Pratica di Shadowing: Video 1: We are all storytellers - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Hi, I'm Valerie LaPointe and I'm a story artist at Pixar.
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I'm going to be your host for our first lesson on storytelling, designed to introduce you to how we tell stories at Pixar.
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Throughout the next six lessons, you'll have a chance to create your own stories, and you'll go from a rough idea to having real storyboards like we use at Pixar.
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Each lesson features Pixar story artists sharing their insights about the story development process.
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My name is Domi Shi and I'm a story artist.
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Hi, my name is Sanjay Patel.
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I'm an animator and storyboard artist.
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I'm Kristen Lester.
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I'm a storyboard artist.
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Hello, my name is Mark Andrews and I'm a director at Pixar Animation Studios.
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The goal of this video is to remind you that you already are a storyteller.
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It's something we do naturally and start doing as children.
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To kick this lesson off, let's hear how some of Pixar's storytellers first started telling their own stories.
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Out on the playground where you're making up stories or playing in the backyard where we're making up whole worlds.
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From then on I started drawing my own comic books
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and I would fake being sick to stay home from school
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so I could draw my comic books and come up with my stories.
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What I did is I would take a drawing of Betty
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and Veronica that was in the comic books and I would trace it
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and then I would draw fashion on them and I did this thing called Betty and Veronica fashions.
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Somewhere in my mother's basement there are thousands and thousands and thousands of these drawings of Betty and Veronica.
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These poster assignments that my art teacher would give me in high school, and even in junior high school as well, they were always around a theme of American history. And so
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the idea of this kind of homework of doing American history
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in a visual form was kind of the first avenue into telling stories in just one picture.
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When I was really young, I would draw pictures, and I would show them to people, and they would react.
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And I'd really like that.
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Like, I loved getting reactions out of people with the things that I drew and the stories that I tell.
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And I wanted to get more reactions out of people, so I drew more and more and more.
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I have to say, growing up, I felt like I had no ideas, like I was just the most unoriginal.
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I always felt like artists have to have these kind of waterfalls of ideas, endless amount of ideas, and I had zero, I felt.
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So I get most of my stories and my ideas from my life.
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I think about a lot of stuff that's happened to me, like when was the last time I was happy?
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When was the last time I felt really sad?
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Like when was the last time I cried or I got really angry?
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Most of my stories originate from my own personal experiences.
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And I think there's a touchstone there that is very important to the storyteller to find because it makes it honest.
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I'm not just gathering kind of ideas and chucking them together and there's a story.
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No story comes ready made.
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One way is that I think long and hard about my experiences in life and
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moments in my life where I've had what I kind of consider to be an epiphany.
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I have gained some sort of insight or learned something that I think is really important to share with the world.
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I think those are the kind of stories that are really fun because they only can come from you and your experience.
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Nobody else can have the same insights as you because they haven't lived the same life as you.
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No two people will experience life the same, so no two people will tell a story the same way.
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Think of this as a superpower we all have, your unique perspective.
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Only you see the world this way.
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Now, I want you to think about a memory you have.
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It could be your most embarrassing memory, frightening memory, or a time you were very surprised.
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Whatever it is, it's a memory you remember vividly.
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In this first exercise, you'll have a chance to express this memory in various ways.

Informazioni su questa lezione

In questa lezione, imparerai l'importanza della narrazione e come iniziare a creare la tua storia personale. Attraverso l'analisi delle esperienze di diversi narratori, scoprirai come le tue emozioni e ricordi possono servire come ispirazione per sviluppare storie uniche. Ciò ti aiuterà non solo a comprendere le tecniche di narrazione, ma anche a migliorare la tua pronuncia inglese attraverso esercizi pratici di shadow speech. Preparati a esplorare i tuoi ricordi e a dar vita a nuove idee!

Vocabolario e frasi chiave

  • Storyteller - Narrratore
  • Epiphany - Epifania
  • Honest - Onesto
  • Experience - Esperienza
  • Memory - Memoria
  • Insight - Comprensione
  • Reactions - Reazioni
  • Perspective - Prospettiva

Consigli per la pratica

Per trarre il massimo beneficio da questa lezione, prova a seguire le indicazioni di narrazione con il shadowing. Ascolta attentamente il video e ripeti ciò che i narratori dicono, cercando di imitare la loro intonazione e velocità. Questo approccio, conosciuto come shadowspeaks, è un modo potente per migliorare la pronuncia inglese. Ricorda che non tutte le frasi devono essere perfettamente ripetute; concentrati sull'assorbire il senso e l'emozione dietro le parole. Usa un shadowing site per praticare esercizi di shadow speech e per allenare il tuo orecchio all'inglese parlato. Infine, riflettendo sui tuoi ricordi mentre racconti storie, ti aiuterai a connettere il tuo apprendimento linguistico alle tue esperienze personali.

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.