Shadowing Practice: American English Connected Reading | Complaining About the Road - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hey, what's up?
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It's Alex.
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Today, let's talk about the connected sounds in the short text
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where you're complaining about the quality of the road in your town.
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Let's take a look.
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I live in a place where they care about bikes a lot.
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I live in a, live in a.
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So this i in in basically gets reduced, and the uh gets connected to in.
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I live in a place where they care about bikes.
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Care about bikes.
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That T in about turns into a glottal stop.
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Where they care about bikes a lot.
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That T in lot also turns into a glottal stop because it's the end of the sentence.
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I live in a place where they care about bikes a lot.
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The roads are wide and flat and they're paved smooth.
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The roads are wide and flat.
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So here the road sir, we don't write apostrophe re but we do take out
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that ah sound in our the roads are sir the roads are wide
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and flat now here wide and Flat if I say
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that really quickly you don't really hear any of the individual sounds in a Md
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and gets reduced to a single nasal release release n.
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Widen flat.
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Widen flat.
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Now if I slow down a little bit I'll say widen flat.
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Widen flat.
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Widen flat.
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Widen flat.
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So I have a little bit of a hint of that vowel but that D is definitely gone.
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Widen flat and they're paved smooth. And there.
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So now I'm starting a section of the sentence with and so I'll say the eh vowel there. And there.
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I won't say the D though.
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And they're paved smooth.
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That D in paved gets reduced quite a bit before the S.
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And they're paved smooth.
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Paved smooth.
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There's a lot of space on the side of the road.
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There's a lot of.
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There's a lot of space.
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So a lot of, you can just think of it as combining into a lot of.
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There's a lot of space.
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There's a lot of space on the side of the road. On the. On the.
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We connect the N and the TH. On the. On the.
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My tongue goes between my teeth when I say on the instead of behind the teeth, which is what we normally do for an N sound.
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On the side of the road.
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Side the. Of the.
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There's no v in of anymore.
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Side the.
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Side the road.
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Space on the side of the road to ride your bike.
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Road d-d-d.
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The word to gets reduced right here very, very much.
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Road to.
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Road to ride your bike.
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Now, ride your turns into ride j-er.
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The vowel in your changes.
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Ride j-er.
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And the consonant y-er turns into a j-er after this d.
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Ride your bike.
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There's a lot of space on the side of the road to ride your bike.
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The only thing I don't like.
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The only, yonly.
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I add a little yuh sound there.
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The only.
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The only thing I don't like.
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Don't, don't like.
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I have a glottal stop there for the T in don't.
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If I say it really quickly, I could say don't like.
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The only thing I don't like.
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Don't like.
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Don't like.
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And in that case, there's no glottal stop or T.
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It just goes don't like.
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However, if you say this a little slower, it sounds strange, because we're used to hearing no glottal stop, no T, only in very fast speech.
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So if you say don't like, don't like, and stretch it out and say it very slowly, it can sound a little bit strange.
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The only thing I don't like, or don't like, the only thing I don't like is how many rocks and nails.
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Rocks and nails.
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So here we take off the D in and and reduce that first vowel.
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Rocks and nails there are on the road.
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Rocks and nails there are on the road.
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Now here I'm stressing there are, there are.
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I don't, the only thing I don't like is how many rocks and nails there are, there are on the road.
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I can never connect this into there-er.
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I can in other types of sentences, but in this sentence pattern, the only thing I don't like is how many blah blah blah there are.
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The only thing I know is how many blah blah blah there are.
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In this situation, I can never connect there-er.
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The only thing I don't like is how many rocks and nails there are, there are, on the road.
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On the road.
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On the road.
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Seriously, it's crazy.
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There must be dozens of nails.
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There must be dozens of nails. Must be.
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There's no T there.
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Must be turns into must be.
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There must be dozens of nails along the roads.
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Dozens of nails.
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Now that of nails could be of nails or a nails.
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You could reduce it and take out that v sound.
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There must be dozens of nails along the roads I ride on.
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The roads I ride on.
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ZI.
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Connect I to roads.
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Along the roads I ride on.
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I've gotten two flat tires.
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I've gotten.
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Gotten.
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I've gotten.
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There's a glottal stop there.
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Gotten.
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It's not a T.
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It's not gotten.
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It's gotten.
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I've gotten two flat tires.
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Flat tires.
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The T in flat and the T in tires connects together.
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I've gotten two flat tires in two months riding here.
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Months is a difficult word for a lot of people to say.
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All you need to do is take out the TH.
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Months.
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Months.
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That's how we say it every day.
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Months.
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Two months riding here.
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If you ride fast, if ya. If ya.
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So here U turns into ya.
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If you ride fast, there's no way to see the nails.
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No way to, d, d.
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That too, when it's used as part of a verb, reduces down to d.
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There's no way to see the nails until it's too late.
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Late.
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We finally end with a glottal stop T.
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Late normally ends with a T, but at the end of the sentence, we turn it into a glottal stop.
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Too late.
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If you like this kind lesson, remember I've got even longer and even more detailed pronunciation lessons
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that break down all the different rules I've discovered in many years of research.
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These lessons are available at the links below and in the comments.
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I'll see you there.
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All right, now I'll read the whole thing slowly but still with all the natural connected speech rules.
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It sounds a little funny because these rules only ever happen in fast, natural speed speech, but you can still practice with the slower version.
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After that, I'll read it at a normal speed.
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There must be dozens of nails along the roads I ride on.
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I've gotten two flat tires in two months riding here.
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If you ride fast, there's no way to see the nails until it's too late.
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Alright, here we go with normal speed.
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I live in a place where they care about bikes a lot.
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The roads are wide and flat and they're paved smooth.
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There's a lot of space on the side of the road to ride your bike.
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The only thing I don't like is how many rocks and nails there are on the road.
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Seriously, it's crazy.
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There must be dozens of nails along the roads I ride on.
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I've gotten two flat tires in two months riding here.
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If you ride fast, there's no way to see the nails until it's too late.
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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: road, nails, flat, ride, gotten. Este vídeo tiene 151 frases y 1280 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 8:07. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 158 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 79 % 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:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| nail sustantivo | /neɪl/ | uña, garra |
| glottal adjetivo | /ˈɡlɑ.təl/ | glótico |
| pave verbo | /peɪv/ | pavimentar |
| tire verbo | /ˈtaɪ̯ɚ/ | cansar, cansarse |
| vowel sustantivo | /ˈvaʊ.əl/ | vocal |
| apostrophe sustantivo | /əˈpɑs.tɹə.fi/ | apóstrofo, apóstrofe |
| consonant sustantivo | /ˈkɑn.sə.nənt/ | consonante |
| pronunciation sustantivo | /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/ | pronunciación |
| verb sustantivo | /vɝb/ | verbo |
| hint sustantivo | /hɪnt/ | pista, indicio |
| combine verbo | /kəmˈbaɪn/ | combinar, juntar |
| complain verbo | /kəmˈpleɪn/ | quejarse, alegar |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| take out verbo | sacar |
| break down verbo | descomponerse, averiarse |
| slow down verbo | desacelerar, decelerar |
| take off verbo | quitarse |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- The only thing I don't like.
- I've gotten two flat tires.
- That's how we say it every day.
- After that, I'll read it at a normal speed.
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | I've gotten · I've discovered |
| Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicción | I'll say · won't say · I'll see |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos días | you're complaining · I'm starting · I'm stressing |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 46 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I've, I'll. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: apostrophe /əˈpɑs.tɹə.fi/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: pave /peɪv/, vowel /ˈvaʊ.əl/, verb /vɝb/
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 nail, glottal, pave.
¿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.