Shadowing Practice: Forrest gump Childhood scene - Learn English Speaking with Video

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very well. Are you coming along?
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Mama said not to be taking rides from strangers.
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This is the bus to school.
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I'm Forrest, Forrest Gump.
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I'm Dorothy Harris.
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Well, now we ain't strangers anymore.
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It's like a tiger.
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Tiger.
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I can't sit here.
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You know, it's funny what a young man recollects.
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Because I don't remember being born.
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I don't recall what I got from my first Christmas.
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I don't know when I went on my first outdoor picnic,
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but I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world.
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You can sit here if you want.
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I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life.
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She was like an angel.
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Well, you're gonna sit down at our show.
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What's wrong with your legs?
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I'm nothing at all, thank you.
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My legs are just fine and dandy.
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I just sat next to her on that bus and had a conversation all the way to school And next to mama,
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no one ever talked to me or asked me questions Are you stupid or something?
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Mama says stupid as a stupid does I'm Jenny I'm Forrest, Forrest Gump From that day on,
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we was always together Jenny and me was like peas and carrots.
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She taught me how to climb.
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Come on, Forrest, you can do it!
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I showed her how to dangle.
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She helped me learn how to read.
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And I showed her how to swing.
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Sometimes we just sit out, and wait for the stars.
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Mama's gonna worry about me.
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Just stay a little longer.
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For some reason, Jenny didn't ever want to go home.
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Okay, Jenny, I'll stay.
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She was my most special friend.
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My only friend.
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Now, my mom always told me that miracles happen every day.
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Some people don't think so, but they do.
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Hey, dummy!
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Are you proud of the just plain stoop?
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No, I'm Forrest Gump.
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Just run away, Forrest.
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Run, Forrest!
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Run away!
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Hurry!
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Get the bikes!
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Hurry up!
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Let's get it!
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Oh, look out, dummy!
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Here we come!
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Let me get you!
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Run, Forrest, run.
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Run, forest.
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Come back here, you.
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Run, forest, run.
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I'm sorry.
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Now you wouldn't believe it if I told you.
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But I could run like the wind blows.
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From that day on, if I was going somewhere, I was running.
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That boy sure is a running fool.
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Now remember how I told you that Jenny never seemed to want to go home?
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Well, she lived in a house that was as old as Alabama.
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Her mama had gone up to heaven when she was five, and her daddy was some kind of a farmer.
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Jenny?
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He was a very loving man.
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He was always kissing and touching her and her sisters.
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And then this one time, Ginny wasn't on the bus to go to school.
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Ginny, why'd you come to school today?
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Shh.
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Daddy's taking a nap.
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Ginny!
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Come on!
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Ginny!
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Peter, aren't you?
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You better get back here, girl! Where you at?
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Janet!
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Janet!
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Where you at?
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Cry with me, boy.
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Cry with me.
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Janet!
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Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, far, far away from here.
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Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, far, far away from here.
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Mama always said that God is mysterious.
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He didn't turn Jenny into a bird that day.
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Instead, he had the police say Jenny didn't have to stay in that house no more.
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She went to live with her grandma just over on Creekmore Avenue, which made me happy because she was so close.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Forrest gump Childhood scene”. Las palabras que más se repiten: Forrest, Jenny, mama, Ginny, sit. Este vídeo tiene 88 frases y 600 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 6:58. El hablante habla despacio, unas 86 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. 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
dummy sustantivo/ˈdʌmi/tonto, estúpido
hurry verbo/ˈhʌ.ɹi/apresurarse, apurarse
stranger sustantivo/ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒɚ/extraño, extraña
tiger sustantivo/ˈtaɪɡə/tigre
dangle verbo/ˈdæŋ.ɡəl/pender
recollect verbo/ɹɛkəˈlɛkt/rebobinar
pea sustantivo/piː/guisante, ervilla
carrot sustantivo/ˈkæɹət/zanahoria
picnic sustantivo/ˈpɪknɪk/jira, pícnic
grandma sustantivo/ˈɡɹænmɑː/abuela, abuelita
miracle sustantivo/ˈmɪɹ.ə.kəl/milagro, miraglo
farmer sustantivo/ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/granjero, granjera
mysterious adjetivo/mɪˈstɪɹi.əs/misterioso
climb verbo/ˈklaɪ̯m/escalar, subir
outdoor adjetivo/aʊtˈdɔː/al aire libre, al fresco

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
run away verbohuir
come along verboavanzar, marchar
get back verboregresar
look out verbomirar a, dar a
sit out verboquedarse, quedarse aquí

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Are you coming along?
  • You know, it's funny what a young man recollects.
  • What's wrong with your legs?
  • Are you proud of the just plain stoop?
  • Ginny, why'd you come to school today?

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasadowas going · was always kissing
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un plan o algo que se ve venirgonna sit · gonna worry

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 24 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, don't, didn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

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 dummy, hurry, stranger.

¿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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