Pratica di Shadowing: Where Dollars Die and Are Reborn - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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- Money.
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It's everywhere.
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But what happens when your bills get old and need to be replaced by new ones?
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That means old cash needs to be destroyed.
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A lot of cash.
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This is not, however, the story of money growing on trees, but of trees, growing out of money.
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Well, more like vegetables.
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- We are here at the Federal Reserve Bank in New Orleans, and this is where we shred millions of dollars.
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My name is Dean Wortha, I'm the lead business analyst for cash services here at the New Orleans Fed.
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We are the nation's bank.
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Our job is to make sure that we have a supply of currency.
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Also part of that is to ensure that we remove unfit, old dirty currency from circulation.
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So here on average, we shred about six million dollars in dirty money every day.
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This could be for any number of reasons.
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It could be because the note has rips in it, holes in it, tears in it.
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It could have tape on it, it could have graffiti written all over it.
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We don't want that note going back into circulation.
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If it has any sort of those qualities, it will be shredded.
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What we used to do is take all of these currency shreds and they would just wind up as waste, going to a landfill.
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Now, through a lot of work and effort, we finally figured out a way where we can take these shreds and ultimately recycle them.
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- So all that green leaves the Fed and heads to a compost facility where it turns into something quite useful.
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- What you're looking at right now is 24 million dollars.
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But the soil that is creates will be priceless.
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My name is Johnathan Christian.
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We turn cash into soil.
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It is definitely one of our secret ingredients.
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It's little in content, but it's huge in what it provides.
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Currency that's deemed unfit is brought to our facility at Wooden Materials.
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From there we go through a simple composting process where we convert that into a healthy soil.
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Our compost is used primarily by urban farmers in the greater New Orleans area.
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- One of these farmers is Simond Menasche.
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- And this is a million dollar farm.
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We are making fresh, local food accessible in New Orleans.
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We've grown veggies, herbs, cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers.
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The vegetables we grow here are made out of composted cash.
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It is very fulfilling to be growing, using a material that would otherwise go to waste.
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One man's trash is another man's treasure.
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- And that's the story of how we grow tomatoes out of cash.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questo video contiene 38 frasi e 436 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 2:51. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 153 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 84% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole meno comuni del video, con pronuncia e significato:

  • currency /ˈkʌɹ.ən.si/ (sostantivo) — valuta. Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.
  • soil /sɔɪl/ (sostantivo) — suolo, terra. A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
  • farmer /ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/ (sostantivo) — agricoltore, fattore. A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm.
  • circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/ (sostantivo) — circolazione. The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
  • vegetable /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/ (sostantivo) — verdura. A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice…
  • tomato /təˈmeɪ.toʊ/ (sostantivo) — pomodoro, pomidoro. A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
  • primarily /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/ (avverbio) — principalmente, fondamentalmente. Of a primary or central nature, first and foremost.
  • trash /tɹæʃ/ (sostantivo) — spazzatura, immondizia. Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
  • tear /tɛɹ/ (verbo) — strappare, dilaniare. To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
  • rip /ɹɪp/ (verbo) — strappare. To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
  • leaf /lif/ (sostantivo) — foglia. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
  • accessible /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/ (aggettivo) — accessibile. Easy of access or approach.
  • treasure /ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/ (sostantivo) — tesoro. A collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc.
  • pepper /ˈpɛp.ə/ (sostantivo) — peperone. A plant of the family Piperaceae.
  • convert /kənˈvɝt/ (verbo) — convertire. To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.

I phrasal verb che sentirai

  • figure out (verbo) — scoprire, rendersi conto. To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
  • go through (verbo) — attraversare. To travel from one end of something to the other.
  • look at (verbo) — guardare. To observe or watch.

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 4 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, I'm, we've. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/, trash /tɹæʃ/, treasure /ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/, shred /ʃɹɛd/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/, primarily /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/, accessible /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come currency, soil, farmer.

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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