Shadowing Practice: How to Love Your Work - Learn English Speaking with Video
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In a perfect world, when it came to choosing an occupation, we would have only two priorities in mind: Firstly, to find a job that we enjoyed.
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and secondly to find a job that paid us enough to cover reasonable material needs.
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But in order to think so freely, we would have to be emotionally balanced in a way that few of us actually are.
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In reality, when it comes to choosing an occupation, we tend to be haunted by three additional priorities: we need to find a job
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that will pay not just enough to cover reasonable material expenses, but a lot more besides: enough to impress other people,
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even other people we don't like very much.
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We also crave to find a job that will allow us not to be at the mercy of other people, whom we may deep down fear and distrust.
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And, we hope for a job that will make us known.
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esteemed, honoured and perhaps famous, so that we will never again have to feel small or neglected.
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Needless to say, these three additional requirements make working life hugely more complicated
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and unhappy than it would otherwise have needed to be.
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No wonder we may get stuck choosing what to do.
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Rather than being able to focus on the jobs that we are passionate about and that we would intrinsically enjoy, we have to twist our natures to appease extrinsic imperatives.
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There is no way that we could, for example, work as a kindergarten teacher, a psychotherapist, a carpenter or a cook.
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Our psychological drive to impress, to have power over others and to be known to strangers, preclude such relatively modest choices from the outset.
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The state of our psyches means that we have to aim for far more stellar careers, even in fields we don't really much like,
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and we may have to work much harder than is good for our health or our families.
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We are prone to be constantly panicked because the bar for failing is so much higher.
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A slight wind of disapproval from the public might be experienced as appalling.
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A bit less money than the astronomical sum we made last year will register as fateful Under pressure, we may make unwise and hasty moves.
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We might cut corners, involve ourselves in risky schemes, and not give our work the time and calm it needs.
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What would enable us to make the right career choices is something that seems, on the face of it, to have nothing to do with work at all.
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Love a profound experience of love in both childhood and adulthood.
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A child who is properly loved is a creature who doesn't need to prove itself in any significant way.
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It doesn't have to excel at school, dazzle acquaintances or shore up a parent's fragile sense of esteem.
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It may do well at school anyway, but because it enjoys the work, not because it has to boost a parent.
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It can find its way to its own pleasures.
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It doesn't need to amaze because it's special enough just by existing.
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It may end up working extremely hard, but it will do so because it is passionate, not because it craves applause.
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It can concentrate on doing a job very well, while unimpeded by any worries as to whether it will be known in a hundred years or to people in another city.
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It can potter away in obscurity, deriving gratification from the business at hand.
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An experience of adult love further enhances the sense of security we need.
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When someone properly loves us, their patience, concern and tenderness make us feel rooted and welcome on the earth.
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It doesn't really matter if no one knows who we are
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and if there's very little left over at the end of the month.
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"Two people who are in love will be happy to sleep on a park bench," wrote DH Lawrence.
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an idea which may not be literally true, but which conveys well enough what room for manoeuvre love gives us in relation to our material priorities.
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It follows that when people crave power, fortune and fame, it isn't greed that's driving them, but an anguished feeling of being unloved,
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for which we can feel enormous compassion.
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They may look like winners ; they are in reality unhappy victims.
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Excessive achievements are the legacy of an emotionally damaged sense that it isn't enough just to be.
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It may have become second nature to us to try to fix emotional wounds through our career choices and exploits.
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We may not even realise what we're up to.
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We should dare to ask: what might I have done with my life if I had felt properly loved from the start?
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And we may have to acknowledge, with tears in our eyes, how different our path would have been,
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how many genuine ambitions we sacrificed in the name of shoring up a sense of acceptability we should have had from infancy.
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The most astonishing career achievements will never compensate anyone for the lack of love they've suffered.
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Work cannot fix a deficit of love.
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we should enjoy work on its own terms, and in another part of our lives,
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mourn and seek redemptive substitutes for the love we originally lacked.
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How to Get On with Your Colleagues provides a guide to the most difficult aspect of the workplace: creating harmonious working relationships.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Este vídeo tiene 51 frases y 900 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:30. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 164 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 81 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
15 palabras menos comunes del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
- priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/ (sustantivo) — prioridad. An item's relative importance.
- achievement /əˈt͡ʃiːv.mənt/ (sustantivo) — logro. The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment.
- shore /ʃɔɹ/ (sustantivo) — orilla, vera. Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.
- occupation /ˌɑkjʊˈpeɪʃən/ (sustantivo) — ocupación. An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a…
- passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/ (adjetivo) — apasionado. Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
- unhappy /ʌnˈhæpi/ (adjetivo) — infeliz. Not happy; sad.
- emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/ (adverbio) — emocionalmente. In an emotional manner; displaying emotion.
- impress /ɪmˈpɹɛs/ (verbo) — impresionar. To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
- complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/ (adjetivo) — complicado. Difficult or convoluted.
- suffer /ˈsʌfɚ/ (verbo) — sufrir, penar. To undergo hardship.
- aspect /ˈæspɛkt/ (sustantivo) — aspecto. Any specific feature, part, or element of something.
- boost /buːst/ (verbo) — aupar, upar. To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up.
- bench /ˈbɛnt͡ʃ/ (sustantivo) — banco, banca. A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools.
- genuine /ˈd͡ʒɛn.juˌɪn/ (adjetivo) — genuino, auténtico. Belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native.
- legacy /ˈlɛɡəsi/ (sustantivo) — legado. Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
- end up (verbo) — terminar, ir a parar. To bring to a conclusion.
- get on with (verbo) — hacer, realizar. To proceed with; to begin or continue, especially after an interruption.
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 10 contracciones y formas reducidas, como doesn't, don't, isn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shore /ʃɔɹ/, occupation /ˌɑkjʊˈpeɪʃən/, passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, relation /ɹɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, occupation /ˌɑkjʊˈpeɪʃən/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, psychological /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/
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 priority, achievement, shore.
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 haunted · be known · might be experienced |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | have needed · have done · they've suffered |
¿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.