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Do you believe in ghosts?
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Yes.
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People always make fun of me because whenever they have a sleepover with me,
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I'll be in bed and at some point in the night there's a hundred percent chance that I will wake up screaming,
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run around the room, something will be in the room.
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I will always pick up on the ghost that is there.
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In my dreams, kind of like I'll wake up and I'll see a guy in the corner.
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He like banged his head and then I'll be like, we need to save him, we need to save him.
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Then I'll wake up the next morning and everyone's like, you were crazy last night.
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And then we search it up and it's like 30 year old man died in room, blah, blah, blah.
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And I'm in that room.
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It's happened to me so many times.
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I don't think they're mean.
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I usually am pretty scared of them.
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One of the things on my rider
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now is they have to scrub the internet for the word haunted beside any place
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that we go to because they will come visit me in my sleep. So.
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I started dancing when I was six.
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My mom was my dance coach my whole life.
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My mom is one of the scariest people to walk into the room during rehearsals, for sure.
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Honestly, my mom would just be like, tell a story and perform from your heart.
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And she was my biggest motivator.
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I loved her.
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Were you always this ridiculously limber?
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No, I was actually pretty stiff when I was younger.
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And then when I was seven, I made a bet that I would get all my splits.
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And then I did.
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I also worked with this really intense Russian rhythmic gymnastics coach.
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She would make me sit on two chairs,
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one leg on one chair and then one leg on the other and she would like sit on my knees.
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It was crazy.
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I was definitely a theater kid.
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Dancing was the only place I really felt understood.
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You can see it all over the internet.
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I have way too many videos of me at musical theater competitions, me trying out for Broadway shows.
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I did everything on the planet and I had a YouTube channel with all of them.
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I was really intense.
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I would get to the competitions two hours early.
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I'd have like an abs set, a squat set.
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I was like eight years old.
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And what were your costumes?
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They were kind of ugly because me and my mom were designing them, so they were always a little ugly.
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But I didn't really get too nervous.
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Stages don't really freak me out.
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Did you go up to auditioning for So You Think You Can Dance?
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I did.
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I was 11 or 12 years old, and I had to get an O1 visa to go audition.
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I was in this long yellow dress, and I did this really emotional violin orchestra piece, and it was really intense.
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What posters did you have in your room growing up?
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I didn't have any posters.
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For a while, I went through a really emo phase.
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I would write everything on my wall, be like, nobody understands me.
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It was actually like the most embarrassing high school thing I could have done
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because then we would have people over and then they would see this wall.
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It was a phase.
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I loved to play dress up when I was younger.
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I would always come downstairs and have my mom's pearls and like a beret and like wings on.
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Every single Halloween, I would be seven different characters mixed into one.
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When I was three, my mom wanted me to be Bam Bam from The Flintstones.
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I had bone in my head and then I said I also want to be a cowboy and a fairy.
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So then I had cowboy boots on, fairy wings, pearls.
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My mom was like, you are too and you look like a hooker.
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I was literally like, had her lipstick on, her makeup on, it was crazy.
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Who was your cinematic or movie or TV crush when you were growing up?
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It used to be Leonardo DiCaprio in Catch Me If You Can specifically.
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I love him in Titanic too.
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Have I ever crashed a party?
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I've definitely crashed a party when I was younger.
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I went to the same school as my brother.
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I was just like, get me into your parties.
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I just want to be your friend.
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I was like, you're not my friend.
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It was a time with lots of friction between us.
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I would just try to get in anywhere he was.
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I'd be like, why are you here?
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Do you have any good scars?
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I have one scar on my foot, on like the side of my foot.
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Wow, I've literally never talked about this before.
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I got cut by coral when I was five.
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It has stayed with me my whole life.
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I used to live in the Middle East, so we were swimming in the ocean.
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I thought I got bit by a shark.
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I'm like the most dramatic person ever.
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I'm like, Mom, a shark got me.
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It's like the smallest little scar.
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My dad's like running in to save me.
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Where was your first kiss?
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My first kiss was on a couch with my first boyfriend in his living room.
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It was crazy.
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I remember explaining to my friends, like you will never experience this feeling in your life.
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It's the craziest rush of emotions.
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They're like, girl, you're the last one to kiss out of our friend group.
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Maybe it just made it really amazing in my head.
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Did you stay together after the first kiss?
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Yeah, for a year and a half.
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It was very cute.
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What was the best event on your birthday?
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I was always competing on my birthday.
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When I was younger, because I have the same birthday as Canada,
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so I'd be like, walk outside and see all the fireworks and be like, for me?
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My dad's like, Jesus, we're raising a diva.
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But I'd be like, I can't believe he did all this for me.
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And they're like, it's Canada.
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Do you do karaoke?
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When I was like eight years old, I did karaoke.
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Grenade by Bruno Mars.
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It's literally like the best song ever.
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It's not your usual eight -year -old song.
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Definitely not.
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No, I was an emotional child.
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I was that kid that every Friday would pull on my mom's laptop, photo booth it, karaoke for like six hours.
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Oh yeah, every karaoke song I'd be like in front of the laptop.
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Today's the day that I'm going to become famous.

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Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Tate McRae Talks Ghosts, First Kiss, & Emo Phase”. Questo video contiene 113 frasi e 1129 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:55. Chi parla va veloce, circa 230 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Solo il 81% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
intense aggettivo/ɪnˈtɛns/intenso
scar sostantivo/skɑɹ/cicatrice
ghost sostantivo/ɡoʊst/fantasma, spettro
ugly aggettivo/ˈʌɡli/brutto, laido
theater sostantivo/ˈθi(ə)tɚ/teatro
laptop sostantivo/ˈlæp.tɑp/notebook, laptop
poster sostantivo/ˈpoʊstɚ/immagine di muro, poster
pearl sostantivo/pɝl/perla
cowboy sostantivo/ˈkaʊˌbɔɪ/mandriano, vaccaio
audition sostantivo/ɑˈdɪʃən/audizione
rush verbo/ɹʌʃ/affrettarsi, correre
bone sostantivo/boʊn/osso
dramatic aggettivo/dɹəˈmætɪk/drammatico
compete verbo/kəmˈpiːt/competere, gareggiare
scary aggettivo/ˈskɛə.ɹi/pauroso

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
wake up verbo/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/svegliarsi
grow up verbocrescere
go through verboattraversare

Frasi da ripetere

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

  • Do you believe in ghosts?
  • Were you always this ridiculously limber?
  • Have I ever crashed a party?
  • I'd be like, why are you here?
  • Do you have any good scars?

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
“Used to” used to + verbo — un’abitudine o uno stato passato che non è più veroused to be · used to live
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessoHave I ever crashed · I've definitely crashed · has stayed
Superlativi the -est / the most … — il massimo o il minimo di un gruppothe scariest · my biggest · the most embarrassing
Past continuous was/were + -ing — un’azione in corso in un momento del passatowere designing · were growing · were swimming

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 27 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'd, I'll, I'm. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “th”: theater /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/, booth /buθ/, rhythmic /ˈɹɪð.mɪk/
  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, crush /kɹʌʃ/, friction /ˈfɹɪkʃən/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: ridiculously /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs.li/, karaoke /ˈkæ.ɹiˌəʊ.ki/, kinematic /kɪn.əˈmæt.ɪk/, motivator /ˈməʊ.təˌveɪ.tə/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: rehearsal /ɹɪˈhɝsl̩/, haunt /hɔnt/, hookah /ˈhu.kə/
  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: intense /ɪnˈtɛns/, ghost /ɡoʊst/, laptop /ˈlæp.tɑp/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, dramatic /dɹəˈmætɪk/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: laptop /ˈlæp.tɑp/, dramatic /dɹəˈmætɪk/, bang /ˈbæŋ/, gymnastics /d͡ʒɪmˈnæs.tɪks/, karaoke /ˈkæ.ɹiˌəʊ.ki/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come intense, scar, ghost.

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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