Shadowing Practice: DON'T QUIT - Motivational Speech - Learn English Speaking with Video

Once in a while, you're gonna have one of those days.

Everything's gonna go south on you.

Life gonna beat you down.

All hell will break loose.

Everything that can happen will happen.

When you're going through those days and you're gonna go through them many times in life,

it's so dark you can't even see ahead of you one foot.

You haven't the slightest idea what to do next with your life.

Everything's just kinda turned to ashes.

thrown up in the air,

all of the plans have gone down the toilet,

and you don't even know what to do.

You're in the day of confusion.

And most people will give up.

Success is not measured on the days when the sun shines.

Success is measured on the dark, stormy, cloudy days.

There are going to be some times in your life where it's going to be dark.

Somebody you're running away from your marriage.

There's somebody running away from their job

because it don't look like you think it should look at

somebody running away from the degree is too much I can't

handle it it's just taking too long it just it's not for me

and you don't realize you're running away from your glory

y'all running from obstacles

when in fact it's the obstacle that's gonna take you to the next level you've been through hell

and you ain't gonna get nothing for that it can't end like

that you've been through too much you gotta get some redeemable value off of that you gotta get something I'm the ass.

You got to make a choice.

You're going to let it break you or you're going to let it make you.

You get to decide.

It's your beginning.

It's not your end.

It's not how fast you start to race.

The race is not given to the quick nor the swift nor the strong.

But the race is given to those that endure.

I need you to endure.

Get through this.

You're going to be all right.

Do not allow this to break you,

but may this be your breakthrough.

And you can get through this,

because you're bigger than this.

You're better than this.

You're tougher than this.

And when you get to the other side,

you're going to be better.

You're going to be bigger.

You're going to be bolder.

But we got to get through this.

If you're struggling right now and you feel overwhelmed by life,

let's break it down.

Break it down to the breath.

You can take the next breath and the next.

Next breath, one breath at a time.

Take this one step at a time.

One day at a time.

Take this 24 hours at a time.

Start off just worrying about the morning and then get through the afternoon and then get through the night.

You do the math, you solve one problem and you solve the next one.

And it doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life because that's going to happen.

All that matters is that you got to get up.

You can keep getting knocked down,

you keep quitting because whatever your why is,

it ain't stronger than the beatdown you take it.

Whatever the beatdown, whatever life is throwing at you,

Whatever punches is blocked, whatever's happening,

you getting punched and you feel that pain and you like,

ain't no need to get enough.

And I'm telling you, if you don't know what your why is and your why isn't strong,

you're going to get knocked out every single day.

But when you know what your why is,

you're going to be great.

What's your why?

And your why has to be greater than your pain.

Because if your why is not greater than your pain,

you're going to stay down.

But if your why is greater than your pain,

you're going to get up and you're going to finish this race.

Average skill, phenomenal will.

Get up.

Wipe the dust off of you.

Wipe the tears.

Cry if you must.

I get it.

Get emotional if you must.

Get it out.

But get your butt back up after you finish crying and put a time limit on the grind.

You say, I need 30 minutes.

Don't take it.

But when you come back after that 30 minutes, you better grind.

Because if you don't, you'll be stuck at that adversity for the rest of your life.

Yup, you might be hurting.

Yup, you might be disappointed.

Yup, you might want to cry.

Yup, you might feel defeated.

Yup, you might want to give up.

But do me a favor,

after you finish doing all of that,

get your butt off and try again.

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Get off and try again.

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Can you take another step?

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And that answer is always yes.

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Slow progress is still progress.

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If you can't fly, run.

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If you can't run, walk.

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If you can't walk, crawl.

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But whatever you do, keep moving.

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Keep moving forwards.

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You gotta keep moving forwards.

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I just need you to keep moving.

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I need you to make up in your mind that the only way you can lose is if you quit.

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How do you think you keep going?

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You gotta do whatever it takes to put yourself in a position that if you win today, you win.

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And if you lose, you learn, you win.

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Let rejection make you hungrier.

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Let rejection make you faster.

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Let rejection make you stronger.

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Don't let it break you.

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Don't let it make you quit or give up.

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Don't let that spirit get on you.

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It does not mean that it's the end.

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It's just a new chapter.

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The human heart beats approximately 4,000 times per hour,

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and each pulse, each throb,

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each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words,

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you are still alive, act like it.

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If you not dead, you still in the game.

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As long as you waking up,

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as long as you alive,

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you can still make it happen.

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So if people ask you, say, how you doing?

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Even if you having some difficult times,

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say, I'm blessed and highly favored.

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Because anytime you wake up and you don't have a white chalk outline around your body,

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it's a great day.

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As long as there's breath in your nostrils,

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you still can win it.

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Now get your butt off.

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You got to tell life,

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I don't know who you've been dealing with,

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but you ain't dealt with me.

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You got to tell bankruptcy.

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You got to tell divorce.

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You got to tell sickness.

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I don't know who you've been dealing with,

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but you come up against the wrong one this time.

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I need you to recycle your pain

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because what you're going to discover as you're going towards your

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dream as you're going towards your goal there are going to be

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so many people that come up against you so many obstacles

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so many trials so many tribulations and

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when people ask me ET like for real for real eat I know you can give me 20 things

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that you've done to help yourself to become successful.

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But ET, I just need like one or two.

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Can you give me one or two?

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And one of the things I tell people is I outlasted the pain.

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I outlasted the pain.

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When I was sleeping in those abandoned buildings,

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I kept telling myself one day you'll be a homeowner.

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Every time I walked into that abandoned building,

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I told myself that this might be your current circumstances,

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but this will not be how the story ends.

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All you have to do ET is to survive today.

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Survive today.

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I knew that I would not be a high school dropout for the rest of my life.

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I knew I got to get through this one day.

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And so every single day when I wake up homeless, one day.

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Every single day when I woke up in that abandoned building, one day.

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One day is going to be ET's day,

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but that day can't come if I give up today

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so every single day

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when I woke up I kept telling myself today might not be the day

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but soon it will be my day and I will recycle my pain.

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Things that's going to happen to you in life ladies and gentlemen make it okay.

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I can't change how I respond to it.

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I can become upset, nervous,

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tense about it, weak about it or I can say it's okay.

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Don't go through life feeling like you're powerless victims of people

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that are powerless you're not powerless you are powerful what will

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you do with your pain will you let it break you

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or will you let it redefine you you direct the power

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in your life whatever your life is right now it is

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a duplication of your consciousness as a result of how you you have decided to use your power.

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That's all it is.

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That's not who you are.

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That's just a perverted use of your power that you aren't satisfied with.

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And you've got the power to change that.

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But you don't know what has happened to me.

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It really doesn't matter what has happened to you.

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See, the only thing that really matters is what are you going to do about it?

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That's all that That's all that matters.

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That no matter what you do to me,

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how cold and callous you are to me,

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lack of compassion, lack of sensitivity,

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how cruel you might be to me,

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you're not going to change me.

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You keep standing.

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No matter how rough the scene you keep standing.

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No matter what you don't give up, you keep standing.

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There are some things that I went through this year that I didn't like.

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There are some things that I went through this year that hurt.

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They hurt like hell.

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I'm not saying that I would have chosen them if I had had the opportunity.

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But now that I've been through it,

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there is something that I learned through,

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what I went through, that made me who I am.

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There's a purpose for it.

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I'm not a hostage.

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You have to make a decision that every experience is my education

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and I'm going to discover the opportunity for me to grow and for me to get better.

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I'm telling you, I've already made up my mind that I know I will fall down.

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I know that I will stumble,

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but I already see myself getting back up.

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Therefore, I'm never down.

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I'm either up or getting back up.

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I will learn from this thing.

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This is not time to quit.

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We might be discouraged, but we're not defeated.

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This is not our time to give up.

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We thrive in the disappointment.

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We thrive under problems.

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We thrive under stress.

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That's what we do.

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We are acquainted with sorrow.

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We are acquainted with grief.

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But we rise.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “DON'T QUIT - Motivational Speech”. Las palabras que más se repiten: pain, whatever, break. Este vídeo tiene 226 frases y 1830 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 10:00. El hablante habla rápido, unas 183 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 88 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
powerless adjetivo	/ˈpaʊɚləs/	sin poder / poderío / potencia
obstacle sustantivo	/ˈɑbstəkəl/	obstáculo, óbice
thrive verbo	/θɹajv/	prosperar, crecer
rejection sustantivo	/ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/	rechazo, rechazamiento
abandon verbo	/əˈbæn.dən/	renunciar, suspender
acquaint verbo	/əˈkweɪnt/	dar a conocer, familiarizar
beatdown sustantivo	/ˈbitˌdaʊn/	paliza
outlast verbo	/ˌaʊtˈlæst/	durar / vivir más que
recycle verbo	/ɹəˈsaɪkəl/	reciclar
endure verbo	/ɪnˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)/	aguantar, perdurar
grind verbo	/ˈɡɹaɪnd/	moler, triturar
wipe verbo	/waɪp/	enjugar, trapear
adversity sustantivo	/ædˈvɜː.sɪ.ti/	adversidad
callous adjetivo	/ˈkæləs/	insensible, cruel
dropout sustantivo		estudiante de carrera trunca

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
get through verbo	/ɡɛt ˈθɹu/	aguantar, salir adelante
give up verbo		rendirse, entregar
go through verbo		atravesar
wake up verbo	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	despertarse, recordar
get up verbo		levantarse
get off verbo		bajarse
knock down verbo		derribar
knock out verbo		noquear

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

Everything's gonna go south on you.
You're in the day of confusion.
Can you take another step?
How do you think you keep going?
Can you give me one or two?

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

Estructura	En el vídeo
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — una acción que empezó antes y continúa	you've been dealing
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	is not measured · is measured · is not given
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	have gone · you've been · you've done

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 91 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, don't, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “th”: thrive /θɹajv/, breakthrough /ˈbɹeɪk.θɹuː/
Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: rejection /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, duplication /d(j)u.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, palpitation /ˌpælpɪˈteɪʃən/, tribulation /ˌtɹɪbjəˈleɪ̯ʃən/, compassion /kəmˈpæʃ.ən/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: adversity /ædˈvɜː.sɪ.ti/, duplication /d(j)u.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, palpitation /ˌpælpɪˈteɪʃən/, tribulation /ˌtɹɪbjəˈleɪ̯ʃən/, phenomenal /fɪˈnɒmɪnəl/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: stormy /ˈstɔɹmi/, stumble /ˈstʌmbəl/
/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: thrive /θɹajv/, adversity /ædˈvɜː.sɪ.ti/, engrave /ɪnˈɡɹeɪv/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, pervert /ˈpɚ.vɚt/
/dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: rejection /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, endure /ɪnˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)/, discourage /dɪsˈkɝɪd͡ʒ/, hostage /ˈhɑs.tɪd͡ʒ/

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 powerless, obstacle, thrive.

¿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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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Gramática en este vídeo

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?