Pratica di Shadowing: ZOOTOPIA 2 SCENE CLIP | BUNNY AND OVERSHARE SCENE CLIP - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

Creazione lezione...
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I thought you should...
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He told me that you...
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That you were...
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Help your friend.
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Okay, I don't care that we're different.
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You know?
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What I care about is you.
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I care about you.
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Okay?
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And I didn't say it.
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I should have said it.
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But I didn't.
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Because, well, because I am an emotionally insecure source of your discomfort.
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Who is not good at expressing his feelings.
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Probably because I've been on my own my whole life.
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It's not an excuse, it's just why, instead of telling you that you're the best thing that ever happened to me,
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I make jokes about your ears, and I tell you that you try too hard, when, you know, the truth is I just don't want you to get hurt,
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because no one else in the world matters more to me than you do.
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I do try too hard because deep down I'm afraid
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that I am what everyone thinks I am and I suppress my discomfort
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because I'm worried it makes me look weak
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and I want to be strong and I think I'm failing all the time
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and I only take what you say personally
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because you're the only one in my life who ever believed in me even
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when I don't even believe in myself and I should have told you that.
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No one else in the world matters to me more than you do either.
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I have unresolved childhood trauma that I refuse to discuss because being vulnerable scares me.
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I make dangerous choices because I have an unhealthy but a hero complex.
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And I didn't join the ZPD because I wanted to be a cop.
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I joined because I always wanted to be part of a pack.
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And the thought of losing you scares me because... Because you're my pack.
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I should never have left you.
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And I do need a herd of therapy animals.
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And I should have told you that you are the only partner I would ever want.
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Because you're my fluffle.
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That's a bunch of rabbits!
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Now that is what we call an overshare.
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I'm alive by the way.
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I made it.
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Oh, also that guy's still alive.
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Hey!
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Hey!
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Please!
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It's time to get to the Lost Reptile neighborhood, find Gary's Great -Grandma's patent, and destroy it!
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Yeah, I've got no idea what that means or who Gary is, but let's go!
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That's a wild.
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Wild and hot.
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And Mimou's a Gary!
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He's Gary.
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Whoa!
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Thank you for the snake.
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He's cold.
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No fur on him.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “ZOOTOPIA 2 SCENE CLIP”. This video has 53 sentences and 424 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:46. The speaker talks at a natural 153 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 80% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 13 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
discomfort noun/dɪsˈkʌmfɚt/Mental or bodily distress.
scare verb/skɛɚ/To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.
fluffle noun/ˈflʌ.fəl/A group of rabbits.
overshare verbTo share too much or in excess.
unresolved adjectiveFor which no solution has been found.
suppress verb/səˈpɹɛs/To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
unhealthy adjective/ʌnˈhɛl.θi/Characterized by, or conducive to poor health.
insecure adjective/ɪnsəˈkjʊɹ/Not secure.
whoa/woʊ/Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.
emotionally adverb/ɪˈməʊʃənəli/In an emotional manner; displaying emotion.
rabbit noun/ˈɹæbɪt/A mammal of most genera of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail. (Those of the larger kind are instead called hares)
trauma noun/ˈtɹɔm.ə/Any injury to the body of a living thing.
patent noun/ˈpeɪtənt/An official document granting an appointment, privilege, or right, or some property or title; letters patent.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 17 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like discomfort, scare, fluffle.

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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