Pratica di Shadowing: Shorts - Edinburgh Castle - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland.
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It is a very beautiful old city.
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About 400,000 people live in the city and 6 million people visit every year.
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Every year in August there is a festival in the city with a lot of theatre, music, dance and comedy.
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The original city was built on the Royal Mile.
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This is a street in Edinburgh's old town.
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The Royal Mile is about 1.6 kilometres long.
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It starts at Holyrood Palace and finishes at Edinburgh Castle.
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It is called the Royal Mile because it connects two royal homes.
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The castle is nearly a thousand years old.
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It stands on an enormous piece of volcanic rock and it looks down on the rest of the city.
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King David I of Scotland was the first king who built on the rock in about 1130.
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He built this chapel and named it Queen Mary's Chapel, after his mother.
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For the next 300 years, the castle was at the centre of wars between England and Scotland.
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In the 15th century, the castle became the home of the King of Scotland.
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Each new king added to the castle.
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In 1511, James IV built the Great Hall.
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In the 16th century, James VI added extra defences to the castle entrance.
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In the 18th century, Scotland officially became part part of the United Kingdom.
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The last battle at the castle was in 1745 when Prince Charles Edward Stuart, who was nicknamed Bonnie Prince Charlie,
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tried to capture the castle.
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In the early 19th century, the castle was a prison, but it is now a tourist attraction.
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About one and a quarter million people visit the castle every year.
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They come to see the buildings and to hear the stories.
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They also come to see and hear the one o'clock gun.
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Soldiers fire this every day at exactly one o'clock.
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But they really come for the views of the city of Edinburgh.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello A2 si basa sul video “Shorts - Edinburgh Castle”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: castle, Scotland, royal, century, built. Questo video contiene 27 frasi e 314 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 3:38. Chi parla lo fa lentamente, circa 86 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
10 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| castle sostantivo | /ˈkɑːsəl/ | castello |
| chapel sostantivo | /ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/ | cappella, chiesetta |
| capture verbo | /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/ | catturare, riprendere |
| entrance sostantivo | /ˈɛn.tɹəns/ | entrata |
| connect verbo | /kəˈnɛkt/ | connettere, connettersi |
| enormous aggettivo | /ɪˈnɔː.məs/ | enorme, grandissimo |
| attraction sostantivo | /əˈtɹækʃn̩/ | attrazione, attrattiva |
| nickname sostantivo | /ˈnɪkneɪm/ | soprannome |
| volcanic aggettivo | /vɔlˈkænɪk/ | vulcanico |
| kilometre sostantivo | /kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/ | chilometro |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| look down on verbo | guardare in basso |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, attraction /əˈtɹækʃn̩/, officially /əˈfɪʃ.(ə.)li/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: kilometre /kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/, officially /əˈfɪʃ.(ə.)li/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: entrance /ˈɛn.tɹəns/, connect /kəˈnɛkt/, enormous /ɪˈnɔː.məs/, volcanic /vɔlˈkænɪk/, defence /dɪˈfɛns/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: chapel /ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, attraction /əˈtɹækʃn̩/, volcanic /vɔlˈkænɪk/
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 castle, chapel, capture.
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.