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Hey, what's up?
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It's Alex.
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Today, let's look at the connected sounds in a short passage that involves using statistics in a work conversation.
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Let's take a look.
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We've been doing really well recently.
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Doing really well recently.
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I could change this to doing if I wanted to.
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Personally, I prefer to say ing a little bit more than in in most conversations.
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But when I speak quickly, or if I'm happy or excited about the thing I'm talking about, maybe I'll say doing instead.
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We've been doing really well recently.
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We've been doing really well recently.
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We've been doing really well recently with the new website content. With the. With the.
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So here the TH sounds connect together into just one. With the.
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With the new website content.
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Website content.
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So here the T sounds here in website and content turn into glottal stops.
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Website content.
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The ending T sounds get completely cut off in my throat website content.
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Take a look at this.
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Take a.. so here we'll connect the uh to take and look at this.
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We connect together.
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So look at this.
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The T turns into the TH sound in this.
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Take a look at this.
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I use this sentence all the time, so I think it's a useful sentence to practice on its own.
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Take a look at this.
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Take a look at this.
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Two or three months ago, two or three months ago, so two or three, we have OR turning into ER, two or three, two or three months ago.
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In months, we can take out that TH sound completely.
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Now it's important to learn this word with the full pronunciation, months, because when you're speaking slowly you have to say the THS.
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But when we speak quickly we all say months here in the US.
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Months.
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Two or three months ago, two or three months ago we were averaging about 200 hits a day.
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Averaging.
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So that e, a-v-e-r, right, in averaging we take out that e, right?
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There's no sound there.
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Averaging.
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Averaging about.
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Averaging.
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We connect that ng to the following uh sound.
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Averaging about two.
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Here we connect those two T sounds together. About two.
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Averaging about 200 hits a day on our blog articles.
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But that was actually, but that was, here we'll connect the T and TH,
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and we'll connect the T to the W by turning the T into a glottal stop.
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Before a W, a T usually turns into a glottal stop.
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But that was, but that was actually, but that was actually after a downward trend.
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Actually, we don't say actually, we say actually.
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But that was actually after a downward trend.
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Downward trend.
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The D and the T connect together.
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Downward trend.
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So that means, so that means, that means, glottal stop there for the T in that, so that means we were regularly,
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were regularly, that's a long r sound, we were regularly, we were regularly getting 300 hits a day before that.
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Before that.
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Glottal stop there at the end of the sentence.
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Before that.
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Now though, check this out.
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Now though, check this out.
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Another glottal stop there in out.
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Check this out.
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You can see, you can see, these vowels in you and can turn into very, very quick sounds.
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You can see, you can see, you can see we're up to four up to, up to.
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Here the two turns into to.
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You can see we're up to 400 views per day.
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400 views per day.
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400 views per day on average this month.
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So for 400 views per day, this is the main point of my sentence.
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I'm not going to connect any sounds here.
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400 views per day.
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I keep my voice smooth and steady.
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400 views per day.
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I'm not adding any glottal stops or breaks in my voice there, but I'm also being very clear with all the consonants and vowels.
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400 views per day on average. On average.
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Now I'm connecting those sounds together.
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On average this month.
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This month.
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Of course, month ends in the th sound.
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There's no s there, so we have to say nth at the end of the word.
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this month.
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We've been doing really well recently with the new website content.
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Take a look at this.
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Two or three months ago we were averaging about 200 hits a day on our blog articles, but that was actually after a downward trend,
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so that means we were regularly getting 300 hits a day before that.
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Now though, check this out.
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You can see we're up to 400 views per day on average this month.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “American English Connected Reading”. Las palabras que más se repiten: month, sound, averaging, connect, views. Este vídeo tiene 86 frases y 766 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:02. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 152 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 85 % 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:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
connect verbo/kəˈnɛkt/conectar, empalmar
downward adverbio/ˈdaʊnwɚd/hacia abajo
throat sustantivo/ˈθɹoʊt/garganta, gorja
involve verbo/ɪnˈvɑlv/involucrar
passage sustantivo/ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/pasaje
pronunciation sustantivo/pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/pronunciación
glottal adjetivo/ˈɡlɑ.təl/glótico
vowel sustantivo/ˈvaʊ.əl/vocal
consonant sustantivo/ˈkɑn.sə.nənt/consonante
regularly adverbio/ˈɹɛɡ.jə.lɚ.li/regularmente
trend sustantivo/tɹɛnd/tendencia, tónica
sentence sustantivo/ˈsɛn.təns/sentencia, condena
slowly adverbio/ˈsloʊli/lentamente, despacio
statistics sustantivo/stəˈtɪs.tɪks/estadística
personally adverbio/ˈpɜː.sə.nə.li/personalmente

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
take out verbosacar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

  • We've been doing really well recently.
  • Actually, we don't say actually, we say actually.
  • I'm not going to connect any sounds here.

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 20 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, we've, we'll. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: smooth /smuːð/, throat /ˈθɹoʊt/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, regularly /ˈɹɛɡ.jə.lɚ.li/, personally /ˈpɜː.sə.nə.li/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: smooth /smuːð/, steady /ˈstɪdi/, slowly /ˈsloʊli/, statistics /stəˈtɪs.tɪks/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: involve /ɪnˈvɑlv/, vowel /ˈvaʊ.əl/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como connect, downward, throat.

¿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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