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The first seven years I'd worked on this problem, I loved every minute of it.
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However hard it had been, there'd been setbacks often, there'd been things that had seemed insurmountable,
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but it was a kind of private and very personal battle I was engaged in.
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In September, I decided to go back
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and look one more time at the original structure of Flack and Kohlvergian to try and pinpoint exactly why it wasn't working,
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try and formulate it precisely.
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I never really do that in mathematics, but I just wanted to set my mind at rest, that it really couldn't be made to work.
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At the beginning of September I was sitting here at this desk when suddenly,
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totally unexpectedly, I had this incredible revelation.
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It was the most important moment of my working life.
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It was so indescribably beautiful.
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It was so simple and so elegant.
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And I just stared in disbelief for 20 minutes.
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Then during the day I walked around the department, I'd keep coming back to my desk and looking to see it was still there, it was still there.
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Almost what seemed to be stopping the method of flack and color bargain was exactly what would make horizontally the solid theory, my original approach to the problem from three years before,
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would make exactly that work.
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So out of the ashes seemed to rise the true answer to the problem.
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So the first night I went back and stepped on it, I checked through it again the next morning,
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and about 11 o'clock I was satisfied, and I went down and told my wife, I've got it.
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I think I've got it.
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I found it.
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And it was so unexpected.
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I think she thought I was talking about a children's toy or something.
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She said, got what?
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And said, I've fixed my proof.
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I've got it.
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There's no other problem that will mean the same to me.
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I had this very rare privilege of being able to pursue...
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in my adult life what had been my childhood dream.
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I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can do this, it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “"I loved every minute of it, however hard it had been"”. Este vídeo tiene 30 frases y 362 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:13. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 113 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 83 % 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 12 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
flak sustantivo/flæk/fuego antiaéreo
formulate verbo/ˈfɔː(ɹ)mjʊleɪt/formular
horizontally adverbiohorizontalmente
indescribably adverbioindescriptiblemente
insurmountable adjetivoinsalvable, insuperable
setback sustantivo/ˈsɛtbæk/contratiempo, descalabro
unexpectedly adverbio/ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪdli/inesperadamente, inopinadamente
stare verbo/stɛɚ/mirar fijamente, quedarse mirando
elegant adjetivo/ˈɛləɡənt/elegante, chic
bargain sustantivo/ˈbɑːɹɡən/trato, ganga
revelation sustantivo/ˌɹɛv.əˈleɪ.ʃən/revelación, develamiento
satisfy verbo/ˈsætɪsfaɪ/satisfacer

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
walk around verbodeambular

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 10 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I've, I'd, there'd. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: unexpectedly /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪdli/, revelation /ˌɹɛv.əˈleɪ.ʃən/

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 flak, formulate, horizontally.

¿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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