Shadowing Practice: Foraging the U.S. Capitol - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I'm here at the U.S.
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Capitol in Washington, D.C about to lead a foraging walk.
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And today I'm going to share with you 10 easy to identify beginner plants that are growing right here at the U.S.
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Capitol.
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There's not just nuts in the office, there's nuts on the U.S lawn too.
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This is hazelnut growing right here.
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I'm sitting in a bed of ground ivy.
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This is a weed growing in most lawns and aromatic.
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Once you smell this, you'll never forget this smell.
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It's great food and medicine.
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Mulberry.
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Of course, many of you know that berries are edible, but the leaves, when they're young and tender, quite good.
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Enjoy.
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All these leaves are edible.
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It looks like the landscapers missed a weed right here.
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Dandelion, a wonderful bidder, edible from the tip of the flowers down to the tip of the roots.
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And nestled among here we have what we call an LVM
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little brown mushroom this is not beginner food right here thank
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you to the human beings who plant trees this is linden close relative of basswood the young
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and tender leaves are edible the flowers you can harvest in the summer
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and make a nice sleepy time tea
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and then in the fall you can harvest the seeds and according to Alexis Nicole Nelson,
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black forager, you can roast these and make a chocolate-like flavor.
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Some would say don't eat any of this food leave it for the animals
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but they're literally mowing over this food with a lawnmower.
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This is plantago or plantain and it's a wonderful food and medicine.
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It can help you go poop via the fibrous seed heads
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and just a wonderful green source for all the ways in which you'd eat a green.
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There's not just weeds to eat, there's hundreds of pounds of food falling to the sidewalks most every fall at the U.S.
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Capitol.
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This mighty oak behind me produces the mighty acorn, which I love to eat.
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Coming soon.
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Three sassafras trees in a row right here at the Capitol.
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And you know what?
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You can eat these leaves.
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Look at the thorns on the trifoliate orange.
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You have to be careful when you're picking these.
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The most northern citrus that I know.
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A treat for those of us who are up north.
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Not ready yet.
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Just got another month or so.
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They recently mowed, but these violets, they made it through.
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These are a tender green that I like to eat raw.
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Of course, a wonderful medicine too.
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And right next to this, check out this little white mushroom.
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Who knows, maybe it's inedible.
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And you know what?
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The number one rule of foraging is you only eat something if you're 100% sure, and I'm not sure at all.
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So this mushroom stays here at the US Capitol.
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ginkgo leaves, unmistakable for any other leaf that grows around here.
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Once these turn yellow in the fall and they're starting to fall off, wonderful time to harvest them for tea.
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So there you have it dear friends.
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You can see food and medicine is growing abundantly even here at the U.S.
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Capitol.
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And I bet if you tune in you will see
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that it is growing freely and abundantly right outside of your doors and in your community.
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What do you think?
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Is it time to critically think, to question our societal norms and structures, to really break free from the systems that no longer serve.
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One plant at a time we can reconnect and we can live a life of deep meaning and purpose.
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The lives that we truly want to.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Foraging the U.S. Capitol”. Las palabras que más se repiten: eat, Capitol, wonderful, growing, edible. Este vídeo tiene 60 frases y 611 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:29. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 136 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 80 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
edible adjetivo/ˈɛdəbəl/comestible
harvest sustantivo/ˈhɑɹ.vəst/cosecha
tender adjetivo/ˈtɛn.dɚ/tierno, dolorido
abundantly adverbio/əˈbʌn.dn̩t.li/abundantemente
forage sustantivo/ˈfoɹɪd͡ʒ/forraje
mow verbo/ˈmoʊ/podar, segar
beginner sustantivo/bəˈɡɪnɚ/bisoño, novato
lawn sustantivo/lɔːn/césped, grama
mighty adjetivo/ˈmaɪti/poderoso
aromatic adjetivo/ˌɛɹ.əˈmæt.ɪk/aromático
basswood sustantivo/ˈbæswʊd/tilo
bidder sustantivo/ˈbɪ.dɚ/postor, postora
dandelion sustantivo/ˈdæn.dəˌlaɪ.ən/diente de león, diente leonés
fibrous adjetivo/ˈfaɪbɹəs/fibroso
ginkgo sustantivo/ˈɡɪŋ.kəʊ/ginkgo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
check out verboinvestigar, chequear
fall off verbocaer

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

  • I'm sitting in a bed of ground ivy.
  • Once you smell this, you'll never forget this smell.
  • You have to be careful when you're picking these.
  • What do you think?

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 12 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, they're, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: aromatic /ˌɛɹ.əˈmæt.ɪk/, dandelion /ˈdæn.dəˌlaɪ.ən/, inedible /ɪˈnɛ.dɪ.bəl/, critically /ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kə.li/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: harvest /ˈhɑɹ.vəst/, violet /ˈvaɪ.ə.lət/, flavor /ˈfleɪvə/
  • /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: forage /ˈfoɹɪd͡ʒ/, forager /ˈfoɹ.ɪd͡ʒɚ/
  • /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: harvest /ˈhɑɹ.vəst/, hazelnut /ˈheɪzəlˌnʌt/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como edible, harvest, tender.

¿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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