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Excuse me sir, sorry to bother you.
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My name is Chris, I'm a portrait photographer and I thought you had a really interesting look.
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Really?
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You look really great.
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Thank you for that.
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I appreciate that.
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No problem, no problem.
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And you look like you're a man with depth.
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So I have this thing on social media where I just approach people
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and ask if I can take the picture
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and you don't have to say yes to me you don't feel pressured or you're a little bit shy
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it's been a weird few months why is
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that i can go in depth
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but i don't want to take up too much of your time
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i have all the time in the world you know what's your name vice shake in vice vice
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cool name vice what is it you're doing in in the world
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i don't know man i'm kind of trying to I figured it out.
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I'm writing a book.
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It's an album.
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Yeah, it's a weird story.
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It's a long story.
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I make music.
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You make music?
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Yeah.
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Are you from London originally?
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Yeah, I've pretty much lived here my whole life.
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Sorry man, forgive me.
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I survived a really difficult night.
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and since then I've been convinced the girl that helped me survive the night is real
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and like I've been writing songs about it for the past six years.
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Long story short, I was trying to take my own life
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and I decided to do it on a train track but I didn't and I was too scared to,
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I went and sat on the train the whole night until I physically like, it was from like 12pm to like 6am,
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I physically sat on that train until I saw the sunrise
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and I felt safe and I created a story from
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that as if there was this girl telling me to find her
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when I wake up and that's the adventure I went on
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that train and I wrote something about let me show you oh that's you yes sir vice monroe
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and you're on Spotify yes sir oh my goodness eight million yeah oh my goodness man well done well done
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so basically vice you are creating art you are creating art
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that is helping other people this song that I wrote for seven stops until sunrise it saved a lot of their
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it saved them from
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that difficult night the whole story is just as simple as
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surviving the most difficult night of your life in order to live how long ago was
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that if you went through that night 10 years ago 10 years ago when I was 17
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When you were 17.
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I wrote this song three years ago, so seven years after that night.
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And three years ago the song connected with so many people, they were telling me how it helped them.
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It drove me crazy because it was like, I felt an imposter syndrome.
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This was just my story.
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It connected so deeply with them.
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And after that period I started getting these dreams of what I call her the Sunrise Girl.
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And she was coming to me in these dreams.
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Well, Vice, I am so happy that you're still here, man.
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I'm so happy that you're still here.
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Thank you.
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Yeah.
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Would it be okay?
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Could I get a couple of pictures?
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It'd be my pleasure.
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I'm not photogenic.
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You can tell me no. If you prefer not to, that's okay.
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I want to.
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I'm just scared.
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I'm just scared.
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That's it.
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I want to.
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I'm just grateful.
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I'm grateful you came after me.
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A lot of people will think this is stage.
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I trust my intuition when I approach somebody and I just knew you're a man with a story.
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I appreciate that, man.
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And you look great, so don't put yourself down.
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Don't put yourself down.
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Thank you.
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And how are you now after going through all of that 10 years ago?
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How are you feeling now?
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Grateful.
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You're grateful.
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I just want this story to exist so that it can help.
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That's it.
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I don't want nothing else.
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As I say, I trust my intuition.
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I was about to go home.
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I saw you there and I immediately thought I have to speak to him I'm a bit nervous.
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I'm a bit shy but I think this is a sign for me to like not,
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you know I don't know what made you come to me
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but I believe it was you were meant to at this company.
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Now have you heard?
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Yes, of course.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “If You're Suffering, Please Watch This Video”. Las palabras que más se repiten: vice, grateful, train, song, sunrise. Este vídeo tiene 92 frases y 771 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:03. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 153 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 85 % 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 del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| grateful adjetivo | /ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/ | agradecido |
| scare verbo | /skɛɚ/ | asustar, atemorizar |
| sunrise sustantivo | /ˈsʌnɹaɪz/ | salida del sol, salida de sol |
| connect verbo | /kəˈnɛkt/ | conectar, empalmar |
| physically adverbio | /ˈfɪz.ɪ.kli/ | físicamente |
| goodness sustantivo | /ˈɡʊdnəs/ | bondad |
| intuition sustantivo | /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/ | intuición |
| adventure sustantivo | /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/ | aventura |
| deeply adverbio | /ˈdi(ː)pli/ | a fondo |
| bother verbo | /ˈbɑðɚ/ | molestar, agobiar |
| shake verbo | /ˈʃeɪk/ | agitar, sacudir |
| photographer sustantivo | /fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fɚ/ | fotógrafo, fotógrafa |
| convince verbo | /kənˈvɪns/ | convencer, llevar al huerto |
| forgive verbo | /fɚˈɡɪv/ | disculpar |
| syndrome sustantivo | /ˈsɪndɹoʊm/ | síndrome |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| go through verbo | atravesar | |
| wake up verbo | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | despertarse, recordar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- I'm so happy that you're still here.
- Could I get a couple of pictures?
- If you prefer not to, that's okay.
- I'm grateful you came after me.
- How are you feeling now?
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 | it's been · I've been · have you heard |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasado | was trying · were telling · was coming |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos días | you're doing · I'm writing · are creating |
| Obligación: must / have to / need to decir que algo es necesario | have to say · have to speak |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 32 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, don't, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: intuition /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: intuition /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/, photographer /fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fɚ/, photogenic /ˌfoʊ.toʊˈd͡ʒɛn.ɪk/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: adventure /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/, convince /kənˈvɪns/, forgive /fɚˈɡɪv/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: sunrise /ˈsʌnɹaɪz/, physically /ˈfɪz.ɪ.kli/
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 grateful, scare, sunrise.
¿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.