Pratica di Shadowing: Your English Level | Don't Compare - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Welcome to the Effortless English Show with the world's number one English teacher,
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AJ Hogue, where AJ's more than 40 million students worldwide finally learn English once and for all,
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without the boring textbooks, classrooms, and grammar drills.
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Here's AJ with a quick piece to help you learn to speak fluent English effortlessly.
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Hi, I'm AJ Hogue, the author of Effortless English,
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Learn to speak English like a native.
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Go to EffortlessEnglishClub.com, the blog, EffortlessEnglishClub.com.
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now every day, new shows, EffortlessEnglishClub.com.
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Do you compare yourself to other English learners and other English speakers?
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Right?
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Do you feel sad or angry or upset because many other people speak English better than you?
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Their pronunciation is much better than yours.
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Their vocabulary is much better than yours.
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Their spoken grammar is better than yours.
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Their listening and understanding better than yours.
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It can feel bad to look around and see people who speak English much better than you do.
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Of course, in schools this feeling can be even worse because you're getting grades,
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you're getting tests, or even tests like TOEFL or IELTS.
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You have the score and then you know other people getting better scores, higher scores.
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This is a big problem.
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But the problem is not the other people.
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The problem is you comparing yourself to other people.
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Comparing yourself to other people equals weakness.
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Weakness.
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It will not help you.
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In fact, comparing yourself to other people,
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especially other English learners, other English speakers will make you feel worse.
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You'll feel upset, you'll feel sad,
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and your motivation will actually go down little by little.
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You'll lose your motivation when you do this,
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when you compare yourself to other people.
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When you lose your motivation,
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your energy for learning, for improving,
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for studying will go down and down and down.
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And so, you will be less successful with English.
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You will improve more slowly.
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You will learn more slowly.
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Comparing yourself to others will make you an unhappy person.
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This is true for all parts of your life, not just English.
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It's the same with money.
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We look around.
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So many people compare themselves to others with money.
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Oh, they have more money.
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So many other people have more money.
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And we wish we were like them.
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And then we feel bad.
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We feel like we don't have enough.
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This also makes us unhappy.
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But it does not help us become more successful.
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Because with money and success, it's the same problem.
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When you feel bad, you lose your energy,
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you lose your motivation, you become less successful.
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Because in life, there will always,
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always, always be other people who are better than you in some area.
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some skill, some part of life.
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Always.
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There will always be someone more rich than you are,
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who has more money than you, who's richer than you.
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Always, if you become a billionaire,
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there are still many people who will have more money.
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And in all parts of life,
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there will be people better than you.
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There will be people who are stronger.
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So you're a man, You want muscles.
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You want to be strong.
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Well, even if you lift weights all the time and you get really strong,
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and even if you took drugs and chemicals to get stronger,
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there will still always be someone, somewhere stronger than you.
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And so, if you compare yourself to other people, you'll always be unhappy.
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Even if you make great changes, great improvements, great success.
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But if you compare yourself to the people who are better,
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you'll still feel like it's not enough.
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You're not good enough.
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This is why comparing yourself to others always leads to, creates unhappiness.
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Don't do it.
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What's the secret to happiness?
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What's the secret to success?
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To increased motivation.
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It's comparing yourself to yourself.
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Only compare yourself now to yourself in the past.
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See, when you do that,
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then you are only focused on improvement, your own improvement.
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Do you speak English better now than last year, than five years ago? If yes, feel good.
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You have improved.
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That's fantastic.
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And that means next year,
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you can speak English even better.
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And if you follow effortless English, much, much better.
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Focus on improvement.
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That's why in the effortless English system we focus on improvement.
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Constant and never ending improvement.
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You can always improve.
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You can always learn another new word.
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You can always improve your accent,
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your pronunciation a little more.
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Your understanding a little better.
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Even me, I am a native speaker.
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I was born in the United States.
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But still, I still learn new vocabulary words sometimes.
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Still sometimes I'm reading something and oh, that's a new word.
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I don't know the meaning.
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So I'm still learning English also.
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Also there are people who speak better than I do.
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There are people who have better spoken grammar,
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who speak with almost perfect grammar all the time.
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There are people who know more vocabulary words in English than I do.
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It doesn't matter.
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Improvement is the key.
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You must focus on yourself.
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The more you focus on yourself,
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your own improvement, improving yourself,
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the happier you will become and the more you will improve.
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You will improve faster, you'll learn faster,
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you'll be more successful, and you'll enjoy it all much more.
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Now that's true for English,
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that's true for making money,
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that's true for your job,
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that's true for your relationships,
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it's true for your body and exercise and health, for everything.
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The secret is this, stop comparing yourself to other people,
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only compare yourself to yourself.
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All right, if you want more of my daily audios, go to EffortlessEnglishClub.com.
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New audios every day on the blog EffortlessEnglishClub.com.
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See you there.
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Thank you.

Perché praticare parlando con questo video?

Questo video offre un'importante opportunità per imparare l'inglese con youtube attraverso il shadow speech. AJ Hogue, un insegnante rinomato, ci invita a riflettere su come il confronto con gli altri possa ostacolare il nostro progresso nell'apprendere l'inglese. Praticare il parlato utilizzando i suoi consigli ci permette non solo di migliorare la nostra fluidità, ma anche di costruire una maggiore autostima linguistica. Quando ci concentriamo su noi stessi e sull'auto-miglioramento, possiamo fare progressi più rapidi e soddisfacenti.

Grammatica & Espressioni nel Contesto

Nell'intervento di AJ, emergono alcune strutture grammaticali e frasi chiave che possono essere molto utili per chi sta praticando l'inglese. Ecco alcune delle più rilevanti:

  • Paragonare se stessi a qualcuno: Questa frase è fondamentale per esprimere il concetto di confronto, che AJ critica. La forma corretta sarebbe "comparing yourself to someone".
  • Sentirsi triste, arrabbiato o deluso: Utilizzata per descrivere emozioni, può apparire come "feel sad, angry, or upset". Praticare queste espressioni aiuta a descrivere stati d'animo.
  • Perdere la motivazione: La frase "you will lose your motivation" è utile per parlare di cambiamenti emotivi e la loro conseguenza nel processo di apprendimento.
  • Essere meno riusciti: Il modo di esprimere insuccesso come "you will be less successful" è importante per discutere i risultati delle proprie azioni.

Utilizzando queste strutture nel tuo shadowing in inglese, puoi migliorare notevolmente la tua competenza linguistica e la fluidità.

Trappole di Pronuncia Comuni

Una delle sfide più grandi nell'apprendere l'inglese è la pronuncia. Nel video, AJ utilizza parole e frasi che possono risultare difficili. Ecco alcune trappole di pronuncia comuni:

  • Motivazione ("motivation"): Questa parola viene spesso pronunciata in modo errato; assicurati di enfatizzare la terza sillaba.
  • Confrontare ("compare"): Fai attenzione alla pronuncia della "e", che può essere confusa con una "a" in alcune lingue.
  • Successo ("success"): La "u" è una vocale che può creare confusione; la corretta pronuncia richiede una chiara articolazione.

Praticare queste parole attraverso la pratica di conversazione in inglese e il shadowspeak migliorerà l'accento e la comprensione generale. Lavora sulla tua pronuncia ascoltando attentamente AJ e ripetendo le sue frasi, per ottenere i migliori risultati.

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.