Pratica di Shadowing: SATC | Carrie Irritates Everyone - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

Creazione lezione...
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In a town where everyone's dying to couple up, sometimes there's nothing better than being out of a relationship.
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You have time to do your laundry, freedom to play your favorite bad music really loudly.
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But the best part of being out of a relationship, plenty of time to catch up with your friends.
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I feel sorry for Big, I really do, because if you think about it, I was the best thing that ever happened to him.
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Actually, no, I pity him, because I get to walk away and be me, and he has to walk away and stay him, you know?
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And who wants to be him when you can be me?
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I mean, I'm smart, I am funny.
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I was this thing, you know?
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I was it.
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I mean, I was this magic moment.
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I was the abracadabra.
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I was totally the poof in the relationship.
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I mean, I've got more poof in one finger than he could ever have.
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I mean, jeez, sometimes I poof just hailing a cab.
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So I guess it's better to know now, so that I can go poof someone else.
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Someone who deserves me and not some screwed -up, insecure guy who can't deal with a woman who's got her act together.
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Now, I'm gonna end up deliriously happy, and Big is gonna die old and alone, and I pity him.
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Really, I pity him.
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What?
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All right, who's gonna tell her?
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What?
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Honey, you're obsessed with talking about Big, and frankly, we can't take it anymore.
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It's out of our league.
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What is this an intervention?
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Yes stop her before she obsesses again Isn't part of the whole breaking up process
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that you get free reign to whine to your friends of course you do
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But maybe you should think about whining to a shrink Why should I pay someone
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when we can talk for free and then go get a drink or whatever?
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I don't need professional help.
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I've got you guys Yeah, for about another ten minutes and then we're cutting you off cold turkey Hey, I don't need therapy.
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I need new friends Look, we're as fucked up as you are.
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It's like the blind leading the blind.
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Sometimes it helps to talk to somebody who's objective.
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Okay.
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I understand why you see a shrink, you know, because you're always in your head, but I'm fine.
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I am functioning.
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Besides, I don't really, to be honest, I just don't buy the whole shrink thing.
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Neither do I.
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I mean, my parents believe that any head problem could be solved with physical exercise.
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That's why all of us are really good tennis players.
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It's a slippery slope.
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You know, first you're going once a week, then it's three times a week, and then the next thing you know, you're starting your sentences with, well, my shrink says...
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My shrink says that's a very common fear.
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Therapy, it's.. it's just so self -indulgent.
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Ancient man didn't need shrinks to survive.
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Ancient man only lived till 30.
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Were my friends right?
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Had I crossed the line from pleasantly neurotic into annoyingly troubled?
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I decided to seek my own professional help.
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How can you not have a shrink?
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This is Manhattan.
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Even the shrinks have shrinks.
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The fact was Stanford was right.
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A therapist was as ubiquitous in Manhattan as pirated cable.
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I have three.
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You do not.
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I do.
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One for when I want to be coddled, one for when I want tough love, and one for when I just want to look at a really beautiful man.
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Well, that's sick.
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Which is why I see the other two.
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You want a name?
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Oh, no. Miranda's shrink referred me to one.
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Uh, Dr. Ellen Greenfield.
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Dr. G!
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Oh, my God!
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She is hot hot hot.
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Gwyneth Paltrow sees her.
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Why does she go to a shrink?
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She suffers from high self -esteem

Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Le parole che ritornano più spesso: shrink, poof, pity, relationship, hot. Questo video contiene 69 frasi e 651 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 3:23. Chi parla va veloce, circa 192 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Solo il 80% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo. 13 delle sue 69 frasi sono domande: un buon esercizio per l’intonazione interrogativa e le risposte brevi.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

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

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
pity sostantivo/ˈpɪt.i/pietà
finger sostantivo/ˈfɪŋɡɚ/dito, dita
refer verbo/ɹɪˈfɜː/riferire
suffer verbo/ˈsʌfɚ/soffrire, penare
solve verbo/sɒlv/risolvere
honey sostantivo/ˈhʌni/miele
objective sostantivo/ɒbˈd͡ʒɛk.tɪv/obiettivo
tennis sostantivo/ˈtɛnɪs/tennis
intervention sostantivo/ɪntɚˈvɛnʃən/intervento
reign sostantivo/ɹeɪ̯n/regno
laundry sostantivo/ˈlɔːn.dɹi/bucato
frankly avverbio/fɹæŋkli/francamente
therapist sostantivo/ˈθɛɹəpɪst/terapeuta, terapista
pirate sostantivo/ˈpaɪɹət/pirata, corsaro
hail sostantivo/heɪl/grandine

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
break up verbospezzettare, tagliuzzare
end up verboandare a finire, finire

Frasi da ripetere

Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:

  • I mean, I'm smart, I am funny.
  • All right, who's gonna tell her?
  • It's out of our league.
  • I don't need professional help.
  • How can you not have a shrink?

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 22 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, you're, gonna. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: intervention /ɪntɚˈvɛnʃən/, abracadabra /ˌæbɹəkəˈdæbɹə/, annoyingly /ʌˈnɔɪjɪŋli/, ubiquitous /juːˈbɪkwɪtəs/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: honey /ˈhʌni/, hail /heɪl/
  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: solve /sɒlv/, objective /ɒbˈd͡ʒɛk.tɪv/, tennis /ˈtɛnɪs/, therapist /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/, pirate /ˈpaɪɹət/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: frankly /fɹæŋkli/, abracadabra /ˌæbɹəkəˈdæbɹə/

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 pity, finger, refer.

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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