Shadowing Practice: Mistakes You’ll Make While Falling in Love - Learn English Speaking with Video

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If you had a time machine to talk to yourself one year ago, what would you tell them?
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Any lessons you'd want to share?
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One year ago, I met you and there are a few things I wish I did differently.
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This is what I tell my past self.
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These are the mistakes you'll make while falling in love.
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Lesson number one.
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You'll be close-minded.
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The world currently revolves around your routines, dreams, and values.
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You'll think you have it all figured out, but love is not about validation, it's about expansion.
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Growth, change, and the chance to challenge what you know.
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You've been stuck in your own mind for so long.
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It's been six years since you've been with anyone, and yes, you've learned how to be independent.
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You pride yourself on it.
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But you'll need to learn to ask for help.
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To lean on someone and receive support.
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You don't realize this yet, but this girl is one of the most fiercely supportive people you will ever meet.
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She'll spend time nursing you back to health, telling you that you've outgrown your dreams for the chance to chase a bigger one, putting her own desire for connection away at times to let you leave and grow in new places.
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She's a good one, and unfortunately this will take you a long time to realize.
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Lesson number two.
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You won't fully open your heart.
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I think you might be afraid of getting hurt.
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It's been confusing time to date and wear your heart on your sleeve.
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She's been hurt as well before, but she stays so kind.
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You won't fully understand why she loves you.
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I think you need to see yourself through her eyes.
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You've never met anyone who's been so excited to see you, to spend time with you.
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I think it may be true that she loves you more than you love yourself, values parts of yourself that you are still blind to.
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Open your heart a little earlier.
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I think you're afraid to commit and fear the fall.
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Share more things, be more honest, Ask for long conversations instead of fancy experiences.
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She's a world waiting for you to explore.
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She wants to see yours too, as long as you open your heart.
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But, I know you, and you know me.
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You're stubborn, so even with this advice, you'll have to make the mistakes yourself to understand.
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So, I'll just leave you with this.
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Lesson number three.
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Most of all, know that you're lucky.
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We were so incredibly lucky to have this chance to love her.
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This version of you and this version of her won't last forever.
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Both of you are still growing up and changing faster than you realize.
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Your love will take different forms, but before it passes, you take a chance to cherish what it feels like right now.
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And if you get a chance to pass along this message to her.
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I hope one day we look back on these highs and lows and chuckle, as they are merely just waves crashing up to the shore.
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And that we were silly enough to miss the whole picture.
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That there was this wonderful world around us and we had only taken our first few steps.
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That when a time machine is invented, we take the first chance we get to come back to right where we are.
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Confused, vulnerable, trying to understand another.
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Nothing at all stable, but feeling like the world was in our hands.
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I hope one day this all makes sense, and it's just a perfect first chapter for what's left to come.
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Happy birthday, Anita.
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I love you.
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How would you rate the past year with me?
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Out of what?
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73. 74.
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Out of 73?
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Divide enough.
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What's good?
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What is your rating?
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100. Up.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 58 frases y 635 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:39. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 174 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 89 % 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

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
lesson sustantivo/ˈlɛs.ən/lección
stable sustantivo/ˈsteɪ.bəl/establo, cuadra
confused adjetivo/kənˈfjuːzd/confundido
chase verbo/t͡ʃeɪs/perseguir, asenderear
nurse sustantivo/nɝs/enfermera, enfermero
silly adjetivo/ˈsɪl.i/bobo, tonto
incredibly adverbio/ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/increíblemente
merely adverbio/ˈmɪəli/meramente, mere
routine sustantivo/ɹuˈtin/rutina
fancy sustantivo/ˈfæn.si/fantasía, magín
commit verbo/kəˈmɪt/encomendar
shore sustantivo/ʃɔɹ/orilla, vera
explore verbo/ɪkˈsploɹ/explorar
differently adverbio/ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/diferentemente
vulnerable adjetivo/ˈvʌln(ə)ɹəbl̩/vulnerable

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
figure out verboaveriguar, captar
grow up verbocrecer
pass along verbohacer llegar

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 20 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you'll, you've, won't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shore /ʃɔɹ/, validation /ˌvæl.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/, cherish /ˈt͡ʃɛɹɪʃ/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, validation /ˌvæl.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/

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 lesson, stable, confused.

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 ahoraYou've been stuck · you've been · You've never met
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo haceYou've been stuck · been hurt · is invented

¿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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