Pratica di Shadowing: S1E01 Clip | Power-hungry New York Women - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube

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It's like the riddle of the Sphinx.
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It's like the riddle of the Sphinx.
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Why are there so many great unmarried women and no great unmarried men?
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I explore these sorts of issues in my column, and I have terrific sources of my friends.
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When you're a young guy in your 20s, women are controlling the relationships.
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By the time you're an eligible man in your 30s, you feel like you're being devoured by women.
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Suddenly, the guys are holding all the chips.
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I call it the mid-30s power flame.
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It's all about age and biology.
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I mean, if you want to get married, it's to have kids, right?
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And you don't want to do it with someone older than 35, because then you have to have kids right away, and that's about it.
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I think these women should just forget about marriage and have a good time.
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I have a friend who'd always gone out with extremely sexy guys and just had a good time.
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One day, she woke up and she was 41.
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She couldn't get any more dates.
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She had a complete physical breakdown, couldn't hold on to her job, and had to move back to Wisconsin to live with her mother.
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Trust me, this is not a story that makes men feel bad.
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Most men are threatened by successful women.
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If you want to get these guys, you have to keep your mouth shut and play by the rules.
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I totally believe that love conquers all.
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Sometimes you just have to give it a little space.
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And that's exactly what's missing in Manhattan.
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The space for romance.
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The problem is expectations.
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Older women don't want to settle for what's available.
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By the time you reach your mid-thirties, you think, why should I settle?
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You know?
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It's like the older we get, the more we keep self-selecting down to a smaller and smaller group.
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What women really want is Alec Baldwin.
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There's not one woman in New York who hasn't turned down ten wonderful guys
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because they were too short or too fat or too poor.
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I have been out with some of those guys, the short, fat, poor ones.
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It makes absolutely no difference.
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They are just as self-centered and unappreciative as the good-looking ones.
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Why don't these women just marry a fat guy?
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Why don't they just marry a big fat tub of lard?
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Happy birthday, dear Miranda.
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Happy birthday to you.
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Another 30-something birthday with a group of unmarried female friends.
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We would all have preferred a nice celebratory conference call.
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Thank you for saying.
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Look, if you're a successful saleswoman in this city, you have two choices.
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You can bang your head against the wall and try to find a relationship, or you can say, screw it, and just go out and have sex, like a man.
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You mean with dildos?
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No. I mean without feeling.
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Samantha Jones was a New York inspiration, a public relations executive.
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She routinely slept with good-looking guys in their 20s.
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Remember that guy that I was going out with?
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Oh, God, what was his name?
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Drew.
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I didn't feel a thing.
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It was like, hey, babe, gotta go.
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Catch you later.
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And I completely forgot about him after that.
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But are you sure that that isn't just because he didn't call you?
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Sweetheart, this is the first time in the history of Manhattan...
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...that women have had as much money and power as men.
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Plus, the equal luxury of treating men like sex objects.
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Yeah, except men in this city fail on both counts.
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I mean, they don't want to be in a relationship with you, but as soon as you only want them for sex, they don't like it.
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All of a sudden, they can't perform the way they're supposed to.
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That's when you dump them.
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Oh, come on, ladies, are we really that cynical?
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What about romance?
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It's like that guy Jeremiah, the poet.
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I mean, the sex was incredible.
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But then he wanted to read me his poetry and go out to dinner and the whole chat bit.
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And I'm like, let's not even go there.
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What are you saying?
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Are you saying you're just gonna give up on love?
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Oh, no, no, no, no, no, believe me.
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The right guy comes along and you two right here, this whole thing, right out the window.
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No, no, no, no. The right guy is an illusion, you understand that?
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You can start living your life.
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So you think it's really possible to pull off this whole, um, women having sex like men thing?
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You're forgetting the last session.
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You're obsessed with that movie.
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Okay.
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Linda Fiorentino.
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Fuck me, that guy.
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I'm never having one of those, oh my god, what have I done, epiphonies.
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I hated that movie. Was it true?
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Were women in New York really giving up on love and throttling up on power?
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What a tempting thought.

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Informazioni su questa lezione

In questa lezione, esplorerai temi di dinamiche relazionali e aspettative tra uomini e donne a New York. Attraverso la pratica di shadowing in inglese, imparerai a riconoscere come la cultura e l'età influenzano le relazioni. L'obiettivo è migliorare la tua pronuncia e comprensione orale, mentre affronti argomenti attuali e stimolanti che ti aiuteranno a esprimerti con maggiore sicurezza.

Vocabolario e frasi chiave

  • Unmarried - Non sposato
  • Power-hungry - Affamato di potere
  • Eligible - Idoneo o disponibile per una relazione
  • Expectations - Aspettative
  • Self-selecting - Selezionarsi autonomamente
  • Good-looking - Di bell'aspetto
  • Compromettere - Raggiungere un accordo
  • Romance - Romanzo, sentimenti di amore

Consigli per la pratica

Per migliorare il tuo shadow speech, segui questi suggerimenti mentre ascolti la trascrizione o il video:

  • Ascolta attentamente: Presta attenzione alla velocità e al tono dell'oratore. I dialoghi di questo video sono rapidi e pieni di espressioni colloquiali.
  • Ripeti ad alta voce: Usa la tecnica di shadowing per imitare l'oratore. Cerca di riprodurre non solo le parole ma anche le intonazioni.
  • Presta attenzione ai sottintesi: Le interazioni tra i personaggi possono contenere significati che vanno oltre le parole. Cerca di cogliere queste sfumature mentre pratichi.
  • Registra te stesso: Ascolta le tue registrazioni per valutare i tuoi progressi e identificare aree di miglioramento.
  • Utilizza risorse online: Cerca un shadowing site che offra esercizi pratici, come registrazioni audio o video, per affinare ulteriormente le tue abilità.

Grazie a queste tecniche, potrai migliorare le tue competenze linguistiche mentre esplori argomenti affascinanti e attuali. Ricorda, shadowspeaks e shadow speak sono ottimi modi per entrare in confidenza con la lingua inglese!

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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