Shadowing Practice: Effortless English Rule 2 Don't Study Grammar Rules! - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hi, this is AJ and it's time for secret or rule number two for excellent English speaking.
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Now this one I think is going to be your favorite.
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I think this is going to be your favorite secret because most of our subscribers,
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most of our students tell us this is the one they love, that they loved hearing this, that it set them free.
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So what is it?
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What is secret number two?
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Secret number two is this.
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Never again study grammar rules.
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Woohoo!
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You're finished with grammar.
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No more.
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Never study grammar rules.
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Now, I know this may be a big surprise.
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This is a surprise for a lot of people.
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For a lot of our students, lot of our subscribers, a lot of our members, when they first hear this rule,
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they're shocked, they're surprised, and they think, well, is that true?
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Could that be possible?
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Maybe you're feeling a little unsure about this particular secret or rule.
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Well, that's natural.
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The reason it seems shocking or surprising is that all your life that you have been learning English,
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your teachers have been telling you, study grammar, study grammar, study grammar.
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Grammar is the secret.
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Grammar is the secret to English.
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Grammar, grammar, grammar, grammar.
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I don't know exactly when you started studying English.
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Maybe in elementary school when you were young.
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in middle school or high school when you were a bit older.
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Maybe later than that.
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But I'm sure that in school, your teachers told you grammar was the key.
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Grammar was super important.
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You had to study all these grammar rules.
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You had to know the past and the past perfect
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and the present and the present perfect and the present progressive and the future perfect progressive.
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You had to know what all of that stuff was and how to do all of the changes to the verbs.
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And you had to know possessives, of course.
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And then there were all the prepositions.
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Endless grammar.
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You had to memorize all of these rules.
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And probably most of your English classes were focused on these grammar rules.
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And then taking tests about these grammar rules.
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It doesn't work.
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Stop doing it.
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You're finished.
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In our system, no grammar rules study.
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Now, some people, when they hear this, they think, no, no, no, that's not right.
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And they don't, they don't believe me.
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So, I have only one question for you.
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You have been learning these grammar rules for years and years and years.
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My simple question is did it work?
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Can you now speak English easily, quickly, and automatically?
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Is your grammar correct when you speak or do you still make mistakes with simple grammar like the past tense.
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I mean, if you're a fantastic, amazing English speaker, probably you don't need to watch this video.
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But I'm guessing if you're watching this, it means you're not a great English speaker.
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You do not have excellent English speaking.
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And yet you know so much grammar.
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I guarantee you know more grammar than I do.
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Because I don't think about this stuff when I speak English.
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I just use it automatically.
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I don't need to think about the past tense or the present perfect or anything else.
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It just comes out correctly, usually.
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I make mistakes sometimes, like everyone, but normally it just comes out.
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When you speak your own language, do you think about grammar rules?
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Of course not.
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See, here's the problem with grammar rules.
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They cause you to think about English.
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So you are always analyzing it.
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Meaning you're always thinking about it all the time.
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Now for writing, that's okay.
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I mean even when I write in English, sometimes I might stop for a minute and think, oh wait wait, what's the grammar for that?
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usually but sometimes maybe.
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Why can I do that?
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Why can you do that?
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Well because of course with writing you have plenty of time.
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There's no there's no pressure.
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There's no speed.
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You can write very very very slowly.
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And then you can go and you can write the same thing again.
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And then you can show it to somebody and say is this correct?
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And they can say oh no you know change this.
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And then you can write it again.
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All of that is possible with writing.
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So, you know, if you want to study grammar rules for writing, you know, okay.
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But here's the problem.
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For speaking, there is no time.
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If I walk up to you and I say, hey, how's it going?
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What did you do yesterday?
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You have no time to be thinking about grammar.
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Which tense is it and what do I say?
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There's no time.
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You need to answer immediately, instantly, automatically.
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And when you speak, that grammar needs to be correct automatically.
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You can't be thinking about it.
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You can't be trying to remember some grammar rule.
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No. If you are thinking about grammar rules, it causes you to speak slowly.
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It causes you to hesitate and stop a lot.
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And when you're listening to people, if you're thinking about grammar, you're not really hearing them very well.
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It causes huge problems.
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You have to stop studying grammar.
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No more.
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See, native speakers, meaning people who grow up learning English, we never study grammar.
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I never studied grammar until high school.
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When I was about 16 years old, we started studying some grammar, but it was just for writing.
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It was just for academic writing.
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for school kind of papers.
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That's all.
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But by then, I already used correct spoken grammar perfectly.
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So how did I learn grammar as a child?
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How does it happen?
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Every American child learns to speak with good English grammar.
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Most at least do.
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How do they do it if they don't study grammar rules?
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Well, we talked about it in secret number one.
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First of all, they're learning it from phrases, natural phrases.
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And there's a few other ways that they're learning grammar, which we'll talk about in some of our future secrets or rules.
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But the point is, they are not studying grammar rules.
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They do not get themselves confused with grammar rules.
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If you're thinking about grammar rules, you're going to be confused.
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It's going to hurt your speaking ability.
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So you must stop now and never do it again.
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In fact, here's what I want you to do.
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Go grab all your grammar books, English grammar books, and put them on top of each other and then burn them.
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Get a fire, put some gasoline on there and wha- and let the fire come up.
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And if you want, you can dance around it, woohoo, and celebrate and smile and jump around because Because you are free of English grammar no more.
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With our system, you will never study another grammar rule again.
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I promise you.
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And that should make you happy because I know that grammar rules cause a lot of pain, a lot of boredom, a lot of frustration.
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Nobody likes them.
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So just forget it.
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So this is good news.
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Today, secret number two, rule number two is great news.
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Throw away your grammar books, burn them, have a party, celebrate, because you will never study grammar rules again.
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And that is secret number two.
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I'll see you again tomorrow for a very important secret.
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It's also very simple, but very powerful.
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Have a great day.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Effortless English Rule 2 Don't Study Grammar Rules!”. Las palabras que más se repiten: grammar, rule, English, secret, study. Este vídeo tiene 135 frases y 1240 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 8:41. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 143 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. 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
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| grammar sustantivo | /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ | gramática |
| tense sustantivo | /tɛns/ | tiempo |
| subscriber sustantivo | /səbˈskɹaɪbɚ/ | suscriptor, suscriptora |
| phrase sustantivo | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | frase |
| boredom sustantivo | /ˈbɔɹ.dəm/ | aburrimiento, tedio |
| memorize verbo | /ˈmɛm.əˌɹaɪ̯z/ | memorizar |
| possessive adjetivo | /pəˈzɛs.ɪv/ | posesivo |
| preposition sustantivo | /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/ | preposición |
| verb sustantivo | /vɝb/ | verbo |
| hesitate verbo | /ˈhɛz.ə.teɪt/ | vacilar, dudar |
| analyze verbo | /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/ | analizar |
| gasoline sustantivo | /ˈɡæs.ə.liːn/ | gasolina, bencina |
| frustration sustantivo | /fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/ | frustración |
| endless adjetivo | /ˈɛndlɪs/ | sin fin |
| correctly adverbio | /kəˈɹɛk(t).li/ | correctamente |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| come out verbo | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | revelarse, salir a la luz |
| come up verbo | salir a relucir | |
| grow up verbo | crecer | |
| throw away verbo | tirar, echar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- My simple question is did it work?
- Why can I do that?
- Why can you do that?
- What did you do yesterday?
- Which tense is it and what do I say?
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 learning · have been telling |
| Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbos seguidos de la forma en -ing | loved hearing · started studying · stop studying |
| Posibilidad con “might / may” might/may + verbo — algo posible pero no seguro | may be · might stop |
| Comparativos -er than / more … than — comparar dos cosas | later than · more grammar than |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 30 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, don't, they're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: preposition /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/, frustration /fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como grammar, tense, subscriber.
¿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.