Shadowing Practice: Practice: Letting the Feeling Come Closer - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Come and join me for a few minutes in a practice that I call Looking Under the Hood of Your Suffering.
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It's probably gentler than you expect.
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I'm not going to ask you to fix anything, or to feel better, or to make any feeling go away.
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Settle in, in any way that you feel comfortable.
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You don't need to close your eyes unless you'd like to.
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Take one breath and let it out.
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and let the day just set itself down for a moment.
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There's nowhere else you need to be right now.
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Now bring to mind one feeling that you've been keeping at a distance.
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something you've been a little too busy or a little too stoic to actually let yourself feel.
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You don't have to name it perfectly.
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Just let the feeling come a bit closer and give it some room.
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See if you can find where it lives in the body.
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Sometimes a feeling that we've been holding off shows up as a tightness in the chest,
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a heaviness behind the eyes, a knot in the stomach, a tension in the jaw.
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you're not trying to change it or push it away, you're just getting curious about it.
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Where is it?
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And what does it actually feel like?
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Stay with it a little longer than feels natural.
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Notice whether the feeling holds steady or shifts as you watch it.
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Whether it grows or softens or moves,
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you don't have to do anything to it, you're simply keeping it company.
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And notice, if you can, that you are still here.
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The feeling is here, and so are you, and there's room for both.
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this feeling is not a flaw or a failure to be calm it's part of being alive
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and you are strong enough to hold it
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now slowly let your attention widen back to the room around you
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The next time you catch yourself walling a feeling off,
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telling yourself, I'm fine, it's nothing, you might look under the hood instead
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and let the feeling come a little closer just Just for a moment to see what it has to tell you.
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And when you're ready, return gently to the rest of your day.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 31 frases y 369 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:45. El hablante habla despacio, unas 78 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 89 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

  • curious /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/ (adjetivo) — curioso, tener curiosidad. Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.
  • stomach /ˈstʌmək/ (sustantivo) — estómago. An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
  • nowhere /ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/ (adverbio) — en ninguna parte, en ningún lugar. In no place.
  • settle /ˈsɛtəl/ (verbo) — resolver, dirimir. To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
  • breathe /bɹiːð/ (verbo) — respirar. To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
  • tension /ˈtɛnʃən/ (sustantivo) — tensión. The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other.
  • gentle /ˈd͡ʒɛntl̩/ (adjetivo) — gentil, apacible. Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
  • gently /ˈd͡ʒɛntli/ (adverbio) — mansamente, suavemente. Without strong force or quickness: softly, lightly.
  • knot /nɑt/ (sustantivo) — nudo, ñudo. A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its…
  • flaw /flɔ/ (sustantivo) — falla. A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
  • heaviness /ˈhɛvɪnəs/ (sustantivo) — pesadez, pesadura (desus.). The state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity.
  • soften /ˈsɑfən/ (verbo) — ablandar, suavizar. To make something soft or softer.
  • stoic /ˈstoʊ.ɪk/ (adjetivo) — estoico. Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas.

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

  • go away (verbo) — irse, marcharse. To depart or leave a place.
  • hold off (verbo) — posponer, retrasar. To delay (someone or something) temporarily; to keep at bay.
  • show up (verbo) — comparecer, personarse. To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically.

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 13 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, don't, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

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 curious, stomach, nowhere.

¿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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