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I want to ask you a question and that is what is in your life's blueprint?
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Number one in your life's blueprint should be don't allow anybody to make you feel that you are nobody.
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Always feel that you count.
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Always feel that you have worth.
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and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.
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Don't be ashamed of your color.
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Don't be ashamed of your biological features.
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Somehow you must be able to say in your own lives and really believe it, I am black but beautiful.
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And believe it in your heart.
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Secondly, in your life's blueprint,
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you must have the determination to achieve excellence in your various fields of endeavor.
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When you discover what you're going to be in life,
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set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it.
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It falls your lot to be a street sweeper.
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Sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures.
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Sweep streets like Beethoven and compose music, sweeps streets like Leon T.
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Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera, and sweeps streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry.
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And so from an old slave cabin of Virginia's heels, Booker T.
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Washington rose up to be one of America's grid leaders.
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He lit a torch in Alabama,
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And darkness fled in that setting from a poverty-stricken area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Maren Anderson rose up to be the world's greatest contralto,
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so that a Toscanini could say that a voice like this comes only once in a century, and Sibelius of Finland could say,
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my roof is too low for such a voice, from crippling circumstances.
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There came a George Washington Carver to carve for himself an imperishable niche in the annals of science.
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Then came Joe Lewis and Muhammad Ali with their educated fists,
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all of them came to tell us that we can be somebody.
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Skin may differ, but affection dwells in black and white the same.
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And if I were so tall as to reach the pole, or to grasp the ocean at a span,
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I must be measured And by my soul, the mind is the standard of the man.
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Finally, Finally, in your life's blueprint,
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must be a commitment to the eternal principles of beauty, love, and justice.
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Don't allow anybody to pull you so low as to make you hate them.
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I close by quoting once more the man that the young lady quoted, Langston Hughes.
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One day he wrote a poem entitled mother to son.
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Well son I'll tell you, life for me ain't been no crystal stat, it's had tax in it.
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Boards torn up places with no carpet on the floor bare.
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But all the time, I's been a climbing on and reaching landings
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and turning corners and sometimes going in the dark where But there ain't been no light.
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So boy, don't you stop now.
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Don't you sit down on the steps, cause you find this kind of hard.
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But I still going, boy.
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I still climbing.
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And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
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If you can't run, walk.
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If you can't walk, crawl.
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But by all means, keep moving.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Martin Luther King Jr. Greatest Speech Ever!”. Este vídeo tiene 47 frases y 526 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:56. El hablante habla despacio, unas 107 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. 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:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
blueprint sustantivo/ˈbluːˌpɹɪnt/cianotipia
sweep verbo/swiːp/barrer
ashamed adjetivo/əˈʃeɪmd/avergonzado, abochornado
annals sustantivo/ˈæn.əlz/anales, añales (disused)
compose verbo/kəmˈpəʊz/componer
imperishable adjetivoimperecedero
sweeper sustantivo/ˈswipɚ/barrendero
endeavor sustantivo/ɛnˈdɛv.ɚ/tentativa, esfuerzo
dwell verbo/dwɛl/habitar, morar
circumstance sustantivo/ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/circunstancia, tesitura
torch sustantivo/ˈtɔːtʃ/antorcha
crawl verbo/kɹɔːl/humillarse, arrastrarse
flee verbo/ˈfliː/huir, huirse
heel sustantivo/hil/talón, calcaño
secondly adverbio/ˈsɛk.(ə)ndli/en segundo lugar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Don't be ashamed of your color.
  • Don't be ashamed of your biological features.
  • If you can't run, walk.
  • If you can't walk, crawl.

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 13 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, ain't, can't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: ashamed /əˈʃeɪmd/, affection /əˈfɛk.ʃən/, determination /dɪˌtɜːmɪˈneɪʃən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: determination /dɪˌtɜːmɪˈneɪʃən/, significance /sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: sweep /swiːp/, sweeper /ˈswipɚ/, stat /stæt/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: annals /ˈæn.əlz/, compose /kəmˈpəʊz/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como blueprint, sweep, ashamed.

¿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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