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(upbeat music) - I am Johnathan Grahm and I am the chocolatier and owner of Compartes Chocolate and I'm gonna be your expert for valentines chocolate.
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I've probably never eaten chocolate like this before so you're gonna be on an adventure with me.
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It certainly didn't smell chocolaty.
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It smelled sugary.
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You know what else, I hate not knowing.
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This tastes like the candy that you would get when you were a little kid.
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It's fun, it's candy.
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It's in a heart shaped box.
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We've gone a lot bigger as you can see just from the plate.
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No guide. I'll say it does look nice that there's white chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate.
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If you don't know what the person likes you've got a good variety box in here.
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This is better than the previous ones.
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I might even actually just taste another.
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I don't know what that one is but it's got some crunch to it.
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There was a snap on the chocolate.
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If you want chocolate you should actually go for chocolate.
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Again, dark chocolate, high cocoa content.
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I think this would be a good gift to give if you were 21, but if you're 30 you need to step up your game.
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The most happy this makes me is that there is a guide because that means at least I can kind of see what I want to go with instead of mystery chocolate.
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One that says Honey Buttery Caramel.
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No snap on this chocolate.
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It's not honey, it's not buttery.
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This type of caramel and this type of consistency means preservatives.
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That really makes me depressed because all the other boxes, I didn't know what I was getting and now the one that I really wanted is such a letdown.
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The caramel consistency is really nice.
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It's a nice deep caramel color.
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The milk chocolate shell is so thick.
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They've lathered on so much milk chocolate that it overpowers the caramel.
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If you're just gonna give your valentine milk chocolate, go buy a milk chocolate bar.
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The milk chocolate quality of this product is the best of the quality that we've tried.
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I like the butteriness and consistency on the inside of this.
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This is more of a true truffle cause it has a creamy chocolate center.
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This one's okay, it's not great.
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But it's much more inline with my taste and higher end chocolate than what we've been tasting previously.
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Again, a lot of the pieces we saw before are very generic looking.
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This is prettier.
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Not bad. It had the snap.
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I don't know if you heard it.
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It's really plain and milk chocolate and simple but it's okay.
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I'm not mad at it.
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If you can't afford a really big box of chocolate, get a smaller box that's good.
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I think that when you're giving a valentines gift, it needs to be unique.
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You have one day a year to show yourself.
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You could screw up the chocolate and be sent home.
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What about making something at home.
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You could just buy chocolate and melt it down and get some strawberries and dip them and that's so much more unique and special.
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I just love the candle and champagne set up. (laughs) You're gonna get chocolate, candles, champagne.
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We're just missing the flowers.
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But you know flowers die and chocolate lives forever or until you eat it.

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Este vídeo tiene 49 frases y 561 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:07. El hablante habla rápido, unas 180 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 83 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras menos comunes del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

  • snap /snæp/ (verbo) — quebrar, romper de golpe. To fracture or break apart suddenly.
  • consistency /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/ (sustantivo) — consistencia. Local coherence.
  • flower /ˈfloʊɚ/ (sustantivo) — flor. A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual…
  • honey /ˈhʌni/ (sustantivo) — miel. A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
  • candy /ˈkæn.di/ (sustantivo) — caramelo, dulce. Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup.
  • champagne /ʃæmˈpeɪn/ (sustantivo) — champaña, champán. A sparkling white wine made from a blend of grapes, especially Chardonnay and pinot, produced in Champagne, France, by the méthode champenoise.
  • candle /ˈkæn.dəl/ (sustantivo) — vela, candela. A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.
  • adventure /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/ (sustantivo) — aventura. A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
  • thick /θɪk/ (adjetivo) — grueso, espeso. Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
  • mystery /ˈmɪs.t(ə.)ɹi/ (sustantivo) — misterio, arcano. Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.
  • plain /pleɪn/ (sustantivo) — llanura, planicie. An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse.
  • shell /ʃɛl/ (sustantivo) — concha, caparazón. The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
  • depressed /dɪˈpɹɛst/ (adjetivo) — deprimido, abatido. Unhappy; despondent.
  • generic /dʒɪˈnɛɹ.ɪk/ (adjetivo) — genérico. Very broad; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific instances.
  • melt /mɛlt/ (verbo) — derretirse, fundirse. To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

  • step up (verbo) — aumentar, redoblar. To increase, augment, or advance, especially by one or more steps.

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 25 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, gonna, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: thick /θɪk/, lather /ˈlæð.ɚ/
  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: champagne /ʃæmˈpeɪn/, shell /ʃɛl/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: consistency /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/, chocolatier /ˌt͡ʃɔk(ə)ləˈtɪɹ/, overpower /oʊ.vɚˈpaʊ̯.ɚ/, preservative /prɪˈzəːvətɪv/

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 snap, consistency, flower.

¿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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