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Hello.
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Welcome to the intimacy vocabulary lesson.
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Let's start from the beginning.
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A woman writes, Dear Abby,
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my husband James and I have been married only three years.
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so they got married three years ago we are both in
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our 20s in our 20s means they could be 21 years old
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or 24 or 29 they are 20 something years old that's what in our 20s means.
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If I say, I am in my 30s, then it's very general, right?
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Maybe I'm 31, maybe I'm 39, maybe I'm 35.
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I am 30 -something.
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I am in my 30s.
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They are in their 20s, in their 20s.
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She says everything is really great,
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so they have a good relationship, except our sex life.
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So sex between them is not good.
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Then she writes, as far as he is concerned,
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as far as he is concerned means in his opinion right in his opinion
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or it can also mean about him
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so about him that's fine too
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or in his opinion that's fine too as far as he
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is concerned it means about him about her husband the husband thinks the sex life is fine.
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The husband thinks their sex life is okay as far as he is concerned.
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So about him, his opinion, it's fine.
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But as far as she is concerned, meaning her opinion about her, It's not fine.
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She says, I'm not satisfied, not happy.
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She says, it may seem odd to hear the female wants to have sex more frequently.
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Odd here means strange.
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Odd means strange, strange.
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It may seem strange.
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Or another word is weird.
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It may seem weird.
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It may seem strange strange.
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It may seem not normal.
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Odd, odd, not normal or strange.
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So it may seem odd to hear the female wants to have sex more frequently.
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Frequently, here frequently means often, often, frequently.
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She wants sex more often than him.
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She wants sex more frequently than him.
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And he is a young and healthy male.
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Male means man, of course.
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So he's young and healthy man but she wants sex more with him
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so she says this may seem odd may seem strange
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may seem odd
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but that's the case in our relationship that's
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the case the case the case here the case
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means the situation the situation that's the situation
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in our relationship that's the case in our relationship situation the case.
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The case.
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means situation.
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That's the case in our relationship.
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And second paragraph, she says Abby.
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Abby is the woman she wants help from.
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Abby answers these letters.
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She gives advice.
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So Abby is a name.
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It's a woman's name.
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She says, Abby, I work with the public.
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Public means people, right?
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All people, general people.
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So if you work with the public, you work with people
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so maybe in a store right people come to the store
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many different people that's the public she works with the public
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she's not in an office she works with the public
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she sees customers she sees people at her job she says I work with the public
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and I get frequent remarks frequent
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remarks frequent means means many times many times frequent many times
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or a lot happening a lot really many times is the meaning of frequent so many times she gets remarks
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a remark is a comment a comment a remark just means something someone says it's a word
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or a sentence a remark a remark
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so she gets many remarks many times people say something to her
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and she gets remarks about what a beautiful woman i
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am ah they tell her she is beautiful many times people
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tell her she is beautiful they say oh you are so beautiful
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so this happens a lot so she says this makes it hard for me to believe
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that I don't attract him at all who is him him is her husband
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so she's saying I can't believe he doesn't want me right
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he doesn't want me he doesn't think I'm beautiful I can't believe that But other people say I'm beautiful,
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so my husband should think I'm beautiful also.
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Okay, next sentence, she says, I have expressed many times.
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Okay, expressed means said.
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So she has said many times she has expressed many times expressed just means said
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or to say so she has said many times she has expressed many times
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that I wish we were more intimate so she said to her husband.
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I wish we were more intimate.
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Intimate means very close.
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Emotionally, right?
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It means close feelings such as love or romance.
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Intimacy or intimate.
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Here's the adjective intimate, close feelings.
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Sometimes intimate means sex, means really romantic sex,
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romantic sex intimate we are intimate means we are having romantic sex
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so she said to her husband I want more romantic sex I want to be more
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intimate okay she said i have even expressed it to him
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i have even said it to him in more than one
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letter she wrote him a letter about this problem she was
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hoping to reach him to reach him to reach someone means they understand you.
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It means to communicate so they understand you.
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I want to reach him means I want to communicate and then he understands me.
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I want to reach her means I want her to understand me.
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Last paragraph, she says, I am at a total loss.
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At a total loss.
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At a total loss means I have no more ideas.
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It means I don't know what to do.
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I'm at a total loss.
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Means I don't know what to do, right?
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No more ideas.
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She's at a total loss about how to make him realize.
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Realize means understand.
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Realize, understand.
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How to make him realize how important this is to me
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so she wants her husband to understand that sex is very important for her
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but how how can she make him understand how can she reach him
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and then she asks Abby she's asking us and she's asking Abby is there something wrong with my body.
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I just don't know who to turn to for advice on this subject.
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To turn to, who to turn to means who to ask.
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To turn to someone means you ask for help.
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Say, I turned to my mother for help means I asked my mother for help.
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I turned to my friend for help means I asked my friend for help.
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She doesn't know who to ask for help.
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So she's writing this letter and finally she says please help me okay
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and she signs it she signs it this is not her real name
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but she signs it short on intimacy in ohio ohio is a state in the united states in america It's a state.
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It's in the middle of the country, Ohio.
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So she lives in Ohio.
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And she says she is short on intimacy.
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Intimacy, we already talked about.
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Short on, to be short on something, means you don't have enough of something.
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I am short on money.
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means I don't have enough money.
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I'm short on food means I don't have enough food.
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She is short on intimacy.
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She doesn't have enough intimacy.
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She doesn't have enough close romantic feelings or romantic sex with her husband.
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Okay, that is all.
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Please listen to this vocabulary.
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Lesson many times every day and then listen to the mini story.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Effortless English - Intimacy - Vocabulary”. Las palabras que más se repiten: sex, husband, remark, intimate, seem. Este vídeo tiene 137 frases y 1230 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 14:33. El hablante habla despacio, unas 85 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 88 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

14 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
intimate adjetivo/ˈɪn.tɪ.mət/íntimo
remark verbo/ɹɪˈmɑɹk/aclarar
intimacy sustantivo/ˈɪn.tɪ.mə.si/intimidad
romantic adjetivo/ɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/romántico
frequent adjetivo/ˈfɹiː.kwənt/frecuente
litter sustantivo/ˈlɪt.ɚ/cama, lecho
lesson sustantivo/ˈlɛs.ən/lección
paragraph sustantivo/ˈpæɹəɡɹæf/párrafo, parágrafo
vocabulary sustantivo/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/vocabulario
romance sustantivo/roʊˈmæn(t)s/romance
attract verbo/əˈtɹækt/atraer
emotionally adverbio/ɪˈməʊʃənəli/emocionalmente
satisfy verbo/ˈsætɪsfaɪ/satisfacer
adjective sustantivo/ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/adjetivo

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Let's start from the beginning.
  • She says, I'm not satisfied, not happy.
  • That's the case in our relationship.
  • It means I don't know what to do.
  • I'm at a total loss.

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 ahorahave been · have expressed · has said
Posibilidad con “might / may” might/may + verbo — algo posible pero no seguromay seem
Comparativos -er than / more … than — comparar dos cosasmore often than · more frequently than
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasshe's saying · are having · she's asking

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 24 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, don't, doesn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: intimacy /ˈɪn.tɪ.mə.si/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, adjective /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/

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 intimate, remark, intimacy.

¿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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