Shadowing Practice: How to Be Truly Creative - Learn English Speaking with Video
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When you are looking for a solution to a particular problem,
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or you're thinking about what's next in your book or project,
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you're kind of in a rush to get to an answer.
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You're in a rush to figure things out and to be kind of one-dimensional in your thinking.
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True creativity is multi-dimensional.
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You're going deeper and deeper and deeper into something.
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The main advice for creatives is twofold.
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First of all, to create anything involves levels of anxiety.
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When you start a project,
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you're anxious because you don't have all of the answers.
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You have like a blank canvas.
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You have a blank page.
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If you're starting a book,
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you're writing a screenplay or whatever it is, you're starting from nothing.
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And it's a feeling of anxiety that you have.
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And you have to have this feeling of anxiety.
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Otherwise, you would never write anything.
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You would never do anything.
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You would never feel compelled or motivated to actually create anything.
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Right?
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So the sense of facing a blank page or starting something is naturally going to create anxiety.
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How you manage your anxiety will determine how creative you will be.
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If you're in a rush to have answers,
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if you have no ability to withstand the anxiety that creating anything involves,
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you'll never be able to get to the end, right?
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So you have to kind of embrace that anxiety
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and you have to learn how to manage it and you have to kind of learn how to live with it.
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If there's too much anxiety,
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if you're too worried about it,
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if it's too overwhelming, you'll never be able to get there.
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But you need to feel a sense of,
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I'm not sure where this is going.
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I'm not sure I have all the answers,
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but I'm going to keep persisting.
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I'm going to keep pushing through.
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I'm going to use my anxiety instead of quitting,
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instead of searching for something to distract me,
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I'm going to use it to go further into the process and to make it deeper and better and better.
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The second thing is similar to that.
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So normally when you are looking for a solution to a particular problem,
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or you're thinking about, you know,
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what's next in your book or project,
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you're kind of in a rush to get to an answer.
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You're in a rush to figure things out and to be kind of one dimensional in your thinking.
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True creativity is multidimensional.
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You're going deeper and deeper and deeper into something.
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and you have to ask your questions.
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Instead of going, I can choose A,
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B, or C in order for the next direction in my project, in my book.
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You want to consider D,
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E, F, G, and H, and I.
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You want to consider more options.
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The more options you consider,
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the more creative and dimensional your project will become.
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When I'm writing a book,
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I'm obviously very anxious about it and I feel very concerned.
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But I make myself go through this process,
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which is very kind of relaxes me and calms me down,
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where I take all of the material that I have
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and I try and organize it and see what the whole picture is about.
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And then I kind of expand the lens and I go,
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what is it that I'm not thinking about?
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What is it that I haven't considered?
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What is that direction in this particular idea that I have not looked into?
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Opening the lens, considering other possibilities is what makes somebody creative.
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I mean, what made Leonardo da Vinci creative was that he had so much more information at his disposal than other artists.
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and he considered other possibilities and he combined them in very unusual ways.
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So I try in my work to open myself up to other cultures,
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to other civilizations, to other periods,
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to how women think, to how people from other cultures think.
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It expands my horizon and then I'm able to make all of these interesting connections between them.
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Managing your anxiety and expanding the possibilities,
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the things that you consider and the things that you let into your material that's what's going to make you more creative.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “How to Be Truly Creative”. Las palabras que más se repiten: anxiety, deeper, creative, rush, answer. Este vídeo tiene 73 frases y 707 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:11. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 169 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 82 % 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 |
|---|---|---|
| creativity sustantivo | /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/ | creatividad |
| compel verbo | /kəmˈpɛl/ | compeler |
| multidimensional adjetivo | multidimensional, pluridimensional | |
| overwhelm verbo | /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/ | apabullar, arrollar |
| twofold adjetivo | /ˈtuːfəʊld/ | doble |
| persist verbo | /pɚˈsɪst/ | persistir |
| screenplay sustantivo | /ˈskɹiːnˌpleɪ/ | guion, script |
| motivate verbo | /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/ | motivar |
| withstand verbo | /wɪðˈstænd/ | aguantar |
| distract verbo | /dɪˈstɹækt/ | distraer, despistar |
| canvas sustantivo | /ˈkæn.vəs/ | lona |
| organize verbo | /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/ | organizar |
| disposal sustantivo | /dɪsˈpoʊ.zəl/ | desecho |
| civilization sustantivo | /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/ | civilización |
| horizon sustantivo | /həˈɹaɪ.zən/ | horizonte |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| go through verbo | atravesar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- You're going deeper and deeper and deeper into something.
- I'm not sure where this is going.
- I'm going to keep pushing through.
- What is it that I haven't considered?
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 28 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, I'm, you'll. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: dimensional /daɪˈmɛn.ʃə.nəl/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: dimensional /daɪˈmɛn.ʃə.nəl/, creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, motivate /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/, canvas /ˈkæn.vəs/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: organize /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/, disposal /dɪsˈpoʊ.zəl/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, horizon /həˈɹaɪ.zən/
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 creativity, compel, multidimensional.
¿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.