Shadowing Practice: 07 Past Tenses 02 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Recording 4 Good morning, and welcome to today's talk on famous composers.
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Today we're going to look at the remarkable career of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Mozart was born in Salzburg on January 27, 1756, the last of seven children.
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However, when Mozart was born, five of his siblings had already died in infancy or early childhood.
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His only surviving sibling was his sister, Nannerl, who was five years older.
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Mozart's father, Leopold, was a composer, and his grandfather had also been a musician.
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Times were hard, and the family had been struggling for some time.
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When she was eight, Nannerl began keyboard lessons with her father.
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Mozart's sister was extremely gifted at the keyboard, and she had been making excellent progress when her brother,
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then aged three, demanded to be taught as well.
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In just thirty minutes, Mozart mastered the piece of music, which his father had copied into Nannerl's notebook.
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Wolfgang's achievement was followed in rapid succession by others.
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By the time he was six, the little boy had written a composition of his own into the notebook,
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and by age seven he had taught himself how to play the violin without ever having received a lesson.
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When Leopold Mozart saw how extraordinary his son was,
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he decided not to waste Wolfgang's precocious talents and took him on a tour across Europe with his sister.
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At Linz, Wolfgang gave his first public concert.
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Among the audience were some important statesmen who were astonished
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and hurried on to Vienna to spread sensational reports of what they had seen.
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By the time he was seventeen, Mozart's reputation had already begun to spread through Europe, and his family were richer than they had ever been before.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 20 frases y 281 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:05. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 135 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 78 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
lesson sustantivo/ˈlɛs.ən/lección
keyboard sustantivo/ˈki.bɔɹd/teclado
composer sustantivo/kəmˈpoʊzəɹ/compositor, compositora
notebook sustantivo/ˈnoʊtˌbʊk/cuaderno, libreta
sibling sustantivo/ˈsɪb.lɪŋ/hermano, hermana
reputation sustantivo/ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/reputación, nombradía
rapid adjetivo/ˈɹæp.ɪd/rápido, raudo
achievement sustantivo/əˈt͡ʃiːv.mənt/logro
extraordinary adjetivo/ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/extraordinario, descomunal
remarkable adjetivo/ɹɪˈmɑɹ.kə.bl̩/remarcable, destacable
grandfather sustantivo/ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/abuelo
hurry verbo/ˈhʌ.ɹi/apresurarse, apurarse
musician sustantivo/mjuˈzɪʃən/músico, música
succession sustantivo/səkˈsɛʃ.ən/sucesión
violin sustantivo/ˌvaɪ.əˈlɪn/violín

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

  • Los sonidos de “th”: thirty /ˈθɝti/, grandfather /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/
  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, composition /ˌkɑm.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/, musician /mjuˈzɪʃən/, succession /səkˈsɛʃ.ən/, sensational /sɛnˈseɪʃənəl/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, composition /ˌkɑm.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/, sensational /sɛnˈseɪʃənəl/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como lesson, keyboard, composer.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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