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Today I wanna talk about my upcoming trip to Portugal.
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Upcoming is, like, November, but I'm starting to prepare language-wise And I wanna talk about how I use our mini-stories, or call them point-of-view stories, and AI to create an ideal situation to refresh my Portuguese.
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Because, you know, I have sometimes struggled with Portuguese 'cause it's so similar to Spanish, and there's also the issue of Portuguese from Portugal, which is where I'll be going, versus Portuguese in Brazil.
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So I wanna get myself sort of ramped up for this trip.
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Obviously, I'm gonna use my mini-stories technique, which is really part of a thing that's known as a POV, point of view, form of storytelling, which I didn't originate.
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I think it came perhaps from AJ Hoge of Effortless English, and it's part of a tradition, especially the way we do it at LingQ, where we combine the point-of-view story with circling questions.
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And I think it was a professor of Spanish in California called Blaine Ray who developed these circling question techniques.
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And all of these things work because we are constantly re-engaging with the language, listening and reading, and every time we re-engage, we're regenerating the language, and it's kind of an effortless way to acquire vocabulary and to acquire a sense of the structure of a language.
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And I have used them to begin in a language from zero in languages as different as Greek and Arabic and Persian, and I use them to refresh.
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And this is the thing about these, um, mini-stories or point-of-view stories, circling questions, is that it can be an opportunity to start from scratch.
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But it's also… I've often called it my gym, where I go to work out in a language.
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Some of my statistics at LingQ will show that I have listened to some of these mini-stories 30, 40 times.
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And of course, the key is you wanna listen and read, and you are regenerating the language in your mind.
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The structure is very simple.
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So a story, a simple story, and I will explain to you later on how I can use AI to z- to design the story at the level that I want to be at in the language.
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Or in the case of my upcoming trip to Portugal, I design it around the town that I will be visiting in Portugal and that area.
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But the, the gist of it is that there are 6 or 10 sentences, relatively simple, usually, especially, uh, at a beginner level, where version one of the story uses, uh, one per- person, like the first person, like I, and then another version uses the third person, or version three might use the future tense.
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So you are changing the point of view of the story, but essentially, you're dealing with the same story and the same vocabulary.
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So there's an element of novelty, but a lot of repetition.
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And then typically, I like to follow these with circling questions.
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These are not questions testing my ability to recollect what was in the story.
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Instead, I make a statement about the story, then I ask a question about the story based on that sentence.
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So John went to the store.
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Did John go to the store?
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And the answer is either positive or negative.
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So you're, again, refreshing the same vocabulary in different tenses, in different persons, positive, negative, interrogative, all of these things are great.
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So that's the package that I'm going to be using to prepare for my trip to Portugal.
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Now, in Portugal, we're staying in a little town.
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I haven't yet booked it, but my intention is to go to a town on the border between Portugal and Spain called Vila Real de Santo António.
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And so I was in, uh, LingQ, and I asked our AI bot, LingQs, saying, "Can you create a story similar to a mini story, uh, based on this town, Vila Real de Santo António?" You know, it takes work to develop something in AI that's exactly what you want, so sometimes it won't do the whole job, the AI bot, or it will only deal with the content that's in our story, for example.
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And I said, "No, no, I want you to go search for other information about this area," the river, the golf courses, whatever it might be.
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So, uh, and the f- the fun thing was that my interaction with our AI bot, I would sometimes interact in English, I would sometimes interact in Portuguese, but everything ended up as a lesson for LingQ.
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And I was able to also define that I wanted this in European Portuguese.
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So out of my interaction, I was able to develop a point-of-view story, a series of point-of-view story, not quite exactly what I want yet, but getting closer.
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But even my interaction with the bot is a form of involvement with the language and are my first pass at the vocabulary and the structures that will be in this eventual lesson.
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So then subsequently, I will go in there, and I will listen to it.
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I will listen to it many times.
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I will read it, and I'll develop more and more stories around the theme of what there is to do in that area, or I could even direct it to delve into the history of that region, the history of that region, uh, in relationship to Spain, which is just next door, or whatever I want.
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So the interesting thing is that the point-of-view story and circling questions, which are very effective when it comes to learning, and which you can use in order to get into the language, or you can use at a later stage as practice, and you can define how difficult you want the story to be.
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So all of the good reasons why this is excellent learning- Uh, content and stories we know are powerful.
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With AI now, we can define with a greater degree of, of refinement the accent we want, the kind of content we want.
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Uh, I could even ask it to use certain parts of speech or certain structures.
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Uh, so i- in this way, because of the quality… Now, I think this is the key part that I should've mentioned up front.
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The quality of the text-to-speech audio now is so good that it, it's actually not unpleasant to listen to the generated audio.
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And you can refine the kind of content you wanna listen to, food, eating, history.
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You can have it in this format of point of view, uh, stories with certain questions so that we can refine our compelling input to where it becomes very sort of targeted language learning material.
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And so that's what I wanted to share with you today, and I look forward to your comments.
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You'll notice, by the way, today I'm experimenting with just using natural lighting and not using the lights that I have been using in the past.
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Thanks for listening.
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Bye for now.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Learn any language with point-of-view stories”. Las palabras que más se repiten: language, stories, view, Portugal, Portuguese. Este vídeo tiene 50 frases y 1198 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 6:40. El hablante habla rápido, unas 180 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. Solo el 81 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| vocabulary sustantivo | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | vocabulario |
| refresh verbo | /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/ | refrescar |
| effortless adjetivo | /ˈɛfə(ɹ)tlɪs/ | fácil, nada penoso |
| refine verbo | /ɹɪˈfaɪn/ | refinar |
| tense sustantivo | /tɛns/ | tiempo |
| interact verbo | /ɪn.təˈɹækt/ | interactuar |
| acquire verbo | /əˈkwaɪɚ/ | obtener |
| compel verbo | /kəmˈpɛl/ | compeler |
| interrogative adjetivo | /ˌɪn.təˈɹɒɡ.ə.tɪv/ | interrogativo |
| originate verbo | /əˈɹɪd͡ʒɪneɪt/ | originarse |
| recollect verbo | /ɹɛkəˈlɛkt/ | rebobinar |
| refinement sustantivo | /ɹəˈfaɪnmənt/ | refinación |
| repetition sustantivo | /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/ | repetición |
| beginner sustantivo | /bəˈɡɪnɚ/ | bisoño, novato |
| storytelling sustantivo | narración, narrativa |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| end up verbo | terminar, ir a parar |
| look forward to verbo | no ver la hora de, quedar a la espera de |
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | Portugal, which is · technique, which is · Spain, which is |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | have sometimes struggled · I've often called · have listened |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 22 contracciones y formas reducidas, como wanna, I'm, I'll. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: refresh /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/, repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, regenerate /ɹiːˈd͡ʒɛnəɹeɪt/, interrogative /ˌɪn.təˈɹɒɡ.ə.tɪv/, originate /əˈɹɪd͡ʒɪneɪt/, repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, interrogative /ˌɪn.təˈɹɒɡ.ə.tɪv/, novelty /ˈnɑvəlti/, eventual /ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃu.əl/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: regenerate /ɹiːˈd͡ʒɛnəɹeɪt/, originate /əˈɹɪd͡ʒɪneɪt/
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 vocabulary, refresh, effortless.
¿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.