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Do you want any else for lunch, sir?
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Oh, no, I've already consumed the required calories for this day period.
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Yummy.
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But I do have some fun lunch chit-chat.
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When I was a detective, my old CO, Jim Martins, used to keep us on our toes by having us solve brain teasers.
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I thought maybe you'd like to try one?
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Don't just tease my brain, Captain.
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Really go to town on it.
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Yeah.
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Bring it on, sir.
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I love puzzles.
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They're like power squats for your mind.
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Good.
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Here's the problem.
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There are 12 men on an island on an island.
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Eleven weigh exactly the same amount, but one of them is slightly lighter or heavier.
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You must figure out which.
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And what do these men look like facially and with respect to their bodies?
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It's unimportant.
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So like Tyrese.
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It's the land of Tyrese's.
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Sure.
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The island has no scales, but there is a seesaw.
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The exciting catch?
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You can only use it three times.
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That sounds super exciting.
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Is this thing mandatory?
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Oh, I hope so.
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Please say yes.
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No, but there is a prize for whoever solves it first.
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Two tickets to this Sunday's Beyoncé Knowles rock music concert.
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I'm in.
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Marcus loves Beyoncé.
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Everyone loves Beyoncé.
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My girls were conceived and bootylicious.
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Don't tell my wife I told you that.
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You might as well save yourself some paper and give up now, Sarge.
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You know I'm gonna solve this first.
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You probably can't tell, but I am flexing my brain like crazy right now.
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Yeah, you're both wasting your time.
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Beyonce's my spiritual twin.
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Those tickets are my birthright.
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No offense, but this is gonna come down to me and Sarge.
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Whoa, you think you two are the only ones that can solve puzzles?
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Yeah, what about Rosa, Gina, and me?
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Is this how you wanna die, Hitchcock?
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Look, it's just that the Sarge and I are really into puzzles.
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Remember when I took that Sudoku cruise?
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I never even went on deck.
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A hundred bucks says Gina and I can solve this thing before you two puzzle dorks.
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Deal.
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You're going down.
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You're really not a part of this, Hitchcock.
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Are you here because you've solved my brain teaser?
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Sir, you've been an underdog your whole life, but you defied the odds by having others secretly help you, because you didn't have what it took.
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That's not my story.
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But now we're the underdogs.
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And we're the ones who need a handout, so just tell us the answer.
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Or have you forgotten where you come from?
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I'm not gonna help you.
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I told you that was not gonna work.
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Stop the clock.
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We're here and we have the solution.
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First, you waste six versus six.
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Wrong.
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That'll never work.
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You just wasted your time and mine.
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Click!
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I just captured the exact moment when you realized you had failed.
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I guess we all got something out of this.
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So that's it?
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This problem is beyond all of you.
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No one solved it.
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Believe me, no one is more disappointed in me than me.
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Than I, Santiago.
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Click!
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Wait, Captain.
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Gina and I figured out your dumb brain teaser.
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I highly doubt that, sir.
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I'll judge for myself, Santiago.
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Okay, Diaz, what's the solution?
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We have no idea.
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Told ya.
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But neither do you, sir.
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What?
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Captain Holt, you don't know what the solution is.
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Excuse me?
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Here's how we cracked it.
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I took the photo of you demolishing Amy's spirit and made these clever t-shirts that say, hashtag nerd fail.
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It's not that clever.
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It's hilarious.
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Look at this.
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Your expression is the same as Amy's because you're both devastated that you just let down your mentors.
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I looked at your calendar.
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You're supposed to have breakfast with your old CO.
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You wanted us to solve the problem before you saw him.
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That's crazy.
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She's right.
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What?
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No. He posed that problem to me 20 years ago.
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Every time I see him, he asks, do you have the answer yet?
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And I never have.
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Those islanders and their pathetic seesaw haunt my dreams.
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They mock me in my sleep, riding up and down on a teeter-totter of taunts.
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Cool.
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So who gets the Beyonce tickets?

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 106 frases y 711 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:01. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 177 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. 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

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
solve verbo/sɒlv/resolver, solucionar
puzzle sustantivo/ˈpʌzəl/enigma, rompecabezas
clever adjetivo/ˈklɛv.ɚ/hábil, listo
clock sustantivo/klɑk/cuentakilómetros
capture verbo/ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/capturar
disappointed adjetivo/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/decepcionado
odd adjetivo/ɑd/extraño, raro
whoever/huˈɛvɚ/cualquier, cualesquiera
crack sustantivo/kɹæk/grieta
deck sustantivo/ˈdɛk/piso, plataforma
spiritual adjetivo/ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/espiritual
twin sustantivo/twɪn/gemelo, gemela
versus/ˈvɝsəs/contra, en vez de
calendar sustantivo/ˈkæl.ən.də/calendario
hilarious adjetivo/hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/hilarante, descacharrante

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
figure out verboaveriguar, captar
give up verborendirse, entregar
let down verboalargar

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 28 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, gonna, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: pathetic /pəˈθɛtɪk/, birthright /ˈbɝθ.ɹaɪt/
  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, hashtag /ˈhæʃˌtæɡ/, demolish /dɪˈmɒl.ɪʃ/, facially /ˈfeɪʃəli/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, hilarious /hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/, mandatory /ˈmæn.dəˌtɔɹ.i/, devastated /ˈdɛv.əˌsteɪ.təd/, unimportant /ˌʌnɪmˈpɔɹtənt/

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 solve, puzzle, clever.

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahoraI've already consumed · you've solved · you've been
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un plan o algo que se ve venirgonna solve · gonna come · gonna help
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasam flexing · You're going
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicciónThat'll never work · I'll judge

¿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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