Shadowing Practice: Central Cee's ABCs - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Yo, I'm Central C and I'm about to go through the ABCs.
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I'm saying anti, I've got anti-tattoo here somewhere here.
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Anti-social.
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In America, you guys would say anti.
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B, BBLs.
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C, I just say my name Central C.
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The way I got my name Central C is kind of boring.
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There's no cool backstory to it.
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It's not even cool.
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I just kind of made it up.
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I was super young though.
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If I had a chance, I'd probably change my name, but everybody knows me now.
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So there's no going back.
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I just got this tattoo yesterday, death before dishonor.
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So yeah, that's that.
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I don't know.
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I think it's a nice saying, isn't it?
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But even when I'm getting it though, I'm quite a contradictive person though and I'm realistic at the same time.
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Even when I'm getting it, I'm thinking, I don't know how ...
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The saying is cool in that, but I don't know how to word it up, but I've definitely been dishonest as well.
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So it's like, I don't know.
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There's a time and a place, but for the most part,
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I'd like to say that loyalty is priceless and dishonor is a no-go.
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E for eggs.
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I like having eggs in the morning.
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It's still morning.
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I haven't ate today.
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I could probably do some scrambled egg, something like that.
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F for family.
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I have family first, I'll tell you here.
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It means a lot to me, just as most people, but yeah, generic one, F family.
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G, greatness.
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I mention greatness a lot in my music.
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I've got a few times I've said the lyric, can't rush greatness.
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I think that's an important statement.
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Can't rush greatness.
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H for high, not high off of any sort of substances other than life, because I don't drink and I don't smoke.
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But yeah, being high, high off of life is an important thing.
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I, international, if you haven't noticed by now, then I'm from the UK.
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I think being an international artist is a mission that I'm currently on, so yeah, international, aye.
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J, Jordan's got a big Jordan collection.
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My favorite Jordan, probably Jordan 4, although I'm kind of falling out of love for Jordans and sneakers as a whole.
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But yeah, Jordan 4s are cool.
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I have an extensive collection that's currently just picking up dust and storage that I never get to wear.
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So it's not that practical. But yeah.
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K for keys, like the keys that you play, like a musical instrument or whatever.
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Every beat that we jump on must have keys, I think.
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L for live yours.
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If you don't know then Live Yours is like a saying, a slogan that we kind of just always say.
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It's tattered on me everywhere.
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We got, yeah, it's like the label, I guess.
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M for movie, it kind of goes back to the last one, live yours, kind of stemmed from live your movie, which we used to say and we just shortened it to live yours.
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I believe that everyone should just live their own movie and not be focused on anybody else's, Especially mine, in a position where I'm with a lot of influence.
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I always try and encourage the fans
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or the younger people to live their own movie and just enjoy every chapter of it.
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NDA.
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I've been getting onto my lawyer for title.
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Whoever it is that's in charge of writing me at NDA, they need to get one quick.
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I ain't had one yet.
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I've never really made nobody sign one, but it could come in handy.
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O for the ocean.
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True, I just come back from Brazil.
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I mean, it's just by the beach.
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So it's in my mind.
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It's on my mind.
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P for please, please and thank yous.
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Can't forget your manners.
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Manners go a long way.
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Q for the queen.
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I feel like the queen, I keep referring back to my tattoos, but I got a tattoo yesterday.
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That's why I keep thinking about them.
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But I got the queen, I got the queen's head on my arm because it's on the note and the queen just died.
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But yeah, the royal family.
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I feel like it's a big thing in America.
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For rest, something that I'm lacking in right now.
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I ain't really got much time to rest, but it's very important.
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S for Sina.
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S-Y-N-A is the brand.
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T for like tea and biscuits.
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That's like a stereotype that people think of when they think of like UK and stuff.
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I don't think it's as much of a craze as it seems to be but yeah, tea and biscuits.
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U for useful.
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You've got to make yourself useful in this life otherwise you'll get left behind.
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Again, simple as that.
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V for vegetable, vegan or vegetarian or something like that.
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I'm such a fussy eater, sometimes I just do myself a favor and lie and say
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that I'm a vegan instead of going through all the lists of foods that I don't like.
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Yeah.
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I'm like a fake vegan right now.
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I don't really eat meat and that's still on this health is wealth kind of thing.
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W for Wild West.
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That's my first mixed, or West.
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I'm from West London.
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My first mixtape was called Wild West and that was a big part of my career.
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X for xylophone, because I don't know any other word that begins with X.
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Y for Yao Ming.
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Y for Yao Ming, he's hard.
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Z for zeros, because I need more of those in my bank account.
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I'm Central C, those are my ABCs and that's that.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Este vídeo tiene 99 frases y 951 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:26. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 175 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 78 % 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 del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| tattoo sustantivo | /tæˈtuː/ | tatuaje |
| greatness sustantivo | /ˈɡɹeɪtnəs/ | grandeza |
| vegan sustantivo | /ˈviːɡən/ | vegano, vegana |
| rush verbo | /ɹʌʃ/ | correr, apurarse |
| egg sustantivo | /ɛɡ/ | huevo, aguautle |
| practical adjetivo | /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/ | práctico |
| encourage verbo | /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ | alentar, arengar |
| refer verbo | /ɹɪˈfɜː/ | referir, remitir |
| label sustantivo | /ˈleɪ.bəl/ | etiqueta, rótulo |
| whoever | /huˈɛvɚ/ | cualquier, cualesquiera |
| dust sustantivo | /dʌst/ | polvo |
| instrument sustantivo | /ˈɪnstɹəmənt/ | instrumento |
| substance sustantivo | /ˈsʌbstəns/ | sustancia, substancia |
| loyalty sustantivo | /ˈlɔɪəlti/ | lealtad |
| realistic adjetivo | /ˌɹɪəˈlɪs.tɪk/ | realista, realístico |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| go through verbo | atravesar |
| pick up verbo | coger, asir |
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 definitely been · I've said · haven't noticed |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | be focused · was called |
| Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbos seguidos de la forma en -ing | keep referring · keep thinking |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos días | I'm saying · I'm getting · I'm lacking |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 48 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, don't, I've. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: rush /ɹʌʃ/, shorten /ˈʃɔɹtn̩/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: vegetarian /vɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/, stereotype /ˈstɛ.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/
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 tattoo, greatness, vegan.
¿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.