Shadowing Practice: Dangerously Yours Ep01 Masquerade - Learn English Speaking with Video

Creando lección...
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Dangerously yours.
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Dangerously yours.
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A half hour of romance
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and adventure brought to you at this time each Sunday by the Vic Chemical Company
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and today bringing you a special short version of Masquerade, an exciting tale of espionage in the Budapest of 1915.
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I am adventure.
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In my name men have traversed the highways, the byways, the skyways of the world.
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I have tramped the jungles with explorers.
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I have ridden the wilderness road on horseback and in covered wagons.
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I have gone 20 ,000 leagues under the seas and as many leagues above them.
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I have been the fire of Captain Kidd and Walter Raleigh and John Paul Jones and Francois Villon, that fire that burns in the heart of youth,
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that makes men dream and dare and conquer.
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I am the spirit of romantic adventure.
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I am dangerously yours.
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Today, follow me to a dark room in the Europe of 25 years ago,
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where a woman sits looking across a desk into eyes that are focused on history.
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Masquerade!
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And so, my Countess Rashola, you have our reasons for choosing you for this mission.
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You are very young, you are clever, and you are very beautiful.
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Because of your youth, you should be exceptionally valuable to us.
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I am at your command, Excellency.
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From now on, you will forget my title.
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In all our communications, you will address me as Mr. Kolenkov.
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Now, let us get on to facts.
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I hope the count will not be too difficult for you, he is a shrewd man.
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When you have obtained our information, you will conceal the message in this silver pencil.
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Send it to me immediately.
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Trust no one.
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We rely on your discretion.
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I understand.
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Well.
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Now, in these papers, you will find all the necessary information about Count Estefan.
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It has already been arranged just how you will meet him.
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Tonight, you will take the train to Budapest.
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Good evening, madame.
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Have my bag sent to suite 913.
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Yes, ma 'am.
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Good evening, Countess Rishola.
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Good evening.
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Welcome back, Countess Rishola.
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Thank you, Baudre.
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Our table for one, madame.
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Is Count Estefan dining?
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Oh, he's at the table by the window, madame.
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I can't imagine whatever possessed he'd wear that head.
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I told Benson my price was $5 ,000.
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This morning when I was riding in the park, I saw Duffy on the bridal pad and he was...
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I beg your pardon, madame.
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Here is the necklace and the rings and the bracelet you gave me, Luigi.
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Take them back.
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I'm through.
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Just a moment, madame.
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You've made a...
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Madame, wait!
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Can I be of service, Count Estefan?
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Did you see the young lady who stopped at my table?
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Yes.
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She left these jewels.
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I don't understand.
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Do you know who she is?
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She is the Countess Rishola.
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She's in Suite 913.
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Just a moment.
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Madame, you have made a mistake.
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My name is not Luigi.
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I have never seen you or these jewels before.
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I know.
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Won't you come in, Count Estefan?
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You know who I am?
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But of course.
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You were the most handsome man in the dining room.
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And I was very lonely.
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So I thought tonight I will have an adventure.
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I will make the acquaintance of the distinguished Count Estefan.
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How do you know my name?
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It was not difficult to find out.
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How did you know I wouldn't run off with your jewels?
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I took that chance.
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Besides, they're insured. Are you angry?
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No, I am not angry.
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If some kind fate wishes to send a beautiful lady to dine with me, I can only be grateful.
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You will do me the honor, won't you, madame?
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I shall be delighted.
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¶¶ What would you like for dinner?
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What does a count eat?
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Pheasant's wings and peacock's breasts?
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And what do you usually eat?
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What does a countess usually eat?
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Almost anything.
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Well, then, how about roast beef?
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All right.
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Step right up, monsieur d 'un.
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And watch mademoiselle in the red hat shoot the little clay pigeon.
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Step right up.
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I'll never be able to hit a thing.
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Don't let me down before all these people.
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I'll try.
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Good heavens!
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Hand the little lady down a dancing dog.
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Look, Catherine, a shooting star.
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Did you wish?
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I didn't have time.
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Then there is something you wish for.
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Yes.
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What did you wish?
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I was wishing that we were two other people.
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Two people who need not say goodbye.
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Perhaps it can be that way.
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Forgive me, Your Lordship, but I'm not easy in my mind about this business.
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I wish you wouldn't go to see that woman tonight, sir.
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How could I stay away?
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Albert, for the first time in my life, I'm completely head over heels in love.
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But, Candice, if I'm not...
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I know what you're thinking.
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I have a mission to perform, and I have no right to fall in love.
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But things don't always work out the way we'd like to have them work out, eh, Albert?
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Oh, I don't know what's to come of all this, sir.
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No, Albert, neither do I.
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Neither do I.
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But perhaps we shall find out tonight.
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Catherine, I have received a message for you from Mr. Kolenkoff.
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What is it?
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He said that you must obtain our information immediately.
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That you've taken too long.
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You are to get it tonight.
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Tonight?
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Mr. Kolenkoff has been lenient with you because this is your first mission.
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But he will not be lenient any longer.
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It is not wise to anger Mr. Kolenkoff.
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He is a dangerous enemy.
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Forgive me, Catherine.
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I was sent to serve you as a maid, not to give you advice.
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You're right.
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Don't worry.
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The mission will be completed tonight.
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You have the silver pencil?
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Yes.
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Then I will wait for you at the appointed place.
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Do not fail us.
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The mission will be completed tonight.
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Catherine, I offer you the three things most dear to me My heart, my country, and my dream You are too generous Catherine,
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you must listen to me Since that first hour we met, I've been completely yours There's never been anyone else for me There never will Please,
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please, don't say anymore There are worlds between us, worlds that can't be bridged with words.
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You said one night that you wished we were two different people.
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I think you may have that wish, Catherine.
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What do you mean?
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Only that my country is close to its victory and may not need so much of my service any longer.
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Close to victory?
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I'm going to tell you something tonight, Catherine.
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Something that will put my life in your hands.
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Your life?
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It would mean my life were the news to get to certain circles, yes.
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Then don't tell me.
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How do you know you can trust me?
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I love you.
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And I believe you love me.
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You're quite wrong.
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This has been only an adventure to me.
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That isn't true, Catherine.
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It is true.
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You smiled at me.
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I was flattered.
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It was an adventure for a holiday mood.
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You may as well take my heart, Catherine.
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It's already full of you.
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You walked into it the day we met.
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You're a fool, Rudolph Bestiff.
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Oh, but isn't any man who falls in love?
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Do you know what you are to me?
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You're something to believe in again.
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You're a type of person that had ceased to exist for me.
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A fine and honest woman.
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Oh, my darling, you're such a child.
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Take your foolish little dream in your heart and go.
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Please go.
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What is it?
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What's wrong, my dear?
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You know nothing about me.
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You've known me only three weeks.
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Three weeks?
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Catherine, I've known you all my life.
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All your life.
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It's true.
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I've seen you in a thousand plays.
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Read you in as many books.
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When I've heard beautiful music, I've thought she'd like that.
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I've looked at flowers and known that one day I'd give them to you.
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Oh, stop, stop.
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You must listen to me.
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I'm not that woman.
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Perhaps I was once, but I'm not now.
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You see, you were wrong.
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You can't trust me.
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Are you trying to tell me that someone whose name we both know and won't mention sent you?
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Thank you.
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What are you saying?
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You see, I've known all along.
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I had Albert look you up the day you arrived.
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And it.. it didn't make any difference?
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It didn't make any difference.
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You see, I trust you.
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You came here to betray me and to betray my country.
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That is your mission, Countess Richelieu.
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And yet I am so sure of your love
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that I will trust you with my life and what is far more valuable, the life of my country.
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I will betray you.
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If you do, you will betray yourself at the same time.
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Yes.
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Yes, I know.
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So you shall know my secret.
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Even now, as we sit here, there is a great network growing tighter around the foremost nations of the world.
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Treaties, pacts, alliances being formed against the man who sent you.
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Tonight, I will sign a pact that will set the wheels in motion to destroy him.
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Destroy him?
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No. He's made a great many mistakes.
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The greatest of all was sending you here, Catherine.
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Why?
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He knew I should love you.
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But he did not guess that you would fall in love with me.
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No. He didn't guess that.
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Then you do see that you cannot betray him.
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If I betray you, I betray myself.
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If I betray him, I betray my country.
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My country is very dear to me.
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Dearer than I?
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No. No, not dearer than you.
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Then will you help me defeat him?
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Help you?
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Defeat him?
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By telling me his plans.
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That's the only way I can hope to defeat him.
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We can't both win.
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You'll see, Catherine.
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I'm beginning to see.
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Then you will help me.
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By giving you any information I may possess concerning our plans?
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Yes.
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you're very clever aren't you oh i can read you like a book now you thought i was young
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and easily swayed that you could make me love you
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and i would throw over my country my duty for you
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that's not the way to look at it catherine you weren't
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so wise after all
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because you've lost you hear me lost you guessed wrong in
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our little duel of wits you forgot how close hate is to love You don't know what you're saying, Catherine.
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You never loved me.
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You knew that I loved you, and you used that.
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Catherine, stop talking like a child.
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We're playing for countries now.
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Yes, we are, aren't we?
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This is a gun in my hand, Rudolph.
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I'd advise you to be careful what you say.
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Well, rather melodramatic, aren't you?
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Tell me, will I be the seventh notch on the gun or the eighth?
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Do you mind if I smoke?
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Smoke?
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I always smoke at the theater.
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Somehow it enhances the performance.
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You can do anything you please, Rudolph.
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But you have very little time to do it in.
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You mean you're actually going to kill me?
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I mean just that.
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Well, go ahead.
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I'll do this my own way.
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Look.
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You already know my purpose in being here.
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Now you will either give me my information or I will kill you.
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You have until nine o 'clock.
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You won't do it.
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You can't pull the trigger
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You can't pull it because you love me It takes a very brave and a very cold woman to do that,
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Catherine I don't think you can Isn't that true?
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Isn't that why you're waiting?
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That's not true Or is it that you want to watch your victim?
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You want my heart to constrict with agony My hands to shake You want me to plead for my life
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So you can make a generous gesture and spare me Sorry, Catherine, I don't seem to be in the mood for prayers tonight.
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You don't think I'll do it.
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That's why you're so brave.
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You don't think I'll do it.
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You wouldn't be so brave otherwise.
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You're a coward at heart.
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You lied to me.
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You deceived me.
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You tried to deceive me.
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I'm tired of listening to you.
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You gave me your heart, you know.
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You'd like me to hand it back, whole again.
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But I won't.
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You live a long time yet, Catherine an eternity without me.
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You will look into the faces of passers -by hoping for something that will, for an instant, bring me back to you.
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You will find moonlit nights strangely empty because when you call my name through them, there will be no answer.
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Always your heart will be aching for me
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and your mind will give you the doubtful consolation that you did a brave thing.
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You dare to talk of bravery.
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What else do we have to talk about, Catherine?
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For me, there will never be another woman but you.
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But for my heart, there is another love that must come before you.
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My country.
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You are so still.
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Your face is like ice.
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What are you thinking, Catherine?
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What does anything you can say matter?
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You betrayed me with words.
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What good are words?
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Your heart is breaking.
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If I fail now, I should deserve to die.
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You tricked me into loving you.
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Aren't you forgetting that you came here for the same purpose?
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I couldn't have betrayed you.
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I tried to tell you.
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You said you already knew.
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I was as honest as I knew how to be.
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Do you think I wanted to love you?
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Knowing where you came from and what your mission was?
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Don't you suppose that every hour we were together I was thinking she's just pretending?
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I wasn't.
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I loved you.
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And I loved you so much I let you pretend.
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Because you brought something to my days I couldn't stand the thought of losing.
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Listen to your heart, Catherine.
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Feel it pounding.
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Your time is up.
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Then my last words.
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I love you, Catherine.
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You're determined to die with a lie on your lips.
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I love you, Catherine.
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Oh, God.
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Help her.
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Help her.
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Where are you, sir?
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I heard a shot.
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Help me up.
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I'll be all right.
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Help me up.
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Oh, I knew you should never have come here.
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I'll get a doctor.
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No, no, no, no. No, it's too late.
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I waited right by the door like you told me to, sir.
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The other woman went downstairs about ten minutes ago.
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Please let me get a doctor, sir.
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No, no. I want you to send a message, though, at once.
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The usual destination.
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Yes, sir.
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Kalenkov.
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The masquerade is over.
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X -32 reports that Countess Richelot is trustworthy and loyal.
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You may entrust in her care any documents.
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She will not betray you.
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Report case 255.
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Closed.
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X -32.
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Conceal it as usual, Albert, in the silver pencil.
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Please let me call her back.
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You must tell her the truth before it's too late.
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Tell her the truth?
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Tell her the truth so
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that she will watch the stars through tears instead of following the one cold star that is her destiny?
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No, no, Albert.
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Let her think I never loved her.
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One day, she will follow a flag to the same fate as mine.
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We must leave her the strength for that hour.
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I am adventure.
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Today you have shared the adventure of Masquerade with me.
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Next week, I bring you Jungle Harvest, take you to the tropic paradise of Samburan to share the adventure of a gentle,
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peace -loving man suddenly forced to pit his wits against the sinister
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and the dangerous in order to save his own life and the life of the girl he loves.
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Until then, I am dangerously yours.
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Thank you.

Contexto y antecedentes

El video "Dangerously Yours Ep01 Masquerade" nos transporta a Budapest en 1915, con un diálogo cargado de intriga y romance. La trama sigue a una condesa en una misión de espionaje, lo que crea un escenario rico en expresiones formales y coloquiales. Este tipo de conversación es ideal para practicar la pronunciación y la fluidez, ya que combina vocabulario específico con frases cotidianas, perfecto para quienes buscan mejorar su inglés, incluso para exámenes como el IELTS.

Las 5 frases clave para la comunicación diaria

  • "I am at your command": Una forma respetuosa de decir "Estoy a su disposición". Útil en situaciones formales o al ofrecer ayuda.
  • "Trust no one": "No confíes en nadie". Una frase directa y poderosa, útil en contextos de advertencia.
  • "Have my bag sent to suite 913": "Envíen mi maleta a la suite 913". Perfecta para pedir servicios en hoteles o restaurantes.
  • "I beg your pardon": "Disculpe". Esencial para disculparse o pedir repetición en conversaciones.
  • "Welcome back": "Bienvenida de vuelta". Ideal para saludar a alguien que regresa a un lugar.

Guía paso a paso para el shadowing

El shadowing es una técnica excelente para mejorar la pronunciación en inglés y la fluidez. Aquí cómo aplicarla con este video:

  1. Escucha y observa: Reproduce el video una vez sin hablar, prestando atención a la entonación y el ritmo de los hablantes. Nota cómo las palabras se conectan en frases como "I can't imagine whatever possessed he'd wear that head".
  2. Repite al instante: Usa un app de shadowing o pausa el video cada 5 segundos para repetir lo que escuchaste. Intenta imitar la pronunciación, especialmente de sonidos difíciles como "shrewd" o "discretion".
  3. Graba y compara: Graba tu voz mientras haces shadow speech y compárala con el original. Observa las diferencias en el tono y la claridad, y corrige palabras como "Baudre" o "Estefan" para que suenen naturales.
  4. Practica con frases largas: Focus en fragmentos como "I have tramped the jungles with explorers..." para mejorar la respiración y la fluidez, clave para el speaking en el IELTS.
  5. Repite diariamente: Dedica 10 minutos al día a este ejercicio. Con el tiempo, notarás cómo tu pronunciación y confianza aumentan, gracias a la técnica de shadowspeak.

Recuerda: la práctica constante es la clave. ¡Anímate a sumergirte en este mundo de aventura y aprende inglés de forma divertida y efectiva!

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 ahorahave traversed · have tramped · have ridden
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo haceare focused · been arranged · be delighted
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosapeople who need · man who falls · man who sent

¿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.

Técnica de shadowing: lee la guía completa paso a paso →