Shadowing Practice: B2 English Listening Practice - Living Abroad - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hey everybody, welcome to this B2 English listening practice video.
Hola a todos, bienvenidos a este vídeo de práctica de comprensión auditiva de inglés B2.
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You can use this video to train your listening and comprehension as I speak.
Puedes usar este video para practicar tu capacidad de escucha y comprensión mientras hablo.
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You ready?
¿Estás listo?
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So today, I'm going to talk to you about living abroad.
Hoy voy a hablarles sobre vivir en el extranjero.
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I was an expat for a few years,
Fui expatriado durante algunos años,
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so I can offer a pretty good amount of insight into this topic.
Así que puedo ofrecer una buena dosis de conocimiento sobre este tema.
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Let's start first with the good things.
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Living abroad opens up a whole world of new experiences,
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ideas, and cultures that you never would have dreamed of if you hadn't moved abroad.
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The second you step off the plane and realize that you're not just on vacation,
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you're in your new home,
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it can hit you like a truck.
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Regardless of how much planning you've done,
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and regardless of how much desire you have to live in that new country,
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the reality of it all will strike fear in you.
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But this fear is actually a good fear.
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It's like an exciting fear.
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You've probably heard the expression,
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to have butterflies in your stomach.
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Well, the experience of arriving in your new country and knowing
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that you're going to set up your life there will definitely give you a serious case of the butterflies.
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It's more like giant moths.
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But, like I said, I consider that a positive.
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Another good thing is that hopefully you'll get to learn a new language.
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Ideally, you'd already have a decent level in the country's language,
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and so being in that country and surrounded by native speakers would be a great way to improve.
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But as you can probably imagine,
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not everyone gets the same pleasure out of speaking a foreign language as I do or other language learners do.
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So this might be a negative for some people,
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and I personally know people that have been living in a foreign country for 4,
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5, 6 years and they can barely put a sentence together.
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So my advice to those moving abroad would be to study the language as much as possible before you go.
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Because if you arrive in your new country without knowing any of the language,
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you're not just gonna pick it up.
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It doesn't work like that.
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All the talking you hear around you is just gonna be like static noise in the background.
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It won't make any sense to you and it won't help you learn.
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You need to study
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and get to the level where you can actually understand the message of what people are saying
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and then you can go out into the real world and pick it up.
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And then you can have fun speaking that language in your new country.
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Alright, so the biggest negative about living abroad is obviously being far away from your loved ones.
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This one's a no-brainer.
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It's not easy to live far from your family and friends.
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It's one thing to move across the country,
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but moving to a completely different country is a whole other level of difficulty,
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mainly because it's harder to visit each other.
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I know it's not the same as being with them in person,
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but it does help to video chat or even just call your family.
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When you think about it,
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it's not that different than talking to them face to face,
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except for the fact that you can't touch them.
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So yeah, that's That's the hardest part for sure.
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And the other negative thing is
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that there are always going to be certain things about the new country or culture that you don't like.
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In my experience, I was able to adapt to my new country pretty well,
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but there were some things that I just couldn't get used to.
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Things like the low quality infrastructure,
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the lack of punctuality, and some other minor things.
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You should definitely try to adapt as much as possible in your new country,
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but there will be some things that are just too different or that are contrary to your personality.
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That's the reality of living abroad.
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Okay so that's all for today.
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Leave a comment and let me know if you've ever lived abroad before or if you'd like to live abroad.
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I'll see you next video.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “B2 English Listening Practice - Living Abroad”. Las palabras que más se repiten: abroad, language, fear, negative, experience. Este vídeo tiene 65 frases y 697 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:12. El hablante habla rápido, unas 218 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 90 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 10 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| butterfly sustantivo | /ˈbʌ.tə(ɹ).flaɪ/ | mariposa |
| adapt verbo | /əˈdæpt/ | adaptar, ajustar |
| excite verbo | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | emocionar |
| learner sustantivo | /ˈlɜɹnəɹ/ | aprendiz, aprendedor |
| punctuality sustantivo | /pʌŋktjʊˈæləti/ | puntualidad |
| comprehension sustantivo | /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/ | comprensión, entendimiento |
| ideally adverbio | /aɪˈdi.ə.li/ | idealmente |
| surround verbo | /səˈɹaʊnd/ | envolver, cercar |
| static adjetivo | /ˈstæt.ɪk/ | estático |
| contrary adjetivo | /ˈkɑntɹɛɹi/ | contrario |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 21 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, you've, gonna. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: punctuality /pʌŋktjʊˈæləti/, ideally /aɪˈdi.ə.li/
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 butterfly, adapt, excite.
¿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.