Pratica di Shadowing: Stay in Touch - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Welcome to English in a Minute.
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If you have ever heard people saying goodbye in American English, you probably have heard this.
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Make sure to stay in touch.
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People who don't see each other often like to find ways to stay in touch.
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But what does that mean?
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It was great to see you at the class reunion.
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Now make sure to stay in touch.
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I want to talk to you before our next reunion.
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I will.
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I'll stay in touch and I'll call you sometime next week.
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Staying in touch or keeping in touch says that you want to communicate with someone.
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It means you want to keep in contact, maybe by phone or email, even though you don't see that person often.
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Make sure to stay in touch.
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And that's English in a Minute.
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Thank you.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Stay in Touch”. This video has 15 sentences and 138 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:55. The speaker talks at a natural 152 words per minute, close to everyday conversation.

Key vocabulary in this video

8 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
reunion noun/ɹiːˈjuːnjən/The process or act of reuniting.
goodbye/ɡʊdˈbaɪ/Farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker, writer, or person addressed is departing.
communicate verb/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.
sometime adverb/ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/At an indefinite but stated time in the past or future.
email noun/ˈiˌmeɪl/A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and the Internet…
touch verb/tʌt͡ʃ/To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
contact noun/ˈkɑntækt/The act of touching physically; being in close association.
welcome/ˈwɛl.kəm/Greeting given upon someone's arrival.

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 adessohave ever heard
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosaPeople who don
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisione, una promessa o una previsioneI'll stay

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 4 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like reunion, goodbye, communicate.

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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