Shadowing Practice: Chris Holmes: The REAL Reason I Quit W.A.S.P. - Learn English Speaking with Video

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When you talk about those days where it was all the chaos and you and Blackie had all that friction, are you surprised that it actually lasted as long as it did between you guys?
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Well, he knew what he was doing from day one.
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Okay.
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And he knew what he was doing to me on day one.
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But I didn't.
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I trusted him.
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The tensions boiled over with him and I at the House of Blues in Chicago,
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where he's embarrassed me once in front of a security guard, and that was it.
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I quit at that moment, and then I decided to still play, but I didn't go out on stage.
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We're doing the encore.
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We're off stage, and I'm humming a song, and the security guard's next to me, just a huge black guy, and he's humming the same song good mood laughing
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and black he leads over goes will you fucking shut up god damn it you know
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and uh yeah yeah yeah
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and it's just you know i was like that's it fuck
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you i don't need this fucking guy i don't need this arrogance arrogant uh lsd
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and i quit right that's done right then right then i was done i went to the dressing room
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and i looked at the elevator dressing's on the fourth floor
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and i was like fuck what would the better man do
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if the dressing room was there i would have probably
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that would that would have been it that's been the last show i've played
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but uh i came back i went to what would a better man do um i'll play okay
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so i played but i played backstage
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you were actually plugged in backstage playing the music well i
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i had a cordless wow i had a a chord list
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and i heard the drummer one two three four you know i played been on the road i played
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so i played the three three songs uh i don't know
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what they were could have been blind in texas animal some other song
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that was the encore i don't i don't even know what they were it's been 20 years you know uh
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and uh you know and then
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and then they're all getting an elevator go to the fourth for the dressing room i was pissed
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and blen dandy
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and roadies dan's going come on get in i go fuck you i'm not getting in with
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that cocksucker and then the elevator came down i got in i come in the dressing room
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and black he goes i'm not apologizing i go you don't have to apologize to me
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uh now but i go
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but you know i go you will someday you know for
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doing what he's for embarrassing for doing what he did
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and i just don't need it anymore i don't i don't really care
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that was the tension
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that was the tension of him getting rid of me totally where he didn't want to to play with me
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because he couldn't control me.
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You know, and I'm just sick and tired of being, I'm not as little sidekick

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Chris Holmes: The REAL Reason I Quit W.A.S.P”. Las palabras que más se repiten: played, dressing, song, elevator, tension. Este vídeo tiene 42 frases y 527 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:49. El hablante habla rápido, unas 187 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. Solo el 80 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
encore sustantivo/ˈɑnkoɹ/bis
hum verbo/ˈhʌm/canturrear, tararear
apologize verbo/əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/disculparse [with con], pedir(le) perdón [with a]
cocksucker sustantivo/ˈkɑkˌsʌ.kɚ/mamón, chupapollas
cordless adjetivo/ˈkɔɹd.lɪs/sin cables, inalámbrico
embarrass verbo/ɪmˈbæɹəs/avergonzar, abochornar
roadie sustantivo/ˈɹoʊdi/plomo
sidekick sustantivo/ˈsaɪdkɪk/achichintle, achichincle
arrogance sustantivo/ˈæɹ.ə.ɡəns/arrogancia, soberbia
chord sustantivo/kɔɹd/acorde
drummer sustantivo/ˈdɹʌmɚ/batería, baterista
friction sustantivo/ˈfɹɪkʃən/fricción
arrogant adjetivo/ˈæɹəɡənt/arrogante, soberbio
boil verbo/bɔɪ(ə)l/hervir, herver
someday adverbioalgún día

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
shut up/ʃʌt ʌp/cállate la boca, cállate

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 ahorathat's been · it's been
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacewere actually plugged · was pissed

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 23 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, didn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: elevator /ˈɛləˌveɪtɚ/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: backstage /bækˈsteɪd͡ʒ/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/

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 encore, hum, apologize.

¿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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