Shadowing Practice: 6 TRUCCHI per parlare come un ITALIANO - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Molti studenti parlano bene l'italiano, o comunque se la cavano, ma si esprimono in maniera innaturale,
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artificiale, e questo è un problema molto comune.
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Oggi ti voglio parlare di alcune strategie molto pratiche che ti aiuteranno a parlare italiano in maniera più naturale,
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più idiomatica e più espressiva, come un vero italiano.
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I want you to realize certain phenomena typical of speaking, aspects that differ from the way you speak from the way you speak.
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I'm David and this is Podcast Italian, a channel for who learns or learns Italian.
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Attiva the subtitles if you need it, and find the link on my website.
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Come sempre poi ho preparato un PDF che riassume tutto quello che dico e integra le informazioni con altri esempi.
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Puoi scaricarlo al link in descrizione oppure scansionando questo codice QR.
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Incominciamo!
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Dai un'occhiata a questo dialogo.
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Ma sai quali ingredienti servono per il tiramisù?
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Allora, per il tiramisù servono caffè, mascarpone, pavesini.
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Scusa, ma non ci vogliono i savoiardi?
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Beh, sono due varianti diverse.
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Sì, ma i savoiardi si inzuppano meglio, no?
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Ma, insomma, va a gusti.
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Nel senso, i pavesini non sono male.
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Cioè, come dire, hanno una consistenza migliore.
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Forse hai ragione.
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Vabbè, comunque quando lo facciamo?
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In this dialogue there are a lot of expressions typical of the spoken word, like ma.. allora.. excuse me, in the sense...
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Spesso these expressions are called ingiustamente riempitivine,
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filler words, and it's just because they don't serve only to riempire the silence, but have a very practical function.
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They help you listen to orient yourself to understand what we're saying,
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what we're saying, What do we do with the words that we are using?
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For example, the first MA signifies that I'm not going to ask a question.
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Allora...
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Introduce a explanation.
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Excuse me, it can use to interrupt a person in a way of being a court.
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Excuse me, but I don't want to ask?
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MA and INSOMMA, also INSIEME, MA INSOMMA, can indicate that we are not at all.
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But, in some way, it's a taste.
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In the sense, and, so, they can give an example of what we've said, or to say it in another way.
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In the sense, I povesiline are not bad, they are, like to say, they have a better consistency.
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And, well, anyway, they use to change the argument.
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Well, anyway, when do we do it?
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These are called signals discourses.
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They are a bit like signals, but that don't lead us to the street,
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but in a conversation, we use it continuously and we don't even know.
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They might be a video apart, maybe?
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Let me know in the comments if you want.
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But you start to observe how the mother language uses these words and expressions. Have you heard?
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The teacher in the top has been able to do it.
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Really?
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It was bad.
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Because you didn't know it?
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It was a lot of time.
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No, I'm really going to go out of the clouds.
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Well, I'm not sure if I've seen it in a bad way.
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Ah, yes, this one doesn't piove.
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I'm really important to speak language in a language language.
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I've talked about it recently.
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I'm talking about that someone has a little bit more informal than to say it's dead.
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And instead of saying that this one doesn't have any doubt, it's more interesting and natural to say that this one doesn't piove.
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Insomma, i modi di dire ti aiutano a parlare in una maniera più espressiva e un po' più interessante, più italiana.
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Se impari l'italiano, ovviamente.
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Ora, il problema dei modi di dire, ma in generale di tutte queste strategie del parlato, è che da studenti non sappiamo quando le usiamo,
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se le stiamo usando bene, in maniera idiomatica, innaturale, oppure in una maniera un po' forzata, un po' artificiale.
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And to understand it, we need to do feedback from a mother language.
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Even better if this mother language is an instructor or a tutor paid for criticising you.
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And if you're looking for an instructor or a mother language of Italian, there's no place to do it.
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Su Italki puoi fare lezioni individuali e personalizzate su ciò che ti interessa di più, argomenti come quelli di questo video,
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ma anche semplice conversazione, puoi fare lezioni di grammatica, di pronuncia, di scrittura, prepararti per un esame linguistico, quello che vuoi.
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Puoi prenotare lezioni nei momenti che ti sono più comodi,
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puoi fare lezioni direttamente dal divano col cellulare e in mutande, even if I don't recommend it to do it, but you understand what I mean.
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It's very comfortable, more comfortable, to go into the real world to search an teacher.
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Who comes from home in these times?
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3. On your own topic, you can find a teacher in your budget.
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With more experience, less experience, tutor informal or professional teaching, with more qualifications, whatever you want.
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There are a lot of teachers and I'm sure you'll find what you do for you.
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It's the 2025 time of the Objektive, and a lesson that you recommend is a week on italki.
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You'll see in a few months the difference that you will talk regularly.
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Click on the link in the description and use the code DAVIDE1 to get 5€ discount on lessons from more than 10€.
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Okay, this strategy doesn't only talk about the spoken word, ma è comunque un concetto che tutti dovrebbero conoscere.
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Sto parlando delle collocazioni, parola orrenda che di fatto significa combinazioni di parole.
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Le collocazioni sono simili in un certo senso ai modi di dire, ma anche diverse.
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I modi di dire sono rigidi e hanno un significato a volte oscuro.
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Cioè, se sai che significa tirare le cuoia bene, ma se non lo sai è difficile capirlo dalle singole parole.
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Mentre le collocazioni sono più trasparenti.
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Una collocazione è scattare una foto, per esempio, o semplicemente fare una foto.
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Fai attenzione, non diciamo prendere come in inglese, spagnolo o francese, diciamo però prendere tempo, ma si può anche perdere tempo.
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Oppure prendere freddo, prendere una malattia, ma si può anche contrarre una malattia, which is also more elegant,
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in this case there are more formal and more informal and colloquial.
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These are then more of verbs and names, but they can be different combinations.
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We can talk about error, clamor, or a mossa azzardata .
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We can talk about words or work so, verb and verb.
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And then a word can be mixed in a natural way with more words.
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For this there are also the dictionaries of colloctions.
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The sole can be a little, or a little, or a little, or a little.
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The dolor can be simply a little, but also a little, or a little.
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The lancinant, for example, is an adjective that is used almost only with the dolor, and the cocent is practically only with the sole.
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In the language there are words that are practically used only in certain combinations, with other words.
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And then, often, the collocages change from one language to another.
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In English, you take a shower.
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In French, on prend une douche.
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In Italian, you take a shower.
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And so, we need to get to know these differences, because we often speak in a way natural,
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because we literally translate the collocages of our language into the language we are learning.
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Anche questo punto non riguarda solo il parlato, ma evitare questo errore comune ti permetterà di esprimerti in maniera molto più naturale.
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Il pronome personale soggetto, quindi io, tu, lui, o lei, eccetera, in genere in italiano non si dice, si omette.
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Se lo diciamo, lo facciamo per dare alla nostra frase un significato più specifico, più particolare,
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e quindi dirò ho finito di scrivere video per youtube e
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non io ho finito di scrivere se dico io ho finito è un po come se
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And then I'll say I've finished writing a video for YouTube, and not I've finished writing.
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If I say I've finished, it's a bit like if you say it's what I'm talking about, what I'm talking about.
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It has a more specific meaning.
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I can use it for example to change the topic, for example, from you to you.
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I've finished working.
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You do what you do?
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I've finished writing a video.
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10 minutes I've done.
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Here, the two I and the you are creating a contrast, changing argument, passing from me to you.
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I do this.
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You do this.
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I do this.
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In these cases, the pronoun serves, but in most cases, it is not used.
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The subject of the phrase is essentially understood by the verb.
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I do this.
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I do this.
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I do this.
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but also from the context, regarding the third person.
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You know what?
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Giovanni is married.
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Eh?
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But he didn't already married.
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He didn't know that he was divorced?
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The person who's a nice person, interpretive by me, says that he didn't already married, which is natural.
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The pronoun subject simply is omiss, because from the context you understand that he's talking about Giovanni.
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You can tell when Italian uses the pronoun subject, but also when they don't use them.
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Now, the Italian will kill me, but I'm convinced of what I recommend you.
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I'm afraid of saying it, but I recommend in Italian to use in conversation the period of the informal period.
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I refer to the construction of the building as...
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...se I knew I did, I did, instead of if I knew I would have done.
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Su, italiani, scatenatevi nei commenti!
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Ora, mi aspetto già una valanga di italiani indignati che scrivono Ma è sbagliato!
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Non insegnare queste cose!
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Non è italiano!
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Shhh!
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La verità è questa.
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Costruzioni del genere sono comunissime nel parlato.
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Se non lo erano, non le insegnavo, dopo tutto.
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Esistono dall'alba dei tempi, da secoli e secoli di storia dell'italiano, anche letterario.
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3. We understand that things that we say are not always just or wrong,
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but sometimes they are not adequate to a certain context.
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A phrase like if I did, I did, I'm fine in a relaxed and informal conversation, but I'm fine in a working meeting, for example.
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But how does this period work?
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If you have a intermediate level or advanced in Italian, you will know that there are different types of standard period,
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but there are two that are usually called the possibility and the reality, which are formed by a sentence with the sentence, the sentence that has the SE,
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and one with the conditional, which indicates not the condition, but the consequence.
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Why not complicating things?
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dimenticateli, no, non dimenticateli perché sono comunque importanti,
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ma nel periodo ipotetico informale e colloquiale puoi usare l'imperfetto dell'indicativo.
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E dunque, se mi avessi portato il vino l'avremmo aperto a cena diventa se mi portavi il vino lo aprivamo a cena,
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se fossi arrivato in orario non avremmo perso il volo diventa se arrivavi in orario non perdevamo il volo.
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Cogliù!
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Questa costruzione è molto più rapida e semplice a livello di tempi verbali, which is very useful for those who learn the language.
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And I'm not an Italian correct, it's an Italian informal.
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And this difference is fundamental.
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And if you're still, dear Italian indign, I don't know, you know that he used pure Dante, which usually is a good way to put it in a way.
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Now, I don't want to say that using the standard period, which you've learned with fatigue and sweat, is in an adequate conversation per carità,
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puoi senz'altro dire se mi avessi portato il vino lo avremmo aperto a cena.
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È solo un po' più formale.
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Ma magari vuoi esserlo formale, magari vuoi metterti la camicia al posto della t-shirt.
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Fai come meglio credi.
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Concludiamo con uno dei miei argomenti preferiti, le frasi marcate, cioè frasi che hanno un ordine degli elementi particolare.
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Vedi, l'ordine standard degli elementi in italiano è soggetto, verbo, oggetto o complemento.
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Luca ha read a book, Giovanni goes to Rome.
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But in the parlato things are not always so.
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Have you seen the video that I sent you?
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That one on the increase of the barbapietola?
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No, that one on the podcast Italian.
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Eh, no, that one I saw.
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I imagine.
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And that one on the barbapietola?
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No, I saw one another.
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Eh, com'è che si chiamava?
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Quello su perché ci dimentichiamo sempre le cose?
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Sì, quello visto.
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In questo dialogo abbiamo un sacco di strutture particolari tipiche del parlato.
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Innanzitutto all'inizio abbiamo l'hai visto il video, poi l'hai visto il video che ti ho mandato?
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Potrei dire hai visto il video, ma l'hai visto il video è molto comune nel parlato.
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Ti faccio altri esempi di questa struttura.
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We could say, I've done a job, I've read the book, I've gone to Germany, or I've gone to Germany, like a question.
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In all these cases, we have a pronoun that's redonding, that anticipa an element that's left at the end of the sentence almost isolated,
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even in the intonation.
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I've gone to Germany, I've read the book.
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There's also a little pause, if you notice.
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C'è poi un'altra struttura particolare, quello non l'ho visto.
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Eh no, quello non l'ho visto.
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Quello non l'ho visto.
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Qui invece l'oggetto o il complemento viene prima del verbo,
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quello, ed è poi ripreso da un pronome, l, in l'ho visto.
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Ecco, in questo caso è proprio obbligatorio mettere quell'L, cioè non posso dire quello ho visto,
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A meno di non dirlo con un'intonazione specifica come Quello ho visto, che implica un contrasto.
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Ho visto quello e non un altro, come nell'ultima frase del dialogo.
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Sì, quello ho visto.
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Quello l'ho visto, invece, significa qualcosa come Per quanto riguarda quello, l'ho visto.
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Insomma, ti dice di che cosa sto parlando, introduce il tema.
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È un po' come usare il pronome soggetto.
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Io l'ho fatto, cioè quanto a me l'ho fatto.
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QUELLO L'HO VISTO, QUANTO A QUELLO L'HO VISTO, IL LIBRO L'HO LETTO, IO, QUELLO O IL LIBRO SONO IL TEMA,
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SI CHIAMA PROPRIO TEMA NELLA LINGUISTICA, LA COSA DI CUI STIAMO PARLANDO, LA COSA SU CUI DICIAMO QUALCOSA.
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Insomma, hanno una funzione specifica, non sono solo spostamenti caotici e casuali di parole.
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Ora, le frasi marcate sono complicate, non posso di certo spiegare come funzionano in due minuti.
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I've talked about in a previous video that I leave in the description, but also in one of my videos of my advanced course in Italy in Italian,
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which unies the learning of Italian to the learning of Italian culture.
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It's a job, but.. link in the description, you'll see.
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I've heard of foreigners use these phrases marked, apart from foreigners who live in Italy for a long time, but we Italians really use them in the same way?
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I've just used one.
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For concluding, I recommend you, when you listen to Italian talk, to make sure to these aspects, to notice them, to make sure.
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Maybe take only one or two of these, which I've talked about in this video, and focus on your attention to how they are used in conversations.
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For example, only on the signals, only on the signals, and you can say, well, in the sense, listen to it and try to understand what functions they have,
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they are not for a chance.
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But then, you have to put these things in practice.
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This is a marked phrase.
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For this, go to italki and pre-notes your first lesson.
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And remember that if you want a PDF
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that you can take all the information of the video and integrate with other examples, you can link in the description or this code QR code.
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If you think, after this video, you're thinking, ''David, I'm not talking about it, but in a way, I'm talking about it,
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but I'm talking about it.'' Well, this video...
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.. is for you.

Context & Background

In the realm of language learning, understanding the natural flow of conversation is essential. The speaker, Davide, delves into practical strategies that not only assist learners in speaking Italian fluently but also highlight the nuances that often lead to unnatural expressions. He emphasizes the importance of recognizing frequent verbal expressions—often overlooked yet crucial for sounding like a native speaker. This context lends itself perfectly for learners aiming to improve their spoken English, as the strategies discussed can be adapted for mastering English as well.

Top 5 Phrases for Daily Communication

  • But – Indicates a shift in thought, often used to pose a questions.
  • Well – Suggests hesitation or disagreement while maintaining politeness.
  • In the sense – Used for elaborating or providing clarification.
  • Anyway – Signals a transition to a new subject.
  • Sorry – A polite way to interrupt or redirect the conversation.

These phrases, commonly referred to as discursive signals, serve as essential tools for everyday conversations. By mastering these expressions, learners can enhance their fluency and engage more naturally, leading to more authentic interactions.

Step-by-step Shadowing Guide

To efficiently incorporate these phrases into your speech, follow this easy shadowing guide:

  1. Find a video clip in English that features natural conversation. A great way to learn English with YouTube is by selecting videos focused on everyday topics.
  2. Listen to the dialogue attentively, making a note of the phrases that resonate with you—particularly those mentioned above.
  3. Repeat the phrases aloud, mimicking the speaker's intonation and rhythm. This is where the concept of shadow speech comes into play.
  4. Record yourself during practice sessions; listen critically to assess your pronunciation and naturalness.
  5. Incorporate these phrases into your daily conversations. The more you practice, the more they will become second nature.

Utilizing a shadowing site or language exchange platform can provide additional interactive support, enabling you to practice with native speakers. Consistent use of this method will sharpen your speaking abilities and boost your confidence as you engage in natural dialogue.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.