Pratica di Shadowing: The Church Prevails – Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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Peace be with you, friends, for this 21st Sunday of ordinary time, the church brings us once again with Jesus and the disciples to Caesarea Philippi and a famous question.
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It's interesting to me, I've been preaching now for 40 years and how often this scene comes up liturgically, how often the church wants us to return to Caesarea Philippi and to the question posed by Jesus.
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Now, the main characters in this little scene would be Jesus and Peter.
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Whenever the focus is on Peter, we're talking about ecclesiology.
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We're talking about the study of the church.
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Peter is kind of the symbol of the church.
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And so we're going to learn something here very important about both Jesus and the church, but we have to kind of unpack the dynamics of this scene.
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Endlessly fascinating, I find like now over 2000 years, the church keeps returning to the scene and drawing insight from it.
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So here's the first thing to notice, everybody.
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Jesus turns to his disciples and says, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?" I want you to see how peculiar that question is.
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Think of any other religious figure or founder over the centuries.
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The Buddha would never say to his followers, "Who do people say that I am?" No, he'd say, "I've discovered I'm enlightened. Under the Bodhi tree, I came to enlightenment.
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I awakened from a kind of spiritual slumber, and I have discerned a spiritual path that will help others toward enlightenment." Oh, but who are you?
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"Well, okay, I'm the Buddha.
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This means I'm the one that's enlightened, that woke up." But the focus is not on him personally, it's on his teaching.
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Moses, can you imagine Moses in front of his people say now, "Who do people say that I am?" Well, what are you talking about?
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You're Moses.
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You're son of Hebrew parents and you're raised in the Egyptian court and then you escaped and now you've led your people to freedom and you're the giver of the law and you've been the leader of the people.
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Terrific. But the focus isn't on you personally, on your nature.
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It's on the Torah that came through you.
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It sits through your leadership, et cetera.
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Same of Confucius.
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Muhammad. Again, he would never say, "What's the ontological makeup of Muhammad?" Muslims don't care about that.
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They care that he was given this revelation and he's the bearer of it and spokesman for it, but they wouldn't look at his own being as of great significance.
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Then there's Jesus.
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He doesn't say here, "What are they saying about my teaching?
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I gave the sermon on the mount.
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What do they think?
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Good reaction?
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How are the crowds taking it?
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Do they think I'm saying true things?" Those would be reasonable enough questions.
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I could say to my audience, "Do you like these sermons or the book I wrote?
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Did you appreciate that?" But what if I looked into this camera and I said to all of you, "Who do you say that I am?" Well, you'd think I'd lost my mind, right?
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And you'd be right.
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Then that's Jesus.
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Who do people say that the Son of Man is?
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Notice something too, it's interesting to me, in the letters of Paul, so the earliest Christian literature we have, the preaching and letters of Paul, there's hardly a mention of Jesus' teaching, occasional little indirect references to it.
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But there's an enormous interest in who he is.
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Look at the early councils of the church.
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They're not talking about Jesus teaching or his parables or the sermon on the mount, but they're massively interested in who he is.
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All the talk about God from God, light from light, true God from true God, nature, person, hypothesis, all of this technical language to describe who he is.
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Because everybody, that's the heart of Christianity and that's the focus of the church up and down the ages.
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Yes, Jesus' teaching, of course we reference it, but the fundamental question is who is he?
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The church provides the answer to that question up and down the ages.
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You want to know the basic task of the church?
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That's it. And it comes from this peculiar question.
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Now, here's the next thing we discern.
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Listen. Well, they replied, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah.
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Still other Jeremiah or one of the prophets." Well, now what are they doing?
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They're taking a public opinion poll.
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And these disciples of Jesus would have been hearing from the crowds.
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And I'm sure this is right.
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They would have picked up these various theories.
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He's the reincarnation of these great prophets.
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He's like, John the Baptist, come back to life.
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All right. If today, in a more sophisticated way, we took a public opinion poll, say, "Who is Jesus?
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What do you say Jesus is?" We get a lot of similar answers, a variety of other answers.
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"Oh, he's a religious founder.
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Oh, he's a moral teacher.
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Oh, he's a mystic.
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Oh, he's a guru.
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Oh, he was a sage.
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Oh, he was this poor guy killed by the Romans." Public opinion would give you a range of impressions, right?
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So then Jesus turns to the 12.
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"Okay. Yeah. That's what the people are saying.
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Who do you say I am?" It's interesting now, isn't it, that no one speaks?
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He's just turned to his inner circle, to the leaders of his group, the elite.
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You might say the aristocrats following him.
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They don't have an answer.
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Church is not a democracy based upon public opinion, nor is it really an aristocracy based upon the consensus of the elite.
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Who speaks up?
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Peter. Peter speaks up.
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"You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Peter knows who Jesus is.
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And that's the most important thing to know.
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Peter speaks here now with the authority of the church in knowing who Jesus is.
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What's the job of the church led by Peter and his successors up and down the ages to keep proclaiming this truth?
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We know who he is.
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We know who he is.
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We know who he is.
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Everything else follows from that.
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I'm not saying that's the exclusive claim of the church, but it's the central claim of the church.
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Comes not from opinion, not even from the consensus of the aristocracy.
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It comes mystically and by a special charism to Peter and his successors.
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So listen to Jesus.
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Jesus said, "Blessed are you Simon, son of Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly father.
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And so I say to you, Simon Bar-Jonah, you are Peter, Kepha, he would've said in the Aramaic.
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Kepha rendered Petrus in Greek, Petrus in Latin, hence Peter in English.
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Rock. Rocky.
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"And upon this rock, I will build my church." What's the church built upon?
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Not common consensus, not aristocratic consensus.
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It's based upon this mystical claim.
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And it's Peter and his successors who are given the prerogative of announcing this up and down the ages.
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That's the rock.
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Now, I think I told this story before.
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It was when Pope Benedict XVI was elected and Cardinal George was there, my great mentor.
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And he appears on the loggia of St.Peter's after the election.
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Benedict is there waving to the crowds.
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And he has this weirdly pensive expression.
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And they asked him later what it was.
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And he said, "Well, I was thinking about Rome and all the Roman emperors and where they lived over on the Palatine Hill." And then I was wondering, "Where are they?
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Where are the Roman emperors?
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Where's the successor of Julius Caesar or Augustus Caesar?" And he said, "They're nowhere.
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That whole thing has turned to dust.
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But the successor of Peter, mysteriously, he's right there waving at the crowd." What does Jesus say?
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"Upon this rock, I'll build my church and the gates of the Netherworld will not prevail against it." Look, everybody, every kingdom we can name from the ancient world, Greece and Rome and Babylon and Egypt, come up through the Middle Ages, come into modern times, including Hitler's thousand-year Reich and Stalin's communism.
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And where are they, Napoleon's empire?
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Where are they?
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Where are they?
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They've all turned to dust.
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But weirdly, we're still here.
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And I submit to you everybody, that is a weird proposition.
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Predicted here 2,000 years ago in Caesarea Philippi, "You are Peter, and upon this rock of your confession of who I am, I will build the church that will prevail against even the power of hell." It's not like I'm making something up.
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This is empirically verifiable.
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Now, since Benedict, we've had two further popes.
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Now Leo XIV, right?
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Gloriously reigning.
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The successor of Peter who knows who Jesus is, and upon that rock, the church rests.
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Now, here's just the last thing.
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I got this from Fulton Sheen.
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I've been reading a lot of him recently because we're about to beatify him as I record these words.
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He talks about the dual nature of this figure.
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Now, why? Well, he's called Simon and Peter.
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Even as Jesus addresses him, "Blessed are you Simon, son of Jonah.
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But I'm going to give you a new name.
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Now, Kepha, Rocky, Petrus, Peter." But throughout the New Testament, he's referred to by both names.
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And sometimes both together, Simon Peter.
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Well, Fulton Sheen's observation was it's a beautiful signal of, if you want, the dual nature of the church, the Simon side of this man, unsure, unreliable, vacillating, impetuous.
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At the moment of truth, someone who denies he even knows Jesus, who along with the other disciples, runs from him.
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Think about that, everybody. Jesus, right?
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The center of their lives, their Lord and Messiah.
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But when the moment of truth came, they all fled.
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Simon, Simon.
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What does that stand for?
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It stands for the fallen, flawed, imperfect, corrupt, scandal ridden side of the church.
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Try denying it.
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I mean, open up any page of church history.
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What are you going to find?
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Corruption in the church.
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Yes, even in the top leadership.
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We had a great professor when I was a kid at Mundelein Seminary, Father Charlie Meyer.
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And Charlie had taught church history for the longest time.
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And he kind of took a certain delight in sharing the stories of the corrupt popes in the Middle Ages and so on.
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Well, in a way that was good because it immunized me so that when in my own lifetime, great scandal broke out in the church, I think, well, yeah, there's a Simon dimension to the church.
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But Fulton Sheen insists, there's also this Petrine dimension, Peter, Petrus, Kepha, the Rock.
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In the measure that the church led by the successor, Peter, knows who Jesus is and embodies that knowledge in its sacramental life and the witness of its saints, it remains the rock.
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Permanent, absolute, resistant to any attempt to undermine it.
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The church that's endured down to the ages against which the gates of hell will not prevail.
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Yep, that church.
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Both Simon, yes, in his fallen nature and Peter.
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So go back, everybody, go to your Bibles, go back to the scene, Matthew Chapter 16.
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Visit with these disciples if you want, Caesarea Philippi.
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See the Lord Jesus right there turning toward you and saying, "Who do you say that I am?" Everything depends upon the way you answer that question.
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And thank God we have the guarantee of Peter and his successors who know who Jesus is.
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And God bless you.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questo video contiene 154 frasi e 1939 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 13:56. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 139 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 82% 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:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| successor sostantivo | /səkˈsɛsɚ/ | successore, succeditrice |
| consensus sostantivo | /kənˈsɛnsəs/ | consenso |
| sermon sostantivo | /ˈsɝ.mən/ | sermone, predica |
| prevail verbo | /pɹɪˈveɪl/ | prevalere |
| gate sostantivo | /ˈɡeɪ̯t/ | cancello |
| founder sostantivo | /ˈfaʊ̯n.dəː/ | fondatore, creatore |
| dust sostantivo | /dʌst/ | polvere |
| elite sostantivo | /ɪˈlit/ | élite |
| spiritual aggettivo | /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/ | spirituale |
| pope sostantivo | /poʊp/ | papa, pontefice |
| poll sostantivo | /poʊl/ | sondaggio |
| deny verbo | /dəˈnaɪ/ | negare |
| dual aggettivo | /ˈdul/ | duale, doppio |
| emperor sostantivo | /ˈɛmp(ə)ɹə/ | imperatore |
| scandal sostantivo | /ˈskændəl/ | scandalo |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| come up verbo | venire fuori, emergere | |
| go back verbo | tornare | |
| open up verbo | aprire | |
| pick up verbo | tirare su, sollevare | |
| sit through verbo | restare seduto, rimanere seduto | |
| wake up verbo | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | svegliarsi |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 40 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, we're, they're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: dimension /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/, corruption /kəˈɹʌpʃən/, impression /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/, flesh /flɛʃ/, observation /ˌɑbzɚˈveɪʃn̩/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: enlightenment /ɪnˈlaɪtənmənt/, ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/, fundamental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/, significance /sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/, occasional /əˈkeɪʒ(ə)nəl/
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 successor, consensus, sermon.
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — un’azione iniziata prima e ancora in corso | I've been preaching · have been hearing · I've been reading |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | I've discovered · have discerned · you've led |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | was given · are given · was elected |
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.