Pratica di Shadowing: stop trying to categorize yourself - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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okay I think that's the last of them let's go oh and did I mention this video is sponsored by Surfshark
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the biggest question of my 20s undoubtedly is who am i as if that's a simple question
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just three harmless little words strung together in a way
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that will make you absolutely lose your mind
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and the older i get the more i wonder whether i've been asking the wrong question
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because whether you find an answer to it
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or not you still are yet somewhere along the way i felt like without
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that answer there also couldn't be a me instead there's just this tangled mess
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that has yet to reach its final form which is also exactly where the story goes wrong
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you see at some point i started treating my identity as something
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that must be understood by others rather than myself something
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that is straightforward and easily labeled and something that makes sense and so nowadays i exist in fragments
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there are different versions of myself that exist around different people parts of me that I've curated enough to be understood,
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that are still me, but also not, at least not fully.
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And while many things can be true at once, when it comes to who I am, I have somehow exempted myself from that rule.
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I think I've been treating my identity as though it's a niche, which might sound a little strange at first,
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but for everything that I do or try, I ask myself the same question.
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Is this it?
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Is this my thing?
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As if there's only one right answer, and that it's out there, somewhere.
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Like we're playing hide and seek and I'll know the second I lay eyes upon it.
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Except, I have laid eyes upon it countless times, it just didn't fit the description.
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In truth, I could probably give you a pretty good answer to the question of who am I.
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It would just take about 10 cardboard boxes, give or take, and quite a lot of unpacking.
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Nothing makes you realize just how much stuff you have like moving, and in my case also, how many versions of myself exist.
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I think for a long time I assumed that who I was
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and what I did had to be one coherent picture and it couldn't contradict itself in any way.
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For example, I consider myself to be a pretty outdoorsy person.
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I love being outdoors.
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I love hiking, camping, all that stuff.
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But at the same time, I am a huge homebody.
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I love being at home.
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I love being comfortable and cozy and warm and dry
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and I felt like those two things couldn't exist at the same time
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because clearly if I'm such a homebody then I just don't meet the qualifications
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or the requirements to be considered an outdoorsy person.
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Which it sounds so silly to say out loud
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but that's just kind of how my brain worked with so many different aspects of my life.
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Just assuming that if there was any form of contradiction then clearly that just wasn't who I was.
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It all just had to fit into this pre -designed box and then I would get frustrated if it didn't fit.
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It's easy to start feeling like you need to have a thing that defines who you are,
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some signal that will tell people what box to put you in because in many ways we're faced with it every day.
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It's this endless stream of niches and aesthetics and categories
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and types that's trying to figure out where you fit
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while simultaneously making you believe that wherever it places you must be it.
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There's this weird and unsettling feeling when someone thinks they know you better than you know yourself.
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In a lot of ways that happens every time we go online,
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where every tap and click and scroll is collected to figure out who you are.
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And I guess I've just had one too many instances where things were suggested to me and all I could think was,
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wait, how do you know about that?
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you need to find a niche is a phrase i've seen
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or heard increasingly often presented to you as though it's the answer to all of your problems
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it's the way to success the way to an audience, the way to be understood, or liked, or respected.
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And apparently, in my case at least, it's also the way to find yourself.
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You might be thinking, sure, but what does moving have to do with this?
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Well, imagine I would move and only take one singular box with me, a single category of items it would all be nice
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and on theme and coherent but it would be equally ridiculous
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because being on theme has now also come at the cost
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of literally every other belonging of mine every hobby every clothing
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piece every book every slightly contradicting item would be discarded for the sake of clarity
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and i think the same thing happens when you assume that you can only be one thing.
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You discard every other part of you for the sake of fitting into some non -existent box.
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It's really just abandonment, masked as self -discovery.
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Because I don't think the answer to finding out who you are is to water yourself down enough
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that there's only one option left.
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And so as I was packing, and then unpacking, I realized that I've spent so much time trying to put a finger on who I am,
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on finding the one thing that defines me,
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when all of these different sides of me have happily been living under one roof for so many years.
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And yeah, some are contradicting, some I haven't touched in months or years, some I've forgotten and found my way back to,
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some I'll always cherish, and others I don't always love.
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but there is room for all of them and more both in my house and in myself
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thanks again to surfshark for sponsoring this video you can find the link
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “stop trying to categorize yourself”. Questo video contiene 80 frasi e 1142 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 8:05. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 141 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 84% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| niche sostantivo | /nɪt͡ʃ/ | nicchia, edicola |
| sake sostantivo | /ˈseɪ̯k/ | causa |
| collect verbo | /ˈkɑlɪkt/ | raccogliere, bottinare |
| define verbo | /dɪˈfaɪn/ | definire, determinare |
| sponsor sostantivo | /ˈspɒn.səː/ | sponsor |
| coherent aggettivo | /koʊˈhɛɹ.ənt/ | coerente |
| finger sostantivo | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | dito, dita |
| clothing sostantivo | /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/ | abbigliamento, vestiti |
| ridiculous aggettivo | /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/ | ridicolo |
| discovery sostantivo | /dɪˈskʌv.ɹi/ | scoperta, scoprimento |
| label sostantivo | /ˈleɪ.bəl/ | etichetta |
| aspect sostantivo | /ˈæspɛkt/ | aspetto |
| steal verbo | /stiːl/ | rubare, derubare |
| string sostantivo | /stɹɪŋ/ | spago, stringa |
| equally avverbio | /ˈiːkwəli/ | altrettanto, parimenti |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| figure out verbo | scoprire, rendersi conto |
| find out verbo | scoprire |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — un’azione iniziata prima e ancora in corso | i've been asking · I've been treating · have happily been living |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | is sponsored · must be understood · be understood |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | I've curated · have laid · I've just had |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 22 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I've, couldn't, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, aesthetics /ɛsˈθɛt.ɪks/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/, qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, cherish /ˈt͡ʃɛɹɪʃ/, contradiction /ˌkɑːntɹəˈdɪkʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, simultaneously /ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/, unlimited /ʌnˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/, qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, undoubtedly /ʌnˈdaʊtɪdli/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: coherent /koʊˈhɛɹ.ənt/, wherever /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/, happily /ˈhæp.ə.li/, hike /haɪk/, hobby /ˈhɑ.bi/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: niche /nɪt͡ʃ/, sake /ˈseɪ̯k/, collect /ˈkɑlɪkt/, coherent /koʊˈhɛɹ.ənt/, ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: aspect /ˈæspɛkt/, mask /mæsk/, happily /ˈhæp.ə.li/, scam /ˈskæm/, clarity /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/
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 niche, sake, collect.
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.