Pratica di Shadowing: THE MIDDLE - PILOT - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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The End The End The End The End The End Hello?
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Hello?
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Can you hear me?
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Oh, damn it!
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Come on!
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Some people call this the middle of nowhere.
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You know, one of those places you fly over on your way from somewhere to somewhere else, but you wouldn't live here.
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Folks, right now we're flying over the great state of Indiana.
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If you'd like to take a look.
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Well, look down next time, and you'll see us down here in the middle.
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Orson, Indiana.
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Heart of the heart.
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Proud home of Little Betty's snack cakes, the demolition derby for the homeless, and the world's largest polyurethane cow.
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So how'd I end up in the middle of the road in this get-up?
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Here?
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No. Oh, bars.
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I got bars.
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Ow!
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Guess it all started a couple of weeks ago.
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And no, I'm not an actual superhero.
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Not unless you count getting my kids out the door for school every morning.
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I made breakfast!
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Come on, we're late!
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Let's go, let's go!
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That's my youngest, Brick.
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You know how you think giving a kid a cool name will make him cool?
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It doesn't.
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Okay, now listen.
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Today at recess, I don't want you wandering around alone on the perimeter.
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All right?
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Makes you an easy target, you know?
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Like the gazelle that gets separated from the pack.
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You've got to find yourself a group of kids and just stand near them.
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You know you're my hero, right, Mom?
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Thank you, honey.
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Eat your pancake.
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It's still frozen.
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Well, look at it.
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It'll last longer.
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Hey Mike, have you seen that envelope with my driver's license from the DMV?
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I need it for work.
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Why is this place such a mess?
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That one over there would be Axel.
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Since he hit 15, he hibernates in his room
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and only comes out to paw through our food and shoot off sarcastic comments.
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Oh, rough chips.
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Nice job, Mom.
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Yeah, I can't hear you if you don't have pants on.
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Mom, where's my homework?
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Aha!
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Okay. When did this happen?
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Mike, look at this.
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Look at this.
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This is...
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I haven't had my driver's license picture taken in seven years.
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Okay.
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Here's the old one.
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Look at this.
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What happened to me?
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Well, back then, you're all young and shiny and wondering what your life's gonna be.
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And now, well, now you know.
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Ugh.
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Mom!
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Hey, come in here if you wanna talk to me.
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Axel, put some pants on here.
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Okay, maybe it was just a bad picture.
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I mean, yikes.
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Mike, does it ever bum you out that I'm not young and shiny anymore?
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Well, sure, honey.
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It's a huge bummer, but what are you gonna do?
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Oh, shoot.
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I wanted chips for my lunch.
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She didn't buy any.
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Sue, grab a pancake.
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We're late.
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That's Sue.
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She's been going through a bit of an awkward stage for the past 13 years.
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Mom, the dryer ate my leg warmers again.
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I told you, you can't put wet things in the dryer anymore.
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Well, I need them, because guess what?
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I'm drying out for show choir this week.
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I know, I know, that's not an expression parents should have on their faces
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when their daughter tells them she's trying out for something.
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But see, Sue had a long history of things she tried out for.
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A long and painful history.
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Yo debo ser exaltada en el club espanol por que soy 6.
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Show choir.
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Wow, super.
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That should be fun to try out for.
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Now listen, Dad's going to fix the dryer again, but right now I just need everybody to go.
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Let's get out the door.
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Come on.
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Let's go, let's go.
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That driver's license picture was a big wake-up call from the DMV.
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Somehow the life had been sucked right out of me.
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But who or what had sucked it?
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Mom!
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Mom!
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Mom!
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Mom!
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Mom!
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Mom, he's not gonna be my bad dad!
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Mom!
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Mom!
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Mom!
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We did teach him the word dad, didn't we?
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We're a two-job family.
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Mike manages a bunch of boneheads down at the quarry. For crying out loud.
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And my latest job I'm too smart for is selling cars at Orson's last surviving car dealership.
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Wah, wah, wah.
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What a month, huh?
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Frankie, don't let him intimidate you.
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He may be the king of sales around here, but he's been rejected by the Elks Lodge.
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Twice.
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I'm not gonna say by who.
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It was me.
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Really?
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I told him that he's a pedophile.
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No. Yeah, he's not.
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He's not a pedophile.
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Wait.

Cosa imparerai

Questo clip ti aiuterà a migliorare due abilità cruciali per la conversazione in inglese: la pratica di conversazione in inglese in contesti quotidiani e la capacità di seguire un discorso spontaneo con interruzioni e cambi di tema. Inoltre, imparerai a identificare e riprodurre l'intonazione usata per esprimere frustrazione, affetto o ironia, fondamentale per comunicare con naturalezza.

Ascolta questi suoni

Nella conversazione, nota come alcune frasi siano collegate o ridotte, tipiche del parlato informale. Ad esempio, "Can you hear me?" diventa quasi "Canyou hear me?" con il legame tra "Can" e "you". Anche "I got bars" (ho segnale) ha una pronuncia veloce, con "got" ridotto a "got" senza enfasi. Questi esempi di connected speech ti insegnano a non pronunciare ogni parola separatamente, ma a fluire come un madrelingua.

Parla come un nativo

Per imitare il ritmo e l'enfasi del speaker, usa la tecnica del shadow speak (o shadowing in inglese): ascolta una frase, pausa e ripetila immediatamente, cercando di copiare la velocità, l'intonazione e le pause. Ad esempio, nella frase "Oh, damn it! Come on!", l'enfasi è su "damn" e "Come", con una caduta di tono per esprimere la frustrazione. Nella parte "You know you're my hero, right, Mom?", l'intonazione sale leggermente su "right" per creare un tono affettuoso. Pratica questo esercizio ripetutamente: il shadowspeak è un modo efficace per rafforzare la pronuncia e il feeling del linguaggio inglese.

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fahad been sucked · been rejected
Consigli con “should” should + verbo — dire che cosa è meglio fareshould have · should be
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un piano o qualcosa che si vede arrivaregonna be · gonna do · Dad's going to fix
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — qualcosa che succede adesso o in questo periodowe're flying · I'm drying · is selling

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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