Pratica di Shadowing: The Two Sides | Motivated + - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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- What you put out is what comes back so if you say I'm going to be successful I'm going to be happy I'm going to enrich my life I'm going to have a top quality life (claps) This is how it works.
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Your brain is divided into two halves.
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Good, positive, negative, and evil.
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Good and positive, negative and evil.
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Your mind don't work on no other principle.
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It's either right or wrong, good or bad, righteous or evil.
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It don't operate no other way.
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Skip anything else you've ever heard.
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There are in each side of the brain millions of factory workers.
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In charge of each one of these different sides is a foreman.
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You have foreman positive.
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You have foreman negative.
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Those are the two people in charge.
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This is how it works.
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You wake up in the morning and you say, "Man, man this... I'm having a bad day.
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I woke up on the wrong side of the bed." The foreman on the negative evil side of your brain steps to the forefront and says, "Excuse me, what did you say?" I said, "I'm having a bad day.
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I woke up on the wrong side of the bed." That foreman turns around, has a megaphone, makes an announcement to the millions of factory workers on the left side of the brain, the negative and evil side, and he says, "Hey, Steve's having a bad day this morning.
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He woke up on the wrong side of the bed." They go, "Right away, Sir." They turn around and start manufacturing thoughts to justify you having bad day today.
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I will produce everything you need to go with what you said.
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That's what you're thinking, that's what it is.
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And then your mind just starts going, "Yeah. We got up, I missed my alarm, I set the snooze button and now I got to get out in this rush hour traffic.
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I got to go down here and see these people I don't even care about today.
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I don't feel like, man, my electric toothbrush it ain't even charged up." (laughing) "Ain't no more damn toothpaste in this tube.
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I rolled it all up." It just starts rolling.
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On the other hand, if you wake up every morning and you say, "Thank you. I sure appreciate you, Lord.
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Thank you for waking me up.
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Today I expect to have another great day." That foreman comes to the front and says, "Excuse me, what did you just say?" "I said that I'm having a great day.
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I want to thank you and I'm looking forward and I expect to have a great day." He says, "Right away." He turns around and gets that megaphone and says, "All right guys, Steve's having a great day.
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He's expecting some good things to happen today and he thinks it's going to be a really great day for him today.
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Let's get to work." Them workers start producing.
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"You know what, man, we got a job to go to.
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Man, we making some money.
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Man, I got a roof over my head.
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It may not be the house I want but I'm headed in that direction.
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Man, I got a car outside.
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Man, I got the ability to walk to the bus stop.
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Man, I'm healthy." You know what I'm saying.
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That's how it works.
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It's not a magic trick.
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The difference between successful people and the non-successful people is we wake up expecting great things to happen.
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(applause) Now, listen, some bad things are gonna happen to you.
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That's life.
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Know that. The road to success is always under construction.
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There ain't no easy way.
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There ain't no everybody go right there.
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(beep) Everybody would go do that.
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It's gonna get funky for you in 2019.
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You gonna get some setbacks.
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You gonna lose some loved ones.
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I buried my best friend.
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We're playing golf in October.
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He died while we're playing golf.
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My best friend.
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(beep) I miss him.
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But (beep) I ain't gonna climb in the casket.
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You know I was at the funeral crying, (beep) but you know, when they shut it down and rolled it out I let 'em go ahead.
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I ain't... (laughing) I gotta go on with my life.
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It happens.
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Life is 10% of what happens to you.
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It's 90% what you do about it.
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Quit trippin' every time something negative happens.
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It's the step to the next level.
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You got to past tests.
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You can't have a testimony without no test.
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You can't tell nobody what you been through unless you been through something.
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I can't stand here and tell you that this works unless I've seen it work.
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Why don't you take your God-given gift, the thing that he gave all of you at birth, and start using it.
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All of you have a gift that God gave you at birth.
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The Bible says your gift will make room for you, and put you in the presence of great men.
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Not your job, not your career choice, your gift.
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I've been to the White House with President Obama probably eight times.
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I ain't never been there before.
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Don't look like I'm going back again.
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(laughing) I've been to the White House.
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I done met the supreme ruler of Abu Dhabi.
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I've met the President of Botswana.
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I've met kings, I met because of my gift.
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That's the only reason I'm here.
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It ain't because I'm educated.
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I don't have any.
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But this God you're serve is listening to you.
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All you gotta do is ask it.
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You got to talk to God.
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You got to tell him what you want.
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You gotta believe that he's gonna give it to you.
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You got to be willing to put the work in and you got to wait on it.
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God will give you everything you ask for if you put the work in and you wait on it.
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If I was you I would try to stop fooling yourself.
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Talk to God in 2019.
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Expect 2019 to be the greatest year of your life and God will give that to you.
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He's gonna give it to me, watch.
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I bet he'll do it for you.
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Thank y'all.
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(cheering and applause)

Perché esercitarti a parlare con questo video?

Questo video è una risorsa eccellente per la pratica di conversazione in inglese e per il metodo di shadowing in inglese, poiché combina un discorso spontaneo con un messaggio motivazionale, ideale per imitare l'intonazione e il flusso naturale della lingua. Attraverso l'analisi di come il speaker usa frasi semplici ma potenti, puoi migliorare la tua capacità di esprimere emozioni e pensieri in modo chiaro, oltre a rafforzare la consapevolezza sulla propria mentalità. È perfetto per chi vuole lavorare sulla fluidità e sulla confidenza nella parlata, due aspetti chiave per comunicare efficacemente.

Grammatica e espressioni nel contesto

Nel video, il speaker usa diverse strutture linguistiche utili per la conversazione quotidiana. Ecco le più rilevanti:

  • "What you put out is what comes back": Struttura interrogativa introdotta da "what" per esprimere una causa-effetto. Utile per spiegare concetti generali. Ad esempio: "What you study is what you learn".
  • "I'm going to be successful": Futuro con "going to" per esprimere intenzioni o progetti. Comune nella parlata informale. Esempio: "I'm going to visit my friend tomorrow".
  • "The road to success is always under construction": Metafora usata per descrivere un percorso non semplice. Le metafore rendono il discorso più vivid e memorabile, una abilità da sviluppare nella pratica di conversazione in inglese.
  • "You gonna get some setbacks": Contrazione informale di "you are going to", tipica della parlata spontanea. Importante per capire e usare la lingua come la si parla nella vita reale.

Trappole di pronuncia comuni

Alcune parole e accenti nel video possono creare difficoltà per gli apprendisti. Ecco le più comuni:

  • "Ain't": Contrazione informale di "am not", "is not" o "are not". La pronuncia è /eɪnt/, spesso usata nella lingua colloquiale americana. È importante riconoscerla, anche se in contesti formali è meglio evitarla.
  • "Megaphone": Pronunciata /ˈmɛɡəfoʊn/, con l'accento sulla prima sillaba. La "ph" si legge come "f", una regola fondamentale per la pronuncia inglese.
  • "Snooze button": /snuːz ˈbʌtn/, con "snooze" pronunciato con la "oo" come in "moon". È una frase utile per parlare di routine mattutine.

Per migliorare queste aspetti, usa un shadowing site o tecniche come shadow speech: ascolta una frase, pausa e ripeterla immediatamente, imitando l'intonazione e il ritmo del speaker. Questo metodo, noto anche come shadowspeak, aiuta a rafforzare la pronuncia e la fluidità nella parlata.

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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