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So here we have yet another, yet another thought -provoking picture here.
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And so, let's take a look.
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So to kick off right kick off We're gonna start by just taking a look at the picture itself, okay?
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Okay So just to kick off, we're going to look at the picture.
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before we start getting into the deeper messages behind the picture.
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So in the picture we can see a man here and he's sweating.
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He's sweating profusely.
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Look at that.
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He's sweating profusely.
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Means he's sweating a lot.
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He's really sweating and he's also holding his hands near his groin area.
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just down here.
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This is kind of the groin area.
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To put it politely, yes, he's got his hands covering his groin area.
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He looks incredibly embarrassed here, right?
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He's sweating profusely.
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He's covering up his groin area.
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he's very embarrassed and on the smartphone here he is completely naked
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so on the smartphone he's also covering his groin area and
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and he's completely naked and if we look at his eyes His eyes are in the shape of a spiral.
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Yes, it's a spiral.
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So you see this shape where his eyes are.
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It's a spiral like this, right?
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He's got spiral shapes for his eyes.
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That's how the artist has drawn his eyes.
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The artist has drawn his eyes in the shape of a spiral.
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Like that.
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So that's the picture.
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So now that we've got that out of the way, now we've got that out of the way, let's move on to the deeper meaning of the picture.
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What do you think the artist is trying to convey with this picture?
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What message do you think the artist is trying to convey?
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Obviously this is yet another picture about technology and the modern world.
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You know I think I understand, I think I understand this picture in that in today's day and age, right?
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In today's day and age
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it's quite easy to be publicly embarrassed on social media right
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people are recording things on their phones all the time all the time
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if you embarrass yourself in public you can end up going viral right
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if somebody records you doing something embarrassing in public that video can then be put onto social media.
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And if you are really unlucky, that video can then go viral.
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And everybody in the world will see it.
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There are a lot of cases of people who have been recorded against their will, completely against their will.
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They didn't know they were being recorded, but somebody recorded them.
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or took a picture of them,
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and they ended up going viral and now their image is now all over the internet all over the world
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they are turned into a meme.
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Yes, do you know what a meme is?
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M -E -M -E a meme, they end up being turned into a meme.
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And all of this is of course completely against their will.
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And the problem with going viral on social media
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with a picture of you or a video of you is that you have no means by which to control this, right?
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You have no means by which to stop this video or image spreading like wildfire, yes, online.
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Because the thing is, online, embarrassing pictures and videos, they tend to spread like wildfire.
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embarrassed yes they really enjoy Watching other people get embarrassed now.
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There is a term for this in German.
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There's a German word for this and that is schadenfreude Okay, this is a German word.
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Schadenfreude means getting pleasure by watching the misfortune of others or by watching the embarrassment of others you get pleasure.
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and this is incredibly common online and when an embarrassing video surfaces online,
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when an embarrassing video surfaces online, it often spreads like wildfire.
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So imagine, imagine you're walking down the street and then you trip over and you end up
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landing in a bucket of paint or something.
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Something ridiculous.
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You trip over and then your head ends up in a bucket of red paint or something.
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And then, unbeknownst to you, unbeknownst to you, there's a teenager recording the incident on his phone.
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Completely unbeknownst to you, there's a teenager right there recording it.
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This teenager then puts it on TikTok, And then, because it's so embarrassing,
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because you've tripped over, landed in a bucket of red paint,
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and then your face is covered in red paint something like that something really embarrassing because it's so embarrassing It's very funny.
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It's hilarious for other people to watch.
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And this teenager uploads it to TikTok and the video spreads like wildfire all over TikTok.
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Really gets millions and millions of views.
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And all of this, of course, is completely outside of your control.
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There is nothing you can do to stop this video spreading like wildfire online.
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And I think that's how a lot of us feel today in a way.
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A lot of us are kind of have been embarrassed online.
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Or we are scared of this happening to us, especially...
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young people and teenagers right?
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Teenagers nowadays have to grow up in a world where all of their actions are recorded forever online.
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Everybody does dumb things as a teenager, yes? everybody does stupid things as a teenager,
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however the difference is, when I was younger and I did dumb things, It was not really recorded to the extent that it is today.
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right?
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Although when I was younger we did have Facebook, social media was not quite as big as it is today.
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And I think there's a big difference between growing up now and growing up 20 years ago.
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In fact, the difference is night and day.
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right the difference between growing up nowadays and growing up say 10 20 years ago it's really night and day
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because of how social media has changed everything.
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Social media has changed the experience of adolescence, yes, becoming a teenager, going through adolescence.
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And the difference is really night and day, I think.
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And I think a lot of teenagers are really terrified of having this happen to them, right?
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Teenagers nowadays are a lot more careful about what they do in public.
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They don't do as many stupid things because they may be recorded.
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unbeknownst to them they may be recorded put online
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and then their video may spread like wildfire online
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and then everybody in their class will see it and not only
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that but everybody in the world will see how they have embarrassed themselves.
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And I think that's maybe the message if I had to hazard a guess
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if I had to hazard a guess I would say that's the kind of message that this artist
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wanted to convey with this picture you know, if I had to hazard a guess,
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I would say that's probably what the artist is getting at with this picture.
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I don't know exactly what they're trying to say, but I think that is probably what the artist is getting at.
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I think that's what they're trying to get at with this picture.
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Anyway, that's the end of the video.
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Thank you for watching.
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Keep listening to English and I will see you in the next one.

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Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “Upper Intermediate (B2) English Listening - Publicly Embarrassed Online”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: picture, teenager, online, embarrassed, embarrassing. Questo video contiene 103 frasi e 1207 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 8:51. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 136 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 85% 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
teenager sostantivo/ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/giovane, adolescente
embarrass verbo/ɪmˈbæɹəs/imbarazzare, mettere in imbarazzo
embarrassed aggettivo/ɪmˈbæɹ.əst/imbarazzato
wildfire sostantivo/ˈwaɪldˌfaɪər/incendio boschivo
sweat verbo/swɛt/sudare
groin sostantivo/ˈɡɹoɪ̯n/ ~ /ˈɡɹɔɪ̯n/inguine
spiral sostantivo/ˈspaɪɹəl/spirale
unbeknownst aggettivo/ˌʌnbɪˈnoʊnst/all'insaputa
meme sostantivo/miːm/meme
convey verbo/kənˈveɪ/trasportare, condurre
bucket sostantivo/ˈbʌkɪt/secchio
nowadays avverbio/ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/oggidì, oggigiorno
adolescence sostantivo/ˌædəˈlɛsəns/adolescenza
schadenfreude sostantivo/ˈʃɑː.dənˌfɹɔɪ.də/gioia maligna, aticofilia
smartphone sostantivo/ˈsmɑɹtfoʊn/smartphone, telefono intelligente

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
end up verboandare a finire, finire
grow up verbocrescere
cover up verboinsabbiare, occultare
go through verboattraversare

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 fabe put · have been recorded · being recorded
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohas drawn · have been recorded · you've tripped

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 12 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, they're, we're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: adolescence /ˌædəˈlɛsəns/, schadenfreude /ˈʃɑː.dənˌfɹɔɪ.də/, embarrassment /ɪmˈbæɹ.əs.mənt/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: embarrass /ɪmˈbæɹəs/, embarrassed /ɪmˈbæɹ.əst/, sweat /swɛt/, unbeknownst /ˌʌnbɪˈnoʊnst/, hazard /ˈhæzəd/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: embarrass /ɪmˈbæɹəs/, embarrassed /ɪmˈbæɹ.əst/, hazard /ˈhæzəd/, adolescence /ˌædəˈlɛsəns/, embarrassment /ɪmˈbæɹ.əs.mənt/

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