Shadowing Practice: Jim Rohn Speech: Why Not You - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Why pay the price?
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Why work this hard?
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Why go this far?
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Why try to learn this much?
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Why try to do it all?
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Why try to see it all?
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Why try to have it all?
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Why do it?
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Why learn it?
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Why study?
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Why put yourself out?
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Why try to take on this much responsibility?
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Why develop yourself to the full?
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Why try to become all that you can possibly become?
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Why try to earn as much as you can earn?
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Share as much as you can share?
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Develop every skill you possibly can.
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See every human you possibly can.
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Go to every class you possibly can.
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Touch everybody you possibly can.
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Why do that much?
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Why go that far?
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Why share that much?
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Why give that much away?
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Why try to see everything?
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Why try to do everything?
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Why try to become everything?
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That's a good question why.
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And you're the only one personally that can answer that question for yourself.
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You've got to have your own list of whys.
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Work on your list of whys.
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One of the big thrusts for success is to come up with a strong enough why.
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In In leadership training, here's what we learn.
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If the why is powerful, the how is easy.
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I'm asking you to sit down with your family and develop a dream strategy.
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I'm asking you to make a list of what you want.
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What kind of health do you want?
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What kind of skills do you want?
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You've got to decide what do you want?
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What kind of income do you want?
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What kind of gifts do you wish to bestow?
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What kind of power would you like to have?
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What kind of influence would you like to have?
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I'm asking you to go home and work on the why.
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So why you want this kind of income,
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why you want this kind of recognition and these kinds of skills.
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I'm asking you to develop your own list of why.
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Because
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if you can come up with a strong enough list of
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why herbal life can furnish the how now here's number two the first question to ponder
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when you go home is why here's another good answer to
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why it's the second question why not why not see how
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much you can earn why not see how much you can
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learn why not see how many skills you can develop why
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not see what kind of person you can become why not
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see what kind of influence you can have why not see
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how many people you can rescue from oblivion why not see
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how many people you can reach I want to utilize those
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skills in touching every human I can possibly touch for the
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rest of my life those are some of my goals I
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want you to establish some of your goals I want you to give thoughtful consideration to your goals And why not?
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I want you to take that personal.
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Why not?
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Why not?
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Here's number three.
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Why not you?
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I wish I could say that to each of you individually,
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but it would take a couple of lifetimes to sit down
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and talk with each of you individually but I would rather do
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that but I want you to take it personal
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and my personal question to you is why not you you've
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got the brains you can make decisions you can study the
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plan you can change your life you can grow immensely in
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the next few years you can make your dreams come true
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you can build a financial wall around your family nothing can
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get through you can become healthy you can become powerful why not you
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and now here's my last question my very last question
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on the questions to ponder is why not now there never was a better time
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and what a time now for us to take this dream
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and not let it die take this dream
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and give it life take this dream
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and breathe into it your own personal spirit until finally it becomes a flame that burns around the whole world.
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Let's go do it now.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “Jim Rohn Speech: Why Not You”. Las palabras que más se repiten: possibly, skill, develop, dream, asking. Este vídeo tiene 83 frases y 696 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:16. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 163 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 93 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar. 34 de sus 83 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
skill sustantivo/skɪl/destreza, habilidad
earn verbo/ɝn/ganar, granjear
individually adverbio/ˌɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒ(u)əli/individualmente
rescue verbo/ˈɹɛs.kjuː/rescatar, socorrer
recognition sustantivo/ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/reconocimiento
establish verbo/ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/establecer, establir
lifetime sustantivo/ˈlaɪf.taɪm/vida
consideration sustantivo/kənˌsɪd.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/consideración
breathe verbo/bɹiːð/respirar
flame sustantivo/fleɪm/flama, llama
thrust verbo/θɹʌst/propulsar
thoughtful adjetivo/ˈθɔːtfəl/detallista
immensely adverbio/ɪˈmɛnsli/inmensamente
ponder verbo/ˈpɑn.dəɹ/considerar, meditar
furnish verbo/ˈfɝnɪʃ/amoblar, amueblar

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
come up with verboingeniar, ingeniarse
get through verbo/ɡɛt ˈθɹu/aguantar, salir adelante
sit down verbosentarse

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

  • Share as much as you can share?
  • What kind of health do you want?
  • What kind of skills do you want?
  • You've got to decide what do you want?
  • What kind of income do you want?

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 8 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, you've, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: breathe /bɹiːð/, thrust /θɹʌst/, thoughtful /ˈθɔːtfəl/
  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, consideration /kənˌsɪd.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, furnish /ˈfɝnɪʃ/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: individually /ˌɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒ(u)əli/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, consideration /kənˌsɪd.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, oblivion /əˈblɪviːən/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como skill, earn, individually.

¿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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