Shadowing Practice: Dave Navarro Opens Up About His Mom’s Murder (2001) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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You are an amazing guy.
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I mean, I applaud you.
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In fact, people always say to me, who are people that you think have gone through adversity and risen and all that?
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You're one of those people to me.
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I don't even know how, as a child, that you were able to concentrate on guitar and play the guitar with your background.
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Do you know anything about Dave Navarro's background?
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No, I do not.
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If I can bring up some of your tragedy, without just turning into a telethon.
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No, no, absolutely.
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Your mother was killed at an early age by a guy who raised you.
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It was a guy that she was dating, and I wouldn't say he raised me.
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I think that that guy got lost in the translation.
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He lived with you for a while.
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He just had to be living with you at the time.
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No, and truth be told, he was, you know, I did trust the guy.
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Right.
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And I was close to him.
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Right.
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And why not?
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I mean, you have two options.
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How old were we talking?
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I was 15.
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Right.
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15 years old, his mother was taken away from him.
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Wow.
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Your parents were divorced.
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But it was a violent kind of thing?
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Yeah.
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Your mom was murdered.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And your mom was this beautiful woman.
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She was on The Price is Right.
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I mean she was doing well.
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Yeah, she was she was um it was actually my mother
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and my aunt who happened to be there And
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and they were murdered yeah by this one guy
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and the guy got away with it for like 10 years But the freaky thing is that TV show
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America's most wanted got the guy yeah, could you you knew who did it?
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Oh, yeah.
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How did you know he was the guy who killed your mom?
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Well, I kind of put two
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and two together I mean I had a gun to my
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head a couple weeks You know we did I said I didn't know that yeah, so like there was a point where
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where he had broken into the house and kind of held me up
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and handcuffed me and basically got pretty violent and then let me go.
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Who was this guy?
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I mean, were they broken up at the time?
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Yeah.
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He was so in love with her that if he couldn't have her, no one else could.
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Yeah.
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I mean, that's what you would think.
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I mean, there's no logical explanation for something like that.
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Yeah.
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But I mean, I think in that irrational thinking, that's what was going on.
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The guy's locked up in prison now.
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Yeah.
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Have you ever been able to say to this guy why'd you take my mother from me?
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No, no, no, I mean cuz I don't I don't think that any answer he could give me to that Yeah, what would be satisfied?
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Yeah, it's gonna be satisfactory.
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The guitar save you like were you like one of those
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kids who just like sat in his room play guitar when all this happened?
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I started at 11 So I kind of had that as an avenue.
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All right when you're that age or for me You don't know where to go with that kind of stuff No, and
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and you don't know who to talk to you kind of
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don't even have the dialogue to talk to anybody about that kind of thing I mean, it's just so overwhelming right and so So I just kind of turned to music.
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You know, to me, to come back from something like that, after your mom is killed, your aunt, I mean, just your whole family, and I guess your dad was distant.
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Did you have brothers and sisters?
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No, no. That's it.
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No, my dad was there.
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He just, you know, he loved this woman, and so, you know, we were both kind of like...
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Devastated.
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Yeah, we were both devastated.
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Was your whole life uprooted in the sense also that you had to move?
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Yeah, where'd you go?
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Well, my parents were divorced, and I was living with my mother, and I ended up just moving in with my dad, which was in the same city.
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And the weird thing about it, and a connection I made years and years later, which was I used to spend Wednesday evenings with my dad.
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Right.
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And for some reason, he couldn't see me one Wednesday and he saw me on a Thursday instead.
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Right.
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And that's when this happened.
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Wow.
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You could have been there.
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And if I was, yeah.
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And if that little chance didn't happen, I probably would have gotten killed too.
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If you hadn't gone to visit your father.
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Right.
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Right.
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So, and I kind of believe, you know, I mean, and it's unfortunate it's taken me years and, you know, I had to create much more trauma in order to get to this place for somehow, you know.
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Yeah, I mean, because you went like, and understandably, you went like crazy from this.
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Yeah.
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And I understand that the drugs and all that kind of stuff.
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I'll tell you something about the drugs and all that stuff.
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And I appreciate, you know, you suggesting understandably I went to that.
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Absolutely.
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At the same time, though, I can confirm that there was part of me that used
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that trauma as an excuse to pretty much get away with whatever I wanted.
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Right.
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So you said, oh, yeah, I'm allowed to do drugs because my mother was killed.
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And whatever else.
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Oh, poor me.
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I've had this horrible thing.
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And you can excuse this.
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You can excuse that.
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And it took a lot of damage inflicted upon myself.
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I'll say.
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I mean, I was reading some of the stuff that, I mean, I don't know where we got all this stuff from.
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Maybe some of it's not true.
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You tell me.
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Yeah, let's clear it up.
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Your heroin addiction got so bad you had sores on your face that exploded.
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No one would even go near you and stuff.
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Yeah.
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I mean, here you are.
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You're such a good -looking guy.
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I wonder how people, you know, because his skin looks perfect.
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How do people come back from that?
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Yeah, how do you come back?
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Why do you not have any scars on your face?
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Why are you so lucky?
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You know what?
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I have no idea.
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You don't know.
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I really don't, and I do feel totally blessed and lucky to be able to come back from something like that.
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Yeah.
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And you know what?
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And if anything else, it's like, and I hate to sit here and sound like arrogant and like I've got some message for anybody.
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But the truth of the matter is I was pretty bad and it's possible to come back.
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If you came back, anybody could.
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I hate to say that because that implies that I'm as bad as it gets.
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But I was pretty bad and I've discovered that life is a beautiful thing.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Dave Navarro Opens Up About His Mom’s Murder”. Este vídeo tiene 130 frases y 1189 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:55. El hablante habla rápido, unas 242 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 88 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir. 21 de sus 130 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| understandably adverbio | comprensiblemente | |
| devastated adjetivo | /ˈdɛv.əˌsteɪ.təd/ | devastado |
| trauma sustantivo | /ˈtɹɔm.ə/ | traumatismo |
| aunt sustantivo | /ɑːnt/ | tía |
| adversity sustantivo | /ædˈvɜː.sɪ.ti/ | adversidad |
| applaud verbo | /əˈplɔd/ | aplaudir |
| freaky adjetivo | /ˈfɹiː.ki/ | friki, freaky |
| handcuff verbo | /ˈhændˌkʌf/ | esposar, enmarrocar |
| inflict verbo | /ɪnˈflɪkt/ | infligir |
| overwhelm verbo | /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/ | apabullar, arrollar |
| telethon sustantivo | /ˈtɛl.əˌθɒn/ | teletón |
| uproot verbo | /ˌʌpˈɹut/ | desraizar, desarraigar |
| heroine sustantivo | /ˈhɪɹoʊɪn/ | heroína |
| irrational adjetivo | /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/ | irracional |
| satisfactory adjetivo | /sætɪsˈfækt(ə)ɹi/ | satisfactorio |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| get away with verbo | irse de rositas, salir impune / inulto (de) |
| bring up verbo | levantar, alzar |
| end up verbo | terminar, ir a parar |
| go through verbo | atravesar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- You're one of those people to me.
- How old were we talking?
- I mean, were they broken up at the time?
- Did you have brothers and sisters?
- Why are you so lucky?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | was killed · be told · was taken |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | guy who raised · guy who killed · kids who just |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | have gone · I've discovered |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 28 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I've, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: irrational /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/, addiction /əˈdɪkˌʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: devastated /ˈdɛv.əˌsteɪ.təd/, adversity /ædˈvɜː.sɪ.ti/, irrational /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/, satisfactory /sætɪsˈfækt(ə)ɹi/, unfortunate /ʌnˈfɔː.t͡ʃə.nɪt/
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 understandably, devastated, trauma.
¿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.