Pratica di Shadowing: Tony: A Soldier’s Journey - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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In the fall of 1944, U.S.
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Army medic Anthony Tony Acevedo was sent to fight in Europe during World War II.
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He served in the 275th Infantry Regiment, 70th Infantry Division, known as the Trailblazers.
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In freezing temperatures and heavy snow, along with 600,000 fellow Americans, he faced a ferocious German offensive in the Battle of the Bulge.
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During the brutal six-week battle between December 1944 and January 1945, tens of thousands were killed or wounded.
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It was Tony's first combat experience, and he bravely tended to the wounded under machine gun fire.
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We went to battle and on my assignment, I headed with Company B and I just followed.
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I carried my duffel bag and all my equipment with me and
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everybody used to laugh at me and yell at me and say, Anthony, drop that, drop all that stuff.
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They're gonna kill you.
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You're a sore thumb, you.
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I said, no, this is, that's gonna save my life.
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We were marching towards a ridge and I heard an echo.
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Medic!
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Medic!
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Because there were machine guns going on back and forth
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and I was carrying my stuff with me so finally I picked up the sound and I started to head downhill.
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Then I saw up ahead a cave with Germans.
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Well, there were about six Germans in there with machine guns.
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I mean just you thought there were thousands of them.
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and at that time when they start shooting at me, my stuff went up in the air, my duffel bag and everything.
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I fell on the ground and crawled to my helmet.
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And before I knew it, I was with the fellas that were wounded.
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I had my prayer book with me and I would use some phrases that wouldn't be too long, but enough for that person,
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that soldier, to motivate him, make him feel motivated, feel free of fear.
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That's what he was.
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He was afraid.
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The Germans were getting closer and closer.
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We ran out of ammunition until finally we were caught when the Germans came up the hill and we had to surrender.
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When the Germans took us, they forced us to get our boots off and walk down the slope barefooted in the snow.
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It was up to our waist and marched for about almost a mile to the trucks.
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They were sent to Stalag 9B, a camp for prisoners of war near Bad Orb, Germany.
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Tony became prisoner number 27016.
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Conditions in the crowded camp were terrible.
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Tony used the limited medical supplies that he had managed to save in order to treat the sick and wounded.
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In January 1945, German officers began identifying and separating Jewish POWs
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and those whom they believed to be Jews from the rest of the American soldiers.
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Tony was also separated, perhaps because he was Mexican-American.
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The newly separated group, including Tony, were then transported to Berga under Elster, a forced labor camp in Germany.
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Much like the conditions in the prisoner of war camp, food was scarce and prisoners were given little sustenance for the hard days of forced labor.
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The bread was a mix of barley with sawdust, ground glass and ground sand.
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It would make you sick to the stomach.
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Disease and malnutrition would soon plague the American prisoners.
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On one occasion we received a package, a Red Cross package, and that's how I got my diary.
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Throughout his time in the camp, Tony kept a secret diary of his experiences.
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He wrote in it nearly every day.
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In it, he recorded how his group were forced to clear tunnels to make way for an underground factory
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that Nazi officials hoped would be out of sight of Allied bombers.
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March 21, 1945.
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More planes came over today.
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Their bombs were dropped not very far from here.
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Another one of our boys is pretty low today.
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He's not expected to live to light.
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April 3rd, 1945.
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Excellent news today.
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Americans are only a hundred kilometers from here.
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Rumors are that we are to be moved away.
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When the Nazi guards realized that the American troops were closing in, they evacuated the POWs from Berga on a forced march.
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April 9th, 1945.
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We marched 10 kilometers today.
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We started out with 304 men.
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Now we have 287.
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April 20th to 22nd, 1945.
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Day and night, it rained.
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Every man was wet from top to bottom.
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Every 25 yards there lay three or four men.
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Men that couldn't make the march had to drop out.
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They were shot.
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April 23, 1945.
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We were liberated today.
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Of the 350 American POWs at Berga under Elster, approximately 70 died.
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Most of them died or were executed during the forced evacuation of the camp.
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Tony's fountain pen miraculously endured his imprisonment.
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It allowed him to secretly document his first-hand account of life as an American prisoner of war in Germany,
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and would bear witness to the dates and causes of his fellow soldiers' deaths.
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This was, he explained, his moral obligation.
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God gave me that ink to last.
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Thank you.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “Tony: A Soldier’s Journey”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: German, prisoner, Tony, camp, forced. Questo video contiene 78 frasi e 828 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 6:50. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 121 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Solo il 80% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

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

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
prisoner sostantivo/ˈpɹɪzənə/prigioniero, prigioniera
motivate verbo/ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/motivare
diary sostantivo/ˈdaɪ.ə.ɹi/diario, diario intimo
barley sostantivo/ˈbɑɹli/orzo
ferocious aggettivo/fəˈɹoʊʃəs/feroce, efferato
liberate verbo/ˈlɪbəˌɹeɪt/liberare
malnutrition sostantivo/ˌmæl.nuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/denutrizione
miraculously avverbio/məˈɹækjələsli/miracolosamente
sustenance sostantivo/ˈsʌs.tə.nəns/sostentamento
evacuate verbo/ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/evacuare
scarce aggettivo/ˈskɛɚs/scarso
downhill avverbio/ˌdaʊnˈhɪl/in discesa
troop sostantivo/tɹup/truppa
rumor sostantivo/ˈɹumɚ/voce, voci di corridoio
evacuation sostantivo/ɪˌvækjuˈeɪʃən/evacuazione

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
come up verbovenire fuori, emergere
pick up verbotirare su, sollevare

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 6 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come gonna, couldn't, they're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: ferocious /fəˈɹoʊʃəs/, malnutrition /ˌmæl.nuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/, evacuation /ɪˌvækjuˈeɪʃən/, ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/, obligation /ˌɑ.blɪˈɡeɪ.ʃn̩/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: malnutrition /ˌmæl.nuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/, miraculously /məˈɹækjələsli/, evacuate /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/, evacuation /ɪˌvækjuˈeɪʃən/, ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: downhill /ˌdaʊnˈhɪl/, helmet /ˈhɛlmɪt/
  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: motivate /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/, barefooted /ˈbɛɚ.fʊt.ɪd/, ferocious /fəˈɹoʊʃəs/, liberate /ˈlɪbəˌɹeɪt/, sustenance /ˈsʌs.tə.nəns/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: malnutrition /ˌmæl.nuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/, miraculously /məˈɹækjələsli/, evacuate /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/, evacuation /ɪˌvækjuˈeɪʃən/, ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/

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 prisoner, motivate, diary.

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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