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Hey, what's up?
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It's Alex.
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Today I'd like to talk about the connected sounds in a sample answer to the prompt, describe a painting you've seen.
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Let's take a look.
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I remember I was in Boston a couple of years ago.
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I remember.
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When we speak quickly, at the beginning of sentences, sometimes those short, unstressed sounds tend to become even shorter.
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I remember.
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I remember.
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I remember.
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I I remember, I remember, I remember I was in Boston.
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I was in, I was in Boston.
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We're gonna connect I was in into one little phrase and we're gonna reduce that uh in was.
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I was in Boston.
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I remember I was in Boston.
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At the end of in, before the b in Boston, it actually turns into a m sound to connect with the b sound.
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I was in Boston.
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I remember I was in Boston.
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I was in Boston.
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I remember I was in Boston a couple of years ago.
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A couple, a couple of years ago.
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Couple, so we take out the the in of.
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A couple of years ago.
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And I went to, and I went to.
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Almost every time you see and, you're gonna take out the D in connected speech.
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And I, and I went to.
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We're gonna connect the n, t, t here, went to.
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You can see that the NTT turns into just NT.
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Went to.
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Went to.
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I remember I was in Boston a couple of years ago and I went to one of the art museums there.
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One of the art museums.
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So here, the.
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We have the Y sound at the end of the in order to get ready for the AH in art.
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Then we have art museums.
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I'm not saying a T there at the end of the word art.
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I'm saying a glottal stop.
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Art.
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Art.
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museums.
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It's cutting off in my throat instead of finishing the T sound.
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Art museums.
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One of the art museums there.
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And don't forget to take the the out of the word of there.
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One of the art museums there.
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Huge place.
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Tons of paintings.
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We're going to take out the the in of.
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Tons of paintings.
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Tons of.
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And remember we're going to connect these sounds as much as we can.
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Ton zuh, zuh, zuh.
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I'm not adding anything between the z and uh sounds.
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Huge place, tons of paintings, and one I remember in particular, and one and one, take out that d and and,
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one nigh, nigh, we're going to connect one and I.
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One I remember in particular, in particular, in very fast speech, just like in Boston, in particular,
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that N turns into an M.
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In particular, in particular.
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One I remember in particular was a painting from the 1880s, was a painting from the 1880s.
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From the 18, the 18, we have that sound connecting the 18,
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the 1880s, of four young girls, of four.
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So here we have the in of, but it's connected to in four, so of four, of four.
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A painting from the 1880s of four young girls.
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Connect that ng sound at the end of young with g in girls.
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Four young girls.
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A painting from the 1880s of four young girls playing in a huge house.
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In a huge house.
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Connect in a into one little chunk.
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playing in a huge house.
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It's a little hard to describe.
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It's a little hard to connect the d
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and the t there hard to
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and we're going to reduce the vowel in two hard to
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hard to describe describe why describe why you can see
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that at the end of describe gets weakened before a sound hard to describe why it.. why?
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Why?
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Hard to describe why it was so memorable.
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It's kind of a funny sound when I slow down and say it in its connected form.
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Describe why?
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Why?
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Describe why it was so memorable.
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Why it was so.
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Why it?
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So here we have a glottal stop for the t in it.
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Why it was?
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So was, that vowel in the word was gets reduced, why it was so.
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Then we're going to connect the s in so with the z in the word before it was.
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Why it was so.
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Hard to describe why it was so memorable.
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The light was really impressive.
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Again we have a glottal stop for the t in light.
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The light was really impressive.
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Like the foreground was naturally lit that nd in foreground, foreground ones, reduces and it's just kind of like foreground was.
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foreground was naturally lit foreground was naturally lit and the background slowly faded
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so here lit we have a glottal stop there in lit lit lit
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and the background drop the D in and
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and connect the end of the th lit
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and the background slowly faded again we kind of drop
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that D or weaken
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that D at the end of background background slowly faded into darkness kind of showing how large the house was.
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Kinda showing.
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So here, kind of.
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We could connect that to kinda.
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You could also connect it even further to kinda.
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Kinda showing, kinda showing how large the house was.
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And the color was great too.
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And the, and the color.
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Drop the D, connect the end of the TH.
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And the color was great too.
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Great too.
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Connect the two T sounds there, the end of great and the beginning of too.
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and the color was great too.
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It looked very realistic.
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It looked.
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We have a glottal stop there for the T.
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It looked.
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It looked very realistic.
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Now if I say it looked a little faster, that L can kind of even delete the T entirely.
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No glottal stop.
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If I speak it at a regular pace, it looked.
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That's fine.
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But if I say it even faster, it looked.
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It looked.
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This goes to what I was talking about earlier with reducing the sounds at the beginning of sentences.
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ELUKED.
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ELUKED.
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No T.
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No glottal stop.
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ELUKED.
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Now we can't do that in regular speed speech.
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It sounds a little weird if we don't have the glottal stops.
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Don't have the glottal stops.
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We need to have those sounds, but in very fast speech for certain very common phrases, you can take out that T especially at the beginning of sentences like this.
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It looked, it looked very realistic, like a color photo even, color photo even.
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We add a little wha sound to connect these two vowels, like a color photo even, color photo even.
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I think the main thing, main thing, connect the N and TH, I think the main thing was its size, its size.
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Connect these two S sounds here.
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Its size.
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I think the main thing was its size.
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It was like seven feet tall.
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Here, it was, is another example.
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At the beginning of a sentence, we can take out that T and not even have a glottal stop.
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It was, it was like seven feet tall, seven feet tall.
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So here that N and F blend together, and it's almost more of an M sound.
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Seven feet tall, seven feet tall.
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We connect these two T sounds at the end too.
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Feet tall.
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It was like seven feet tall.
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It was like seven feet tall.
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It completely dominated the room.
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It completely.
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Glottal stop T before the K incompletely.
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It completely dominated the room.
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Connect the D and the TH here.
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It completely dominated the.
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Dominated the.
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Dominated the room.
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I wish I could remember its name.
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I wish I could remember.
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So that D before the R gets a little bit weaker.
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Could remember, could remember.
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You can say the full D there if you like too.
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It's totally fine.
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I wish I could remember, could remember, but you can also drop it.
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I wish I could remember its name.
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I remember I was in Boston a couple of years ago and I went to one of the art museums there.
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Huge place, tons of paintings, and what I remember in particular was a painting from the 1880s of four young girls playing in a huge house.
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It's a little hard to describe why it was so memorable.
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The light was really impressive, like the foreground was naturally lit and the background slowly faded into darkness, kind of showing how large the house was.
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And the color was great too.
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It looked very realistic, like a color photo even.
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I think the main thing was its size.
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It was like 7 feet tall.
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It completely dominated the room.
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I wish I could remember its name.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “American English Connected Reading”. Las palabras que más se repiten: sound, connect, Boston, describe, glottal. Este vídeo tiene 175 frases y 1443 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 8:54. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 162 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 80 % 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:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| glottal adjetivo | /ˈɡlɑ.təl/ | glótico |
| foreground sustantivo | /ˈfɔː(ɹ)ˌɡɹaʊnd/ | primer plano |
| dominate verbo | /ˈdɑ.məˌneɪt/ | dominar |
| ton sustantivo | /tʌn/ | tonelada |
| fade verbo | /feɪd/ | desteñir, desvaírse |
| memorable adjetivo | /ˈmɛm.(ə)ɹə.bl̩/ | memorable, inolvidable |
| realistic adjetivo | /ˌɹɪəˈlɪs.tɪk/ | realista, realístico |
| vowel sustantivo | /ˈvaʊ.əl/ | vocal |
| nigh adjetivo | /naɪ/ | cerca, cabe |
| weaken verbo | /ˈwikən/ | debilitar, languir |
| phrase sustantivo | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | frase |
| darkness sustantivo | /ˈdɑɹk.nɪs/ | oscuridad |
| incompletely adverbio | /ˌɪn.kəmˈpliːt.li/ | incompletamente |
| unstressed adjetivo | /ʌnˈstɹɛst/ | átono, inacentuado |
| chunk sustantivo | /t͡ʃʌŋk/ | trozo, pedazo |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| take out verbo | sacar |
| slow down verbo | desacelerar, decelerar |
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 | gonna connect · gonna take · We're going to take |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos días | I'm not saying · I'm saying · I'm not adding |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 27 contracciones y formas reducidas, como we're, kinda, gonna. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
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 glottal, foreground, dominate.
¿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.