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You entered your Saturn return.
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Now what?
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Buckle up.
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Hey, I'm Dua Lipa, and Elle wants to know how radically optimistic I actually am.
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Check it out.
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You've been on multiple dates with someone, and then they ghost you.
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It's never a nice feeling, but something that I always like to say is, like, it's not meant to be, it's not meant to be.
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And what's meant for you will be.
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Your plane gets diverted to another city.
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I mean, for me, love.
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Because any excuse to go exploring and, you know, see a new city, explore the culture, have a little holiday.
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You know me.
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While I was on tour, I was about to do a show in Lithuania, and none of my costumes arrive on the day of the show.
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Not the easiest place to have all your cargo basically come in.
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So my costumes were missing, so I had to go dress up dipping in the dancers wardrobe.
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Which was really fun.
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They had some of the best stuff.
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- When "Everyone gets one kiss at midnight, but you're single." Man, you know, I don't like this one,
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because I feel like everyone wishes their singledom away, and I think your singledom is precious, 'cause it's in those moments where you really learn so much about yourself.
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I think also not having a kiss at midnight is fine, 'cause you have no idea how the year's gonna pan out.
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It's gonna surprise ya.
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You're known to be such a good planner.
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What happens when it all falls apart?
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That's a good question.
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Sometimes panic.
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But I think for the most part, There's some things that you just can't control, so you have to learn to just roll with the punches.
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"You just found out that your best friend and your boyfriend are having an affair." - Right.
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Right, both of them can off.
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Two people you just don't need in your life anymore.
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I think that's just what it is.
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I think they're doing you a favor.
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Any advice for moving on?
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Uh, I think you just have to just keep it moving.
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Like, just go out with your other friends, the good ones.
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Get someone to wingman you and introduce you to someone cute.
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Your car breaks down on the side of the road.
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I guess the only thing you can do is call AAA and respond to those messages you haven't,
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or procrastinating on your emails like I do all the time.
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Maybe get onto those.
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If you've got a cute outfit on, good time to take selfies.
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Uh, you know, there's a lot that can be done while you're waiting around.
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Okay, when your outfit slays but you just busted the zipper.
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Sometimes like a friend might have a, I don't know, a pin.
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That could just help so you don't have to ruin your night, or sometimes an earring works, to just clip it back together to just keep you going.
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Sometimes it doesn't even matter, maybe you don't, you know, it doesn't really ruin your vibe.
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I've had many a wardrobe malfunction.
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It was like my first ever support show was Lollapalooza Chicago pre -show.
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and I was supporting the 1975.
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And I was wearing this oversized jumper and Underneath, I just had like bra and pants, and I decided to put my mic pack.
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I don't know why on earth I thought that it would hold.
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And so I was performing and dancing and my knickers were starting to fall.
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So as I was dancing I was like, "Pulling in my buns !" I managed to get through the show,
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somehow, without them falling down to my ankles.
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But, lesson learned.
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I don't know why I didn't use a strap or something.
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Rookie error.
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You just found out your best friend is moving halfway across the world.
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I think
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You know, everyone has their own path and their own journey and I think you have to be so supportive of that.
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You know, it's also exciting.
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It means that your friend's gonna go and explore a new place
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and you get to go and visit them and there's nothing quite like being shown around a place with a local.
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You're hosting a dinner party and everyone shows up early.
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I love throwing a dinner party.
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Very rarely does everyone show up early.
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But when they do, it's great because then you get an extra pair of hands, I have somebody helping me set the table,
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while I'm checking on everything that's happening on the stove or in the oven or
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I get somebody on the music, you know?
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It's great because then it becomes like teamwork.
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You entered your Saturn return.
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Now what?
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Buckle up.
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'Cause it's a ride.
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It's a ride.
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It's fun and it's amazing and terrifying, and it definitely kicks you out of your comfort zone, and puts a lot of things into perspective,
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and shows you what you don't need, and shows you what you need.
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And I'm doing a lot of growing and learning and expanding.
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I do love astrology.
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I'm Leo.
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My rising is a Gemini, and my moon is a Cancer.
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Make of that what you will.
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You find yourself in a string of bad dates What do you do?
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I don't know, I think the best way is just like friendly recommendation.
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Because then it comes from a reliable source, you're not just kind of going, you know, in it blind.
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I think that's the best way to... to meet someone.
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So just keep going.
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Don't lose hope.
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You're swimming in the ocean and see a shark nearby.
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Relax.
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It's fine.
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It also makes for a really good album cover.
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I think the idea of remaining really calm when something is so much bigger than you, much more dangerous, Um...
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in a body of water that's so vast and
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big and it makes you feel really small and kind of remaining calm and strong in the midst of that.
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I don't know was really the message that I wanted to to convey with the album cover.
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And yeah, it's, it's a,
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It's calm, but it's chaotic, for sure.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 98 frases y 1033 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 6:33. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 158 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. 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:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
explore verbo/ɪkˈsploɹ/explorar
midnight sustantivo/ˈmɪd(ˌ)naɪt/medianoche, madrugada
ruin sustantivo/ˈɹuː.ɪn/ruina
outfit sustantivo/ˈaʊtfɪt/conjunto, atuendo
costume sustantivo/ˈkɑsˌt(j)um/traje
wardrobe sustantivo/ˈwɔɹdɹoʊb/guardarropía
buckle sustantivo/ˈbʌkəl/hebilla
vast adjetivo/væst/vasto, enorme
pants sustantivo/pænts/pantalón, pantalones
lesson sustantivo/ˈlɛs.ən/lección
ghost sustantivo/ɡoʊst/fantasma, espectro
rarely adverbio/ˈɹɛəɹli/rara vez, raramente
comfort sustantivo/ˈkʌm.fət/comodidad, confort
string sustantivo/stɹɪŋ/cuerda, mecate ("cordel" or "cuerda")
arrive verbo/əˈɹaɪv/llegar, arribar

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
find out verboaveriguar, anoticiarse
show up verbocomparecer, personarse
dress up verbovestirse de gala, ponerse elegante
fall apart verbodespedazarse, desintegrarse
get through verbo/ɡɛt ˈθɹu/aguantar, salir adelante

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 33 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, you're, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, malfunction /ˌmælˈfʌŋk.ʃən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, optimistic /ˌɒptɪˈmɪstɪk/, astrology /əˈstɹɒlədʒi/, procrastinate /pɹoʊˈkɹæs.tə.neɪt/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como explore, midnight, ruin.

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 ahoraYou've been · I've had
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacecan be done · being shown
Superlativos the -est / the most … — lo más alto o lo más bajo de un grupothe easiest · the best · your best
Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasadowere missing · was supporting · was wearing

¿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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