Pratica di Shadowing: Ronnie Montrose Remembered: Ken Mary (House of Lords, Fifth Angel) - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Hey it's Junkman from VintageRock.com here on the red carpet at Ronnie Montrose Remembered in 2017
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and to my right we have drummer Ken Merry.
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How are you man?
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I'm doing very well.
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How are you?
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Good, good.
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Glad you can make it here tonight.
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Thank you so much.
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You know a lot of people who remember Ken from bands like House of Lords
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and a few other ones just you know just a shredder here you know He knows what he's doing, you know.
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Tell us about any Ronnie Montrose memories you might have.
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Well, I mean, obviously everybody remembers that first record with Sammy Hagar.
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I mean, I think all of us, when we grew up, it was kind of a formative record for us.
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Songs like Space Station No. 5, Rock Candy.
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I mean, just incredible music.
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I saw Ronnie play a number of times.
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Fantastic guitarist.
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I mean, the songwriting, amazing songwriting.
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I'm not going to say anything that probably everybody
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that does We're all gushing today Everybody's going to say the same thing But really, truly, musically Just one of those records that Stands the test of time That people,
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in terms of rock industry people Will always look back on As a record that really was
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Almost what you'd say A foundation for heavy metal For everybody that followed it Absolutely,
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and then everything that he did afterwards From the Gamma records to everything else that he did.
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He just had such a big plethora of styles, you know.
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But yeah, we always remember the first time you hear everything, you know.
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It's like your first bike, your first girlfriend or anything like that, you know.
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You just never forget, you know.
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So what's happening for you for 2017?
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Well, it's going to be a very interesting year.
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I was just talking about this with a friend of mine out here.
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One of my high school band, Fifth Angel, which is, because we were on Epic Records for two albums.
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Your high school band was on Epic Records?
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Yes.
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Cool.
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Kind of a cool thing, yeah.
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At the time, Michael Jackson was on Epic Records, so it was the biggest record label in the world.
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And the band has a pretty massive cult following in Europe, so we're headlining a festival that's sold out.
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It's called the KIT Festival, the Keep It True Festival.
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It's right outside of Frankfurt, Germany.
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Wow.
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And so it's gonna be the first time we've played together in a very long time Well, that's cool.
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I don't want to say how many years.
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I mean the first time we played together in a hundred years
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So it's a it's really gonna be a lot of fun
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and we're looking forward to it It's a great festival and
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and the band played at one one time before
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and I think 2010 And I wasn't able unfortunately to attend
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that and I've seen some footage and the crowd was singing along the words to every song.
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As they do in Europe and we love that.
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It was really cool.
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Everybody knew every song all the way through.
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I was going I don't even know these lyrics
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and they know the lyrics so it was it should be a good thing.
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So then we have a new Northern Light Orchestra album coming out.
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That project for anybody that doesn't know what
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that is it's a Christmas project and it features great amazing players from bands like Kiss, F.
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Leopard.
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I mean the list is a massive list.
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And Ken Merritt.
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Well, I'm on there, yes, and I also produce it.
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Well, there you are.
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So you can blame me if you don't like the sound of it.
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So that's going on.
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I mean, there's just a tremendous amount of stuff.
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So hopefully it's going to be a good year.
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It's been a good NAMM for you so far as well?
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It's been a great NAMM show and connected with a lot of people
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and a lot of companies I hadn't talked to in a long time.
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So a fantastic NAMM show.
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Well, nice to see you again, Ken.
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I appreciate you coming and talking with us here.
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Thank you so much for talking with me.
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VintageRock.com, and enjoy the show tonight.
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It's going to be a blast.
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Great.
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Dan Junkman from VintageRock.com with Ken Merritt.

Cosa imparerai

Questo video è una vera chicca per esercitare la comprensione orale in contesti informali e la abilità di esprimere opinioni in modo naturale. Imparerai a seguire una conversazione fluida tra due persone, con domande e risposte spontanee, e a identificare come si condividono ricordi e progetti. Inoltre, potrai esercitare la shadowing in inglese, ripetendo le frasi immediatamente dopo i parlanti per migliorare la tua pronuncia e la fluidità.

Ascolta questi suoni

Nella conversazione, nota come i parlanti usano la connessione tra le parole. Ad esempio, "kind of a" diventa "kinda a" e "I'm not going to" si riduce a "I'm not gonna". Anche il linking tra "a lot of" (pronunciato "a lotta") e "what you'd say" ( "whadja say") è evidente. Questi trucchi rendono l'inglese parlato più veloce e naturale: esercitati a riconoscerli per capire meglio le conversazioni reali.

Parla come un madrelingua

Per imitare il ritmo e l'accento dei parlanti, fai attenzione alla stress sulle parole chiave. In frasi come "it's a really gonna be a lot of fun", la stress è su "really", "gonna" e "fun". Usa il shadowspeak: ripeti le frasi subito dopo i parlanti, cercando di corrispondere al loro tono e alla loro velocità. Questo esercizio, chiamato anche shadow speak, aiuta a migliorare la pronuncia inglese e a sentirsi più confidente nel parlare. Ricorda: la pratica regolare è la chiave! Non ti preoccupare se alla fine non riesci a seguire tutto immediatamente: ogni ripetizione ti avvicina di più al suono nativo.

Con questo video, hai un'ottima occasione per esercitare la shadowspeaks e rafforzare le tue abilità orali. Non perdere l'opportunità di imparare dall'italiano parlato in contesti reali: ogni minuto di pratica è un passo verso una pronuncia più naturale!

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.