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Hang on, before you go.
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What?
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I genuinely don't like heights.
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It's my biggest failing, among many, I accept.
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You know that you drive into the back of my car and it's a very funny joke?
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You don't want it to happen to you.
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You want me to drive into it?
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No. I'll cut your head off.
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You will need a beep there, BBC Two.
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Yeah.
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I can understand.
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Seriously.
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Let's see.
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My car is perfect in every way, apart from it not starting.
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So could you, if you wouldn't mind, push me a little bit?
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So you want me to push your car with my car now on this road here?
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Yes, there's no alternative.
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OK, well, here I come.
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Careful, careful, careful.
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Oh, it wasn't as careful as it could have been.
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Sorry.
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Pretty soon, we saw why the road had earned its name.
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God almighty, that is high.
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That is a massive, massive drop.
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The dust didn't help either.
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This is insane.
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Whoa.
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Look at the grasses stick up, and you don't necessarily see what a long way down it is, and then you get one of those little gaps, and then you just see down, and it is a long way.
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There's one there.
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The dust didn't help either.
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Oh, gee.
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Mm, look at that.
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That's narrowed.
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I just don't know what I'm doing.
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I don't understand the rules on this road.
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You seem to drive one minute on the left, one minute on the right.
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Sometimes the lorries stop going the other way to let you go through.
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Sometimes they don't.
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Some lorries pull over, others come barrelling up behind you doing three
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and a half times the speed of sound and it's completely baffling.
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Thank you.
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Well, I'm coming up against the truck.
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I've got to go past him, and that means going on that side.
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Looking straight ahead.
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Breathe.
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Please.
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Moments later, James slowed down to let a mad local get past.
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Does that mean there's one of those maniacal taxis right now?
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And I didn't.
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Oh, God.
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Sorry, I was...
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I was watching the taxi...
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You're now going to get macheted to death.
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I was watching the taxi.
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I don't care.
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I did warn you.
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Did I or did I not warn you?
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James is killing Jeremy.
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Things are going well.
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I was watching the taxi.
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You weren't.
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I was watching the taxi.
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Did your co -presenter on your television programme just attack you with a machete?
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Yes, you did.
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He came to the window.
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It was quite gross cos I ran into him.
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That doesn't happen on, like, clothes programmes or gardening shows.
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As we climbed higher, life in the already battered Toyota became truly terrifying.
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That's my steering.
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I'm inches from death.
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There.
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The steering wheel doesn't do anything.
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My brakes stick on when I'm going uphill and cause the clutch to slip.
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I can't breathe because the dust gets in.
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Oh, God!
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That's real fear now.
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When I'm going downhill, the same brakes that stick on going uphill don't stop me.
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The Suzuki II was showing the strain.
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What is the matter?
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It's got dirt in the fuel system from the river.
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So it's broken?
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It's not broken.
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Occasionally, a bit of it goes through.
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Your simple, cheap car is broken.
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Sticking to the code of the Top Gear Brotherhood, I left James and Richard behind.
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This goes to show they're badly made, these Japanese cars.
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They're badly made.
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James and I decided to stick together.
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He's never going to go round us.
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My God, he is.
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That's insane.
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Right.
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I'm in a ditch.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Didn't see this.
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Whoa -ho!
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What a thing to miss.
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Right.
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No biggie, though, because my colleague would winch me out in a jiffy.
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Hold on.
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What?
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The winch isn't working.
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I'm now all on my own on Death Road.
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I have no idea where Ray Mears and Ted Nugent are.
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They've just disappeared.
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We have no phones, they're not on the radio.
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Up there could be dead.
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We would, in fact, be dead quite soon, judging by the mood of the angry stuck locals.
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Good luck.
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Thank you.
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Handbrake off, et cetera.
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Ditch is going to level out, so it'll be fine.
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There you go.
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What a nice man.
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Soon, though, I wished I'd stayed in the ditch because the Toyota had developed yet another fault.
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Something's broken on that back corner.
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This is pretty close to undriveable now.
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Right!
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Meanwhile, very far ahead...
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I'm now at 5 ,500 feet above sea level and still climbing.
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Oh, God, crosses.
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There's a lot of crosses there.
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And then, underneath a waterfall, I learned why there were so many crosses up here.
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Oh, my God.
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No. Oh, my...
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Stop there!
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Let's go.
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Let's go.
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Let's go.
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Let's go.
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Let's go.
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That is going.
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That is going.
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Bloody hell.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 135 frases y 812 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 7:23. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 110 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. 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 menos comunes del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

  • taxi /ˈtæksi/ (sustantivo) — taxi, taxímetro. A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, particularly one with an automated meter to calculate the fare.
  • dust /dʌst/ (sustantivo) — polvo. Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, fiber…
  • ditch /dɪt͡ʃ/ (sustantivo) — foso, surco. A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
  • badly /ˈbæd.li/ (adverbio) — malamente, mal. In a bad manner.
  • insane /ɪnˈseɪn/ (adjetivo) — enfermo mental, enajenado. Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad.
  • breathe /bɹiːð/ (verbo) — respirar. To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
  • climb /ˈklaɪ̯m/ (verbo) — escalar, subir. To traverse a slope or contour, either upwards (ascending) or downwards (descending).
  • warn /woɹn/ (verbo) — alertar, avisar. To make (someone) aware of impending danger, evil, etc.
  • brake /bɹeɪk/ (sustantivo) — freno, arretranca. A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or…
  • whoa /woʊ/ — so, cho. Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.
  • steer /stɪɹ/ (verbo) — dirigir, conducir. To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).
  • earn /ɝn/ (verbo) — ganar, granjear. To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.
  • meanwhile /ˈmiːnwaɪl/ (adverbio) — mientras tanto. During the time that something is happening, often specifically in a different place.
  • necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/ (adverbio) — necesariamente. Inevitably; of necessity.
  • gap /ɡæp/ (sustantivo) — brecha, rehendija. An opening in anything, made by breaking or parting.

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

  • go through (verbo) — atravesar. To travel from one end of something to the other.
  • look at (verbo) — mirar, funar. To observe or watch.
  • get in (verbo) — acceder. To get into or inside something, literally or figuratively.
  • get past (verbo) — pasar desapercibido. To continue around a blockage; to get around (something); to surpass something that is in the way.
  • go on /ˈɡoʊˌɒn/ (verbo) — continuar. To continue in extent.
  • go past (verbo) — traspasar, rebasar. To elapse. (said of time)
  • hang on /ˌhæŋ ˈɒn/ (verbo) — guardar. To wait a moment.
  • head off (verbo) — echarse a andar. To begin moving away.

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 36 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, didn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: breathe /bɹiːð/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, cloth /klɒθ/
  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, machete /məˈʃɛ.ti/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/

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 taxi, dust, ditch.

¿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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