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Hey, check this out.
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You know what Eric asked me when I got into work this morning?
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I have no idea.
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What did he ask you?
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He asked me if I felt the earthquake last night.
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Earthquake?
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You've got to be kidding.
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I didn't feel an earthquake.
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I know.
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That's what I said.
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He told me it actually woke him up last night.
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What?
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Yeah.
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It happened at like 4.42 in the morning,
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so we must have been sleeping.
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But, I mean, it's possible that even if we had been awake,
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we might not have felt it because maybe it wasn't felt this far north.
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But, I mean, I thought he was pulling my leg when he first talked about it.
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Well, I guess that's not so far-fetched considering we live on a major fault line here.
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Yeah, but actually I think this earthquake was on a different fault line.
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because Eric lives just south of San Jose.
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Yeah.
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And the earthquake, he said,
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was due east of San Jose.
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So he was obviously a lot closer to the epicenter than we were.
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So I'm not even sure it was felt here.
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Yeah, that makes sense.
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Well, you know, I've experienced quite a few earthquakes in the past several years,
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but I've been living here now a little over two years.
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I think I've only experienced one here.
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It was really strange too.
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I was, each, I should say each earthquake has been a completely different experience,
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but the one I, the one I felt here,
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I was standing outside a restaurant talking to AJ and another friend
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and all of a sudden it just felt like this shift.
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It's really hard to explain,
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but it made me think of like a cartoon,
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like how in the cartoon,
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like buildings might just shift to the right and then shift right back.
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Yeah, without falling.
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Yeah, without falling.
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And I had no idea what was going on for a few minutes afterwards.
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And then I realized, oh,
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that must have been an earthquake.
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Yeah, you know what I usually notice?
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The times that I've been at home here,
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and there's been an earthquake,
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it's almost as if there's this really big train or like a gigantic Mack truck
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going by and suddenly I start to hear the heater shaking
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and it's like the noise is like is loud for like a second and then it's gone.
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That's so weird.
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You know, it's almost like the first couple of times I felt it.
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I wasn't even aware it was an earthquake while it was happening.
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Well, that's so funny you say that because one that I experienced in Bangkok,
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it actually was after the tsunami and so later I found out
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that it was it was aftershock from the tsunami
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but anyway I was in a building up on the ninth floor
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and suddenly there was all this rattling and I'm thinking to myself it just it was so irrational I'm thinking to myself,
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God, there's like a train going by and I can't believe that this building is shaking so much from the train.
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And of course, a train wouldn't have made a building
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or at least me up on the ninth floor feel something to that effect.
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And I think it happened about two times.
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And that one wasn't until several days later when I was talking to people and they were like,
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oh, you feel the earthquake then it dawned on me oh
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that was an earthquake yeah it was no it's uh it's crazy how
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when you're not used to feeling them you could think it's
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something else yeah i mean yeah totally i've been living here for a
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while now and i've definitely felt my share of earthquakes i mean you know
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when you live here it's a given
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that you're going to experience earthquakes you just hope
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that you're not going to be here for the big one you know right when i first moved here.
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It was about five years after the Loma Prieta earthquake,
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which was a very big earthquake here.
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And there are a lot of people who lived here who
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I met who had actually been living in the area when the earthquake hit.
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So it was interesting to get their perspective.
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And it also made me remember where I was when I heard about the Loma Prieta earthquake.
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I was watching the World Series on TV and it was taking place in San Francisco.
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So as I'm watching it,
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suddenly the announcer starts saying,
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wow, I think we're feeling an earthquake here.
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And the cameras started shaking and all of a sudden the TV coverage cut out.
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So, you know, I wanted to get a rundown of what happened.
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So I turned to the news station
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and within a few minutes they were discussing this gigantic earthquake
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that had hit San Francisco
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and they started showing pictures maybe 30 minutes later of these
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people who were trying to weed through the rubble of these buildings
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that had been like coming down
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so I mean it was it was pretty scary I'll tell
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you yeah you know yeah well um you know the three
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months I was living in Japan I experienced two both of
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those were very different uh very different from the one I'd experienced here
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and also very different from the one in Bangkok
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but one of them I was actually up in my apartment
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which was on the fifth floor of a building
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and I was woken up at about five o'clock in the morning to the building swaying
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And because earthquakes are like a dime a dozen in Japan,
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they've built a lot of their buildings to absorb the shock.
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So that's why it was swaying.
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It was a very surreal feel.
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Hi, this is Kristen Dodds.
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And this is Joe Weiss.
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And we just wanted to let you know that this material is copyrighted in the year 2008 by Learn Real English, LLC.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Earthquakes Conversation”. Las palabras que más se repiten: earthquake, felt, experienced, train, San. Este vídeo tiene 105 frases y 1008 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 6:03. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 167 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
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| earthquake sustantivo | /ˈɝθkweɪk/ | terremoto |
| shake verbo | /ˈʃeɪk/ | agitar, sacudir |
| tsunami sustantivo | /(t)suːˈnɑːmi/ | tsunami, maremoto |
| gigantic adjetivo | /d͡ʒaɪˈɡæntɪk/ | gigante, gigantesco |
| sway verbo | /ˈsweɪ̯/ | balancear, bambolear |
| ninth adjetivo | /naɪnθ/ | noveno, nono |
| cartoon sustantivo | /kɑɹˈtun/ | viñeta |
| aftershock sustantivo | /ˈæftɜɹʃɔk/ | réplica |
| epicentre sustantivo | /ˈɛpɪˌsɛntɚ/ | epicentro |
| rattle sustantivo | /ˈɹæ.təl/ | sonajero, sonaja |
| rubble sustantivo | /ˈɹʌb.əl/ | escombros, desmonte |
| rundown sustantivo | /ˈɹʌndaʊn/ | detalles |
| heater sustantivo | /ˈhitɚ/ | calefactor, jíter |
| irrational adjetivo | /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/ | irracional |
| announcer sustantivo | /əˈnaʊnsɚ/ | anunciador, locutor |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| cut out verbo | dejar de, dejar |
| find out verbo | averiguar, anoticiarse |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- What did he ask you?
- You've got to be kidding.
- I didn't feel an earthquake.
- I think I've only experienced one here.
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 | have been sleeping · I've been living |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | I've experienced · I've only experienced · has been |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | wasn't felt · was felt · was woken |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | people who lived · people who were |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 24 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I've, I'm, wasn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: earthquake /ˈɝθkweɪk/, ninth /naɪnθ/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shake /ˈʃeɪk/, aftershock /ˈæftɜɹʃɔk/, irrational /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: epicentre /ˈɛpɪˌsɛntɚ/, irrational /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/
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 earthquake, shake, tsunami.
¿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.