Shadowing Practice: Homosexuality, Catholicism & burning man - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Link tree is in the description with all the spicy stuff.
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And I told the story about 11 months ago.
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I remember because I was up north visiting my sister at the time when I recorded it.
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I think he was technically a cousin, but he was more like an uncle.
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uh uncle cousin jack who was um fairly flamboyantly gay kind of in the way you know he spoke
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and his mannerisms you know he dressed uh like a normal dude um
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but like i said his you know voice and actions
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and mannerisms um he was on the flamboyant side and my family just
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he was just cousin jack honestly
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or uncle jack everybody loved him he was kind of the
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life of the party kind of guy um always laughing
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and joking and unfortunately he died of AIDS
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and that's what the story a year ago was about 11 months ago
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but his that whole experience and
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when he died nobody said nobody in my family was like oh well
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if he didn't do this this and that if he didn't live this way or that way, then he wouldn't have gotten this disease and whatever.
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Nobody said that, you know, everybody was sad.
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He was part of the family.
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And not only, again, not only part of the family, like he was, he was loved.
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And it was a, it was a sad day.
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uh i think that whole situation um had a big influence on me kind of subconsciously
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probably more than i even realize now um and
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so it kind of exposed me to someone like that from a very early age because i was only like nine
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when he died and her ten or something
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or 11 i don't know i was my mom was still alive um and
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so on to the departure from catholicism part uh it's funny i've said this on a few different platforms
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that i never there was a short period of time where i questioned my sexuality,
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but it was because I had bad luck with women and it wasn't because, um, I had any like feelings or, or, you know, I never,
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I never had any like confusion, I guess, if you want to use that word.
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And, um, but the whole Christian stance on homosexuality was one of the bigger things that led me away from it.
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Because once I got to a certain age, it was kind of like, why?
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Why is this bad?
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Why is this a sin?
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Why is this against the rules?
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And I just never got a satisfactory answer to that.
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It was like, they're not hurting anybody.
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like they're just we just condemn this
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because it says so in a book somewhere and so you know it wasn't a good enough answer for me
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if you're curious the other big thing was just the divinity of Jesus I just came to not believe
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that Jesus was the son of God and And so really those were two very, very big things.
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Probably the two biggest things that led me away.
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And it was like, I just, I can't pretend to believe things that I don't believe
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and I was like if these
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and there are there are other there are other things
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but it's like I I don't I can't go to church every Sunday and
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pretend that I believe stuff that I don't believe just to appease you know
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because I'm supposed to because like at
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that point it was just my dad just
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because my dad does you know so I guess I've always kind of had a
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a libertarian mindset when it comes to social issues it's like if you're not
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hurting anybody or damaging stuff
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or stealing what's the problem what's what's what's the big deal
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and I guess that's it this was a short one
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but I just see so many people that are
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like averse to the idea of gay dudes
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and maybe not averse but like I just wish we didn't have
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taboos on behaviors that don't hurt people.
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I saw this is kind of a random thought but I saw a YouTube short about
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a christian missionary was getting interviewed by somebody and he was talking about going to burning man
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and he was talking about how everybody's lost and um the evil and the devil and all this stuff
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And it was funny.
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I talked about a client that I had for a short time.
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He ended up moving away, which sucked.
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And a couple weeks in, he told me that he was gay.
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And before that, he had talked a couple times about going to Burning Man.
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And that he, I don't know if he went more than once, but I can't remember exactly what he said.
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almost like it was his
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I don't think he used the word cult I don't remember but he really liked Burning Man
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and like watching that YouTube short made me think of him
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and I was like because this guy was like just super smart super sharp person and like such a nice person and
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I just I I just don't I don't get
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it's it's kind of like confusing to me
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that someone would just go to this festival and just see people enjoying themselves and
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not hurting anybody and think that it's like demonic and evil
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and um i don't know
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but uh i find it fascinating how different people have different views of the world
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but anyway some random thoughts catch you on the next one
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Homosexuality, Catholicism & burning man”. Este vídeo tiene 77 frases y 934 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 8:31. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 110 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 83 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| averse adjetivo | /əˈvɜː(ɹ)s/ | opuesto, reacio |
| mannerism sustantivo | /ˈmænəˌɹɪzəm/ | manierismo, amaneramiento |
| appease verbo | /əˈpiːz/ | apaciguar |
| demonic adjetivo | /dɪˈmɒnɪk/ | demoníaco |
| divinity sustantivo | /dɪˈvɪnɪti/ | deidad, divinidad |
| fascinate verbo | /ˈfæsɪneɪt/ | fascinar |
| flamboyant adjetivo | /flæmˈbɔɪ.(j)ənt/ | extravagante, exuberante |
| satisfactory adjetivo | /sætɪsˈfækt(ə)ɹi/ | satisfactorio |
| libertarian sustantivo | /ˌlɪbɚˈtɛə̯ɹi.ən/ | libertario, libertaria |
| confuse verbo | /kənˈfjuːz/ | confundir, barahustar |
| condemn verbo | /kənˈdɛm/ | condenar |
| spicy adjetivo | /ˈspaɪsi/ | picante, picoso |
| mindset sustantivo | /ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/ | mentalidad, actitud |
| expose verbo | /ɪkˈspoʊz/ | exponer, develar |
| stance sustantivo | /stæns/ | postura |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| end up verbo | terminar, ir a parar |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 27 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, can't, didn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: mannerism /ˈmænəˌɹɪzəm/, catholicism /kəˈθɔləsɪzm/, divinity /dɪˈvɪnɪti/, satisfactory /sætɪsˈfækt(ə)ɹi/, libertarian /ˌlɪbɚˈtɛə̯ɹi.ən/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: spicy /ˈspaɪsi/, stance /stæns/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: averse /əˈvɜː(ɹ)s/, divinity /dɪˈvɪnɪti/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: mannerism /ˈmænəˌɹɪzəm/, appease /əˈpiːz/, catholicism /kəˈθɔləsɪzm/, confuse /kənˈfjuːz/, expose /ɪkˈspoʊz/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como averse, mannerism, appease.
¿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.