Shadowing Practice: How Tech Salaries Work 💸, AI Chat with Google UX Lead, I'm moving?| Biz Analyst Diary - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Last week, I found out my ex -co -worker became a millionaire.
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So this is how tech salaries work.
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Base salary, bonus, stock option.
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Now it's worth $400K.
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But, a UX lead, we go shopping.
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So what do you spend the most of your time on now that there's AI?
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They don't have any more.
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This is so cool!
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This is so cool!
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So last week, my ex -co -worker told me that he almost became a millionaire from his salaries, and I was like, "What?" So this is how tech salaries work.
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There are three components to it: the base salary, the bonus, and the stock option, which is how people could become essentially rich or not.
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So first, for base salary, you can usually find the base salary range on most US job descriptions.
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And in the US, your base salaries are paid every two weeks.
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Second part is bonuses.
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Bonuses can have two types.
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One is annual bonus, which is usually 10 to 20 % of your base salary.
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And inside a tip, if you're on the revenue driving teams and tech in sales, partnerships, BD, the bonus tends to be closer to 20%.
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Then there's also sign -on bonus.
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It's a one -time payment.
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Usually it's around 20k to 60k depending on your years of experiences.
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Then the third part, the stock or companies call it equity.
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why.
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So in tech, there are two types of stock.
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The most common one is RSUs and that's what most big public tech companies like Google, Netflix, even Spotify, will give their employees.
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Basically, RSU is like they award you a dollar amount that's a $100 ,000 worth of stock.
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If the company stock is $100, then you get a thousand shares
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but there's a catch obviously the company is smart right they
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don't want you to just work there for two months get all the stock
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and quit and then become really rich no
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so there's something called a vest and a cliff vest determines the frequency
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when the stock will be vested or released to you
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and for spotify it was vested over four years that's kind of the phrasing you hear
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and some companies are even more strict where there's a cliff you have to work certain months or certain
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rich from this basically when the stock price shot up 4x your stock value is also 4x
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so if you were given 100k worth now it's worth 400k but if the stock goes down
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then your value could also go down too.
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And because Albert, my boyfriend, also just finished his MBA, and as he's reviewing multiple offers, which part of the salary should you negotiate first?
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First, you always, always start negotiating with your base salary for two reasons.
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One, your base salary is tied to your bonus and your promotions, right?
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When you get promoted, it's based off of your base salary.
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Then you negotiate your stock, hoping that, you know, there's long -term upside and hopefully the company does well.
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Then the last thing to negotiate is the sign -on bonus.
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Pro tip, most of the time sign -on bonus actually comes from a different call center than your team's budget.
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So most of the time they're more lenient on giving you sign -on bonus.
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And if you want to hear more about the financial parts of working tech, comment the word tech and I will share more in the future.
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I'm going to meet my friend at the Google office.
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She's a designer there.
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She actually now lives in London.
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It's been a while since I've worked from an actual office at a tech company.
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so she got a little coffee.
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- So much care.
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- Yeah, that's a lot.
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You're gonna get a shot.
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- I love it.
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- This is Juliet.
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What are you doing?
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Tell the audience how big of a global city they are.
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I'm a UX lead for Google Shopping.
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You're elite now.
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I drive a lot of vision work and strategy.
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So what do you spend the most of your time on now that there's AI?
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Previously when I was doing vision work or when I was like experimenting with the AI shopping stuff, we would prototype things or write code really quickly.
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It's faster to prototype now and people can actually feel it.
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Yeah you can kind of understand what's feasible.
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I feel like you don't need to build a perfect thing. with it.
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Oh, seriously?
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Yeah, you just experiment, play around with it.
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Get feedback.
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Show people what you build.
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Yeah.
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I feel like I'm not using AI as much because the work
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that I'm doing is so like vision -y or it's So, day -to -day execution.
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It sounds like it's more high -level identifying opportunities, right?
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Yeah.
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When I became more senior in my role, less about doing, more about like, delegating.
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Yeah.
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And like enabling and influencing.
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You're trying to be like, "Okay, what's next?
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How can we push this project forward?" I'm working on my app as well, and I feel like now my day job and my night job feels really similar.
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That's good!
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I love when people have a 9 to 5 and they're also building something.
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Because at some point you realize you're not your job.
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You're very good.
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You're...
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Got it asking questions.
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If you also use AI tools like cloud or cursor to get work done, then this is for you.
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Most people use AI assistant to write code or drag content, but the moment you ask it to do something, send an email, update a spreadsheet,
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log a task, it hits a wall.
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Because it can't actually connect to all your apps.
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And that's where Zapier MCP comes in.
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MCP stands for Model Context Protocol.
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It's basically a bridge that lets your AI agent take real action across more than 9 ,000
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from tools like Claw code or cursor.
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That's it halfway through building my app Bloom.
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I thought of a feature that I wanted to add.
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Instead of stopping to go write it down, I can tell Claw to save it to Notion and Zapier and Zippy handled it instantly.
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Never had to break my workflow.
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And if you want something even more robust, Zapier SDK is the same idea, but built for when you're actually working in code.
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You can plug your AI coding agent into 9 ,000 apps with auth, governance, and reliability built in.
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So your workflows don't break.
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more reliability, and same ecosystem.
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So if you feel limited by your AI tools, check out Zapier MCP in the link below.
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Thank you.
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- Right.
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Ice Americano.
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It's been so hot these days.
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Quick update on my App Bloom.
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I've been working with a product designer.
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She's actually my IG Reel editor.
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I realized she was this whole time by coding on the side and she got so good at it.
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I was like, we should work together.
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I love when people put themselves out there because when you do that, not only do you show resilience, you show courage, you show ambition and drive because a lot
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I'm going to paint my mom's face It will be in the same place
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And we need to make sure that the app will be written in the app.
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So I think that the app will be like that.
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Chachapis.
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But I think this is a really great start where we see everything
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and what it could be in a home that I show.
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When we're talking about like the UI /UX, I realize it's just like editing a video.
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You start with a bunch of footage and then you start funneling down, funneling down.
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A lot of people tend to think about the design, like the little color, everything.
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But to my designer's point, you got to think about what the strategy is what your users are
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and so now we're really just focusing on okay what is our MVP
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and what are the core features that we want to build out you We're in Boston for our friend's wedding.
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We're gonna go get some coffee.
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What are we doing?
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Whoa.
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It's like, do we eat sesame latte?
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In Taiwan, you have those like, two mouths.
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And he added it at the top.
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Oh my gosh guys, I usually never wear dresses but I really like this dress friend gifted me.
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It's like the perfect summer dress.
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Did you finish tennis? Did you put sunscreen?
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I did.
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Oh my god.
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It was hot.
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I think I need to cancel my lesson tomorrow.
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Let us see it.
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Some burnt now.
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Oh my god.
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I did have the sleeves on, so sleeves are helpful.
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It had a towel covering my legs.
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So on today's agenda, I have a meeting and scripting this YouTube video
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because my content counter is looking a little bit full.
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Okay, then I need to film the less than 10 reel tonight so that I can film it tomorrow afternoon.
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Okay.
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Bye.
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Yeah, awesome.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “How Tech Salaries Work 💸, AI Chat with Google UX Lead, I'm moving?”. Las palabras que más se repiten: tate, stock, salary, bonus, base. Este vídeo tiene 224 frases y 1574 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 9:10. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 172 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 79 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente. 88 de sus 224 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
vest sustantivo/vɛst/chaleco
negotiate verbo/nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/negociar
cursor sustantivo/ˈkɜːsə/cursor
funnel sustantivo/ˈfʌnəl/embudo, infundíbulo
reel verbo/ˈɹiːl/enrollar, bobinar
millionaire sustantivo/ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/millonario, millonaria
prototype sustantivo/ˈpɹəʊtətaɪp/prototipo
reliability sustantivofiabilidad
sleeve sustantivo/sliv/manga
cliff sustantivo/klɪf/acantilado, precipicio
lenient adjetivo/ˈliːni.ənt/indulgente, leniente
sesame sustantivo/ˈsɛsəmi/sésamo
spreadsheet sustantivo/ˈspɹɛd.ʃit/hoja de cálculo
sunscreen sustantivoprotector/bloqueador solar/antisolar
resilience sustantivo/ɹɪˈzɪl.ɪ.əns/resiliencia

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
check out verboinvestigar, chequear
find out verboaveriguar, anoticiarse
shoot up verbobalear, abalear

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

  • You're gonna get a shot.
  • What are you doing?
  • Because it can't actually connect to all your apps.
  • I've been working with a product designer.
  • It's like, do we eat sesame latte?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo haceare paid · will be vested · was vested
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahoraIt's been
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosaoption, which is · bonus, which is

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 29 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, I'm, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: negotiate /nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/, spreadsheet /ˈspɹɛd.ʃit/, authorization /ˌɔːθəɹaɪˈzeɪʃən/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, ambition /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: negotiate /nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/, millionaire /ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/, resilience /ɹɪˈzɪl.ɪ.əns/, authorization /ˌɔːθəɹaɪˈzeɪʃən/, ecosystem /ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: sleeve /sliv/, spreadsheet /ˈspɹɛd.ʃit/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vest /vɛst/, sleeve /sliv/, governance /ˈɡʌvəɹnəns/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: resilience /ɹɪˈzɪl.ɪ.əns/, feasible /ˈfiː.zɪ.bəl/, authorization /ˌɔːθəɹaɪˈzeɪʃən/

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 vest, negotiate, cursor.

¿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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