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Listen and practice.
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I have a great roommate.
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She's neat and she makes me laugh a lot.
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She's got a wonderful sense of humor.
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She's really smart, too.
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She studies all the time.
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I sometimes wish she'd take more time off to make friends because she hardly knows anyone.
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She doesn't seem to feel comfortable when she's around people.
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Thank you.
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Listen and practice.
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Bob and I get along pretty well.
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He keeps the place really clean and neat.
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The only thing is, he loves to party.
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He's always inviting friends over,
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and they sit around and talk really loudly until it's very late.
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It makes it really hard for me to study.
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I've asked him not to do it when I'm studying,
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but he still does.
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I guess it doesn't bother him because he never studies.
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Thank you.
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Thank you. and practice.
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Anne is difficult to live with because she has very strong opinions.
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She always has to be right about things,
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and she just sits around all day watching TV.
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She never does anything active.
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The worst thing is she loses her temper very quickly.
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I think I need to find a new roommate.
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Thank you.
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Listen and practice.
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I like sharing a room with Greg.
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He's very quiet and always asks me if it's okay for him to listen to the radio or watch TV.
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He likes to keep the room nice and clean, just like I do.
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He helps me a lot with homework, too.
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He's really smart and is always happy to check over my assignments.
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Thank you.
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Listen and practice.
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I met this really nice family when I was in Korea last year.
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I was in a restaurant,
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and I was having trouble understanding the menu.
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The wife came over and asked me what I wanted to eat and told me all about Korean food.
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Then they asked me to join them at their table,
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and they paid for my dinner.
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They also invited me to their house.
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We became friends, and we keep in touch now by email.
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They'll take me to a famous temple the next time I go back.
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Isn't that fabulous?
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I can't wait to see that temple.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Listen and practice.
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Once when I was in Italy,
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I took a bus trip from Rome to Florence.
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The bus was very crowded,
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and I had to stand most of the way.
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I had a couple of small bags with me.
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One was a backpack that had my wallet in it.
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I kept it in front of me for the entire trip.
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But when I got to Florence,
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I couldn't believe what had happened.
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Someone had cut a hole in my backpack,
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put in their hand, and removed my wallet.
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Then they took the money out and put the wallet back inside my backpack.
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I never noticed a thing!
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It really ruined my vacation because I couldn't pay to get into any museums.
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So now I want to go back again next summer and see all the museums I missed.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Listen and practice.
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I was on vacation in Australia last summer when I got a terrible case of the flu.
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I had to stay in bed for four days.
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I have a cousin in Sydney who was really kind and spent a lot of time with me until I was better.
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By then, I only had three days of sightseeing left before I had to leave.
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I saw the Sydney Opera House and that was about it.
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The most awful thing is I didn't have the chance to go scuba diving.
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I want to go back and scuba dive there.
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They have the best coral reefs in the world.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Listen and practice.
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I have a really busy weekend ahead of me.
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I have to work about 10 hours on Saturday.
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I'm really excited about Saturday night, though.
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I'm going to my friend Alex's party.
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He always has great parties.
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I don't have to go to work on Sunday,
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but I do have to spend all morning and afternoon writing a paper for my history class.
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Then on Sunday night, I'm going to the movies with some friends.
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Thank you.
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Listen and practice I plan to study most of this weekend,
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but on Saturday evening, I'm going over to my friend's house.
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It's her birthday, so she's having a few friends over for dinner.
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I'm really looking forward to seeing her.
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We haven't seen each other in two months.
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I knew I wouldn't have time to go shopping on Saturday,
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so I bought her a birthday gift on Friday.
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I got her a sweater.
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I hope she likes it.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel A2 se basa en el vídeo “(Reading Practice (Improve your pronunciation in English”. Las palabras que más se repiten: practice, listen, Saturday, backpack, wallet. Este vídeo tiene 99 frases y 791 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 14:04. El 83 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
wallet sustantivo/ˈwɑl.ət/cartera, billetera
backpack sustantivo/ˈbæk.pæk/mochila, alforja
temple sustantivo/ˈtɛm.pl̩/templo
vacation sustantivo/veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/vacaciones, vacación
invite verbo/ɪnˈvaɪt/invitar, convidar
dive verbo/daɪv/bucear, somorgujar
roommate sustantivo/ˈɹu(m)ˌmeɪt/compañero de cuarto
awful adjetivo/ˈɔːfʊl/infumable, malísimo
cousin sustantivo/ˈkʌz(ə)n/primo, prima
bother verbo/ˈbɑðɚ/molestar, agobiar
ruin sustantivo/ˈɹuː.ɪn/ruina
menu sustantivo/ˈmɛn.juː/menú, carta
assignment sustantivo/əˈsaɪn.mənt/asignación
homework sustantivo/ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/deberes, tarea
fabulous adjetivo/ˈfæbjʊləs/fantástico, fabuloso

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
get along verbollevarse bien con, avenirse
look forward to verbono ver la hora de, quedar a la espera de

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • She's neat and she makes me laugh a lot.
  • I can't wait to see that temple.
  • I couldn't believe what had happened.
  • I'm really looking forward to seeing her.
  • We haven't seen each other in two months.

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 ahoraI've asked · haven't seen
Superlativos the -est / the most … — lo más alto o lo más bajo de un grupoThe worst · The most awful · the best
Obligación: must / have to / need to decir que algo es necesariohas to be · need to find · had to stand
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasI'm studying · I'm going · I'm really looking

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 19 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, couldn't, doesn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: sweater /ˈswɛtɚ/, scuba /ˈskuːbə/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, invite /ɪnˈvaɪt/, dive /daɪv/
  • /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: homework /ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/, humour /ˈhjuːmɚ/

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 wallet, backpack, temple.

¿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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