Shadowing Practice: ENGLISH SPEECH | LEARN ENGLISH with BARACK OBAMA - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Welcome, dear learners.
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I'm Anna, and today we'll dive into an inspiring speech by Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States.
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This speech is filled with valuable lessons, but we'll also focus on its language structure, grammar and unique phrases to enhance your English comprehension.
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Ready?
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Let's get started.
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Point number one.
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Now, when you hear someone longing for the good old days, take it with a grain of salt.
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Take it with a grain of salt.
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We live in a great nation, and we are rightly proud of our history.
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We are beneficiaries of the labor and the grit and the courage of generations who came before.
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But I guess it's part of human nature, especially in times of change and uncertainty,
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to want to look backwards and long for some imaginary past when everything worked,
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and the economy hummed, and all politicians were wise, and every child was well -mannered, and America pretty much did whatever it wanted around the world.
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Guess what, it ain't something.
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In this section, Obama employs repetition in, take it with a grain of salt, which emphasizes his point.
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This phrase means to be skeptical or doubtful about something.
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He claims to be an expert, but take it with a grain of salt.
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Also, notice the use of the past simple in, we lived and we were, expressing completed actions in the past the good old days weren't all
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that good yes there have been some stretches in our history where the economy grew much faster
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or when government ran more smoothly there were moments
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when immediately after world war ii for example or at the end of the cold war before, when the world bent more easily to our will.
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But those are sporadic, those moments, those episodes.
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In fact, by almost every measure, America is better and the world is better than it was 50 years ago
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or 30 years ago or even eight years ago.
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Here, Obama uses the past simple tense, as in the economy grew, to describe historical facts.
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The word sporadic means occurring irregularly.
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Sporadic rain showers are expected throughout the day.
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He contrasts the past with the present, making comparisons using the comparative form better.
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And by the way, I'm not — set aside 150 years ago,
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pre -Civil War — there's a whole bunch of stuff there we could talk about — set aside life in the 50s,
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when women and people of color were systematically excluded from big chunks of American life.
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Since I graduated in 1983, which isn't that long ago,
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I'm just saying, crime rates,
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teenage pregnancy, the share of Americans living in poverty, they're all down.
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The share of Americans with college educations have gone way up our life expectancy has as well.
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Blacks and Latinos have risen up the ranks in business and politics.
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More women are in the workforce.
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They're earning more money.
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Although it's long past time that we pass laws to make sure
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that women are getting the same pay for the same work as men.
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Notice the ellipsis in I'm not set aside, which shows a pause or omission.
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He also uses the present perfect in have gone way up, indicating a connection between the past and present.
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The phrase long past time means something that should have happened earlier.
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Example, it's long past time for him to take responsibility.
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Meanwhile, in eight years since most of you started high school, we're also better off.
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You and your fellow graduates are entering the job market with better prospects than any time since 2007.
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20 million more Americans know the financial security of health insurance.
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We're less dependent on foreign oil.
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We've doubled the production of clean energy.
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We have cut the high school dropout rate.
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We've cut the deficit by two -thirds.
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Marriage equality is the law of the land.
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And just as America's better, the world is better than when I graduate.
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Since I graduated, an iron curtain fell, apartheid ended, there's more democracy,
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we virtually eliminated certain diseases like polio, we've cut extreme poverty drastically,
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we've cut infant mortality by an enormous amount.
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Now, I say all these things not to make you complacent.
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We got a bunch of big problems to solve.
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But I say it to point out that change has been a constant in our history, and the reason America's better is because we didn't look backwards.
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We didn't fear the future.
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We seized the future and made it our own.
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And that's exactly why it's always been young people like you that have brought about big change.
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Because you don't fear the future.
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This section contains numbers and statistical facts utilizing the present perfect as in we've doubled.
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The phrase law of the land refers to laws that must be obeyed by everyone.
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Example, free speech is the law of the land in many democratic countries.
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That leads me to my second point.
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The world is more interconnected than ever before And it's becoming more connected every day.
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Building walls won't change that.
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Look, as President, my first responsibility is always the security and prosperity of the United States.
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And as citizens, we all rightly put our country first.
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But if the past two decades have taught us anything, it's that the biggest challenges we face cannot be solved in isolation.
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When overseas states start falling apart,
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they become breeding grounds for terrorists and ideologies of nihilism and despair that ultimately can reach our shores.
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When developing countries don't have functioning health systems, epidemics like Zika or Ebola can spread and threaten Americans too,
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and a wall won't stop that.
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Obama introduces his second point using a future prediction, the world is becoming more connected every day.
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The modal verb, won't, is used to express a strong determination or belief about the future.
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The phrase, breeding grounds, means a place where something develops.
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For example, the damp bathroom became a breeding ground for mold.
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If we want to close loopholes that allow large corporations and wealthy individuals to avoid paying their fair share of taxes,
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we've got to have the cooperation of other countries in a global financial system to help enforce financial laws.
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The point is, to help ourselves, we've got to help others.
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Not pull up the drawbridge and try to keep the world out.
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He discusses international cooperation and the use of the conditional if to express a requirement or condition.
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The term loopholes refers to ways of avoiding laws or rules.
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Example, he found a loophole in the contract and managed to avoid extra costs.
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The phrase, pull up the drawbridge, is a metaphor for isolating oneself.
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Throughout our history, a new generation of Americans has reached up
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and bent the arc of history in the direction of more freedom and more opportunity and more justice.
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And class of 2016, it is your turn now to shape our nation's destiny as well as your own.
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So get to work.
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Make sure the next 250 years are better than the last.
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Good luck.
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God bless you.
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God bless this country we love.
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Thank you.
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In the conclusion, Obama uses the imperative, get to work, to instruct or encourage.
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The phrase, bent the arc of history, is metaphorical, meaning to change the course of history.
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He also wishes luck and blessings, using the simple future will be to express future predictions.
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Excellent work, learners.
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We've dissected a meaningful speech by Barack Obama, focusing on verb tenses, unique phrases, and grammar rules.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Este vídeo tiene 110 frases y 1313 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 10:08. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 130 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. 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
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| phrase sustantivo | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | frase |
| grain sustantivo | /ɡɹeɪn/ | grano |
| bend verbo | /bɛnd/ | cimbrar, cimbrear |
| breed verbo | /ˈbɹiːd/ | criar |
| lesson sustantivo | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | lección |
| poverty sustantivo | /ˈpɑːvɚti/ | pobreza, pauperismo |
| refer verbo | /ɹɪˈfɜː/ | referir, remitir |
| solve verbo | /sɒlv/ | resolver, solucionar |
| connect verbo | /kəˈnɛkt/ | conectar, empalmar |
| cooperation sustantivo | /koʊˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ | cooperación |
| grammar sustantivo | /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ | gramática |
| prediction sustantivo | /pɹɪˈdɪkʃən/ | predicción |
| tense sustantivo | /tɛns/ | tiempo |
| verb sustantivo | /vɝb/ | verbo |
| backward adjetivo | /ˈbækwɚd/ | retrógrado |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| set aside verbo | /sɛt.əˈsaɪd/ | provisionar |
| fall apart verbo | despedazarse, desintegrarse | |
| point out verbo | señalar, apuntar |
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | have been · have gone · have risen |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | is filled · are expected · must be obeyed |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 30 contracciones y formas reducidas, como we've, I'm, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: wealthy /ˈwɛl.θi/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, smoothly /ˈsmuːðli/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: cooperation /koʊˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, prediction /pɹɪˈdɪkʃən/, contrast /kənˈt(ʃ)ɹæst/, conclusion /kənˈkluːʒən/, shore /ʃɔɹ/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: cooperation /koʊˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, equality /ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/, virtually /ˈvɚ.t͡ʃə.wə.li/, determination /dɪˌtɜːmɪˈneɪʃən/, politician /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/
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 phrase, grain, bend.
¿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.