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Hey, what's up?
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What's the gist?
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The gist is this is a great comic book.
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Listen, have you ever found yourself having difficulty understanding when people are speaking to you?
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Perhaps they're talking too quickly, right?
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Or they're saying too much.
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You end up getting frozen, like, ah!
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That's because you're trying to understand every single word.
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And that's not going to work, because native speakers don't do that.
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We don't.
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You might think we do, but you don't do it in your own language.
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You get the general idea and then you will go to the specific as you need it.
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In this lesson, I'm going to teach you how to get the gist.
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And the gist means general information to understand.
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Okay?
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Now, here's what you try to do.
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It's like word, word, word, word, word.
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It's raining words and you're trying to catch the words.
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It doesn't work like that.
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There are too many words when people are speaking.
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Conversation is too fluid, too fast.
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So all you end up doing is getting wet, right?
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With all these words, you'll find that there are words you don't need, but there are some words you just can't escape.
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You gotta have them.
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And I like to call that noise and sound, or sound and noise, whichever you want.
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Both are like...
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Less noise, and sound might be...
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One has information to give you, the other just makes it confusing or hard to understand, right?
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So that's my diagram here.
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I want to help you be able to tell the difference between noise, things you don't need, and sound.
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Something you actually need.
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And I'm going to teach you how to use gist.
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Not just the word, but I've broken it down to make it interesting for you and memorable.
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You'll be able to remember it.
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It's called an acronym where you take words and you put them together because this is actually a word.
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but I'm going to break it down to make it available for you to learn how to understand
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when people talk to you, and we're going to do it right now.
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You ready?
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Let's go to the board.
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The first thing I'm going to say is this.
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No more word for word.
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You do not need to know all the words.
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A lot of you guys think your vocabulary isn't good, that's why you don't understand, or you think you need to listen harder and catch more.
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That's not it at all.
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You're doing too much.
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What you want to do is follow the gist method.
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And this is the first thing you want to do.
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You want to get the general idea.
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What's the general idea?
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I don't understand.
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How would I do that?
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Here's what the deal is.
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The general idea is the topic.
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Okay.
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Topic?
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Yeah.
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Nobody walks up to you and just goes, so it was raining Scotland and the banking system.
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Nobody does that.
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They'll They'll start off like this.
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E, I want to talk to you about the office.
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The office?
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Yes, the office.
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Now you know the topic.
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You don't need to know all of the words.
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You know the office is important.
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So you've got to keep that in your mind to get the general idea, okay?
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What's next?
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Every conversation, it's like having a detective, okay?
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There are clues.
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Clues are little pieces of information to help you to understand what's going on.
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When we're talking about the gist, in English we have words that tell you something's important.
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The first thing I'll do to make it really easy for you is if someone repeats a word over and over again, even if you don't know what it means,
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that's an important word for your general understanding of the conversation.
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And that's an easy one for you to deal with.
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You can always go, I don't know what hypochondria is, and you can ask for that word.
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And if they repeat it, you better know what it means, or you won't understand any of the conversation anyway.
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That's the most basic one.
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But other words you can look for are but, so, and, and for.
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I did a video called Comma Girl.
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You're gonna love it.
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It'll explain how these words are used and why they're important.
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And once you get it, you'll go, oh, these are going to lead to...
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These words will lead to something I need to understand.
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And I'm gonna come to that a little bit later on when we talk about structure, okay?
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Why that's important.
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But you want to look for words like that.
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So, repeated words.
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Yes?
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words that they might say stronger than other words, these will be important clues of what the conversation is about.
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Now, let's look at structure, okay?
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When we talk about structure, what kind of conversation are you having?
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Are they laughing?
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Right?
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Is it, so, sorry, I shouldn't say laughing.
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Is it formal or is it informal?
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Is it a conversation that's leading to cause and effect?
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I'm going to circle back.
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That means come back to here now.
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Do you remember when I said words like and and but?
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If and then are cause and effect.
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So someone says, if we do this, then that's going to happen.
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They're trying to tell you in this conversation that something is moving a certain way.
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Or they could be giving you a reason.
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That's the word like because.
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That'll be in the Comma Girl video, right?
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Because, and that means this is the reason, right?
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Or it could be my opinion and reason.
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So these words are key because they tell you the structure of the conversation you're having.
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And that will tell you if it's formal or informal and how you should take in that information.
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Okay?
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Good.
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So you notice how our important clues lead to the structure of the subject.
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And when you have the general idea, you'll know what's happening.
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Now we're going to go to the last one. And that's the tone.
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Tone is a funny one.
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Well, I said funny before, I wanted to say it here.
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The tone is, is this a serious conversation or am I joking about it?
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They just fired Kevin from hardware.
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They just fired Kevin from hardware.
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Same information, different tone.
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And if I had said they just fired Kevin from hardware because blah, blah blah, I'm giving you reason.
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And all of a sudden this conversation starts making sense.
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Once again, you may not have all of the words, but you're getting the general idea.
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And this is how most conversations in most languages go.
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We will take tone, right?
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Tone is more important than the words actually for understandings when humans speak to each other, because that tells us should we be afraid or happy for what's going to happen next.
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The structure gives us, as I said, if then, how is this conversation?
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This happens, then this will happen.
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What is the reason? Because. So.
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Right?
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Important clues?
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Those are the clues that are going to help you to understand that.
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And finally, as we go back to general topic, people always start with something they want to talk about.
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guys if your woman says baby we need to talk run forget my lesson just get out and run
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don't worry about it it's not going to be good i
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trust you the tone is not going to be good in the end anyway now
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that i've gone over what just is
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and you have the idea you're saying that's great you explain
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this all to me how am i going to actually make this work i mean you haven't taught me to practice.
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With my friend, you have come to the right place, you've come to the right place.
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I'm going to give you three tricks, I said four, three tricks to help you, all right?
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When you practice these three things, you will be able to do this, and you will find almost immediately the next conversation or the next thing you listen to,
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you'll get most of the information out of it, okay?
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So, let's go to the board, and we look at my three tricks.
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Now, we have the Pareto trick, which is the 80-20 rule.
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80-20, how does that help?
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I'm going to ask you to do something you're not going to be comfortable with, but it's going to help you.
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The next thing you listen to, make sure it's...
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I know it's hard to do, but you'll understand what I mean.
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Like, don't listen to a physics lecture on YouTube if you're just learning English.
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That's.. you won't understand 90%.
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But maybe you can understand a children's program or a comedy program.
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Make sure you can understand about 80% of the words and 20% are not known to you.
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Well, I already like that, you might be saying.
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I go, good!
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Here's the thing.
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Stop using your dictionary or Google Translate or whatever and just listen to it for the entirety.
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That means all of it.
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You will start getting the gist because if you listen long enough, you'll get those.. what did I say?
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Repeated words, those important keywords, which are going to help you put your brain in the right place, and they will probably mention the topic.
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So, without having to know all the words, you'll still be able to get the general idea.
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And that's what we want.
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Next, speed.
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I put speed kills.
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In this case, it's good for you.
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Listen to the next video at...
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I don't know...
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1.5 or 2.
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I know you can do that on YouTube, and I'm not too sure what you're watching this from, but there's probably an application or a setting where you can change the speed of it.
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Hell, you don't even need to do that.
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I talk very quickly anyway, so you can just listen to me.
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I hear it all the time.
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You guys go, you talk too fast.
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Well, don't speed up.
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Just listen to me.
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All right?
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Speed kills.
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Why?
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I do speak faster than normal English-speaking people, which is great for you, because then they sound like they're talking like this,
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which gives you a lot of time to understand what they're saying and find those important keywords or clues, right?
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There you go.
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My third and final trick is this.
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When you are finished doing this, you know, finding that thing that you can understand 80% of it.
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And if you're into sports, you might find that because you know most of the sports words and they throw some English ones.
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That's great, that's perfect, whatever.
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Whatever it is for you, right?
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Try and turn up the speed if you can.
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And if, like, I say sports as an example, they're usually like, and he's running, they go quickly anyway.
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You don't need to change anything.
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But if it's a book reading, you know, you're listening to a book on tape or something, you can speed it up a bit.
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This is the best thing.
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When you finish, stop and immediately Write out five words,
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not seven, not ten, five words to describe what you've just heard.
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Okay?
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It puts a limit on, so you really have to.. you can only put down when it's generally about.
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You can't get too specific.
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You can only say, it's about this.
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It was about the office.
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It was about work.
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It's about the relationship.
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And that's what you want, a general understanding.
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From that, you can ask more specific questions and get more information, But you can't get anything if you don't understand anything, right?
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All right.
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So, thank you for listening.
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But I don't think I'd be doing my full job or my best for you if I didn't test your knowledge.
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And how am I going to get you to test?
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It's really simple.
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You've been watching me for about 10 or 15 minutes, yeah?
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Good.
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80-20.
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I know I use words that you didn't know.
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I didn't even explain some of them on purpose.
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Usually I do.
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Hmm?
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Speed.
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I told you.
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I talked quickly.
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And then sometimes I actually did speed up.
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Now, I want you to write down five words to describe what I've told you today.
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This will ensure...
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See, I'm not going to explain that word.. that you get the gist of this lesson, and you won't just be sitting here going, oh, I watched the video for 15 minutes.
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You'll actually take it in and you'll master it like a native speaker.
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I hope you enjoyed this video.
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Loved having you here.
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And you can go watch that video, as I told you, Comma Girl, at www.eng, as in English, vid, as in video.com.
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Find that in other fantastic videos that I've done and some other brilliant teachers.
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Have a good one.
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Make sure you do your gist exercise.
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And by the way, put your answer in the comments.
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Let other people see what you did, and you can see what they got out of it.
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And you'll you'll notice the world is a funny place.
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We don't see it the same at all.
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Take care.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Can’t Understand Fast English? Stop Trying to Catch Every Word”. Las palabras que más se repiten: word, conversation, gist, listen, speed. Este vídeo tiene 232 frases y 2211 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 12:33. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 176 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 92 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir. 46 de sus 232 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| gist sustantivo | /d͡ʒɪst/ | esencia, quid |
| clue sustantivo | /kluː/ | pista, indicio |
| hardware sustantivo | /ˈhɑɹdˌwɛɹ/ | hardware, soporte físico |
| keyword sustantivo | /ˈkiː.wɜːd/ | palabra clave, clave |
| informal adjetivo | /ɪnˈfɔɹ.m(ə)l/ | informal, aformal |
| acronym sustantivo | /ˈækɹənɪm/ | sigla, acrónimo |
| hypochondria sustantivo | /ˌhaɪ.poʊˈkɒn.dri.ə/ | hipocondría, patofobia |
| confuse verbo | /kənˈfjuːz/ | confundir, barahustar |
| entirety sustantivo | /ɪnˈtaɪ.əɹ(ə)ti/ | enterez (disused), integridad |
| whichever | /wɪt͡ʃˈɛvɚ/ | cualquiera, cual sea |
| vocabulary sustantivo | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | vocabulario |
| diagram sustantivo | /ˈdaɪ.ə.ɡɹæm/ | diagrama |
| memorable adjetivo | /ˈmɛm.(ə)ɹə.bl̩/ | memorable, inolvidable |
| dictionary sustantivo | /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/ | diccionario, tumbaburros |
| freeze verbo | /ˈfɹiːz/ | helarse, congelarse |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| end up verbo | terminar, ir a parar | |
| speed up verbo | /spiːdˈʌp/ | acelerar, apurarse |
| get out verbo | salir | |
| get out of verbo | salirse de, ponerse fuera de | |
| go over verbo | sentar, pasar | |
| put down verbo | menospreciar | |
| turn up verbo | aparecer | |
| write down verbo | apuntar, anotar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- That's because you're trying to understand every single word.
- You'll be able to remember it.
- Let's go to the board.
- The first thing I'm going to say is this.
- How would I do that?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | I've broken · i've gone · haven't taught |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | trick, which is · keywords, which are · people, which is |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | are used · are not known |
| Posibilidad con “might / may” might/may + verbo — algo posible pero no seguro | might think · might be · might say |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 94 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, you'll, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: hypochondria /ˌhaɪ.poʊˈkɒn.dri.ə/, entirety /ɪnˈtaɪ.əɹ(ə)ti/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: whichever /wɪt͡ʃˈɛvɚ/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, detective /dɪˈtɛktɪv/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: confuse /kənˈfjuːz/, freeze /ˈfɹiːz/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: gist /d͡ʒɪst/, joking /ˈd͡ʒoʊkɪŋ/
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 gist, clue, hardware.
¿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.