Shadowing Practice: Flashcards: Why I Forgot Five Hundred Words - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Look at this! Five hundred flashcards!
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I made every single one by hand.
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Wow, I was so proud of myself.
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Every night, I went through the whole pile.
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Ugh, front, back, front, back, for hours!
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I really thought I was learning so much.
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Then, a month later, my friend tested me.
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She picked twenty cards and said, 'Ready?'
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And I remembered... four. Just four!
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Oh man. Where did all those words go?
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So, I did some reading about how memory works.
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And guess what? I was doing it all wrong!
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Our brains forget new words really quickly,
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unless we review them at the right moment.
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It's called spaced repetition.
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Here's the idea, and it's super simple!
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Difficult words, you review almost every day.
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Words you know well, you review less often.
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After three days, then a week, then a month.
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So you spend your time on the words you forget.
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Now I use a flashcard app on my phone.
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It decides when each card comes back.
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Oh, and I add a full sentence to every card,
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not just one word and its translation.
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Words are much easier to remember in context.
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And the result? Way better than before!
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Last week, my friend tested me again, and I got eighteen!
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So, my advice? Fewer cards, more often.
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Twenty minutes a day beats three hours on Sunday.
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Oh, and please, don't make five hundred cards at once!
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Este vídeo tiene 30 frases y 235 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 1:35. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 148 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 86 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
14 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| translation sustantivo | /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/ | traducción, transmisión |
| pile sustantivo | /paɪl/ | montón, rimero |
| flashcard sustantivo | /ˈflæʃˌkɑɹd/ | flashcard, tarjeta memorista |
| repetition sustantivo | /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/ | repetición |
| context sustantivo | /ˈkɑn.tɛkst/ | contexto, marco |
| sentence sustantivo | /ˈsɛn.təns/ | sentencia, condena |
| quickly adverbio | /ˈkwɪk.li/ | con velocidad, con prontitud |
| unless | /ɪnˈlɛs/ | a menos que, a no ser que |
| spend verbo | /spɪnd/ | gastar, despender |
| brain sustantivo | /ˈbɹeɪ̯n/ | cerebro, cerebral |
| advice sustantivo | /ədˈvaɪs/ | consejo, asesoramiento |
| memory sustantivo | /ˈmɛm.ə.ɹi/ | memoria |
| decide verbo | /dɪˈsaɪd/ | decidir, resolver |
| proud adjetivo | /ˈpɹaʊ̯d/ | orgulloso |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| go through verbo | atravesar |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, flashcard /ˈflæʃˌkɑɹd/, repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/, twenty /ˈtwɛnti/ [-ɛɾ̃i]
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 translation, pile, flashcard.
¿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.