Shadowing Practice: More CSS quick tips - Learn English Speaking with Video

Hello my friend and friends.

A little while ago I put out a video looking at five quick tips.

People really seem to like that.

They suggested some and I have a few of my own that I want to share.

So today I have five quick tips that we're going to be taking a look at including a few bonus ones.

So it's more like seven or eight tips.

Why am I saying five?

I don't know.

It's my favorite number.

So we're doing five.

Let's start with overscroll behavior which you can see here.

I have this scrolling thing that I have set up and

if you get to the bottom of something like that

and you keep scrolling it will continue to scroll the entire page

which can be annoying or if i'm scrolling up uh then the same thing can happen

if we're you know it can actually scroll up

when you want to be scrolling only within an element

so to fix this and there is a big a watch out for this one

that we're going to look at as well

but let's let's get it set up first so over scroll behavior of contain

and uh code pen does not like it apparently but now

if i'm scrolling down and scrolling down i'm I'm still scrolling and it's locked into this area.

And then the same thing going up, we're locked into this.

The reason I'm saying to watch out for this is, especially on mobile, it's less of an issue on desktop because you can always find a way around.

But if you're on a mobile device that's a touch device, people ask me about this all the time, by the way.

This is just the responsive mode that's built into the dev tools of all the browsers, I think.

So same thing, the overscroll behavior, I can scroll in this area.

So I can scroll down, I can scroll down.

If I get to the bottom and I'm trying to scroll with my finger, it's not going to continue scrolling.

This can be a good thing for like side swiping things.

So if you have horizontal scrolling, this can be a good idea to put in.

The thing you want to watch out for is say this is 120 viewport block size.

So it's a nice big tall area.

So the user scrolls down and then they get to like this part and they're scrolling.

And I have space on the side so I can actually like I can still grab a hold outside of that area.

but like I'm at the bottom and I can't even see the bottom

and that's really annoying right and there's no way for me to keep going whereas

if I turn this off let's remove that

and this will have to update so now once again we click we scroll down

but we get to like here

if I'm scrolling I'm scrolling we get all the way down to the bottom

and then I keep clicking and scrolling it will actually pull me down still

so it's one of those things you definitely want to test double check

that it's giving you the desired results that you're after

but again for horizontal scrolling especially on touch devices it can be handy

and there are other times where you definitely might want to implement this

but just be careful with it

if the things are getting tall cool next up we have carrot color

which is a fun one in

that uh not a lot of people know about it

so you can see i'm set up carrot color orange red right here

and that means

when i click into these you can see the carrot is actually orange red it's getting the color in there

if we don't have that it's just going to be the default of white

which there we go it is updated so

if you want something a little bit more on brand you can just use your carrot color on your inputs

and nice and easy the only problem here

and this is our first bonus tip is the carrot by

itself isn't super obvious right it's kind of small there's not

a lot you can see we can actually change the carrot

shape now sort of this is a progressive enhancement it's only in chrome at the moment

so let's i am in chrome so So we have my carrot color set up, so we can come here and say carrot shape.

And if you're going to be changing the carrot color, you might as well change the shape while you're at it, just to add a little something.

So I think the default is bar.

Let's see if that actually changes anything.

No, yeah, that's the default one, so that hasn't changed.

We could change this to a block and block is if you want to do like the old, you know, like these, and you might not want orange, red, that's like super deep like this.

Let's see if we can do a HSL from, I should probably use OKLCH.

We're going to say orange, red, LHSL over 0.5 to lower the opacity of it.

I haven't tried this.

This is where we're freelancing here.

Yeah, you can reduce the opacity of it.

So yeah, that could be something interesting

that you bring in just to make things look a little bit more interesting along the way.

If you have a certain style that you're after with a monospace font or something.

So that is the color shape.

The other option you do have here is underline or underscore?

I'm seeing underline as the autocomplete, but I'm pretty sure it's underscore that we want to use here.

And there you go.

I've come in.

It's kind of hard to see.

Let's just put this opacity back up to one.

This is a relative color, by the way, if you've never seen it before.

And yeah, you can have underscores coming in as well.

So we have a few different options there.

And moving on from carrot shape, we have accent color, which is the same idea of getting into the world of coloring things.

So you can see I have my checkbox here.

This we want to get things more on brand to match our carrot color that we just changed.

So on the HTML, this is an inherited property.

So just declare it as high up as you need to.

We can say accent color, accent color, just accent.

And we're going to with orange red here as well.

And all of these will change over to using that color.

There's a few good things with this.

First of all, the support's pretty good.

It will work for all of these elements.

And you'll notice the checkbox, the color of the checkmark is black right now.

If we change this to say yellow, actually no, yellow would stay black because yellow is very bright.

Let's change this to, what's a dark color?

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I can't think of a good dark color off the top of my head for some reason.

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I always use light keywords.

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And the dark ones are never dark, right?

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Let's try dark green.

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I'm guessing is actually dark.

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Ah, there we go.

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And now you can see the check mark is automatically switched to white.

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So it's always going to take the higher contrast.

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The same with our radios.

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The color of the radio there will always use the higher contrast color automatically.

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And so, yeah, nice easy win there.

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Accent color.

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And then you can just get on brand super easily.

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So a nice quick win with that one.

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This can definitely be something that's included in your CSS resets even.

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I think it's a nice one to throw in there.

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The next step, a bit of a warning, it'll be a bit of a flashbang because I want to talk about colors.

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So the background will be white on this one and it will be bright.

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And the reason I want to talk about that is because I want to look at the color scheme shorthand.

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Once again, this is something I include in most of my resets.

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If I'm going to have a light and a dark color scheme, I'm going to put a light and a dark here.

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And that means use whichever is the user preference.

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For me, it is dark.

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So you can see everything is switched over.

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If you don't know about Color Scheme, the reason it's fantastic is the defaults is it will change the text colors.

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So I don't have anything declaring my text colors other than my title up at the top there.

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So because of that, the text color is automatically changing.

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The background color is automatically changing.

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The inputs are even switching.

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My scroll bar is switching everything automatically switches when we switch over

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because what it's doing is putting the user agent styles into a dark mode so

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if you forget some styling along the way say for an

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input you don't have these bright white inputs sitting around or it could be many other things but

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if ever you forget to style something it won't stick out like a sore thumb which is quite nice

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there is some limitation to this

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if you're going to do it you probably want to have

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some way for a user to also manually switch between

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because people will have their user preferences set up that they might not want to be reading a website in.

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A lot of people who have dark user preferences still prefer light websites for long reading

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or people want to switch if it's nighttime.

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They might want to switch to a dark theme even if their system settings are in a light theme.

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So this is a nice first step

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and I'll put a link in the description to a video

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where where I look at how we can go more in depth with this

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and build out an actual toggle and everything else, because I've done that.

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So I'll include a link in the description to a video that goes a bit more in depth on this, how we can build a bit of a color scheme with the toggle, while also using the light dark here.

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As a little bit of a bonus in future CSS, or if you don't mind, not as great color handling, another, or not color handling,

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browser support, it's getting there, but it's not perfect yet, is you could do something like color and use the light dark function.

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And that allows you to pass two colors here.

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So these could be custom properties that I'm putting in.

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But let's just say that my color, my light text color should be red, which will look terrible.

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We're going to say red and we're going to say, let's do the light blue.

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So if I have a, maybe we'll do, yeah, we'll just say red, whatever.

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You can see the text has actually changed over to light blue right now.

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And if I emulate this, so if you go into your dev tools, I guess this is another bonus tip in your dev tools control shift

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or command shift on a mac p brings up your command palette

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and you can emulate emulate your different things

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so preferred color scheme of light

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and now you can see the text color switched over to red

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and then control shift p command shift p on a mac emulate

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and you can do not emulate

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or you can switch over to other ones you can emulate all the different media query stuff

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so do not we go back over to our baby blue right there yeah color scheme is fantastic

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and makes life really easy

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and i'm really looking forward to light dark getting to the

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point where browser support is good enough to start using it in production

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and i had to look uh this is of the time

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of recording it is baseline newly available we're at about 85 support as far back as safari 17.5

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so probably a little bit longer realistically unless it's a personal project

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but yeah we're getting to the point where we're going to be hitting that crossover pretty soon i think

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anyway that's it for our color scheme let's jump on over to our last one

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which is our place content where my demo apparently did not want to load

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when i got to the page here there it is

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and this is place content or place items

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and we're also looking at another one along the way

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so here on my section i still think this is the

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easiest way to center things in css these days is throwing a display grid on the thing

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and then using either a place items of center

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or a place content of center

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and both of these can work with grid the place items will work

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if you only have one thing in there so

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if I only had an h2 the item is going to be centered horizontally

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and vertically when we have multiple items it's creating two rows of content

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so it's centering them vertically within the rows

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which isn't quite what I want so instead we can use our place content center

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which places the entire grid in the center

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and it's probably the easiest way to center something you can

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actually do this now again browser support's not good enough anyway

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but you can also do this in a div now

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or block level elements I should say

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because this is a section not a div even though semantically

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they're more similar than you might expect unless you're like actually attaching a title to the section, but I digress.

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We can do a align content of center and then a justify items of center,

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and it will center things.

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Let's see, there we go.

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You might be going, wait, Kevin, shouldn't this be the other way around?

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Yeah, in Flexbox world, you would use the opposite of these two, but in the block context, we do it this way.

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That definitely feels frustrating.

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I know a lot of people got mad when this came out

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that it's the opposite of what we would use with Flexbox.

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It actually does make sense

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when you look at how the items versus the content keywords work when we're doing alignment on things like this.

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It's just one of those things that we've built a pattern we're familiar with, so it is kind of frustrating that they are like that.

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You still need two lines here to be able to do this.

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So just having a display grid and a place content center is better browser support anyway, so we might as well use that,

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I think, even in the future.

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Unless you really don't need a grid context for some reason, I'm probably still going to go this route,

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but there's probably situations where maybe the other one would be handy to have.

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The other one I did want to mention is if the content inside is the...

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Let's just take this off.

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We can take this off and we're going to add a position relative here.

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Position relative because I want to talk about the place things.

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So on a positioned element now, you can use the item or self things, if that makes sense.

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Let's do that.

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That's my H2.

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So my H2 is going to get a position of absolute and I can actually do a place self.

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Oh, no, we need one more thing.

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I'm going to say inset of zero.

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So top, bottom, left and right of zero.

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and then I can do a place self of center and that will work and go in the middle.

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So this is the placement of things would work.

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So this is the same as an align self

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and a justify self of center because all of those have been brought over to the positioning as well, right?

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So if I say justify self center, we'll get it on the justify axis.

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So it's centered this way.

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And if I did an align self, we're going to center it vertically instead.

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Because whenever we use the place, it's a shorthand for the justify and align.

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So it's justify self and align self of center.

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Same as when I did it over here with the place content of center.

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That's the shorthand for align content and align and justify content of center.

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So yeah, a bunch of different ways you can center things.

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A few bonus tips along the way there.

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I'll put links to the original video down below

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and they should be on screen to the couple I mentioned along the way including

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that one on the color scheme stuff that I talked about and with

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that I want to say a very big thank you to

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my enabler of awesome johnny as well as all my other patrons

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and channel members for their continued support

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and of course until next time don't forget to make your corner of the internet a little bit more awesome

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and we're almost at a million subs as the time of

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this going out probably really close maybe we passed it maybe

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not just want to say a very big thank you to everyone for helping me get there

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if we haven't yet hit it and you haven't yet subscribed please do consider subscribing to help me get there.

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That'd be pretty cool.

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It's a big milestone for us YouTubers.

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So yeah, thank you to everybody who has continued to support me, whether it's through Patreon, channel membership, or just watching and sharing my videos.

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Yeah, it's been a fun ride, and we finally got to a million, or are getting to a million.

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But whatever it is, thank you so much, everybody.

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And of course, until next time, don't forget to make your corner of the internet just a little bit more awesome.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 248 frases y 3033 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 14:18. El hablante habla rápido, unas 212 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 86 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

scroll /skɹoʊl/ (sustantivo) — rollo, pergamino. A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll.
carrot /ˈkæɹət/ (sustantivo) — zanahoria. A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus.
justify /ˈd͡ʒʌstɪfaɪ/ (verbo) — legitimar, justificar. To provide an acceptable explanation for.
align /əˈlaɪn/ (verbo) — alinearse, alinear. To form a line; to fall into line.
bonus /ˈbəʊ.nəs/ (sustantivo) — bonificación, plus. Something extra that is good; an added benefit.
grid /ɡɹɪd/ (sustantivo) — cuadrícula, matriz. A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
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…
element /ˈɛləmənt/ (sustantivo) — elemento. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
input /ˈɪnpʊt/ (sustantivo) — aportación, aporte. The act or process of putting in; infusion.
default /dɪˈfɔlt/ (sustantivo) — mora, default. The condition of failing to meet an obligation.
relative /ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv/ (sustantivo) — familiar, pariente. Someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption; someone in the same family.
preference /ˈpɹɛf(ə)ɹ(ə)ns/ (sustantivo) — preferencia. The selection of one thing or person over others (with the main adposition being "for" in relation to the thing or person, but possibly also "of")
contrast /kənˈt(ʃ)ɹæst/ (sustantivo) — contraste. The degree of this difference.
declare /dɪˈklɛɚ/ (verbo) — explicar, aclarar. To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.
subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/ (verbo) — suscribirse, subscribirse. To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

look at (verbo) — mirar, funar. To observe or watch.
talk about (verbo) — hablar de, hablar sobre. Used to draw attention to the speaker's characterization of someone or something.
put in (verbo) — meter. To place inside.
bring up (verbo) — levantar, alzar. To mention.
come out /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ (verbo) — revelarse, salir a la luz. To be discovered; to be revealed.
get into (verbo) — entrar en, entrar a. To move into (an object), such that one ends up inside it.
get on (verbo) — montar, cabalgar. To board or mount (something), especially a vehicle.
go out (verbo) — salir. To leave, especially a building.

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 79 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, we're, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: contrast /kənˈt(ʃ)ɹæst/, limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/, shorthand /ˈʃɔɹthænd/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: horizontal /ˌhoɹəˈzɑn.təl/, limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/, manually /ˈmænj(u)əliː/, opacity /oʊˈpæsɪti/, vertically /ˈvɝ.tɪ.kəli/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como scroll, carrot, justify.

Gramática en este vídeo

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

Estructura	En el vídeo
Oraciones condicionales if + oración, will/would + verbo — una condición y su resultado	if I have a, maybe we'll do · if I say justify self center, we'll get
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	have set · hasn't changed · haven't tried
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	is updated · is switched · be centered
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa	color, which is · thumb which is · people who have

¿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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Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

Gramática en este vídeo

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?