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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus is a large painting from the 1560s that hangs in Belgium's largest museum, the Musée des Beaux -Arts,
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and is held to be a meticulous copy of an original work now lost by the Flemish artist
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Peter Bruegel the Elder.
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The painting shows a superficially bucolic scene.
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Ships are taking sail, a shepherd is tending to his flock, distant cities look prosperous and ordered.
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But in the bottom right -hand corner of the canvas, a tragedy is unfolding, all but unheeded.
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Reckless Icarus, the legendary figure from classical mythology, is in the final stages of one of the ancient world's most famous aeronautical disasters.
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Together with his father Daedalus, the young man had made himself a pair of wings glued together with wax.
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Daedalus had warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, in case its heat were to melt the structure,
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but the impetuous boy soared too high anyway and, in the painting, has just tumbled down into the waves to his death.
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Icarus' end is deliberately not the central focus of the painting.
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The eye is drawn instead to the glittering cities and smart ships in the distance.
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As if to emphasise the point, the ploughman at the centre of the painting references a popular proverb, no plough stops for the dying man.
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This neglect of Icarus' tragedy is at one level terrifying and sad.
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We read into it how little the world cares about our own pains.
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And yet, from another perspective, this neglect is deeply gratifying and importantly redemptive.
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It is one of the central sources of our unhappiness
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that we spend so much of our lives fearing for our reputations
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and wondering what others will think of us when we fail, as we inevitably will at points.
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The slightest change in our image in the eyes of others can obsess us.
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We lie awake at night wondering how we could cope without the approval of people we don't even like very much.
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We surrender our freedom to the verdicts of strangers.
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But the painter's stroke of consoling genius is here to show us how, when we really mess up,
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almost no one will be looking or caring very much.
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The farmer is too busy ploughing, the shepherd is too taken up with thinking about the weather, someone else is overwhelmingly intent on fishing.
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Our tragedies don't occupy society the way we fear they will.
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A few people might notice for a moment, then swiftly move on to the next thing.
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We are at the centre of the galaxy, only in our own tortured minds.
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The world is still filled with humans who haven't heard of us and never will.
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Those who might be angry or disappointed with you now will have forgotten all about you soon enough.
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Your disgrace will, in time, be subsumed within the larger amnesia of a consolingly indifferent world.
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It isn't just Icarus who is being swallowed up and obscured by the waves, some of the same obscurity awaits our greatest errors and embarrassments.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “A Reason Not to Worry What Others Think”. Este vídeo tiene 32 frases y 513 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:11. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 161 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 77 % 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:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| tragedy sustantivo | /ˈtɹæd͡ʒ.ɪ.di/ | tragedia |
| shepherd sustantivo | /ˈʃɛpəɹd/ | pastor, ovejero |
| neglect verbo | /nɪˈɡlɛkt/ | descuidar, negligir |
| reputation sustantivo | /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/ | reputación, nombradía |
| deeply adverbio | /ˈdi(ː)pli/ | a fondo |
| disappointed adjetivo | /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/ | decepcionado |
| disaster sustantivo | /dɪˈzɑːs.təː/ | desastre |
| landscape sustantivo | /ˈlan(d)skeɪp/ | paisaje, terrazo |
| genius sustantivo | /ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/ | genio, genia |
| galaxy sustantivo | /ˈɡæl.ək.si/ | galaxia |
| intent sustantivo | /ɪnˈtɛnt/ | intención, intento |
| stranger sustantivo | /ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒɚ/ | extraño, extraña |
| legendary adjetivo | /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənˌdɛɹ.i/ | legendario |
| slight adjetivo | /slaɪt/ | insignificante, leve |
| farmer sustantivo | /ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/ | granjero, granjera |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| mess up verbo | desbarajustar, desbarahustar |
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | is held · is drawn · is still filled |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | has just tumbled · haven't heard |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 4 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, haven't, isn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shepherd /ˈʃɛpəɹd/, reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, amnesia /ˌæmˈniʒə/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, legendary /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənˌdɛɹ.i/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, deliberately /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: stranger /ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒɚ/, slight /slaɪt/, swallow /ˈswɑ.loʊ/, swiftly /ˈswɪftli/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: verdict /ˈvɜː.dɪkt/, canvas /ˈkæn.vəs/, inevitably /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbli/, overwhelmingly /ˌəʊ.vəˈwɛl.mɪŋ.lɪ/, proverb /ˈpɹɑˌvɝb/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: tragedy /ˈtɹæd͡ʒ.ɪ.di/, genius /ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/, stranger /ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒɚ/, legendary /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənˌdɛɹ.i/, mythology /mɪˈθɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como tragedy, shepherd, neglect.
¿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.