Shadowing Practice: P.G. Wodehouse AUDIOBOOK 'Heavy Weather ' - Learn English Speaking with Video

Heavy Weather by P.

G. Woodhouse Read by Martin Jarvis Sunshine pierced the haze that enveloped London.

It came down Fleet Street, turned to the right, and stopped at the premises of the Mammoth Publishing Company.

Entering through an upper window, it beamed pleasantly upon Lord Tilbury, founder and proprietor of that vast factory of popular literature,

literature, as he sat reading the batch of weekly papers which his secretary had placed on the desk for his inspection.

Considering what a pleasant rarity sunshine in London is, one might have expected the man behind the mammoth to beam back.

Instead he pressed the buzzer.

His secretary appeared.

He pointed silently.

The secretary drew the shade, and the sunshine, having called without an appointment, was excluded.

"'Oh, I beg your pardon, Lord Tilbury.' "'Well?' "'A Lady Julia Fish has just rung up.

"'She says she would like to see you this morning.' "'Lord Tilbury frowned.

"'He remembered Lady Julia Fish as an agreeable hotel acquaintance "'during his recent holiday at Bieritz, but this was Tilbury House,

and he did not desire the company of hotel acquaintances.

Did she say what she wanted?

No, Lord Tilbury.

The secretary withdrew.

Lord Tilbury returned to his reading.

The particular periodical which had happened to come to hand was the current number of that admirable children's paper, Tiny Tots.

But presently he threw it down, and for the third time since it had arrived by the morning post, picked up a letter which lay on the desk.

It was brief, but it had ruined Lord Tilbury's day.

It ran, Blanding's Castle, Shropshire.

Dear sir, enclosed fine cheque for the advance you paid me on those reminiscences of mine.

I've been thinking it over, and have decided not to publish them after all.

Yours truly, G.

Threepwood.

Lord Tilbury rose from his chair and began to pace the room.

Short and stumpy, and about twenty-five pounds overweight, he looked like Napoleon taking his morning walk at St Helena.

And yet, oddly enough, there were men in England who would have whooped with joy at the sight of that letter.

In this world everything depends on the point of view.

Some months before, the news had got about that the on Galahad Threepwood, brother of the Earl of Emsworth,

and as sprightly an old gentleman as was ever thrown out of a Victorian music hall, was writing the recollections of his colourful career as a man about town.

The shock to many now highly respectable members of the governing classes was severe.

All over the country decorous dukes and steady Viscounts, who had once sown wild oats in the society of the young Galahad, sat quivering in their slippers,

at the thought of what long-covered skeletons those reminiscences might disclose.

To not a few, Lord Emsworth's nearest neighbour, Sir Gregory Parslow-Parslow of Matchingham Hall, was one of them.

It was as if the recording angel had suddenly decided to rush into print.

Lord Tilbury, however, had looked on the thing from a different angle.

He knew, no man better, what big money there was in this type of literature.

The circulation of his nasty little paper, Society Spice, proved that.

Even though Percy Pilbeam, its nasty little editor, had handed in his portfolio and gone off to start a private inquiry agency,

it was still a goldmine.

There is a tender spot in all great men.

Achilles had his heel, with Lord Tilbury it was his pocket.

He hated to see money get away from him, and out of this book of galley Threepwoods he'd been looking forward to making a small fortune.

Little wonder then that he mourned.

He was still mourning when his secretary entered bearing a slip of paper.

Name Lady Julia Fish, business personal.

At a time like this, tell her I'm— And then there flashed into his mind a sudden recollection of something about this Lady Julia Fish.

The words Blanding's Castle seemed involved.

He turned to his de Bret's peerage and searched among the Es for Emsworth Earl of.

There it was.

Lady Julia Fish had been born Lady Julia Threepwood.

She was a sister of the perjured Galahad.

That altered things.

The woman would not be calling unless she wanted to get something out of him.

To inform her in person that she was most certainly not going to get it would be balm to his lacerated feelings.

"'Ask her to come up.'

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “P.G. Wodehouse AUDIOBOOK 'Heavy Weather '”. Las palabras que más se repiten: Lord, Tilbury, Julia, Lady, Fish. Este vídeo tiene 58 frases y 746 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:58. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 150 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 76 % 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:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
sunshine sustantivo	/ˈsʌnʃaɪn/	sol, insolación
mammoth sustantivo	/ˈmæməθ/	mamut
recollection sustantivo	/ɹɛkəˈlɛkʃən/	recordación
reminiscence sustantivo	/ˌɹɛm.əˈnɪs.əns/	reminiscencia, rememoración
acquaintance sustantivo	/ʌˈkweɪn.təns/	amistad, conocimiento
litter sustantivo	/ˈlɪt.ɚ/	cama, lecho
beam sustantivo	/ˈbiːm/	viga
admirable sustantivo	/ˈæd.məɹ.ə.bəl/	admirable, loable
agreeable adjetivo	/əˈɡɹiəbəl/	lisonjero, agradable
buzzer sustantivo	/ˈbʌzɚ/	bocina, zumbador
cheque sustantivo	/t͡ʃɛk/	cheque, talón
decorous adjetivo	/ˈdɛkəɹəs/	decoroso
galley sustantivo	/ˈɡæli/	galera
lacerate verbo	/ˈlæ.sɚ.ɛɪt/	lacerar
peerage sustantivo	/ˈpɪə.ɪdʒ/	pairía, título nobiliario

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Significado
come up verbo	salir a relucir
look forward to verbo	no ver la hora de, quedar a la espera de
pick up verbo	coger, asir

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 3 contracciones y formas reducidas, como he'd, I'm, I've. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “th”: mammoth /ˈmæməθ/, withdraw /wɪðˈdɹɔ/
Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: sunshine /ˈsʌnʃaɪn/, recollection /ɹɛkəˈlɛkʃən/, circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/, publish /ˈpʌblɪʃ/, inspection /ɪnˈspɛkʃən/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: recollection /ɹɛkəˈlɛkʃən/, reminiscence /ˌɹɛm.əˈnɪs.əns/, admirable /ˈæd.məɹ.ə.bəl/, periodical /ˌpɪɹiˈɑdɪkl̩/, circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: slipper /ˈslɪpə(ɹ)/, sprightly /ˈspɹaɪtli/, stumpy /ˈstʌmpi/, skeleton /ˈskɛlətən/
/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: quiver /ˈkwɪvə/, govern /ˈɡʌv.ən/, overweight /ˌoʊvɚˈweɪt/, envelope /ˈɛnvə(ˌ)loʊp/
/z/ — sonora, no /s/: buzzer /ˈbʌzɚ/, enclose /ɪnˈkloʊz/, pleasantly /ˈplɛzəntli/, presently /ˈpɹɛzəntli/, disclose /dɪsˈkləʊz/

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 sunshine, mammoth, recollection.

¿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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