Shadowing Practice: How learning a language can be a messy affair - Learn English Speaking with Video
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So I think one of the things that's really interesting, that I find interesting, is how language changes.
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And it changes within groups.
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So you notice it particularly with teenagers.
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I've got teenagers in the house, so that's something that I pick up on.
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And teenagers will change the meaning of a word that I will recognize.
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So they'll say that something is sick, and I think, oh, that must be awful, terrible.
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But actually, no, for the teenagers, sick is a really good thing.
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So teenagers, to form their social group, their gang, they will deliberately change language and they'll make it their own.
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And they will use it within their group and they actually don't really want other people to understand it.
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So I think that's a really interesting area where you see a lot of language change.
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You obviously get it with the number of different speakers
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that we have around the world and different groups will use language in a different way.
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So to me it's a really interesting area.
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So it's very interesting.
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Language obviously is always evolving.
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But to me this idea that we play with language deliberately, you know, in order to consolidate our relationships,
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I think that's a really kind of interesting area to work with.
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And it's a good quality that we can work with our students on that, you know, being playful with language
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and allowing them to have the freedom to play with it a little bit as well is good for their confidence, I think.
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I think one of our jobs as teachers or something
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that I believe in very passionately is that we need to be authentic.
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So there's a tendency I think within education to simplify things for learners
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and to make it all very clear cut so
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that we have clear rules for the grammar and there's an answer and this is right and this is wrong.
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And learners like that kind of security.
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And I think as teachers, we often like that security as well.
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We have a rule, we can teach it, we can mark the work.
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But real language is much messier than that.
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The boundaries are not always so clear-cut.
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So for me, one of the jobs as a teacher is to try
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and gradually get your learners used to
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that idea get them used to tolerating ambiguity and being aware that there isn't always a clear right or wrong answer,
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there are lots of exceptions to the rules, and that they should just be okay with that.
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It doesn't matter all the time and you can make little mistakes, but so long as it's not really interfering with the communication too much,
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then we don't have to worry about it.
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So I think that's important for both teachers
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and learners to sort of get used to that idea that we can't control everything.
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It's a bit unrealistic.
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Language in the real world just doesn't work like that.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Este vídeo tiene 39 frases y 498 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:55. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 171 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. 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
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| teenager sustantivo | /ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/ | adolescente, adolescentes |
| deliberately adverbio | /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/ | deliberadamente |
| awful adjetivo | /ˈɔːfʊl/ | infumable, malísimo |
| exception sustantivo | /əkˈsɛpʃən/ | excepción, salvedad |
| gradually adverbio | /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuəli/ | gradualmente, paulatinamente |
| grammar sustantivo | /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ | gramática |
| boundary sustantivo | /ˈbaʊndɹi/ | linde, lindero |
| authentic adjetivo | /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/ | auténtico |
| tendency sustantivo | /ˈtɛn.dən.si/ | tendencia |
| interfere verbo | /ˌɪn.tɚˈfɪɚ/ | interferir |
| messy adjetivo | /ˈmɛsi/ | desordenado, desprolijo |
| tolerate verbo | /ˈtɑ.lə.ɹeɪt/ | tolerar, soportar |
| evolve verbo | /ɪˈvɑlv/ | desarrollar |
| unrealistic adjetivo | irreal, irrealizable | |
| playful adjetivo | /ˈpleɪfl̩/ | juguetón |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| pick up on verbo | percatarse de, pillar |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 9 contracciones y formas reducidas, como doesn't, don't, they'll. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: exception /əkˈsɛpʃən/, passionately /ˈpæʃənətli/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: deliberately /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/, ambiguity /æm.bɪˈɡjuː.ɪ.ti/, consolidate /kənˈsɒl.ɪ.deɪt/, passionately /ˈpæʃənətli/
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 teenager, deliberately, awful.
¿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.