Shadowing Practice: A2.2 - U16 - Languages of the world - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Languages of the world There are around 7000 different languages in the world today.
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Languages that are similar to each other are in groups or families.
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Some languages have a lot of speakers and others have very few.
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Many of the smaller languages have no writing, so when the last speaker dies, the language dies too.
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Europe Europe has 284 different languages.
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One language family here is Romance languages, which include Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.
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Another is Slavic languages, such as Russian, Polish and Czech.
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English belongs to the Germanic group and is the third largest language in the world.
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335 million people speak it as a first language and 505 million speak it as a second language.
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The Basque language from Spain and France is very unusual.
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It doesn't belong to any language family.
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Asia Asia has 2,303 languages.
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Chinese has a billion speakers more than any other language in the world.
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Hindi is the world's fourth largest language and Arabic comes fifth.
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Some parts of Asia have a very large number of languages.
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Americas.
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This area has 1,060 languages.
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English and Spanish have the most speakers on these continents.
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Spanish, with 406 million speakers, is the world's second largest language.
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Portuguese is spoken in Brazil.
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While in Canada people speak mainly English and French.
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There are also many other native languages, for example Mam, a Mayan language, which people speak in parts of Mexico and Guatemala.
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Africa Human language probably began on this continent.
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There are 2,146 languages here.
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Many people in Africa can speak more than one language because, as well as their own language, they also speak English, French or Portuguese.
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Australia and Oceania This area has 1,311 languages in total.
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The main language of Australia and New Zealand is English, but there are a lot of smaller languages too.
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Papua New Guinea has only around 8 million people, but it has 832 languages, more than any other country.
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Unfortunately, some Aboriginal languages are very small now and have only one or two speakers.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 29 frases y 327 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:54. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 113 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 83 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

8 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
belong verbo/bɪˈlɒŋ/pertenecer [with en or a]
continent sustantivo/ˈkɑntɪnənt/continente
unusual adjetivo/ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/inusual, inusitado
speaker sustantivo/ˈspikɚ/hablante, parlante
unfortunately adverbio/ʌnˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/desafortunadamente, desgraciadamente
mainly adverbio/ˈmeɪnli/máxime, mayormente
fourth adjetivo/fɔɹθ/cuarto
fifth adjetivo/fɪfθ/quinto

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

  • Los sonidos de “th”: fourth /fɔɹθ/, fifth /fɪfθ/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, unfortunately /ʌnˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/

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 belong, continent, unusual.

¿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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