Shadowing Practice: Michael Jackson - Chicago (Official Audio) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I met her on the way to Chicago Where she was all alone And so was I,
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so asked her for a name
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She smiled and looked at me I was surprised to see That a woman like
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that was real into me She says you didn't have no
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man She's loved me She told me she was all alone Said I don't think it's
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that no one for She said doesn't give enough weight She's 59, she's gonna be there She lied to you,
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lied to me Cause she was loving me,
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loving me, yeah I never would've thought she was living like that Her words seem so sincere
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When I held her near she would tell me how she feels
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It felt so real to me This girl she had to be
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An angel sent from heaven just for me She said you didn't have no man, I don't wait to get to every mess She loved me,
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she told me she was all alone Said you don't, she didn't have no fun She said you're a bitch,
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59 but the ghost she got you She's gonna lie to you, lie to me Cause she wanna love me,
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love me, yeah She's like a devil, she's gonna love me Why she was still your wife She thought
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that loving me must be You were working the kids that loved me She said that it was a devil,
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yeah Try to get me in the way she'd be She's gonna lie to you, lie to me Cause we got a family,
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family, yeah Why are you all now?
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Alright
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Oh
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I didn't know it all
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Oh
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I didn't know she was already spoken for As I'm not
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that kind of man I swear
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that I would have never looked her way Now I feel so much shame and all things have to change
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You should know that I'm holding her to blame She said she didn't have no man,
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paid to kiss her every man she got to blame She told me she was all alone,
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said she told me she didn't have no choice She said she'd give me rubbish, 59 I would go to jail She lied to me,
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lied to me Cause she was loving me, loving me Ain't tried to lift up no light She was loving me, she was doing your way She
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thought she didn't have no more She said just give me a bitch, 59, I was a ghost she gave She lie to you,
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lie to me, cause she wouldn't love me, love me, yeah She tried to give a damn for love,
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love me, I think I said we don't want She thought that loving me must do,
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who would work and the kids that's cute She said that give a damn for love, try to get me anyway Baby,
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yeah, you're the light of your light of me But you got a family, family, yeah

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Michael Jackson - Chicago”. Las palabras que más se repiten: loving, lie, lied, alone, loved. Este vídeo tiene 33 frases y 492 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:02. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 122 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 88 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 12 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
ghost sustantivo/ɡoʊst/fantasma, espectro
devil sustantivo/ˈdɛvəl/diablo, demonio
angel sustantivo/ˈeɪ̯n.d͡ʒəl/ángel
sincere adjetivo/sɪnˈsɪɹ/sincero
blame verbo/bleɪm/culpar, culpabilizar
cute adjetivo/kjuːt/gracioso, chulo
smile verbo/ˈsmaɪl/sonreír
jail sustantivo/d͡ʒeɪl/cárcel, presidio
mess sustantivo/mɛs/leonera, desmadre
shame sustantivo/ˈʃeɪ̯m/acholo, acholamiento
swear verbo/ˈswɛɚ/jurar
lift sustantivo/lɪft/ascensor, elevador

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasadowas loving · was living · were working
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un plan o algo que se ve venirgonna be · gonna lie · gonna love
Obligación: must / have to / need to decir que algo es necesariohad to be · have to change · must do

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 27 contracciones y formas reducidas, como didn't, don't, gonna. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: rubbish /ˈɹʌbɪʃ/, shame /ˈʃeɪ̯m/

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 ghost, devil, angel.

¿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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