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Just remember that everything you do, everything you do, you do for yourself...
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and there isn't one.
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There is no self.
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Summer and winter are so different, because in summer I fling my legs out and the curtains are drawn, the windows are open.
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And then I say, 'What can I see?' 'What can I smell?' 'What can I hear?' So this takes me into my day.
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In winter I will get up and light my candles instead of turning lights on.
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And it's lovely in that semi darkness.
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I immediately start appreciating what the day has to offer.
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And the cats are sitting out there very often when they've heard that I'm up.
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And they come in to say good morning.
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And I think, company, how lovely.
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I know they're just asking for food, but I like to think there's a little bit of love somewhere along the line.
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Everything has its time.
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And now it's time to reconnect back into nature...
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which is the nature of things, the nature of life, the nature of being.
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I see that in the garden and how beautiful those dried flowers are.
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How beautiful when the rose petals fall away and you've got the rose hips.
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The buds can still be the buds but they're brown and very contained.
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And the other ones are flopping open.
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It accepts what it is.
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You have to go back to that indigenous feeling of observing how beautiful the world is, as it is.
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The dying of flowers, the wrinkly old faces, arms, legs, whatever.
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And saying 'beautiful... isn't that beautiful.' A lot of people find it scary.
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They don't like to think they've lost that peak of life.
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And yet if you can see that there is a beauty in itself.
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You've lived well.
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Maybe you've got wrinkles...
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maybe you've got those lovely laughing wrinkles.
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And the beauty of withering is actually moving towards a simplicity of living and an acceptance of living.
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I recently asked myself the question, 'How do you let go?' It's by facing it.
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It's by being with it.
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By not fighting against it.
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One has to let go of the feeling that you have to be a somebody.
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Because I'm not a somebody.
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I am, I suppose, just a being exploring life.
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And the exploring is more important than the I.
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It's not good enough to say you have to just be yourself.
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I think you have to know yourself.
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You've got to believe in yourself sufficiently to know that what you do is fine.
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If you make a mistake, it's also fine.
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That's what you learn from.
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And unless people can accept that, they're not softened into accepting themselves.
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They're searching outside instead of inside.
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I am playing with my life.
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Not detrimentaly...
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just in the beauty of living.
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So there's that sense of expanding into a time of my life that I am actually aware of time.
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If you start thinking... well maybe it's ten years...
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it can't be much more than that.
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Maybe I'll get to my grandmother's age and she was 97.
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I do sometimes say my goodness, I must enjoy, because you just don't know.
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Not out of fear...
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out of fear it's going to happen too soon.
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And there's so much I want to feel, explore.
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Whatever it is... it's to fully appreciate what is left.
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It doesn't matter how long it is.
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And I am suddenly a bit like a butterfly.
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I'm beginning to eat my way out of the chrysalis.
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And is that not beautiful... and fly.
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I hope I've got a lovely pattern on me.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “The Secret to a Beautiful Life? It's Ordinary”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: beautiful, lovely, nature, beauty. Questo video contiene 60 frasi e 603 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 8:08. Chi parla lo fa lentamente, circa 74 parole al minuto, quindi c’è tempo per imitare ogni suono. Il 87% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| wrinkle sostantivo | /ˈɹɪŋkl̩/ | crepa, asperità |
| bud sostantivo | /bʌd/ | germoglio, boccio |
| chrysalis sostantivo | /ˈkɹɪsəlɪs/ | crisalide |
| reconnect verbo | /ˌɹiː.kəˈnɛkt/ | ricollegare, riconnettere |
| soften verbo | /ˈsɑfən/ | ammorbidire, addolcire |
| wither verbo | /ˈwɪðɚ/ | appassire, essiccare |
| flop verbo | /flɑp/ | crollare |
| simplicity sostantivo | /sɪmˈplɪsɪti/ | semplicità |
| sufficiently avverbio | /səˈfɪʃəntli/ | sufficientemente |
| curtain sostantivo | /ˈkɜɹt(ə)n/ | tenda, cortina |
| candle sostantivo | /ˈkæn.dəl/ | candela |
| butterfly sostantivo | /ˈbʌ.tə(ɹ).flaɪ/ | farfalla |
| observe verbo | /əbˈzɜːv/ | osservare |
| goodness sostantivo | /ˈɡʊdnəs/ | bontà |
| indigenous aggettivo | /ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒənəs/ | innato, congenito |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| get up verbo | alzarsi |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- Because I'm not a somebody.
- If you make a mistake, it's also fine.
- That's what you learn from.
- I hope I've got a lovely pattern on me.
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | they've heard · they've lost · You've lived |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | are drawn · is left |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 22 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you've, they're, I'm. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: simplicity /sɪmˈplɪsɪti/, sufficiently /səˈfɪʃəntli/, indigenous /ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒənəs/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: bud /bʌd/, chrysalis /ˈkɹɪsəlɪs/, reconnect /ˌɹiː.kəˈnɛkt/, flop /flɑp/, observe /əbˈzɜːv/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come wrinkle, bud, chrysalis.
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.