Pratica di Shadowing: Secrets to Understand Fast-talking Americans : English Listening Practice - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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Hey there and welcome to Speak English with Christina where you'll have fun becoming fluent in American English.
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I'm your English coach Christina and today,
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and today that introduction was a little more difficult to understand than usual.
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Don't you think?
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Don't you think?
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Or in real spoken English, don't you think?
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Americans don't articulate and they sound like they have a hot potato in their mouth
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and that makes it difficult to understand Americans when they speak.
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So, today's episode, you'll learn six secrets to understand spoken English better.
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Let's go!
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Americans reduce a lot of sounds when they speak.
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For example, you read, don't you want to get a coffee later?
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And then we squish it all together when we speak, and it becomes, don't you want to get a coffee later?
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We reduce don't you to don't you,
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want to becomes wanna and get a becomes get a.
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You have to notice these reductions to start understanding real English
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and to help you I created an American accent survival kit which gives you audio exercises for 12 everyday expressions.
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And I'll put the link in the notes below because go get it.
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I mean, seriously, it's free and it will help you understand real spoken English.
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If you want to understand the way Americans really speak, You have to listen to real spoken English.
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A lot of books to study English give you audio that is slow or clearly articulated.
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In the real world it's not like that.
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I'm sure you've noticed.
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So you need also to study English the way it's really spoken.
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And my video series, Tame the Hot Potato, helps you to do that.
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And for each video you can get a worksheet to help you understand our everyday conversations in real spoken English
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and the links are below this video.
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How many of you depend on television series and movies to improve your English comprehension?
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I know you do and TV is good and it's fun
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but it's not enough you have to consciously work study do listening exercises
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and the site LO E L L L O is one of my favorites for this.
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Plus, you can also watch this video for an idea of how to use the site to improve your listening skills.
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And there's also this lesson and this lesson where you can do some exercises and all the links are in the notes.
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If you're thinking, Christina, I don't even understand audio flood, let me explain.
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A flood is like when it rains a lot.
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A lot.
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And there's water everywhere.
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In the streets, in the houses.
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That's a flood.
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And you have to flood your brain with audio in English.
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and this is where movies and TV series are useful.
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You can listen to American radio stations with the smartphone app TuneIn Radio or listen to podcasts in English.
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My favorite for learning English is All Ears English because it's English lessons but in real spoken English.
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And my favorite podcast for listening, just for listening, is the Tim Ferriss Show,
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which is about optimizing your performance in general, including your performance in learning languages.
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You see, there's a difference between active and passive listening, and you need both.
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Most students have too much passive listening.
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TV.
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Movies.
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And that's why their comprehension improves slowly.
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In this video, you've learned a few activities,
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and here's one more active listening activity that will boost your pronunciation and your comprehension.
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It's shadow reading, and here's how you do shadow reading.
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You get the transcript of the audio you listen to, for example, on hello.org.
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You have the transcript of the audio on the site.
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And as you listen, you read with the speaker.
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Not listen and repeat.
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No, you match the speaker's speed, intonation, everything at the same time.
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And this makes you more conscious of how the words sound when they're spoken at normal American speed.
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You're gonna misunderstand things.
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Even we native speakers misunderstand things like that famous Jimi Hendrix song,
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Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy, or This Guy.
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Mmm, This Guy, This Guy, This Guy, This Guy.
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Yeah.
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Or me in French, for example,
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when one time Roman and I were listening to Lady Gaga and Roman tells me in French,
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ah, Jean-Paul a décidé de ça dans sa voiture.
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Jean-Paul has CDs of this in his car.
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Only the French expression, some CDs, décédé, sounds a lot like décédé, died.
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So for like
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three seconds when I misunderstood I was totally shocked because I understood
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that our friend Jean Paul had died in his car from listening to too much Lady Gaga
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sometimes it's better just to laugh at yourself if you can
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and for those times when you really need to understand like work
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or very serious situations watch these two lessons how to stop feeling embarrassed
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when you don't understand and reformulating to be sure you understand they were they were my first
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two videos ever
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so feel free to laugh at the quality it's pretty bad the quality of the video
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but the lessons and the content are good and it shows
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that you know you have to start somewhere you make mistakes and you improve as you progress.
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So check them out and have a good laugh.
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Now what about you?
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How do you improve your listening comprehension skills?
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Share your tips with the other Speak English Ambassadors because you surely have some great ideas.
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And be sure to get my American Accent Survival Kit to help you actively improve your listening comprehension.
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I'll put the link to it in the notes below and also to all the other resources from today.
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All right, ambassadors, thank you so much for watching.
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I'm Christina, and I'll see you next time.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “Secrets to Understand Fast-talking Americans : English Listening Practice”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: English, listening, spoken, audio, improve. Questo video contiene 88 frasi e 977 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 9:42. Chi parla lo fa lentamente, circa 101 parole al minuto, quindi c’è tempo per imitare ogni suono. Il 84% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| comprehension sostantivo | /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/ | comprensione |
| misunderstand verbo | /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/ | fraintendere, equivocare |
| transcript sostantivo | /ˈtɹæn.skɹɪpt/ | testo |
| passive aggettivo | /ˈpæs.ɪv/ | passivo |
| potato sostantivo | /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/ | patata, pomo di terra |
| accent sostantivo | /ækˈsɛnt/ | accento |
| podcast sostantivo | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | podcast, audioprogramma |
| intonation sostantivo | /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/ | intonazione |
| optimize verbo | /ˈɑptɪmaɪz/ | ottimizzare |
| reformulate verbo | riformulare | |
| worksheet sostantivo | foglio di lavoro | |
| consciously avverbio | coscientemente | |
| pronunciation sostantivo | /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/ | pronuncia, pronunzia |
| fluent aggettivo | /ˈfluənt/ | fluido |
| embarrassed aggettivo | /ɪmˈbæɹ.əst/ | imbarazzato |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 25 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, I'll, I'm. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: comprehension /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/, intonation /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, conscious /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/, articulate /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/, intonation /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/, articulate /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/, transcript /ˈtɹæn.skɹɪpt/, passive /ˈpæs.ɪv/, accent /ækˈsɛnt/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/, transcript /ˈtɹæn.skɹɪpt/, passive /ˈpæs.ɪv/, accent /ækˈsɛnt/, podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come comprehension, misunderstand, transcript.
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.