Pratica di Shadowing: Talking about Likes and Dislikes in English - A Real English Conversation with Bob and Jen - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

Scegli una modalità di pratica

Ogni modalità apre una sala di pratica a schermo intero.

238 frasi
Se le frasi sono troppo corte o troppo lunghe, clicca su Edit per modificarle.
1
Hello and welcome to this English lesson where I'm going to try something new.
2
This won't be like a formal lesson.
3
This is just Jen and I answering questions about things we like
4
as opposed to things maybe we don't like or things we prefer, actually.
5
So I actually have my daughter behind the camera mic'd up
6
and she's going to ask the questions and then Jen and I are going to answer.
7
Are you ready?
8
I think so.
9
I guess Walter's here too.
10
Sorry, I feel like he's going to jump on me.
11
Yeah, he's fine, right?
12
Yeah.
13
Okay.
14
Okay.
15
Okay.
16
He's going to go away.
17
What do you like better, pizza or hamburgers?
18
You want to go first?
19
I like pizza.
20
I like pizza as well.
21
Why?
22
If we're at a restaurant, you will get a hamburger and I'll get a pizza.
23
Oh, that's true.
24
You do like your hamburgers.
25
A well-made hamburger is something I do enjoy.
26
My favorite food, though, is pizza.
27
Yeah.
28
But sometimes we have a lot of it, so sometimes at a restaurant I will get a hamburger.
29
You will too though sometimes get a hamburger.
30
Not as often.
31
When have I gotten a hamburger?
32
I don't know.
33
I've not gotten a hamburger.
34
I think at the fast food restaurant you'll get it.
35
Oh, I thought, yeah, that doesn't count.
36
Yeah.
37
Anyways, I would go with pizza.
38
Favorite toppings?
39
Well, I think because if we're talking restaurant, it's the balsamic chicken, which we don't make at home, right?
40
Like the barbecued chicken, balsamic chicken?
41
I feel like a balsamic dressing on it.
42
I like that one.
43
That was yummy.
44
We had that last time, right?
45
Yeah. And I like meat.
46
Like pepperoni, bacon.
47
Actually, I don't like sausage.
48
And when you get a hamburger, what do you like on the hamburger?
49
Tomatoes, lettuce, ketchup, mustard, relish.
50
Yeah, that sounds good.
51
What else do you get?
52
Cheese.
53
Oh, cheese.
54
Yeah, you get cheese, and I usually don't get cheese.
55
Yeah.
56
Okay, next question.
57
Oh wait, is there a second question there under the food?
58
Yeah.
59
What's the second question?
60
What food don't you like?
61
What food don't you like?
62
Oh.
63
I don't like really, really spicy food.
64
But I do actually enjoy most food. So, you?
65
Well, I don't know.
66
Fish?
67
Can I say fish?
68
Yeah, okay, that's true.
69
I don't like actually any kind of fish.
70
I'll eat tuna and I'll eat.
71
And what's Walter's favorite food?
72
Anything.
73
This dog eats like way too much.
74
Anything.
75
That's absolutely true.
76
Okay, get out.
77
Okay, next question.
78
What do you like better?
79
Sunflowers or pinis?
80
Oh, I changed the flowers that I was going to ask.
81
Oh.
82
Sunflowers or peonies?
83
Peonies.
84
Oh, why?
85
They're like, I wish they, sunflowers have a longer vase life, so that's a pro.
86
Oh, as a grower, that's how you're looking at it, right?
87
Well, even as a buyer, a sunflower you're going to have at least for a week.
88
too if you get it at the right stage.
89
So in terms of durability, sunflower.
90
Peony is just, it has a nice scent.
91
It's not, they're pretty.
92
It's just a beautiful seed.
93
It's like one of the first main flowers I grow.
94
So I think that's why I like them.
95
They smell nice.
96
They look nice.
97
And they're, they're like the first flowers that we, that we, that we see.
98
So I guess we're answering this based on.
99
Oh, and I would say peonies have a shorter season.
100
So you have to really, you like, you don't, Sunflowers you can have from July through well here in Ontario to July through October
101
So I don't know maybe I get sick of them because we have them so long.
102
I know they're to me They're kind of like strawberries like really good strawberries.
103
Yeah, you can get them for about three weeks You can get them year-round, but they're really good ones for three weeks, and then peonies are like strawberries.
104
Yeah Okay, okay.
105
What flower do you not like?
106
I do not like a lily.
107
There might be other flowers.
108
If we're talking about lilies or flowers that I grow, I don't grow lilies anymore because they stink and they break really easily and they're awkward to work with.
109
Yeah, I don't like lilies.
110
I don't like glads.
111
I'll put a picture on the screen.
112
I don't like gladi- why don't you like glads?
113
That's kind of like a stick.
114
I don't like flowers where it's a stick with other flowers.
115
You'll see the picture I'm not describing.
116
Some people love glads because you can just do straight glads in a vase.
117
It's one thing I don't grow because they get thrift.
118
You have to do a lot of chemicals I think to keep glads happy and I don't do chemicals, but a lot of people maybe the older generation.
119
I'm just, I don't like that.
120
Trying to argue with that.
121
Okay, next question.
122
What do you enjoy more, a big family gathering or spending time with just a few family members?
123
I enjoy spending, big family gatherings are a little bit, sometimes you go and you don't have a chance to talk to everyone.
124
So I do like them but not as much as if you just go out for dinner, like we went out for dinner just recently with our son because it was his birthday.
125
It was nice to just be out with just us, like just a smaller amount of people of people.
126
Big family gatherings often we come home
127
and you'll say oh I didn't get a chance to talk to cousin so-and-so or something like that.
128
You?
129
Yeah, they're efficient like well if you're yeah otherwise, when do you really get to see your whole family?
130
Right.
131
Like, so it's nice if you can coordinate a day where everyone can come.
132
But yeah, like, I like a smaller setting better.
133
Like, it's easier to joke around more when it's just my sisters for a whole day.
134
That's true, like a smaller group it can be a little more, you joke around a bit more.
135
You get past that initial, how are you, what are you doing, what's new, and then you just actually get to hang out a bit more.
136
Okay, what do you prefer?
137
They both have their pros and cons.
138
Yeah, I would agree.
139
They're both equal to me.
140
Okay.
141
Which do you prefer working indoors or working outdoors?
142
Who answered the last one first?
143
Me or you?
144
You did.
145
Okay, you go with that.
146
Well, obviously.
147
Outside.
148
I like to be outside.
149
Unless it's like really mosquito-y, which has been a problem this year.
150
Yeah, right now it's not right here.
151
I'm not a big fan of winter.
152
Like when it's really cold and a biting wind, I don't, then I prefer to be indoors.
153
But for three quarters of the year, I prefer outside.
154
You definitely like outdoors.
155
I'm kind of half and half.
156
Actually, maybe more like three quarters.
157
And I like being, there are little ants on the table.
158
I like being inside when it's cold in the winter, in the early spring when it's rainy and cold.
159
I don't like being wet and cold.
160
So I do enjoy that.
161
Like in January, I just like being inside at the school.
162
If it's like 20 degrees, 22, I don't mind working outside.
163
But if it's over 26 or 27 degrees Celsius, I don't like it.
164
OK.
165
OK.
166
What is your least favorite job?
167
My least favorite job is grading.
168
That would be my, yeah, I don't know.
169
Like part of our work?
170
I think so, yeah.
171
I think it's digging up dahlias and bringing them in, because it's in the fall.
172
Because it's grunt work.
173
Like it's hard.
174
It's heavy.
175
It's wet.
176
It's quite often cold.
177
It's a lot.
178
It just seems to never end.
179
Yeah, those are the days where I come home, and then your pants are soaking wet, and your socks are soaking wet, and it's muddy.
180
I can see that.
181
Next one.
182
The last one, right?
183
There should be five, yeah.
184
Are we on the fifth one?
185
What do you like better, watching a movie or watching a TV show?
186
It depends.
187
I don't know.
188
You watch more than I...
189
You want me to answer?
190
Yeah, well, I don't hardly watch anything.
191
Okay, it depends.
192
I like watching a really good movie in the theater,
193
But generally I'm happiest just crash on the couch and watch some British police show.
194
That's usually.
195
So I would say TV shows above movie.
196
Movie in the theater like Spider-Man we saw in the theater.
197
That's fun.
198
Or what was the airplane movie a couple years ago?
199
Tom Cruise.
200
The top Maverick?
201
Yeah, that was good.
202
That was a fun movie.
203
That was totally fun to see in the theater.
204
Fun theater movie.
205
Yeah.
206
You?
207
I hardly watch movies because I'm I don't like anything scary or violent.
208
No car chases. So yeah.
209
So there's hardly any movies that I will want to watch.
210
So I guess I'm gonna go with TV shows though I don't really watch a lot.
211
No but in the winter you do sometimes you'd watch a bit of reality TV.
212
If you had asked sports movie TV shows I watch sports.
213
That's true.
214
Like I watch a lot of baseball right now
215
but I don't watch TV shows not like you do no I watch a lot is
216
that the last one mm-hmm what do we go do we do all my god my little cheat sheet here
217
and we did all of them very good okay I should
218
I should wrap this up I should thank both of you
219
thanks to my daughter for asking the questions thanks to Jen for sitting on a very beautiful day
220
and taking time out of her her flower growing business to sit
221
and chat with us the whole purpose of this This wasn't to be a formal lesson, but as you heard us answer,
222
there's all little sentences that you can take and you can maybe change so that it works for you.
223
So just kind of listen again, if you want, to the things we've talked about
224
and how we responded and maybe you can construct a few sentences for a conversation you have in the future.
225
Should I do my outro?
226
Do you want to say anything or you just...
227
Jen's just going to wave.
228
My outro is this.
229
Thanks for watching.
230
If this is your first time here, don't forget to click the red subscribe button.
231
It's around here somewhere.
232
Leave a comment.
233
I love reading them and responding to them.
234
And give me a thumbs up.
235
Maybe I said that already.
236
I don't remember.
237
And I'll see you next week with another English lesson.
238
Bye.

Scarica l'app

Tutto ciò che serve per parlare fluentemente

Pronuncia con IAVoto per ogni frase
Pratica IPAPadroneggia ogni suono
VocabolarioCostruisci il tuo lessico
Gioco di vocabolarioImpara giocando

Stesso Canale

FOR YOU

Video consigliato

Perché questo video è ottimo per imparare l'inglese con i video

Questo clip di conversazione tra Bob e Jen è un materiale fantastico per la pratica di conversazione in inglese perché è reale. Non ci sono frasi forzate o dialoghi scritti a mano: è come ascoltare due persone parlare di cose quotidiane, con pause, correzioni e discussioni spontanee. Questo tipo di contesto aiuta a capire non solo le parole, ma anche l'intonazione, il ritmo e le espressioni colloquiali che fanno la differenza nella comunicazione vera.

Analizziamo il dialogo: frasi naturali da imitare

Ecco alcuni esempi di come il linguaggio usato è autentico e utile per la tua pratica:

  • "I like pizza as well.": Invece di dire "Anch'io mi piace la pizza", usare "as well" è più colloquiale e naturale. È una struttura semplice ma efficace per concordare con qualcuno.
  • "A well-made hamburger is something I do enjoy.": La frase "do enjoy" mette l'accento sul fatto che piace davvero, non solo un po'. È una forma di enfasi comune nelle conversazioni informali.
  • "That doesn't count.": Quando si vuole dire che qualcosa non è valido o non fa parte della discussione, questa espressione è molto usata. È breve e immediata, come si parla nella vita reale.

Come esercitarti con il shadowing in inglese

Il shadowspeak (o shadowing) è un metodo efficace per migliorare la pronuncia e il fluire. Ecco una routine semplice per questo video:

  1. Riproduci un frammento del dialogo (5-10 secondi) e ascolta attentamente l'intonazione e il ritmo.
  2. Pausa il video e ripeti la frase immediatamente dopo, cercando di imitare ogni dettaglio (volume, pause, accenti).
  3. Registra la tua ripetizione e confrontala con l'originale: nota le differenze e ripeti finché non ti senti a tuo agio.
  4. Prosegui con frasi più lunghe, finché puoi seguire l'intera conversazione senza sbagliare.

Con questa pratica, non solo imparerai a parlare in modo più naturale, ma anche a capire le conversazioni in inglese nella vita quotidiana. Ricorda: la chiave è la costanza!

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 I gotten · I've not gotten · has been
Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — i verbi seguiti dalla forma in -ingenjoy spending · mind working · love reading
Consigli con “should” should + verbo — dire che cosa è meglio fareshould wrap · Should I do
Superlativi the -est / the most … — il massimo o il minimo di un gruppoyour least favorite · My least favorite

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.

Tecnica dello shadowing: leggi la guida completa passo dopo passo →