Shadowing Practice: COME INIZIO A STUDIARE ITALIANO? - Learn English Speaking with YouTube

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Come state?

Oggi parliamo di un problema tanto,

tanto, davvero tanto comune tra chi impara le lingue,

me compresa fino a poco tempo fa.

Il problema è riassunto da questa domanda che mi viene fatta molto spesso,

cioè, Ile, perché non riesco ad avanzare,

a fare passi in avanti con l'italiano?

Perché mi sento così frustrated,

blocked, and I don't ever learn Italian.

If you feel like you are in the right place,

because today I will show you three secrets to which this happens.

So you feel like you are not too secret.

It's simple.

Segreto 1.

Your mother language.

Your start point determines your path.

This means that based on the mother language you speak,

you will learn the Italian with a speed and a completely different approach to another person with another mother.

Why this happens?

This explains August Schlescher.

Schlescher.

I don't know how it is pronounced,

correct me, I pronounce it in the comments.

I don't know.

In short, August, let's call it so for simplicity,

in 1861, he theorized that the languages are part of a great family.

In 1861, for many years,

this gentleman, this linguist, he started to understand why there were some similarities

and differences between the different languages of the world and why Why do they exist so many languages in the world?

In 1861, which is the year of the United States,

this signor August created the first genealogical alberge of languages,

so he put the languages in groups and called them as linguistic languages.

As you can see here,

this is an opera by Minna Sandberg,

I hope she pronounced it like this.

All the alberi genealogical are a bit of a pyramid,

in the beginning of the genealogical family, there are two people.

In this case, he asked if there was only a single language to accommodate them.

He discovered that there is a language called Proto Indo Europeo,

Proto Indo Europeo, which is the first language in the world.

In this program, however, there are no sources of written sources,

because it is a pre-istorical language,

that is, before the history, before the script.

And then, how do we know about its existence?

Well, because there are some similarities and differences between the different languages of the world.

And he is just like that he understood that there was a single language that accommodated all the languages of the world,

from the study of the similarities and differences.

This is called linguistics comparative linguistics.

And thanks to this study,

I managed to create a similar scheme.

As you can see, the interest of today is only these languages,

followed by a red line,

from Italian, which becomes Latin,

French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Portuguese,

because these are called Roman languages.

If your mother is one of these languages,

you will be lucky because you will learn more about learning Italian.

If your mother is not part of the Italian language,

which is the language that we have mentioned,

but is part of the German language,

it will be a bit more difficult to learn This is because,

as part of two different rami,

there are more differences than the similarities.

They are more strict between languages of the same group,

so for example, the the languages of the Slav are more similar between them.

So, Russian, Polish, Bulgarian, they are very similar between them.

Like French, Spanish, Italian and English and English.

Ok, and this is the initial situation.

What is your mother's language?

This is the first question you have to ask.

And in base a this,

we have to choose a strategy of approach to Italian.

If you are speaking of language and romance,

the first advice is more ascolto, less grammatica.

It seems to be a counterproductive because many of you will say that grammatica is the base of everything.

And it's true, but following this idea of which language determines the path,

Allora, se la tua lingua madre è una lingua romanza molto simile all'italiano,

sarà molto più produttivo ascoltare tantissimo che studiare la grammatica tutti i giorni.

Ma questo non significa che la grammatica non va studiata in questo caso.

In questo caso la grammatica va usata come supporto invece che base,

cioè non si deve partire dalla grammatica,

ma si deve usare la grammatica come supporto mentre si fanno altre attività, tipo ascoltare.

Un altro consiglio pratico in questo caso è sfruttare le somiglianze tra le lingue.

Visto che sono tutte parte di una stessa famiglia,

si somigliano tantissimo, sia a livello lessicale che grammaticale.

Quindi sfrutta queste somiglianze per imparare in maniera more effective and faster.

I remember that in Spanish,

dar sequenta, in Spanish, is translated into Italian as to make sense,

that the word lampara is translated as lampada,

that in French, com'on se' is translated as to make so that parler is to speak.

If you are speaking German,

Slav or other group, the main advice is to focus on the grammatical grammar,

at least at the beginning.

You need a pretty solid language of grammatical grammar because it is a little,

or in base at the case,

different from the mother's language.

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In this case, we do the opposite.

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So if the grammatical is your basic language,

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then the audio products, like TV,

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podcast, and music will be your support.

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They will be used to start to get used to how you can play the language.

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And the main tip is to have patience.

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The patience is key if your first language is roman,

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or if it's in a different group.

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But if it's in a different group, you'll need more patience.

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Segreto numero 2.

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Chi sei?

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Personalità e predisposizioni influenzano il modo in cui impari.

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To say that everyone is different is a bit different, right?

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But in reality, we often forget and we tend to compare ourselves with people very different from us.

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Or in general, we tend to compare ourselves,

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which is a negative thing.

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Let's take me as an example.

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I am a person of nature very introvert,

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timid, which is why it was difficult to start this YouTube journey.

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But this introversion is also blocked by learning languages,

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in which I would actually want to learn more,

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by putting them in more play.

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In this way, this character's my character's side has blocked for a long time.

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In my experience, I have helped me grow and mature.

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For example, I was a little bit studying music.

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I started to get out of my school,

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because at the end of every school year we had an exhibition in a pub

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and this required to exhibit in front of many people,

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like parents, friends, or even strangers.

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I was on the stage with people I didn't know,

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and I was afraid of them.

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Because I was afraid I would have made a picture that they would have judged me.

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So, every time I was on the stage, I was terrified.

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Then, my experience with music has always been taught me more,

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I've had more experiences that I've had more experience,

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more experience, more experience, so in part I've learned to overcome this fear.

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At some point I stopped studying music because I had other priorities,

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in particular studying, But then I started working and the work,

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too, that I put a lot on the test.

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Because, always because I'm a very timid and introvert,

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it was difficult to meet new people every day.

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So I had to be a guide,

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so I had to have the emotional maturity necessary for being their guide.

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And in that moment that interaction was very much anxiety,

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just for this nature.

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But, in that moment, my work helped me out of my guscio,

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and another time, it helped me out of my guscio again.

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So now, compared to five or eight years ago, I'm much more open.

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For me it's much easier to talk and to talk with people.

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and therefore this helped me a lot to practice more and more easily the language I speak.

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So, these introversions and timidities are the ones that have impeded to practice

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and to go on in the languages like I would have wanted for many years.

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Now I've overcome this obstacle,

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but in all these 5-8 years I've always been comparating with people different from me,

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people who were not introverted or timid,

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and who learned the language much more easily and much faster than what I did.

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So it's true that our character is determined for our personality,

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but not for our goals,

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so there is nothing that can really stop us to reach the goal of speaking well a language.

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You can always work on you or you.

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3. The third segredo is to understand who you are.

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The time and the energy that you put in what you do determine your results.

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There are three factors in this case.

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The first is the frequency of study.

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And here comes the comparison.

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You are comparing yourself with with people who study much as you?

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Or people who do more hours a week than what you do?

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The second factor, probably the most important factor,

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is how many tasks and responsibilities have you during your day.

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So, I'm young and I don't have children,

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I'm all my time, so I can study much more than my mother.

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This means that I can't compare myself with other people because each of us has responsibilities,

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dover and things to do,

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and therefore the time of each other changes based on their own life.

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This determines how long I can study.

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The third factor is how much energy you have when you study Italian.

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This is because we take two people.

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One is a physical job and the other is a mental job.

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Who does a physical job have much more energy to the day of the day.

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So I can't compare myself with another person that are different responsibilities,

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tasks and work, because it doesn't matter how long I study,

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if my mental energy is not sufficient,

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I will get the results will be inferior compared to those of people with more mental energy.

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So why don't you go ahead?

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Use methods in your starting point.

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You can't compare others instead of the old you.

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Non stai contando la qualità,

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ma la quantità e la frequenza.

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Ora, dopo aver sistemato questa parte del tuo problema,

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quindi il perché non stai avanzando e capire in realtà come fare per avanzare,

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proviamo a dare dei consigli pratici,

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i soliti consigli pratici che vi serviranno per andare effettivamente avanti.

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Io lo chiamo metodo LAP.

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Lettura, ascolto e parlare.

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The reading is fundamental, in reality it's one of the first channels that we start developing.

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And so as the listening,

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it's a passive channel, so we learn without actively thinking.

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And this is positive because we still don't have the ability to think in that language.

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So, start with mini stories or books of your interest,

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especially because without interest we will lose attention after a little.

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based on your level.

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For example, reading my newsletter can help you a lot,

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because, in addition to reading ,

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you can also listen to my voice, reading the text.

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This is perhaps one of the most important channels to learn,

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because, as you can learn how you pronounce the words,

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your brain memorizes some structures and,

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above all, begins to get used to how the language is

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so you can listen to the sources that are always based on your level.

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Ascoltate more times the same thing, but listen to it.

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And as I said before,

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you can listen to the audio of my weekly newsletter or continue to listen to these videos,

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Because as I said in the first video,

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my goal is to give you more material to listen and to practice.

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The third element is to talk.

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It's the passage that everyone evita because it's a lot of fear.

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It requires much more effort,

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patience, and it's difficult to get out of your comfort zone.

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but if you find the right partner,

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I'm sure you'll be the most fun part.

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And I'm working on getting more people.

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So, don't worry.

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So, I hope you've reduced your anxiety and frustration,

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I hope you've helped you build a study method for your situation.

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And don't forget that we're all on the same boat, me and I.

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So, don't worry, it's a slow and frustrating process,

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but it will give you results.

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I sometimes have the same concerns,

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but I remember what I'm saying here,

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which are the same things I apply for,

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I'm going to relax and I'm going to study.

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Let's leave a like if you liked the video and want to see it on the other channel.

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Let me comment on what these points really made you say aha,

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this is my problem.

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And if you need a hand with verbs,

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I'll leave a link in the description for my free guide that I hope and I will help you.

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If you want to miss another video, thank you for listening!

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Ciao!

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