Shadowing Practice: 15 Comparing Things - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Recording 11 The Olympics is probably the most exciting event in the sports calendar.
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It's one of the few opportunities we get to see some of the best athletes in the world competing against each other.
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And amazingly, each year they seem to be getting better and better.
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So you might imagine that the Masters Games, which is for athletes aged 30 and over, would be less exciting to watch.
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Well, this may not be true for long, because recent studies have shown that older athletes are getting faster and fitter.
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Now, it's true they're not as fast as their younger counterparts, and probably younger runners will always be faster than older runners.
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However, runners aged 50 and over are actually speeding up more rapidly than younger people.
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The researchers analyzed the finishing times of 415 ,000 runners in the New York Marathon between 1983 and 1999,
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and discovered that finishers from the older group showed the greatest increases in speed.
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Interestingly, women aged 60 to 68 improved the most markedly, running on average four minutes faster each year.
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Men of the same age ran just over one minute faster than previously.
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Not only that, a second study proved
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that older athletes can achieve the same degree of physical improvement as those in their 20s and 30s.
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In other words, they are just as likely to achieve their peak fitness as younger athletes.
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25 years ago, few 60 -year -old men and even fewer women would have considered it possible to complete a marathon,
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let alone set record running times.
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The researchers concluded that people grow weaker not simply because of age, but because they don't keep as active as they did when they were younger.
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It would seem that the longer athletes keep competing, the greater their chances of setting new records are.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “15 Comparing Things”. Las palabras que más se repiten: athletes, younger, runners, faster, older. Este vídeo tiene 19 frases y 295 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:13. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 133 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 87 % 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 11 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
athlete sustantivo/ˈæθ.liːt/atleta
runner sustantivo/ˈɹʌnɚ/corredor, corredora
excite verbo/ɪkˈsaɪt/emocionar
researcher sustantivo/ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/investigador, investigadora
marathon sustantivo/ˈmæɹəθən/maratón
markedly adverbio/ˈmɑɹ.kɪd.li/marcadamente
interestingly adverbiointeresantemente
amazingly adverbio/əˈmeɪzɪŋli/asombrosamente
counterpart sustantivo/ˈkaʊntɚˌpɑɹt/contrapartida
analyze verbo/ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/analizar
conclude verbo/kənˈkluːd/concluir

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
speed up verbo/spiːdˈʌp/acelerar, apurarse

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorahave shown
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosaGames, which is

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

  • Los sonidos de “th”: athlete /ˈæθ.liːt/, marathon /ˈmæɹəθən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: amazingly /əˈmeɪzɪŋli/, analyze /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/

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 athlete, runner, excite.

¿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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