Shadowing Practice: Marriage proposal - Learn English Speaking with Video

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So, Sarah, do you like this place?
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Is the food good?
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It's really wonderful, Alex.
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The quiet atmosphere, the food, everything is perfect.
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But honestly, I've been wondering all evening, why did you take me to such an expensive restaurant tonight?
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It's not my birthday, and our anniversary isn't until next month.
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Do I really need a special reason to take you somewhere nice?
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Just seeing you smile here makes everything worth it.
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But actually, tonight is a very special night.
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Really?
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What do you mean?
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What day is today?
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Today is the day I ask you to spend the rest of your life with me.
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Alex!
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Sarah, look at us.
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We've been together since our poor university days, eating cheap street food and dreaming about the future.
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After graduation, when life was hard and I struggled to build my career, you never left my side.
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I know I'm not rich, I'm not perfect, and I still make many mistakes.
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But you always believe in me, love me, and give me a warm home to return to.
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Having you in my life is the greatest luck I could ever have.
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I don't just want you as my girlfriend anymore, Sarah.
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I want you to be my family.
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Will you marry me?
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Look, this ring is the newest design, and it has the biggest diamond in the store.
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Oh, Alex, I'm so touched.
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My heart is beating so fast.
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This diamond is huge and so shiny.
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Wait, which store did you buy it from?
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I bought it at P &J.
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It is the most famous and trusted store in our country, right?
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I spent two months of my salary picking it out for you.
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Wait, what?
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P &J?
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Are you serious right now?
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Yeah.
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Why do you look so shocked?
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Did I do something wrong?
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Alex, haven't you checked the news on Facebook recently?
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There's a massive scandal right now.
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People found out that some P &J branches were selling fake diamonds.
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Everyone is running back to the stores to check their rings.
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What?
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Fake diamonds at a huge brand like P &J?
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No way.
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I paid a fortune for this.
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It even came with a fancy certificate.
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Certificates can be fake too, Alex.
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The news said they mixed real diamonds with cheap, shiny stones.
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Look at how big this diamond is.
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It looks almost too clean.
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Are you sure it's not a piece of expensive glass?
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Oh my god, I don't know anymore.
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The sales lady was so nice.
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She swore to me it was a top quality natural stone.
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Did I just buy a fake diamond to propose to the love of my life?
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I can't stop laughing.
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This was supposed to be the most romantic proposal in the world, and now we are sitting in a candlelit restaurant crying over a fake P &J diamond.
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Don't laugh, Sarah.
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I want to cry.
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I saved money for months.
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I practiced my proposal speech in front of the mirror 50 times.
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And now I ruined our most precious moment with a fake ring?
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Hey, look at me, Alex.
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Put the ring box down and take my hands.
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You didn't ruin anything.
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But Sarah, you deserve a real diamond.
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Listen to me.
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When you talked about our past, about our hard days after university, my eyes were full of tears.
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That is what matters to me.
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Your love for me is real, your care for me is real, and the life we built together is 100 % real.
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A fake stone from PMJ cannot change the real feelings in your heart.
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You really mean that?
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You're not mad at me?
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I'm not mad at all.
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It actually makes our proposal unforgettable.
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Who else gets proposed to with a fake diamond from a famous store?
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We will have a great story to tell our children later.
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you are the most amazing woman in the world sarah
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but i swear tomorrow morning at 8 a .m we are standing in front of
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that pnj store
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if this diamond is fake i will fight them until they
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give me a real one for you deal we will fight them together tomorrow
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but right now put this suspicious ring on my finger fake
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or real my answer is yes thank you my love i promise i will check the next diamond under a microscope myself.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 84 frases y 726 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:12. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 173 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 83 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
diamond sustantivo/ˈdaɪ.ə.mənd/diamante, gema
proposal sustantivo/pɹəˈpoʊzəl/propuesta
ruin sustantivo/ˈɹuː.ɪn/ruina
certificate sustantivo/səˈtɪf.ɪ.kɪt/certificado
propose verbo/pɹəˈpəʊz/proponer
finger sustantivo/ˈfɪŋɡɚ/dedo, alambres
mirror sustantivo/ˈmiɹɚ/espejo
atmosphere sustantivo/ˈætməsˌfɪɹ/atmósfera, aire
shock sustantivo/ʃɔk/choque
romantic adjetivo/ɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/romántico
marry verbo/ˈmæɹi/casar, casarse
salary sustantivo/ˈsæləɹi/salario, sueldo
fancy sustantivo/ˈfæn.si/fantasía, magín
tear verbo/tɛɹ/rasgar, desgarrar
fortune sustantivo/ˈfɔːtjuːn/fortuna

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
find out verboaveriguar, anoticiarse

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Superlativos the -est / the most … — lo más alto o lo más bajo de un grupothe greatest · the newest · the most famous
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicciónWill you · will have · will fight
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasis beating · is running · are sitting

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 14 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, don't, can't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shock /ʃɔk/, suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/, graduation /ˌɡɹæd͡ʒuˈeɪʃən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: certificate /səˈtɪf.ɪ.kɪt/, graduation /ˌɡɹæd͡ʒuˈeɪʃən/, unforgettable /ˌʌnfə(ɹ)ˈɡɛtəbəl/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como diamond, proposal, ruin.

¿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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