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Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson where I'm going to talk about 10 mistakes that I think people make when learning the English language.
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And the first mistake I want to talk about is expecting quick results.
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Very often when I'm doing a live English lesson and people are looking for advice, they'll ask questions like this, how can I be fluent in 30 days?
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How can I be fluent in six months?
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And my response is always this.
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You can't expect quick results when learning a language.
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This is an enormous task.
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If you've decided to learn the English language, it's going to take a while.
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So please don't expect quick results.
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Instead, expect regular, normal results.
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Every week you should be learning some new vocabulary and you should be seeing some progress.
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So mistake number one, expecting quick results.
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Before we continue, I do want to thank Preply, the sponsor of this video.
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If you're not sure what Preply is, it's a place where you can find an English speaking partner that can help you practice your English.
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And if you use the link in the description below today you'll get 50% off your first lesson.
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Mistake number two not tracking your progress.
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I think whenever you do anything in life, when you want to achieve goals, it's important to track your progress as you learn English.
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A simple way to track your progress is to just check off on a calendar all of the days where you've actually sat down and learned some English.
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Another way to track progress is to regularly quiz yourself.
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When you track your progress, it gives you something to look back at.
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It gives you something to reflect on on those days where you don't have any motivation.
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Think about it this way.
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If you woke up one day and you didn't feel like learning English that day, but you looked at your calendar and there were 30 red check marks on every day of the month except for the 31st, you would be very motivated to practice English that day.
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So track your progress.
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It's just a great way to keep track of how well you are doing and also to motivate yourself.
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The third mistake, in my opinion, that English learners make is not taking an English test.
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When you take an official English test, I know it costs money, but when you pay the money and you take the test, it will diagnose your current English abilities and it'll tell you where you're weak.
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It will test your reading, writing, listening and speaking in a very stressful official capacity.
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And you'll actually get a printout that tells you what to work on.
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It might say your reading is amazing but.
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But your writing needs work.
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It might tell you that your listening skills are top shelf, but you really need to work on your conversation abilities. From there, looking at the results of the test, you can develop a plan.
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And the other cool thing is it helps you track your progress.
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Remember the previous point where I said you need to track your progress.
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If you take a test today and then you take it again in 12 months, you will be motivated because hope, hopefully you will see great improvement in all the areas.
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So mistake number three that I think people make is not taking an English test soon enough.
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Mistake number four, in my opinion, is not creating an immersive environment.
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When you listen to music, you should be listening to English songs.
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When you watch tv, you should be watching English TV shows.
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When you listen to a podcast, it should be in English.
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When you watch YouTube, it should be in English.
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When you decide to read the news, you should be reading the news in English.
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The Internet has created an amazing world where you can create an immersive environment where so many of the things that you listen to and read and do on a daily basis you can now do in English.
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So you need to create that environment so that you passively and actively continue to learn English, even if it's not a time where you're specifically sitting down to study it.
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If you listen to all of your music in English and you watch YouTube in English and listen to podcasts in English, you will then learn more and more about how English sounds, how you would say certain words, and you'll just start to understand it better.
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So mistake number four, not creating an immersive environment.
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Before we continue, I do want to, once again, thank Preply, the sponsor of this video.
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If you want to fix any of these 10 mistakes, Preply is a great place to find a person, an English conversation partner that can help you do just that.
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You could say to your English conversation partner from Preply, hey, I'm making mistake two, three, and seven.
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And they could develop a plan, an individualized plan just for you to help you correct those mistakes.
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At, Preply, you can find someone to help you with your specific need as you learn the English language.
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If you're planning to take a trip, if you're planning to take an English test, if you're planning to study in an English speaking country and you want to prepare a little bit before you go, Preply is a great place to find someone to help you do that.
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And if you use the link in the description below today, you'll get 50% off your first lesson. So once again, if you want to improve your English conversation skills, if you want to fix some of the mistakes that you might be making while learning the English language, go to Preply, find someone who you think is a good match for you.
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Hire Hire them and they will certainly help you take your English speaking to the next level.
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Mistake number five is not finding an English speaking partner soon enough.
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Like you should find an English speaking partner at the very beginning of your English learning journey.
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I know it's scary if you think about it.
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Listening to something in English, not scary.
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Reading something in English, not scary.
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But if you knew that later today you needed to have a one hour English conversation with someone, that might be a little bit nerve wracking, it might be a little bit scary.
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So often people will avoid it.
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But if you spend the money and you hire a tutor, there are two huge advantages.
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Number one, you will be able to practice your English conversation.
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I know that's the simple one and obvious one.
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But number two, if you have a question, there's a person right there and you can go to your English speaking partner and you can ask that question.
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And believe me, as you learn this wild, wacky and crazy language, you're going to have questions.
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So mistake number five, not finding an English speaking partner soon enough.
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Mistake number six, not practicing writing.
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I think people avoid practicing writing because it's a lot like work.
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I mean it is work.
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It's hard to do.
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If you compare it again to reading and listening, those are very passive and easy.
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But when you go and decide to write something, you have to sit down and have a pen, or get on your computer and think of words and how they go together and look up words in the dictionary.
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So writing is hard and people avoid it.
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But here's why you should practice your writing.
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It actually helps with your speaking.
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In some ways writing is a slower form of having a conversation.
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Mind you, it is one sided, it's just you talking but it allows you to in your mind practice and learn how to put words together and how to form sentences.
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And it's much slower, it's a slower pace than actually speaking.
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So don't avoid writing, it's a mistake.
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When you're practicing your writing, you're actually practicing your ability to speak English.
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Mistake number seven, not creating a schedule.
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If you don't create a schedule, your progress as you learn English is not going to be as consistent or regular and you're going to get a little bit annoyed with yourself after a month or two.
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If you just practise English here or there, in my opinion.
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Obviously I love schedules, but in my opinion it won't be as effective.
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So if you sit down and decide, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, those are the days where I'm going to actively practice English.
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And, and if you create a plan for yourself and stick to it, you will see progress.
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Now, I know with the immersive type idea, if you immerse yourself, you can maybe avoid the schedule a little bit.
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Can you tell?
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I'm a teacher though?
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I really like the idea of a schedule.
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Make a schedule.
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I personally think it's a mistake if you don't make one.
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Mistake number eight.
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Yes, we're at number eight.
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Mistake number eight is spending too much time doing the things you like while learning English and avoiding the hard parts of learning English.
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Here's what I mean.
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I have talked to people who are learning English who simply listen to podcasts, watch YouTube videos, watch TV shows and listen to English music.
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And then they wonder why their reading, writing and speaking is not improving.
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And I know there are theories that if you simply have a lot of passive input, if you have a lot of comprehensible input, the other things will improve as well.
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But I actually believe that you need to specifically practise the things you want to get better at.
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So quite often people spend too much time doing the part of learning English that they enjoy and they avoid doing the things that are harder.
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So stop just listening to music if that's you, and sit down and write something today.
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Stop just listening to podcasts or, or reading awesome books in English if that's what's easy and fun for you, and find an English speaking partner and start to have English conversations.
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So mistake number eight, spending too much time doing the thing you like and avoiding the thing that is hard.
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Mistake number nine, not overloading your learning so that you have progress.
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Or I guess I could say it this way, getting very comfortable with where you're at.
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Here's an example.
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Let's say you read the newspaper or you read the news in English, but you don't read any novels.
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You need to start reading novels.
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You need to create something in when you do reading that is harder than what you have been doing.
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Let's say that you're having a five minute English conversation once a week.
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You should probably start having a 30 minute English conversation once or twice a week.
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If you don't increase the difficulty.
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You'll just stay at the level that you are at.
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So if you enjoy writing one or two sentences a day, start writing one or two paragraphs.
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If you enjoy watching a 20 minute TV show, try to find a show that lasts an hour.
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So mistake number nine.
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Not overloading, not making it more difficult, and simply being happy with where you're at.
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Because if you're happy with where you're at, that's the only place you'll ever be.
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But I'm sure there's somewhere, higher than that that you want to get to.
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Mistake number 10, avoiding repetition.
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I've said this many times before, repetition is boring.
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But repetition is incredibly effective.
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Here's what I mean.
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If you were to learn a new English word today and write it down in a book, you might remember it.
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But if you write it down in a notebook and then tomorrow you use that word to make a sentence, and in three days you use that word again to make a sentence, and then in a week you use that word in an English conversation, as you repeatedly use that word, you're just going to remember it better.
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And so again, repetition is boring, but super effective.
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Here's another thing you can do when you watch an English lesson on YouTube, watch it again the day after.
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It's not exciting, but it is very, very effective.
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So, so mistake number 10, avoiding repetition.
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Repetition is boring.
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I don't wanna watch that TV show twice in the same year.
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Those are the complaints you might hear.
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But honestly, I always tell my students this.
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If you wanna do well in school, read everything the teacher assigns to you twice.
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And if you can, three times, you'll just get a better grade.
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So number 10, don't avoid repetition.
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1. Well, hey, thank you so much for watching this English lesson where I talked about 10 mistakes that I think people make when learning the English language.
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Before we go, I do want to once again thank Preply, the sponsor of this video.
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If you're looking for an English speaking partner to help you while you learn English, Preply is a great place to find one.
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And if you use the link in the description below today, you'll get 50% off your first lesson.
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Once again, thanks for watching.
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Leave a comment, give me a thumbs up.
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And don't forget, there will be another English lesson next week, I'll see you then.
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Bye.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “10 Mistakes People Make When Learning English!”. Las palabras que más se repiten: English, mistake, speaking, progress, learning. Este vídeo tiene 146 frases y 2248 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 12:29. El hablante habla rápido, unas 180 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 90 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| repetition sustantivo | /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/ | repetición |
| immersive adjetivo | /ɪˈmɜːɹ.sɪv/ | inmersivo |
| podcast sustantivo | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | podcast, pódcast |
| motivate verbo | /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/ | motivar |
| bore verbo | /boɹ/ | aburrir |
| sponsor sustantivo | /ˈspɒn.səː/ | patrocinador, patrocinadora |
| overload verbo | /ˌəʊvəˈləʊd/ | sobrecargar |
| fluent adjetivo | /ˈfluənt/ | fluyente, fluente |
| passive adjetivo | /ˈpæs.ɪv/ | pasivo |
| actively adverbio | /ˈæktɪvli/ | activamente, enérgicamente |
| calendar sustantivo | /ˈkæl.ən.də/ | calendario |
| comprehensible adjetivo | /kɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/ | comprensible, comprehensible (disused) |
| diagnose verbo | /ˈdaɪ.əɡˌnoʊs/ | diagnosticar |
| excite verbo | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | emocionar |
| immerse verbo | /ɪˈmɜɹs/ | inmergir |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| sit down verbo | sentarse | |
| get off verbo | bajarse | |
| look up verbo | /ˌlʊk ˈʌp/ | mejorar |
| wake up verbo | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | despertarse, recordar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- How can I be fluent in six months?
- You can't expect quick results when learning a language.
- I know it's scary if you think about it.
- I know that's the simple one and obvious one.
- I'm a teacher though?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | you've decided · you've actually sat · has created |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | someone who you · people who are |
| Consejo con “should” should + verbo — decir qué es buena idea | should be · should find · should practice |
| Posibilidad con “might / may” might/may + verbo — algo posible pero no seguro | might say · might tell · might be |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 53 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, don't, you'll. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/, shelf /ʃɛlf/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/, comprehensible /kɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/, individualize /ˌɪn.dɪˈvɪd͡ʒ(.u).əl.aɪz/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como repetition, immersive, podcast.
¿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.