Shadowing Practice: Don't Despair - Learn English Speaking with Video
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The difficult thing about being in despair is that we feel we know exactly what the future's going to bring.
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More darkness, more misery, more sadness.
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But in our worst moods, we should answer our tragic sense with a simple question.
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How can we know?
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On what basis has this dark certainty of ongoing damnation be formed?
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How can we, from our vantage point under the bedclothes, tell what the rest of our lives will be like.
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Have we got a crane from which to inspect the recesses of next summer?
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Can we from here meet everyone we're going to be introduced to in the next 18 months?
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Have we become clairvoyants as well?
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We can't be sure that things are going to improve from here.
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That would be naivety.
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But it's equally naive to imagine that we know they're going to stay appalling too.
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We haven't got the necessary information.
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glancing at the horizon with a hood covering most of our eyes.
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We didn't see the last disaster coming, we certainly don't know much about the future.
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There's a famous saying attributed to Zhu Enlai, the first premier of Communist China, when he was asked what he thought about the French Revolution.
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It's too early to tell, he replied, of an event that had occurred nearly two centuries before.
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We should want to imitate the modesty in our lives.
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Maybe that our partner left us is a disaster, or one of the most strangely fruitful things that will ever have happened to us.
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That they aren't answering our calls could be a calamity, or five years from now an immense stroke of luck.
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It's too early to tell.
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How was today?
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It may have been an ordinary, gentle day of no consequence whatsoever, or the moment when, without our noticing,
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a thread was caught that will eventually unravel our lives.
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It's too early to tell.
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We say everything's lost, but we haven't got the right to speak for everything.
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Maybe a betrayal opens us to the greatest love story we're ever going to experience.
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Maybe their sudden change of mind has saved us from a danger we can't yet see.
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we did lose the only person who can understand us.
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It's too early to tell.
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At the close of Sophocles' Oedipus the King, the chorus warns, call no man happy till he dies.
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And we might add, call no man unhappy till he dies either.
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We just don't know how large a hole we are in.
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All we have a right to is a modest, sceptical awe at the mystery of everything.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Este vídeo tiene 34 frases y 432 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:41. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 161 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 82 % 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 |
|---|---|---|
| disaster sustantivo | /dɪˈzɑːs.təː/ | desastre |
| occur verbo | /əˈkɜː/ | ocurrir |
| mystery sustantivo | /ˈmɪs.t(ə.)ɹi/ | misterio, arcano |
| mood sustantivo | /muːd/ | humor m ánimo, estado de ánimo |
| thread sustantivo | /ˈθɹɛd/ | hilo, bouclé (buclé) |
| ordinary adjetivo | /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/ | ordinario |
| sudden adjetivo | /ˈsʌd.ən/ | repentino, súbito |
| equally adverbio | /ˈiːkwəli/ | igualmente |
| introduce verbo | /ˌɪntɹəˈdus/ | presentar |
| ongoing adjetivo | /ɒnˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/ | continuo, continuante |
| darkness sustantivo | /ˈdɑɹk.nɪs/ | oscuridad |
| gentle adjetivo | /ˈd͡ʒɛntl̩/ | gentil, apacible |
| tragic adjetivo | /ˈtɹæd͡ʒɪk/ | trágico |
| consequence sustantivo | /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/ | consecuencia |
| horizon sustantivo | /həˈɹaɪ.zən/ | horizonte |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 11 contracciones y formas reducidas, como can't, don't, haven't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: thread /ˈθɹɛd/, bedclothes /ˈbɛd.kləʊðz/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/, whatsoever /ˌ(h)wʌtsoʊˈɛvɚ/, calamity /kəˈlæmɪti/
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 disaster, occur, mystery.
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 | be formed · be introduced · was asked |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | have happened · has saved |
¿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.