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You have to go through life with more than just passion for change.
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You need a strategy.
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I'll repeat that.
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I want you to have passion.
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You have to have a strategy.
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Not just awareness, but action.
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Not just hashtags, but votes.
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You see, change requires more than righteous anger.
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It requires a program, and it requires organizing. At the 1964
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Democratic Convention, Fannie Lou Hamer, 5 feet 4 inches tall, gave a fiery speech on the national stage.
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But then she went back home to Mississippi and organized cotton pickers.
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And she didn't have the tools
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and technology where you can whip up a movement in minutes if you had to go door to door.
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But to bring about structural change, lasting change, awareness is not enough.
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It requires changes in law, changes in custom.
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If you care about mass incarceration,
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let me ask you, how are you pressuring members of Congress to pass the criminal justice reform bill now pending before then?
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If you care about better policing, do you know who your district attorney is?
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Do you know who your state's attorney general is?
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Do you know the difference?
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Do you know who appoints the police chief?
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And who writes the police training manual?
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Find out who they are, what their responsibilities are.
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Mobilize the community, present them with a plan, work with them to bring about change, hold them accountable if they do not deliver.
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passion is vital, but you've got to have a strategy.
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And your plan better include voting.
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Not just some of the time, but all of the time.
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It is absolutely true that 50 years after the Voting Rights Act, there are still too many barriers in this country to vote.
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There are too many people trying to erect new barriers to voting.
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This is the only advanced democracy on Earth that goes
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goes out of its way to make it difficult for people to vote.
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And there's a reason for that.
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There's a legacy to that.
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Change requires more than just speaking out.
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It requires listening as well.
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In particular, it requires listening to those with whom you disagree and being prepared to compromise.
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When I was a state senator, I helped pass Illinois' first racial profiling law,
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and one of the first laws in the nation requiring the videotaping of confessions in capital cases.
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And we were successful because early on, I engaged law enforcement.
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I didn't say to them, oh, there's this, you guys are so racist, you know, you need to do something.
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I understood, as many of you do,
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that the overwhelming majority of police officers are good and honest and courageous and fair and love the communities they serve.
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And we knew there were some bad apples and that even good cops with the best of intentions,
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including, by the way, African -American police officers might have unconscious biases, as we all do.
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So we engaged and we listened and we kept working until we built consensus.
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And because we took the time to listen,
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we crafted legislation that was good for the police because it improved the trust and cooperation of the community.
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And it was good for the communities who were less likely to be treated unfairly.
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There will be times when you shouldn't compromise your core values, your integrity.
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And you will have the responsibility to speak up in the face of injustice. But listen.
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Engage.
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If the other side has a point, learn from them.
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If the wrong, rebut them, teach them, beat them on the battlefield of ideas.
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And you might as well start practicing now because one thing I can guarantee you, you will have to deal with ignorance,
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hatred, racism, foolishness, trifling folks.
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I promise you, you will have to deal with all that at every stage of your life.
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That may not seem fair, but life has never been completely fair.
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Nobody promised you a crystal stair.
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And if you want to make life fair, then you've got to start with the world as it is. So that's my advice.
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That's how you change things.
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Change isn't something that happens every four years or eight years.
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Change is not placing your faith in any particular politician, and then just putting your feet up and saying, okay, go.
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Change is the effort of committed citizens who hitch their wagons to something bigger than themselves
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and fight for it every single day.
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Now it's your turn.
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And the good news is you're ready.
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And when your journey seems too hard, And when you run into a chorus of cynics who tell you
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that you're being foolish to keep believing or that you can't do something
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or that you should just give up or you should just settle,
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you might say to yourself a little phrase that I have found handy these last eight years.
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Yes, we can.

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Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Take Action If You Want Changes - President Obama Motivational Speech”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: requires, fair, passion, voting, strategy. Questo video contiene 71 frasi e 813 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 5:41. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 143 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 86% 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:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
passion sostantivo/ˈpæʃən/passione
engage verbo/ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/attirare, convergere
awareness sostantivo/əˈwɛɹ.nəs/coscienza
barrier sostantivo/ˈbæɹi.ə/barriera
compromise sostantivo/ˈkɑmpɹəˌmaɪz/compromesso
organize verbo/ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/organizzare
enforcement sostantivo/ɪnˈfoɹsm(ə)nt/applicazione, imposizione
guarantee sostantivo/ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/garanzia
custom sostantivo/ˈkʌstəm/usanza, costume
anger sostantivo/ˈæŋɡə/ira, rabbia
racist sostantivo/ˈɹeɪ.sɪst/razzista
crystal sostantivo/ˈkɹɪstəl/cristallo
citizen sostantivo/ˈsɪtɪzən/cittadino, cittadina
vital aggettivo/ˈvaɪtəl/vitale
cop sostantivo/kɑp/piedipiatti, poliziotto

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
find out verboscoprire
give up verboarrendersi
go back verbotornare
go through verboattraversare
speak out verboesternare

Frasi da ripetere

Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:

  • Do you know who your state's attorney general is?
  • Do you know the difference?
  • Do you know who appoints the police chief?
  • That's how you change things.

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 10 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come didn't, you're, you've. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: passion /ˈpæʃən/, cooperation /koʊˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, racial /ˈɹeɪʃəl/, structural /ˈstɹʌk(t͡)ʃəɹəl/, politician /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: cooperation /koʊˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, integrity /ɪnˈtɛɡɹəti/, politician /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/, incarceration /ɪŋˌkɑː(ɹ)səˈɹeɪʃən/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: hatred /ˈheɪtɹɪd/, hashtag /ˈhæʃˌtæɡ/, hitch /hɪt͡ʃ/
  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: engage /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/, awareness /əˈwɛɹ.nəs/, compromise /ˈkɑmpɹəˌmaɪz/, organize /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/, enforcement /ɪnˈfoɹsm(ə)nt/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: passion /ˈpæʃən/, barrier /ˈbæɹi.ə/, guarantee /ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/, anger /ˈæŋɡə/, manual /ˈmæn.j(u)əl/

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  2. Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come passion, engage, awareness.

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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