Shadowing Practice: How to Love without fear - Learn English Speaking with Video
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What is the most difficult in love?
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We regularly get into difficulties in love
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because we refuse to accept how much reassurance and stroking we need from the person we love.
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We imagine we're grown up.
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We don't want to countenance how fragile and easily wounded we might be.
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We don't want to see the always susceptible and sensitive child beneath the impressive adult.
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And so, in the face of so-called small things that have undeniably hurt us – a missing warm comment here,
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a lack of touch there – we go numb instead.
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We silently and swiftly pull up the drawbridge.
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We unconsciously prepare to recriminate.
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We tell ourselves that we have a lot of work to do and should spend more time by ourselves.
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The last thing we can acknowledge is that we might be sad, confused and secretly furious.
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It would help a lot if we could recognise with grace
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that when it comes to relationships we are all without a skin.
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We feel everything, whether we choose to register the fact or not.
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We are alive to every nuance in our partner's behaviour towards us.
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We notice and are pained by every piece of distance, every movement of incomprehension and every minor slight.
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It is obviously profoundly tempting to deny such exposure.
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Who wants to be constantly reminded
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that they have in effect forfeited their independence to the moods and inclinations of a wholly autonomous fellow human?
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How much more comforting to subsist under the illusion
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that we might be immune to minor slights and that our spirits remain substantially in our own hands.
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And yet, it would be fairer and a good deal cleaner to accept that once we are in love,
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we have no option but to feel everything that goes on between ourselves and a partner.
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We have to know on a daily, even hourly basis that we continue to matter to them.
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It's no use pretending to be made of rock, of attempting to be recklessly and eventually angrily and coldly brave.
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We need to put in place measures to preserve love in the face of our ongoing vulnerability.
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We need regularly to check in with one another and ask, Have I hurt you?
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And then as regularly say, I do still love you.
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It's no sign of being infantile to approach love with immense, almost implausible sensitivity.
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It is a sign that we have at last accepted what a grown-up is and needs.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “How to Love without fear”. Este vídeo tiene 31 frases y 412 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:39. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 156 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 |
|---|---|---|
| angrily adverbio | /ˈæŋ.ɡɹə.li/ | furiosamente, con ira |
| coldly adverbio | /ˈkoʊldli/ | fríamente |
| countenance sustantivo | /ˈkaʊn.tə.nəns/ | semblante, apariencia |
| drawbridge sustantivo | /ˈdɹɔːbɹɪd͡ʒ/ | puente levadizo |
| forfeit verbo | /ˈfɔɹ.fɪt/ | desmerecer de, desmerecerse de |
| implausible adjetivo | no / poco / nada plausible, inverosímil | |
| inclination sustantivo | /ˌɪn.klɪˈneɪ.ʃən/ | inclinación |
| infantile adjetivo | /ˈɪnfəntaɪl/ | infantil, pueril |
| nuance sustantivo | /ˈnjuː.ɑːns/ | matiz, prestancia |
| reassurance sustantivo | reaseguranza | |
| recklessly adverbio | a las bravas, a troche y moche | |
| recriminate verbo | /ɹɪˈkɹɪmɪneɪt/ | recriminar |
| subsist verbo | /səbˈsɪst/ | subsistir |
| unconsciously adverbio | /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəsli/ | inconscientemente |
| undeniably adverbio | incontrovertiblemente, innegablemente |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| grow up verbo | crecer |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 3 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, we're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: inclination /ˌɪn.klɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, unconsciously /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəsli/, illusion /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: inclination /ˌɪn.klɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, recriminate /ɹɪˈkɹɪmɪneɪt/, unconsciously /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəsli/, vulnerability /ˌvʌln(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪti/, autonomous /ɔˈtɑnəməs/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vulnerability /ˌvʌln(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪti/, sensitivity /ˌsɛn.səˈtɪv.ə.ti/, preserve /pɹəˈzɝv/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: drawbridge /ˈdɹɔːbɹɪd͡ʒ/, fragile /ˈfɹæd͡ʒəl/, acknowledge /əkˈnɑ.lɪd͡ʒ/
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 angrily, coldly, countenance.
¿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.