Pratica di Shadowing: Why Are Things Creepy? - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here.
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Fear gives us life. Being afraid of the right things kept our ancestors alive. It makes sense to be afraid of poisonous insects or hungry tigers, but what about fear when there is no clear and obvious danger?
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For instance, a Teddy Bear with a full set of human teeth...or a smile.jpg.
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There's something a little off about these images. Too much mystery, and strange-ness, but no obvious threat, the way there is with a gun or falling rock. But, yet, they still insight fear, because they are creepy.
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But why? What gives us the creeps? What causes something to be creepy?
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We are now in my bedroom, the bedroom I grew up in, in Kansas. Like a lot of children my age, I was terrified of "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark." But the very first book that ever scared me was "The Curse of the Squirrel." To this day, I still haven't finished the book...but that's just me.
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Psychologist James Geer developed the "Fear Survey Schedule II," which he used to find out what scared us the most. Combined with the results of a more recent Gallup poll, these are the things that scare most of us, the most. All of these things are scary, but are they creepy? Let's get more specific.
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I love the way Stephen King delineates three types of scary stuff. The first is the "gross-out".
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This is something disgusting, morbid, diseased. The second is "horror". Horror, to King, is the unnatural: a giant spider, or being grabbed in the dark when you thought you were alone.
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The third, "terror," is different, creepier. He says terror is coming home to find that everything that you own has been replaced with an exact copy. Terror is feeling something behind you. It's breath on your neck. Knowing that you will be grabbed, but then turning around to find that there was never anything there in the first place. Not a lot of research has been done on that feeling, the creeps. But many theories and ideas involve vagueness, ambiguity. For instance, masks, and why clowns are creepy.
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Claude Levi-Strauss wrote that the facial disguise temporarily eliminates from social intercourse the part of the body, which reveals personal feelings and attitudes. Part of the reason even a neutral or happy mask can be creepy may have to do with ambiguity. A mask hides the true emotions and intentions of the person underneath. I don't know if the person wearing that mask is a threat or not.
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Vagueness is creepy when it comes to the human form. This is the famous Uncanny Valley.
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On a chart of humanness, there's a zone where something can be almost entirely human, but off by just a little. Not so wrong that it's clearly fake or funny, or so good that it's indistinguishable. Instead, it's just troubling.
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The creepiness of the Uncanny Valley is wonderfully demonstrated by John Bergeron's Singing Androids.
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Watch these videos when you're alone.
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A similar, uneasy feeling comes from ShayeSaintJohn, a character created by Eric Fournier. Funny to some, nightmare fuel to others.
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Uncanny humanoids, like all creepy things, straddle a line between two regions that we can understand and explain with language. Francis T. McAndrew and Sara Koehnke describe being "creeped out" as an adaptive human response to the ambiguity of threats from others.
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Creepy things are kind of a threat maybe, but they're also kind of not. So, our brains don't know what to do. Some parts respond with fear, while other parts don't, and they don't know why. So, instead of achieving a typical fear response, horror, we simply feel uneasy, terror, creeped out. Between the mountains of safety and danger, there is a valley of creepiness, where the limits of our knowledge and trust and security aren't very clear.
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Will looking at this cause you to die one week later? Impossible, right? Maybe that's the terror of ambiguity.
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We don't do well with ambiguity. When it involves our own intentions, it can make us lie. And when it involves danger, but no recognizable threat, it can make us think and feel some pretty weird things. Have you ever peered over a ledge, a railing, way high up, like, so high up it made you nervous and dizzy and felt something pushing you? Maybe even an urge to jump? Have you ever stood on the ledge with a loved one and realize that you could push them? It would be that easy. You really could do it, and maybe you do want to do it, or maybe it's just cognitive dissonance. The fact that your brain is having to deal with ambiguity.
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A recent study by Jennifer Hames at Florida State University dubbed this the High Place Phenomenon. When approaching a ledge and a dangerous drop, your survival instinct kicks in and you pull yourself away. But, your balance and motor systems don't get it. Nothing is pushing you and you don't normally fall or leap randomly. So, what's going on? The part of your brain that processes intention might resolve this by determining that something must be pushing you. Or, that you might actually want to jump or push your friend, even if none of that is true.
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Now, we're not done with ambiguity yet because our language reflects the gray area of terror and creepiness. Take a look at the word "terror" itself. We have "horrible" and "horrific." "Terrible" and "terrific." Why is that? Well, through history, we never really figured out what to call powerful experiences, because they're both. They are full of awe...awesome.
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And, they are full of aw...awful. We need them to survive. We need fears and the creeps, to understand our size, our weaknesses. But, on the other hand, avoiding them is pretty great too...The creeps is a physical reminder that the world is vague and full of ambiguity, but that we are cunning, always trying to figure things out but, nonetheless, fragile.
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Is that terrible or terrific? Well, it's both. Which, as a creepy ghost would say, is kind of boo-tiful.
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And as always, thanks for watching.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questo video contiene 25 frasi e 1034 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 8:27. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 122 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Solo il 79% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole meno comuni del video, con pronuncia e significato:
- creepy /ˈkɹipi/ (aggettivo) — angosciante, inquietante. Moving by creeping along.
- creep /kɹiːp/ (verbo) — abbarbicarsi. To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- mask /mæsk/ (sostantivo) — maschera, mascherina. A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
- horror /ˈhɒɹ.ə/ (sostantivo) — orrore. An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
- scary /ˈskɛə.ɹi/ (aggettivo) — pauroso. Causing fear or anxiety
- involve /ɪnˈvɑlv/ (verbo) — coinvolgere. To have (something) as a component or a related part; to comprise, to include.
- scare /skɛɚ/ (verbo) — spaventare, impaurire. To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.
- bedroom /ˈbɛdˌɹum/ (sostantivo) — camera da letto, camera. A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.
- terrific (aggettivo) — eccezionale, stupendo. Very strong or intense; excessive, tremendous.
- chart /t͡ʃɑɹt/ (sostantivo) — carta, carta nautica. A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.
- awful /ˈɔːfʊl/ (aggettivo) — pessimo, terribile. Very bad.
- gray /ɡɹeɪ/ (aggettivo) — grigio. Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.
- gross /ɡɹoʊs/ (aggettivo) — grossolano, grave. remarkably great, big, vast in an often unpleasant way; (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
- hungry /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ (aggettivo) — affamato, avere fame. Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
- mystery /ˈmɪs.t(ə.)ɹi/ (sostantivo) — mistero, arcano. Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.
I phrasal verb che sentirai
- look at (verbo) — guardare. To observe or watch.
- deal with (verbo) — fare i conti. To handle verbally or in some form of artistic expression; to address or discuss as a subject.
- figure out (verbo) — scoprire, rendersi conto. To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
- find out (verbo) — scoprire. To discover, as by asking or investigating.
- go on /ˈɡoʊˌɒn/ (verbo) — continuare. To continue in extent.
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 13 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, they're, aren't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: breathe /bɹiːð/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, nonetheless /ˌnʌnðəˈlɛs/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: intentions /ɪnˈtɛnʃənz/, intention /ɪnˈtɛnʃn̩/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, facial /ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/, indistinguishable [ˌɪn.dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪ.ʃə.bl̩]
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: eliminate /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/, temporarily /ˌtɛmpəˈɹɛɹəli/, psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, ambiguity /æm.bɪˈɡjuː.ɪ.ti/, delineate /dɪˈlɪniːeɪt/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come creepy, creep, mask.
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | was terrified · being grabbed · has been replaced |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | haven't finished · has been replaced |
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.