Shadowing Practice: Curb Your Enthusiasm: Young Larry - Learn English Speaking with Video

Creando lección...
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Can you believe it?
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No. Seeing that in your pool.
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Who expects something?
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I wouldn't have even dreamed something like that.
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Imagine.
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You know, why me?
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What's...
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Why you?
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What's in my house?
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Hi.
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Hi.
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Welcome to Netflix.
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Larry David, Jeff Green to see Don Winston Jr. Great.
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Just give me one sec.
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Don Jr. Don Jr. Yeah.
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Don Jr. How do you have a name like that?
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Must be horrible.
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Trump has really ruined it for all Don Juniors, hasn't he?
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I would not want that as my name.
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Oh, my God.
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All right, Larry.
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Jeff?
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Thank you.
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Elevators are to your right.
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Thank you.
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Oh, hey.
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You going out with Brooks' funeral?
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I have no choice.
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Who throws a funeral for themselves while they're alive?
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He does.
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And I have to speak.
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He's asked me to speak.
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No. Yeah.
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No. Yeah.
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Oh, geez.
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Yeah.
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All right, you ready for my pitch?
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Yeah.
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The show is called Young Larry.
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It's about my life when I was like 24, 25.
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I lived in Brooklyn with my parents and my uncle, Mo, lived upstairs with my grandmother.
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Mo was in his 70s.
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He pushed racks in the garment centers, would take the subway every day.
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He never spent a nickel in his life, so he had over a million dollars saved up.
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So one day, Uncle Mo comes up to me and he says, I'm moving into the city and I want you to live with me,
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and if you live with me, I'll leave all my money to you." Wow.
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Wow.
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So in the show, I move in with Uncle Mo,
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and, uh, I do everything that I can to accelerate his.. demise.
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So how does he try to kill him?
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Subtly.
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You know, like, giving him terrible food to eat, Ruben sandwiches, you know, making him climb up six flights of stairs, telling him the elevator's broken,
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you know, things like that.
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So young Larry, what's going on in his life right now?
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Like, what is he doing?
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Okay, very good question.
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Thank you.
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He's a private chauffeur.
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He drives for an old woman.
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I was a private chauffeur.
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I drove this old lady around.
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She was blind.
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I never cleaned the car.
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She had no idea.
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And so he has this huge Cadillac limousine at his disposal that he uses all the time.
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And I was trying to be a stand -up comic.
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So I was just starting out doing my act.
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Oh, that's really interesting.
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You know, we'll see him do stand -up.
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Sure.
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When he's not chauffeuring or whatever and trying to kill his uncle.
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Wow.
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I love this.
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I think this is great.
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Really?
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I think we want to do this show.
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In a word, in.
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Yeah?
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Yes, in.
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Are you kidding?
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Really?
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Absolutely.
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Look at that.
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Oh, my God.
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Purell?
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How about that?
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I'm good for now.
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I'm good for now, but thanks.
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I'm not a Purell hoarder.
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Remember the pandemic, the hoarders?
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Oh, yeah.
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Nasty people.
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Terrible.
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They're like horse thieves in the Old West, aren't they?
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Okay.
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You'll find that I'm a pleasure to work with?
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Eh, don't give me any notes.
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That's all.
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I'm not joking.
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I'm not joking.
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It's not a joke.
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That's great.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 102 frases y 542 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:11. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 171 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. 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

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
uncle sustantivo/ˈʌŋ.kl̩/tío
funeral sustantivo/ˈfju.nəɹ.əl/funeral
horrible adjetivo/ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/horrible, horroroso
pitch sustantivo/pɪt͡ʃ/tiro
comic sustantivo/ˈkɑmɪk/cómico, comediante
ruin sustantivo/ˈɹuː.ɪn/ruina
climb verbo/ˈklaɪ̯m/escalar, subir
nasty adjetivo/ˈnæs.ti/sucio
grandmother sustantivo/ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/abuela
stairs sustantivo/ˈstɛɹz/escalera, gradas
subway sustantivo/ˈsʌbˌweɪ/metro, subte
disposal sustantivo/dɪsˈpoʊ.zəl/desecho
rack sustantivo/ɹæk/estante, estantería
thief sustantivo/ˈθiːf/ladrón, caco
upstairs adverbio/ˌʌpˈstɛɹz/arriba

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
stand up verbolevantarse, ponerse de pie
save up verboahorrar

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 16 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, they're, aren't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: grandmother /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/, thief /ˈθiːf/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: elevator /ˈɛləˌveɪtɚ/, accelerate /ɪkˈsɛl.əˌɹeɪt/

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 uncle, funeral, horrible.

¿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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