Shadowing Practice: Comedian Leanne Morgan Tells Oprah She Almost Gave Up - Learn English Speaking with Video
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When you were 54, actually, it was about five years ago,
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you had no website and you had decided to spend some money and hire two young men, right?
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Two young social media guys.
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See if they could, on social media, boost, you know, your clips or whatever.
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So I could sell a ticket somewhere.
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So you could sell a ticket somewhere.
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And they posted a clip of your stand -up call.
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I saw this.
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When you go to concerts with old people.
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I love this.
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It went viral.
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Let's watch this short clip.
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Woo!
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Okay, let me tell you.
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Have y 'all been to concerts lately with old people that are older than I am?
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So we go to Def Leppard and Journey, and everybody there is our age.
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And everybody's worried about the snack bar, first of all.
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And I was too.
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And every once in a while, somebody would stand up and...
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And then they sat back down.
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I thought, isn't it funny how things have changed since I went to concerts when I was 20.
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Everybody was walking out like this because everybody had inflammation in their feet.
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Trying to get to their car.
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And it was like 10 o 'clock.
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I thought, what are we doing out here?
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What are we doing?
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We gotta get home.
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We gotta get in the bed.
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That was the first time I'd ever told that story somebody got it on film.
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Wow.
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We had just taken
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Chuck Morgan to go see
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Def Leber and Journey.
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And some little guy filmed it for me, and I gave it to those boys, those social media guys, and I thought,
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I'm going to give this three months because it was expensive.
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I thought, I'm going to give this three months.
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If nothing happens, then that's God telling me that I need to open a hardware store.
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In Knoxville, and I'll dazzle there.
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And I'll be a grandmama.
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I knew I was going to have grandbabies.
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Yeah.
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And I thought, I had a child married.
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And I'll dazzle at the hardware store.
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I'll dazzle.
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I'll get a cheese wheel.
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Because my people, you know, that's my past.
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I love a grocery store.
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I don't have a liquor sense over a grocery store.
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Cheese wheel, slice my own bacon, and have canning goods, you know?
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Yeah.
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I thought, I'll just, and they're rocking chairs, and I'll dazzle.
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And he said, you have lost your mind.
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I told him on this.
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I go, I'm just talking about a hardware store.
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He went, and you've lost your mind.
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But anyway, I gave these boys that's money, and I thought, it'll last -ditch effort, and then I'll let it go.
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I'll be able to let it go and let this let go.
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And that was the day they released that, the day that my baby child,
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we moved her into an apartment in Brooklyn to go to school for makeup for television and film,
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who now is my makeup artist and is on my show and all that.
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We moved her in.
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She'd gone to college, and then she said she wanted to do that.
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We moved her in, and I looked on my phone, and, well, I think one of those boys called me and said, And Leanne, something's happening.
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Like, I don't know if you're seeing this.
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And you could just see thousands and thousands and thousands of views.
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People start, they watch that and could relate to that because who doesn't go to a concert and see
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Fall Cat and are worried out of their mind?
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And then, you know, everybody's got plantar fasciitis.
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And then they started looking to see what else I had done.
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So then all the views on my other things had gone up.
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And I had not done anything with my social media.
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I had babies, you know, children.
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I put up pictures of my dogs and stuff up
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and it started blowing up
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and I mean within I don't even I wish I had journaled
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it all I think within a week people were calling trying
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to get me in comedy clubs all over the United States
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and it had been like four months before
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that I could not sell a ticket the improvs I'd done a couple of improvs in Florida
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and they were like we love her she doesn't get drunk
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and fight in the parking lot but we're not having her back she can't sell a ticket and I was just devastated
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Okay, within a week, comedy clubs all over the United States, I was selling out one -nighters.
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I couldn't even cash the checks.
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Chuck said, you're like a drug dealer in your backpack.
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You got all this money floating around.
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I was going from town to town to sold -out shows all over the United States.
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Oh, my goodness.
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It was crazy.
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It was just like somebody turned a light on.
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But I tell you what happened.
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I found my audience all those years
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when I would be talking about my every hour new hour
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I would come up with was what I was going through in my life
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so birthing breastfeeding all that then elementary school middle school sports kids
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because you just take your comedy from whatever's happening in life yeah and I'm a storyteller that's right and then
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And I would think the whole, all that 20 years where nothing was happening, I would think, I know there's mamas out here and women
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that are going to Weight Watchers and are fighting their weight and they're feeling the same way.
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How do I get to them?
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I didn't know how to get to them.
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And then through social media, through those, when I hired those, it was the best thing.
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The manager I had at the time said, you can't afford it.
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You don't need to be doing it.
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And I thought, I'm going to do it anyway.
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I know what I'm talking about because I would see Jim Gavkin and all these people I admired.
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They had them.
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And I thought, that's the new TV, radio, all that.
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And I took a gamble on myself.
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And I invested in myself, which was crazy that I waited that long to invest in myself.
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But that's what I did.
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If I made money in gigs through the years, I'd buy these children uniforms and get their hair cut.
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And so this was finally— You were always spending money on everybody else.
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I was spending money.
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I had my friend did my website for me out of the goodness of her heart.
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It was, you know, pitiful.
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But I mean, she just did the best she could and I begged her to do it.
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I never I had maybe two headshots in 20 years, which was stupid. So, yeah.
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So and then it just took off.
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It took off.
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Tell me about Chuck Lorre coming to your house.
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Okay, so I had I got big tours once they saw me selling out all in clubs.
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I got the first big theater tour, the big panty tour.
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I called it the Big Panty Tour because I found, I realized I was talking about my panties a lot.
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And I like a good, comfortable panty.
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I've done 100 cities.
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This is winding it down.
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Thank you.
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Thank y 'all.
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Thank y 'all.
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And people ask me all the time, why'd you name this
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Big Panty Tour?
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And I tell people, I like big panties.
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Big panties say to me, freedom.
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Chuck Lorre flies to my home.
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He comes to see me at Pantages.
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Chuck Lorre, the most famous producer of sitcoms and television.
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Yes.
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He sat and held my new grandbaby on the back porch.
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We had lunch.
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I still worry that that bread was too hard.
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You know, Southern women, we want people to eat and enjoy their food.
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Anyway, he came with my manager and they, he sat there and said the sweetest things to me, Oprah.
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Like, and I know you've read this book, you've read every book in the United States of America.
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But that book about 10 ,000 hours.
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Yes.
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He said, Lynn, I can tell you've put in, you've done that 10 ,000 hours.
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He said, you have mastered this and you are, I wish that we had recorded it.
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The things he said to me and for me to be, you know, validated, you were validated,
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you know, because Because Comedy Central had never wanted me.
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You know, they were the big thing.
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Yes, yeah.
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Never wanted me.
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I got so many no's.
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I didn't get to go to festivals.
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Very rarely would they let me go to Montreal.
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And I'm sure a lot of people were put off by your accent, right?
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They were like, who's going to relate to you?
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And women have it tougher anyway.
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Tougher anyway.
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And then I was talking, I'm clean.
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I was talking about having babies in my stomach and Weight Watchers.
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You're not cursing.
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You're not, yes.
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And they wanted Angie.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Comedian Leanne Morgan Tells Oprah She Almost Gave Up”. Este vídeo tiene 163 frases y 1512 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 8:13. El hablante habla rápido, unas 184 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 del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| hardware sustantivo | /ˈhɑɹdˌwɛɹ/ | hardware, soporte físico |
| panties sustantivo | braguita), blúmer | |
| hire verbo | /ˈhaɪɹ/ | contratar, emplear |
| invest verbo | /ɪnˈvɛst/ | invertir, insumir |
| relate verbo | /ɹɪˈleɪt/ | relatar |
| goodness sustantivo | /ˈɡʊdnəs/ | bondad |
| producer sustantivo | /pɹəˈdjuːsə/ | productor, productora |
| clock sustantivo | /klɑk/ | cuentakilómetros |
| rarely adverbio | /ˈɹɛəɹli/ | rara vez, raramente |
| stomach sustantivo | /ˈstʌmək/ | estómago |
| boost verbo | /buːst/ | aupar, upar |
| theater sustantivo | /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/ | teatro |
| elementary adjetivo | /ˌɛləˈmɛntəɹi/ | elementario |
| uniform sustantivo | /ˈjunɪˌfɔɹm/ | uniforme |
| dealer sustantivo | /ˈdiːlə(ɹ)/ | concesionario, díler |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| stand up verbo | levantarse, ponerse de pie |
| take off verbo | quitarse |
| come up with verbo | ingeniar, ingeniarse |
| go up verbo | subir |
| put off verbo | perecear |
| put up verbo | colgar |
| sit back verbo | relajarse |
| sold out adjetivo | agotado |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- Let's watch this short clip.
- I thought, what are we doing out here?
- What are we doing?
- How do I get to them?
- They were like, who's going to relate to you?
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 | have changed · have lost · you've lost |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | people that are · myself, which was · years, which was |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | were validated · were put |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 50 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'll, I'm, you've. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: inflammation /ɪnfləˈmeɪ̯ʃən/, fasciitis /fæʃiˈaɪtɪs/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: elementary /ˌɛləˈmɛntəɹi/, inflammation /ɪnfləˈmeɪ̯ʃən/, devastated /ˈdɛv.əˌsteɪ.təd/, fasciitis /fæʃiˈaɪtɪs/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: stomach /ˈstʌmək/, slice /slaɪs/, snack /snæk/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: invest /ɪnˈvɛst/, viral /ˈvaɪɹəl/, devastated /ˈdɛv.əˌsteɪ.təd/, improv /ˈɪmpɹɑv/, validate /ˈvæl.ɪ.deɪt/
- /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: hardware /ˈhɑɹdˌwɛɹ/, hire /ˈhaɪɹ/
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 hardware, panties, hire.
¿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.