Shadowing Practice: Hecklers Beware | Jimmy Carr - Learn English Speaking with Video

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What is the worst gift you've ever got?
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Birthday, anniversary, Christmas, Valentine's, what is the worst piece of shit you ever got?
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Tickets to this show.
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We've had a heckle.
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What was that, sir?
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A little bit louder?
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Tickets to this show.
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No, that's fine.
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What's your name?
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What, sorry?
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Toby.
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Toby, do you mind me sharing with the group?
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Thank you very much indeed Toby that makes it much easier because there's a heck of quite good heckle quite funny heckle,
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but we have to do a heckle put down now God I Would love if I could just let it go,
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but I can't There are rules But you don't mind me sharing with the group so it makes it much easier.
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We can go old school What sorry
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Stop stalling Don't panic sir I've got this I'll have to put you on asshole waiting LAUGHTER
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Toby's mum...
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..is so fat.
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She's a fucking disgrace, Toby.
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Your mum is such a chunky monkey wobble slob.
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Fatty boom batty blubbernaught.
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She's so fucking fat, when she fell down the stairs,
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I thought EastEnders had finished.
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Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
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boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
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True story.
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Ahem.
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You, sir.
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What did you say?
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What was it?
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Stop stalling?
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What's your name?
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Gary.
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Are you trying to say Gary?
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Watch me.
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Gary.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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The fuck is that?
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Well, Gary, if you want my comeback,
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you'll have to scrape it off your mum's teeth.
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Any other heckles?
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Come on!
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What, sorry?
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Peter K was sold out,
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so you had to come here.
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Oh, oh, oh!
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I'm lucky.
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I bet he wouldn't have called you a cunt.
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Unfortunately, I'm not Peter Cain.
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Cunt.
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Why do I laugh like a sexual predator?
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I like the way that a sexual predator sounds better in your accent than any other.
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A sexual predator.
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I don't know why I laugh like that.
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It's one of life's mysteries,
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in the same way as why you dressed as a gay lumberjack.
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We may never know.
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I like big, thick logs, hmm.
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Any other heckles?
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Peter!
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What, sorry?
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Posh prick.
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Posh prick seems a bit harsh.
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What's your name, sir?
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Miles.
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Miles.
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You think I might be a bit posh?
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All right, Miles, what's your favourite colour?
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Blue.
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Seems like the fairest way to deal with this.
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Do you hear something?
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B-L-U-E.
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Number between one and eight, Miles.
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Four.
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Four.
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All right.
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Ooh.
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It says, if you've come as a cunt, you've won.
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Bit of good news.
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Just notice, does that...
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Can you all just keep a little bit quiet for a second?
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I've just noticed there's a man over there that pit in a blue jumper.
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I think he might be asleep.
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If you could just keep quiet around him, just shush, shush.
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Oh, fuck, he's woken.
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Fuck.
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Hello?
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You're having a fucking weird dream, aren't you?
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I wouldn't fall asleep again.
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Something very bad will happen.
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I was going to teabag him.
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Shit.
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It's annoying, isn't it?
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Sounds like it would have been a very popular choice.
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What's your name?
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Steven.
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Steven.
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You had to have a little thing, though, didn't you?
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All right, and what do you do, Stephen?
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I'm a footballer.
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You're a footballer.
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Who do you play for?
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Stran Ra.
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Stran Ra?
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He's a footballer.
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He plays for Stran Ra.
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OK, I'm fucking shit at football as well, mate.
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Don't worry about it.
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That's fine.
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Don't worry about that.
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Don't feel bad.
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Who's the most famous person I've ever met?
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Well, I once met her...
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It's quite an impressive one.
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I don't want to show off, but...
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You know how villages have got idiots, yeah?
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I met the idiot for the whole of Glasgow.
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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE One of the biggest cunts in the world, yeah.
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I married him.
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And you married him.
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Guys, again, that will only happen in Glasgow.
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You call someone a cunt and their wife goes, yeah.
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Or don't I know?
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Fucking hell.
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Yeah, I'll record it in Glasgow, it'll be fine.
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Really?
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Uh-huh.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Hecklers Beware”. Las palabras que más se repiten: boom, heckle, cunt, Toby, Gary. Este vídeo tiene 128 frases y 681 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 6:23. El hablante habla despacio, unas 107 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. Solo el 75 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente. 35 de sus 128 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
heckle verbo/ˈhɛkəl/abuchear, abroncar
footballer sustantivo/ˈfʊtbɔːlə/futbolista, balompedista
predator sustantivo/ˈpɹɛd.ə.tɚ/predador, depredador
stall sustantivo/stɔːl/compartimento, compartimiento
chunky adjetivo/ˈt͡ʃʌŋki/con trozos, a trozos
lumberjack sustantivo/ˈlʌm.bɚ.d͡ʒæk/leñador, talador
scrape verbo/skɹeɪp/raspar
wobble verbo/ˈwɑbl̩/tambalearse, bambolearse
paddy sustantivo/ˈpædi/arroz con cáscara, arroz en cáscara
jumper sustantivo/ˈd͡ʒʌmpɚ/chaleco, chomba
disgrace sustantivo/dɪsˈɡɹeɪs/desgracia
heck/hɛk/caray
monkey sustantivo/ˈmʌŋki/mono, chango
stairs sustantivo/ˈstɛɹz/escalera, gradas
harsh adjetivo/ˈhɑɹʃ/desalmado

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
put down verbomenospreciar
show off verbochulear, lucir
sold out adjetivoagotado

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • What is the worst gift you've ever got?
  • Toby, do you mind me sharing with the group?
  • What's your name, sir?
  • You think I might be a bit posh?
  • Who's the most famous person I've ever met?

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 31 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, I've. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shush /ʃʊʃ/, harsh /ˈhɑɹʃ/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: stall /stɔːl/, scrape /skɹeɪp/, stairs /ˈstɛɹz/
  • /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: lumberjack /ˈlʌm.bɚ.d͡ʒæk/, jumper /ˈd͡ʒʌmpɚ/
  • /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: heckle /ˈhɛkəl/, heck /hɛk/, harsh /ˈhɑɹʃ/

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 heckle, footballer, predator.

¿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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