Pratica di Shadowing: TED English Course. B1.Lesson 1 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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Reviewer Gopjei Reviewer All right,
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so let's take four subjects that obviously go together.
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Big data, tattoos, immortality, and the Greeks.
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Right?
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And the issue about tattoos is that, without a word, tattoos really do shout.
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So you don't have to say a lot.
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And tattoos tell you a lot of stories.
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If I can ask an indiscreet question, how many of you have tattoos?
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A few, but not most.
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What happens if Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, cell phones, GPS,
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Foursquare, Yelp, Travel Advisor, all these things you deal with every day turn out to be electronic tattoos?
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And what if they provide as much information about who and what you are as any tattoo ever would?
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What's ended up happening over the past few decades is the kind of coverage
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that you had as a head of state or as a great celebrity, is now being applied to you every day by all these people who are tweeting,
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blogging, following you, watching your credit scores, and what you do to yourself.
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And electronic tattoos also shout.
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And as you're thinking of the consequences of that, it's getting really hard to hide from this stuff, among other things, because it's not just the electronic tattoos,
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it's facial recognition that's getting really good.
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So you can take a picture with an iPhone and get all the names, although again, sometimes it does make mistakes.
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But that means you can take a typical bar scene like this, take a picture, say, of this guy right here,
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get the name, and download all the records before you utter a word or speak to somebody,
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because everybody turns out to be absolutely plastered by electronic tattoos.
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And so there's companies like Face.com that now have about 18 billion faces online.
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Here's what happened to this company.
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There are other companies that will place a camera like this.
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This has nothing to do with Facebook.
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They take your picture, they tie it to the social media, they figure out you really like to wear black dresses.
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So maybe the person in the store comes up and says, hey, we've got five black dresses that would just look great on you.
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So what if Andy was wrong?
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Here's Andy's theory.
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What if we flip this?
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What if you're only going to be anonymous for 15 minutes?
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Well, then, because of electronic tattoos, maybe all of you and all of us are very close to immortality,
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because these tattoos will live far longer than our bodies will. And
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if that's true, then what we want to do is we want to go through four lessons from the Greeks
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and one lesson from Latin America.
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Why the Greeks?
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Well, the Greeks thought about what happens when gods and humans and immortality mix for a long time.
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So lesson number one, Sisyphus.
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Remember, did a horrible thing, condemned for all time to roll this rock up, it would roll back down, roll back up, roll back down.
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It's a little like your reputation.
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Once you get that electronic tattoo, you're going to be rolling up and down for a long time, so as you go through this stuff, just be careful what you post.
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Myth number two, Orpheus, wonderful guy, charming to be around, great partier, great singer, loses his beloved,
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charms his way into the underworld, only person to charm his way into the underworld, charms the gods of the underworld,
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they release his beauty on the condition he They never look at her until they're out.
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So he's walking out and walking out and walking out, and he just can't resist.
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He looks at her and loses her forever.
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With all this data out here, it might be a good idea not to look too far into the past of those you love.
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Lesson number three, Atalanta.
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Greatest runner, she would challenge anybody.
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If you won, she would marry you.
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If you lost, you died.
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How did Hypomenize beat her?
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Well, he had all these wonderful little golden apples, and she'd run ahead and he'd roll a little golden apple.
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She'd run ahead, he'd roll a little golden apple, she kept getting distracted.
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He eventually won the race.
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Just remember the purpose as all these little golden apples come
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and reach you and you want to post about them or tweet about them or send a late-light message.
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And then, of course, there's Narcissus.
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Nobody here would ever be accused or be familiar with Narcissus.
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But as you're thinking about Narcissus, just don't fall in love with your own reflection.
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Last lesson from a Latin American.
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This is the great poet Jorge Luis Borges.
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When he was threatened by the thugs of the Argentine military junta, he came back and said, oh, come on, how else can you threaten other than with death?
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The interesting thing, the original thing, would be to threaten somebody with immortality.
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And that, of course, is what we are all now threatened with today because of electronic tattoos.
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Thank you.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B1 si basa sul video “TED English Course. B1.Lesson 1”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: tattoo, electronic, roll, lesson, immortality. Questo video contiene 67 frasi e 838 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 5:45. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 146 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 85% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| tattoo sostantivo | /tæˈtuː/ | tatuaggio |
| immortality sostantivo | /ˌɪmɔːɹˈtæləti/ | immortalità |
| threaten verbo | /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/ | minacciare, impaurire |
| charm sostantivo | /t͡ʃɑɹm/ | amuleto, incantesimo |
| underworld sostantivo | /ˈʌndɚˌwɚld/ | inferi, oltretomba |
| shout verbo | /ʃaʊt/ | gridare |
| indiscreet aggettivo | /ɪndɪsˈkɹiːt/ | indiscreto |
| partier sostantivo | festaiolo, festaiola | |
| plaster sostantivo | /ˈplæstɚ/ | gesso, unguento |
| distract verbo | /dɪˈstɹækt/ | distrarre |
| accuse verbo | /əˈkjuz/ | accusare |
| condemn verbo | /kənˈdɛm/ | condannare |
| utter verbo | /ˈʌtəɹ/ | articolare, biascicare |
| consequence sostantivo | /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/ | conseguenza |
| myth sostantivo | /mɪθ/ | mito |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| go through verbo | attraversare |
| come back verbo | tornare |
| come up verbo | venire fuori, emergere |
| end up verbo | andare a finire, finire |
| figure out verbo | scoprire, rendersi conto |
| roll up verbo | arrotolare |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | being applied · be accused · was threatened |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — qualcosa che succede adesso o in questo periodo | is now being · you're thinking |
| Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un piano o qualcosa che si vede arrivare | you're only going to be · you're going to be |
| Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisione, una promessa o una previsione | will place · will live |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 13 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, don't, he'd. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, myth /mɪθ/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: shout /ʃaʊt/, facial /ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/, reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: immortality /ˌɪmɔːɹˈtæləti/, anonymous /əˈnɒn.ə.məs/, celebrity /səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: underworld /ˈʌndɚˌwɚld/, shout /ʃaʊt/, tweet /ˈtwiːt/, indiscreet /ɪndɪsˈkɹiːt/, distract /dɪˈstɹækt/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: tattoo /tæˈtuː/, immortality /ˌɪmɔːɹˈtæləti/, plaster /ˈplæstɚ/, distract /dɪˈstɹækt/
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 tattoo, immortality, threaten.
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.