Shadowing Practice: Barack Obama Inspirational Speech - Learn English Speaking with Video
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The President of the United States The
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President of the United States Thank you very much.
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Thank you so much.
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Well, I am so grateful to be a recipient of this award and to be keeping such extraordinary company.
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I, first of all, want to thank all of you who were involved in making this possible.
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But the main thing
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that I want to do here is to just say how I'm inspired by the young people who are represented here, because I think that's the purpose, ultimately, of this foundation.
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And I want to tell just a brief story, because Archbishop Tutu is here,
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one of my heroes, and let you know where I was when I was about your age.
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I'm really dating myself now, although I'm also dating the Archbishop,
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because back in 1979, I was a freshman in college,
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at Occidental College in California you.
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And I had had a somewhat rocky youth and teenage years.
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My father wasn't at home.
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I was growing up partly with my grandparents in high school.
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I had gotten into trouble occasionally.
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It was what my mother called a good -time Charlie, meaning I wasn't really serious in terms of my studies, in terms of my work.
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Had some awareness of the world around me had some sense of injustice and unfairness, but it wasn't finely honed.
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It wasn't well -developed.
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And I remember in 1979, arriving as a freshman and doing what freshmen do,
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trying to figure out what courses are and trying to change your study habits
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and trying to identify that food in the cafeteria, what it is.
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And we were visited on campus by a couple of gentlemen
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from South Africa who were representatives of the ANC in 1979 -1980.
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And they spoke about their efforts to overcome apartheid.
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And for about an hour,
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myself and a group of students listened to these young men who were not much older than we were,
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describe the extraordinary struggles they were going through, the sacrifices that were being made,
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people who were enduring jail and torture and beatings because they had a sense that somehow,
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some way, justice would prevail.
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And that brief meeting, I think, in some ways changed my life, because what it told me,
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first of all, was that ordinary people can do extraordinary things when they're given an opportunity.
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We sometimes think that our leaders have to be, have fancy degrees or well -educated or some public office somewhere.
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These young men had none of those things.
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But what they possessed was an anger over injustice that they were able to channel in a constructive, positive way.
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And I thought to myself that they gave me some sense of the direction that my life might go.
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And so I became active in the anti -apartheid movement on campuses.
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And I'm not sure we were particularly effective.
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As I recall, Occidental College continued to refuse to divest, despite the various protests that we organized as students.
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I transferred to Columbia, and there was similar resistance on Columbia's campus.
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But over time, I like to think that I was part of
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that mosaic that applied pressure and ultimately helped those in South Africa achieve the extraordinary liberation
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that I would witness almost 10 years later as a law student.
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And I remember the image of Nelson Mandela walking out of prison
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and understanding that that a seminal moment in history had occurred and that Mandela's long march towards freedom was not his alone,
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but was part of thousands of footsteps, of millions of footsteps of people all around the world.
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And I trace back me getting involved in politics to that moment, because I, as a consequence of that organizing on a college campus,
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I became a community organizer as a consequence of a community organizer, I...
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After going back to law school, became a civil rights attorney.
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As a consequence of being a civil rights attorney, I entered the state legislature,
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and I now stand before you as a United States senator and as a candidate for president.
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And so the primary message I guess I have in receiving this award is that all of you
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represent enormous potential and enormous possibility for change, because we all know that injustice still exists.
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It exists here in the United States, in every poor neighborhood, in every inner city, in every rural community all across the country.
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There is quiet desperation.
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Young people's lives are filled with sadness and desperation and anarchy and chaos.
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And obviously, all around the world,
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we see those same symptoms of hopelessness made manifest in places like Darfur,
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in places like the Middle East,
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in places that too often are forgotten about and not written about until they flare up in tragedy.
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So I hope
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that all of you who are on the brink of doing extraordinary things decide to channel
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that talent and that energy and that imagination to figuring out how do you move the process along for a better history.
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How do you put your shoulder against the wheel and move that boulder up the hill?
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And I'm absolutely confident that if all of you take up that challenge, the world is waiting for you, ready to be changed.
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Because I think we live in this moment in history right now where the hunger for change, the hunger for something new,
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the desire to break out of the ordinary, the self -interested, the petty, the trivial, is everywhere.
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And they're waiting for you.
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And so I hope that as you see the recipients of this award,
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you recognize that it's actually more of a tool to give you a little spark
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and drive you in the wonderful directions that I hope your lives take in the years to come.
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So thank you very much.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Este vídeo tiene 72 frases y 970 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 7:20. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 132 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 82 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| extraordinary adjetivo | /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/ | extraordinario, descomunal |
| consequence sustantivo | /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/ | consecuencia |
| freshman sustantivo | /ˈfɹɛʃ.mən/ | novato, mechón |
| injustice sustantivo | /ɪnˈd͡ʒʌs.tɪs/ | injusticia |
| ordinary adjetivo | /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/ | ordinario |
| enormous adjetivo | /ɪˈnɔː.məs/ | enorme, ingente |
| hunger sustantivo | /ˈhʌŋɡɚ/ | hambre, gazuza |
| organize verbo | /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/ | organizar |
| recipient sustantivo | /ɹəˈsɪp.i.ənt/ | adjudicatario, destinatario |
| apartheid verbo | /əˈpɑːtheɪt/ | apartheid |
| organizer sustantivo | /ˈɔɹɡənaɪzɚ/ | organizador |
| desperation sustantivo | /ˌdɛspəˈɹeɪʃən/ | desesperación |
| occur verbo | /əˈkɜː/ | ocurrir |
| protest sustantivo | /ˈpɹoʊ.tɛst/ | protesta, estriladera |
| beating sustantivo | /ˈbiːtɪŋ/ | paliza, golpiza |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| figure out verbo | averiguar, captar |
| go through verbo | atravesar |
| grow up verbo | crecer |
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | were involved · are represented · were visited |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | people who are · men who were · people who were |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 11 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, wasn't, they're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: freshman /ˈfɹɛʃ.mən/, desperation /ˌdɛspəˈɹeɪʃən/, occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, liberation /ˌlɪbəˈɹeɪʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/, recipient /ɹəˈsɪp.i.ənt/, organizer /ˈɔɹɡənaɪzɚ/, desperation /ˌdɛspəˈɹeɪʃən/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como extraordinary, consequence, freshman.
¿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.