Pratica di Shadowing: The Light L /l/ and Dark L [ɫ] in English - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube

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Hi there, in today's lesson we're going to talk about the difference between the light L and the dark L in English.
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Hi there, in today's lesson we're going to talk about the difference between the light L and the dark L in English.
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By the end of today's video you will know exactly what the difference is between the two types of L
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and you will also be able to pronounce them, especially the dark L.
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L is in words like light.
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Okay.
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So you can see the tip of my tongue here, it comes up to touch the top of my mouth and it kind of flops back down again.
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It releases, okay.
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And it creates this L, L, L sound.
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Okay.
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As in light.
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Light.
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Lucky.
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Lucky.
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Lovely.
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Lovely.
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And the last one, lonely.
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lonely.
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So what tends to happen here is whenever you have a L and then you have a vowel after it, you're probably going to get what's called the light L.
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So the light L appears before vowel sounds.
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Contrary to this, we have the dark L and this comes after a vowel sound.
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So let's take a word Fall.
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okay like the light l for la I hold it. For.
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And don't keep the sound going, OK?
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Don't say foo.
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Okay, I hear a lot of students doing that.
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You need to cut that sound, but keep your tongue in that position where it's touching the top of your mouth.
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Okay, some people describe it where you're not really touching the top of your mouth, but a lot of the time it usually is.
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So let's go back to our target word, fall.
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or or or or okay you can see i'm not releasing it i'm holding it at the top of my mouth
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fall full Another example is pull.
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pull.
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So I'm not releasing it, not pull.
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Pull.
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O.
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poll.
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Fool.
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FULL -A.
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Fool.
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Fool.
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hold it, okay?
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This part stays at the top.
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Fool.
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And the last one, mole.
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Mole.
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I'm holding it.
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Mole.
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Mole.
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Mole.
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Let's have a practice in some sentences.
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So I'm going to read the sentence and you just listen and repeat in your own time.
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Do pause the video if you need a little bit more time.
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She's so lucky to live in such a lovely location.
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she's so lucky to live in such a lovely location.
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She's so lucky to live in such a lovely location.
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And the next one with dark L.
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Paul fell in the mole and looked like a fool.
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Paul, so careful, you're not releasing it, yeah, it's not Paula.
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Paul fell in the mall and looked like a fool.
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Paul fell in the mall and looked like a fool.
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And that's it for this video.
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I hope you've enjoyed it and you've learnt something new.
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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.