Shadowing Practice: Know Your why - Jim Rohn - Learn English Speaking with Video

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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.
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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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Here's what I want you to do when you go home after you've left this extravaganza.
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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 leadership training, here's what we learn.
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If the why is powerful, the how is easy.
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But if the why isn't strong,
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if your goals aren't powerful,
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if the vision isn't clear,
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the old prophet said, without a vision we die without a vision we perish without a dream or nothing.
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From the movie The Professionals,
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I listened to Bill Heron give his testimony yesterday from the movie The Professionals.
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It said, we joined because we believed.
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We stayed because we were committed.
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We left because we were disillusioned.
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But we came back because we were lost.
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Without a dream, we are nothing.
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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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Herbalife has got the ability to make it all come true,
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but 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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Spend some time as you fly over the clouds and over the ocean back to where you came from.
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I'm asking you to have a vision by the time you've reached home of why you want Herbalife to work for you,
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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 if you can come up with a strong enough list of why,
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Herbalife can furnish the how.
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Now here's number two.
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The first question to ponder when you go home is why.
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Here's another good answer to why.
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It's the second question, why not?
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Why not see how much you can earn?
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Why not see how much you can learn?
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Why not see how many skills you can develop?
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Why not see what kind of person you can become?
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Why not see what kind of influence you can have?
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Why not see how many people you can rescue from oblivion?
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Why not see how many people you can reach?
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I shared one of my goals with a group just last night.
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Here it is, one of my goals,
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to reach the peak of my skills by the year 2000.
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So I've got some work to do by the year 2000,
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turn of the century.
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turn of the millennium.
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I want to reach the peak of my skills by the year 2000.
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And then come the next century,
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I want to utilize those skills in touching every human I can possibly touch for the rest of my life.
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Those are some of my goals.
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I want you to establish some of your goals.
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I want you to give thoughtful consideration to your goals.
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And why not?
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If a farm boy can wander out of Idaho and finally arrive at this extravaganza,
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why not you?
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If Mark Hughes can walk away from the tough side of town
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and find a few people and make a dream come true, why not you?
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If we've got good health for many, why not the rest?
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If it's happened for you, why not others?
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And why not you?
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I want you to take that personally.
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Why not?
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Why not?
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You've got to stay here till you go.
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I mean, what else are you going to do?
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Why not see how much you can do,
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how far you can go now here's number three
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why not you 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 and talk with each of you individually,
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but I would rather do that
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I'd rather sit down and talk with you
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and your family with the fire burning in the living room
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than to be standing on this platform That's my true desire
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I'd love to talk to you and your children face to face.
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That's what I'd really like to do.
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I'd love to spend a couple of days with each of you personally and pour out my heart,
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my soul, what's going on in my head.
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What's going on with me?
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See if we couldn't connect and find something valuable.
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But time doesn't permit for us to have those intimate conversations and get to know each other that well.
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So I've got to do it from up here.
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But I want you to take it personal.
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And my personal question to you is why not you?
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You've got the brains.
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You can make decisions.
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You can study the plan.
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You can change your life.
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You can grow immensely in the next few years.
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You can make your dreams come true.
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You can build a financial wall around your family nothing can get through.
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You can become healthy.
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You can become powerful.
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Why not you?

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “Know Your why - Jim Rohn”. Las palabras que más se repiten: skills, goals, dream, asking, vision. Este vídeo tiene 104 frases y 918 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:37. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 163 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 90 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar. 27 de sus 104 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 14 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
extravaganza sustantivo/ɪkˌstɹæv.əˈɡæn.zə/extravagancia
individually adverbio/ˌɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒ(u)əli/individualmente
disillusion verbo/dɪs.ɪˈluːʒən/desengañar, desilusionar
furnish verbo/ˈfɝnɪʃ/amoblar, amueblar
oblivion sustantivo/əˈblɪviːən/olvido, olvidanza
perish verbo/ˈpɛɹɪʃ/perecer
ponder verbo/ˈpɑn.dəɹ/considerar, meditar
immensely adverbio/ɪˈmɛnsli/inmensamente
wander verbo/ˈwɑndɚ/vagar, divagar
millennium sustantivo/mɪˈlɛnɪəm/milenio
thoughtful adjetivo/ˈθɔːtfəl/detallista
thrust verbo/θɹʌst/propulsar
prophet sustantivo/ˈpɹɑ.fɪt/profeta, profetisa
intimate adjetivo/ˈɪn.tɪ.mət/íntimo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

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

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • What kind of income do you want?
  • What kind of gifts do you wish to bestow?
  • What kind of power would you like to have?
  • If it's happened for you, why not others?
  • What's going on with me?

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorayou've left · you've reached
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacewere disillusioned · were lost

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 24 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you've, I'm, I'd. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: thoughtful /ˈθɔːtfəl/, thrust /θɹʌst/
  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: disillusion /dɪs.ɪˈluːʒən/, furnish /ˈfɝnɪʃ/, perish /ˈpɛɹɪʃ/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: extravaganza /ɪkˌstɹæv.əˈɡæn.zə/, individually /ˌɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒ(u)əli/, disillusion /dɪs.ɪˈluːʒən/, oblivion /əˈblɪviːən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: extravaganza /ɪkˌstɹæv.əˈɡæn.zə/, individually /ˌɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒ(u)əli/, oblivion /əˈblɪviːən/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: extravaganza /ɪkˌstɹæv.əˈɡæn.zə/, utilize /ˈjuː.tɪ.laɪz/

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 extravaganza, individually, disillusion.

¿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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