Shadowing Practice: Business Partner A2. Unit 3. Video 3.1.1. - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Postmark is a company based in London.
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It sells quality cards and gifts.
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The Cambridge Satchel Company makes and sells bags.
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These are their stories.
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My name is Leona Janssen-Smith and I am a director at Postmark. Who started the business?
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My husband, Mark, started the business in 2004.
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He wanted to sell really good quality cards at a great price.
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After two years in 2006, the annual turnover was approximately £120,000.
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Last year it was approximately £1.3 million.
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How many stores and how many employees do you have?
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We now have four stores and employ 24 people.
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Postmark hired Morgan Dudley as head of operations in 2015.
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Morgan has a lot of experience in sales.
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Leona thinks this was an important decision for the business.
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Morgan helped them to expand the business.
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My name's Morgan Dudley.
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I studied fashion design in South Africa from 2003 to 2006.
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When did you arrive in the UK and what did you do?
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I arrived in the UK in 2008 and I started as a sales assistant.
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When did you join Postmark?
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I joined Postmark in 2013.
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I started as a sales associate and then I managed a store and then I moved on to head of operations.
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I love the small business environment.
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Leona and Mark really look after their team, and you're allowed a lot of flexibility.
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My name is Julie Dean.
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I created the Cambridge Satchel Company.
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I started the company in 2008 with £600.
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Four years later, the company was valued at £40 million.
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When I started Cambridge Satchel, there were brown bags, dark brown bags, and black bags.
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But we then moved into a range of different colors.
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I decided to start a factory in 2011.
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We have 155 employees.
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Now we have shops in Cambridge, London, Oxford, Brighton, and Edinburgh.
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My name is Max Carey, and I am head of special projects with the cambridge satchel company
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before i joined cambridge satchel company i had my own shop
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i joined the cambridge satchel company in 2012 to manage the sales of bags and accessories to other shops.
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Max's job changed when the Cambridge Satchel Company opened their first shop in London.
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I started to work on store design, which is the look and the feel of the shop.
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My new job was to design our first shop.
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What I most enjoy about the Cambridge Satchel Company is that I have the freedom to work on creative projects.
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And that is a real joy.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel A2 se basa en el vídeo “Business Partner A2. Unit 3. Video 3.1.1”. Las palabras que más se repiten: cambridge, satchel, shop, Postmark, bags. Este vídeo tiene 41 frases y 401 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:44. El hablante habla despacio, unas 107 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 78 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
arrive verbo/əˈɹaɪv/llegar, arribar
hire verbo/ˈhaɪɹ/contratar, emplear
associate sustantivo/əˈsoʊʃi.ət/asociado
expand verbo/ɪkˈspænd/ampliar
flexibility sustantivo/ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/flexibilidad
employ verbo/ɪmˈplɔɪ/emplear
turnover sustantivo/ˈtɝnoʊvɚ/cifra de negocios
accessory sustantivo/əkˈsɛs.(ə.)ɹi/accesorio, complemento
satchel sustantivo/ˈsæt͡ʃəl/mochila, morral
approximately adverbio/əˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mət.li/aproximadamente, a eso de
manage verbo/ˈmæn.ɪd͡ʒ/manejar, gerenciar
employee sustantivo/ˌɛm.plɔɪˈiː/empleado, empleada
creative adjetivo/kɹiˈeɪtɪv/creativo
factory sustantivo/ˈfæk.tɚ.i/fábrica, planta

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, flexibility /ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/, accessory /əkˈsɛs.(ə.)ɹi/, approximately /əˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mət.li/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: arrive /əˈɹaɪv/, turnover /ˈtɝnoʊvɚ/, creative /kɹiˈeɪtɪv/

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 arrive, hire, associate.

¿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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