Shadowing Practice: LEARN ENGLISH Naturally while Exploring Ecuador (comprehensible input) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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3,000 is the amount of words you need to know in English to understand 95%.

But don't panic because I'm going to teach you all these words and we're learning 10 new ones today.

By the end of this video, you'll understand all the words, their meaning, and you won't even have to try.

Could you guess what the sixth word means without me explaining it?

Join me.

You see these two dogs?

There's two dogs standing and they're very alert.

You see?

It's like they're looking for something.

They're alert.

they're standing at this tree but now I'm at this nice park now and it's really sunny

you can see grass all along nice trees with the roots here it's nice

and shady okay so the first word we're going to learn is area this whole area

this whole area is open the whole area is open

and this area is called a park I'm in a park and And the area is open.

The location's a park.

But area could be that area over there.

This area over here.

Area is just a location.

This thing is just made to give you shade.

And also if it rains.

You don't get rain on.

It's like a tarp cover.

These are pillars that are supporting it.

This guy right here.

He has a stereo that's playing music.

And he's walking.

And there's a lot of really big, big trees in this park.

And this whole area is just really nice.

This is called a light pole.

It gives you light in the night when it's dark.

Now I'm going to go to the metro station because I'm going to go to the historical center downtown.

And this thing right here is for water to drain.

So when it rains a lot the water just flows along it so that water doesn't stay on the sidewalk.

It comes here and it flows.

So this is like a water drain.

A ditch or a canal you could also call it.

Okay and now this is the metro station where I'm going to go in

and take a train down to the historical center.

So now let's go take that train.

okay

so we're all walking in this passageway to get to the

train these people are walking in the same direction as me

and the other people are not okay so now i'm in the metro station

and i'm going down the escalator these people on the side are getting off of the metro

and walking up the stairs to leave the metro station

but i'm going down into the metro station to get on the metro or the subway

to go to my next destination and i'm going to kitumbay

which is a south part of the city

and here the train is arriving

so now i'm about to board the train with the rest of these people

and head to the next station we just got off the metro

and we came out

and now we're close to the historic center like this middle thing we learned last time it's called a median

or a divider between the road.

Dog.

Dog is happy.

And you can see this a statue or you call it a monument.

A monument is usually meant to remember a historical event, something important.

I'm not sure what this one is.

Yeah there's the monument again.

Now this is just like an open area.

This guy is selling some fruit I think.

But where we want to go is up over there.

You see this church?

That's where we're going.

And you could climb up the towers a bit.

So I'm going to bring you guys with me.

So this lady is selling ice cream here.

Ice cream and fruit.

Selling hats here.

The hats for the sun so you don't burn your face.

I don't have a hat today and I didn't put on sunblock

so I might burn my face

but okay you see this this is a huge huge cathedral

you see the size of these towers it's massive very big

and we're going to go up to the very top of this tower very top of this tower

and this tower we're going to climb up it you see

these on the side it's the shape of a four leaf

clover it's the shape it isn't a four leaf clover but it's in the shape of one

and it's like a little bit pink pinkish red shape of a four-leaf clover

and another thing we are in the capital city capital city of this of Ecuador

which is called Quito capital of the city just means it's the main city in Ecuador where all the government

and everything government offices are the capital for example the capital of the United States is Washington DC

and the capital of Canada is Ottawa.

Look at the cathedral.

It's massive.

You see this?

This is the shape of a heart.

It's the shape of a heart.

Glass window.

And now let's go up the tower.

So right here is where you buy a ticket, an entrance ticket to go up.

Okay, this is the ticket to get up there.

This is what is called Basilica de Vota Nacional.

So I got the ticket

and this lets you go up to this top of the tower so that's where we're going now.

Now we're starting to climb up the stairs and you can see it is very narrow.

Narrow is like this but there's not a lot of room.

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It's narrow so you're narrow this is narrow and spiraling

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so there's two wide wide and narrow narrow two and this is narrow very narrow stairs.

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These are arrows.

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These arrows point the direction you should walk so on the right side you go up, on the left side you go down because the arrow is pointing down.

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So another word I am approaching the top, approaching the top soon.

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I'm not at the top yet but I'm getting close so I'm approaching it.

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It's like a spot close to the top.

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Trash can, big window.

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This is called an organ and these roofs are They're like super high, super high roofs.

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There's like an exit, you can't really go out here.

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You can see it's locked.

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And this is the church, the cathedral.

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It's massive.

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These are all rows of chairs.

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Each row is like this, one, two, three, four rows.

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And they're not chairs, they're called benches, so they're rows of benches.

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Chairs are individual benches are like this like together one one seat is all together and multiple people could sit on it.

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These are all huge columns this is stained glass stained glass with different type of paintings on them of people.

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Well it's not paintings but it's stained glass. On the inside.

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This is one of my favorite churches honestly.

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One of my favorite cathedrals.

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Like all the stone, like the grey stone is super nice.

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And here's a big circular stained glass.

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The shape of this is a circle shape.

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Then you have some plants along the side.

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Stairs leading up outside there.

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So now let's continue to go upwards.

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Let's continue up.

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So we're approaching the top.

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Approaching.

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It means we're getting close to it.

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You could approach it upwards, you could approach something.

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If it's far away, you could walk towards it, it's approaching it.

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But I, walking up the stairs, I'm approaching the top.

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So it's this area over here I'm approaching.

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To approach something means to get close to something, physically.

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So you see the people on top there?

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I'm getting closer.

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This is the courtyard.

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You can see a school over there.

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Now we can go even higher to the very top.

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So that's the highest point you go up there.

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So let's go.

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So these stairs are spiraling.

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You see that circular spiral around this pole?

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And this is a room.

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I'm not up there yet.

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I'm like out of breath.

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Like tired.

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I'm tired.

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I'm out of breath.

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I'm beat.

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Slang, zamdit, but usually I'm tired.

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I'm out of breath.

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Let me catch my breath So here like paintings and stuff this is the clock Almost at the top though.

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We're at the top Remember I showed you it from way down there Now we're at the top of it on this tower

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And you can see like the whole city it goes really far that way looks like it might be raining

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We could also go there after but this is the other side of the city.

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The city goes really far.

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This is like downtown with all these big buildings.

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Big buildings downtown.

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And where I'm staying is like somewhere over there in the north.

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Here's a park.

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School courtyard.

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Parking lot.

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This is called the Panecillo.

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It's a big statue there on the top of this hill.

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Very popular place.

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So this is like a hill.

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It's not a mountain, it's not big enough for a mountain, but it's a hill.

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On the side, it's more like mountains.

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But you can see the whole city is like in a valley.

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It's like this, the whole city.

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And it goes way very far.

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And right now we can just see the roofs of the building.

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Just the roofs.

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The historic center is over there.

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Down there, there's people walking.

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These people are taking a photo.

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He's taking the picture and they're posing.

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They're walking on the side there.

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This right here is binoculars you could pay for.

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So you put 50 cents in right here and then you could see through them.

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And what this allows you to do is just see far.

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So you can see everywhere.

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They're called binoculars.

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This is like a walkway a walkway a pathway this is the ceiling part

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but it's the roof the outside is the roof is in a v-shape

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and this part is the ceiling outside part is the roof it's in a v-shape

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here you have stairs

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that split they split one on the one on the right one on the left

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and you could go up or down either way they split split apart right here

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and now we're gonna go out on on the viewpoint of the other side of the cathedral, the tower.

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And we're gonna go check that out.

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These stairs are super steep.

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It's almost like a ladder.

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That's the tower we were in.

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The clock.

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Bro, this is like super steep.

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These stairs are, you have to go like sideways when you climb it.

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This is almost a ladder. But it's stairs.

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That is steep.

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This is the top of the building now.

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This is the landscape of the whole city.

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Got a bird here.

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The bird is perched.

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When a bird sits on something, it's perched.

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And it's a little bit windy.

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The wind is blowing a little bit strong up here on this side.

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The roof.

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Okay, so we just finished going up to the top, seeing the view.

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Now we're going to go back down.

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we saw everything here this is an underpass where vehicles go

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an underpass this is the road some buildings on the side a light post right here

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and this is a mother walking her two daughters

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you got a park over here this is a new tree

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it was just planted honestly it's a pretty nice city i

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like it there's a lot to do still see the historical center

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because right now we just saw like the nicest church

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but we still haven't been to the historical center

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so make sure you stick around for my other videos

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if you want to see that

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and also leave a comment leave a comment where you're from

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and why you want to learn english i really read i read all your guys's comments

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and i try to respond to every single one

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so i'm in the bus stop right now this sign tells

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you what you're prohibited from bringing this door here is closed right now

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but opens when the bus arrives

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and you could sit on this benches on the side like

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i am yeah this is the bus stop you just wait here for the bus

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and you pay over there and after

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that you could just come sit here in this area as you wait for the bus

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and you can see all this is closed off so

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that people don't jump in the way of the bus

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and here's the bus departing it's not my bus it's a

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different bus hopefully you guys like this video make sure to

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like comment subscribe these are the countries you guys were from

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last video make sure to comment this video where you're from so i can put it again

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “LEARN ENGLISH Naturally while Exploring Ecuador”. Las palabras que más se repiten: stairs, tower, shape, narrow, bus. Este vídeo tiene 237 frases y 2152 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 12:09. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 177 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 86 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
stairs sustantivo	/ˈstɛɹz/	escalera, gradas
cathedral sustantivo	/kəˈθiːdɹəl/	catedral
stain sustantivo	/steɪn/	mancha, lamparón
climb verbo	/ˈklaɪ̯m/	escalar, subir
breathe verbo	/bɹiːð/	respirar
clover sustantivo	/ˈkloʊ.vɚ/	trébol
spiral sustantivo	/ˈspaɪɹəl/	espiral
monument sustantivo	/ˈmɑnjʊmənt/	monumento
steep adjetivo	/stiːp/	escarpado, empinado
arrow sustantivo	/ˈæɹəʊ/	flecha, saeta
leaf sustantivo	/lif/	hoja, foja (desus.)
binoculars sustantivo	/(ˌ)baɪˈnɑ.kjə.lɚz/	prismáticos, binoculares
perch sustantivo	/pɝt͡ʃ/	perca
underpass sustantivo		paso inferior
walkway sustantivo	/ˈwɔkˌweɪ/	pasarela

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
go up verbo		subir
come out verbo	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	revelarse, salir a la luz
get off verbo		bajarse
get up verbo		levantarse
go out verbo		salir
see through verbo		ver a través

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

Could you guess what the sixth word means without me explaining it?
You see these two dogs?
You don't get rain on.
I'm not sure what this one is.
You see that circular spiral around this pole?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

Estructura	En el vídeo
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	is called · is just made · is usually meant
Posibilidad con “might / may” might/may + verbo — algo posible pero no seguro	might burn · might be
Superlativos the -est / the most … — lo más alto o lo más bajo de un grupo	the highest · the nicest
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos días	we're learning · they're looking · they're standing

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 73 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, we're, they're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “th”: cathedral /kəˈθiːdɹəl/, breathe /bɹiːð/, pathway /ˈpæθˌweɪ/
Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: pinkish /ˈpɪŋkɪʃ/, shady /ˈʃeɪdi/, shade /ʃeɪd/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: binoculars /(ˌ)baɪˈnɑ.kjə.lɚz/, escalator /ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tɚ/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: stairs /ˈstɛɹz/, stain /steɪn/, spiral /ˈspaɪɹəl/, steep /stiːp/, statue /ˈstæt͡ʃu/
/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: clover /ˈkloʊ.vɚ/, divider /dɪˈvaɪdə(ɹ)/, viewpoint /ˈvjuː.pɔɪnt/
/z/ — sonora, no /s/: stairs /ˈstɛɹz/, binoculars /(ˌ)baɪˈnɑ.kjə.lɚz/, upwards /ˈʌpwɚdz/, sideways /ˈsaɪdweɪz/, columns /ˈkɑləmz/

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 stairs, cathedral, stain.

¿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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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Gramática en este vídeo

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?