Shadowing Practice: Eminem - Mockingbird [Official Music Video] - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I'm a Yeah I know sometimes
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Things may not always make sense to you right now But hey My daddy always tell you Straighten up little soldier Stiffen up that upper lip
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What you crying about?
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You got me
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Haley, I know you miss your mom And I know you miss your dad when I'm gone But I'm trying to give you the life that I never had I can see you sad,
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even when you smile Even when you laugh, I can see it in your eyes Deep inside, you wanna cry, cause you're scared I ain't there, daddy's with you in your prayers No more crying, wipe them tears Daddy's here, no more nightmares We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it Lainey uncle's crazy, ain't he?
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Yeah, but he loves you girl and you better know it What we got in this world, when it spins When it swirls, when it whirls,
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when it twirls Two little beautiful girls looking puzzled in a daze I know it's confusing you, daddy's always on the move Mama's always on the news,
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I try to keep you sheltered from it, but somehow it seems the harder that I try to do that The more it backfires on me, all the things growing up as daddy that he had to see Daddy don't want you to see,
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but you see just as much as he did We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me But things have got so bad between us,
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I don't see us ever being together ever again Like we used to be when we was teenagers, but then of course everything always happens for a reason I guess it was never meant to be But it's just something we have no control over And that's what destiny is
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But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep Maybe one day we'll wake up and this'll all just be a dream Now, hush, little baby, don't you cry Everything's gonna be alright
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Stiffing at her bulletproof, little lady I told ya,
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can't exit or hold ya through the night I know mommy's not here right now And we don't know why We feel how we feel inside It may seem a little crazy Pretty baby, but I promise, mama's gonna be alright
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It's funny, I remember back one year when daddy had no money Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up and stuck them under the tree And said some of them were from me,
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cause daddy couldn't buy them I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying cause daddy felt like a bum see daddy had a job but his job was to
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keep the food on the table for you and mom and at the time every house that we lived in either kept getting broken into and robbed a shot up on the
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block and your mom was saving money for you in a jar trying to start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college almost had a thousand dollars till someone broke in and And I know it hurt so bad it broke your mama's heart And it seemed like everything was just starting to fall apart
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Mom and dad was arguing a lot So mama moved back on the traumas in the flat One bedroom apartment And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara And that's when daddy went to California with his CD And met Dr.
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Dre And flew you and mama out to see me But daddy had to work You and mama had to leave me Then you started seeing daddy on the TV And mama didn't like it And you and Lainey were too young to understand it Papa was a rolling stone,
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momma developed a habit And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud Now I'm sitting in this empty house Just reminiscing,
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looking at your baby pictures It just trips me out to see how much you both have grown It's almost like your sisters now Wow, I guess you pretty much are And daddy's still here Plenty, I'm talking to you too Daddy's still here I like the sound of that chair It's got a ring to it, don't it?
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Shh, mama's only gone for the moment Now hush, little baby, don't you cry Everything's gonna be alright
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Stiffin' that up, pull it back, little lady I told ya,
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daddy's here to hold ya through the night I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why We feel how we feel inside It may seem a little crazy,
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pretty baby But I promise, mama's gon' be alright And if you ask me too, daddy's gonna buy you a Mockingbird I'ma give you the world I'ma buy a diamond ring for you, I'ma sing for you I'll do anything for you to see you smile
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And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine I'ma break that party's neck I go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya And make him eat every carrot, don't f* with that

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Eminem - Mockingbird”. Las palabras que más se repiten: daddy, baby, mama, mom. Este vídeo tiene 27 frases y 899 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:15. El hablante habla rápido, unas 211 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. 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:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
hush verbo/hʌʃ/callar, callarse
mockingbird sustantivo/ˈmɑkɪŋˌbɝd/cenzontle, sinsonte
backfire verbo/bækˈfaɪə(ɹ)/petardear
bulletproof adjetivo/ˈbʊlɪtpɹuf/antibalas, a prueba de balas
jeweler sustantivo/ˈd͡ʒuːələ(ɹ)/joyero
reminisce verbo/ˌɹɛm.əˈnɪs/rememorar, memorar (se de)
carrot sustantivo/ˈkæɹət/zanahoria
confuse verbo/kənˈfjuːz/confundir, barahustar
stiff adjetivo/stɪf/rígido, duro
puzzle sustantivo/ˈpʌzəl/enigma, rompecabezas
wipe verbo/waɪp/enjugar, trapear
scare verbo/skɛɚ/asustar, atemorizar
teenager sustantivo/ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/adolescente, adolescentes
trauma sustantivo/ˈtɹɔm.ə/traumatismo
shine verbo/ʃaɪn/brillar, lucir

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
fall apart verbodespedazarse, desintegrarse
grow up verbocrecer
sit up verbosentarse
wake up verbo/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/despertarse, recordar

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 31 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, gonna. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: hush /hʌʃ/, shine /ʃaɪn/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: stiff /stɪf/, scare /skɛɚ/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: confuse /kənˈfjuːz/, puzzle /ˈpʌzəl/
  • /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: jeweler /ˈd͡ʒuːələ(ɹ)/, teenager /ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/

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 hush, mockingbird, backfire.

¿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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