Pratica di Shadowing: Spend a Day in the Most Beautiful English Village 🇬🇧 (Real British English) - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube

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If you can understand the whole of this video,
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your English is very strong.
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Today, I am going to take you to one of the most beautiful and the most famous Cotswold villages.
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Like before, there will be no script and no deliberate slow speaking,
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just you and me spending the day together.
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Are you ready?
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Let's go.
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I am taking you to a gem in the Cotswolds called Borton on the Water
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and it is known as the Venice of the Cotswolds so you'll have to see what you think of it.
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It's not quite as nice a day as I would have wanted,
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it's not sunny but maybe that makes for a more authentic British experience
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because as I have mentioned before we do get a lot of grey.
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hopefully it won't rain fingers crossed
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and I thought you might want to see some more of
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the typical British countryside in springtime it's currently mid-April although this might come out in a few weeks time
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so you can see that luminous green I was talking about more bluebells
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and the typical narrow lanes of the countryside and we are approaching Borton on the water oh pretty cottage
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and here we are the Venice of the Cotswolds as they call it exciting I can't wait to show you
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here we are in Borton on the water as I said it's known as the Venice of the Cotswolds
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and I called it a gem you can't really call it a hidden gem anymore
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because it has been put on the map as we say in
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that it has been discovered and especially in summer it gets packed
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and on a nice day it is absolutely heaving with tourists that's a good british expression to be absolutely heaving
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but you can understand why
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when you come here obviously it's called the venice of the cotswolds
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because of the beautiful river running through it
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and the lovely quaint bridges another A very good word to describe it is picturesque.
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It's the sort of place you would see on a postcard
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so we might call it postcard pretty but picturesque would be a really good adjective to describe this village.
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And it is lovely.
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I have to say you can find many other beautiful Cotswold villages
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that haven't been discovered yet so maybe one day I will take you to those two
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and show you those secrets first let me take you for a walk through the village
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and of course grab a coffee one thing that is very distinctive
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and born on the water that I love is
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that it has a lot of willow trees those are these trees here hanging over the water
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and it makes it really atmospheric it's a very atmospheric place It's better when it's sunny,
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but the other thing, the Cotswolds stone is really famous here.
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It has a warm hue,
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that kind of honey-colored stone.
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That's a very distinctive feature of the Cotswolds.
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In this village, there are so many lovely little shops and cafes.
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I've used that word picturesque because it really is.
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It's one of probably the most picturesque villages you can find here,
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and it's just so quintessentially English nestled in the heart of the Cotswolds.
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I hope you enjoy this glimpse into this lovely village.
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It's a shame they have some sort of green netting up,
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so it's not quite as picturesque as normal.
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And there's a war memorial,
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like they have in many villages,
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to commemorate the First World War.
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As I said, lots of tourists.
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Actually, there are fewer today.
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Normally, there are a lot more.
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And Borton is distinctive for these low stone bridges.
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There are about five or six of them that you have probably seen already and noticed.
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Lots of Cotswold themed shops.
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A Cotswold candle makers there, love it.
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And a Cotswold perfumery.
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Another good word to describe this village is idyllic.
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It's a very idyllic village.
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The river is called the River Windrush, and it's very popular.
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Dogs wanting to swim in it.
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Lots of ducks always in it as well,
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very popular with the animals.
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In summer people also just dip their feet in or do some paddling,
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that's a good verb.
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Yes and there's another one of the Lowstone bridges I mentioned, lots of those.
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There's a pub up over here at Kingsbridge Inn.
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Speaking of which though, I'm starting to get a bit Peckish.
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I'm starting to get a bit peckish,
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which means I'm a bit hungry.
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So I think it might be time to grab a bite to eat and this restaurant looks lovely, doesn't it?
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Come inside with me now and see me order.
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Please could I get the poached eggs and then to drink the sparkling elder pappies?
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Thank you.
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Sorry, I forgot to actually show you my meal, but it was delicious.
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As I said, it's not quite as crowded as it normally is.
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I suppose it's quite a windy and grey day,
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but I used to come a lot here when I was a child,
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and it was a lot less crowded back then.
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And one of the main attractions is this little model village,
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which is very sweet and quaint,
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and I will take you to see it now.
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Isn't it sweet?
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Isn't it sweet?
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Tell me, have you got anything like this near you?
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I would love to know.
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And I shouldn't have been worried because the sun has come out just for you.
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There we go.
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Just so that you can see this lovely little model village.
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And the model is surprisingly accurate.
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The river Windrush, the low stone bridges, the motor museum.
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It's all true to life.
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This brings back lots of memories of childhood and makes me very nostalgic.
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That's a good word, nostalgic.
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Because it reminds me of when I used to come here when I was little and I used to love it.
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I suppose there's something about miniature things isn't there?
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Mini things.
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That's why children love dolls' houses and that's why this is just quite special.
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Lots of little bridges and trees.
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It's just exciting.
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Beautiful model village of a beautiful Cotswold town.
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Come and show you the inside.
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As I said, we used to come here a lot
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when I was a child
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and it was the first time I really started understand the concept of infinity
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because you have a model village within a model village
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and then there's a model village in there
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so i remember thinking as a child first grappling with the concept of infinity
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because you have the infinite regression of a model village within a model village within a model village
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and then i just thought but when does it end
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if every model village has a model village in it
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when does it stop it's funny to remember how your mind works as a child.
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You've got the model village and the model village in the model village.
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And I love the details right down to the music playing,
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to the shop fronts, you can see all the mini shops there.
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You've got a post office and the Victorian Christmas shop.
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I'll show you the real life one of that.
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What do you think?
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Does this make you want to come and visit Boughton on the Water?
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and this is fun this is a periscope so it's got angled mirrors
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so that you can see it at street level come
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and have a look with me
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and we can pretend we are small enough to fit in the model village
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and you can see the real size of people there okay
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and now i am back in the car
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and on my way home i hope you enjoyed that and that it made you feel more comfortable with your english
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because if you understood most of it,
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then as I said, well done because this is real everyday English.
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We are lucky because I don't know if you can hear that,
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but it is now raining.
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So we had perfect timing with the weather and the rain.
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Let me know if you enjoyed this because I would love to do it again.
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Maybe take you to a smaller Cotswold village,
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a hidden gem next time.
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Take care.
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Thank you for joining me and I'll see you in the next one.
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Bye.
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Thank you.

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Perché praticare il colloquio con questo video?

Praticare la pratica di conversazione in inglese con questo video è un ottimo modo per migliorare le tue capacità linguistiche. La forma autentica di comunicazione, senza copione e senza una narrazione lenta, ti sfida a cogliere il senso generale, il che è indicativo di un inglese forte. Essere in grado di comprendere ogni dettaglio mentre esplori un affascinante villaggio come Borton on the Water ti offre un contesto culturale e linguistico ricco. Incontrare termini descrittivi come "pictureque" o espressioni come "absolutely heaving" può aiutarti a familiarizzare con le sfumature e le emozioni del linguaggio quotidiano britannico. Utilizzando tecniche di shadowspeak, puoi ripetere e assimilare queste espressioni in modo naturale.

Grammatica ed espressioni nel contesto

Nel video, l'oratore utilizza diverse strutture grammaticali e frasi chiave che sono utili per gli studenti di inglese:

  • Present continuous: L’uso della forma continua, come in "I am taking you," aiuta a descrivere azioni in corso nel presente, fondamentale per esprimere esperienze in tempo reale.
  • Descriptive adjectives: Frasi come "absolutely picturesque" e "quintessentially English" mostrano l’importanza degli aggettivi per creare immagini vivide e coinvolgenti, essenziali per comunicare efficacemente.
  • Saying the same thing in different ways: Frasi come "known as the Venice of the Cotswolds" dimostrano come si può parafrasare e variare l'espressione per rendere il discorso più interessante.

Queste strutture possono essere replicate attraverso esercizi di shadow speech, rendendo più facile parlarne durante le conversazioni quotidiane.

Trappole comuni nella pronuncia

Quando ascolti il video, ci sono alcune parole e frasi che possono rappresentare delle sfide per la pronuncia:

  • Cotswolds: Questo termine può essere complicato per via della sua pronuncia non intuitiva; è essenziale fare attenzione alla pronuncia corretta per evitare fraintendimenti.
  • Atmospheric: La pronuncia di questa parola può essere difficile; assicurati di articolare le sillabe in modo chiaro per esprimere l'idea di un luogo caratteristico e suggestivo.
  • Heaving: Distinguere il suono "h" iniziale e comprendere il suo utilizzo in contesti colloquiali è importante per una pronuncia autentica.

Focalizzarsi su questi elementi attraverso pratiche di shadowspeaks ti aiuterà non solo a migliorare la tua pronuncia, ma anche a rendere le tue conversazioni più fluenti e naturali.

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