Shadowing Practice: 3.alking about friends - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hello.
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Welcome to Real Easy English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Georgie.
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And I'm Neil.
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We're here to help you improve your English with a real conversation in Easy English.
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If you want to read along, you can find a text version of this podcast at bbclearningenglish.com.
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Right, let's start the show.
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How are you today, Neil?
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I'm very well, thank you, Georgie.
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What are we talking about in this episode?
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Today is all about friends.
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We'll talk a bit about our friends and why they are important.
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Great, let's get started.
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So, Neil, do you have a lot of friends?
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Yes, I do have quite a few friends.
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How about you?
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Yes, I also have quite a lot of friends.
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I've lived in different places,
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so I have made friends in lots of different areas and times of my life.
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So, Georgie, you said that you have lived in lots of places and I know you have lived in Spain.
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So, do you have lots of friends in Spain?
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Yes, I have a few friends in Spain but now that I live in London, it's quite difficult to stay in touch with them.
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But, actually, one of them is coming to visit this weekend.
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Ah, so you try to keep in touch with some of your friends.
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That means to keep contact with them, to make sure that you stay friends by speaking to them.
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Yes, exactly.
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And if you have a lot of friends, it can be difficult to stay in touch with so many.
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What do you like to do with your friends, Neil?
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Well, I like to talk to them mainly.
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So I like to meet them maybe in a pub
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or a restaurant or we go to a sports match sometimes and we talk there and have a good time.
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That sounds nice.
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How about you?
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Yes, I'm the same.
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During the week I think a nice plan is to go out for dinner with friends.
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At the weekends, I like going for a walk or getting a coffee with friends.
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You can do both of those at the same time.
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Yeah, that's right.
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Sometimes I meet friends, we get a coffee to take away and then go for a walk around the park.
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And are you happy about the number of friends you have or would you like to have more or fewer?
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I always like making new friends.
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If you start a new hobby or you move to a different place, there are always more people and new people to meet.
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I like making friends.
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What about you?
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Yes, but I like to see my old friends and if I make new friends, I know it's something that happen slowly and that's OK.
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Now, we have used this word friends a lot, but there are other words for friends too, aren't there?
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Yes.
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One is mate.
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I use mate a lot.
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We also use pal.
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So, sometimes I refer to my friends that are girls as gal pals.
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Gal pals.
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That's a nice expression.
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So Neil, why are friends important to you?
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Ah, yes.
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Good question.
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Friends are important, I think, because you can be yourself with your friends.
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You don't have to pretend if they're good friends because they know you as you are.
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And that's not the same everywhere that you go in life.
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Yep, that's true.
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Let's recap the language we learned during the conversation.
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We learned mates and pals, which are other words for friends.
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We heard keep in touch with, which means see or speak to someone regularly.
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We also say stay in touch.
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And a few, which means more than two, but not many.
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So I have a few friends in Spain, but not many.
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Thanks for listening to Real Easy English.
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Visit our website for more activities and courses to help you with your English – bbclearningenglish.com Next time,
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we'll talk about holidays and places we would like to go.
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See you then.
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Goodbye.
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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 “3.alking about friends”. Las palabras que más se repiten: English, Neil, touch, pal, Spain. Este vídeo tiene 72 frases y 670 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:57. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 135 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 88 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir. 11 de sus 72 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 14 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
refer verbo/ɹɪˈfɜː/referir, remitir
pretend verbo/pɹəˈtɛnd/aparentar, hacer de
fewer/ˈfjuː.ɚ/menos
goodbye/ɡʊdˈbaɪ/adiós, hasta luego
podcast sustantivo/ˈpɑdˌkæst/podcast, pódcast
hobby sustantivo/ˈhɑ.bi/afición, hobby
mate sustantivo/meɪt/socio, compañero
restaurant sustantivo/ˈɹɛst(ə)ˌɹɑnt/restaurante, restorán
everywhere adverbio/ˈɛv.ɹi.(h)wɛɹ/todos lados, todo lugar
holiday sustantivo/ˈhɑləˌdeɪ/festividad, fiesta
slowly adverbio/ˈsloʊli/lentamente, despacio
mainly adverbio/ˈmeɪnli/máxime, mayormente
expression sustantivo/əkˈspɹɛʃ.n̩/expresión
regularly adverbio/ˈɹɛɡ.jə.lɚ.li/regularmente

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
take away verbo/ˌteɪk əˈweɪ/quitar
walk around verbodeambular

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Right, let's start the show.
  • What are we talking about in this episode?
  • Let's recap the language we learned during the conversation.

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 ahoraI've lived · have made · have lived
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosapals, which are · with, which means · few, which means
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicciónWe'll talk

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 11 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, we'll, aren't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: hobby /ˈhɑ.bi/, everywhere /ˈɛv.ɹi.(h)wɛɹ/, holiday /ˈhɑləˌdeɪ/

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 refer, pretend, fewer.

¿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.

Técnica de shadowing: lee la guía completa paso a paso →