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A man named Eric is on a walk with his dog, Nova.
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While on the walk, Eric loses Nova after she pulls the leash from his hand in pursuit of a rabbit that happens to jump out of a bush as they pass by it.
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Eric chases after Nova but this only inspires her to run faster, until she completely eludes Eric's vision continuing on her pursuit of the rabbit, that has, by now, hidden somewhere in the other direction.
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After a great deal of time passes, it becomes clear that Nova has outrun her sense of orientation and is now lost.
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Eric spends the rest of the day and the days following searching for Nova. He notifies neighbors, enlists friends and family to help, puts up signs, and so on.
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A week goes by, nova is still missing eric is devastated beyond comprehension he thinks about how horribly unlucky it was that the rabbit jumped out at just the wrong time his hand position just in the wrong place to allow Nova to pull the leash from it About another week later, a woman shows up at Eric's front door, she has Nova.
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After nova and Eric reconnect in a chaotic, heart-warming display of affection, Eric thanks the woman.
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She introduces herself and tells Eric her name is Vanessa.
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She's beautiful, and about Eric's same age.
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Eric and Vanessa talk for a little while and seem to hit it off, In the following weeks they hang out several times and things goes so well, they soon begin dating.
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Eric finds her to be absolutely gorgeous, kind, funny, smart, spontaneous... all the right buzzwords for a perfect romantic partner in a story.
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Soon, Eric and Vanessa fall in love, the relationship is everything one could reasonably hope a relationship to be.
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erick thinks about how lucky it was that vanessa was who happend to be in the right place at the right time to find and return Nova A couple months go by, Eric is driving on his way to pick up Vanessa.
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While driving through an intersection, Eric is T-boned at full speed by a driver who distractedly runs a red light coming from the perpendicular side street.
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Eric is knocked unconscious as he and his car are sent in a thrashing 1080° spin.
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An hour or so later, Eric finds himself in a hospital.
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A doctor informs Eric of what has happened, and explains that he has suffered a severe head injury, and that they will need to run some immediate tests as well as a brain scan to determine the severity, and if there's any chance of permanent brain damage or internal bleeding.
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As his consciousness begins to more clearly return to him, Erick thinks about how unlucky it was to been going to get Vanessa in the exact direction at the exact time Eric is held overnight at the hospital.
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The next day, the doctor comes in into Eric's room: , the doctor asks.
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, Eric replies.
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, they doctor says.
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, Eric responds.
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Confused, Eric says: , says the doctor.
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, Eric asks with an escalating level of concern and confusion.
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The doctor pauses for a moment, and Eric looks at him unaware of what this means.
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"It's a tumor", the doctor goes on to saying , Eric asks.
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"... we ran the brain scan. Because of the brain scan we found the tumor. Normally we only catch a tumor like this "... Because we found the tumor right now, though, we cut it while it's still benign before it became malignant and grew into any other areas of your brain, which in almost all cases becomes fatal.
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Since it's still in this stage, though, we should be able to remove it almost entirely without any issue.
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, the doctor concludes.
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Eric starts to feel a weird, visceral tingling sensation and becomes slightly disoriented.
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Regardless, Eric looks around at the room.
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He thinks about how lucky he was to having going to get Vanessa in the exact direction at that exact time. He thinks about how lucky he was to have gotten in the car accident.
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He thinks about how weird it is to think this.
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In this moment, Eric realizes how little he knows about what anything actually is.
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That he has never and can never know what exists on the other side of anything that happens to him or because of him, no matter how good or bad, lucky or unlucky any of it might seem.
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Eric feels a strange, paradoxical sense of helplessness and liberation.
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About a week later, Eric undergoes brain surgery to remove the tumor.
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The surgery is successful.
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Eric is mostly as good as new, with exception to a scar running down the side of his scalp Several days later, after being released from the hospital, Eric is at home with Vanessa, recovering.
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To get some fresh air, he takes Nova out for a walk.

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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “The Nova Effect - The Tragedy of Good Luck”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: eric, nova, vanessa, doctor, brain. Questo video contiene 40 frasi e 817 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 5:30. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 149 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 83% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
nova sostantivo/ˈnoʊ.və/nova
tumor sostantivo/tuː.məɹ/tumore
unlucky aggettivo/ʌnˈlʌki/sfortunato
rabbit sostantivo/ˈɹæbɪt/coniglio
scan verbo/skæn/scrutare
leash sostantivo/liːʃ/guinzaglio
pursuit sostantivo/pɝˈsut/ricerca, perseguimento
disorient verbo/dɪsˈɔːɹi.ənt/disorientare
horribly avverbio/ˈhɔɹəbli/orribilmente
paradoxical aggettivo/ˌpɛɹəˈdɑːksɪkəl/paradossale, assurdo
perpendicular aggettivo/ˌpɜː.pənˈdɪk.jə.lə(ɹ)/perpendicolare
reconnect verbo/ˌɹiː.kəˈnɛkt/ricollegare, riconnettere
thrash verbo/θɹæʃ/infierire, sferzare
tingle verbo/ˈtɪŋɡəl/formicolare, pizzicare
comprehension sostantivo/ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/comprensione

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
pick up verbotirare su, sollevare
put up verbocollocare
run down verboinvestire, mettere sotto

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: leash /liːʃ/, thrash /θɹæʃ/, comprehension /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/, intersection /ˈɪntəɹˌsɛkʃən/, sensation /sɛnˈseɪʃən/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: disorient /dɪsˈɔːɹi.ənt/, paradoxical /ˌpɛɹəˈdɑːksɪkəl/, perpendicular /ˌpɜː.pənˈdɪk.jə.lə(ɹ)/, spontaneous /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/, severity /səˈvɛɹ.ə.ti/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: helplessness /ˈhɛlplɪsnɪs/, horribly /ˈhɔɹəbli/, comprehension /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/
  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: rabbit /ˈɹæbɪt/, leash /liːʃ/, pursuit /pɝˈsut/, disorient /dɪsˈɔːɹi.ənt/, enlist /ɛnˈlɪst/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: rabbit /ˈɹæbɪt/, scan /skæn/, thrash /θɹæʃ/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come nova, tumor, unlucky.

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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