Shadowing Practice: A day in Trinidad - Learn English Speaking with Video
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The next morning now at our hotel and we're going to go see what they have for breakfast here at the hotel.
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And then after that we'll go swimming in the pool, right?
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Yeah.
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He has a sore on his chin that came out here.
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Hopefully it gets better soon.
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A little sore.
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It's actually pretty big.
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It's like a boil.
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Alright, let's go.
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Let's go eat breakfast.
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He wants to walk around with his new shoes.
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And we came across these beautiful trees.
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full of air plants all these long things on here are air plants or orchids a bee nest oh yeah so beautiful man
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if i wasn't going i would be taking the start these
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are actually not part of the tree they're air plants they're like cactuses
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or orchids just like the one i found at home Look at the beans.
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Look at how pretty.
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And there's a whole street of the same plants with the same orchids on them.
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Look.
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The orchids are not...
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Oh, look, they give little fruit.
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These are all air plants or orchids, whatever.
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But look, they have little white fruits.
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They're like cactuses.
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And they have so many plants just growing along the trunk.
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See how cool that is?
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Here, climb up it real quick.
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You can climb up that tree.
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Yeah, wow.
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You can climb up that tree just like it would be at home in the jungle.
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I need to have one tree like this in my yard.
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I need to find out exactly how they did this.
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They have these things growing on the stems.
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It's so cool.
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Imagine a tree house up on there.
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We found somebody passed out over there laying down.
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Let's just get out of here.
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So I need to find myself a dress for the wedding.
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I saw some really nice dresses in there.
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He's hiding his hands. Can I help you?
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Can I please?
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Please hold your hand.
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We found a beautiful park on our walk in search of breakfast, but it's so pretty.
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Look at all these plants.
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This is what my yard.
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This is a Thelma-style park.
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I need this for my yard.
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I need it to be so beautiful.
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I thought you were supposed to throw coins in here.
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I didn't know it was a trash bin.
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Now I know where to bring our trash.
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Here we are at the statues.
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We got some dolphins and we got some indigenous people.
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And a bunch of trash.
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Someone threw trash in here.
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Thought you were supposed to throw coins in.
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It says, Soldados, los enemigos que tenéis al frente, los veréis desaparecer como las nubes cuando las bate el viento.
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Presidente de Bolivia, José Valdivia, Balivian. Who was that?
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I don't remember that president
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So we're here in front of the church house The church is over there And that's an old church
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Maybe instead of looking for breakfast We should go to church We found some coconuts
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And this little guy saw the coconuts
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And he was not going to pass by without us buying some Do you want one too?
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Do you want a coconut?
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Well, it's probably the most healthy thing there's around.
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He's opening it for us.
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He's going to put a straw in it.
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One more, huh?
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Yeah.
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Coconut.
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He never drank a coconut with a straw before. Can mommy have some?
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Very refreshing.
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Thank you very much.
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All right, we found a spot for breakfast.
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Everybody go in.
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Buen día.
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Let's go.
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Nice looking tables.
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Over here there's a double table.
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Let's go all the way over here.
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Sit yourselves down.
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There's our coffee.
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And there we have some empanadas.
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Take a bite, don't put your
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hand in it that's not the way
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he knows empanadas and guess what i got fried plantains masako cheese
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and meat this is the meal i made sometimes in my videos look at
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that and an egg even a fried egg i didn't usually put an egg
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but look dried plantains even when i'm on the trip and some coffee and there's the boys shakes
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yummy and now we're all stuffed we couldn't quite finish the food
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but breakfast isn't breakfast without a little bit of milk right
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to remind us of home we found We found the cherry tree here.
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We're going to pick a few for the children.
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You want one?
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Look, just like back at home, there's fruits growing here.
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You want one?
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Cherries.
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Look at the cherries.
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Look at that.
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Similar to something.
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Are they yummy?
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You want more?
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This is just like back at home.
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Make our experience just like we were back at home, eating plantains and picking wild fruits.
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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 day in Trinidad”. Las palabras que más se repiten: breakfast, plants, tree, orchids, coconut. Este vídeo tiene 104 frases y 793 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:30. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 144 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 82 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| orchid sustantivo | /ˈɔɹ.kɪd/ | orquídea |
| coconut sustantivo | /ˈkəʊ.kə.nʌt/ | coco, laña |
| plantain sustantivo | /ˈplæn.tɪn/ | llantén, plantaina |
| cherry sustantivo | /ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/ | cereza, guinda |
| climb verbo | /ˈklaɪ̯m/ | escalar, subir |
| cactus sustantivo | /ˈkæktəs/ | cacto, cactus |
| empanada sustantivo | /ɛmpəˈnɑːdə/ | empanada, artal |
| yummy adjetivo | /ˈjʌm.i/ | delicioso, rico |
| fry verbo | /fɹaɪ/ | freír |
| straw sustantivo | /stɹɔ/ | paja |
| sore adjetivo | /soɹ/ | dolorido |
| coin sustantivo | /ˈkoɪ̯n/ | moneda, numerario |
| commodore sustantivo | /ˈkɑ.mə.dɔɹ/ | comodoro |
| refresh verbo | /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/ | refrescar |
| dolphin sustantivo | /ˈdɑlf.ɪn/ | delfín |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| come across verbo | pasarse a | |
| come out verbo | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | revelarse, salir a la luz |
| find out verbo | averiguar, anoticiarse | |
| get out of verbo | salirse de, ponerse fuera de | |
| lay down verbo | soltar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- Let's just get out of here.
- Can I help you?
- I didn't know it was a trash bin.
- Do you want a coconut?
- He's opening it for us.
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un plan o algo que se ve venir | we're going to go · He's going to put · We're going to pick |
| Obligación: must / have to / need to decir que algo es necesario | need to have · need to find |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 16 contracciones y formas reducidas, como we're, they're, didn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: refresh /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/, shoe /ˈʃu/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: empanada /ɛmpəˈnɑːdə/, indigenous /ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒənəs/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: straw /stɹɔ/, statue /ˈstæt͡ʃu/, swim /swɪm/, stem /stɛm/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: jungle /ˈd͡ʒʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l/, indigenous /ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒənəs/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como orchid, coconut, plantain.
¿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.