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May I have your attention, please?
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Your attention.
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Please.
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May I have some?
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Please.
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What if I put up gameplay of Subway Surfer and used a robot voice?
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Would that keep you stimulated?
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Wikipedia says that people born between the year 1981 and 1996 are part of a group called Millennials.
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And I am a 96 baby.
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Hello, Year of the Rat.
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What's up?
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I'm cusping on that Millennial Gen Z line.
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So I can relate to all you
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Gen Z -ers, okay?
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I know what cap means, I know what drip means, and I also don't remember where I was when 9 -11 happened.
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However, Gen Z, there is a difference between us.
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We're both a generation that grew up on the internet, but you grew up with the internet.
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We grew up with the internet.
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The internet didn't used to always look like this.
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It has metamorphosized a multitude of times.
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Now, if you talk to an older millennial, they'll tell you the horror stories of the late 90s internet,
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how the internet used to be paired with your home's landline, and if you don't know what a landline is, good.
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If you wanted to surf the net at blazing speeds of 7 kilobytes a second, then you couldn't use your telephone at the same time.
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This was before texting even existed, so if you needed to talk to someone, you had to call them and look up their phone number in
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that 20 pound weapon known as a phone book and then if someone else was using the internet, they'd get the pleasure of listening to...
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Although, if I had to make a sound that represented the entire internet, it would sound exactly like this.
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I didn't grow up with dial -up, but I did grow up in a time where the internet looked completely different.
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By the time I was exploring the interwebs, we got speeds up to 1 megabyte per second.
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So the highest quality video you could stream on YouTube was in 240p, or this big.
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And it would still buffer.
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A lot.
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Gen Z, you weren't there when YouTube had a 5 -star scoring system
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and the subscribe button was yellow and people would put these things all over their videos.
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You weren't there when the videos were in a 4x3 aspect ratio because that's what TVs look like.
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You weren't there when a background for a website would be a never -ending grid of a JPEG
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and music would play against your will and your cursor would turn into a sparkly wand and...
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Okay, that's actually pretty cool.
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Whatever happened to that?
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And then the person who built the website would go, Hmm, it's looking pretty good.
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But you know what this webpage really needs?
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A counter that'll tell you the total number of people who visited.
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Let me just copy this HTML code I found online and
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if you're around my age and you also had unsupervised computer time,
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then great, you were also there to experience the pre -puberty years of the internet.
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Try to imagine the internet without social media.
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No Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or MySpace.
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Were people back then just not talking about themselves or sharing their opinions online?
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Were we as a society more connected with the people we knew in the real world?
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No, of course not.
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People have been sharing their opinions online since day one.
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They were just doing it on random message boards.
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I know it sounds trivial nowadays, but there was once a novelty in being able to type anything you wanted into the computer,
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and then someone else you didn't know would instantaneously respond.
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Even Neopets, a game targeted to children, had chat rooms and let anyone send unfiltered messages to children.
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I'm surprised I didn't meet any weirdos.
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That's one thing that'll never change with the internet.
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There will always be weirdos online.
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In fact most of a weirdo's life is spent behind a computer.
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I would know.
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I think people love sending messages so much that sometimes your friend would send you a message that said
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You've just been hit by the duck truck!
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Send this message to eight of your friends and you'll be as sexy as a truck!
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Ignore and you'll be hit by a 16 -wheeler.
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You have seven days.
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And instead of blocking that person, some people would keep the chain going.
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Hey, I have a quick question.
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When was the last time you ever had to type a specific website into your address bar?
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Hmm, probably somewhere about 10 years, give or take.
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You just type in a Y, and then YouTube pops up.
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You put in a T, you get Twitter, and P gets you picturesofalligators .com.
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And if you had a specific question you wanted to ask the internet, you just yahoo it, right?
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Yahoo?
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Oh, no, that's not the one you kids are using, you kids are using that new search engine, right?
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Ask Jeeves?
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I know there's like four main websites that everyone goes on, but back then, instead of having a social media account, people made their own websites.
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So there were a bunch of different websites for you to explore, and to help you find those websites,
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you had a few search engines to pick from.
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Everyone loves to dunk on Bing for even attempting to be a search engine, but back in the day, Google had some competition.
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Obviously, I can see why Google ultimately won the search engine battle.
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Google is a great company and I would recommend Google to all my peers and coworkers.
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I love Google!
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As much as I love the internet, some of the best memories we had on the computer weren't even on the internet, were they?
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Sometimes the internet would just go down.
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But did that stop us?
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Did we go outside?
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No. We were still able to supply ourselves with hours of entertainment even without an internet.
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All you had to do was click
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Start, All Programs, Accessories, Games, and then...
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Space Cadet Pinball.
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I guarantee every millennial watching this right now just got hit with a big wave of nostalgia.
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This game might seem simple because there's only two buttons that you can press, but when you really got into it,
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this game had a whole lot more going on.
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Trust me, Space Cadet Pinball was all we had sometimes, and I cherished every second of it.
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But if you were anything like me growing up, you were also practicing your art skills.
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And luckily, every computer came pre -installed with a top -of -the -line painting software that every artist needs.
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Yeah, this program's got everything.
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There's a line tool, and a bucket tool, and a circle tool.
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And sometimes when I was really bored, I would make a black rectangle, scribble the free -form selection tool on it, and then blammo!
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Yeah, I still got it.
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I just made a masterpiece.
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And, fun James bonus tip, for some extra self -induced epilepsy, hold down Ctrl -I, which will invert the colors,
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so your masterpiece will go...
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Oh my god!
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Oh, it hurts to look at!
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Hey, looks like you're trying to create a conclusion to this YouTube video.
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Would you like my help?
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No, Clippy.
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Even when you were around, I never used you.
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I just liked having you there to keep me company.
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The internet is still a relatively new invention that is ever -changing the way we live.
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And we have yet to see the full effects of what being connected since birth does to a person.
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The fact that the accumulation of all human knowledge can now fit in your pocket?
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That's going to affect your day -to -day life!
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Now, I'm not going to sit here and tell you to get off the internet, touch grass, and live your life to the fullest.
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Otherwise, I'd be a hypocrite. And unemployed.
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There's no denying all the positive things that the internet has to offer.
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But I'm also not going to deny all the negative things that come with instant gratification, too.
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As technology advances, so too do we advance the amount of time we spend online.
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The internet can connect us to a million different people and perspectives that we never would have been exposed to before.
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But it can also expose us to some really nasty people and perspectives.
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And the only thing we can do about those people is shrug and say, Sorry, that's the internet.
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So, are we, as a society, better off with the internet?
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I think so.
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But just, I don't know, just remember to drink water and stretch.
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Alright, that's the lesson of this video.
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Go stretch.
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I'm serious.
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Right now, go touch your toes.

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Vocaboli chiave di questo video

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

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
connect verbo/kəˈnɛkt/connettere, connettersi
stretch verbo/stɹɛt͡ʃ/tendere
deny verbo/dəˈnaɪ/negare
explore verbo/ɪkˈsploɹ/esplorare, investigare
expose verbo/ɪkˈspoʊz/esporre, evidenziare
masterpiece sostantivo/ˈmæstɚˌpis/capolavoro, capodopera
ignore verbo/ɪɡˈnɔː/ignorare
pocket sostantivo/ˈpɑ.kɪt/tasca
lesson sostantivo/ˈlɛs.ən/lezione
bonus sostantivo/ˈbəʊ.nəs/bonus, extra
guarantee sostantivo/ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/garanzia
horror sostantivo/ˈhɒɹ.ə/orrore
sexy aggettivo/ˈsɛksi/sexy
skill sostantivo/skɪl/abilità, capacità
aspect sostantivo/ˈæspɛkt/aspetto

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
get off verboscendere
grow up verbocrescere
hold down verbotenere a freno
pop up verbospuntare, saltare fuori
put up verbocollocare

Frasi da ripetere

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

  • May I have your attention, please?
  • May I have some?
  • Would that keep you stimulated?
  • I'm surprised I didn't meet any weirdos.
  • Would you like my help?

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 always look · used to be
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fabe paired · is spent · been hit
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohas metamorphosized · You've just been hit
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosaperson who built · people who visited

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 28 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, didn't, weren't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: conclusion /kənˈkluːʒən/, ratio /ˈɹeɪ.ʃoʊ/, invention /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/, accumulation /əˌkjuːm.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, cherish /ˈt͡ʃɛɹɪʃ/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: accumulation /əˌkjuːm.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, millennial /mɪˈlɛn.ɪ.əl/, epilepsy /ˈɛpɪˌlɛpsi/, gratification /ˌɡɹætɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: horror /ˈhɒɹ.ə/, hypocrite /ˈhɪ.pə.kɹɪt/
  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: connect /kəˈnɛkt/, stretch /stɹɛt͡ʃ/, expose /ɪkˈspoʊz/, masterpiece /ˈmæstɚˌpis/, pocket /ˈpɑ.kɪt/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: masterpiece /ˈmæstɚˌpis/, guarantee /ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/, aspect /ˈæspɛkt/, nasty /ˈnæs.ti/, nostalgia /nɑˈstæld͡ʒə/

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 connect, stretch, deny.

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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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