Shadowing Practice: Friends | Ross has a son 1 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hey, how's my favorite parenting team doing?
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Dr. Franz Blau, hi.
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So, I understand you're thinking of having a baby.
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Well, I see you're nine months pregnant.
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That's a good start.
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How you doing with your contractions?
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Oh, I love them.
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Each one's like a little party in my uterus.
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They're every four minutes and last 55 seconds.
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59 seconds.
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Quartz, ha.
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Swiss quartz, ha ha.
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Am I allowed to drink anything?
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Ice chips.
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Just ice chips.
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They're at the nurse's station.
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I'm getting it.
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I'm getting it.
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I'm getting it.
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Hi.
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Thought you might like some ice chips.
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Breathe.
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Breathe.
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Breathe.
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Breathe.
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You're gonna kill me!
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Fifteen more seconds.
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Fourteen.
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Thirteen.
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Twelve.
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Eleven.
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Countdown, sir!
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It's gonna be okay.
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Just remember, we're doing it for Geordi.
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Just keep focusing on Geordi.
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Who the hell is Geordi?
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Yes, son.
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I don't have a son named Jordy.
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We all agreed my son's name is Jamie.
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Well, Jamie was the name of Susan's first girlfriend, so we went back to Jordy.
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Whoa.
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What do you mean back to Jordy?
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We never landed on Jordy.
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We just passed by it during the whole Jesse Cody Dillon fiasco.
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Ow.
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Ow.
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Ow.
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Ow.
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Ow.
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Oh, leg cramp.
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Leg cramp.
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I got it.
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I got it.
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I got it.
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I got it.
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Hey, you get to sleep with her.
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I get the cramps.
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Oh, you don't!
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All right, that is it.
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I want both of you out.
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What?
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She started it.
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I don't care.
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I'm trying to get a person out of my body here, and you're not making it any easier.
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Now, go!
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Thanks a lot.
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See what you did?
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Out!
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Oh, please, this is so your fault.
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How?
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How is this my fault?
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Look, Carol never threw me out of a room before you came along.
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Yeah?
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Well, there's a lot of things Carol never did before I came along.
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Are you trying to be clever?
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You know what your problem is?
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You're so threatened by me.
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Everything I say is Oh, I'm threatened by you?
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That's it.
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Get in here.
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Come on.
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My God, you guys.
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I don't believe you.
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There are children coming into the world in this very building, and your negative fighting noises are not the first thing they should be hearing.
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So just stop all the yelling.
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Just stop it.
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Yes, Susan.
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Don't make me do this again.
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I don't like my voice like this.
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Okay, who wants to hear something ironic?
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Come on, come on.
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Damn it!
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Damn it!
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Damn it!
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Damn it!
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This is all your fault!
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This is supposed to be like the greatest day of my life, you know?
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My son is being born, and I should be in there, you know? there you know instead i'm stuck in the closet
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with you the woman i love is having a baby today
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i've been waiting for this just as much as you have
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no believe me no one has been waiting for this as much as i have okay
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and you know what the funny thing is
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when this day is over you get to go home with the baby okay where does
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that leave me you get to be the baby's father everyone knows who you are
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and who am i there's father's day there's mother's day there's no lesbian lover day every day is lesbian lover day.
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This is so great.
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You want to explain that?
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I mean, well, because when I was growing up, you know, my dad left and my mother died and my stepfather went to jail,
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so I barely had enough pieces of parents to make one whole one.
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And here's this little baby who has like three whole parents who care about it
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so much that they're fighting over who gets to love it the most
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and it's not even born yet it's just it's just the
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luckiest baby in the whole world i'm sorry you were fighting

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Las palabras que más se repiten: baby, Jordy, breathe, damn, cramp. Este vídeo tiene 113 frases y 658 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:55. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 168 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 84 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar. 17 de sus 113 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
breathe verbo/bɹiːð/respirar
cramp sustantivo/kɹæmp/calambre, rampa
chip sustantivo/t͡ʃɪp/astilla, cepa
quartz sustantivo/k(w)ɔɹts/cuarzo
threaten verbo/ˈθɹɛt.n̩/conminar, amagar
lesbian sustantivo/ˈlɛz.bi.ən/lesbiana, leñadora
lover sustantivo/ˈlʌvɚ/amante, enamorado
contraction sustantivo/kənˈtɹækʃ(ə)n/contracción
fiasco sustantivo/fiˈæs.koʊ/fiasco, fracaso
stepfather sustantivopadrastro
uterus sustantivo/ˈjuː.tə.ɹəs/útero
countdown sustantivo/ˈkaʊntˌdaʊn/cuenta atrás, cuenta regresiva
ironic adjetivo/aɪˈɹɑ.nɪk/irónico
whoa/woʊ/so, cho
yell verbo/jɛl/gritar, vociferar

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
come along verboavanzar, marchar
grow up verbocrecer

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Hey, how's my favorite parenting team doing?
  • How you doing with your contractions?
  • Am I allowed to drink anything?
  • How is this my fault?
  • Are you trying to be clever?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — una acción que empezó antes y continúai've been waiting · has been waiting
Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasadowas growing · were fighting
Consejo con “should” should + verbo — decir qué es buena ideashould be
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasyou're thinking · I'm getting · we're doing

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 25 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, don't, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: breathe /bɹiːð/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, thirteen /ˌθɝtˈtin/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: lover /ˈlʌvɚ/, eleven /əˈlɛv.ən/, clever /ˈklɛv.ɚ/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: lesbian /ˈlɛz.bi.ən/, closet /ˈklɑzɪt/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como breathe, cramp, chip.

¿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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