Shadowing Practice: Quotes you NEED to Hear Part 2 | Chris Williamson - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Admit it, you aren't like them.
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You're not even close.
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You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes.
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But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the normal people as they go about their automatic existences.
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for realistic goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy consuming.
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If you are insecure, guess what?
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The rest of the world is too.
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Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself.
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You are better than you think.
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The world belongs to optimists, because if you're going to do anything big, you have to believe that it can happen.
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Otherwise, it never will.
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Sean Puri says the cynics get to be right and the optimists get to be rich.
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99 % right and 100 % wrong.
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They're right 99%.
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99 % of the time, but they're wrong 100 % because the only thing that matters is the big one at the end.
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Nietzsche said: "I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great
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and impossible." The fact that something seems impossible shouldn't be a reason to not pursue it.
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That's exactly what makes it worth pursuing.
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Where would the courage and greatness be if success was certain and there was no risk?
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The only true failure is shrinking away from life's challenges.
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Being attacked is a sign that you are important enough to be a target.
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should relish the attention and the chance to prove yourself.
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People will try to put the same limitations on you that they put on themselves.
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Don't mistake their insecurities for your ceiling.
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Here's how to get older without getting better.
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Keep relearning the same lesson.
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If you keep making the same mistake over and over, the mistake isn't the problem.
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You are.
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You cannot wish for a strong What if what you're going through isn't hard?
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What if you're just sensitive?
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Railing against how hard something is, or how much time it's taking up, or the difficulty, or the inefficiency, or the fact that you don't know how to do it,
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or the fact that you don't have a high that can sort it, or the fact that people around you don't believe you, or that no one's giving you the support that you want, or that you thought it wouldn't take this long.
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The fact that that is happening is par for the course.
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It is the price of doing business the cost of entry for whatever the thing is
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that you're going about because if it wasn't it wouldn't be happening
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and so much of the pain as far as I can see is you railing against the fact
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that there are difficulties you're going to lose sleep you'll doubt
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whether it'll work you'll stress to make ends meet you won't
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finish your to -do list you'll wonder whether you made the right call
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and have no way to know for years this is what hard feels like and that's okay everything worth doing it is,
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the harder it is.
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The greater the payoff, the greater the hardship.
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If it's hard, good.
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It means no one else will do it.
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More for you.
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Being mean doesn't change people's minds.
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The problem is that so many people spend so much time online
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that they fail to remember that people are all human at the end of the day.
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And treating someone else with a modicum of respect is actually
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a far better way to get them to see your position than flinging at them with fire
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for anyone internally debating weekend plans.
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If you don't want to go, don't go.
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If they care whether you go or not, they don't care about you.
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And if they care about you, they don't care if you go or not.
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Just because you have free time doesn't mean anyone who asks for it is entitled to it.
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Until you win, effort always goes unnoticed.
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Get used to it.
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No one roots for you until everyone
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wrong and strategy was the more
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that somebody complains the less accurate their perspective of the world is
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so complaint is you saying why is the world not behaving in the way
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that I expected it to which essentially identifies
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that you don't have an accurate model of the way
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that the world works there are going to be problems continuously for the rest of time
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and there will never be a day when you don't wake up
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and have to mediate or negotiate or cajole your way Okay,
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so given the fact that these things are unavoidable, why are you complaining about them?
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And why are you so surprised when they happen?
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Quotes you NEED to Hear Part 2”. Este vídeo tiene 69 frases y 796 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:40. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 170 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 90 % 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
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| optimist sustantivo | /ˈɑptɪmɪst/ | optimista |
| cajole verbo | /kəˈd͡ʒoʊl/ | engatusar, lisonjear |
| mediate verbo | /ˈmidieɪt/ | mediar |
| mindless adjetivo | /maɪnd.ləs/ | insensato |
| modicum sustantivo | /ˈmɑdɪkəm/ | ápice, resquicio |
| overestimate verbo | /ˌəʊvəɹˈɛstɪmeɪt/ | sobrestimar, sobreestimar |
| paradoxically adverbio | /ˌpɛɹəˈdɑksɪkli/ | paradójicamente |
| perish verbo | /ˈpɛɹɪʃ/ | perecer |
| relish verbo | /ˈɹɛlɪʃ/ | saborear |
| unavoidable adjetivo | /ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl/ | impajaritable |
| unnoticed adjetivo | /ʌnˈnoʊtɪst/ | desapercibido, inadvertido |
| outsider sustantivo | /ˌaʊtˈsaɪdəɹ/ | marginado, persona de fuera |
| hardship sustantivo | /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/ | sufrimiento, apuro |
| underestimate verbo | /ʌndɚˈɛs.tɪ.meɪt/ | subestimar |
| limitation sustantivo | /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/ | limitación |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| go through verbo | atravesar | |
| wake up verbo | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | despertarse, recordar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- Admit it, you aren't like them.
- If you are insecure, guess what?
- Don't mistake their insecurities for your ceiling.
- What if you're just sensitive?
- If you don't want to go, don't go.
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 32 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, you're, you'll. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: perish /ˈpɛɹɪʃ/, relish /ˈɹɛlɪʃ/, hardship /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/, limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/, negotiate /nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: overestimate /ˌəʊvəɹˈɛstɪmeɪt/, paradoxically /ˌpɛɹəˈdɑksɪkli/, unavoidable /ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl/, underestimate /ʌndɚˈɛs.tɪ.meɪt/, limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: overestimate /ˌəʊvəɹˈɛstɪmeɪt/, unavoidable /ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl/, behave /bɪˈheɪv/
- /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: hardship /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/, behave /bɪˈheɪv/
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 optimist, cajole, mediate.
¿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.