Shadowing Practice: m_01 - Learn English Speaking with Video

I wish someone had told me

that all I had to do was sell all of my Hermes bags

and you guys would watch my gardening and homemaking videos

because this is the content that I want to be making on the internet.

So in today's video whilst I haven't been shopping at Harrods it is my grandma's 90th birthday

so I thought that I could put together a basket of things that I have homegrown and homemade to give to her.

Come on!

Firstly I'm going to collect the eggs from the hens because there is nothing better than six fresh hens eggs.

I do think we have a bit of a broody hen at the moment.

This is Clementine and whilst she is beautiful she is also very grumpy.

You have to take her off of the eggs.

She's not happy about it.

Off you go.

We have seven or eight chickens at the moment and we are getting a nice amount of eggs.

Do have to show you this, Ali built this like last weekend so far not a single chicken has used it so he's very sad about that.

and you might think this is a little bit extra

but I love this for gifting I buy recycled cardboard egg boxes on Amazon

and I had a little custom stamp made best to get it central

and then you've really just got to go for it oh

not too bad not too bad it's not the best

but it will do I like an assortment of colors at

the moment we're getting a lot of eggs from the Buff Orpingtons

and we've also got some from the hybrids as well so whites, blues and this sort of pale pink.

This is what they look like.

Such a lovely gift.

If you didn't know my husband is also a beekeeper

so we store a lot of honey that we got from last year

and save it for special occasions we don't sell it we just give it as gifts

and use it ourselves and

if you thought the stamp was extra I actually had these

little stickers made with my greenhouse on them they're sort of like produce labels

so we use these on the honey now Ali is much better at this than I am but you just

stick it on the front and hope for the best it ends up looking like this

pop my hair back because it's really annoying me.

Now rather than buying my grandma flowers I thought

that I could pick her some of my favourites

and just take her a really lovely bunch

so I'm going to take some of my Rosa Desdemona because I think she'll really like these.

This one is so gorgeous.

That is literally two stalks off of one of my plants.

I was about to start flower arranging here but it started raining so I think we're gonna head inside

oh my god

just popped the oven on to bake a fresh sourdough loaf for my grandma

and whilst that heats up I'm going to arrange the flowers I like doing this outside usually

because I can make a mess But because it's raining, I'm doing it inside.

This vase is from a bunch of flowers that I was sent

and I try and reuse them wherever possible

and I've only filled it about halfway up so that I can transport the roses with ease.

I start by taking off the lower stems and in all honesty I don't take it too seriously.

I like my bunches of roses to be quite wild and

so often I will just take the leaves off and bung them in a jar.

They look so beautiful just left to do their own thing.

A little bit of a cut down and just place them in.

Let's keep looking at the arrangement as well.

I don't like it to look like a shop bought arrangement.

So if I look at it and I think, oh, it needs a little bit more greenery.

Personally, I love adding mint to a rose arrangement.

I love anything fragrant.

It just adds another dimension quite a lot because it's going to add a lot of volume into the arrangement.

Oh my gosh it smells so good.

I don't think it needs much more than this.

I could probably add a little bit of mint in there

so I'm going to go and grab some whilst there's a break in the weather

and then I'm going to put the sourdough in the oven and tidy up my mess.

I do like making a mess.

So I grabbed some cat mint and some chocolate mint from the herb garden.

The chocolate mint I'm just going to pop in to add a little bit of density.

My favourite game of Tetris.

Doing this.

Lay a little bit there.

Chop them down.

You okay?

It's taken a turn and it's got quite wild and wonderful.

I don't want to do any more to it because, again, I don't want it to look too perfect.

I like the rustic look and this is definitely rustic.

Sourdough usually takes about two days to make.

And so I started making my dough yesterday like this.

Turn it out and place it on some baking paper.

I grab my little blade and I put whatever design I fancy in the top.

Generally, I just go for a crosshatch or a cross.

This blade is so bad.

I need to get a new one.

I think this is going to be the design I hoped for, but oh well, rustic is rustic.

And then I pop it into my Dutch oven, grab some ice cubes.

Lid on and into the oven.

Oh, that's a good one.

The loaf has come out perfectly.

I thought it was going to be a little bit more rustic, but the design has come out exactly how I wanted it.

So I'm going to let that cool for a little bit.

Pop Grandma's card in there.

I basically put a little bit of straw in the bottom of this so that it pads it out a little bit.

Put the eggs in.

I'm going to pop the loaf in a little baking liner.

Also pop little bread bags in because I get these from Amazon

and they're so handy people often bring them back so that I can refill them.

I realise is the flowers are not going to fit in the hamper.

It's like Animal Farm here.

What my love?

What?

100

What?

101

Gosh it looks so nice.

102

And that is my little homemade haul for my grandma's 90th birthday.

103

I hope you enjoyed it.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Las palabras que más se repiten: egg, pop, rustic, mint, flower. Este vídeo tiene 103 frases y 1128 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 7:14. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 156 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 78 % 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
mint sustantivo	/mɪnt/	menta, hierba buena
oven sustantivo	/ˈʌ.vn̩/	horno
arrangement sustantivo	/əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒmənt/	arreglo, arreglada
loaf sustantivo	/loʊf/	pan, hogaza
sourdough sustantivo	/ˈsaʊɚˌdoʊ/	masa madre
bake verbo	/beɪk/	hornear, enhornar
hen sustantivo	/hɛn/	gallina
homemade adjetivo		casero, hecho en casa
gosh	/ɡɑːʃ/	Dios mío, caramba
arrange verbo	/əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/	arreglar, acotejar
stamp sustantivo	/stæmp/	estampado, timbrado
grandma sustantivo	/ˈɡɹænmɑː/	abuela, abuelita
blade sustantivo	/bleɪd/	cuchilla, hoja
assortment sustantivo	/əˈsɔːtmənt/	surtido
beekeeper sustantivo	/ˈbiˌkipɚ/	apicultor, apicultora

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
come out verbo	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	revelarse, salir a la luz
cut down verbo		talar
end up verbo		terminar, ir a parar
put together verbo		construir, elaborar
take off verbo		quitarse

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 only filled · has come
Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbos seguidos de la forma en -ing	started raining · keep looking · love adding
Superlativos the -est / the most … — lo más alto o lo más bajo de un grupo	the best
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un plan o algo que se ve venir	I'm going to collect · I'm going to take · gonna head

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 26 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, don't, they're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, dimension /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: stamp /stæmp/, sticker /ˈstɪkə/, straw /stɹɔ/, stem /stɛm/
/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: oven /ˈʌ.vn̩/, vase /veɪ̯s/, wherever /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/
/dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: arrangement /əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒmənt/, arrange /əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

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 mint, oven, arrangement.

¿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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