Shadowing Practice: HOW TO DO A BRITISH ACCENT CONVINCINGLY (2) FOR AMERICAN ACTORS (Acting Coach NYC) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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This is film two and there are three particular sounds
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which I'm going to ask you to repeat after me
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and I want you to be able to do these as exactly right as possible.
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If you don't know these sounds, it's rather like me doing an American accent and in the middle of it all dropping in the word tomato.
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So the first is a sound as in ask, which of course Brits pronounce as R as in ask.
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So please after me say ask.
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And now to ask something.
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Even if you know about words like ask,
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I'd like you to repeat these after me as the aim is to become conscious of these particular sounds.
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There is a.. it's not ask.
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There is a very silly upper-class British accent which talks away like this and ask, to ask something.
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I'll go into that when I'm doing a film on comedy.
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But in any case you have to learn this sound first.
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So for cast, please say cast.
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And for fast, please say fast.
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We ask to be cast fast.
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You don't need to remember any of these words, just to really get used to the sound of the change, from after to after.
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And just say them when I wave at the camera or if the words appear on the screen.
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Half is half.
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Task is task.
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After half the task on the raft.
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Laugh is laugh.
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Cant is can't.
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Bath is bath.
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He can't laugh in the bath.
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Example is example.
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Command is command.
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Grass is grass.
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For example, I command you to stay on the grass.
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Now, there are exceptions.
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A hand doesn't become a hand.
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And doesn't become and.
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But command does become command.
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And there's a rule which explains
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which letters have to follow the sound to make this change but there are exceptions to that, and if you try and learn it all, I think it'll just make things very, very difficult.
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Anyway, when you're listening to British Accent now, to anything on YouTube, start looking out for this particular sound now.
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One last time, this example takes us halfway, or part of the way,
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on the fast path to a perfect accent.
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I'd like you now to say the four words
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that are going to appear on the screen out loud with your British accent,
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please, and keep repeating the word until the next word appears on the screen.
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So here's the first.
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So, that was bath, if you'd say it again.
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And not photographs, but again say photographs.
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And not a glass, but a glass.
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And not laughter, but laughter.
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OK.
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Now, by the end of this film, you should be able to consciously notice whenever this kind of change comes up,
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then everything else about the British accent will start soaking into you around
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that sound around that sound and these other two ones we're going to work on, but that's the first one.
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Not ask, but ask.
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And the next is the letter R.
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Brits don't sound it when it's followed by a consonant.
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So when you say arm, we say arm.
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And even if you don't feel you say a little r in arm or hurt, normally, please say after me, not hurt, but hurt.
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My arm hurt.
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And not court, but caught.
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So Brits say court and court in exactly the same way.
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There's no difference at all.
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So please say after me, I was in court as I was caught.
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So we cut the R out before a consonant.
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So the name Mark is Mark. And at the end...
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Oop!
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Right, so where were we?
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Something to do with caught and caught.
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Yes, I was in court as I was caught.
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So cutting out this R before a consonant.
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And Brits don't say the R at the end of words like car.
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It's a car.
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Now this may sound like a very slight difference, car and car, but it's the ability to get that difference,
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that slight difference, right all the time that really makes you sound like a Brit.
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So, sir is sir.
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Far is far.
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Mark's car is far away, sir.
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And at the end of bigger words we cut it out, like in mother, it's mother.
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Father, other, tour is tour.
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Other mothers and fathers were on tour.
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So Brits don't say hard or harder as the R is followed by a D.
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And not third, but third.
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Third.
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And door, the word door, almost becomes door, D-A-W.
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So the third door is harder.
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My heart was mortally hurt when you hurled that marker at me.
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Now, don't think, please, or worry about the rest of the sounds in that sentence, or how silly the sentence is.
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It's just that there are no R sounds.
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It's not, my heart was mortally hurt when you hurled that marker at me,
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but my heart was mortally hurt when you hurled that marker at me.
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So hopefully you'll now be looking out for this R in scripts, and when you hear Brits talking, and when you hear Americans talking,
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that Americans sound it and Brits don't.
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So please repeat these three words
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that are gonna come up on the screen in your British accent and keep saying them until the next word appears.
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So here's the first one.
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Right, so that's not chair, but chair.
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And not curtains, but curtains.
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And this is quite an interesting one, not Shakespeare, but Shakespeare.
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Now, when I say it like that, Shakespeare, It might sound to Americans as sort of, particularly because of my accent, as Shakespeare.
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Oh, Shakespeare's so lovely, I love Shakespeare.
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It does sound a bit like that in a way, but however we're saying the word, if we're saying, you know, bloody Shakespeare, we just say, oh, bloody Shakespeare.
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That's the way the word's pronounced, we just don't say the R sound.
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So it's Shakespeare.
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Getting these three sounds perfect, the ah and the ah and the third one that's coming up now,
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will change the way you listen to a British accent for a while.
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And you'll pick up on other sounds amazingly quickly.
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Even listening to other films that I've got on this system, don't bother to listen to what I'm talking about.
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Just listen to what I'm saying and how some words like mask, I pronounce them as mask.
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So we only pronounce the R when it's followed by a vowel, like in Colorado, or as Y counts as a vowel in the word carry.
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So then we pronounce it like Americans do, but not in the word art.
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It's art.
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And it's just a coincidence that R and the letter R and T spell the word art.
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It might help you to remember them, but that's just an accident.
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An accident.
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So the last of these three sounds that I want you to nail,
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after ask becoming ask, and large becoming large, because R is followed by the G.
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Not large, but large.
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This third sound, much easier, because it doesn't come up that often, but it really stands out, is the letter T.
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And it stands out because Americans pronounce it as a D, in some words.
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You say a bottle and better and attitude.
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So in a British accent bottle is bottle and butter is butter and fatter is fatter.
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Butter makes us fatter.
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My daughter ought to have So again,
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it's not with a D in the middle of daughter and in the middle of order have caught her.
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It's my daughter ought to have caught her.
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And I said the word tomato earlier on.
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It's not only tomorrow that British say, but the second T is not a D, so it's not tomorrow, but tomato.
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Sounds a small thing, but you get that right, and people just think, oh, well, he's obviously British.
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So it's A in the word after, and no R when it's followed by a consonant like in farm.
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So say, my ma is calm on the farm.
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So calm and farm rhyme exactly.
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There's no R in calm.
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We don't pronounce the L.
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And there's no R effectively in farm.
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So calm and farm are exactly the same.
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My ma is calm on the farm.
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We like large art in Colorado.
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So it's not large, large, but large.
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Now, please repeat these three words that'll come up on the screen out loud.
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Keep saying them in a British accent till the next word comes up.
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So that was Empire State Building, so there's no R at the end of Empire State Building, and there's a slight tendency to say State with a D,
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State Building, State Building, and if there's anything in British there's a slight tendency to say a T, State Building.
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And Water, and the first part of the name of Shakespeare's play, Titus.
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So it's not Titus Andronicus, but Titus.
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And then when you know these sounds, when you recognise them all the time, you'll naturally absorb all the other little things about the British accent,
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like the OR in all, all you have to do is call in the fall.
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And the OO having a Y behind it in New York.
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and also in words that you'll notice and start collecting, like assume and Tuesday.
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I assume it's Tuesday.
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And that we don't say accent, we say accent.
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Not accent, but accent.
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Right, now, just say after me these lines, please.
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So you'd better go now.
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When you listen to British accents, try hard not to copy one voice.
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It's important to hang on to your own.
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Make sure you find the right accent to listen to.
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Nearly all British accents now include a mixture of other accents.
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But virtually all British plays, the ones produced in the USA anyway,
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require the accent I'm using.
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So, search for people and films on YouTube that are about people who are clearly middle class like me.
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Now, you'll find more details on my website about exactly what it means to be British class
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and you'll probably look for interviews successfully on YouTube by people like Emma Thompson,
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Judy Dench and Helen Mirren, who are very middle class.
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And one last quick thought, which is to remind you that what you have to do, as I answer my strange doorbell, to remind you that your job as actors is to act,
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to give a performance.
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So don't worry yourself to death about the accent all the time.
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In the end, you've got to deal with that, what the play is, what the character is.
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So thanks very much for watching.
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I'm going to answer the doorbell.
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Bye-bye.
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Hello, my doorbell.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Este vídeo tiene 168 frases y 1793 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 14:51. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 121 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 86 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| accent sustantivo | /ækˈsɛnt/ | acento léxico |
| bath sustantivo | /bɑːθ/ | bañera |
| slight adjetivo | /slaɪt/ | insignificante, leve |
| butter sustantivo | /ˈbʌtɚ/ | mantequilla, manteca |
| grass sustantivo | /ɡɹɑːs/ | pasto, hierba |
| tomato sustantivo | /təˈmeɪ.toʊ/ | tomate, jitomate |
| litter sustantivo | /ˈlɪt.ɚ/ | cama, lecho |
| silly adjetivo | /ˈsɪl.i/ | bobo, tonto |
| remind verbo | /ɹəˈmaɪnd/ | (hacer) recordar/arrecordar, hacer acordar/arrecordar (se de) |
| exception sustantivo | /əkˈsɛpʃən/ | excepción, salvedad |
| mask sustantivo | /mæsk/ | máscara, mascarilla |
| photograph sustantivo | /ˈfoʊ.təˌɡɹæf/ | fotografía, toma fotográfica |
| laughter sustantivo | /ˈlæftɚ/ | risa |
| tendency sustantivo | /ˈtɛn.dən.si/ | tendencia |
| curtain sustantivo | /ˈkɜɹt(ə)n/ | cortina |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| come up verbo | salir a relucir |
| cut out verbo | dejar de, dejar |
| pick up on verbo | percatarse de, pillar |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 44 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, you'll. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: bath /bɑːθ/, bother /ˈbɑðɚ/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: exception /əkˈsɛpʃən/, conscious /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, successfully /səkˈsɛs.fə.li/, virtually /ˈvɚ.t͡ʃə.wə.li/, coincidence /kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/, amazingly /əˈmeɪzɪŋli/
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 accent, bath, slight.
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | be cast · was caught · is followed |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | people who are · thought, which is |
¿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.