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Hello, welcome back to English with Eleanor.
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Today we're in the garden and having a coffee
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and I'm going to use slow English to tell you about my experience learning languages.
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so I have learned a few different languages
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so far I started learning French when I was probably nine
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or ten years old and I started learning that through classes that my school
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offered so I didn't have any private tuition or anything like
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that and it was just a class that was offered as part of my school day and I really liked it.
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I don't know why but I just really enjoyed those classes
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and the feeling of being able to say even something really basic in another language.
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It felt amazing.
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So when I went to secondary school,
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aged 11, I learned French on a more regular basis there.
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And I also started learning German.
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I enjoyed both of those languages,
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but when I was probably 17 I got a different teacher for German
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and that made a huge difference to how much I enjoyed the language
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because this teacher didn't really seem to inspire us to love the language.
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There were also entire parts of our final exam that she didn't teach us,
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so consequently we got fail marks in that paper,
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even though we got better marks in the ones that she had prepared us for.
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So this experience with this teacher and the fiasco with the exam put me off German,
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kind of turned me a little bit against it also I
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suppose I didn't enjoy it as much as French not only
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because of the teacher but also because of the sound of the language German just
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I'm sorry but it doesn't sound quite as beautiful to me as French does.
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So I started learning Spanish in a night class.
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So after my school I went to the college and I attended a night class
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in Spanish so that I could get a flavor for the language
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and I could see if it was something that I wanted to continue later.
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So I enjoyed Spanish and because I was not having good experience with German and I really enjoyed French,
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I decided to study French and Spanish at university.
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So my experience studying these languages was in a quite controlled environment.
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So I was studying in a school situation,
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which meant that we were learning very systematically.
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We were learning grammar and vocabulary by topic and we maybe weren't speaking a lot,
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but we were learning the basics of how the language worked.
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And then when I went to university,
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there was more of the same,
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more of the systematic learning of the language.
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when I was about 20 I went to Geneva for my Erasmus year
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and when I was there I stayed with a Swiss family
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and I will never forget the first night that I spent with that family because I arrived just in time for dinner
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and the family had three children.
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The mom was pregnant with her fourth child and there were three children there and they were aged seven,
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five and two.
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And I remember the seven-year-old girl asking me a question in French and I didn't know what she was talking about.
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It took me a bit of time to figure out what she was asking and how to answer.
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It was about whether or not I liked organic food and I remember feeling so
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lost because I had been studying French for like 10 years by
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that point and at university and at school I had very good grades
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and I was writing essays about French politics and you know deeper issues
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but when it came to the everyday conversation and just talking casually with other people
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that felt like the hardest thing I'd ever had to do
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and now as a teacher I see that with students as well
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because they maybe they know some of the higher level vocabulary but they really struggle
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when it comes to just maintaining a natural conversation.
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Now I am starting to learn Portuguese.
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I'm learning Portuguese in a different way.
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I'm learning Portuguese in a different way because I am learning it in a more communicative way.
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From the students that I have had,
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I have seen that there are basically two types of learners.
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There are the learners who learn very systematically and they're afraid to speak
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if they don't know the grammar perfectly or they don't know the vocabulary that they feel they need.
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So this fear of not being perfect almost prevents them from communicating.
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And then there are the other people who have no fear of communicating and they can talk and talk and talk.
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But it's not grammatically accurate and maybe they don't have the correct vocabulary.
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but they learn to communicate earlier and I think
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that gives them the confidence to continue learning and continue communicating and building and that confidence is very motivational.
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So with Portuguese I am learning not systematically at all because
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if you asked me to do a grammar exercise I would probably be lost
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but I can maintain a basic level of conversation with a person who is a native speaker when I need to.
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And so it has been really interesting for me to compare these two ways of learning
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because they both have pros and cons.
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And I think it's probably best,
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like in most situations, to find a middle ground
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and to find a situation where you have enough confidence to communicate
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but you are still concerned about the way that you are speaking
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and the grammar that you are using and the vocabulary that you need.
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So it's not easy to find this middle ground and it takes practice.
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It's always good to have people to talk to so
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that you can practice your language and it's even better if they are people who are
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sympathetic and understanding and who you know aren't going to laugh at your mistakes
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or criticize you for not being perfect
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so i don't know about you i don't know what your language learning experience has been like.
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Maybe you can identify with one of these types of learners that I was talking about.
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Let me know in the comments because I'm curious and let me know what languages you have been learning.
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Probably English but maybe there are others too.
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So let me know in the comments.
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I'd love to hear from you and don't forget to hit like and subscribe and I'll see you next time.
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Thank you.
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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 I REALLY Learned Languages”. Las palabras que más se repiten: learning, language, French, vocabulary, enjoyed. Este vídeo tiene 91 frases y 1102 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 10:12. El hablante habla despacio, unas 108 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 85 % 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 |
|---|---|---|
| vocabulary sustantivo | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | vocabulario |
| grammar sustantivo | /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ | gramática |
| learner sustantivo | /ˈlɜɹnəɹ/ | aprendiz, aprendedor |
| systematically adverbio | /ˌsɪs.təˈmæt.ɪ.kli/ | sistemáticamente |
| communicative adjetivo | /kəˈmjuː.nə.keɪ.t̬ɪv/ | comunicativo |
| fiasco sustantivo | /fiˈæs.koʊ/ | fiasco, fracaso |
| motivational adjetivo | motivacional | |
| criticize verbo | /ˈkɹɪtɪsaɪz/ | criticar, culpar |
| casually adverbio | /ˈkæʒuəli/ | ligeramente, de pasada |
| sympathetic adjetivo | /ˌsɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/ | simpatético, simpatizador |
| systematic adjetivo | /ˌsɪs.tɪˈmæt.ɪk/ | sistemático |
| consequently adverbio | /ˈkɑnsɪˌkwɛntli/ | consecuentemente |
| tuition sustantivo | /tjuːˈɪʃən/ | enseñanza, clases |
| inspire verbo | /ɪnˈspaɪə(ɹ)/ | inspirar, infundir |
| subscribe verbo | /səbˈskɹaɪb/ | suscribirse, subscribirse |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| figure out verbo | averiguar, captar |
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 · have had · have seen |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | people who have · person who is · people who are |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | was offered · be lost |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 25 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, didn't, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: casually /ˈkæʒuəli/, tuition /tjuːˈɪʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, systematically /ˌsɪs.təˈmæt.ɪ.kli/, communicative /kəˈmjuː.nə.keɪ.t̬ɪv/, sympathetic /ˌsɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/, systematic /ˌsɪs.tɪˈmæt.ɪk/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, communicative /kəˈmjuː.nə.keɪ.t̬ɪv/, flavor /ˈfleɪvə/
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 vocabulary, grammar, learner.
¿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.