Shadowing Practice: Meet the Voice Behind Your GPS - Learn English Speaking with Video

Creando lección...
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At the bottom of the hill, make a right.
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Continue straight ahead.
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At the next intersection, turn left.
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My name is Karen Jacobson and I'm known as the only woman men will take directions from.
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My speaking voice ended up in over a billion GPS and smartphone devices giving directions to people around the world.
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You have reached your destination.
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Well I'll take you right back to the beginning...
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I'm originally from Mackay, which is a town in North Queensland near Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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I wanted to become a professional singer and move to America.
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And I did follow that dream to New York.
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And not long after I moved there, there was an audition and a client was looking for a native Australian female voiceover artist living in the northeast of the United States.
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And I went to that audition and I got the job.
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Proceed to the route. Proceed to the route. Proceed to the route.
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At the time I was told that the Australian  voice was a high priority because the Australian accent was considered the most pleasant English-speaking accent to listen to which is pretty cool.
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Turn left. At the roundabout, turn right.
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There was a huge script, a massive script, and the team of engineers had figured out every combination of syllables possible for me to record so they could chop that up and create this voice system based on my speaking voice.
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I went into the booth and recorded these different lines.
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At the next intersection, turn left. At the roundabout, turn right. You have reached your destination.
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What are some other ones? Let me think...
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Oh everybody's favorite: recalculating.
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I had to say the word 'approximately' approximately 168 times in a row.
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There is a red light camera approaching.
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I like to keep people safe.
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When I'm asked to use the voice, I do, because it's fun.
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My voice is going to live on forever? Wow the power is going to go to my head.
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I mean that's mind-blowing. Really. Isn't it?
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You have reached your destination.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 27 frases y 346 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:29. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 140 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 81 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

13 palabras menos comunes del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

  • destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/ (sustantivo) — destino, destinación. The place set for the end of a journey or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
  • script /skɹɪpt/ (sustantivo) — escrito, escripto. A writing; a written document.
  • accent /ækˈsɛnt/ (sustantivo) — acento léxico. A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to…
  • intersection /ˈɪntəɹˌsɛkʃən/ (sustantivo) — cruce. The junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares.
  • audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/ (sustantivo) — audición. A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent.
  • priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/ (sustantivo) — prioridad. An item's relative importance.
  • pleasant /ˈplɛz.ənt/ (adjetivo) — placentero, placible. Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.
  • booth /buθ/ (sustantivo) — puesto, stand. A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
  • northeast /noːˈθɪjst/ (sustantivo) — nordeste, noreste. The intercardinal compass point halfway between north and east; specifically at a bearing of 45°.
  • smartphone /ˈsmɑɹtfoʊn/ (sustantivo) — teléfono inteligente. A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a feature phone.
  • chop /t͡ʃɑp/ (verbo) — picar, tajar. To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
  • roundabout /ˈɹaʊndəˌbaʊt/ (sustantivo) — rotonda, glorieta. A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.
  • syllable /ˈsɪl.ə.bəl/ (sustantivo) — sílaba. A unit of human speech which often forms words corresponding to one opening of the mouth; a vowel and its surrounding consonants.

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

  • figure out (verbo) — averiguar, captar. To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
  • live on (verbo) — permanecer. To endure.
  • look for (verbo) — buscar, lambisquear. To seek.

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 5 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, I'll, isn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: booth /buθ/, northeast /noːˈθɪjst/
  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, intersection /ˈɪntəɹˌsɛkʃən/, audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, intersection /ˈɪntəɹˌsɛkʃən/, priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/

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 destination, script, accent.

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorahave reached
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicciónwill take · I'll take

¿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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