Pratica di Shadowing: The danger of silence | Clint Smith | TED - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube

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Reviewer Gopalco Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
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Reviewer Gopalco Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
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in a 1968 speech where he reflects upon the Civil Rights Movement,
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states, in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
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but the silence of our friends.
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As a teacher, I've internalized this message.
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Every day all around us,
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we see the consequences of silence manifest themselves in the form of discrimination,
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violence, genocide, and war.
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In the classroom, I challenge my students to explore the silences in their own lives through poetry.
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We work together to fill those spaces,
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to recognize them, to name them,
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to understand that they don't have to be sources of shame.
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In an effort to create a culture within my classroom where students feel safe sharing the intimacies of their own silences,
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I have four core principles posted on the board that sits in the front of my class,
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which every student signs at the beginning of the year.
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Read critically, write consciously, speak clearly, tell your truth.
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I find myself thinking a lot about that last point, tell your truth.
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And I realized that if I was going to ask my students to speak up,
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I was going to have to tell my truth
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and be honest with them about the times where I failed to do so.
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So I tell them that growing up,
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as a kid in a Catholic family in New Orleans,
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during Lent, I was always taught that the most meaningful thing one could do was to give something up,
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sacrifice something you typically indulge in to prove to God you understand his sanctity.
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I've given up soda, McDonald's,
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French fries, French kisses, and everything in between.
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But one year, I gave up speaking,
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figured the most valuable thing I could sacrifice was my own voice,
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my own voice, but it was like I hadn't realized that I had given that up a long time ago.
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I had spent
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so much of my life telling people the things they wanted to hear instead of the things they needed to,
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told myself I wasn't meant to be anyone's conscience because I still had to figure out being my own,
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so sometimes I just wouldn't say anything.
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Appeasing ignorance with my silence,
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unaware that validation doesn't need words to endorse its existence.
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When Christian was beat up for being gay,
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I put my hands in my pocket and walked with my head down as if I didn't even notice.
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Couldn't use my locker for weeks
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because the bolt on the lock reminded me of the one I had put on my lips.
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When the homeless man on the corner looked at me with eyes up,
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merely searching for an affirmation that he was worth seeing,
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I was more concerned with touching the screen of my apple than actually feeding him one.
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When the woman at the fundraising gala said,
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I'm so proud of you.
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It must be so hard teaching those poor, unintelligent kids.
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I bit my lip because apparently we needed her money more than my students needed their dignity.
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We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying,
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that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.
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Silence is the residue of fear.
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It is feeling your flaws, gut-wrench guillotine your tongue.
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It is the air retreating from your chest because it doesn't feel safe in your lungs.
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Silence is Rwandan genocide.
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Silence is Katrina.
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It is what you hear when there aren't enough body bags left.
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It is the sound after the noose is already tied.
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It is charring.
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It is chains.
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It is privilege.
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It is pain.
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There is no time to pick your battles when your battles have already picked you.
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I will not let silence wrap itself around my indecision.
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I will tell Christian that he is a lion,
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a sanctuary of bravery and brilliance.
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I will ask that homeless man what his name is and how his day was,
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Sometimes all people want to be is human.
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I will tell that woman that my students can talk about transcendentalism like their last name was Thoreau,
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and just because you watched one episode of The Wire doesn't mean you know anything about my kids.
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So this year, instead of giving something up,
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I will live every day as if it were a microphone tucked under my tongue,
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a stage on the underside of my inhibition.
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Because who has to have a soapbox when all you've ever needed is your voice.
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Thank you.

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Informazioni su questa lezione

In questa lezione, gli studenti esploreranno l'importanza di esprimere la propria voce e la necessità di affrontare le ingiustizie attraverso il racconto delle proprie esperienze. Utilizzando il discorso di Clint Smith come punto di partenza, i partecipanti praticheranno l’inglese attraverso la tecnica del shadow speak, apprendendo come le parole possano influenzare il cambiamento sociale e personale. Attraverso l'analisi del suo messaggio profondo e toccante, gli studenti si sentiranno ispirati a condividere la loro verità e a comunicare in modo chiaro e significativo.

Vocabolario e frasi chiave

  • Silenzio - silence
  • Voce - voice
  • Coraggio - courage
  • Discriminazione - discrimination
  • Identità - identity
  • Verità - truth
  • Bravura - bravery
  • Empatia - empathy

Consigli per la pratica

Per migliorare le vostre capacità di shadowspeak, è fondamentale prestare attenzione al ritmo e al tono del video di Clint Smith. La sua voce è calda e appassionata, il che rende il messaggio molto potente. Ecco alcuni suggerimenti per praticare efficacemente:

  • Ascolta il video a una velocità normale almeno una volta, concentrandoti sulle emozioni espresse.
  • Successivamente, riproduci il video in modalità di shadowing, cercando di imitare non solo le parole, ma anche il tono e le pause.
  • Pratica ripetendo frasi chiave ad alta voce. Sforzati di esprimere la tua interpretazione del messaggio di Clint.
  • Fai delle pause per riflettere su come i temi trattati si applicano alla tua vita e alla tua esperienza.
  • Utilizza la tecnica del shadow speak per registrare te stesso mentre ripeti parti del discorso e riascolta per migliorare la tua pronuncia e la tua fluidità.

Ricordati che ogni occasione di imparare l'inglese con youtube è un’opportunità per migliorare ed esprimere te stesso, non solo attraverso le parole, ma anche attraverso le emozioni e le esperienze condivise. Approfitta di questa lezione per diventare più sicuro nella tua comunicazione e sviluppare un vocabolario ricco e significativo.

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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