Shadowing Practice: I Had To Leave My Toxic Boyfriend - Learn English Speaking with Video

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in eighth grade me
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and this one guy we were pretty close friends he asked me out one night
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and i didn't really like him that much
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but in all honesty i did not want to hurt his feelings at all
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so i said yeah and we ended up dating for a pretty long time like a year
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and two months throughout like the last month or
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so of our relationship he was just like kind of mean
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to me he was only mean to me whenever his friends were around really
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so I'm assuming he was just trying to show off
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so we broke up people on like snapchat
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and stuff for texting me like oh why did you
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and this guy break up cuz like it was known all
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around school we were kind of like the power couple of the school
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and so I posted on my story we broke up it was kind of a mutual decision
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but we also broke up because he was kind of mean to me
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and would like make fun of the stuff I liked because I liked pretty nerdy things or whatever.
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I had blocked him at this point.
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So he had responded to that story from his sister's account and he pretty much just like laid it all into me.
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Just like, why would you say stuff like that?
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It's not even true.
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I was like, I only said it because people were asking and yeah, it is true.
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Like I tried to stay civil,
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not try to fight with him.
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He ended up calling me just awful things.
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I was really, really upset with that.
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Like that's kind of the first time anything like that's like happened to me before.
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My ex literally told me that i should kill myself
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and nobody would miss me like i was taken aback obviously
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but i was like wow this dude's trying way too hard at this point
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and when i was walking with my friend we hear him yell to me hey like
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and then his friends started laughing and stuff My name is BJ
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and you know BJ can be short for or whatever
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But the thing that really really messed me up me
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and the same friend from before We were walking in the hallway and we didn't really realize but we were walking
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Right in front of my ex and he had pushed past me
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and like slam his backpack into me
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And at this point I was really mad
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So I grabbed onto his handle on his backpack and I had pulled him really hard and I said,
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What the f* is wrong with you?
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But that wasn't a good idea because
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that got me pushed into an art display case and then I got knocked onto the ground.
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And that was absolutely awful.
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So I guess that's the story of my awful ex.
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I literally jumped off the cliff and had to swim all the way to shore
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because the dog chased us all the way to the end.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “I Had To Leave My Toxic Boyfriend”. Las palabras que más se repiten: awful, broke, walking. Este vídeo tiene 45 frases y 514 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:43. El hablante habla rápido, unas 189 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 88 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 14 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
awful adjetivo/ˈɔːfʊl/infumable, malísimo
backpack sustantivo/ˈbæk.pæk/mochila, alforja
chase verbo/t͡ʃeɪs/perseguir, asenderear
knock verbo/nɑk/llamar a, golpear
shore sustantivo/ʃɔɹ/orilla, vera
mutual adjetivo/ˈmjuːt͡ʃuəl/mutuo, mutual
swim verbo/swɪm/nadar
eighth adjetivo/eɪtθ/octavo
cliff sustantivo/klɪf/acantilado, precipicio
slam verbo/ˈslæm/azotar, dar un portazo
honesty sustantivo/ˈɑ.nɪ.sti/honradez, sinceridad
yell verbo/jɛl/gritar, vociferar
hallway sustantivo/ˈhɔlˌweɪ/pasillo, pasadizo
aback adverbio/əˈbæk/atrás, hacia atrás

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
break up verboseparar, cisionar
end up verboterminar, ir a parar
show off verbochulear, lucir

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 4 contracciones y formas reducidas, como didn't, I'm, wasn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: swim /swɪm/, slam /ˈslæm/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como awful, backpack, chase.

¿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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