Shadowing Practice: Easy English Speaking Practice: Shadowing for Fluency & Repeat-After-Me - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Lost phone panic!
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Okay, we're going to have some fun practicing speaking English, work on your flow, your pronunciation.
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Let's jump right into it.
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Last Monday, I woke up and immediately reached for my phone, but it wasn't there.
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All right, I want you to repeat after me.
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Last Monday, I woke up and immediately reached for my phone, but it wasn't there.
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Okay, now I want you to shadow me.
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Say it with me.
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Say it together with me.
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Ready?
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Here we go.
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Last Monday, I woke up and immediately reached for my phone, but it wasn't there.
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Again, last Monday, I woke up and immediately reached for my phone, but it wasn't there.
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All right, good.
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I checked under my pillow.
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Say that.
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Checked under my pillow.
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Looked around the bed.
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And even flipped over my blanket.
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Flipped over my blanket.
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I turned over my blanket.
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And even flipped over my blanket.
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But I couldn't find it anywhere.
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But I couldn't find it anywhere.
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All right.
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Let's say all of that together.
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Ready?
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Here we go.
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I checked under my pillow, looked around the bed, and even flipped over my blanket, but I couldn't find it anywhere.
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Again, I checked under my pillow, looked around my bed, and even flipped over my blanket, but I couldn't find it anywhere.
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I started to freak out.
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Ah, this is freaking out.
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Ah, I'm freaking out.
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Don't freak out.
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I started to freak out.
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I jumped out of bed, dug through my backpack.
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So if you dig through something, you're looking through it.
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You're digging through something.
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You're digging through a drawer.
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You're digging through your backpack digging through your luggage all right
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so i dug past tense of dig is dug dug through my backpack
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and emptied my pockets onto the table took everything out of my pockets and put it on the table,
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emptied my pockets onto the table, hoping it would suddenly show up,
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appear, show up, but still nothing.
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Hoping it would suddenly show up, but still nothing.
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Okay, are you ready to shadow me?
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Let's say it together.
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Here we go.
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I started to freak out.
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I jumped out of bed, dug through my backpack, and emptied my pockets onto the table,
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hoping it would suddenly show up, but still nothing.
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Alright, let's do it again.
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Here we go.
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I started to freak out.
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I jumped out of bed, dug through my backpack, and emptied my pockets onto the table,
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hoping it would suddenly show up, but still nothing.
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Then I remembered I'd gone out with friends the night before.
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Then I remembered I'd gone out with friends the night before.
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Then I remembered I'd, what's that I'd?
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I had, I had gone out with my friends.
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I went out partying to a restaurant, who knows?
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Out with my friends the night before.
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Last night.
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Then I remembered.
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I'd gone out with my friends the night before.
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Say that.
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Good.
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I opened my laptop, signed into my account,
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and tried to track my phone using the location app.
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Yeah, you can track where's my phone at.
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Let me check my location app and see if I can find where my phone is at.
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I opened my laptop, signed into my account, and tried to track my phone using the location app.
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One more time.
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I opened my laptop, signed into my account, and tried to track my phone using the location app.
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Luckily, it showed up.
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at a small cafe near my house.
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It showed up.
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It appeared.
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Luckily, luckily, luckily it showed up at a small cafe near my house.
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Luckily it showed up at a small cafe near my house.
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All right.
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I hurried over to the cafe.
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asked around.
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If you ask around, you ask many people.
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I asked around.
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I asked several people.
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And finally got it back from the manager who told me someone had picked it up and turned it in.
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You pick it up, turn it in, you hand it over.
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If you turn something in, you hand it over.
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I hurried over, asked around, and finally got it back from the manager,
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who told me someone had picked it up and turned it in.
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Shall we say it one more time?
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Here we go.
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I hurried over, asked around, and finally got it back from the manager, who told me someone had picked it up and turned it in.
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A lot of phrasal verbs in there.
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All right.
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I was so relieved that on the way home,
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I promised myself I'd be more careful and never lose it again.
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How about that I'd over there?
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I'd be more careful.
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What's the I'd contraction of?
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I promised myself I would be more careful and never lose it again.
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I was so relieved that on the way home,
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I promised myself I'd be more careful and never lose it again.
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Did you get that flow?
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Let's do it again.
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I was so relieved that on the way home, I promised myself I'd be more careful and never lose it again.
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Okay, good.
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Now, I'm going to do that same text from start to finish, nonstop.
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Try to say it with me.
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Shadow me.
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Match my pace.
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Here we go.
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Last Monday, I woke up and immediately reached for my phone, but it wasn't there.
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I checked under my pillow, looked around the bed, and even flipped over my blanket, but I couldn't find it anywhere.
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I started to freak out.
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I jumped out of bed, dug through my backpack, and emptied my pockets onto the table,
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hoping it would suddenly show up, but still nothing.
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Then I remembered I'd gone out with friends the night before.
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I opened my laptop, signed into my account, and tried to track my phone using the location app.
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Luckily, it showed up at a small cafe near my house.
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I hurried over, asked around, and finally got it back from the manager, who told me someone had picked it up and turned it in.
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I was so relieved that on the way home, I promised myself I'd be more careful and never lose it again.
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Boom.
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Good workout.
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Way to go.
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Keep moving forward.
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Keep practicing.
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One step at a time.
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We will get there.
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And I'll see you in the next English speaking practice video.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel A2 se basa en el vídeo “Easy English Speaking Practice: Shadowing for Fluency & Repeat-After-Me”. Las palabras que más se repiten: bed, dug, blanket, flipped, backpack. Este vídeo tiene 131 frases y 1062 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 9:03. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 117 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 81 % 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
blanket sustantivo/ˈblæŋ.kɪt/manta, cobija
pocket sustantivo/ˈpɑ.kɪt/bolsillo, bolsa
flip verbo/flɪp/darle vuelta, voltear
luckily adverbio/ˈlʌk.ɪ.li/afortunadamente, por suerte
backpack sustantivo/ˈbæk.pæk/mochila, alforja
pillow sustantivo/ˈpɪl.oʊ/ [ˈpʰɪɫ.ö̞]almohada, citara
laptop sustantivo/ˈlæp.tɑp/portátil, computador portátil
dig verbo/dɪɡ/ahondar, cavar
hurry verbo/ˈhʌ.ɹi/apresurarse, apurarse
relieve verbo/ɹɪˈliːv/aliviar, aleviar
shadow sustantivo/ˈʃædəʊ̯/sombra
pace sustantivo/peɪs/paso
boom verbo/bum/retumbar
panic sustantivo/ˈpænɪk/pánico
workout sustantivo/ˈwɝk.aʊ̯t/entrenamiento

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
show up verbocomparecer, personarse
wake up verbo/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/despertarse, recordar
go out verbosalir
move forward verboir adelante, adelantar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Then I remembered I'd, what's that I'd?
  • I went out partying to a restaurant, who knows?
  • Shall we say it one more time?
  • How about that I'd over there?
  • What's the I'd contraction of?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbos seguidos de la forma en -ingKeep moving · Keep practicing
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasis freaking · I'm freaking · you're looking
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un plan o algo que se ve venirwe're going to have · I'm going to do
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicciónwill get · I'll see

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 32 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'd, couldn't, wasn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, contraction /kənˈtɹækʃ(ə)n/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: relieve /ɹɪˈliːv/, verb /vɝb/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como blanket, pocket, flip.

¿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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