Pratica di Shadowing: Why you can't understand English movies. - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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If you find English movies difficult to understand, you're not alone.
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Most of my students have this problem, and it's not because your English is bad.
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It's just because you have to train your ears differently.
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In today's video, I'm going to teach you why you can't understand English movies
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and how you can work on fixing that so in future you'll be able to watch American, British, Canadian, Australian movies, whatever you want,
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and you'll be able to understand native speakers.
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So with that, let's get into today's video.
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Now, if you can't understand English movies, here's why.
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Native speakers speak fast, but it's not just about speaking fast.
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You see, when we speak quickly, we combine words together.
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This is called connected speech.
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And if you're not familiar with connected speech, you'll find it difficult to understand fast spoken English.
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For example, look at this sentence.
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Whatcha doing?
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It actually means what are you doing?
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Whatcha doing?
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Or this one.
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I gotta go.
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It means I've got to go.
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I need to leave.
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I gotta go.
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So the first step to understanding fast spoken English is to realize
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that connected speech is the reason you can't understand native speakers.
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It's because what you learned in school, what you learned in the textbook is not actually how native speakers speak in real life.
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So start identifying these connected speech patterns.
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If you want to learn more about this, you can check out my Conversation Confidence course.
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There are several lessons on connected speech in that course.
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The link is in the description below.
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One of the ways you can actually learn connected speech is by watching movies with subtitles.
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You see, if you can see the words on the screen and you can hear them being spoken at the same time,
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this is going to retrain your brain to connect the way the words sound with the way the words are written.
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If you want to improve your English by watching movies and using the subtitles.
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There are four levels.
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The first level is where you listen to the audio in your native language, and you put on the English subtitles.
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The second level is where you listen to the audio in English, and you put on subtitles in your native language.
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The third level is where you listen to the audio in English, and you put subtitles on in English.
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And of course, the fourth and most difficult level is where you listen to the audio in English without subtitles.
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Which level are you at right now?
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Let me know in the comments.
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Here's the thing, even if you're not at level three or level four yet, that's okay.
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Everybody has to start somewhere.
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So even if you need to turn on the subtitles in your native language or in English, that's perfectly okay.
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There's nothing wrong with that
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and it can actually be a really good way of working your way up
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and building the confidence you need until you can finally get to level four.
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Now when it comes to subtitles, you have to be careful because watching movies with subtitles might be making your English worse.
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You see, subtitles aren't always bad, but you don't want to become reliant on them.
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And they're there so you can eventually understand spoken English without having to use them.
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Because guess what?
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There are no subtitles in real world conversation.
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You should use subtitles if you're at the level where you can't understand a movie without them.
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But your goal should always be to eventually stop using them
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and get to the point where you can understand spoken English without subtitles.
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In English, we say you have to learn to walk before you can run.
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Now, before we continue the video, if you want to study English with me, check out my English at the Ready Club.
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The link to join the club is in the description below and you get live classes, support, a private community, and so much more as soon as you join the club.
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The link to join the club is in the description below.
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Something my students tell me all the time in the club is that they're listening to a movie, they're listening to a conversation, and they get stuck.
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Here's why you get stuck in conversation.
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You're listening for individual words and not the general meaning.
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Yes, native speakers speak quickly, but a big part of the problem is that your vocabulary is not big enough.
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So what happens is you're listening to a native speaker, you hear a word you don't understand, you stop, and you try to figure out what that word was,
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but the conversation is already 10 steps ahead.
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So, of course, you feel lost, you feel like you're stuck, you feel like you can't keep up,
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when in reality, the problem is that your vocabulary isn't big enough.
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It's not necessarily that you have problems understanding what they're saying.
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It's that you don't have the vocabulary yet.
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So that's why expanding your vocabulary and making
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that a priority can really help you so you don't get stuck as much in conversation or when watching movies.
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Now a question I get all the time, what are the best movies to learn English?
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And honestly, you're not going to like this answer.
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One movie is not better than another for learning English.
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You need to watch a movie you'll actually enjoy.
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Because if you don't enjoy the movie, if you're not paying attention to it, if you're bored, you won't be engaged, you won't be focused, and you won't improve your English.
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So turn on Netflix, go to a genre or category you enjoy, whether that's romance, history, action,
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suspense, and find a movie you'd actually watch in your native language.
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For example, I personally am not a huge fan of science fiction movies, so I probably wouldn't find them that useful to learn a language with,
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but other students would.
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So it completely depends on you.
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It depends what kind of movie you enjoy.
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It's the same with books or podcasts or news articles.
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You shouldn't do anything differently.
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You should do exactly what you would do in your native language, but in English because learning a language is not necessarily about doing things you don't find interesting.
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It's about doing the things that you already do, but doing them in English, doing them in the target language.
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So whatever type of movie you enjoy, that's good enough.
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And remember what I said earlier about subtitles.
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There's nothing wrong with using subtitles.
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You know the four levels of subtitles.
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It doesn't matter where you are right now, whether you're still at the bottom or you can already understand movies pretty well.
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Keep it up.
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Keep watching movies.
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Eventually, you will get there.
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And eventually, it will be a lot easier to understand native English speakers.
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I hope you found this video useful.
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If you did, make sure to leave a like, let me know in the comments, and subscribe to English at the Ready here on YouTube so you don't miss any future lessons.
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If you want to study with me personally, make sure to join the English at the Ready club for live classes every week, study resources, private community, and so much more.
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Thanks for watching today's video, and I'll see you in the next one.

Perché praticare a parlare con questo video?

Se hai difficoltà a comprendere i film in inglese, non sei solo. Questa è una sfida comune per molti studenti di inglese e non è dovuta a una mancanza di capacità linguistiche. Il problema principale risiede nella necessità di addestrare le orecchie a riconoscere diversi modelli di discorso e nell'adattarsi alla velocità con cui i madrelingua parlano. Praticare l'ascolto e la produzione orale attraverso il shadow speech può rivoluzionare il modo in cui percepisci l'inglese. Con questo video, avrai l'opportunità di migliorare la tua comprensione e pronuncia, permettendoti di goderti film americani, britannici, canadesi, australiani e altro ancora.

Grammatica ed Espressioni nel Contesto

Nel video, il relatore utilizza diverse strutture grammaticali e frasi chiave che sono utili per gli studenti di inglese:

  • "Whatcha doing?" - Una contrazione colloquiale che significa "What are you doing?" Questo esempio di connected speech è fondamentale per capire gli scambi orali.
  • "I gotta go" - Qui, la frase completa è "I've got to go", un'espressione comune per dire che devi andare via. Comprendere queste abbreviazioni è cruciale.
  • "Listen to the audio in English" - Importante per esercitare l'ascolto e migliorare la tua capacità di parlare.

Utilizzando tecniche di apprendimento come l'imparare l'inglese con youtube, gli studenti possono riconoscere l'importanza di queste espressioni quotidiane.

Trappole Comuni di Pronuncia

Durante il video, ci sono alcune parole e suoni che possono risultare complicati per chi sta apprendendo l'inglese:

  • Connected speech: Potresti avere difficoltà a capire come le parole si uniscono quando vengono pronunciate rapidamente.
  • Accenti diversi: I diversi accenti (britannico, americano, australiano) possono influenzare la comprensione, rendendo alcuni suoni diversi da come te li aspetti.
  • Subtitles vs. no subtitles: E' importante bilanciare l'uso dei sottotitoli, poiché a lungo termine potresti diventare troppo dipendente da essi, rendendo più difficile migliorare la tua pronuncia inglese.

Usare un shadowing site per esercitarti potrebbe aiutarti a migliorare la pronuncia e risolvere queste trappole di comprensione. Ricorda che ci vuole tempo e pratica, ma con il giusto approccio, puoi raggiungere un livello di comprensione molto più alto nei film inglesi!

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.