Shadowing Practice: Learn the language of secrets - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hello and welcome to Real Easy English.
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In this podcast, we have real conversations in easy English to help you learn.
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I'm Beth.
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And I'm Georgie.
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You can find a video version of this podcast and a worksheet to help you learn all on our website, bbclearningenglish .com.
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Hi Georgie.
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Hello Beth.
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How is your week going?
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It's going well.
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It's quite a busy one, isn't it?
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It is.
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It's only Wednesday.
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Yeah.
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It feels like Friday.
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But today we're talking about secrets.
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Secrets.
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A secret is a piece of information that you don't tell other people.
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Beth, does that mean you're going to tell me all of your secrets?
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No. Not now.
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Maybe later.
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Ooh, okay.
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So Georgie, are you good at keeping secrets?
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No, I'm definitely not good at keeping secrets.
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I'm a bit of an open book, which means...
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the opposite of someone who is good at keeping secrets.
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You're very honest and share things, maybe too much.
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What about you?
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Okay.
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I I'm probably the same as you.
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I think I'm
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not good at keeping secrets but
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If it's a really important secret and I've been told "please don't tell anyone" then I won't tell anyone.
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Yes, so Beth, what is the biggest secret you've had to keep?
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Hmm.
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Ooh, um...
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I flew abroad. to surprise
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my boyfriend at the time his dad and we had to keep it a secret
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and we even called him in the morning on a video call and pretended we were at home and we were in a different country.
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Oh my gosh.
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So that was a Big secret.
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So it went well?
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Was he surprised?
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It did.
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He was very surprised.
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We were very pleased that we kept it a secret.
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We did well.
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Well done.
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Well done.
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I've had to keep a big secret
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Last year my friend told me that she was going to propose to her girlfriend
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but she told me I had to keep it a secret and it's really, it was really difficult because we have a group of friends
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and I really wanted to tell them but I couldn't and I managed to keep it a secret so
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I was very proud of myself.
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That's good, well done.
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That reminds me, I had a big secret too.
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My friend told me, don't tell anyone and don't tell your mum.
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And I told my mum by accident.
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Oh no, can you reveal the secret to us?
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Oh yeah, she was pregnant, but she's now had the baby.
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Okay.
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But she said, yeah, I'm pregnant, but it's really early.
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So please don't tell anyone.
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Don't even tell your mum.
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Okay.
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And then I spoke to my mum a few weeks later and said, "You don't know, she's pregnant !" And then I realised,
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oh no, I wasn't supposed to tell you.
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Oh, but that was kind of an accident.
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Oh, it was definitely an accident.
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Yeah.
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I felt really bad.
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Oh, well, now she's had the baby.
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It's all good.
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It's not a surprise anymore.
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Sorry.
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"Beth, do you think secrets are a good or a bad thing?" I think it really depends on the secret.
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There are good secrets.
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um like proposing or having a baby and then i guess a bad secret really is
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a lie
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if you have to lie then that's not good yeah i
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agree it's uh it's not yeah it's not good to lie um and i think that's
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a reason why I'm not very good at keeping secrets because I'm a really bad Liar.
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You can see it in my face if I'm holding in a secret.
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Yeah, I think sometimes you can look at someone's face and know what they're thinking.
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I'm definitely like that if I'm annoyed or angry or...
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something you can tell from my face.
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Well that's good because I'll always know that you're being honest and not keeping any secrets from me.
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Let's recap the vocabulary we heard during the conversation.
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We had a secret, which is a piece of information that you can't tell other people.
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And we also have the phrase keep a secret, which means to not share that piece of information.
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If someone is an open book, they don't have secrets and they're honest about their life.
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And if you lie, you say something that's not true.
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It's usually seen as negative, but sometimes you have to lie if you want to keep a secret.
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And we call someone who lies a lot a liar.
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And that's it for this episode of Real Easy English.
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Test what you've learned with the free worksheets on our website, bbclearningenglish .com.
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We'll be back next week with another conversation in Easy English.
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Goodbye.
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Bye.
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you
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel A2 se basa en el vídeo “Learn the language of secrets”. Las palabras que más se repiten: secret, lie, keeping, Beth, mum. Este vídeo tiene 99 frases y 792 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:28. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 145 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 84 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
14 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
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| podcast sustantivo | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | podcast, pódcast |
| liar sustantivo | /ˈlaɪ.ɚ/ | mentiroso, mentirosa |
| propose verbo | /pɹəˈpəʊz/ | proponer |
| reveal verbo | /ɹɪˈviːl/ | revelar, propalar |
| abroad adverbio | /əˈbɹɔːd/ | en el extranjero, en el exterior |
| remind verbo | /ɹəˈmaɪnd/ | (hacer) recordar/arrecordar, hacer acordar/arrecordar (se de) |
| pretend verbo | /pɹəˈtɛnd/ | aparentar, hacer de |
| goodbye | /ɡʊdˈbaɪ/ | adiós, hasta luego |
| phrase sustantivo | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | frase |
| depend verbo | /dɪˈpɛnd/ | depender/pender (de), ser dependiente (de) |
| gosh | /ɡɑːʃ/ | Dios mío, caramba |
| vocabulary sustantivo | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | vocabulario |
| worksheet sustantivo | hoja de trabajo | |
| annoy verbo | /əˈnoɪ̯/ | enchilar, crispar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- How is your week going?
- It's quite a busy one, isn't it?
- No, I'm definitely not good at keeping secrets.
- I'm a bit of an open book, which means...
- You're very honest and share things, maybe too much.
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
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| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | book, which means · someone who is · secret, which is |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | I've been told · you've learned |
| Obligación: must / have to / need to decir que algo es necesario | had to keep · have to lie |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos días | we're talking · I'm holding · they're thinking |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 37 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, don't, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: reveal /ɹɪˈviːl/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: propose /pɹəˈpəʊz/, phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como podcast, liar, propose.
¿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.