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I wish people had told me what to expect when I was growing up because I'm still growing up.
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I grew up in Vancouver.
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I was born in Ottawa.
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I was raised in Toronto but I grew up when I got to Vancouver.
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We came here when I was 15 and a half and boy did I grow up.
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I got away from the family and the influences of stuffy Toronto, the stuffy Toronto that we lived in.
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I always depended on education.
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I valued it.
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It was valued in my family.
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To me it was success.
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It was visible success.
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I was living in the British properties, four little children born in five years.
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Built the house around us including me building a lot of it and digging and doing gardening with a
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shovel and pick seriously it was just ridiculous when you look back
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but I've always been a doer and I will not quit
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so I just did everything that had to be done and
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that I went back got my last child into school and went back to university to do a second degree.
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And what happened recently is that the shoulder is slipping, the actual shoulder joint.
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It's as though the glue had dried up in a carpentry sense.
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The glue's dried up and crumbled and my shoulder slips and
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when it slips it bites tissue and grabs the nerve and then it bleeds internally.
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So that's what I have and I have a limited shoulder.
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Part of the injury, I think, was the years of writing on the blackboard because I've university teaching for years as well as every level literally.
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And you'll notice that I can want to get my right arm up this high.
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Right up until this, I would be swimming three times a week.
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I live right down here, right downtown, so I walk everywhere.
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I walk to the opera, the symphony, I do all my shopping, I walk for fun.
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I really miss swimming because I can't, they won't let me right now.
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I miss tennis terribly.
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I miss skiing.
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These sports that were joy to me.
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I'm in my 84th year and this is something I want to share with people.
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This is a process of aging.
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It is nothing other than ordinary, I mean okay a bit extraordinary work with that shoulder
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but not much more than many other people but this is going to happen.
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I had a little wish about a week ago thinking I wish people had told me what to expect
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when I was growing up and I'm really mean growing up
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because I'm still growing up and if I had known
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that joints were going to go okay corners go knees hips I never knew my shoulder would.
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so this is this is a condition that I will live with
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and I couldn't be happier because if that's the worst I have to handle amazed
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because I can still use my hand if if I am very careful of my arm because I'm responsible for hurting myself.
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If I move that arm wrong I create the pain.
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It's nothing the medical profession can stop for me.
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I have to stop it.
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I'm the watchdog.
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I went down and I said to them, the physiotherapy, I want a supportive
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structure made out of elastic or leather or whatever like a football pad that holds my shoulder together so it doesn't slip.
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And the difference when it was on, oh, it's amazing.
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You can just feel the support.
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I think the thing that makes me happiest every day is the more I can interact with people, whether they be the kind neighbor that lives in my building
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or being able to come down here and find the walking group
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that we went out with on Tuesdays and laugh and sit with them here even for a half an hour.
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This is my neighborhood and it's part of my joy to be in a neighborhood
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and this is what keeps me bright, alert.
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and bothering because otherwise what is my purpose here?

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “A 5½ minute video on accepting the effects of ageing”. Las palabras que más se repiten: shoulder, growing, slip, Toronto, arm. Este vídeo tiene 56 frases y 686 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:56. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 139 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 79 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
slip verbo/ˈslɪp/deslizarse, resbalar
stuffy adjetivo/ˈstʌfi/mal ventilado, congestionado
swim verbo/swɪm/nadar
blackboard sustantivo/ˈblækbɔɹd/pizarra, encerado
carpentry sustantivo/ˈkɑː.pɪn.tri/carpintería
crumble verbo/ˈkɹʌmbəl/desmigajarse, desmoronarse
physiotherapy sustantivo/ˌfɪziəʊˈθerəpi/terapia física, rehabilitación
shovel sustantivo/ˈʃʌv.əl/pala
elastic adjetivo/ə-/elástico
neighbour sustantivo/ˈneɪbɚ/vecino, vecina
bleed verbo/ˈbliːd/desangrar
internally adverbio/ɪnˈtɜːnəli/internamente, interiormente
symphony sustantivo/ˈsɪm.fə.ni/sinfonía
glue sustantivo/ɡlu/cola, goma
terribly adverbio/ˈtɛɹ.ɪ.bli/rematadamente

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
grow up verbocrecer
look back verborecordar, volver la cabeza

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 13 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, I've, can't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shovel /ˈʃʌv.əl/, profession /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/, tissue /ˈtɪʃ.(j)u/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: physiotherapy /ˌfɪziəʊˈθerəpi/, internally /ɪnˈtɜːnəli/

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 slip, stuffy, swim.

¿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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