Shadowing Practice: I Jumped From Space (World Record Supersonic Freefall) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I'm the guy who jumped from space.
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I wanted to be the first human outside of an aircraft breaking the sound barrier.
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I always can see what I can see.
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I almost weigh twice the weight that I normally have, and it's very difficult to do a perfect exit, do not over-rotate.
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Because if I start over-rotating, there's no air that you can use to slow down.
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Okay, John, we're ready.
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Okay, here we go, Felix.
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I'm going over.
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Trucker away.
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The first 25 seconds, it looked like everything was under control.
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And after 34 seconds, I hit Mach 1 and I broke the speed of sound.
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Was that him breaking the...
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Yeah. That was our goal.
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I wanted to be the first human outside of an aircraft breaking the sound barrier the sound barrier.
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Because of the fact
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that a lot of those scientists said prior to the jump you're going to spin like crazy
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and the other half said we don't think anything is going to happen.
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I was mentally prepared to spin but I was hoping that I'm not going to spin.
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Now if you watch the next couple seconds you see at that moment it slowly starts to spin and it's getting faster.
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The problem is there's no protocol.
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There's in the world telling you, listen Felix, if this happens, you have to do this while the whole world is watching.
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Then I was trying to move my arms around a little bit, just maybe it does something, and then it stopped for a second, but now it starts getting the opposite direction, you know?
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And then it really ramps up.
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At that moment, it's not about breaking records anymore.
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At that moment, it's all about survival.
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There's only one way for the blood to leave your skull, and that's through all the eyeballs.
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If that happens, you're gonna die.
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I had a Chi Whisp attached to my hand.
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The Chi Whisp is a device that it fires a drogue shoot that pulls you out of that flat spin.
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That's why I put my hands in to trick that Chi Whisp.
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It's less Chi, and now the Chi Whisp senses, oh, less Chi, that means he's getting it under control.
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I turned around and I was stable as well.
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So when you look at my suit, you know, the more you fall, the more depressurized the suit gets.
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And here you can already see the suit flapping.
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You look at the sky, it's blue now.
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So we went from black sky back to blue sky.
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If you look at the right corner, Luke was dropping some flares and it gives me the perfect direction for the wind.
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Now this is a very important moment.
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Very first time after hours and hours inside that spacesuit that I'm breathing regular air.
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So now I'm really happy because even the landing worked just perfect.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 40 frases y 484 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:19. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 146 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. 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

15 palabras menos comunes del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

  • spin /spɪn/ (verbo) — girar, rotar. To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
  • barrier /ˈbæɹi.ə/ (sustantivo) — barrera. A structure that bars passage.
  • rotate /ˈɹoʊ.teɪt/ (verbo) — girar. To spin, turn, or revolve.
  • stable /ˈsteɪ.bəl/ (sustantivo) — establo, cuadra. A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.
  • trick /ˈtɹɪk/ (sustantivo) — truco, artimaña. Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
  • survival /sɚˈvaɪ.vəl/ (sustantivo) — supervivencia, pervivencia. The fact or act of surviving; continued existence or life.
  • exit /ˈɛɡzət/ (sustantivo) — salida, partida. An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
  • breathe /bɹiːð/ (verbo) — respirar. To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
  • scientist /ˈsaɪəntəst/ (sustantivo) — científico, científica. One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research…
  • mentally /ˈmɛntəli/ (adverbio) — mentalmente. In a mental manner; an idea thought out in one's mind, as opposed to an idea spoken orally.
  • weigh /weɪ/ (verbo) — pesar. To determine the weight of an object.
  • attach /əˈtæt͡ʃ/ (verbo) — adjuntar, atachar. To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
  • flare /flɛɚ̯/ (sustantivo) — bengala, luz de Bengala. A sudden bright light.
  • depressurize /diːˈpɹɛʃəɹaɪz/ (verbo) — despresurizar. To reduce the air pressure within a chamber.
  • eyeball /ˈaɪ.bɔl/ (sustantivo) — globo ocular. The ball of the eye.

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

  • look at (verbo) — mirar, funar. To observe or watch.
  • slow down (verbo) — desacelerar, decelerar. To decelerate.
  • start over (verbo) — volver a empezar, empezar de cero. to begin again; to return to the beginning
  • turn around (verbo) — darle una vuelta, dar(se) una vuelta. To physically rotate (usually around a vertical axis) for a half turn (180 degrees), a whole turn (360 degrees), or an indefinite amount.

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 10 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, you're, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como spin, barrier, rotate.

¿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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