Shadowing Practice: "I Got Rich When I Understood This" | Jeff Bezos - Learn English Speaking with Video

I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people,

and I had a brilliant boss I much admired.

I went to my boss and told him I was going to start a company selling books on the internet.

He took me on a long walk in Central Park,

listened carefully to me, and finally said,

That sounds like a really good idea,

but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn't already have a good job.

You can have a job,

or you can have a career,

or you can have a calling.

And if you can somehow figure out how to have a calling,

you have hit the jackpot,

because that's the big deal.

I met Jeff Bezos 25 years ago,

and he told me, Dave,

I want you to invest in my company.

What are you doing?

a bookstore in my garage.

Okay, I'm going to put it online.

People buy online and I'm going to ship out of my garage.

But if you invest in me,

Dave, someday I'm going to be the richest man in the world.

I'll do over $100 billion.

First of all, there's no such thing as $100 billion 25 years ago.

Statistically, there's no such thing.

Countries didn't have our national debt wasn't $100 billion.

And this dude's telling me,

at 26 years old,

that he's going to be the richest man in the world because he has a garage and the internet? That was his truth.

No, but he did not know it, and neither did I.

But the difference between him and I is I was laughing,

scoffing, and jesting at him,

and he was already applauding himself,

going, at the right way,

at the perfect time, I'm going to make as much as I can as quickly,

and I'm sitting there going,

there's no way this is going to be a big business.

Do something you're very passionate about.

And don't try to chase what is kind of the hot passion of the day.

Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice.

But ultimately, I decided I had to give it a shot.

I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing.

And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.

After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion,

and I'm proud of that choice.

As a young boy, I had been a garage inventor.

I'd invented an automatic gate-closer out of cement-filled tires,

a solar cooker that didn't work very well out of an umbrella in aluminum foil,

baking pan alarms to entrap my siblings.

I'd always wanted to be an inventor and she wanted me to follow my passion.

There's a military phrase that I especially love and it says,

slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

And I have seen that in every endeavor I've ever been in.

That's the kind of thing that really allows you to make progress.

You know, you get certain gifts in life and you to take advantage of those.

But you, I guess my advice on adversity and success would be to be proud not of your gifts,

but of your hard work and your choices.

So you know, you may be,

the kinds of gifts you get,

you know, you might be really good at math,

might be really easy for you.

That's a kind of gift.

But practicing that math and taking it to the next step

that could be very challenging and hard and take a lot of sweat.

That's a choice.

You can't really be proud of your gifts because they were given to you.

You can be grateful for them and thankful for them,

but your choices, you choose to work hard,

you choose to do hard things.

Those are choices that you can be proud of.

You can choose.

We all get to choose our life stories and it's the choices that define us,

not our gifts.

Everybody in this room has many gifts.

I have many gifts.

You can never be proud of your gifts because they're gifts.

They were given to you.

You might be tall or you might be really good at math,

or you might be extremely beautiful or handsome,

or you know, there are many gifts,

and you can only be proud really of your choices,

because those are the things that you are acting on.

And one of the most important choices that each of us has,

and you know this just as well as I do,

is you can choose a life of ease and comfort,

or you can choose a life of service and adventure.

And when you're 80, which one of those things do you think you're going to be more proud of?

You're going to be more proud of having chosen a life of service and adventure.

There's never been a better time to be alive.

I mean, it's just incredible the amount of inspiration

that the world generates for me and I think for a lot of people.

It's just insane the amount of change and invention and opportunity.

Your life, the life you author from scratch on your own, begins.

How will you use your gifts?

What choices will you make?

Will inertia be your guide or will you follow your passions?

Will you follow dogma or will you be original?

Will you choose a life of ease or a life of service and adventure?

Will you wilt under criticism or will you follow your convictions?

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Will you bluff it out when you're wrong or will you apologize?

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Will you guard your heart against rejection or will you act when you fall in love?

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Will you play it safe or will you be a little bit swashbuckling?

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When it's tough, will you give up or will you be relentless?

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Will you be a cynic or will you be a builder?

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Will you be clever at the expense of others?

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Or will you be kind?

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Every time you figure out some way of providing tools and services that empower other people to deploy their creativity,

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you're really on to something.

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You know, you're very lucky if you have a career.

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A lot of people end up with a job.

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If you don't love your work,

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you're never going to be great at it.

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Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Galileo,

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Newton, all the curious from the ages would have wanted I wanted to be alive,

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most of all, right now.

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As a civilization, we will have so many gifts,

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just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.

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How will you use these gifts?

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And will you take pride in your gifts or pride in your choices?

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “"I Got Rich When I Understood This"”. Las palabras que más se repiten: gift, choice, proud, choose, follow. Este vídeo tiene 120 frases y 1139 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 8:02. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 142 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 82 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar. 18 de sus 120 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:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
mathematics sustantivo	/mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/	matemáticas, matemática
inventor sustantivo	/ɪnˈvɛntɚ/	inventor, inventora
adversity sustantivo	/ædˈvɜː.sɪ.ti/	adversidad
applaud verbo	/əˈplɔd/	aplaudir
cooker sustantivo	/ˈkʊkɚ/	cocina, estufa
entrap verbo	/ɪnˈtɹæp/	entrampar, entrampillar
inertia sustantivo	/ɪnˈɝ.ʃə/	inercia
jackpot sustantivo	/ˈd͡ʒækpɒt/	bote
relentless adjetivo	/ɹɪˈlɛntləs/	no relenteciente
empower verbo	/ɪmˈpaʊ.ə/	apoderar, dar permiso
haunt verbo	/hɔnt/	rondar, embrujar
endeavor sustantivo	/ɛnˈdɛv.ɚ/	tentativa, esfuerzo
invent verbo	/ɪnˈvɛnt/	inventar
bluff sustantivo	/blʌf/	farol, bluf
sibling sustantivo	/ˈsɪb.lɪŋ/	hermano, hermana

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Significado
figure out verbo	averiguar, captar
give up verbo	rendirse, entregar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

How will you use your gifts?
What choices will you make?
Will you follow dogma or will you be original?
Will you bluff it out when you're wrong or will you apologize?
When it's tough, will you give up or will you be relentless?

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 · were given
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	have hit · have seen

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 28 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, I'm, didn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “th”: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, thankful /ˈθæŋkfəl/
Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: inertia /ɪnˈɝ.ʃə/, rejection /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, invention /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/, passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, adversity /ædˈvɜː.sɪ.ti/, statistically /stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kə.li/, creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: statistically /stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kə.li/, sweat /swɛt/, scratch /skɹæt͡ʃ/
/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: inventor /ɪnˈvɛntɚ/, adversity /ædˈvɜː.sɪ.ti/, endeavor /ɛnˈdɛv.ɚ/, invent /ɪnˈvɛnt/, creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/
/z/ — sonora, no /s/: civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/

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 mathematics, inventor, adversity.

¿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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