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When life gets this confusing,
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sometimes there's only one thing to do.
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Attend a fabulous party.
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Well, don't be a bitch.
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I'm not being a bitch, I'm just being myself.
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You're smoking at a funeral?
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Javier would have wanted it that way.
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You know when I first moved to New York and I was totally broke,
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sometimes I would buy Vogue instead of dinner.
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I just felt it fed me more.
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After I paid $70 for my own birthday cake,
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I was totally out of the party mood.
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So I decided to go home and kill myself.
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Have you seen the New York Times style section?
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You know I can't handle hard news before noon.
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There's a beautiful man downtown selling beautiful furniture.
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We're going.
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Stanford, I got a whole afternoon plan with Australian Vogue.
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I'm not just going to drop everything to go downtown to see some cute guy.
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He's straight.
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I'll get my purse.
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Do you have a rolling pin? On me?
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In your kitchen?
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Are you kidding me?
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I use my oven for storage.
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We gotta get this stuff out of here.
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We could make some room for it if we cleaned out your closet.
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I spent $40,000 on shoes and I have no place to live?
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I will literally be the old woman who lived in her shoes.
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Is it okay to fuck one guy when you're pregnant with another guy's baby?
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If one more person asks me that today,
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but you have to accept people for who they are.
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Wait, you're choosing cigarettes over a cute guy?
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He's not that cute.
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The floor is non-smoking.
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I have an addiction, sir!
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What the fuck is that?
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Yes, I'd like a cheeseburger, please!
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Large fries and a cosmopolitan!
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What?
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A strawberry shake, please.
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Have you been to Bungalow, I have?
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No, but I hear it's a completely pretentious,
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members-only, tiny, crowded club that you need a key to get into.
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I have a key.
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Where are we going?
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Oh, how are you?
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I'm good.
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How are you?
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Great.
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I told Aiden about the affair and he broke up with me.
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Trey and I never had sex on our honeymoon.
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You win.
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So, should we get more coffee or should we get two guns and kill ourselves?
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Oh, my God, he's online.
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Can he see me?
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It's not just email, you can shop online.
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Oh, no, no, no, no,
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no, shopping is my cardio.
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Okay, I want to tell you something.
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But if I tell you,
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you have to swear you're not gonna tell anyone.
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I promise.
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Here.
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Swear on Chanel.
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I know what I did.
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I revealed too much too soon.
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I was emotionally slutty.
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You put a ring of paper around his flaccid penis while he's asleep.
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Jesus, I sound like a perverted Nancy Drew.
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Joy to the fishes in the deepness.
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I don't miss you.
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Whoa, whoa.
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Jacksoncoff's Four.
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I was told it was a Merchant Library film.
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Now, would I be able to enjoy this if I miss Jacksoncoff's One, Two, and Three?
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Yes, but you'd want to see those eventually.
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Very important films.
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I am not in the mood for gay porn.
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Not in the mood for gay porn?
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Don't you want to know how it ends?
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Hello. Who cares?
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We're looking for 80 ladies.
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Isaac Kimbo.
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Yeah, that's it.
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Stealth.
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So, uh, what are you doing later?
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I thought you weren't talking to me for the rest of your life.
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Who said anything about talking?
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One dating service application.
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Dear single.
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Single?
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You don't even have a name?
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Well, I'm single.
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I don't deserve one.
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If I had the guy in high school,
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what have I been doing for the past 20 years?
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Why did you two break up?
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I broke up because I thought,
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come on, there must be better guys out there.
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Turns out, they're hard.
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Stop it!
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Stop it!
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Stop it!
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You're middle-aged!
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Whatever happened to aging gracefully?
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It got old.
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Give me a bag.
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What?
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Your bag.
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It's a baguette.
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Let me have it.
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I couldn't believe it.
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Fifteen years in New York and just when the city was getting safe,
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I was getting mugged.
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And your Manola Blahniks.
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What?
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No. I've been robbed!
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I said, I've been robbed.
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And tell Detective Stevens, if he sees a woman wearing last year's pink suede Manola Blahniks strappy sandals,
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bring her in for question immediately.
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Have you got a smoke?
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I quit.
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Oh, we always used to share a cigarette together.
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We did a lot of things that were bad for me together.
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The universe may not always play fair,
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but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Carrie Bradshaw being iconic for 5 minutes straight”. Las palabras que más se repiten: mood, cute, broke. Este vídeo tiene 127 frases y 781 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:51. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 161 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 80 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente. 31 de sus 127 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:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
whoa/woʊ/so, cho
cigarette sustantivo/ˈsɪɡəɹɛt/cigarrillo, pitillo
baguette sustantivo/bæˈɡɛt/baguete, baguette
cardio sustantivo/ˈkɑɹ.di.oʊ/cardio
cheeseburger sustantivo/ˈtʃizˌbɝ.ɡɚ/hamburguesa con queso
cosmopolitan adjetivo/ˌkɑz.məˈpɑl.ɪ.tən/cosmopolita
flaccid adjetivo/ˈflæ(k)sɪd/flácido, fláccido
gracefully adverbio/ˈɡɹeɪsfəli/agraciadamente
pretentious adjetivo/pɹɪˈtɛn.ʃəs/pretencioso
sandal sustantivo/ˈsændəl/sandalia, chala
slutty adjetivo/ˈslʌti/putilla, casquivana
stealth sustantivo/stɛlθ/sigilo, cautela
confuse verbo/kənˈfjuːz/confundir, barahustar
honeymoon sustantivo/ˈhʌn.iˌmuːn/luna de miel, luna melera
strawberry sustantivo/ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/fresa, frutilla

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
break up verboseparar, cisionar
clean out verbodesvalijar
turn out verboresultar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

  • You're smoking at a funeral?
  • Do you have a rolling pin?
  • Wait, you're choosing cigarettes over a cute guy?
  • Don't you want to know how it ends?
  • You don't even have a name?

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahoraHave you seen · Have you been · I've been robbed
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacewas told · I've been robbed

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 28 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: pretentious /pɹɪˈtɛn.ʃəs/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, addiction /əˈdɪkˌʃən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: cosmopolitan /ˌkɑz.məˈpɑl.ɪ.tən/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: slutty /ˈslʌti/, strappy /ˈstɹapi/, stealth /stɛlθ/, strawberry /ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: pervert /ˈpɚ.vɚt/, oven /ˈʌ.vn̩/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: cheeseburger /ˈtʃizˌbɝ.ɡɚ/, cosmopolitan /ˌkɑz.məˈpɑl.ɪ.tən/, confuse /kənˈfjuːz/, closet /ˈklɑzɪt/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como whoa, cigarette, baguette.

¿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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