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There's a habit that I have been trying for long time. to change it.
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but I'm not success yet.
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That habit is I like to think that I'm Right.
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I know the best.
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I know better than other people.
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and I want auto people to do what I believe.
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I want people to do the way I Want it.
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This is the very big problem. when we married.
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We have to live together as a family.
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this habit is become a big problem.
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Among us, among the.. couple life.
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I try.
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to change myself a lot.
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I don't want to be a person who always tells people to do things all the time.
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but it's not very easy.
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it's not easy at all because it have been transferred for many generations.
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it from my grand -grandma, grandparents.
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until my parents and Me.
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And I don't want this habit to be transferred to my kids.
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my next generation.
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or people around me.
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I want everybody to be independent, to be themselves.
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Thank you.
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I don't want them to be like me.
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It's not.
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problem for many people, but for me I think it's a big problem.
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Thank you. Because I always Think.
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I'm Right.
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I know better.
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So when my wife do earthen house My wife, she is at an old building.
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Teacher.
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when she taught people how to do paint, clay paint to do something.
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I always told her that, "You cannot do that.
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You have to do this.
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You have to do this." This is the way I feel like it.
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I don't like myself. to be like that.
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I want her to be herself.
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but it's become habit.
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It just come out.
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It came out.
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I don't know myself sometimes.
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So I have to work very hard to remind myself that.
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I need to respect.
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my wife.
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Respect my kid.
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my son They have their own dream.
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They have their own way of thinking.
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They have their own experience.
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They have their own imagination.
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So they need to do what they believe, what they want to do. But...
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My problem is I want them to do what I believe.
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I want them to do my dream.
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to follow my imagination.
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This is not normal.
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this will cause a lot of problems.
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because people around me will not grow.
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They cannot develop themselves.
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Because whenever they do what I want them to do, they cannot do the best.
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they cannot develop themselves much.
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But whenever they do what they believe in, What day? dream about it.
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what they want to try.
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they will develop themselves a lot.
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That's the way people can grow.
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So I want people to grow.
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Thank you. But...
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I know that I cannot do it many times, many things.
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But I want other people to do it.
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That's not fair.
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For example, like when I watched soccer or what football or what another sport.
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I always yell at the player Go left, go left, go right, go faster, kick harder.
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I always yell.
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But, I cannot do like them.
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they have their own ability, they know that they're the limitation of their ability.
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They know what to do.
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But I cannot do it but i want them to do the way i want them if i go to the field.
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I cannot run fast like them.
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I cannot kick the football like them.
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I cannot do that.
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But I always think they have to do like this.
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That's why I have to yell very loud around the on the stadium.
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So this habit is is one thing I think is cause problem.
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cause problem for people around me especially my son, my wife.
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people around me that's mean I did not respect their thinking.
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I do not respect their imagination.
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So when I try to Push my dream or my imagination to their life.
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Thank you.
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they will be unhappy.
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They feel unhappy.
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because it's not the way they want it.
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So that's the cause of conflict, that's the cause of suffering. in the family.
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I don't want to be like that. So, I'm trying.
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to remind myself that "I will not do that." But many times it just came up.
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I did it by Thank you.
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No consciousness with no consciousness.
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because it's in my life for so long but i cannot stop doing it i cannot stop
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train myself to not do it.
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Because I don't want it to be transferred to the next generation.
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So, The habit is one thing It's very hard.
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to chain especially habit that I grew up with.
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is in my blood.
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But I believe that I will do it one day.
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That's why I keep Keep training, keep doing myself, keep respect.
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utter people's thinking, utter people's idea.
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Because I want to see people around me grow the way they want to grow.
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I don't want them to be like me.
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Because I'm not the best person.
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This is the way I can be.
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I think they can do better than me.
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That's why I don't want them to think like me.
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I don't want them to do like me.
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because I believe that they can do better than me.
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So if they think like me, that do like me.
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there will be similar to me.
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That's mean.
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they cannot develop their life to be better than me. So, Thank you.
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It's hard.
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to change the habit.
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especially when You grew up in Asian Culture.
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that we believe that Man is the leader of the family.
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We were taught like that for many generations.
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But now, We cannot think like that anymore.
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Everybody in the family is equal We need to respect each other, even My son, my kid,
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he's young, but I need to respect him.
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So this is a big chain, this is a big revolution. in My.
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hate in my thinking.
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to change the culture in my life.
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to do something different.
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Because the way I grew up with.
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It's not work anymore.
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in the world.
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in the new era.
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because the world has changed so much.
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Thank you there need to be different.
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They need to be themselves, they need to be independent.
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That's the way to survive.
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So, It's not the same thing anymore.
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nothing the same anymore.
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That's why I feel like I need to change myself.
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I don't want...
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to be an old man that nobody want to come nearby me.
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because if it come nearby me, level be tall to do that, to do this, to not do that, not do this all the time for me.
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So, Nobody wants to be close to me, and it's not very fun.
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I think it will be more fun if everybody around me can be themselves.
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They can feel relaxed, they can feel free, they can feel independent, they can do whatever.
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They want to.
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that will be very nice atmosphere.
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when people are happy and be around each other.
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When people become independent and be around each other, I think this is a kind of life that I am expecting.
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now.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Changing for my family”. Las palabras que más se repiten: cannot, habit, respect, themselves, grow. Este vídeo tiene 149 frases y 1191 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 10:29. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 114 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 89 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 12 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
habit sustantivo/ˈhæb.ɪt/costumbre, hábito
imagination sustantivo/ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/imaginación, magín
yell verbo/jɛl/gritar, vociferar
utter verbo/ˈʌtəɹ/resolgar, resollar
unhappy adjetivo/ʌnˈhæpi/infeliz
consciousness sustantivo/ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/conciencia
grandparent sustantivo/ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/abuelo, abuela
limitation sustantivo/lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/limitación
automobile sustantivo/ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/automóvil, carro
grandma sustantivo/ˈɡɹænmɑː/abuela, abuelita
relax verbo/ɹɪˈlæks/relajar, aflojar
clay sustantivo/kleɪ/arcilla, barro

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
come out verbo/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/revelarse, salir a la luz
come up verbosalir a relucir

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • I don't want them to be like me.
  • I don't know myself sometimes.
  • I don't want to be like that.
  • Because I'm not the best person.
  • I don't want them to do like me.

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacehave been transferred · be transferred · were taught
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorahave been transferred · has changed
Comparativos -er than / more … than — comparar dos cosasbetter than
Superlativos the -est / the most … — lo más alto o lo más bajo de un grupothe best

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 17 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, they're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, consciousness /ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/, limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/, automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/, unhappy /ʌnˈhæpi/

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 habit, imagination, yell.

¿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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