Shadowing Practice: How Do I Know if I Made the Wrong Choice? - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is Essential Presents.

So, I don't know if you've ever been in a situation like this where

You were so sure that something was God's will and then you pursued it.

whether that was a major in college or that was a career path or that was a relationship,

or maybe even discernment in religious life or discernment oriented towards marriage.

And you were so

convinced you were so certain that this was what god wanted you to do

and then then it wasn't right then it didn't turn out

and sometimes i you know i hear from a lot of

people who say like i thought i was i was i

thought for sure this is what god wanted for me i thought for sure this was his path

and then it didn't work out you know the uh i didn't get the job

or um i didn't get accepted into the program

or the person broke up with me or the people in discernment

and formation they they said i wasn't i couldn't go on and continue formation whatever that thing is sometimes

We can be certain that something is God's will.

It turns out that it's not.

And it's really easy in those moments to second guess ourselves.

It's really easy in those moments actually even to get upset with God.

And so what do we do in those moments?

And so in order to kind of dive into this, I want to look at a couple different aspects of this, maybe even four things.

The first is the things we have to consider.

One is, that Well, God has made it very clear in some areas.

this is what I want, always do this, and this is what I don't want, never do this.

Like, you know, we know those things, the commandments, that kind of thing, teachings of the church.

There are some things that God always says, don't do this.

Don't commit murder.

Don't commit adultery, etc. down the line.

And there's some things God says, always do this, like always go to mass on Sunday and always have a prayer life.

And those those things we need to do.

Take care of the people around us.

A lot of our choices God lets us have the choice.

God lets us have the freedom to choose.

How are you going to live my commandments?

How are you going to live out my will in your life?

That God gives us, if he doesn't make it clear that here's what I want, in a lot of ways, I think what God is doing is he's saying, okay, go ahead and choose.

You know what?

My broadly speaking my will my perfect will for you

So now I'm giving you some freedom

and you have this freedom to be able to choose in the midst of my will

The direction you can go this way or

that way you can your major could be engineering your committee your major could be architecture Your major could be education.

It could be nursing You don't even have to go to

college like all of those things can fall under God's permissive will

and he doesn't necessarily have a a perfect will in those moments right it's kind of like that

so number one god gives us a lot of freedom to

choose our own now on those lines sometimes we don't like that why because we have choose God's perfect will,

if I choose God's will, then it'll be smooth sailing.

And if I...

it's up to me, then...

I don't have anyone else to blame except for myself.

So sometimes we really like the idea that if God's will is out there, it's this mysterious kind of a thing.

And if I pick the right thing, then things are going to be absolutely perfect.

Of course, that's never a guarantee.

God never promised that ever, ever, ever.

Did he ever promise that if we follow him and do exactly what he asks, that our life is going to be perfect?

In fact, it's the opposite.

Sirach chapter 2, verse 1 says, My son, when you come to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for trials.

Jesus himself says, In this world you will have trouble.

You will have trouble.

But take heart, I've overcome the world.

to say yes to God's will as it has as as he wills it, does not preserve us from pain.

And secondly, if it's my choice, then I have no one to blame.

I have no one to blame about myself and I can't just automatically blame God.

So that's the first thing.

You have some freedom.

Second thing is, okay, when it comes to discernment, I thought I discerned the right thing.

And it turns out it wasn't the right thing.

Well, we realize this.

We realize that our discernment can be wrong.

Like, yeah, but I was praying, I was talking to people, and I thought I was following God's will.

I was really striving after that.

Even in the midst of that, our discernment can be wrong.

I mean, think about this.

The history of the church is full of people who...

claimed heresies, right?

They thought this is absolutely, this is what the truth is.

And they had to be corrected by the church.

I mean, even for kind of a lot of the reformation, - Thank you.

That was led by what?

That was led by people who were praying, and people who said they were listening to God's voice, but they did exactly the wrong thing.

It took the unity of the church and now it's splintered into tens of thousands of different denominations.

And they did this while they were praying.

We can discern wrong.

We just know that.

If that can happen on a massive scale, like the division of the body of Christ, that can happen in my life too.

So number one, I have a lot of freedom.

Number two, I can discern wrong.

I can get it wrong.

Even if I'm praying number three, I This is important.

Just because things have not panned out how I wanted them to pan out, doesn't mean that this isn't part of God's will.

Just because the road is now marked by pain, or the road is now marked by failure, doesn't mean that this isn't part of God's will.

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I mean, look at the life of Jesus himself.

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Jesus did the Father's will perfectly And where did it lead him?

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led him to a place of,

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yes, incredible beauty and power and miracles and people accepting him and yet receiving him and being converted,

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but it also was marked by rejection.

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It was marked by betrayal.

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It was marked by failure or apparent failure.

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He was marked by torture and death.

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So keep this in mind.

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One of the criterion is not going to be, "This is clearly God's will because I've succeeded and because I have everything I want."

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And this clearly can't be God's will because I failed and because it's hard and painful.

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We recognize that When we come to serve the Lord, we have to prepare ourselves for trials.

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And so keep that in mind.

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But the fourth thing is this.

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First thing, right, we have a lot of freedom.

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Secondly, we can discern wrong.

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Thirdly, so keep that humility.

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Thirdly, The criterion for judging whether this was and discerned well or poorly is not failure or success.

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But fourthly, It's possible that you discerned incredibly well.

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And you said, I thought for sure that God wanted me to go down this road.

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But now all of a sudden, there's a roadblock.

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I thought for sure God wanted me to go down this road, but all of a sudden I'm being forced to down this alleyway, down this side street.

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Who's to say

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that God did not want you to start going down this road so that you can get to the roadblock.

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Who's to say that God didn't want you to start going down this road

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so that you could get to the side street?

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Now, see, our problem is this.

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Our problem is we thought that when God set me on this road, I knew the destination.

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I thought when God set me on this road that I just said, oh, yeah, this is how it's going to be for the rest of...

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my life or the rest of whatever the next foreseeable future is.

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And God was like, no, no, no. I just wanted you to get on the road.

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So you discern that completely correctly.

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That was accurate.

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You did discern well.

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You said, here's a relationship.

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I thought that this was the relationship for my whole life.

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Yes, you might have, but maybe it was merely the relationship to get you to that next stage in life.

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I thought this was the major that I was going to.

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and get his career in this field, Maybe, but maybe it was just the beginning of getting you to the place where you got to make the next decision.

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Again, every act, you know, life is not crockpot.

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This is not crockpot Christianity where you kind of set it and forget it.

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Mm -hmm.

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God wants to be actively engaged in our lives.

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And so we don't just say, okay, made this decision.

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Now I'm on this track and I'm going to go until the end and how I see the end.

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It could be, okay, I'm on the road, and I'm constantly, every day, waking up and saying, "Okay, God, here we go.

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Okay, God, are we still on this road?

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Are we taking a side street?

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Are we on this road?

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Are we taking a trail?

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Are we on this road?

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Are we doubling back?" "God, where do you want me to go today?" Now, it's not to be obsessive about this, but it is to be active, right?

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It is to be cooperative with the Lord himself.

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because It might be the case that you made the exact right decision.

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that you discerned, completely accurately.

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And God got you on that road and got you moving so that He could get you to this fork, so that He could get you to this roadblock, so that He could get you to this side road.

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Because He has other places that you and I cannot even imagine.

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where he wants you to go.

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So don't give up discernment.

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Don't give up discerning because what you thought it would be turns out to be something different.

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Continue discerning, knowing that God, you're in the driver's seat.

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I am...

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here cooperating with you, and I will go wherever you lead me.

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even if it's not exactly where I thought it would be.

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Anyways, from all this here, this is my name is Father Mike.

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God bless.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “How Do I Know if I Made the Wrong Choice?”. Las palabras que más se repiten: road, discernment, freedom. Este vídeo tiene 165 frases y 1864 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 9:27. El hablante habla rápido, unas 197 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 88 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
discern verbo	/dɪˈzɝn/	discernir, discerner
roadblock sustantivo		barrera vial, barricada viaria
commandment sustantivo	/kəˈmændmənt/	mandamiento, comandamiento
criterion sustantivo	/kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/	criterio, criteriómetro (foundationless)
crockpot verbo		cocer en olla de cocción lenta, cocer en olla de cochura lenta
amidst	/aˈmɪdst/	en medio de, en pleno
secondly adverbio	/ˈsɛk.(ə)ndli/	en segundo lugar
adultery sustantivo	/əˈdʌltəɹi/	adulterio
denomination sustantivo	/dɪˌnɒmɪˈneɪʃən/	denominación
foreseeable adjetivo	/fɔɹˈsi.ə.bəl/	previsible
fourthly adverbio	/ˈfɔːɹθ.li/	en cuarto lugar
heresy sustantivo	/ˈhɛɹəsi/	herejía
obsessive adjetivo	/əbˈsɛs.ɪv/	obsesivo
orient verbo	/ˈɔɹ.iˌɛnt/	orientar
permissive adjetivo	/pəɹˈmɪsɪv/	permisivo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
turn out verbo		resultar
give up verbo		rendirse, entregar
go ahead verbo	/ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/	venga, adelante
wake up verbo	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	despertarse, recordar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

How are you going to live my commandments?
How are you going to live out my will in your life?
Are we taking a side street?
Are we on this road?
Are we taking a trail?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

Estructura	En el vídeo
Oraciones condicionales if + oración, will/would + verbo — una condición y su resultado	if I choose God's will
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	be corrected · was led · is now marked
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	you've ever been · has made · I've overcome
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa	people who say · people who were

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 40 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, didn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “th”: thirdly /ˈθɚdli/, fourthly /ˈfɔːɹθ.li/
Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: denomination /dɪˌnɒmɪˈneɪʃən/, reformation /ˌɹɛf.əɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, rejection /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: criterion /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/, adultery /əˈdʌltəɹi/, denomination /dɪˌnɒmɪˈneɪʃən/, foreseeable /fɔɹˈsi.ə.bəl/, reformation /ˌɹɛf.əɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: splinter /ˈsplɪn.tə/, strive /ˈstɹaɪv/
/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: obsessive /əbˈsɛs.ɪv/, permissive /pəɹˈmɪsɪv/, strive /ˈstɹaɪv/, cooperative /kuˈɑp.ɹətɪv/, convert /kənˈvɝt/
/z/ — sonora, no /s/: discern /dɪˈzɝn/, anyways /ˈɛn.iˌweɪz/, preserve /pɹəˈzɝv/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

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

¿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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