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But my mom had bought me gym shorts that was my exact size and extra small.
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So that wasn't very cool because it came down mid -thigh.
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And apparently back in the day that was called a John Stockton.
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And the same kid next to me, that bully next to me, he's like, Hey, hey, look at that.
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Hey, don't wear your pants like that.
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Pull your pants down, man.
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Pull your pants down.
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And I was like, who's the gay one now?
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But I didn't know what to do.
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Everybody was looking at me, and this kid kept saying, pull your pants down.
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So I was like, oh, .
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I've seen Shawshank Redemption.
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Maybe that's just how it works in America.
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So I start pulling down my shorts all the way down to my knees, all the way down to my ankle.
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And the same kid, the bully next to me, he's like, hey, what are you doing?
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Don't pull him down all the way.
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That's gay.
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And I'm like, what is not gay in this country?
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And apparently this other kid next to me, he's like, hey, don't pull them down all the way.
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Just sag them a little bit.
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Just sag your pants.
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And I didn't know what sagging your pants meant.
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Apparently that's a cool hip -hop thing to pull your pants down halfway down your butt.
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So you show everybody your ahole.
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And apparently that's the only not gay way to wear your pants in America.
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I had no idea.
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All these weird American things I wasn't used to.
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Eventually I learned how to speak English by watching a lot of TV, mainly BET Rap City.
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Because that was my .
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I want to be cool and nothing cooler than BET Rap City, right?
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Every music video was a slice of somebody's American dream.
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The first music video I saw was Jay -Z's Big Pimpin'.
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You guys remember that ?
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Jay -Z's Big Pimpin' was the greatest music video of all time.
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It was Jay -Z and his boys on a yacht pouring champagne on this beautiful woman's face for like four minutes.
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I was like, this is America?
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It's amazing.
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That's all I wanted to do.
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Like before I even wanted to get into the stand -up, that's all I wanted to do.
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I want to be a rapper.
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I want to be like
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Jay -Z and Big Pimpin'.
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So I started my own rap group in high school.
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It was a true story.
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It was me, my black friend Julian, and my other friend Yuji, who was half black and half Japanese.
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So we had perfectly one and a half black dudes and one and a half Asian dudes.
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And we called ourselves the Yellow Panthers.
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I know.
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I wish I was making this up, but I'm not.
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The Yellow Panthers was a real rap group.
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And we had a real rap song.
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It was called Underground Railroad Builder.
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I was confused.
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Eventually, I became a good Asian American, and I went to school to get an economics degree
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because that was the easiest degree that can still appease my Asian parents.
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but then after i graduated i didn't want to do like econ or finance
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so i went up to my dad i was like dad
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i don't want to do any of this i want to go try
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and do stand -up
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and he's like what's a what's a stand -up
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you mean like a talk show i was like yeah sure talk show whatever you want to call it okay
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but i want to go pursue my dreams and he was like no pursue your dreams how you become homeless.
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I was like, no, no, dad, dad, things are different now.
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We're in America, okay?
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In America, we're supposed to do what we love.
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He was like, no. Everyone does what they hate for money and use the money to do what they love.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Asian Mother Trauma : Jimmy O. Yang”. Las palabras que más se repiten: pants, pull, rap, America, Jay. Este vídeo tiene 66 frases y 661 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:59. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 166 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 81 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
pants sustantivo/pænts/pantalón, pantalones
pursue verbo/pɚˈsu/perseguir
bully sustantivo/ˈbʊli/bravucón, abusón
confused adjetivo/kənˈfjuːzd/confundido
economics sustantivo/ˌiːkəˈnɒmɪks/economía
knee sustantivo/ni/rodilla, hinojo
butt sustantivo/bʌt/culo, culamen
pour verbo/poɹ/escanciar, echar
halfway adverbio/ˌhæfˈweɪ/a mediados, a mitad de
slice sustantivo/slaɪs/rebanada, lonja
ankle sustantivo/ˈæŋ.kəl/tobillo
champagne sustantivo/ʃæmˈpeɪn/champaña, champán
yacht sustantivo/jɑt/yate
thigh sustantivo/θaɪ/muslo, muslamen
appease verbo/əˈpiːz/apaciguar

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
stand up verbolevantarse, ponerse de pie
pull down verbodemoler

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Hey, don't wear your pants like that.
  • And I was like, who's the gay one now?
  • You guys remember that ?
  • That's all I wanted to do.

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 14 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, didn't, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: confused /kənˈfjuːzd/, appease /əˈpiːz/

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 pants, pursue, bully.

¿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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