Shadowing Practice: Life changes – A2 English Listening Test - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I used to work such long hours that I didn't have any time to enjoy life.
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I was like a robot – get up, go to work, go back home, sleep.
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I had no personal life and I started to feel really miserable.
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I decided that I wanted to have more free time,
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so I told my boss that I was going through some personal issues and that I needed to work part-time.
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She agreed.
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Now I have time to do everything I want.
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I don't have as much money, but I'm much, much happier.
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Jasmine is three weeks old today.
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I remember a month or so ago thinking that I would go back to work within two or three months.
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Now I know that's not going to happen.
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I just can't imagine leaving her with someone else.
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I'll miss my colleagues, of course, but work will pay me an allowance for a year, so I've decided to take that.
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I worked as a singing teacher for ten years and I've had some really good success stories,
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But I felt that I had gone as far as I could go in that career and I wanted a change.
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I didn't just want to do a different job in music.
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I wanted to do something completely different.
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That's why I applied to do this engineering course.
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It's challenging definitely, but I really love it.
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For the last nine years, I've done the responsible thing.
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I got a well-paid job close to home so that my wife didn't have to work, and I could be home by half past four to spend time with the kids.
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It's worked, but I really began to hate work.
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Now the kids are older, so after some discussion, my wife agreed I could get a job I loved, even though I will be home much later and earn less.
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I started last week.
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It's great.
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My wife and I both had really good jobs, which we really enjoyed.
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But we rarely saw our kids, and they started to have difficulties at school.
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We began to think we were being selfish.
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Together, we were earning far more money than we needed.
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So we decided that I would give up work and teach the children myself at home.
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it's not easy but now we spend a lot more time together and it's good for all of us
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Este vídeo tiene 31 frases y 400 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:41. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 149 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
11 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| earn verbo | /ɝn/ | ganar, granjear |
| rarely adverbio | /ˈɹɛəɹli/ | rara vez, raramente |
| difficulty sustantivo | /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/ | dificultad |
| robot sustantivo | /ˈɹoʊ.bɑt/ | robot |
| selfish adjetivo | /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/ | egoísta |
| miserable adjetivo | /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/ | miserable, mísero |
| colleague sustantivo | /ˈkɒliːɡ/ | colega, compañero |
| allowance sustantivo | /əˈlaʊəns/ | anuencia |
| jasmine sustantivo | /ˈd͡ʒæzmɪn/ | jazmín |
| teach verbo | /ˈtiːt͡ʃ/ | enseñar |
| sing verbo | /ˈsɪŋ/ | cantar |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| get up verbo | levantarse |
| give up verbo | rendirse, entregar |
| go through verbo | atravesar |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 10 contracciones y formas reducidas, como didn't, I've, can't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/, engineer /ˌɛnd͡ʒɪˈnɪ(ə)ɹ/
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 earn, rarely, difficulty.
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | I've decided · I've done |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasado | was going · were being · were earning |
| Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicción | I'll miss · will be |
| Obligación: must / have to / need to decir que algo es necesario | needed to work · have to work |
¿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.