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I started growing my hair long when I turned 40.
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That was my very mild mid-life crisis.
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That's all I had the energy and money to do.
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That's all the rebellion I have left, just screw you Supercuts, I'm off the grid.
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(audience laughing) You gotta do the hair flip to let the man know you mean business.
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That's like the exclamation point at the end of a long hair sentence.
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That's how you know we're done talking, like, yeah, so . . .
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(audience laughing) It's never a smart sentence.
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It's never like, "So that's "when I got my masters." That's never happened.
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(audience laughing) It's more like, "So anyway "that's the day I learned "you can get a DUI on a bicycle." (audience laughing) So wise.
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(audience laughing) I have long hair, I'm still a little prejudice against guys with long hair.
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I think it depends on the occupation.
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Long haired comedian, fine.
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Long haired cardiologist, I've got a couple questions.
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(audience laughing) If they're like, "I just "completed the procedure and I "think your dad's gonna be fine." (audience laughing) Is he?
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I have to play a game with strangers ever since my hair got long.
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I hate it, it's never my idea.
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The game is called do you know who you look like?
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And it's never Thor, not once has it been Thor.
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Even when I'm holding the hammer Thor has never been mentioned.
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Guess what I have gotten, chubby Jesus.
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That's hurtful.
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(audience laughing) I get it, but it's hurtful.
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Really guy standing next to me in line at a coffee shop, you just wanted to tell a stranger you look like chubby Jesus?
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You're a bad person and guess what, I will not forgive you.
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(audience laughing) Yeah, you're gonna have to talk to skinny Jesus about forgiveness.
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(audience laughing) Skinny Jesus walks on water, chubby Jesus likes to keep a shirt on in the hot tub.
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(audience laughing) He's less forgiving.
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(audience laughing) I bet Jesus never got called a fat Foo Fighter.
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(audience laughing) I don't really have a look that says I'm doing well financially.
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(audience applauding) Huh, okay, wow, all right. Thank you for clapping for my poverty.
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Thank you. I was at the grocery store, checker was ringing up my stuff, she got to my bag of apples, and she was like, "Sir, just to let you know, "these apples are pretty expensive." I was like, wait, do I look like I don't have apple money?
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Oh no, I want 'em, I've been saving up.
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(audience laughing) I had my eye on that bag of apples for a long time.
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I said, someday, God willing, those are going home with me, today's that day.
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I just cashed in a war bond.
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Ring 'em up!
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(audience laughing) She's like, "Well, they're $4 a pound." I'm like, yeah, I saw the sign, but I did not come here to do math so I don't know what that means.
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(audience laughing) She's like, "Okay, just so you know "these apples are $20.13, "are you sure you want 'em?" And I was like, yeah, I want some of 'em.
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(audience laughing) I'll take an apple, give me an apple.
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Not the big one, please put that one back (audience laughing) and that's when I sadly realized she had profiled me correctly.
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(audience laughing) I'm doing all right, I don't have honey crisp money.
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(audience laughing) I have honey crisp taste, and a red delicious budget.
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That's what I have.
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(audience laughing) I accidentally bought organic apples, that was the problem.
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Which by the way, that rarely happens in the self checkout.
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(audience laughing) Little shopping tip for you guys.
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If your budget's a little tight, good news, a lot of stuff looks like a banana.
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(audience laughing) Boop.
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(audience laughing) Not that I'd be able to pull it off.
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I've never pulled off self checkout by myself.
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People who work there have to come help me, more than one, a guy with keys shows up.
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He's like, "What'd you do?" I'm like, it says unauthorized item in bagging area, and I think it's me.
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I don't actually work here.
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(audience laughing) I'm trying to avoid the checker.
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I don't wanna talk to the— I don't like that conversation.
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I don't wanna talk about what I'm buying and how that means my evening's gonna go, "Oh Pepto Bismol and Duct tape—" Hey, put it in the bag, how about that?
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Put it in the bag.
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Chatty Kathy, put it in the bag.
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(audience laughing) I don't know why I picked those two items, I apologize.
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(audience laughing) I guess Pepto was plan A, Duct tape was plan B.
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The point is this ends tonight.
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(audience laughing)

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Only Certain People Should Have Long Hair. Gabriel Rutledge”. Las palabras que más se repiten: audience, laughing, apple, Jesus, hair. Este vídeo tiene 63 frases y 787 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:21. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 147 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 79 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
chubby adjetivo/ˈt͡ʃʌbi/gordito, rellenito
checker sustantivo/ˈt͡ʃɛkɚ/verificador, verificadora
hurtful adjetivo/ˈhɜɹtfʊl/nocivo, hiriente
checkout sustantivo/ˈt͡ʃɛkˌaʊt/caja
skinny adjetivo/ˈskɪni/flaco, enlapado
applaud verbo/əˈplɔd/aplaudir
cardiologist sustantivo/ˌkɑɹdiˈɑlədʒɪst/cardiólogo, cardióloga
chatty adjetivo/ˈt͡ʃæti/charlador, conversador
exclamation sustantivo/ˌɛkskləˈmeɪʃn̩/exclamación
clap verbo/klæp/dar palmas, palmear
prejudice sustantivo/ˈpɹɛd͡ʒədɪs/prejuicio
forgiveness sustantivo/fɚˈɡɪvnəs/disculpación
rebellion sustantivo/ɹɪˈbɛl.i.ən/rebelión, insurrección
comedian sustantivo/kəˈmiː.di.ən/humorista, comediante
financially adverbiofinancieramente

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
pull off verbollevarse el gato al agua, poner una pica en Flandes
save up verboahorrar
show up verbocomparecer, personarse

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Long haired cardiologist, I've got a couple questions.
  • I hate it, it's never my idea.
  • The game is called do you know who you look like?
  • I've never pulled off self checkout by myself.
  • I don't actually work here.

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 ahorahave left · has never been mentioned · have gotten
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo haceis called · been mentioned

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 35 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, gonna. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: exclamation /ˌɛkskləˈmeɪʃn̩/, occupation /ˌɑkjʊˈpeɪʃən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: cardiologist /ˌkɑɹdiˈɑlədʒɪst/, rebellion /ɹɪˈbɛl.i.ən/, comedian /kəˈmiː.di.ən/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/

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 chubby, checker, hurtful.

¿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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