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It is a beautiful day here in San Diego, California.
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I'm sitting on top of a lifeguard tower watching this massive swell come in
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because apparently we're in the middle of a hurricane and as a result there's some pretty good waves.
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But I just finished a five and a half mile run, feeling incredible, feeling blessed.
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And I wanted to make this video because I wish
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that my 18 to 24 year old younger self could have had this
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because it would have made a big difference in my life.
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and someone recently asked me they said how do you stay
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so calm yet ambitious at the same time
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and it was a really good question
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because in my past I had always been like so anxious
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and stressed and put so much pressure on myself to go out
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and achieve all these goals that I had set for myself as well as these expectations
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that I felt from other people not that they had ever explicitly said that they expected certain things from me,
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but I was putting this pressure on myself that I needed to go out and achieve these certain things.
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Whether that was material success, getting a certain type of job, making a certain amount of money, getting a certain type of house,
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or maybe it was relationships, like getting a girlfriend, getting engaged, marrying her, having a family,
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or just the type of person that I wanted to be.
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All of these different aspects of life where it's like, okay, there's a lot of expectation and pressure from other people,
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from myself that I want to live up to.
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And I have to do so much in order to make that happen.
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And it always seemed like no matter what I was doing, it was never enough, right?
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And not even like never enough for other people, but for myself.
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I always felt like I could be doing more.
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No matter how much I achieved in the day, I was like, I need to be doing more.
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We got a little drive -by from a tractor right here.
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Check that out.
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And yeah, it wasn't fun.
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It wasn't fun to experience that, always thinking like, I need to be doing more.
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And it always had me thinking about the future a lot as well.
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What's next?
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What am I going to do?
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What are the next steps that need to happen?
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And I'd always be thinking 20 steps ahead.
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and now more than ever I live
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so much more in the present obviously I still think about the future
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but I'm much more present
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and grounded in my life I'm gonna wait for this tractor to go by
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so I'm much more present in my life now and
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that has helped tremendously and kind of the thought exercise that has helped me
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is if I asked you whatever goal you have do you have full faith that that will happen, irregardless of time.
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Maybe it takes a year, five years, 10 years, could be 20 years.
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Do you have full faith that that goal, whatever you want to happen, will actually become a reality?
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If the answer is yes, then you don't have to stress at all because you just told me that you have full faith it'll happen.
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If you have full confidence in something that will happen, why would you stress about it?
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Right?
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Maybe the question is, I have full faith that it'll happen and I thought it would happen a lot earlier, but it hasn't happened yet.
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And so as a result, I am stressing because of that.
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If that's the case, I have this belief that everything happens for a reason and everything's happening in perfect timing.
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And so if you have an expectation of a certain timeline of something happening and it hasn't happened yet, it is my belief that
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It has not happened because you are not fully ready to actually receive whatever it is that you are desiring.
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Maybe you are not the type of man that is capable of handling that type of pressure, the type of success.
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Maybe you need to develop into a higher version of yourself to actually be capable of receiving it.
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Maybe if you did receive it, you wouldn't be ready for it.
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And as a result, something way worse would happen in your life
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and you would squander the opportunity and so there are experiences
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that you need to go through in your life before you can fully appreciate
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and actually be worthy of achieving whatever you're desiring.
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And so stay on the path that you're on because eventually it will happen.
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If you believe it is inevitable, the time does not matter, right?
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When it happens, it could happen in a year, it could happen in five years.
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If you know it's going to happen and it will happen, just enjoy the ride.
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The flip side of this is
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that you might think well I don't have full faith
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that it's going to happen
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and that's why I'm stressed that's why I feel this pressure
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I have this this need to be able to go out wake up early get after
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it do everything I can in my power to make sure that I have more faith that this will happen.
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And I totally understand that because I've gone through similar thoughts and experiences as well.
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And what I came to realize is all of that extra pressure
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and stress and anxiety that I was placing on myself wasn't actually helping me perform better.
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It's okay to acknowledge the fact that, hey, I might not be where I want to be at
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or where I think I'm capable of being at and therefore I need to improve.
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Acknowledge that that is the truth.
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Stay calm in that belief and do the things that are necessary to get better.
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But if, you know, I'm big into sports.
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Like if I'm working, if there's a team, if there's a quarterback that I'm working with or that I'm betting on,
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whatever it is, that feels the absolute pressure of the expectations of going out
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and winning a championship that season and
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that he has to do absolutely everything in his power to go do it
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and every single day he's just stressed he's never actually in flow state
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and so there are incredible athletes
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that I look up to I've been watching the Saban documentary
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and it's just like so inspirational motivational that guy he has full faith full belief in his ability and the process,
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but he's not outcome oriented.
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He's not worrying about going out and winning a championship.
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Sure, that's the expectation, but all he thinks about is what can I do today in this moment?
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How can I make sure that the process, the things that I'm doing are actually going to lead to success?
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And when he talks about the game, it's not an entire game.
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It's just a segment of six second plays and the more six second plays that you can win
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The more likely you are to actually win the game
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and the more games you win the more likely to win a championship so
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He's never actually thinking about winning a championship.
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It's about showing up putting in your full effort doing your assignment executing your job
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and doing it with enthusiasm with grit with intensity every single play and And so with myself,
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that's kind of what I realized over the last couple years where it's like,
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all that matters is that I just show up and do my best.
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I don't need to stress too much about what's going to be happening next week, next year.
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Did I wake up and execute the plan for today and do so to the best of my ability?
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If I did, I have nothing to worry about because I can't do anything more.
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If there is something that I can do additionally, then I'll do it.
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most of the time though, we become these like productivity efficiency addicts where we think
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that we have to be the most efficient person in the entire world and always be doing something productive.
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And if we're going for a walk, we have to be listening to a podcast.
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And if we're, you know, in the shower, then we got to throw the podcast on as well.
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And we have to be calling people and always doing X, Y, and Z in order to make sure that we're making progress. And that's great.
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And if that's your MO, go out and do it.
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But to me, there's more to life than just going out and achieving all sorts of success.
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There are also parts of life of being a human being.
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And that means sitting back, going out in nature, enjoying the present moment,
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taking a breath and realizing everything is going to be okay.
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You've made it this far in life.
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You've already had a tremendous amount of success.
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And on top of that, you are so much more educated and experienced
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and mature through all of those experiences
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that the past does not dictate the future because with all of the knowledge you have for yourself,
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you're only going to continue to do better and perform better and achieve more.
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So the past is not a predictor of the future.
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And I think that oftentimes that was always my expectation.
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The trajectory of my past was going to indicate the trajectory of my future.
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And that's just not the case.
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We cannot indicate or we cannot predict the trajectory of our future because we're constantly learning, experiencing, growing, and things are always changing, right?
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10 years ago, you never would have guessed that AI would be
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so accessible to everyone and that you'd be able to save
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so much time and have so many questions answered and be
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so much more efficient that there are people that are starting companies.
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There are one man companies that are worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Never would have thought about that 10 years ago.
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So if you're trying to predict the future 10 years ago and your success and you're in the tech space, like you probably would have failed.
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So my point being, stop worrying so much about the future.
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It's only stressing you out.
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It's not benefiting you.
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The thing that's going to help you the most
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be grounded in the present focus on the things that you can control
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the effort that you give the mindset that you have
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And just do your best.
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Do your best.
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Stay calm.
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Be a human being.
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Experience the full array of emotions, but focus on being a little bit more positive.
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And if you do that, it's pretty magical.
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You'll start to see that things start to get a lot better. So that's it.
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Enjoy the day.
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Maybe go outside.
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Check out Mother Nature. And, yeah.
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Hope you have a good day.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “If You're Stressed About Your Future, Watch This”. Las palabras que más se repiten: happen, faith, pressure. Este vídeo tiene 146 frases y 1837 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 10:35. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 174 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. 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
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| expectation sustantivo | /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/ | expectación |
| belief sustantivo | /bɪˈliːf/ | creencia |
| distress sustantivo | /dɪˈstɹɛs/ | distrés, distress |
| trajectory sustantivo | /tɹəˈd͡ʒɛktəɹi/ | trayectoria |
| efficient adjetivo | /ɪˈfɪʃənt/ | eficiente, eficaz |
| indicate verbo | /ˈɪndɪˌkeɪt/ | indicar |
| acknowledge verbo | /əkˈnɑ.lɪd͡ʒ/ | reconocer |
| podcast sustantivo | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | podcast, pódcast |
| predict verbo | /pɹɪˈdɪkt/ | predecir |
| execute verbo | /ˈɛksɪˌkjuːt/ | ejecutar, ajusticiar |
| tractor sustantivo | /ˈtɹæktɚ/ | tractor, tractor agrícola |
| anxiety sustantivo | /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/ | zozobra, ansiedad |
| aspect sustantivo | /ˈæspɛkt/ | aspecto |
| marry verbo | /ˈmæɹi/ | casar, casarse |
| efficiency sustantivo | /ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/ | eficiencia |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| go out verbo | salir | |
| show up verbo | comparecer, personarse | |
| wake up verbo | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | despertarse, recordar |
| check out verbo | investigar, chequear | |
| go through verbo | atravesar | |
| look up to verbo | respetar | |
| sit back verbo | relajarse |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- What am I going to do?
- You've made it this far in life.
- You've already had a tremendous amount of success.
- It's only stressing you out.
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Oraciones condicionales if + oración, will/would + verbo — una condición y su resultado | if you did receive it, you wouldn't be |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | has helped · hasn't happened · has not happened |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 42 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, we're, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: worthy /ˈwɝ.ði/, breathe /bɹiːð/, athlete /ˈæθ.liːt/, enthusiasm /ɪnˈθuziæzəm/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, efficiency /ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, trajectory /tɹəˈd͡ʒɛktəɹi/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, efficiency /ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/, documentary /ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tɹi/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: swell /swɛl/, squander /ˈskwɑn.dɚ/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: productive /pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/, productivity /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/, inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, enthusiasm /ɪnˈθuziæzəm/, oftentimes /ˈɔf.ənˌtaɪmz/
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 expectation, belief, distress.
¿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.