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With me today I have Mariana Liva Di Taki, head chef of Morito Restaurant in London.
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Mariana, what was your favourite food when you were a child?
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Well, at home we ate a funny mixture, because of my parents.
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Fresh fish, bacon and eggs for breakfast on Sundays, and traditional apple pies.
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But my favourite was fish.
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We ate fish every day, which my dad caught.
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In fact, my dad still goes fishing every night.
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Wow.
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Yeah, we were really lucky, because not all families could do that.
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Could eat fish every day.
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Even on an island, fish is expensive, unfortunately.
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Did your dad catch fish for the family or for the restaurant?
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For both, except for lobsters.
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When he caught a lobster, he never sold it.
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It was always for us.
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We boiled it and ate it with lemon and olive oil.
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You don't need anything except lemon and olive oil when fish and seafood is really fresh.
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That's how I cook lobsters nowadays in the restaurant, in Morito.
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Were you interested in cooking when you were a child?
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Oh, yes.
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I spent every evening in our restaurant, and instead of playing with the other children, I usually helped in the kitchen.
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I wrote down recipes which I wanted to cook for the family in a small blue notebook.
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So your love of food and cooking came from your parents?
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From my parents and also from my aunt, and from many inspiring ladies who surrounded me when I was growing up.
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My aunt, Thea Kula, had animals, a garden, olive trees and grapes.
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In the summer, I often spent all day with her.
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She knew everything about wild food in Crete.
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She only ate what she had grown or found or made herself.
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Such a beautiful way to eat.
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Did you ever eat out as a child?
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Never in the evening, because our restaurant was open for dinner seven days a week.
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But occasionally, my mum used to buy me and my brother souvlaki for lunch, a sort of Greek sandwich with pita bread.
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Inside it has pork, tomato, red onion and lots of thick yoghurt.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “21 October 2026”. Las palabras que más se repiten: fish, restaurant, ate, lobster, olive. Este vídeo tiene 34 frases y 358 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:27. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 146 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 81 % 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
olive sustantivo/ˈɑ.lɪv/aceituna, oliva
lobster sustantivo/ˈlɑb.stɚ/langosta, bogavante
aunt sustantivo/ɑːnt/tía
lemon sustantivo/ˈlɛmən/limón, citrón
egg sustantivo/ɛɡ/huevo, aguautle
thick adjetivo/θɪk/grueso, espeso
occasionally adverbio/əˈkeɪʒənəli/ocasionalmente, de vez en cuando
chef sustantivo/ʃɛf/chef
recipe sustantivo/ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/receta
pie sustantivo/paɪ/pastel, pay
mixture sustantivo/ˈmɪkst͡ʃɚ/mezcla, mezcladura
bacon sustantivo/ˈbeɪ.kən/tocino
nowadays adverbio/ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/hoy en día, hogaño
inspire verbo/ɪnˈspaɪə(ɹ)/inspirar, infundir
onion sustantivo/ˈʌn.jən/cebolla

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
grow up verbocrecer
write down verboapuntar, anotar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

  • Mariana, what was your favourite food when you were a child?
  • Did your dad catch fish for the family or for the restaurant?
  • Were you interested in cooking when you were a child?
  • Did you ever eat out as a child?

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, chef /ʃɛf/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: olive /ˈɑ.lɪv/, souvlaki /suːvˈlɑki/

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 olive, lobster, aunt.

¿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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