kɑp/piedipiatti, poliziotto
motorcycle sostantivo/ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/motocicletta, moto
hobby sostantivo/ˈhɑ.bi/hobby, passatempo
humour sostantivo/ˈhjuːmɚ/humour, umorismo
cynical aggettivo/ˈsɪnɪkəl/cinico
bureaucrat sostantivo/ˈbjʊɹəkɹæt/burocrate
dacha sostantivo/ˈdɑ.t͡ʃə/dacia

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
go out verbouscire, andare fuori
go through verboattraversare
put up verbocollocare
take out verbocavare, cacciare

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 10 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, they've, you're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/, motorcycle /ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/

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 automobile, desk, buddy.

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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