Pratica di Shadowing: Why don't you remember being a baby? - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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What's the earliest memory that you have?
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Well, I've got bad news, it's probably fake.
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According to neuroscientists, anyone who says they remember being a baby is probably lying, but they don't even know it.
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Psychologists did this experiment where they interviewed three -year -olds about real stuff.
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Zoo trips, first day of preschool, that kind of thing.
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Then they came back years later and asked those kids to recall those memories.
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By age 5, 6, or 7, they remembered 60 % or more of those early life events, But by age 8 or 9, they only remembered like 40%.
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Most of that early memory was gone, and it declines quickly from there.
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So you didn't forget being a baby when you were a baby.
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You forgot it in like second grade.
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Researchers from Yale put infant babies in an MRI, which is probably easier said than done.
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And they showed that a key memory area of the brain, called the hippocampus, well, it lights up when a baby locks in on, say, a photo that it's never seen before.
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So our memory is definitely running by about age 1.
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The memories get made, but something's happening to them after.
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Well, here's what we think's going on.
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During the first few years of life, that memory region of the brain is being flooded with new, growing neurons.
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This shuffles around the cells that were already there, rewiring the chain of neurons and basically breaking that old memory.
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There's research in mice that suggests that maybe those memories could still be hiding in there somewhere, they just can't be accessed test.
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See, when scientists zapped the original neurons with light in mice, some early memories came back.
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But we've never tested the same thing in humans, because it turns out to be pretty hard to recruit people to get fiber optic cables shoved in their brains.
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But why would a brain do this?
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When you're like one, you don't need to remember specific events as much as you
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need to figure out the rules for things like language or how the physical world works, so your brain focuses its energy on that.
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Still, nearly 40 % of people say that their first memory is from age 2 or younger.
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And somebody's probably going to be in the comments telling me that they definitely remember being born.
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But you probably don't.
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All this research suggests that those are almost certainly reconstructions that are pieced together from family stories and photos and later memories.
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So some version of you learned language, discovered what gravity was, and all those other things.
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But sadly, you can never meet that version of yourself.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questo video contiene 30 frasi e 442 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 2:19. Chi parla va veloce, circa 190 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 88% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

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

  • mouse /maʊs/ (sostantivo) — topo, sorcio. Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.
  • decline /dɪˈklaɪn/ (verbo) — declinare. To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
  • recall /ɹɪˈkɔl/ (verbo) — ritirare, revocare. To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
  • discover /dɪˈskʌvə/ (verbo) — scoprire, trovare. To find or learn something for the first time.
  • experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/ (sostantivo) — esperimento. A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of…
  • flood /flʌd/ (sostantivo) — inondazione, alluvione. An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
  • gravity /ˈɡɹævɪti/ (sostantivo) — gravità. Of an activity such as a ceremony, a person's conduct, etc.: the quality of being deeply serious and solemn, especially in a dignified manner; seriousness…
  • scientist /ˈsaɪəntəst/ (sostantivo) — scienziato, scienziata. One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research…
  • infant /ˈɪn.fənt/ (sostantivo) — bambino, bambina. A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.
  • reconstruction /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkʃən/ (sostantivo) — ricostruzione. The action of reconstructing something, not necessarily to the earlier state.
  • researcher /ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/ (sostantivo) — ricercatore, ricercatrice. One who researches.
  • recruit /ɹɪˈkɹut/ (verbo) — arruolare, reclutare. To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
  • psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/ (sostantivo) — psicologo, psicologa. An expert in the field of psychology.
  • shove /ʃʌv/ (verbo) — spintonare. To push, especially roughly or with force.
  • preschool /ˈpɹiːskuːl/ (aggettivo) — prescolare. Of or relating to the years of early childhood before attendance at primary school.

I phrasal verb che sentirai

  • come back (verbo) — tornare. To return to a place.
  • figure out (verbo) — scoprire, rendersi conto. To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
  • go on /ˈɡoʊˌɒn/ (verbo) — continuare. To continue in extent.

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 8 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, can't, didn't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: reconstruction /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkʃən/, shove /ʃʌv/, shuffle /ˈʃʌfəl/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, reconstruction /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkʃən/, psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, hippocampus /ˌhɪpə(ʊ)ˈkæm.pəs/

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 mouse, decline, recall.

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 fabeing flooded · can't be accessed · being born
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosaanyone who says · MRI, which is

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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