Shadowing Practice: How I Built My Dream Life (in 5 min) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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My parents ended up being divorced when I was like, I don't remember, eight or nine.
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And so I essentially had to raise myself until I was 15.
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So funny to say, he's like, I love my dad so much now and he's,
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we're really close, but I didn't know him super well back then.
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I don't know if I would have learned how to lead myself, learned how to manage myself, learned how to manage my emotions,
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had I not been exposed to it young.
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I was always overweight as a kid.
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I let myself go.
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My upper teens, it was bad.
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I just drank a ton and then would eat out.
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And I went from having some weight to like, I was fat
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and i was like screw this i never wanted to be a victim of circumstance
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i'm gonna use this i'm gonna make my life awesome started getting into fitness
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i pursued figuring out food working out i started going to the gym
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and like lifting by myself i ended up losing like 85 pounds
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i think going through a fitness transformation is really similar to becoming someone who's successful in business and
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so then i went to college for exercise science two years in i realized
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this is not going to do anything for me i didn't take it serious i wasn't like a bad student
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but i also wasn't like super good.
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I just thought it was useless.
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And I was like, I can learn more on my own.
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It was in that moment that I was like, I want to invest in myself.
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And I started looking at Tony Robbins and Monroe and all that stuff.
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I lived in Michigan at that point in time.
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It wasn't a lot of opportunity.
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So I packed up my Prius.
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It was two days after I graduated college.
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I just drove out to California and got some disgusting apartment as cheap as I could find.
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Oh, this is in the ghetto.
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Great.
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This is good for a single like 21 year old girl.
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I moved there.
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And then I was like, okay, I need to get a job within walking distance because I don't want to pay for gas too much.
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So I went and I applied at every gym nearby.
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And I was like, I'll just start working at a gym at first.
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I'll learn sales for the gym.
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And then eventually I'll learn more about business and have my own business.
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I ended up getting a job at all the places I applied.
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And I ended up staying with 24 hour fitness.
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I really liked the manager there.
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He was really encouraging.
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And he was like, dude, I can train you so much.
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There's 20 other people that they hired around the same time.
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They're like, you need to go out and get referrals.
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And I had no idea at the time that it was even hard to do that.
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I just moved there.
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I was like, I have nothing to lose.
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These people don't know me i have no reputation here what am i gonna do fail
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and that's there were two girls
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that were like crying outside the building
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i was like i went up to them like why are you crying
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they're like i don't want to go talk to strangers i'm just gonna go up
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and i'm just gonna be like hey my name's leila i'm new here i'm curious
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if you have any friends that are interested in joining the gym
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work to learn not to make money when you're young and
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so i was like okay i have learned enough here
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i get how this works i don't want to move up the corporate ladder
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i heard about this guy who had this really great gym he's like a fantastic leader
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and he really knows how to run a business i want to go learn from that guy.
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And so I went and worked at his gym.
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What it allowed me to see was that the same effort it takes to build a small business,
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it's the same effort to take a big business.
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It's almost harder to have small business even because there's less opportunity for people.
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If people have a big vision for themselves, they don't want to work at a small business.
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I'd been dating when I was in Michigan.
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When I went to California, I was like, I just want to build up my career.
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Like I want to be successful.
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And that was all I really cared about.
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I always knew I was like, I want someone that's equally as powerful.
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In every relationship before I met Alex, I was always like the dominant one in the relationship.
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And I realized I was like, I don't really want that.
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I want someone who's almost more dominant than me or at least could be equally powerful.
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I swiped on Alex.
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I messaged him because it was Bumble and so the girl else messaged the guy first.
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He called me and we talked for like 20 minutes and he was like, I consider this to be like our first date.
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So then we went for Froyo the next day, which I tried to get out of and he was like,
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no. I said I was sick or something.
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I think I was hungover.
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We didn't talk about like relationships at all.
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We actually just talked about business the whole time.
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So we like walked for four hours.
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Basically on the first date, he's like, we should work together.
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I want to start this new business.
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You seem like you can sell and you understand business and you like all this you should do it with me.
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And I was like, we just met.
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I just feel like, like we both didn't have a ton of friends at that point in time.
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So it was like, and we'd gone on three dates and might as well.
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Basically we started gym launch six weeks into us knowing each other.
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18 months in, we changed the model and then it just took off.
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We realized that we have really great complimentary skill sets.
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We wrote everything on a whiteboard that happens with the business.
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And it was like marketing, sales, finance, HR, op, success.
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And then one of our friends just circled marketing and like, this is Alex.
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And then all the rest is Layla.
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It's building the team, doing that and aligning it with the strategy of the business is something
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that i feel really good at doing most people
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that have very big businesses are just people of like elite character
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i don't need to be the smartest person in the room
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but i need to be competent enough
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that the smartest person in the room wants to work for me
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and that i've created a big enough vision
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that their vision can fit within mine
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and the culture is really just the mission and the vision
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and the values of the founder nobody will work for you
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that has better values than you they will go find somebody else has better values.
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With acquisition .com, it's sincere candor, unimpeachable character, and then competitive greatness.
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These are the principles that we use to make decisions for the company.
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I want to be the CEO of acquisition .com when it hits a billion.
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I have to become a different person in order to hit a billion or to hit 10 billion.
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What propels me now is more of a desire to honestly just meet my future self and see what's possible.
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I could do anything that anyone else's worth has done.
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And I think that's really freaking cool.
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Now it's more of a desire to see what that looks like
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and to meet the person I have to become
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when I put myself in situations where there's more pressure to become that kind of person.
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Setting a goal so big that I am forced to change
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and evolve in a positive way as a human in order to get there.
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And that other people within it also have to do the same because that's what keeps people excited.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “How I Built My Dream Life”. Este vídeo tiene 118 frases y 1363 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:53. 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
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| fitness sustantivo | /ˈfɪt.nəs/ | ámbito, fitness |
| equally adverbio | /ˈiːkwəli/ | igualmente |
| acquisition sustantivo | /ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/ | adquisición |
| dominant adjetivo | /ˈdɑmənənt/ | dominante, imperante |
| reputation sustantivo | /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/ | reputación, nombradía |
| founder sustantivo | /ˈfaʊ̯n.dəː/ | fundador, fundadora |
| curious adjetivo | /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/ | curioso, tener curiosidad |
| encourage verbo | /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ | alentar, arengar |
| essentially adverbio | /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/ | esencialmente, en esencia |
| skill sustantivo | /skɪl/ | destreza, habilidad |
| elite sustantivo | /ɪˈlit/ | élite, elite |
| hire verbo | /ˈhaɪɹ/ | contratar, emplear |
| divorce sustantivo | /dɪˈvɔːs/ | divorcio |
| principle sustantivo | /ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/ | principio |
| invest verbo | /ɪnˈvɛst/ | invertir, insumir |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| end up verbo | terminar, ir a parar |
| figure out verbo | averiguar, captar |
| get out of verbo | salirse de, ponerse fuera de |
| go out verbo | salir |
| go through verbo | atravesar |
| go up verbo | subir |
| take off verbo | quitarse |
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | have learned · i've created · has done |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | being divorced · been exposed |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | friends that are · guy who had |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 37 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, gonna. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: acquisition /ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/, reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, transformation /ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: acquisition /ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/, reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, transformation /ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, complimentary /ˌkɑmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: skill /skɪl/, stranger /ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒɚ/, swipe /swaɪp/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: divorce /dɪˈvɔːs/, invest /ɪnˈvɛst/, evolve /ɪˈvɑlv/, overweight /ˌoʊvɚˈweɪt/, hungover /hʌŋˈoʊvɚ/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: acquisition /ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/, 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 fitness, equally, acquisition.
¿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.