Pratica di Shadowing: The Battle for Your Time: Exposing the Costs of Social Media | Dino Ambrosi | TEDxLagunaBlancaSchool - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube

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By providing space for constant evolution,
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By providing space for constant evolution,
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we can all transform how we view ourselves and the world around us.
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Bear with me, everybody.
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I'm going to start off today on a little bit of a heavy note,
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but I promise things will lighten up.
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The dots on this screen represent an adult life in months in months,
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assuming a life expectancy of 90.
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So if you're 18 years old right now,
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this is an optimistic estimate of the months that you have left.
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Take a second to take that in.
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Probably not as many as you would expect.
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And I'm sorry to say that it does get worse
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because about a third of that time is going to be spent sleeping.
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On average, 126 of those months will go to school and your career.
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About 18 will be spent driving,
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36 cooking and eating, 36 doing chores and errands,
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and about 27 in the bathroom and taking care of personal hygiene.
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So that leaves you with 334 months, optimistically, for everything else.
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So this is where you tick the boxes on your bucket list.
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This is where you pursue your passions and travel the world and leave your mark.
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How you spend this time is going to determine the quality of your life.
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But this time isn't just something that you spend,
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it's also something that you invest.
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Because what you do with it will quite literally determine the kind of person you become.
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The body, mind and character that you will have in the future are being actively shaped
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by how you choose to use your time today.
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So take a second and ask yourself,
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what do you want to do with that free time?
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What things do you want to do that you haven't done?
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Who do you want to spend that time with?
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What is worth investing it in?
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Now, I would be willing to bet that scrolling through TikTok,
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binge-watching Netflix, and playing video games probably did not come to mind.
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But today, the average 18-year-old in the United States is on pace to spend
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93% of their remaining free time looking at a screen.
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That is not counting time for school.
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So, wrap your head around how sad that is.
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Imagine getting to the age of 90,
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seeing this visualization of how you spent all your time after the age of 18,
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and thinking about all the things you could have done that you did not do because you got distracted.
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And I also want you to ask yourself,
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What do you think over 26 years of screen time would do to you?
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What is that an investment in?
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How would it change you?
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It's well established that there's a link between high screen time and mental health issues such as depression and anxiety.
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But recently, we've started to unveil the cognitive consequences of excessive tech use as well.
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When we're staring at our screens,
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we are constantly switching our attention between different pieces of information.
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The average TikTok is about 15 seconds long,
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and over 55% of web pages are viewed for 15 seconds or less.
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And if you're switching your attention every 15 seconds for an average of 8 hours and 39 minutes a day,
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you are training yourself to become chronically distracted.
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Think about what that will do to your career,
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to your relationships, and to your ability to pursue the things that matter most to you.
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Unfortunately, the consequences of screen time are not limited to our mental health and our cognition,
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because every social media platform carries a message that affects what we believe.
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They influence the way we see ourselves and the way we see the world purely based on how they are designed.
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Instagram inherently says that your worth is largely defined by what you look like and what you do on vacations.
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It compels you to capture all the most meaningful moments of your life on camera
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and share them with your entire social network.
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And it implicitly says that it's more valuable to have a thousand people that will give you transient social approval
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than a few that deeply care about you,
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even when it's not your best day.
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Snapchat inherently says that the quality of our relationships is best measured by the frequency of our communication,
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regardless of what we're actually saying.
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You get a point added to your Snapchat streak
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even if you just send a picture of the side of your face with the captioned streaks.
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Twitter says that anything worth saying can and should be reduced to an arbitrary number of characters.
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It says that the world is black and white,
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that it's more important to be updated about everything than deeply informed about anything.
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And when you start to compare the messages these platforms are sending with those of technologies from the past,
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you begin to get a sense of what we might be losing.
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Because the inherent structure of a book says that the world is complex and it takes time to understand.
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It compels us to walk in the shoes of other people and see things from their perspective with context.
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And it forces us to focus on one train of thought for an extended period of time,
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which nurtures our attention.
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And the letter tells us that our communication doesn't need to be frequent.
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It just needs to be deep.
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So when you factor all that in,
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it quickly becomes clear that the opportunity cost of this screen time is impossible to calculate.
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And I have never shown this visualization
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to anyone that actually wants to spend 93% of their remaining free time staring at a screen.
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So there is a stark difference
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between how much time we say our screens are worth and how much time we actually give them.
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And it is critical to realize that is not an accident. That is by design.
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It's a consequence of a business model that has incentives which are fundamentally misaligned with your well-being.
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Because you are the product that social media sells.
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These services are free because they are monetizing you.
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They profit by helping advertisers change your future behavior,
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whether that be where you spend your time,
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how you spend your money,
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or even who you vote for.
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In order to do that,
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they have to do two things.
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They need to figure out
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which ads are going to influence you by collecting as much data about you as they possibly can,
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and then they need to show you as many of those ads as possible.
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So social media is free because you pay for it with your time.
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Their profit is directly linked to how long they can get you to scroll.
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And every social media platform is in a battle with each other to capture as much of your free time as possible.
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So let's run a thought experiment.
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I want you to ask yourself,
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how much would you pay for your favorite social media platform platform if it charged you a monthly subscription fee.
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So pick the app that you use the most,
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and raise your hand if you would pay at least $5 a month.
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OK, how about $10 a month?
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20?
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I don't see any hands anymore.
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Well, let's do a quick calculation to figure out how much we're effectively paying for an app like TikTok.
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We'll assume that you value your time at a rate of $20 per hour,
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and you're spending two hours a day on the platform,
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or 30 days in a month,
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so you're effectively paying $1,200 per month for TikTok.
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So when you start to do this kind of analysis,
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it quickly becomes clear that most of us are drastically overpaying for social media.
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My ask of you is this.
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Figure out what it means for you to get a good deal out of social media platforms.
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In order to do that,
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you have to do two things.
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You have to ask yourself,
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what value do these services provide?
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And second, you have to ask,
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how much of your time is that value worth?
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Now, I want to be clear that I am not saying social media is without value.
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It can be an incredibly powerful tool.
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It can foster relationships.
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It can introduce you to new ideas.
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It can even spark social movements.
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But we need to learn to use it in moderation.
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Don't let yourself get to the age of 90,
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only to look back on your life and realize that while you were trying to avoid FOMO,
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you actually missed out on living.
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That free time is your most valuable resource.
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Do not give it away for free.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

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Perché praticare la conversazione con questo video?

Questo video di Dino Ambrosi offre uno spunto interessante per riflettere sulla gestione del tempo e le scelte quotidiane che influenzano la nostra vita. Praticare la conversazione in inglese guardando e analizzando questo contenuto non solo aiuta a migliorare le abilità linguistiche, ma offre anche un contesto significativo per migliorare la comprensione e l'espressione. Utilizzando il metodo di shadowspeak, gli studenti possono affinare le loro capacità di parlare mimando l'oratore, migliorando così la loro pronuncia e fluidità. L’argomento trattato, come l'impatto delle tecnologie sulla nostra vita, invita a discussioni più profonde, rendendo il tutto più coinvolgente.

Grammatica ed Espressioni nel Contesto

Nel video, Ambrosi utilizza diverse strutture grammaticali e frasi chiave che possono essere utili per chi pratica shadowing in inglese. Ecco alcune espressioni da notare:

  • “What do you want to do with that free time?” - Questa domanda retorica stimola la riflessione e può essere replicata per incoraggiare conversazioni simili.
  • “How you spend this time is going to determine the quality of your life.” - Un'affermazione forte che evidenzia la causa e l'effetto, ideale per esercitarsi a costruire frasi complesse.
  • “Take a second to take that in.” - Un’espressione colloquiale usata per invitare l'ascoltatore a riflettere, utile per migliorare la fluidità.

Utilizzando queste strutture, gli studenti possono ampliare le loro capacità di espressione in contesti reali e quotidiani.

Trappole di Pronuncia Comune

Quando si pratica la conversazione con questo video, è importante prestare attenzione a certe parole e accenti che potrebbero risultare complicati. Alcuni esempi includono:

  • “screen time” - La combinazione di suoni può essere difficile; telaio /krin taɪm/ è essenziale per una corretta articolazione.
  • “investment” - Attenzione all'accento sulla seconda sillaba: /ɪnˈvɛstmənt/ è fondamentale per una pronuncia comprensibile.
  • “cognitive” - Pronunciato come /ˈkɒɡnɪtɪv/, è una parola chiave nel contesto del video e richiede pratica per essere correttamente pronunciata.

Praticare l'ascolto e la ripetizione di queste parole all'interno del contesto del video può realmente migliorare la pronuncia e la fiducia nell'utilizzo della lingua inglese.

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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