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I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.
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Nothing.
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Nelson Mandela said, there is no passion to be found playing small
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and settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of living.
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Now, I'm sure in your experiences in school and applying to college
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and picking your major and deciding what you want to do with life,
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I'm sure people have told you to make sure you have something to fall back on.
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Make sure you got something to fall back on, honey.
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But I never understood that concept, having something to fall back on.
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If I'm going to fall, I don't want to fall back on anything except my faith.
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I want to fall forward.
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I figure at least this way I'll see what I'm going to hit.
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Fall forward.
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This is what I mean.
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Reggie Jackson struck out 2 ,600 times in his career, the most in the history of baseball.
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But you don't hear about the strikeouts.
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People remember the home runs.
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Fall forward.
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Thomas Edison conducted 1 ,000 failed experiments.
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Did you know that?
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I didn't know that.
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Because the 1 ,001st was the light bulb.
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Fall forward.
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Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.
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You've got to take risks, and I'm sure you've probably heard that before, But I want to talk to you about why that's so important first
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You will fail at some point in your life accepted you will lose you will embarrass yourself
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You will suck at something.
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There's no doubt about it
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And I know that's probably not a traditional message for a graduation ceremony, but hey I'm telling you embrace it because it's inevitable
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and I should know in the acting business
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you fail all the time early on in my career
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I auditioned for a part in a Broadway musical perfect role for me I thought except for the fact
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that I can't sing so I'm in the wings I'm about to go on stage
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but the guy in front of me he's singing like like like paparazzi just going on
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and on and on and i'm just shrinking i'm getting smaller
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and smaller so they say oh thank you very much thank you very much
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and you will you'll be hearing from us
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so i come out with my little sheet music
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and it was it was a just my imagination by the temptations that's what i came up with
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so i hand it to the the the accompanist
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and uh she looks at it and looks at me and looks out at the director and was like, nice.
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So I start, you know, I'm going to sing, I'm like,
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this is my imagination, once again, coming away with me.
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And they're not saying anything, so I'm thinking, I'm getting better, so I start getting into it.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you very much, Mr. Washington.
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Thank you.
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So I assumed I didn't get the job.
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But the next part of the audition, he called me back.
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The next part of the audition is the acting part of the audition.
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Now I'm like, hey, okay, maybe I can't sing, but I know I can act.
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So they pair me with this guy.
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And again, I didn't know about musical theater.
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And musical theater is big
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so they can reach everyone all the way in the back of the stadium
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and I'm more from a realistic naturalistic kind of acting where you you know
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you actually talk to the person next to you
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so I don't know what my line was my line was well hand me the cup
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and his line was well I will hand
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you the cup my dear the cup will be there to
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be handed to you I said okay well should I give you the cup back oh yes
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you should give it back to me because you know
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that is my cup and it should be given back to me I didn't get the job but here's the thing
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I didn't quit I didn't fall back I walked out of there to prepare for the next audition
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and the next audition and the next audition I prayed I prayed and I prayed,
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but I continued to fail and fail and fail.
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But it didn't matter because you know what?
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There's an old saying, you hang around the barbershop long enough, sooner or later you're going to get a haircut.
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So you will catch a break, and I did catch a break.
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Last year, I did a play called Fences on Broadway way someone talked about it won the Tony award
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and I didn't have to sing by the way
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but here's the kicker it was at the court theater it was at the same theater
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that I failed
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that first audition 30 years prior the point is every graduate here today has the training and the talent to succeed
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But do you have the guts to fail?
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Here's my second point about failure.
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If you don't fail, you're not even trying.
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I'll say it again.
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If you don't fail, you're not even trying.
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My wife told me this great expression.
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To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.
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Les Brown's a motivational speaker he made an analogy about this says imagine you're on your deathbed
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and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled potential the ghost of the ideas
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you never acted on the ghost of the talents you didn't use
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and they're standing around your bed angry disappointed
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and upset they say we came to you
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because you could have brought us to life they say
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and now we have to go to the grave together
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so I ask you today how many ghosts are going to be around your bed
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when your time comes you have s you you've invested a lot in your education
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and people have invested in you
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and let me tell you the world needs your talents
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and does it ever I just got back from Africa like two days ago
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so if I'm rambling on it's because I'm jet -lagged I just got back from South Africa it's a beautiful country,
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but there are places there with terrible poverty that need help.
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And Africa is just the tip of the iceberg.
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The Middle East needs your help.
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Japan needs your help.
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Alabama needs your help.
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Tennessee needs your help.
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Louisiana needs your help.
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Philadelphia needs your help.
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The world needs a lot, and we need it from you.
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We really do.
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We need it from you, young people.
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I mean, I'm not speaking for the rest of us up here, but I know I'm getting a little grayer.
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we need it from you the young people
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so you got to get out there you got to give it everything
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you got whether it's your time your talent your prayers or your treasures because remember this
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you will never see a u -haul behind a hearse you will never see a u -haul behind a hearse
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you can't take it with you the Egyptians tried it and all they got was robbed
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so the question is what are you going to do with what you have I'm not talking about how much
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you have some of you are business majors some of you
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are theologians nurses sociologists some of you have money some of
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you have patience some of you have kindness some of you
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have love some of you have the gift of long -suffering whatever
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it is whatever your gift is what are you going to do
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with what you have all right now here's my last point about failure
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sometimes it's the best way to figure out where you're going
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your life will never be a straight path
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i began at fordham university as a pre -med student
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I took a course called the cardiac morphogenesis I couldn't read
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it I couldn't say it I sure couldn't pass it
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so then I decided to go into pre -law then journalism
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and with no academic focus my grades took off in their own direction.
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Yeah, down.
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I was a 1 .8 GPA one semester, and the university very politely suggested that it might be better to take some time off.
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I was 20 years old.
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I was at my lowest point, and then one day, and I remember the exact day,
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March 27, 1975, I was helping my mother in her beauty shop.
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My mother owned a beauty shop up in Mount Vernon,
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and there There was this older woman who was considered one of the elders in the town
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and I didn't know her personally but I was looking in the mirror
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and every time I looked in the mirror I could see her behind me and she was staring at me.
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She just kept looking at me.
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Every time I looked at her she kept giving me these strange looks.
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So she finally took the dryer off her head and said something.
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She said something I'll never forget
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First of all, she said somebody give me a piece of paper.
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Give me a piece of paper
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She said young boy.
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I have a prophecy a spiritual prophecy
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She said you are going to travel the world
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and speak to millions of people now mind you I'm 20 years old I'm flunked out of school.
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In fact like a wiseass.
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I'm thinking to myself maybe she's got something in that crystal ball about me getting back into school next fall
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but maybe she was on to something because later that summer
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while working as a counselor at a ymca camp in connecticut we put on a talent show for the campers
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and after the show another counselor came up to me
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and asked have you ever thought about acting you're good at that
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so when i got back to fordham
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that fall i got in i changed my major once again for the last time
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and in the years that follow just as
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that woman prophesies I have traveled the world
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and I have spoken to millions of people through my movies millions who up till
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this day couldn't see me I who up till this day I couldn't see
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while I was talking to them
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and they couldn't see me they could only see the movie they couldn't see the real me
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but I see you today and I'm encouraged by what I see.
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And I'm strengthened by what I see.
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And I love what I see.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Denzel Washington's Life Advice Will Leave You Speechless”. Las palabras que más se repiten: fall, fail, audition. Este vídeo tiene 163 frases y 1765 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 11:49. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 149 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| audition sustantivo | /ɑˈdɪʃən/ | audición |
| ghost sustantivo | /ɡoʊst/ | fantasma, espectro |
| theater sustantivo | /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/ | teatro |
| pray verbo | /pɹeɪ/ | rezar, orar |
| mirror sustantivo | /ˈmiɹɚ/ | espejo |
| experiment sustantivo | /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/ | experimento |
| invest verbo | /ɪnˈvɛst/ | invertir, insumir |
| imagination sustantivo | /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/ | imaginación, magín |
| haul verbo | /hɔl/ | empujar, tirar fuerte |
| counselor sustantivo | /ˈkaʊnsələ(ɹ)/ | consejero |
| prophecy sustantivo | /ˈpɹɑfɪsi/ | profecía |
| poverty sustantivo | /ˈpɑːvɚti/ | pobreza, pauperismo |
| encourage verbo | /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ | alentar, arengar |
| gray adjetivo | /ɡɹeɪ/ | gris |
| suffer verbo | /ˈsʌfɚ/ | sufrir, penar |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| come up with verbo | ingeniar, ingeniarse |
| fall back verbo | retirar, retroceder |
| figure out verbo | averiguar, captar |
| get back to verbo | responder / contestar (en un rato), volver / tornar a contactar |
| get out verbo | salir |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- Did you know that?
- But it didn't matter because you know what?
- Here's my second point about failure.
- If you don't fail, you're not even trying.
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 told · you've probably heard · you've invested |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | be found · be handed · should be given |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 67 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, didn't, couldn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: theater /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/, strengthen /ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θən/, worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/, deathbed /ˈdɛθˌbɛd/, theologian /ˌθi.əˈloʊd͡ʒən/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, sheet /ʃit/, patience /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, ceremony /ˈsɛɹ.əˌmoʊ.ni/, disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: spiritual /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/, strengthen /ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θən/, stare /stɛɚ/, strikeout /stɹaɪːkæʊt/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: invest /ɪnˈvɛst/, poverty /ˈpɑːvɚti/, grave /ɡɹeɪv/, inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: journalism /ˈd͡ʒɝnl̩ˌɪzəm/, wiseass /ˈwaɪzæs/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como audition, ghost, theater.
¿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.