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So I think I was like hardcore Buddhist from 13 to I think it's 18 or 19.
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So my question is, if I had met you when you were 15 and I had said, what is Buddhism?
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Can you teach me?
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What would you have said to me?
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What do you believe?
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Oh, I would be so into it. Do it.
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Let's pretend.
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I was like, oh, so it's been such a long time.
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But I would have said, yeah, we are all called to be enlightened.
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We have someone who's Buddha.
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His name's Siddhartha.
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A long time ago, he was a prince, and he lived a very lavish life.
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But as he left his palace, and he had a family, he had a wife and everything, he saw different stages of life.
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He saw someone being born.
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He saw someone getting old.
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He saw someone getting sick, and he saw someone die.
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and then that's when he started questioning the meaning of life
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and the cycle of life and he wanted to escape
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that suffering so he believed he needed to go seek refuge alone in solitude
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so he left everything he had money he had prestige he had a family
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and he left it all to go figure that out
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and he was sitting in a forest and this is
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when he started meditating he started um closing himself off to
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all of the worldly desires like hunger comfort it was kind of like mind over matter
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right and eventually all these temptations as he was really weak came to him and he was able to
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conquer it through deep meditation and deep prayer
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and he understood he doesn't need any of these things
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and that's something
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that we can have too we can have inner peace through meditation through the teachings of buddha
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and i think that's how i would approach someone i thought
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that sounded pretty sane at the time great to me if i had said to you does god exist
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what would you have said?
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I would have said no. I don't know who you're talking about.
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Oh really?
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Yeah.
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Interesting.
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Um, if I had have said, I like to party, I like, you know, hooking up with my girlfriend.
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Is that okay?
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What would you have said?
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I would have said no. Okay.
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Yeah.
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I'd be like, that's, that's not part of the teaching. So yeah.
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So what, what is the sexual morality in your version of Buddhism?
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It's the same where you, um, you would have to be committed to your husband and your wife.
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You know, I didn't really learn anything about divorce.
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I know affairs were looked down upon.
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There's no such thing as cheating.
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What about sex before marriage?
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Yeah, that wasn't allowed either.
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It's very traditional, I think, and conservative.
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See, I think what a lot of Westerners get is like a California hippie interpretation of Buddhism
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that they want to be true.
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I don't know.
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And so I just think the kind of Buddhism I was introduced to when I was 15, I was like looking for something spiritual, but didn't want anything demanded of me was
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that kind of California Buddhism where all of the don't do that was kind of.
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So it's cool to know that Buddhists aren't raging hedonists, but it's a joke, but it's also true.
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So are there, did you meet different Buddhists who had different views of Buddhism?
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No, I was surrounded by the same mindset, I think.
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And it was mostly just Vietnamese people.
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So we pretty much practiced similar things.
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But it never went deeper than what I learned and what I practiced.
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If anything, they were learning a lot from me every time I came across another Buddhist.
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Did you read the works of Buddha, his writings?
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No, I didn't.
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It's just my mom, she taught me about Siddhartha, which is the most popular Buddha.
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Is he the first Buddha?
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That's what people believe.
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See, there's no like understanding of the origin of it all.
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And for Vietnamese Buddhists, we have a lady Buddha that we really look up to.
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Her name is Phat Guanam, or I think for, I guess, English speakers, they say Guanyin.
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She looks a lot like Our Lady.
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I'm glad she doesn't look like the Buddha I imagine.
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Yeah, no, she has a veil.
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She just looks serene, except there's different depictions of her.
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So we actually go to Siddhartha and Gwanyin a lot.
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And what's the story of the lady?
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Is there one?
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So apparently, so yeah, everything I had learned, it wasn't through books.
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My mom would tell me all these things.
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And back then I didn't really use YouTube or anything.
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And I'm a terrible reader.
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I'll be honest.
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Like I love reading comic books.
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I just couldn't read books.
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I had such a short attention span.
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But I asked her and she said, yes, Buddhas are people and eventually they had reached that enlightenment
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so she was a regular woman and she went through many lifetimes many merits,
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many karma eventually she reached enlightenment and now what she does is she helps people in need, there are a lot of stories where she'll appear on the
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ocean where someone is abandoned in the middle of the ocean and she'll help them or people who are hungry.
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She's always depicted with kind of holding like a kind of like a little olive leaf or something.
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And she has a vase in one hand with water pouring out and she's on top of a lotus.
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Or sometimes she's depicted with several arms and it's supposed to symbolize that she can do everything and be everywhere at once.
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Yeah.
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Is she Vietnamese?
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She looks pretty Vietnamese from what I grew up with.
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Yeah.
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All right.
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Cool.
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Okay.
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When you were meditating and saying these mantras, what was the point?
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You know, because I think if you would ask a Christian, like, why are you praying?
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They might say any number of things.
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They might say, I'm giving adoration to God, or I'm repenting of my sins, or I'm requesting that he grant me certain things.
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What was the point of your meditation?
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Yeah, so I was asking that when I was really young, and the Buddhist nuns at the time were telling me,
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it's just these prayers that we say to Buddha, and they never really expanded more on that so i didn't understand
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but they said it's more to be in a meditative state i was like hey what's the purpose of
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that as well they didn't explain that further either to find peace
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or something they couldn't even explain that it was just
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because this was a cultural practice this is something
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that had been happening i think since buddhism was introduced in vietnam
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so they didn't even question it either and when i had asked questions
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they were like don't worry about it you just have to do it
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so I went along with it they never explained all right fair enough
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but then what was the benefit of it
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because I could imagine you saying to somebody why do we do this
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and they go we just do but if you would say to someone
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but you're you know you're choosing to do it
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so I would imagine someone might say like I'm afraid of punishment
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or I'm afraid of becoming a snail in the next life
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but they almost also might say like this is how I
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find peace like did you have any physiological response to how you were praying that put you in a calm state or?
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Yeah, I think it was for that discipline to not be
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so distracted from everything and to just focus on one thing
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so it is supposed to grant peace
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but actually the opposite had happened to me i had absolutely no peace from doing
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that stuff yeah so why why were you doing it well
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that that's all i knew right
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so i was like okay i'm going to follow these rules
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i'm going to do what they're all doing like eventually i'll
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get it yeah eventually i was like maybe i'll understand it
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because my mom
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and the buddhist nuns like the more you do it the
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more you will heal the more you will find peace
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because they were trying to help me with my afflictions with like my mental issues
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and my emotional state i'll say okay
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so i'm gonna keep doing it they're like when you're scared pray
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when you're having a nightmare pray just do it
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so it became like second nature to me even in my dreams if i had a nightmare I would just start praying.
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But the more I did it, the more anxious actually became.
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And I remember throughout all this process, I don't know if I could just suddenly add this in, I was very afraid of the Virgin Mary.
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My cousin, out of my entire family, they're the only Catholics.
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And my mom has like 11 or 10 siblings.
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She has a bunch and only one section is like Catholic.
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And so when I would visit them, they had Our Lady statues of her everywhere.
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and I was so scared to go anywhere near her
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and I would have sleepovers I was like can you cover
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her I don't I don't want to look at her yeah
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they said why I just said she's just scary to me
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I don't know who this lady is she's freaking me out
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yeah what kind of statues of her were they were they like Fatima
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or our Lady of Guadalupe I don't remember
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but I think it was our Lady of Fatima yeah did you ask who is this no I just knew
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that they called her the Virgin Mary And I don't remember even seeing Jesus in their home They have him, but he just never popped out to me Only she did
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Yeah So I'm not going to ask you to reenact repeating a mantra That's not what I'm going to do
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But I am interested So when you would wake up at night
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and you would start praying Would you just repeat over and over the name of this Buddha?
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Yes And would you use your breath to do that?
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Or would you just say it, say it, say it, say it?
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I would say it out loud, audibly Thank you very much for watching If you enjoyed that clip, you are going to love the full interview.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Ex-Buddhist: You Don't Understand Buddhism”. Las palabras que más se repiten: buddha, buddhism, buddhist, lady. Este vídeo tiene 161 frases y 1777 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 9:21. El hablante habla rápido, unas 190 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:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| depict verbo | /dɪˈpɪkt/ | plasmar |
| meditate verbo | /ˈmɛ.dɪˌteɪt/ | meditar |
| mantra sustantivo | /ˈmɑn.tɹə/ | mantra |
| nun sustantivo | /nʌn/ | monja, religiosa |
| enlightenment sustantivo | /ɪnˈlaɪtənmənt/ | iluminación, alumbramiento |
| scare verbo | /skɛɚ/ | asustar, atemorizar |
| statue sustantivo | /ˈstæt͡ʃu/ | estatua |
| nightmare sustantivo | /ˈnaɪt.mɛɚ/ | pesadilla, mal sueño |
| adoration sustantivo | /ˌæ.dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ | adoración |
| affliction sustantivo | /əˈflɪk.ʃən/ | aflicción, quebranto |
| depiction sustantivo | /dɪˈpɪkʃən/ | plasmación |
| enlighten verbo | /ɪnˈlaɪtən/ | alumbrar, esclarecer |
| hedonist sustantivo | /ˈhiːdənɪst/ | hedonista |
| lavish adjetivo | /ˈlævɪʃ/ | pródigo, dadivoso |
| reenact verbo | /ɹi.ɪˈnækt/ | reenactuar |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| come across verbo | pasarse a |
| go along with verbo | ir junto con |
| go through verbo | atravesar |
| look up to verbo | respetar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- Can you teach me?
- What would you have said to me?
- What do you believe?
- What would you have said?
- What was the point of your meditation?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | be enlightened · being born · were looked |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | have said · it's been |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | Siddhartha, which is · people who are |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 52 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, don't, didn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: meditation /mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/, adoration /ˌæ.dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, affliction /əˈflɪk.ʃən/, depiction /dɪˈpɪkʃən/, lavish /ˈlævɪʃ/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: enlightenment /ɪnˈlaɪtənmənt/, adoration /ˌæ.dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, meditative /ˈmɛdɪˌteɪtɪv/, physiological /ˌfɪz.i.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/, morality /məˈɹælɪti/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: scare /skɛɚ/, statue /ˈstæt͡ʃu/, snail /sneɪl/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: lavish /ˈlævɪʃ/, meditative /ˈmɛdɪˌteɪtɪv/, vase /veɪ̯s/, veil /veɪl/, olive /ˈɑ.lɪv/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: symbolize /ˈsɪmbəlaɪz/, physiological /ˌfɪz.i.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como depict, meditate, mantra.
¿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.