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From VOA Learning English, this is the Agriculture Report.
Desde VOA Learning English, este es el Informe Agrícola.
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The future has arrived at a dairy farm near Washington, D.C.
El futuro ha llegado a una granja lechera cerca de Washington, D.C.
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A robot there milks the cows.
Allí, un robot ordeña las vacas.
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The wood-borne creamery is in Mount Airy, Maryland.
La fábrica de productos lácteos transportados a leña se encuentra en Mount Airy, Maryland.
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The cows stand in line for a turn at the robot.
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John Fendrick is the owner of the farm.
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He observes the progress of the animals by looking at a computer screen.
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That is all he has to do.
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The robot does all the work.
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It uses a laser to find each teat,
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the place on the cow where the milk comes out.
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The robot then cleans the teat and connects it to a milking tube.
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The robot also tests the milk for possible impurities.
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If it finds a problem, it rejects the milk.
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The machine knows to stop when the cow's milk flow slows.
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John Fendrick says robots change life on a dairy farm.
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He says they give the farmer freedom.
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Most farmers must milk their cows once in the morning and once at night.
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The animals are milked in good weather or bad.
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But Mr. Fendrick's cows do not follow such an order.
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They stay in the field until they want to be milked.
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The robot is always available.
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Mr. Fendrick does not need to be present.
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He can watch from his telephone.
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And he gets reports about the milking of each cow on his phone.
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The cow milking robot is not low-cost technology, however.
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Mr. Fendrick Fendrick paid more than $150,000 for it.
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But he notes paying someone to milk the cows is also costly.
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He says he will make up the cost of the robot in three years.
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Mr. Fendrick says he gets about 475 liters of milk a day,
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and he does not have to touch a cow.
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And that is a good thing.
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Mr. Fendrick says he does not like milking.
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For VOA Learning English, I'm Alex Villareal.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “Are Robot Milkers the Future of Dairy Farming”. Las palabras que más se repiten: cow, robot, milk, Fendrick, milking. Este vídeo tiene 34 frases y 319 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:53. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 111 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. 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

Las 14 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
robot sustantivo/ˈɹoʊ.bɑt/robot
cow sustantivo/kaʊ/vaca
farmer sustantivo/ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/granjero, granjera
dairy sustantivo/ˈdɛə.ɹi/lácteos
telephone sustantivo/ˈtɛləˌfoʊn/teléfono
arrive verbo/əˈɹaɪv/llegar, arribar
connect verbo/kəˈnɛkt/conectar, empalmar
tube sustantivo/tuːb/tubo, chisguete
laser sustantivo/ˈleɪzɚ/láser
observe verbo/əbˈzɜːv/servar, observar
costly adjetivo/ˈkɒst.li/costoso, caro
teat sustantivo/tiːt/pezón, chupete
creamery sustantivolechería, lactería
impurity sustantivo/ɪmˈpjɝɪti/impuridad

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
come out verbo/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/revelarse, salir a la luz
make up verbo/ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/reponer, suplir

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: arrive /əˈɹaɪv/, observe /əbˈzɜːv/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: laser /ˈleɪzɚ/, observe /əbˈzɜːv/

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 robot, cow, farmer.

¿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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