Shadowing Practice: Michael Jackson talks about why his skin colour changed - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Just recently there was a story, and I know one of your attorneys held a news conference.
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There was a story about you wanting to have a little white boy play you in a Pepsi commercial.
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That is so stupid.
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That's the most ridiculous, horrifying story I've ever heard.
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It's crazy.
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I mean, why?
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Number one, it's my face as a child in the commercial, me when I was little.
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Why would I want a white child to play me?
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I'm a black American.
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I'm proud to be a black American.
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I am proud of my race.
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I am proud of who I am.
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I have a lot of pride in who I am and dignity.
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That's like you wanted an oriental person to play you as a child.
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Does that make sense?
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No. So please, people, stop believing these horrifying stories.
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Then let's go to the thing that is most discussed about you, I think, is the fact that the color of your skin is obviously different than it was when you were younger.
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And so I think it has caused a great deal of speculation.
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and controversy as to what you have done or are doing.
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Are you bleaching your skin?
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And is your skin lighter because you don't like being black?
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Okay, number one, there, as I know of, there is no such thing as skin bleaching.
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I have never seen it.
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I don't know what it is.
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Well, they used to have those products growing up.
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I used to hear, always use bleach and glow, but you'd have to have about 300 ,000 gallons.
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Okay, number one, this is the situation.
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I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin is something
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that i cannot help okay but when people make up stories
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that i don't want to be who i am it hurts me
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so it is it's a problem for me okay i can't control it okay
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but what about all the millions of people let's reverse it
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okay what about all the millions of people who sit out
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in the sun to become darker to become other than what they are nobody says nothing about
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that so when did this start
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when did your the color of your skin start to change
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oh boy I don't sometime after thriller mm -hmm around off -the -wall thriller
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and what did you think I mean you it's in my
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family my father said is on his side I can't control
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it I don't understand I mean it makes me very sad I don't want to go into my medical history
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because that's something that's private but that's the situation here so please
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when people see okay I just want to get this straight
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you are not taking anything to change the color of your
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skin God no you did not purposely trying to control it
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and using makeup evens it out because it makes blotches on the skin
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and I have to even out my skin
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but you know it's funny why is that
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so important you know that's that's not important to me I'm a great fan of art I love Michelangelo
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if I had a chance to talk to him
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or read about him I would want to know about what
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inspired him to become who he is the anatomy of his
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craftsmanship not about who he went out with last night
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or why he decided to sit out in the sun
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so long what's wrong with I mean that's what's important to me hi youtubers

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Michael Jackson talks about why his skin colour changed”. Las palabras que más se repiten: skin, proud, color. Este vídeo tiene 54 frases y 594 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:00. El hablante habla rápido, unas 198 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 85 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
bleach sustantivo/bliːt͡ʃ/lejía, lavandina
horrify verbo/ˈhɒɹɪfaɪ/horripilar
thriller sustantivo/ˈθɹɪ.lə/suspense, thriller
blotch sustantivo/blɑt͡ʃ/mancha
pigmentation sustantivopigmentación
purposely adverbio/ˈpɝpəsli/intencionadamente, aposta
gallon sustantivo/ˈɡælən/galón
glow verbo/ɡloʊ/fulgir, fulgurar
anatomy sustantivo/əˈnætəmi/anatomía
speculation sustantivo/ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/especulación
inspire verbo/ɪnˈspaɪə(ɹ)/inspirar, infundir
dignity sustantivo/ˈdɪɡnɪti/dignidad
sometime adverbio/ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/al rato, algún día
controversy sustantivo/kənˈtɹɒv.ə.si/controversia, polémica
disorder sustantivo/dɪsˈɔɹdɚ/desorden

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
grow up verbocrecer
make up verbo/ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/reponer, suplir
sit out verboquedarse, quedarse aquí

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • That's the most ridiculous, horrifying story I've ever heard.
  • Why would I want a white child to play me?
  • Are you bleaching your skin?
  • I don't know what it is.

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
“Used to” used to + verbo — un hábito o estado pasado que ya no es ciertoused to have · used to hear
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahoraI've ever heard · has caused · have done
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasare doing · are not taking
Obligación: must / have to / need to decir que algo es necesariohave to have · have to even

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

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

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: craftsmanship /ˈkɹæfts.mən.ʃɪp/, speculation /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: anatomy /əˈnætəmi/, speculation /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, controversy /kənˈtɹɒv.ə.si/

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 bleach, horrify, thriller.

¿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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