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I ain't got nothing on me.
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Think that's all I can tell you for now?
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I'm going to see a man about an horse.
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Do you know what I mean?
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Alright.
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Cockney rhyming slang.
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First, what is a Cockney?
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A true Cockney is someone born within the sound of the Bow Bells, which is St Marylebow Church in East London.
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Ding, ding.
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Now, of course, Cockney's spread to other parts of England, not just London, Essex, Luton, Leighton Buzzard, to...
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They're all shitholes.
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So why don't you join us for a cup of rosie?
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Put up your plates of meat.
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Plates of meat?
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With your feet.
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My plates of meat.
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Lovely, you should look at his plates of meat, they're like hobbits' feet.
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Yeah, alright John, alright.
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You have to forgive my brother, he's a bit strange.
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Look, I'll teach you how to use the Cockney rhyming slang, how to speak like Cockney.
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It'll just...
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I don't know what it'll do.
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He's off his rocker.
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They're fixing it. So...
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So unless we intend to do this job in Reno, we're in Barney.
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Barney Rubble.
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Trouble!
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Right, what do you think of him?
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He ain't no cockney.
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He was an iron man.
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Now, I know what you're thinking.
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Why speak in a strange way?
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Why change words unnecessarily?
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Well, back in the day, street traders and criminals used to disguise what they were talking about.
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You want to avoid the coppers?
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You've got to be smart.
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Get creative.
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For example, take a word like look.
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We replace that word with a short phrase of two or three words, but that last word must rhyme with the original word.
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Hook, look.
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But then to make it more of a code, we usually just say the first word of that short phrase.
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So for Another example, if I wanted to say let me have a look in cockney rhyming slang, I'd say let me have a butcher's.
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Another example, you want to get your hair cut, hair rhymes with barnet fair, so you could say in cockney rhyming slang get your barnet fair cut.
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You wouldn't say that though, would you?
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Eh?
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You'd only say the first word, you just said so.
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Barnet, get your barnet cut them correctly or don't do it at all Jason.
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Very easy, you have to do it right.
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Yeah he's right, you would just say the first word usually but that isn't always the way we use Cockney Rhyming slang.
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For example, what rhymes with lie?
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Pork pie.
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Alright with this one, pork pies, pie rhymes with lie but we don't simply say porks, we say porkies.
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You tell me porkies?
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What other ones are there?
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I don't Adam and Eve it.
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Adam and Eve.
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Eve's the last word, rhymes with believe, and it's become known as the word I mean believe.
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But with this, you can't just say I don't Adam it.
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That would be crazy.
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You have to use the whole phrase If you tell me pokeys, I won't add them any bit.
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What else is there?
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Just remember, right, there's two different types.
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Some you can break to just the first word of the phrase, others you have to use the whole phrase.
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These examples you can break to just the first word of the phrase.
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Me China plate, me mate.
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Would you like a cup of rosy, me old China?
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Rosie, Rosie Lee, tea.
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Trouble and strife, wife.
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I ain't got a trouble.
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Ruby Murray, curry.
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Went out for a ruby last night.
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Hampsteadeef, teeth.
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You've got some nice Hampsteads there.
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Bubble bath, laugh.
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You're having a bubble.
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You're talking a load of cobblers.
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It's not bubble, it's giraffe.
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You're having a giraffe.
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Cobblers alls, balls.
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Alright, alright, stop rabbiting on, yeah?
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Rabbiting on, rabbit and pork, talk.
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These ones we usually say as a whole phrase.
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Dog and bone, telephone.
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Can someone get me a dog and bone?
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Apples and pears, stairs.
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Where's your missus?
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Shout out the apples and pears.
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Tea leaf, thief.
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Arfinch, pinch.
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Oi, have you arfinched my shoes?
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Maybe.
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You too, Leaf.
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Boat race?
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That's your face.
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You're looking a bit dirty, mate.
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What's your boat race?
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Egg Marvin.
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Starvin.
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Can we go get a ruby, please, Jason?
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I'm Egg Marvin.
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Lady Godiva?
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Fiver.
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Got a Lady Godiva I could borrow?
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Berkshire Hunt.
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It means you're a...
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Oh, right, that's enough, that's enough.
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John, you can't say that with this.
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However, Courtney rhyming slang nowadays, we don't really use it.
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Well, it seems antiquated now.
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It only is in jest, really.
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Also, if you wanted to, you don't have to just use these ones.
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You can make up your own.
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I'm going to go to the toilet and have a bread pit.
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Well, it appears it's time for a test.
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I hope you're paying attention to all that.
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Oh, if you write in your mint pie, smash all of your hamsters, and then I'll break both your bacon's and probably your loaf and all.
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Then you'll be as the right barney, won't you? Are you ready?
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Porky's.
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Don't tell me any porkies.
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What's the cup of Rosie?
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What are your rambsters?
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Barnet.
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Get your barnet cup.
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What's that?
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You ain't got nowhere to cut, Jason.
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John, stop!
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Alright, calm down.
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I'm sorry for rabbiting on, Jason, but you're being a burk.
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Alright, rabbit on, talk a lot.
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Gotta calm it down, mate.
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Sometimes you just go too fine.
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Probably say me throat hurts.
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Notice again, my becomes me, THs become F sounds, throat.
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What a.
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This is sometimes represented by an apostrophe.
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It sounds like the middle of an O.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “How Cockneys REALLY Use Rhyming Slang!”. Las palabras que más se repiten: word, cockney, phrase, barnet, rhyming. Este vídeo tiene 136 frases y 942 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 7:25. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 127 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 76 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente. 30 de sus 136 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:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| rhyme sustantivo | /ɹaɪm/ | rima |
| phrase sustantivo | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | frase |
| sling sustantivo | /ˈslɪŋ/ | honda |
| rabbit sustantivo | /ˈɹæbɪt/ | conejo, conejil |
| ruby sustantivo | /ˈɹuː.bi/ | rubí |
| bubble sustantivo | /ˈbʌbəl/ | burbuja, pompa |
| cobbler sustantivo | /ˈkɑblɚ/ | remendón, remendona |
| giraffe sustantivo | /d͡ʒəˈɹæf/ | jirafa |
| pear sustantivo | /pɛɹ/ | pera, peral |
| leaf sustantivo | /lif/ | hoja, foja (desus.) |
| throat sustantivo | /ˈθɹoʊt/ | garganta, gorja |
| antiquated adjetivo | /ˈæntɪˌkweɪtɪd/ | anticuado |
| apostrophe sustantivo | /əˈpɑs.tɹə.fi/ | apóstrofo, apóstrofe |
| hamster sustantivo | /ˈhæm(p)stɚ/ | hámster |
| hobbit sustantivo | /ˈhɒbɪt/ | hobbit |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| calm down verbo | calmarse | |
| make up verbo | /ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/ | reponer, suplir |
| put up verbo | colgar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- Think that's all I can tell you for now?
- Do you know what I mean?
- Right, what do you think of him?
- You wouldn't say that though, would you?
- Then you'll be as the right barney, won't you?
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 45 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, you're, ain't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: throat /ˈθɹoʊt/, thief /ˈθiːf/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shout /ʃaʊt/, smash /smæʃ/, shoe /ˈʃu/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: antiquated /ˈæntɪˌkweɪtɪd/, apostrophe /əˈpɑs.tɹə.fi/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: sling /ˈslɪŋ/, strife /stɹaɪf/, smash /smæʃ/, stairs /ˈstɛɹz/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, missus /ˈmɪs.əz/, disguise /dɪsˈɡaɪz/, nowadays /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/, stairs /ˈstɛɹz/
- /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: hamster /ˈhæm(p)stɚ/, hobbit /ˈhɒbɪt/
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 rhyme, phrase, sling.
¿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.