Pratica di Shadowing: SLOW MOTION MULTI TASKING. - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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You know, for the longest time, I've been told that following too many projects at the same time is not great.
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And there's much theory about the fact that nobody can really multitask.
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It's not really something that is real in our heads.
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And so when we are dispersed in our focus, in our energy, we often don't get anything done and we do everything in lukewarm processes.
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But everything changed when I listened to a TED Talk recently.
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And what he explained in the TED Talk was that, of course, multitasking on many occasions is not successful.
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Also, it can be rude at times.
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For example, checking your phone at the dinner table
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or being on your phone while you're driving
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or any of these sort of things that make multitasking dangerous
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and also not really making you focus on a specific task at hand.
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And for the longest time, some friends of mine have told me that if I have too many projects on the go,
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I am not able to apply myself correctly to each one of them.
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And my type of personality is I always have many projects on the go.
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And I've always scolded myself, always thought to myself, John, you need to refocus.
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You need to come into one project at a time.
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But this TED Talk explained and introduced me to a new topic or a new approach.
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And he calls it the slow motion multitasking approach.
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And I thought to myself, that's really interesting.
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Because if we think about multitasking, we always think about it as doing many things at the same time.
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But what slow motion multitasking says is that you're able to fully focus in on one topic.
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and then when you've exhausted yourself at that topic, you can then move to the next topic.
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An example he gave was amazing.
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He said that Einstein launched four of his world-changing theories in 1905.
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One of them actually won a Nobel Prize,
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showing us that he was working on four different projects for multiple years before he came to certain conclusions
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and was able to launch those studies and those results out at pretty much the same time,
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meaning that he was slow-motion multitasking.
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And often what we need is to apply a principle from one scenario into another scenario to apply
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that fresh thinking into the new scenario that gives that scenario a boost.
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Now, the world we come from, the world of linear innovation, the industrial revolution, where we had to study one subject and do one job for most of our lives,
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single focus was a superpower.
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But in a world of uncertainty, of change all the time, of so much newness coming,
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our ability to move from subject to subject, keeping focus per subject at a time,
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giving us the opportunity to switch tasks in slow motion becomes a superpower.
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And this new skill set is what we actually need to do to be combining unexpected invisible dots,
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unexpected subjects that collide, that give us surprising outcomes.
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And this is what the world needs today, is more disruptive thinking, out-the-box thinking, and more surprising results that enthuse and excite our customers,
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our employees, our colleagues, and everybody that we actually work with.
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So if you're a multitasker and have many projects on the go, the idea is not to multitask at the same time,
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but to slow motion multitask.
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And in that process, applying principles of one sector into another with incredibly surprising outcomes.
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Good luck for being a slow motion multitasker.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “SLOW MOTION MULTI TASKING”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: multitasking, motion, slow, project, subject. Questo video contiene 43 frasi e 598 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 3:54. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 153 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 85% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

Le 14 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
scenario sostantivo/sɪˈnɛəɹioʊ/scenario, panorama
superpower sostantivosuperpotenza
collide verbo/kəˈlaɪd/urtare, scontrarsi
disperse verbo/dɪˈspɝs/disperdere
disruptive aggettivo/dɪsˈɹʌptɪv/frantumante, disgregante
enthuse verbo/ɛnˈθjuːz/entusiasmare
excite verbo/ɪkˈsaɪt/stimolare, eccitare
lukewarm aggettivo/ˌl(j)uk.ˈwɔɹm/tiepido
newness sostantivo/ˈn(j)uːnəs/novità
colleague sostantivo/ˈkɒliːɡ/collega
uncertainty sostantivo/ʌnˈsɜːtənti/incertezza
invisible aggettivo/ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/invisibile, dietro le quinte
linear aggettivo/ˈlɪn.i.əɹ/lineare
combine verbo/kəmˈbaɪn/combinare, mischiare

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessoI've been told · have told · I've always scolded
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo faI've been told · are dispersed

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 7 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, I've, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: uncertainty /ʌnˈsɜːtənti/, invisible /ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: collide /kəˈlaɪd/, disperse /dɪˈspɝs/, disruptive /dɪsˈɹʌptɪv/, enthuse /ɛnˈθjuːz/, excite /ɪkˈsaɪt/

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 scenario, superpower, collide.

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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