Shadowing Practice: October 12, 2026 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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maintain the mechanic is maintaining the car suffer the woman suffers from depression
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educate the girls were educated in college roll the boy is playing the role of doctor
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fight the girls are fighting with pillows concrete they are making a concrete sidewalk
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plane there is a big tree in the middle of the plane pit that pit is huge entertainment
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The musicians are a great source of entertainment.
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Humid.
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It must be humid there in the sun.
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Condition.
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That house is in poor condition.
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Living with animals.
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People have kept animals for thousands of years.
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They have many different roles.
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Dogs and cats make great pets.
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Cows and horses do work for us.
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Chickens are used for food.
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Lions and monkeys aren't as useful.
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We use these kinds of animals for entertainment.
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Kings and queens often collected strange animals from faraway lands.
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Romans made animals fight each other.
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Imagine 5 ,000 bears and lions fighting to the death!
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This was fun for the audience, but the animals suffered greatly.
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These days, there are many laws that protect animals.
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But this doesn't mean that animals are always treated well.
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Many animals are born in zoos.
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There isn't always enough space or food for them, so the zoos sell the extra animals.
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Edith is a chimpanzee who was found in California.
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She was sold right after her third birthday.
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For the next 37 years, she moved between different zoos.
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When police found her, she was living in a concrete pit on the side of the road.
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Animals make their homes in many different environments.
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Penguins often live in cold, icy areas.
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Tigers live in warm, humid jungles.
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Lions live in wide open plains.
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A zoo is in only one environment.
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It must build special environments for its animals.
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These environments are expensive to make and to maintain.
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They are not always perfect.
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Animals that are kept in poor conditions, like Edith, often go crazy.
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Modern zoos try to educate as well as to entertain.
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Animals' homes are destroyed by humans every day.
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If people understand how important animals are to the world, then we will try harder to protect them.
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Zoos aren't perfect, but maybe they can teach us how to live better together.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “October 12, 2026”. Las palabras que más se repiten: animals, zoo, environment, humid, lions. Este vídeo tiene 42 frases y 370 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:26. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 152 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 83 % 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 del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
zoo sustantivo/zuː/zoo, jardín zoo
suffer verbo/ˈsʌfɚ/sufrir, penar
concrete adjetivo/ˌkɑnˈkɹit/concreto
lion sustantivo/ˈlaɪən/león
educate verbo/ˈɛd͡ʒ.əˌkeɪt/educar, instruir
humid adjetivo/ˈhjuːmɪd/húmedo
pet sustantivo/pɛt/mascota, animal de compañía
plain sustantivo/pleɪn/llanura, planicie
collect verbo/ˈkɑlɪkt/juntar, recoger
greatly adverbio/ˈɡɹeɪ̯t.li/grandemente, enormemente
tiger sustantivo/ˈtaɪɡə/tigre
cow sustantivo/kaʊ/vaca
jungle sustantivo/ˈd͡ʒʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l/selva, jungla
monkey sustantivo/ˈmʌŋki/mono, chango
musician sustantivo/mjuˈzɪʃən/músico, música

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacewere educated · are always treated · are born
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasis maintaining · is playing · are fighting

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 4 contracciones y formas reducidas, como aren't, doesn't, isn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: zoo /zuː/, musician /mjuˈzɪʃən/, chimpanzee /t͡ʃɪmˈpæn.zi/
  • /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: educate /ˈɛd͡ʒ.əˌkeɪt/, jungle /ˈd͡ʒʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l/

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 zoo, suffer, concrete.

¿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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