Shadowing Practice: Our World Is Naturally Strange - Learn English Speaking with Video
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The process of the Neural Sublime is defamiliarizing everything.
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Nothing is familiar anymore.
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Everything is unfamiliar, is weird and strange and wonderful.
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That is opening up this consciousness and kind of giving it an expansiveness that you don't normally have.
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In the scattered world, how do you make yourself more present and more alive in the moment?
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The exercises I give you in the chapter are kind of making you aware of what I call pure consciousness.
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Okay.
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And so you're sleepwalking because
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your brain is operating on automatic and you have no control over it and you're not aware of it
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So the process of experiencing the NeuroSublime
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is a process of self -awakening and seeing
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that as it happens in the moment and seeing how your brain is tricking you into this.
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So, In the chapter, I give you these exercises. And I'm saying.
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That consciousness, think of consciousness in this metaphor.
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It is pure.
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It is like that sky I mentioned, the blue sky.
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It has no limits, no boundaries, no north, south, east or west.
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It goes on forever, right?
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It's pure.
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And you don't have it anymore.
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Your consciousness is now very constricted.
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It's not like that infinite blue sky.
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It's cloudy.
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It's murky.
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It's full of all this crap, all this dirt.
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Okay?
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We're trying to purify it.
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We're trying to go back to that pure consciousness.
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I give you exercises on trying to perceive the world around you.
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First of all, without all of those filters.
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So for instance, You take a walk, but it could happen in your room.
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You don't have to take a walk here.
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But when you look at things, Drop the words for them.
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Try and spend an hour We are not looking at things as they are
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is symbolized through these abstract words that you have, and to actually look things as they are in their own strangeness.
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So, The world for you has become too familiar visually, sensually, thinking -wise.
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The process of the NeuroSublime is defamiliarizing everything.
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Nothing is familiar anymore.
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Everything is strange.
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A child, a baby?
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That strange little mass of 12 pounds of flesh crying all the time.
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What a strange little creature that is.
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A snail crawling on the ground.
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The snail has these antennas, a very strange world snails are very strange clouds in the sky
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are not just these things that you never think of, they're weird.
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Imagine there's no other planet in the universe that is going to have clouds like we have.
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because we have an atmosphere, because we have certain conditions.
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You know, there'll be clouds, but they won't be like ours.
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How strange they are.
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Everything is unfamiliar, is weird and strange and wonderful.
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That is opening up this consciousness and kind of kind of giving it an expansiveness that you don't normally have.
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And then as I said with childhood, making everything have this kind of emotional quality where it's not just concepts and intellectual things,
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but everything strikes you in your body.
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And physically it's opening yourself up physically to the world itself and expanding your, your, your, your, your, your, your senses.
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Okay, so on and on and on your thinking.
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I'm trying to open up your thinking process so
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that you don't have these same narrow thoughts over and over and over again.
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And you go through exercises, where you scramble your normal thinking patterns and you think the opposite.
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of what you normally do.
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So what you think is ugly,
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and dirty and disgusting i want you to imagine that it's beautiful and wonderful and everything that's beautiful you know,
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like something airbrushed image of something is actually repulsive and ugly.
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I want you to alter your patterns of thinking on and on and on.
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Mess with your own brain.
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play with your brain, play with your consciousness.
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It's like clay that you can mold and create your own brain for itself.
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It is the most exciting adventure you can ever go on if you learn to go through this process.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Our World Is Naturally Strange”. Las palabras que más se repiten: consciousness, strange, process, brain, thinking. Este vídeo tiene 67 frases y 680 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:34. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 149 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. 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
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| consciousness sustantivo | /ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/ | conciencia |
| snail sustantivo | /sneɪl/ | caracol, churo |
| unfamiliar adjetivo | /ˌʌnfəˈmɪli.ə(ɹ)/ | no / poco familiar |
| airbrush sustantivo | aerógrafo | |
| awaken verbo | /əˈweɪkən/ | despertar |
| constrict verbo | /kənˈstɹɪkt/ | estrechar, constringir |
| excite verbo | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | emocionar |
| purify verbo | /ˈpjʊɹɪfaɪ/ | purificar, depurar |
| repulsive adjetivo | /ɹɪˈpʌlsɪv/ | repulsivo |
| scatter verbo | /ˈskætɚ/ | dispersarse |
| scramble verbo | /ˈskɹæmbl̩/ | gatear |
| sleepwalking sustantivo | sonambulismo, somnambulismo | |
| strangeness sustantivo | rareza, extrañeza | |
| symbolize verbo | /ˈsɪmbəlaɪz/ | simbolizar, parabolizar |
| cloudy adjetivo | /ˈklaʊ̯diː/ | nublado, nublo |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| go through verbo | atravesar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- We're trying to purify it.
- We're trying to go back to that pure consciousness.
- You don't have to take a walk here.
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 14 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, we're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: consciousness /ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/, flesh /flɛʃ/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: defamiliarize /diːfəˈmɪljəɹaɪz/, unfamiliar /ˌʌnfəˈmɪli.ə(ɹ)/, visually /ˈvɪzju.əli/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: snail /sneɪl/, scatter /ˈskætɚ/, scramble /ˈskɹæmbl̩/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: repulsive /ɹɪˈpʌlsɪv/, visually /ˈvɪzju.əli/, perceive /pɚˈsiv/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: defamiliarize /diːfəˈmɪljəɹaɪz/, symbolize /ˈsɪmbəlaɪz/, visually /ˈvɪzju.əli/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como consciousness, snail, unfamiliar.
¿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.