Pratica di Shadowing: Why Is $500/Day So Difficult? - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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In the last video, I attempted to make $500 in 16 hours delivering for DoorDash, Instacart, and Amazon Flex.
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And I failed.
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I was actually so close to hitting it.
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And in the video, I said that if I didn't make my goal, I'd have to try again.
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So that's exactly what this video is.
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Here is attempt number two.
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Today, we are running it back better than ever.
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I'm feeling good.
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I just got my first one.
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It's Kroger.
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I got so excited, I forgot to screenshot it, but you can see it on screen.
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This Burger King was ready when I got in there, that's what's up.
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Guys, it wouldn't be a morning shift without a Chick-fil-A order.
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And all these small ones, they add up.
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That they do.
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But the big orders add up quicker.
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Yes, dude, yes, let's go.
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And yes, I'm aware that it says that I'm shopping for four different orders in my cart.
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But when I actually looked at the order, I realized that three of those customers only ordered a couple of items.
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So I shouldn't have any issues with organizing all the orders in my cart.
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As it turned out, separating the orders in my cart was going to be the least of my issues with this batch.
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Finding all of the items was easy.
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See, I've shopped at this Kroger so often lately
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that I pretty much have a sixth sense
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and can smell the exact coordinates of a shitty Stouffer's meal from across the store.
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This brings me back.
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But once I finished shopping, my card kept declining at checkout.
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My physical card wasn't working, but neither was my digital payment card.
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Which meant that I had to call Instacart support.
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Oh, dude, I hate...
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I hate talking to support.
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One eternity later.
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I have to cancel this entire order.
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Look at it.
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I shopped the entire order.
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That is 50 items that's in that cart.
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There's no way I can have 500 today.
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There's just no way because that's an hour for zero dollars.
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A zero dollar hour...
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I'm screwed.
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How did this happen?
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Well, my physical card had expired three days ago and I just didn't realize it.
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But my digital card wasn't working either.
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And after looking it up, apparently Kroger stopped supporting it at all locations effective October of 2025.
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Because of this, I had no way to pay and no choice
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but to give the cart to customer service and cancel the batch.
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I've not been that bad about something related to gig work in a very long time.
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I normally just let things fly off the shoulder, but that just made me mad.
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And yes, I understand it's my own fault.
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Frustrating nonetheless.
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But I did just get this Whole Foods instant offer and I accepted it.
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I think the tips could be really good because this is 37 packages.
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That's a lot for Whole Foods.
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I mean, that's gonna fill up my entire car.
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Whether I wanted to accept it or not, this run was dead.
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I was really bummed out about that batch, and it bothered me more than it should have, so I kind of half-assed the rest of my shift, and here's what sucks.
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On attempt two, I worked 10 hours, and I still made $249.16.
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If I would have completed that Instacart order, I would be at over $300 in 10 hours, which would put me right on pace to hit $500 in 16 hours.
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This means it's very likely that if my card wasn't expired, this attempt would have been successful.
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But it wasn't, so I tried again the next day.
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Today is the day.
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It has to be the day we hit $500.
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Okay, I don't want an attempt four, an attempt five, an attempt six.
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Maybe that would be strategic content-wise, but I want to make it today.
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I just did my first order.
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It was a $7 Chick-fil-A super quick, and that's where we're at right now, is it $7?
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So I'll meet you with my next.
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Here's the second order of my shift.
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It's noticeably slower ever since they threw on the peak pay, so I'm going to do some earn by time for a little bit.
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But not for the whole day, don't worry.
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As slow as it's been, I could use the shopping order.
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It's not great, but I think it's the best I'm going to get right now.
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It's not a bad order for nine in the morning. Where are the orders?
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I'm waiting, where are they?
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Okay, right as I set down the camera, I got two orders.
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Amazon Flex, $40 for 51.4 miles or DoorDash, $8.65 plus for 2.7.
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I'm taking the DoorDash.
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This order was only hiding 25 cents, and so while it was still a good order, it wasn't the kind of order I need right now to hit 500.
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This next one, however, was much better.
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Here we go, first actual banger, 22 bucks.
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I'm taking this.
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Shopping the order at Target was really easy, but after checkout, I noticed something really weird.
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Excuse me.
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I just paid for all this stuff.
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I have one of these security tags on here.
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Is this going to go off?
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Yeah.
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It will?
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Okay.
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Thank you so much.
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After avoiding potentially being arrested or worse, I grabbed the donut order, dropped both of them off, and now it was picking up.
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Another $20 Target stack.
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Okay, I see you.
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I'm cutting off the second part of this stack as we speak, and I just got this crazy Amazon Flex order.
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It's 40 bucks for two hours, but that's just base pay, and it's 30 packages, which makes me think the tips could be good.
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Fingers crossed, fingers crossed, I need a good payout right now.
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Just like I need this traffic to slow down.
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This is a whole car worth of groceries.
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This gotta be banging.
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Please tell me it was banging.
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It was banging.
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It took me just under two hours to pick up all three carts worth of groceries
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and deliver six orders all across my city, but it paid me over $70.
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But just like earlier, this momentum wouldn't last forever.
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Bro, what happened?
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These are all so bad and so far in between.
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I'm starting to think maybe it's just Saturdays are not as good as Fridays?
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Because the volume and order quality during the day so far has just been way worse than Friday.
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DUDE!
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Send me something worth taking right now.
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Or it's bad news, okay?
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I'm the tough guy here.
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Send me something good right now, or it's bad news.
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Okay, here's something, here's something.
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But I'm gonna need something better than this if I actually want to hit 500 today.
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This is like a teaser.
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This is an appetizer order, you know, just like a little taste of what's to come.
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Like this, this $28 target order.
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It's only eight items, nine miles.
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That's really good.
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And look at this guys, I'm getting stacked already.
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$11 for one extra mile for an extra three items.
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That makes this a 40, basically a $40 stack.
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All right, we are so back.
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Put the gif on screen with the button that says that was easy because that was easy.
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Well, I couldn't find the balloons.
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The balloons were hard to find, but rest assured we found them.
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We don't talk about that.
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Here was the part where I was going to say, I dropped off the first order and then the second.
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But if I hear myself say that one more time, I might end up going missing.
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So I asked ChatGPT to give me commentary on my next few orders.
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Ahem.
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I knocked out the first delivery, picked up another order right away, and before I knew it, the second drop off was done too.
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Bro, that's just the same thing, but it's f*ing longer.
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Here, we'll try this one.
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I dropped off the first order.
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The streets were watching.
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Then I dropped off the second, and the city knew my name.
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Bro, that is so stupid.
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All right guys, I just got my next order.
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It's a stack, it has a Kroger order on it.
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Guys, I'm not really feeling too good about this, okay?
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I'm at like a little over 209 hours.
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This isn't $30 an hour territory, which is where I need to be.
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I don't really think I've done anything wrong today.
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Maybe some minor mistakes, maybe I could be a little faster, but I'm taking the best of what I'm getting.
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But maybe my best just isn't good enough.
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That's a great message for all these kids, all the kids out there watching, all five of you, you know, maybe your best isn't good enough.
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Okay, that's a joke because listen, The real lesson is actually never give up.
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The real lesson is even if it takes six, maybe seven attempts, but as long as you actually get it done, then that's all that matters.
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See, that lesson was definitely for the kids, you know, I dropped a six, seven in there.
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Bro, I'm a grown man, by the way.
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The problem with this shift is that without Instacart, this challenge is almost impossible.
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DoorDash is good, but most of the time you're not averaging more than $25 an hour, which is just not good enough to hit $500 in one day.
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You might have a $30 hour here, a $40 hour here, but you're not averaging that for 16 hours straight.
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That's why Instacart is so helpful.
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Say you're doordashing and you're at $75 for three hours.
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It's good, but not $500 a day good.
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But say you get an Instacart like I did yesterday that was $53 for one hour.
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That single order brings my average from $25 an hour to $32 an hour.
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And the point I'm trying to make is if you get just two
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or three of these really high-paying orders for a short amount of time on either Amazon Flex or Instacart, it's actually pretty easy to hit 500.
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This is all to say, basically, DoorDash is not a $30 an hour app.
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So you do need some large orders from other apps to hit that goal.
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Guys, I see aisle 10, aisle 11.
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I'm not really familiar with aisle 352.
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I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it doesn't exist.
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This shift I just worked was an example of a decent shift, but with none of those really high paying orders to jump my hourly, I only made $286.49 in 11 hours.
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Which again, don't get me wrong, that's good, it's just not good enough to hit 500.
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Hitting 500 is insanely hard, I think I've attempted now at this point five or six times.
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Because after this shift that you just watched, I went again the next day without filming, and I made $250 in 10 hours.
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And then the day after that, I made about $180 in seven hours.
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Which I'm going to repeat one more time, are good numbers, just not 500 a day good.
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In the end, I'm not giving up.
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I think it's possible to do this without Spark.
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That was the whole point.
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I'll see like the cuck chair in the back.
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That was the whole point is that I am trying to make 500 without spark.
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I need my Instacart card.
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I need to pick a very busy day, most likely a Friday.
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And I need some luck.
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So this is not the end of the challenge.
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This is just the beginning.
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This is for you guys.
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Do you see it?
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You're gonna have to finish the other half.
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All right.
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See you guys soon.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B1 si basa sul video “Why Is $500/Day So Difficult?”. Questo video contiene 206 frasi e 2250 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 11:04. Chi parla va veloce, circa 203 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 84% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| cart sostantivo | /kɑɹt/ | carretto, carrello |
| stack sostantivo | /stæk/ | pila, bica |
| checkout sostantivo | /ˈt͡ʃɛkˌaʊt/ | check-out |
| aisle sostantivo | /aɪ̯l/ | collaterale, navata laterale |
| batch sostantivo | /bæt͡ʃ/ | infornata |
| bang sostantivo | /ˈbæŋ/ | botto, fragore |
| personalization sostantivo | /ˌpɝs(ə)nəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/ | personalizzazione |
| personalize verbo | /ˈpɜː.sə.nə.laɪz/ | personalizzare |
| expire verbo | /ɪkˈspaɪə(ɹ)/ | scadere |
| groceries sostantivo | /ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/ | spesa |
| balloon sostantivo | /bəˈlun/ | palloncino |
| spark sostantivo | /ˈspɑɹk/ | scintilla |
| buck sostantivo | /ˈbʌk/ | Maschio di cervo, antilope |
| cancel verbo | /ˈkæn.sl̩/ | depennare, cancellare |
| appetizer sostantivo | /ˈæpɪˌtaɪzə/ | aperitivo, stuzzichino |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| drop off verbo | addormentarsi, appisolarsi |
| pick up verbo | tirare su, sollevare |
| add up verbo | sommarsi |
| check out verbo | investigare |
| give up verbo | arrendersi |
| end up verbo | andare a finire, finire |
| fill up verbo | riempire |
| go off verbo | esplodere |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- Yes, dude, yes, let's go.
- I mean, that's gonna fill up my entire car.
- Here's the second order of my shift.
- I'm waiting, where are they?
- I'm the tough guy here.
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Frasi condizionali if + frase, will/would + verbo — una condizione e il suo risultato | if I didn't make my goal, I'd have |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | I've shopped · I've not been · you've never heard |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | was really bummed · wasn't expired · being arrested |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | packages, which makes · territory, which is · hour, which is |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 67 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, don't, you're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: personalization /ˌpɝs(ə)nəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/, screenshot /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/, assure /əˈʃʊɹ/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: personalization /ˌpɝs(ə)nəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/, personalize /ˈpɜː.sə.nə.laɪz/, appetizer /ˈæpɪˌtaɪzə/, manually /ˈmænj(u)əliː/, eternity /əˈtɜɹnəti/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: cart /kɑɹt/, stack /stæk/, checkout /ˈt͡ʃɛkˌaʊt/, batch /bæt͡ʃ/, personalize /ˈpɜː.sə.nə.laɪz/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: stack /stæk/, batch /bæt͡ʃ/, bang /ˈbæŋ/, cancel /ˈkæn.sl̩/, appetizer /ˈæpɪˌtaɪzə/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come cart, stack, checkout.
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.