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I hate the Argentine football team.

They are the most despicable, time-wasting, cheating, cynical, nasty, that have ever existed.

The New Zealand rugby union team, possibly the greatest rugby union team of all time, the New Zealand All Blacks,

have a policy called the No Dickheads Policy.

And that works like this.

If they think you're a dickhead, regardless of your talent, you will never ever put on the all-black shirt and play for the all-blacks.

You will get kicked out.

Whereas Argentina have a policy called the all-dickhead policy, which is the only way you get to play for Argentina is if you're a massive bellend.

So you just have to look at their behavior.

The cynicism, the nastiness, the kicking, the persistent fouling.

The moment you touch them, they throw themselves to the ground like they've actually just been shot.

The moment that you touch Messi, there's about 10 of them that just come flooding around and shouting and screaming.

I don't know, like he's some just disabled child who's in a wheelchair

and you've just kicked him into a canal and everybody's had a meltdown like suddenly you're the bad guy.

Instead of him just being a socially awkward, inept dwarf who's brilliant at football and that's about it, and yet you're not allowed to challenge him.

This is what these people are.

And for those of you thinking it's sour grapes, yeah, possibly it's sour grapes, but I don't care.

It's my show.

And this is more important than this, and I'll tell you why.

I'm half South American, Venezuelan, everyone can drink, right?

I grew up, I spent a lot of time in South America and Venezuela.

And I love football.

I've always loved football since before it was cool, since I was eight years old, 1990.

And I used to watch football in South America, in Venezuela.

And in Venezuela, we've got a rubbish football team, but they beat, they're a baseball nation.

And by the way, they beat America, the United States of baseball in a series of three.

So they're great at their own sport.

Obviously, it's not a real sport.

No one, I mean, it's baseball, come on.

Anyway, but they like it, fair play, whatever.

But when the World Cup's on and there's a South American team playing, I'm talking about, I don't know, Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru.

Everybody will sit down and watch the game and they'll cheer on the South American teams.

They will always do that.

They'll always cheer them on.

The only one they won't cheer on are, that's right, the Argentines.

Why is that?

Because everybody hates them.

You know how everybody hates them because of the nickname that they're given.

You know what we call the Argentines in South America?

The English of South America.

That's how you know they're hated.

They are the worst.

They are the worst team.

The thing that makes it so egregious is their team is filled with incredibly talented footballers.

They don't have to behave the way that they do, but they behave the way that they do because they're dks.

That's why they behave like that.

They don't have to.

They don't need to do that in order to win.

They do that because that's who they are.

There's a very famous joke in Venezuela which talks about the arrogance of the Argentine, and it goes like this.

An Argentine man goes to the bar and he's drunk.

And he gets absolutely plastered and he meets a guy at a bar

and he's obviously he's arrogant like most RG's are and he puts his arm around him and he goes, right, you're going to come home with me.

I have the best house in the whole town.

I have the most beautiful wife.

You are going to see the best.

Only the best.

So he takes his bloke back, not in a sexual way, get your head out of the gutter.

And he talks him round.

He takes him to the living he goes you see the sofa see

that sofa the best leather the softest level feel the lever i so soft

so beautiful takes him to the kitchen he goes you see this work surfaces the marble it is pink marble

taken from italy it is used before in the roman temples

but it has been retaken

and it is now in my kitchen it's a beautiful marble he takes him to the bedroom

and his wife is there getting absolutely pounded by another man in front of them

and the guy's looking around looks at the argentine the argentine

points at the man shagging his wife looks at the guy

and goes you see that man over there that is me and

that is the argentine mentality my friends a terrible country filled

with terrible people who i'm just gonna say it a nation of cheats maradona right the way through every time they cheat,

lie, in order to get what they want.

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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 Hate the Argentine Football Team”. Las palabras que más se repiten: argentine, football, goes, America, Venezuela. Este vídeo tiene 72 frases y 841 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:12. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 162 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 84 % 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
argentine sustantivo	/ˈɑː(ɹ).d͡ʒənˌtiːn/	argentina, pez plata
marble sustantivo	/ˈmɑɹ.bəl/	mármol, alioj (disused)
behave verbo	/bɪˈheɪv/	portarse
cheat verbo	/ˈt͡ʃiːt/	enfullar, machetear
grape sustantivo	/ɡɹeɪp/	uva, malvasía
sofa sustantivo	/ˈsoʊ̯fə/	sofá, sillón
sour adjetivo	/ˈsaʊ.ə/	avinagrado, acedado
cynicism sustantivo	/ˈsɪn.ɪˌsɪzəm/	cinismo
despicable adjetivo	/dɪˈspɪkəbəl/	desdeñable, despreciable
egregious adjetivo	/ɪˈɡɹiː.d͡ʒəs/	egregio
retake verbo	/ɹiːˈteɪk/	retomar
disable verbo	/dɪsˈeɪbəl/	inutilizar
plaster sustantivo	/ˈplæstɚ/	ungüento
meltdown sustantivo	/ˈmɛltˌdaʊn/	copelación/fundición nuclear, derretimiento nuclear
bloke sustantivo	/bloʊk/	tío, tipo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Significado
grow up verbo	crecer
kick out verbo	echar, poner de patitas en la calle
sit down verbo	sentarse

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

Estructura	En el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	have ever existed · they've actually just been shot · you've just kicked
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	been shot · is filled
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa	policy, which is · people who i

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

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

Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: rubbish /ˈɹʌbɪʃ/, socially /ˈsoʊʃəli/, shout /ʃaʊt/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: cynicism /ˈsɪn.ɪˌsɪzəm/, despicable /dɪˈspɪkəbəl/, mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: behave /bɪˈheɪv/, lever /ˈliː.və/
/dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: argentine /ˈɑː(ɹ).d͡ʒənˌtiːn/, egregious /ɪˈɡɹiː.d͡ʒəs/
/h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: behave /bɪˈheɪv/, wheelchair /ˈ(h)wilt͡ʃɛɹ/

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 argentine, marble, behave.

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