Shadowing Practice: Extraordinary Encounter With 90 Year Old Stranger: The One Regret That Haunts Him - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Excuse me sir, my name's Chris.
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I think you look very stylish.
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Very?
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Very stylish.
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Oh, thank you.
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If you don't mind me saying.
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I take pictures of people around London.
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That's what I do.
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And I just noticed you sitting here.
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You look so elegant and regal.
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Thank you very much.
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Are you from London?
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Yes, yes.
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Have you lived here all your life?
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All my life.
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There's no money.
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There's no money at all.
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It's just me taking a couple of pictures of you.
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It's fine.
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It's only going to be three minutes.
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No problem.
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Joseph.
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Joseph.
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Nice to meet you, Joseph.
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Thank you.
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I'm very selective about who I approach.
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What part of London are you from?
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Nothing new.
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What age of a man are you, if you don't mind me asking?
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Ninety.
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Oh, in 1935.
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1935. You must have seen some changes.
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It's changing rapidly but I come up here and I just sit and enjoy it, you know.
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I can, you know, I just enjoy life.
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Has life gone very quickly for you?
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Oh God, yeah, yeah.
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I spent 18 months in Africa and Kenya when I was in the forces, in the army.
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And that was an experience.
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Do you have any regrets?
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Yes, I do.
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The regret I had, I never had education because of a chap called Hitler.
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I had to leave London and go and live in the country with my mother because of the bombing.
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Education is a wonderful thing and unfortunately I missed out on it.
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If it's anything I regret, if I could do it again, I'd really study hard.
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Because education is a good thing, to me it is anyway.
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When we came back to London, I was ten when the war finished.
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I've only done a couple of years.
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I left school at 14 because my mother had no money.
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Just had to find a job and help support my mother.
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Do you remember what job then did you get?
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Well, labouring.
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Labouring.
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Because I never had education.
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On a building site or in a factory.
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In 1939, I think I was four.
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I used to live in Holland Park underground.
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I would go down there.
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When the air raid started, we'd go down in the underground and stay there.
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And it got so bad that my mother decided that we should go to the country.
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You know, you had to live with a family.
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We went to Wales, first of all, in the Rhonda Valley.
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And from there we went to Burton -on -Trents.
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And we stayed on the farm.
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I have seen pictures of that, you know, everybody in the underground.
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You do?
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I've seen pictures, but I've never spoken to anybody who's actually experienced that.
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We slept on a platform.
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And in the morning you get up and it was open, for me and my mother and that, that house was still there.
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How many people?
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As long as the platform.
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And you as a child experiencing that, was it scary?
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Well, not really, because I think when you're a child, there's no fear.
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I think there's more fear in your parents than there was for children.
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I knew it wasn't a game, but I wasn't scared.
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I like talking to educating people because they must be wonderful.
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My partner's very educated and she teaches me sometimes, because I can't really spell.
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If I'm doing a text, she helps me to spell.
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What about reading?
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How proficient are you with reading?
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I can read but I can't pronounce long words sometimes I'll ask the word, what does that mean?
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And she'll tell me.
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The most tragic thing you know about is when I lost my mother.
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We were very, very close.
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It hit me rather hard.
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It was a wonderful lady.
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Years ago you helped each other out.
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If you had two shillings and I had shillings, you'd share it.
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That doesn't go on today.
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You've got to lock your bike up.
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You can't leave the door up.
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You can't leave the window open.
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My mother used to put the key on the string through the letterbox.
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I'd get it out the letterbox, let myself in, pull the string back and put it back.
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There's no talking to a next door neighbour.
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Sometimes you don't even see her.
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Now, if you say for mornings to somebody, they think you want something.
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Someone can sit next to you and you won't say a word.
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I haven't got many more years to come.
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I mean, you can never tell what's around the corner.
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And at the age of 90, I mean, I don't know, I may have one year, I may have two years, I don't know.
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I mean, life is so short, you must make the most of it.
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It's not a rehearsal, enjoy it while you can.
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Joseph, would you like to see any of these pictures?
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I'm equipped with my hair.
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Yes.
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I haven't got my glasses.
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Oh, yeah, I can see.
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Oh, it's a nice one.
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Thank you.
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There's lots here.
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Oh no. quite old.
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Thank you for being so open and for allowing me to take pictures.
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Joseph it's been a pleasure.
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It's been a pleasure.
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Oh you don't have to stand up.
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Thank you so much Joseph.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Extraordinary Encounter With 90 Year Old Stranger: The One Regret That Haunts Him”. Las palabras que más se repiten: mother, Joseph, pictures, London. Este vídeo tiene 117 frases y 885 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:13. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 170 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 85 % 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 14 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| underground adjetivo | /ˌʌn.dəɹˈɡɹaʊnd/ | subterráneo, soterraño |
| letterbox sustantivo | buzón | |
| shilling sustantivo | /ˈʃɪlɪŋ/ | chelín |
| stylish adjetivo | /ˈstaɪlɪʃ/ | estiloso, glaxo |
| educate verbo | /ˈɛd͡ʒ.əˌkeɪt/ | educar, instruir |
| proficient adjetivo | /pɹoʊˈfɪʃ.ənt/ | competente, proficiente |
| equip verbo | /ɪˈkwɪp/ | equipar |
| rehearsal sustantivo | /ɹɪˈhɝsl̩/ | ensayo, emprimado |
| neighbour sustantivo | /ˈneɪbɚ/ | vecino, vecina |
| selective adjetivo | /səˈlɛktɪv/ | selectivo |
| elegant adjetivo | /ˈɛləɡənt/ | elegante, chic |
| scare verbo | /skɛɚ/ | asustar, atemorizar |
| tragic adjetivo | /ˈtɹæd͡ʒɪk/ | trágico |
| raid sustantivo | /ɹeɪd/ | correría, razia |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| come up verbo | salir a relucir |
| get up verbo | levantarse |
| stand up verbo | levantarse, ponerse de pie |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- Have you lived here all your life?
- Has life gone very quickly for you?
- Do you have any regrets?
- Do you remember what job then did you get?
- How proficient are you with reading?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Oraciones condicionales if + oración, will/would + verbo — una condición y su resultado | if I could do it again, I'd really |
| “Used to” used to + verbo — un hábito o estado pasado que ya no es cierto | used to live · used to put |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | Have you lived · I've only done · have seen |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 30 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, can't, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shilling /ˈʃɪlɪŋ/, stylish /ˈstaɪlɪʃ/, proficient /pɹoʊˈfɪʃ.ənt/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: stylish /ˈstaɪlɪʃ/, scare /skɛɚ/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: educate /ˈɛd͡ʒ.əˌkeɪt/, tragic /ˈtɹæd͡ʒɪk/
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 underground, letterbox, shilling.
¿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.