Shadowing Practice: How Taylor Swift REALLY Feels About 'Extreme' Fans Decoding Her Lyrics - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I have to know that like there's certain things that we have as a tradition between me and my fans.
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It's maximalism.
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It's just a lot of a lot.
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Taylor Swift showing love to her fans but admitting sometimes there's a few Swifties out there who make it weird.
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Yeah, I'm not gonna seem ambivalent about that at all.
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I'm like, that dude didn't write the song I did.
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In a new 30-minute sit-down with the New York Times Magazine celebrating the 30 greatest living American songwriters, Taylor breaks down her songwriting process.
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I always apply the rule, may the best idea win.
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Her favorite album...
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Are you ready for it?
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I loved the Reputation album.
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I was like, you guys say what you want.
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I know what I did.
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I love it.
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Like, go with God.
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Sorry.
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And the unspoken bond as she shares with her millions of fans around the world.
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I have to know that, like, there's certain things things that we have as a tradition between me
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and my fans they love for an emotional song to be track five oh hi
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but there's corners of my fan base who are going to
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take things to a really extreme place there's people who are
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going to try to like do detective work figure out the details who is that about, what is this?
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Left in my scarf there, it's your sister's house.
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When it gets a little bit weird for me is when people act like it's sort of like a paternity test.
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Like this song's about that person because I'm like, that dude didn't write the song I did.
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Taylor also crediting her haters for inspiring some of her best work.
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Yeah, criticism has been a huge fuel for me.
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It's been a huge jumping off point, like a creative writing prompt or something.
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Like Blank Space would not exist if I hadn't had people being like,
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here's a slide show about her boyfriend. And then Antihero.
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That song doesn't exist if I don't get criticized for every aspect of my personality.
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But I think a little bit of it, You gotta just be like, this is part of it.
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The fans are the people who turned it into something very empowering.
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If it's an interesting point to you to kind of respond to, then that's a gift for you to be able to write something.
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Don't respond to like trolls in your comments.
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That's not what we want from you.
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We want your art.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 37 frases y 420 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:24. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 174 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. 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

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
aspect sustantivo/ˈæspɛkt/aspecto
slide sustantivo/ˈslaɪ̯d/tobogán, resbaladilla
detective sustantivo/dɪˈtɛktɪv/detective, inspector
inspire verbo/ɪnˈspaɪə(ɹ)/inspirar, infundir
prompt verbo/pɹɑmpt/llevar a, concitar
scarf sustantivo/skɑːf/bufanda, chalina
criticize verbo/ˈkɹɪtɪsaɪz/criticar, culpar
empower verbo/ɪmˈpaʊ.ə/apoderar, dar permiso
ambivalent adjetivo/æmˈbɪv.ə.lənt/ambivalente
maximalism sustantivomaximalismo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
break down verbodescomponerse, averiarse
figure out verboaveriguar, captar

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 11 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, didn't, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: ambivalent /æmˈbɪv.ə.lənt/, paternity /pəˈtɜɹnəti/

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 aspect, slide, detective.

¿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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