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I love this one, particularly for porn addiction, use porn anytime you want, be aware of the porn,
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but your job is to make sure that the porn
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that you use is always more enjoyable than the last time you use porn.
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You have to figure out a way to make porn super enjoyable, like, like whatever you have to do,
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like candles, whatever you got to do to like make porn more and more enjoyable.
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I didn't mean like quick pleasure i mean like you're really savoring feeling the pleasure
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you can do the same thing with potato chips
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if someone actually does that it like disrupts bad habits unbelievably quickly on the surface what
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that sounds like is you uh speed running the hedonic treadmill and uh
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that oh well this is going to make the the habit
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even more alluring even more addictive even even more uh self -reinforcing why is
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that not the case why does it do something else yeah
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so most of the time the person who's doing it is trying to escape an emotional experience.
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So I'm going to use porn so I don't have to think about something, not have to be in pain,
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not have to, so I can cure my anxiety in that moment, in that second.
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This is bringing such a deep amount of presence to it.
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To actually enjoy it, you actually have to have presence.
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And then you start to find out is that the enjoyment is far better than what porn was giving you.
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There's a neuroscience version.
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Please.
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So I think, so when he says, enjoy porn, notice what he also says.
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Don't tug one out, bro.
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Yeah.
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Right?
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So this is what I think is really interesting.
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A lot of people don't realize pleasure and contentment are inversely related.
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Okay?
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So the more pleasure you have in your life, the less content you'll be.
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And this is down to the neuroscience level so dopamine
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and serotonin are like this is rough but if you guys want to get complicated we can
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dopamine and serotonin are like inversely related so
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if you look at someone who has a highly dopaminergic life like the person i wanted to be right
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so a lot of sex a lot of affairs pointing at you not me
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i'm just saying a lot of a lot of or as much anal as you can handle
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just have anal sex bro
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just say yes to anal that's gonna be i have i have practical teachings too i have practical teachings too
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so so so so literally like if you
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if you live a dopaminergic lifestyle you will be your serotonin levels will drop
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and so you'll become discontent and then you chase dopamine
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so dopamine is a substitute for serotonin and then what we find is
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that as people become more content their draw for dopamine decreases on average would you say
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that more people have a dopamine problem than a serotonin problem they're using
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that they're chasing after that whereas
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if they were more in i always think about dopamine chris serotonin chris
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and cortisol chris like dopamine chris is achieving things
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and making new 24 -hour play records on the channel serotonin chris is uh relaxing in a hammock
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and cortisol chris is arguing about something over email what's the word
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you're using chris chris himself chris oh oh okay
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i was like oh i was gonna say oxytocin chris oxytocin chris yeah scared
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that it's gonna go away anal sex that's all three
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i'm sorry for opening that door serotonin problem more people in dopamine
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so so i'd say that you can't have one problem without the other right
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so the whole point is that they're related so
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if you have a dopaminergic that's a problem
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if you live a dopaminergic lifestyle your serotonin by definition is going to be low
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and if you look at these yogis in the himalayas they're i mean we no one's doing
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interest not even intracellular intercellular measurements of dopamine
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and serotonin between neurons like no one's like doing brain biopsies to measure that stuff so this is basically functional neuroscience.
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But if you look at like a yogi, a yogi is content.
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And so they can still engage in pleasure.
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But that contentment is also enters the endocannabinoids circuitry.
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But if you think about your piece, right, if I am fundamentally content,
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and I think this is what I'd love to get to the methodology of that bifurcation that you were talking about,
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because I think this is what Connor's talking about, is like, if you are confident in yourself, if you're relationally connected, the fuel that dopamine,
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the problems that dopamine solves actually disappear.
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And I think that's what he's talking about as well, which is like, if you don't tug one out,
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which by the way, is the hard part if you're addicted, right?
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Especially if you're watching pulling the candles on.
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Right.
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There comes a time where I just get outgunned in these conversations.
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It's like, I don't even know.
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How many of them want to have that?
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And so I think one day I'll be strong enough.
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One day.
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One day.
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So we get to this point where what I really like about that exercise, it's a shift to serotonin.
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It's a shift.
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This is exactly the potato chip exercise.
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When you start to settle in awareness, when you become aware of something, the bite of it like literally decreases.
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And there's some fascinating neuroscience about this where like, I don't know if this kind of makes sense, but you know, if I,
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you know, the difference between people who dance and people who don't know how to dance.
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Confidence.
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Once that is traumatized.
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So, so I think one, one group tries to do it and one group doesn't try to do it.
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Does that make sense?
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Yeah, I get what you're saying.
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Right?
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So something really interesting happens.
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So if I were to like give you guys like something to eat and I tell you consciously control every movement,
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you would not be able to chew.
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If I tell you consciously, okay, contract the calf, now lift, now extend the foot, now put it down.
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So anytime you become aware of something, something really interesting happens.
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It's the anterior cingulate cortex.
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Once that turns on and you become aware of something, the automaticity of the brain turns off, right?
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So I think this serotonergic circuit is really, I mean, it's fascinating, but like the more aware you become, things just lose their power.
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Like the power that emotions have over you, if you really lean into the emotion and you feel that emotion, that reckoning of pain, right?
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Like when, when you actually face that reckoning, when you face the music, the strength that it has to control you actually goes away.
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That's cool.
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You create a pattern interrupt, right?
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Like when you think about the porn example, somebody's feeling something, they're anxious, they're angry, they're bored, they're lonely.
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They don't want to feel that way.
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Their brain has created a, uh, cause our brains are largely pattern recognition machines
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and they're looking for patterns to largely keep us safe and
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so for a lot of guys they're watching porn they're re -watching porn
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because they feel a certain way that they don't want to feel
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and their brain has learned oh and i feel this
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when this emotion pops up in my body i go jerk off
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and that cycle plays out
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and they have a very specific cycle there's a cycle of how they do it
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and when they do it and
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and how they're feeling before there's like there's a whole yeah there's a whole cycle
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that plays out and then they always feel a specific way after
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which is usually shame regret you know
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it's like what's the post not regret right it's like what the was i just watching um
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and so what joe's talking about is creating
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a different type of confrontation or a type of confrontation that creates a different pattern
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that starts to slow things down
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and accentuate from a place of like okay what am i
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actually feeling what i've given to guys is set a timer go sit down go breathe
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and feel into what you're feeling and i called it the fire meditation
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and it's like okay you're feeling something in that moment
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that you're running from yeah
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and you don't want to feel it you're feeling anger you're feeling loneliness you're feeling whatever it is
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and you are avoiding it and
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so let's move towards it right jung talked about uh carl jung talked about like
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when you are facing a monster in a dream the worst thing you can do is run from it
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and but this is what we do when we have habits
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or behaviors or choices that we largely don't want to deal with
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or emotions that we don't want deal with we run from them
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and so what what i'll often do with men is let's turn towards it
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so he says when there's a monster in a dream the first thing
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that you need to do is you need to turn towards it
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and you need to turn towards the thing
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that you're afraid of you don't want to feel you don't want to experience
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because not always but sometimes it'll start to dissipate you can start to build a relationship with it
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and instead of oh i feel this way i don't want to feel
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this way it's oh i feel this way
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and i'm starting to build tolerance for it i'm actually still okay even though i'm feeling this way and that
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that oftentimes is a byproduct of a family system a nervous
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system within a family system where somebody just didn't learn how to deal with heart emotions right
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they didn't learn how to deal with anger or anxiousness
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or whatever it is And so they've adopted all of these methods to deal with internal states that they don't like.
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Like a lot of dysfunction that people are experiencing is I'm experiencing an internal state that I don't like,
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and I have all of these ways of avoiding what's happening inside of me. And
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so I think part of what we're talking about is how
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do we support people in turning towards the internal state that they're ultimately trying to avoid.
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And one of the things that I say to guys all the time is like, there's no change without some form of confrontation.
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There's no change without some form of confrontation.
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Super union, yeah.
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And it's like, but that's, and I think from a masculine perspective, that is something that we're really missing.
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Like a lot of young men are, they have been neutered when it comes to confrontation.
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They've been told that confrontation is toxic.
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They've been told that confrontation is bad.
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They're wrong for it and so they're really these fragile not just men
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and i was the same way right like i you know i was okay with getting into bar fights
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that was totally okay that type of confrontation was fine
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but i wasn't okay with the confrontation of like wow i feel really fucking sad
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or i feel really weak or i'm really scared about this thing
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that type of confrontation was never taught to me and i think
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that that's the case for
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so many people where they're not taught how to confront the hard negative perceived negative experiences
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Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Why Watching Porn Ruins Your Brain”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: porn, dopamine, serotonin, chris, confrontation. Questo video contiene 186 frasi e 2237 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 12:09. Chi parla va veloce, circa 184 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 83% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
confrontation sostantivo/ˌkɑn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən/confronto
emotion sostantivo/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/emozione
element sostantivo/ˈɛləmənt/elemento
habit sostantivo/ˈhæb.ɪt/abitudine, consuetudine
enjoyable aggettivo/ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪ.ə.bl̩/piacevole, gradevole
practical aggettivo/ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/pratico
chase verbo/t͡ʃeɪs/inseguire, cacciare
anger sostantivo/ˈæŋɡə/ira, rabbia
regret verbo/ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/rimpiangere, rammaricarsi
chip sostantivo/t͡ʃɪp/frammento, scheggia
wisdom sostantivo/ˈwɪzdəm/saggezza, senno
lifestyle sostantivo/ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl/stile di vita
anytime avverbioin qualsiasi momento, in qualunque momento
decrease verbo/dɪˈkɹiːs/diminuire, calare
potato sostantivo/pəˈteɪ.təʊ/patata, pomo di terra

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
go away verbopartire, andarsene
play out verbosvolgere
figure out verboscoprire, rendersi conto
find out verboscoprire
sit down verbosedersi, accomodarsi
turn off verbospegnere

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 fais traumatized · is set · is run
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohas created · has learned · i've given
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosasomeone who has · well, which is · people who dance

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 82 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, they're, you're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “th”: breathe /bɹiːð/, athlete /ˈæθ.liːt/, methodology /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: confrontation /ˌkɑn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, ratio /ˈɹeɪ.ʃoʊ/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: confrontation /ˌkɑn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/, whereas /(h)wɛɹˈæz/, hammock /ˈhæmək/, hedonic /ˈhiːdənɪk/
  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: element /ˈɛləmənt/, habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/, chase /t͡ʃeɪs/, regret /ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/, chip /t͡ʃɪp/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/, practical /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/, anger /ˈæŋɡə/, candle /ˈkæn.dəl/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/

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 confrontation, emotion, element.

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