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I was just wondering with the five pillars of Islam, how do you know if you're doing enough to basically fulfill your duty as a Muslim?
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How does that work?
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Okay, so in Islam you're told what is enough.
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Remember we were talking about in the sermon?
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So you're told the basic necessities and you're told the maximum that you should strive for.
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So if you're fulfilling the basic necessities, you're doing enough.
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But if you want, like you're told to, you're motivated to actually aim for the stars you'll get the sun by itself so your aim
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should be something that's higher so you're given both of them
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and the best model is in the model of the life of the Prophet himself
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so if we can amel as close as we are to it the better it will be
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so it's very easy for us because there's one person in history
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this is not according to me this is according to the agnostics and the atheists and Forbes magazine as well
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that the person in history who has been recorded the most is Prophet Muhammad.
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So for us it's very easy in the sense that we know exactly.
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For example, if I were to ask you, by the way, as Muslims, we have to respect each and every Prophet, right?
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So the question is, please don't feel offended by it.
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I'm just trying to kind of make a point.
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And if you do, then just stop me.
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So I'll just backtrack and think of another example.
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if I were to ask you how did Jesus please you upon him go to the bathroom
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you know would you be able to tell me exactly what
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his bowel habits like how he would relieve himself etc. would be
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he was fully man so I would assume just like everyone else okay so for us for Muslims we are told
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the Prophet he has told us
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when you go into the bathroom
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which foot you should keep in the bathroom first like the amount of detail
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I'm telling you how you should sit in the bathroom, what is better, how long you should sit in the bathroom,
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what you should not do in the bathroom, and what you should do in the bathroom.
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And after you're done, don't just dry clean, you know, use water, stuff like that.
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So all of that stuff we've been told.
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And when you come out of the bathroom, which food you should step out with?
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So for us, it's very easy in the sense that we have a lot of detail about everything in life.
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And this is just about the bathroom.
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I can tell you about sleeping, I can tell you about, you know, other stuff as well,
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about wearing your clothes what kind of clothes they should be
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which color is better everything
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but those are not necessities they are they're distinctions you know how you can get to 80 you'll pass it
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what was the passing percentage i guess it differs from every exam right
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but let's just say if it's 75 you can get to 75
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but if you want to get to 90 then it's you know a lot more uh effort
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and to get above 90 then it's like even more than
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that so you can strive for whatever you can but the basic necessity.
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75 % is very clear and even the 95 % is clear.
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So does that answer the question?
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Yeah, I guess just my confusion is what about the 75 and the 95 is different?
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Like what makes you 95 compared to 75?
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Okay, perfect.
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So we are told that no one will, I'll start with this and then I'll give you the direct answer,
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that no one will enter paradise with just their actions it will be from the mercy of Allah
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so mercy of the creator
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what does that mean? that means you have to try your best
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but also understand that your best is still not going to be enough of what
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Allah the creator deserves from you but you still have to try your best so when a person prays
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he can try to do his best and you will know, no one else can judge you, but what's your name?
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Mitchell Mitchell.
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But Mitchell, in your heart, would you not know, okay, this is the best I could do?
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You would know that, right?
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So this is between you and him.
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So he understands, because he's the one who's given you all of the faculties, the capabilities, the strength, the will.
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He understands Mitchell is trying to do his best.
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So you'll be rewarded accordingly.
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So we can never know which person is better.
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Therefore in Islam, you can never say this person is better than that person in the eyes of Allah.
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Okay?
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Because if he has given you let's just say um
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if he has given your faculties are on a scale of one to ten they are nine and
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if he has given me three for me to get to three it's going to take a lot of effort
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but i will be rewarded according to ten now
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if you although you you're you can easily achieve five
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because you're you know your max is nine you can easily achieve five
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but still if you're just achieving five you're wasting a lot of your talent
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so with power comes responsibility
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if he's given you the ability then he you are you know uh supposed to achieve even higher than
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that so if you achieve nine you'll be awarded 100
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if you achieve eight you're going to be rewarded a little bit less
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but i can never tell that that's just between you
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and god so a person himself will know that i'm trying my best
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and allah will have mercy enough to actually give me 100 of the reward does
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that answer the question that makes sense okay
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So even if you know that you're trying your best, is there any like absolute assurance that you would get salvation?
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Yes, yes.
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When a person tries their best, it's not just the, in Islam we believe this, that every action that you do has a repercussion,
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not just in the hereafter, but also in the world so when you start doing good actions
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Allah will show you the blessings in your life so for example we are told not to indulge in interest
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which is you know living in a secular society it's very difficult because everything has interest
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but once a person actually forsakes
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profit from interest for the will of Allah for the pleasure of Allah he will start seeing that
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the other guys who are indulging in interest will not have
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that much happiness as much as he will have even though his wealth will be less
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but the things that are given to him will be more than the other people
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and he'll feel happier
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so in islam what we are what i'm trying to tell you basically is
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that once you start trying to do your best once you look for the truth
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and you start trying you feel inside as well spiritually
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you're gifted enough for you to feel like okay you know this is working out
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but will you have absolute confidence
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that i will be uh i will achieve salvation no
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and therefore you have to keep trying to do better
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if for example right now today somebody was somebody came
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and told me that somehow god communicated to me
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and he told me that you have been forgiven even
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if you commit atrocities from today on
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or whatever you do it doesn't really matter you've been forgiven will
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that not actually put a damper on my deeds for example in the for example
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if a teacher came to you right
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you're taking a very difficult course let's say you're taking tensor calculus the professor came
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and said what's your what's your sister's name
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Oh Alyssa Alyssa they said Alyssa you've been really good in the first couple semesters
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and you know their last semester I'm gonna give you a hundred percent.
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Tell me Alyssa like honestly are you gonna study as hard as you studied for the first two?
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Um wait can you ask that again?
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Yes, a professor came
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and told you Alyssa since you have done really well in the first semester
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I'm going to give you a hundred percent marks in the second semester regardless of how you score.
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Hmm.
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Will you study for the second semester as hard as the first
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semester honestly speaking well like if if I knew
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that I was gonna get a hundred percent mark regardless even
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if you left the paper blank um yes you would still study as hard oh no that's one thing
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so therefore in Islam we are told
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that you can never be sure of achieving salvation because
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if you actually do something bad later on you will be punished for it in Islam we are not told
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Muslims yeah we are not given the guarantee of going into heaven.
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We will enter heaven eventually.
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This is the guarantee we've been given, that if you believe in the monotheistic nature of God
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and you testify that there's one God worthy of worship and that you believe in the prophetic lineage,
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all of them, then you will eventually get to heaven.
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However, if you live a bad life, you will have to be punished for those bad deeds.
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Once you are punished enough and you're purified of their bad effects in hell, then you will enter heaven.
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So just taking the testimony of faith is enough to get you into heaven but that's going to be your final abode.
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You will have to go through hell if you don't live a good life.
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So therefore you have to keep trying to do better and better.
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So Islam actually asks you to do better every day and achieve the best you can.
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So if Alyssa has been given, like I said with Mitchell, if your capability is 9,
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then Islam wants you to actually achieve that potential and not just settle for 5.
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Does that make sense?
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Yes.
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Okay.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “How Do Muslims Know If They're Doing Enough?”. Las palabras que más se repiten: islam, bathroom, achieve, allah. Este vídeo tiene 139 frases y 1705 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 9:16. El hablante habla rápido, unas 184 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 89 % 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

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
semester sustantivo/sɪˈmɛstɚ/semestre, ciclo
reward sustantivo/ɹɪˈwɔɹd/recompensa
necessity sustantivo/nɪˈsɛsəti/necesidad, menester
mercy sustantivo/ˈmɝsi/misericordia, piedad
punish verbo/ˈpʌnɪʃ/castigar, punir
salvation sustantivo/sælˈveɪ.ʃn̩/salvación
regardless adverbio/ɹɪˈɡɑɹd.lɪs/pese a todo, a pesar de todo
guarantee sustantivo/ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/garantía, caución
faculty sustantivo/ˈfæk.əl.ti/cuerpo docente, claustro
forgive verbo/fɚˈɡɪv/disculpar
cloth sustantivo/klɒθ/tela
fulfill verbo/fʊlˈfɪl/cumplir
deed sustantivo/diːd/hecho, obra
strive verbo/ˈstɹaɪv/esforzarse por, afanar
indulge verbo/ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒ/ser indulgente consigo mismo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
go through verboatravesar

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Oraciones condicionales if + oración, will/would + verbo — una condición y su resultadoif you achieve nine you'll be
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorahas been recorded · has told · we've been told
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacehas been recorded · are told · we've been told

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 46 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, I'm, you'll. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: cloth /klɒθ/, worthy /ˈwɝ.ði/, atheist /ˈeɪ.θi.ɪst/, monotheistic /ˌmɑnəθiˈɪstɪk/
  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: punish /ˈpʌnɪʃ/, salvation /sælˈveɪ.ʃn̩/, worship /ˈwɝ.ʃɪp/, examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, confusion /kənˈfjuːʒən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: necessity /nɪˈsɛsəti/, capability /ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/, examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, testimony /ˈtɛstɪmoʊni/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: salvation /sælˈveɪ.ʃn̩/, forgive /fɚˈɡɪv/, strive /ˈstɹaɪv/, relieve /ɹɪˈliːv/, motivate /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/
  • /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: indulge /ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒ/, percentage /pə(ɹ)ˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/, lineage /ˈlɪn.i.ɪd͡ʒ/
  • /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: happiness /ˈhæpinɪs/, habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/, hereafter /hɪɹˈæftɚ/

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 semester, reward, necessity.

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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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