Pratica di Shadowing: want to fix your English accent? (start here.) - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Hello to my 400,000 plus amazing subscribers.
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Welcome back to English is easy with Connor.
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Today we are going to be working on your English pronunciation and speaking skills.
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In particular we will be focusing on long vowel sounds to make your English sound more natural and native.
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Here's how it works.
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All you need to do is say the sentence that you see with me or repeat it after me.
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The sentence will get longer and more difficult as we go along.
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So click like and make sure you watch till the end to get best results.
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Here we are starting off at level one with a long A sound.
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Before we jump in, practice that sound with me.
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A, A, A, A, A, A, A.
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Okay, let's do a slow read of the level one sentence.
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Are you ready?
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Kate takes a train to the main shopping street to find a great gift for her friend Grace.
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Okay, great.
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Kate takes train, main.
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Yeah, let's try this again at a medium speed.
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A little bit faster now.
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Ready?
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Kate takes a train to the main shopping street to find a great gift for her friend Grace.
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And now, one last time at a quick native speed.
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Ready?
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Kate takes a train to the main shopping street to find a great gift for her friend Grace.
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Awesome job.
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Let's go ahead and level this sentence up to level two.
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As you can see, we have taken the sentence and we've stretched it longer.
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We have added some long E sounds.
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Let's practice that sound before we jump in.
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Say with me.
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E, E, E.
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Okay.
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Let's jump in with a slow read from the beginning,
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Kate takes a train to the main shopping street to find a great gift for her friend Grace.
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And she sees three elegant dresses in a window,
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but she needs to see the price before she agrees to buy one.
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Okay, so our main character here is out shopping, right?
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Getting a gift for her friend Grace.
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And what does she see?
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She sees three elegant dresses.
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What does elegant mean?
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maybe a little bit fancy nice looks really good maybe a long flowing dress could be an elegant dress
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and K however she does not buy the dress because she needs to see the price before she agrees.
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Let's say this whole thing again, this time at a medium speed.
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Are you ready?
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Kate takes a train to the main shopping street to find a great gift for her friend Grace.
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and she sees three elegant dresses in a window,
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but she needs to see the price before she agrees to buy one.
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Okay, that is really giving your mouth a workout, but let's try one more time at a fast native speed.
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This is how I would really speak and say the sentence naturally.
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Ready?
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Kate takes a train to the main shopping street to find a great gift for her friend Grace,
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and she sees three elegant dresses in a window, but she needs to see the price before she agrees to buy one.
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leveling up again here we are at level three we've stretched
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the sentence even longer with some long I sounds practice
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that sound with me I I I words like the Side and try,
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find, nice, tie, stylish, white.
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Those use the long I vowel sound.
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So this time, let's begin at a medium speed.
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Okay, from the beginning, a little faster,
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Kate takes a train to the main shopping street to find a great gift for her friend Grace.
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and she sees three elegant dresses in a window,
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but she needs to see the price before she agrees to buy one.
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So she decides to try a different store where she finds a nice silk tie and a stylish white shirt.
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okay yeah nice job guys can we try it again at
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a quick speed native speed here we go say with me
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Kate takes a train to the main shopping street to find a great gift for her friend Grace
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and she sees three elegant dresses in a window
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but she needs to see the price before she agrees to buy one
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so she decides to try a different store where she finds a nice silk tie and a stylish white shirt
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okay
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so she is at a different store a different shop we
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could say she finds a silk tie there okay stylish white
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shirt what is stylish means it looks good how could we say that a different way How could we paraphrase that?
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Maybe fashionable, a fashionable white shirt.
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Maybe we could say chic, a chic, chic white shirt.
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They both mean stylish.
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Looks good, right?
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Okay, let's level up once more to level four.
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Here we go.
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This sentence is becoming quite challenging,
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quite difficult you can see from here we have added the long o vowel sound oh though knows
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so slowly goes right okay so let's begin at a medium speed From the beginning,
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Kate takes a train to the main shopping street to find a great gift for her friend Grace.
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And she sees three elegant dresses in a window,
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but she needs to see the price before she agrees to buy one.
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So she decides to try a different store where she finds a nice silk tie and a stylish white shirt,
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though she knows her friend doesn't wear ties.
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So she slowly puts it back and goes to look for something else.
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Okay, nice.
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So I guess Kate's friend, she doesn't wear ties.
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So she puts the tie back and she puts it back slowly, slowly.
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And then she goes, goes to look for something else.
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All right.
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Are you guys ready for a quick speed?
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And then we will level up one final time.
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But before we do, if you haven't clicked the like button on this video yet,
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make sure you do that because it's the best way to support this video.
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All right, here we go.
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Fast speed.
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Kate takes a train to the main shopping street to find a great gift for her friend Grace.
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And she sees three elegant dresses and a window, but she needs to see the price before she agrees to buy one.
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So she decides to try a different store where she finds a nice silk tie and a stylish white shirt,
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though she knows her friend doesn't wear ties.
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So she slowly puts it back and goes to look for something else.
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You guys are doing amazing.
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This is the final boss of today's video.
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Uh-oh, the final boss.
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This is a really long and challenging sentence, and we've added the long U sound, okay?
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Say with me, uses.
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Say with me, cute, cute.
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How about boutique, boutique, like a small, cute shop.
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Okay, a boutique, beautiful, blue, truly useful, new.
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Okay, so let's start one last time from the beginning.
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And let's read at a medium speed.
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Here we go.
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Come on, guys, push.
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Kate takes a train to the main shopping street to find a great gift for her friend Grace
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and she sees three elegant dresses in a window but she needs to see the price before she agrees to buy one.
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So she decides to try a different store where she finds a nice silk tie and a stylish white shirt,
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though she knows her friend doesn't wear ties
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so she slowly puts it back and goes to look for something else
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and then she uses her phone to search for cute boutiques and finds a beautiful blue vase that would be
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truly useful for Grace's new apartment all right awesome job you guys
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that is a real challenge now we move on to the
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final read one last time let's jump in at a native
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speed really push yourself this is your last chance to speak in in this video
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so really give it your all give it your all that means give it all of your energy
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all right are you ready at a quick speed from the beginning
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kate takes a train to the main shopping street to find a great gift for her friend grace
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and she sees three elegant dresses in a window
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but she needs to see the price before she agrees to buy one
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so she decides to try a different store where she finds a nice silk tie
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and a stylish white shirt though she knows her friend doesn't wear ties
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so she slowly puts it back and goes to look for something else
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and then she uses her phone to search for cute boutiques
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and finds a beautiful blue vase
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that would be truly useful for Grace's new apartment alright guys
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if you made it all the way through
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that take your hand give yourself a pat on the back
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because you deserve it my friend long vowel sounds are a real challenge for a lot of English language learners but
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if you watch this video repeatedly maybe once a month once
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a week even once a day your pronunciation will improve so
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quickly
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Thanks again, and I'll see you next time.

Perché praticare il parlato con questo video?

Praticare il parlato con video come questo è estremamente utile per migliorare non solo la pronuncia, ma anche la fluidità nella conversazione. La tecnica di shadowing in inglese, che implica il ripetere immediatamente ciò che si ascolta, consente di acquisire una maggiore naturalezza nell'espressione orale. Osservando e imitandone il ritmo e l'intonazione, gli studenti possono sviluppare una pronuncia più autentica e simile a quella dei madrelingua. Questo video, in particolare, si concentra sui suoni delle vocali lunghe, rendendo il processo di apprendimento mirato ed efficace.

Grammatica & Espressioni nel Contesto

Nella trascrizione del video, possiamo notare diverse strutture grammaticali e frasi che arricchiscono il modo di comunicare in inglese:

  • Frasi complesse: L'uso di frasi lunghe come “Kate takes a train to the main shopping street to find a great gift for her friend Grace” offre un contesto ricco di informazioni e aiuta a comprendere come costruire frasi più dettagliate.
  • Aggettivi descrittivi: L'aggettivo “elegant” viene utilizzato per descrivere i vestiti che Kate vede, permettendo agli studenti di arricchire il loro vocabolario e capirne il significato nel contesto.
  • Condizionali: L'affermazione “she needs to see the price before she agrees to buy one” introduce un uso condizionale, molto comune nella lingua parlata inglese.
  • Frasi temporali: Espressioni come “before she agrees” esemplificano come il tempo e le sequenze logiche sono comunicati in inglese.

Trappole di Pronuncia Comuni

Durante la pratica della pronuncia, ci sono alcune parole e suoni che possono risultare difficili per gli studenti di inglese:

  • “Train”: La pronuncia di questa parola richiede attenzione al suono “ai”, che deve essere pronunciato come una vocale lunga, il che è fondamentale per migliorare la pronuncia inglese.
  • “Elegant”: Questa parola spesso presenta problemi di accento, poiché può essere confusa con pronunce più semplici. La corretta articolazione delle sillabe è cruciale.
  • Suoni vocali lunghi: Praticare i suoni vocali per estensione, come quelli di “A” ed “E”, aiuta a superare i comuni errori di pronuncia che possono derivare da madrelingua di altre lingue.

Imparare a riconoscere e praticare questi suoni attraverso tecniche di shadowspeak e shadow speech può facilitare enormemente il tuo percorso di apprendimento e miglioramento della pronuncia.

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.