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my life, early life, I was living in the suburbs and all that sort of thing and I never had a garden.
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I never had time for it.
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I swore then that if I ever got the opportunity,
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I'd like a big garden and one that I could put a water feature in.
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grow the trees, the great trees that I got to love.
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Right from the very beginning I decided that you can't have dreams of a beautiful garden if you don't have water.
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The Bosh On my 18th birthday,
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the 29th of October 1942,
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I'd made up my mind that I was going to avenge my father's treatment by joining to fight the Bosch.
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It was jingoistic, I know,
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to think about it, but that's what we were thinking of.
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So I became an officer of the Royal Australian Air Force at 18,
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and went overseas to Europe where things were certainly different.
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In circumstances where things went wrong very quickly,
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if aircraft disintegrated for some reason,
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very seldom did any of the crew survive.
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Well, the most unfortunate thing happened in our case, coming back from Dortmund.
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My rear gunner, in his last words,
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to me screamed out, jet,
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jet, skipper, dive, over his last words.
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In a fraction of a second,
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the six guys were out in the falling.
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At 20,000 feet, it takes almost three minutes to free fall to the earth.
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If you ever experience three minutes silence,
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you know how long that is.
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It was a snowy night on the ground and a bit of light was coming through.
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I came to and surprisingly the seat,
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the steel seat, had, it and I had parted company.
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The chute was hanging off me and I could feel it burning in the back,
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in front of an explosion.
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You look down and I could see this bloody church down against the snow.
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It was midnight.
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I look at it, you never forget it.
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And I thought, Cripes, if I don't do something,
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I'm going to land on that point.
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Rather than that, I had a go at opening the chute and surprisingly it worked
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about a thousand feet or so because I was so close to the ground and came down in this bloody churchyard.
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A peach tree or something was there, it broke the fork.
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The leaves on the tupello,
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as they turn, they go almost full, deep red.
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And then, of course, the liquid ambers,
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they're pretty good, and the pin oaks.
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If I wanted to set out a way that a person should depart this planet,
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why not depart from a place like this?
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I'd be happy.
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I'd be happy to be here and just nod off.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “A Place Like This”. Este vídeo tiene 48 frases y 455 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 6:05. El hablante habla despacio, unas 75 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. 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

Las 12 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
depart verbo/dɪˈpɑɹt/irse, salir
surprisingly adverbio/səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/sorprendentemente, sorpresivamente
avenge verbo/əˈvɛnd͡ʒ/vengar
disintegrate verbo/dɪsˈɪntɪɡɹeɪt/desintegrar
jingoistic adjetivo/ˌd͡ʒɪŋ.ɡoʊˈɪst.ɪk/jingoísta, patriotero
skipper sustantivo/ˈskɪp.ɚ/patrón
seldom adverbio/ˈsɛldəm/casi nunca, pocas veces
circumstance sustantivo/ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/circunstancia, tesitura
peach sustantivo/ˈpiːt͡ʃ/durazno, melocotón
fraction sustantivo/ˈfɹæk.ʃən/fracción
amber sustantivo/ˈæm.bəː/ámbar
fork sustantivo/fɔɹk/tenedor, trinche

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
make up verbo/ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/reponer, suplir
set out verbo/ˈsɛt‿aʊt/proponerse

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 9 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'd, don't, can't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: chute /ʃut/, fraction /ˈfɹæk.ʃən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/, disintegrate /dɪsˈɪntɪɡɹeɪt/, jingoistic /ˌd͡ʒɪŋ.ɡoʊˈɪst.ɪk/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/, suburbs /ˈsʌbɝbz/
  • /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: avenge /əˈvɛnd͡ʒ/, jingoistic /ˌd͡ʒɪŋ.ɡoʊˈɪst.ɪk/

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 depart, surprisingly, avenge.

¿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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