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You're invited to this real English conversation with me, Vanessa, and my husband.
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Dan.
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We are going to give you something that AI cannot give you, and that is a real conversation between real people.
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I know I'm not AI.
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What about you?
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I mean, I think I'm real, ma'am.
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I think you are.
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So in this conversation, you are going to be immersed in real-life English, which is the key to help you also become a natural, fluent English speaker.
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And like always, I have created a free PDF worksheet here over Dan's face.
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It's going to include all of the vocabulary that you're about to learn today.
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This is a listening version, an audio version of today's entire lesson.
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Make sure you get the PDF worksheet and bonus audio version.
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All right, Dan, are you ready to get started?
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I'm ready to talk about my childhood.
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Yes, that is the topic for today.
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It is, we're going to be talking about a few questions based on our childhoods,
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but especially comparing our childhoods to our children's childhoods.
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Yes.
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I have heard some other people say that kids nowadays are inside more, they are attached to their screens more.
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You've probably heard me say this.
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And I think it is a really interesting conversation to compare different generations' childhoods.
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So, are you ready for my first question?
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I'm ready.
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Let's do it.
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All right.
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Dan does not know what these questions are.
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Yes, it's a mystery.
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I want you to think back to when you were eight years old.
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It's a good time for me.
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And I want you, wonderful students, to also think about when you were eight years old.
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Tell me, how much freedom did you have?
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For example, could you go off and ride your bike in the neighborhood?
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Did your parents drop you off at the grandparents' house for the weekend?
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How much freedom did you have?
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First, for context, I think that both of us had kind of unusual childhoods in some regards.
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But as far as freedom at age eight, I think that we were pretty, I was pretty standard as far as like the American standard.
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So I was allowed to kind of roam my neighborhood as long as I was with my brother.
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and we could walk to the playground.
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We could walk to a pond by ourselves, which we did quite a lot.
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My parents were a little more strict though when it came to going over to friend's house or like neighbor's house.
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Okay.
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They were very cautious about...
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The influence of neighbors.
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Yeah, the influences, especially like movies they'd watch or video games or whatever.
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Yeah.
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And you know, we had a couple shady characters in our neighborhood.
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Not that shady.
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Well, maybe one or two.
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So it was quite a mix, really, but nothing too crazy.
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It wasn't like that dangerous.
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But yeah, I feel like I experienced something pretty similar where I could bike in the neighborhood.
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We could play with the neighborhood kids.
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But I went to a few I went to a few sleepovers at friends houses.
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That's a pretty common American thing.
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You can spend the night at a friend's house.
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But that was pretty much it.
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We couldn't walk to any shops because I lived so far away from shops or our school.
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We couldn't walk anywhere.
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We lived in the suburbs.
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There's not a lot of shops that are just walkable.
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Yeah, you could just kind of stay in your neighborhood.
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But we didn't have, we'll talk about technology later.
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We didn't have any way to contact our parents when we were out.
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So let's talk about our kids, though.
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Our kids now, do they have the same type of freedom that we had as kids?
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um kind of not really a little bit less I'd say
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yeah yeah I feel like um a lot of parents our
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age are a little more uh cautious with their kids like even more
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so especially like biking somewhere in the neighborhood
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or the fear of cars walking
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and I actually in our neighborhood we our kids are out
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all the time we have them running around uh you know they can walk up running up
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and down our road which is a dead end
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so it's not super dangerous and they're often the only kids out
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so I feel like a lot of kids are inside more
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but I don't know if that's really necessarily the parents are are scared to send them out
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or they don't want to give them freedom I think I just think they're probably preoccupied with other things
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if I had to guess possibly we might talk about what those other things are later
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so yeah I do feel like our kids are we give
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our kids I think a little more freedom than maybe the average millennial parent does.
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It depends on what you mean by freedom too though
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because we don't let them watch a lot of tv or they don't have computers or phones or anything.
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Yeah I guess physical freedom to like oh you want to go to the neighbor's house
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and we know that neighbor okay that's fine.
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We let our children be bored so that helps them get outside.
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Yeah they They have dug a hole in our yard that's at least up to my waist.
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It is so deep.
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And what are our kids doing?
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I don't know.
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Maybe digging a hole.
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They said they're looking for rocks.
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We have enough space to do this, by the way.
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It's not in anybody's walking path.
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It's not a safety hazard.
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Don't worry.
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There's only a child buried in there.
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That's all.
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Yeah.
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I think that the biggest difference when I think about it is our parents and our children,
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this kind of two generations difference.
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Like when I think about my parents, they were gone all day.
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And their parents had no clue where they were.
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That is not possible for our kids.
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Their parents come from the, or our parents come from the generation that said, go out and I don't want to see you until sundown.
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Right, right.
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I cannot imagine an eight year, my eight year old, we have an eight year old.
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I can't imagine telling him, go out off of our property.
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And I don't want to see you.
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And I don't want to see you.
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Until dinner.
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For the next nine hours.
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Finally know something's wrong when you don't come home at bedtime.
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Yes, I think our generation can't fathom that lack of control over our kids' well-being.
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How about concern?
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Concern, yeah, we're concerned about them.
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Yeah I think that's this is a good foundation.
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The other questions are very are similar variations of this.
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I want to ask you the second question.
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When you were eight years old.
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We're just doing a lot of eight-year-old stuff.
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It's all eight years old.
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It's like peak childhood kind of.
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Yeah you haven't reached puberty yet.
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You're not like a little kid.
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I loved life at eight.
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It was so fun.
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I can remember you know oh yeah that's really good well let's talk about it what was technology like
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when you were eight think phones think music think answering machines well
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when i was eight years old it was 1995 oh yeah
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and so uh yeah there was some technology uh we had a tv in our basement
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and i would go down and try to watch that sometimes
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but my my mom would always kind of snoop down there
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and be like what are you watching it's time to turn it off
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and uh i was one of those kids who I really, really, really loved video games and I wanted video games a lot, but my mom would not let me.
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My mom or my dad.
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But then my mom actually caved a little bit and she got me a Game Boy.
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But, you know, you can beat one of those games in a day usually. And so...
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It wasn't an endless...
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It's not like...
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Stay up till 2 a.m because I'm playing this game and then the next day and then all day and then...
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My mom's also the type.
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She's like, he can play it on a road trip and he can play it outside.
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He can take it anywhere.
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I mean, maybe you could.
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Which is kind of true, I guess.
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Yeah.
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But, uh, yeah.
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What about, um, that's the technology we had overall.
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We had our, our, my best friend had a computer, but we didn't have a, I don't think we had a good computer at that point.
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I remember we got a computer when I was in sixth grade
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and you could type documents and I think you could play Frogger maybe.
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Something fun little games like that.
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Very simple.
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Um, but I had a CD player.
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I don't think I was interested in like CDs or music till I was a teenager though.
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So at eight, we had a house phone with an answering machine.
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I don't even know if we had caller ID at that point.
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And I just was not, we watched, I don't even remember watching TV as a kid.
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I watched some movies.
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I remember watching some like classic Disney movies as a kid, but I don't have any real memories with TV.
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We never, we didn't have video games in my house.
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There's either it was our family or we just had, you're into monster trucks or something.
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That was in high school.
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We had two girls, so we weren't necessarily like the right market for video games at that age.
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But what about our kids for technology?
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Like what kind of technology is in their life as a norm?
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Well, there's, I mean, there's kind of a lot, but we usually, we keep it under control with them and they're still young enough.
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And I think our oldest is he's like cautious enough.
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He doesn't like push the boundaries, but you know, they, they think that the TV only has a couple of things on it, even though technically you could find anything on there.
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And they don't have a phone and they see us on our phone.
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They know that they can ask us to find information on the phone instantly.
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So that's different.
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yeah we could call someone on the phone we could video
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chat yeah like our kids especially our two year old
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if I'm on the phone with someone
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and it's not a video call she asks to see them
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like oh I want to see Sharice like my sister
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and I'm like oh I'm just talking to her on the phone she can't just like why would you do
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that talking to someone without seeing them I mean why would
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you it's great to see someone on a video chat I think that's
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so that's like the best thing we don't like we don't give our kids a tablet
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or anything i feel like tablets are the devil for children
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basically here's my old man talking don't give your don't give
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your child a tablet yeah our kids don't don't really know
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they maybe they know what a tablet is at this point
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i don't know we have one kind of it's not it's
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never out yeah it doesn't we don't work we don't use it oh now it's broken as well
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so yeah yeah they they're around they know
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that i work on the computer i don't know if we're like
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when i do my work on the computer
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and our kids will sit down at the computer and pretend to do mommy's work.
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I think they think the computer is for work as well.
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Yeah.
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So that's good.
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Yeah.
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We have some boundaries about TV.
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I think it's going to be a lot harder as they get older.
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And I feel pretty clueless and innocent about what it's like to have a kid feel peer pressure about technology.
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Like right now, our kids don't feel any pressure about playing certain video games.
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Like they've never, they played a video game at their cousin's house like mario at their cousin's house for a couple days
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but that's yeah
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and theo was like this i gotta get him to move over here he couldn't just stand still like this
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and play he had to move his body it was
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so innocent and cute
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because he just yeah i don't think our kids are standard
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in this way no at this point i think it is possible though
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that there's i think there's a growing group of i'm saying millennial parents
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because that's our generation who are wanting their kids to have less.
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People are aware now like oh maybe all this technology isn't great for children's brains.
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Yeah.
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Huh.
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Yeah.
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Who could have thought of that?
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Okay are you ready for a big one?
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Yeah a big one.
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Oh boy.
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A big question.
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Okay tell me when you were well I'll ask you eight years old.
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Do you want a fun one or a heavy one?
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Make it serious.
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Okay.
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Let's get serious.
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Think about when you're eight years old.
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Eight years old, Daniel.
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How were you disciplined?
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Oh.
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Think about time out.
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Think about being grounded, spankings, what being yelled at.
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What was...
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I was a bit of a strong-willed child.
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Discipline.
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I don't think anyone would be surprised to hear that.
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My parents definitely spanked me up until around that time.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Do you think, what were some circumstances that led to that?
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Well, they had a little bit of like a traditional wait till your father gets home kind of thing.
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So I would get in trouble with my mom
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and she would tell my dad and then my dad would dole out the spankings.
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Do you remember what you did that deserved?
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She's probably not listening.
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I don't know, climbing stuff.
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I mean, I went to the library one time.
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I started climbing the bookcases and I remember my mom being like, what on earth would compel you to do this?
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Wait until you get home.
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Oh yeah.
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Kind of thing. And yeah.
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But I do remember distinctly one time my dad was gonna spank spank me and he just like started cracking up.
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Really?
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It was me and my brother together.
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Oh, no. And apparently he pulled down our pants.
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We were like bare butt, you know?
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And he was like, he just started laughing and walked away.
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He couldn't do it.
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Well, you know that you've lost it at that point.
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We were probably like looking at him like, daddy, what are you going to do to us?
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Oh, I mean, that is kind of funny.
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What did you ever get grounded as a child?
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Yeah.
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Or like in time out as a child sent to your room?
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Sent to my room for sure.
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Yeah.
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That was a common discipline tactic.
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Taking certain things away.
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Yeah.
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I think as a kid it was...
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Gameboys, TVs, you know.
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Yeah.
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The good stuff.
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It's always the technology.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That's interesting.
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For little boys especially I feel like.
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As a teenager.
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Grounded as well.
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I would get that away too.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, and I think, I feel like I remember getting really defiant.
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I guess probably older, though, like puberty.
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And, you know, getting in some kind of big fights with my mom, especially.
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Yeah, we don't have to reveal all right now for the entire internet.
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But I think when I was dating, it was similar.
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But I do know that they stopped spanking at some point.
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I don't know if it was explicit or not.
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Yeah, I mean, when you're not a kid anymore, I think that's pretty typical.
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But I mean, like, for everybody, like all of us, even my sister yeah yeah do you think it was like a moral decision
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or just uh they never told me oh interesting yeah yeah
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i mean i got i got spanked as a kid first
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the same stuff like not listening fighting with my sister you
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we fought all the time this one all the time you know siblings
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and i remember being plus i mean your sister i mean come on being sent to my room that was pretty typical.
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I remember hitting my sister a couple times
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and my mom sent me to my room and I was
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so sad that I hit her
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that I snuck out of my room into her room
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and we were playing with like our Barbie dolls
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and my mom found us and we were so scared
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because we were supposed to be in separate rooms because we were in trouble.
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And we're like, oh no, she caught us.
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I came out of my room and we were playing peacefully together.
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Why would my mom be upset?
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She came in and was like, oh you guys are playing together okay yeah that
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and i just could not fathom that
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that was a good end result like supposed to be punished i was supposed to be punished
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so i didn't do the punishment i should be in trouble right
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but because we were playing so happily together yeah i i distinctly remember
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that moment the fear of being in trouble for not doing the punishment
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but yeah how about um let's think about our kids now
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um what how are they we dropped the ball well we
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have a very strict no spanking policy yeah we don't spank our kids
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but then it's like now what do we do yeah i
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think i feel like our generation is stuck in the middle
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yeah where like a lot of a lot of science has come out and said hitting and spanking your kids is
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is psychologically bad for them.
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It is not actually going to help them.
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So our generation hears that and says, okay, we're not going to spank, but there's not enough experience to tell us what else is effective.
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As they say to the pendulum swung too far, like a lot of parents our age as well, they would do, I would just call them permissive parents.
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I don't know exactly what they would call it, but you know, their kids just walk all over them
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and they're rude all the time and they get what they want and like who's the boss in the house?
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Is it the kids or the parents?
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It swung from one far side with like maybe our grandparents were very very strict authoritarian parents
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and then we our generation has swung to be much more permissive.
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We're gonna hear you out child.
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Yes tell me all your feelings but then when you're rude what do I do?
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So for us
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our kids have timeouts if they do something wrong
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if they say something rude
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if they hit someone they have to go sit in a
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chair for one minute three minutes five minutes whatever it is quiet
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calm um that has worked really well even for our two-year-old sometimes she's easier
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when you start them young yeah sometimes she skips over to
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the chair like okay i'm ready she's also like yeah i I hit Freddie.
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Yeah, I did.
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Yeah, but even for Freddie, for our five-year-old, he has adapted to that really well.
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He's the reason that we started the rules in the first place.
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That was you as a child, maybe.
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Middle children.
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Middle children.
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But for our oldest, it's a little bit trickier.
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I think as you get older, and I'm sure we'll figure this out too, or we'll find this out as our kids get older, discipline has to change.
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like what is serious for him for our eight-year-old might be
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more oh you're like more towards the you're grounded side like
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a long-term consequence this weekend you cannot play with your friends you did something bad enough
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that this weekend you're not allowed to play with your friends we have to stay home
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because those are more like grown-up consequences kind of
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so we're learning we're trying to figure it out i would
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say we were a bit late to the scene on some of this
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because we started out a little more like uh just explain what the problem is
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and then they'll naturally not really we were very resistant to discipline
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because it feels like an infringement upon your children
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but now i'm like kids are looking for a leader
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and you have to be the parent like who's who's supposed to be in charge in this situation yeah
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and if you're
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if you're not in charge the kid is going to try to be in charge yeah i have a feeling that
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when our kids are adults they're going to be more in
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the middle like they're going to have a better picture maybe
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it generally i feel like generations tend to go like
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that though where it's like pendulum swinging back yeah the pendulum has gone from here to here
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and then they will see the problems
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and kind of adjust a little bit more hopefully right we'll see
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so let us know for you what is kind of normal
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punishment in your household if your kids or maybe when you were a child what what happened in your your house.
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Yeah.
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Has there been any general loosening in your society as well?
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Like I think in America, maybe you're up to, I don't know.
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Less strict.
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Just like, yeah, just way less strict.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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We have two lightning round questions.
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Very quick.
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Boom.
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Are you ready?
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Tell me, what were your favorite games as a kid?
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Games activities.
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Things to do.
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Tag.
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Tag.
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You're it.
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Tag you're it.
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Cool.
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Other games I don't know.
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Did you play on a trampoline?
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Oh trampoline sure.
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Oh yeah like dodgeball on the trampoline that was fun.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Active physical stuff.
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Man we did all kinds of insane games like alligator where We took two mattresses
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and we jumped on the mattresses and smashed the people inside the mouth.
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I cannot imagine doing that.
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Yeah.
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Why?
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Because it was so fun.
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The friends that I hung out with, if I knew you as a kid, I would never have played with you.
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We wouldn't have been friends.
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I was scared to get on a...
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No. No. I was scared.
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I would have flirted with you, though.
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As an eight-year-old?
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Yes.
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I was scared to get on a trampoline because I didn't like that kind of physical, like, pushing or bumping.
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Like that was not what I liked.
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So my favorite activities as a kid were crafts.
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We did a lot of crafts, sewing things, cutting little things.
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This is not a game.
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That's an activity.
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Like what did you occupy your time with?
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And the next thing we love to do was just dig outside.
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Kind of like what our kids do, but like make little things with sticks and dirt and all of that.
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Yeah.
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Did I ever tell you about the Indiana Jones game?
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No. That's where my brother pulled us in the wagon
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and somebody pushed a barrel behind us like the ball
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that was rolling after you and other people threw like balls and hard things at you.
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While you're in the wagon.
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While you're in the wagon.
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Yeah.
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Are you just free going down the hill or is your brother?
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No my brother's pulling us through like a course.
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Oh my gosh.
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Yeah.
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That is totally not what we did.
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It was a four boys two girls situation and only one girl played with us.
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Yeah that would not have been me.
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My sister was out.
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yeah that would not have been me okay we have another quick lightning round question
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when you were a kid what responsibilities did you have
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or chores did you have as a kid list like two or three
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my parents were they my dad would always shake his head about this now
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and be like we didn't give you enough chores we had a chore chart that lasted like a month
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but there was no lasting like it was my job to
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feed the cats no yeah not really it nothing really stuck
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i think my mom struggled with getting it to stick
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and keeping it up it is hard yeah we know it's hard i mean
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when i was a kid we had a we had a chore chart
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which is pretty typical i mean we would do it was the kind of thing where saturday was doing chores
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and then you'd just get assigned something.
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Yeah.
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It wasn't consistent.
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We, the things that stuck were just little things.
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And I don't think they really helped the family that much.
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Like after dinner, it was my job to wipe down the table.
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Okay.
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That's so small.
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It's not really a responsibility.
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And at least from my experience as a parent, it takes more work to have your child do it than for you to do it.
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So for you to have your child take that responsibility, it's not because it makes it a life easier for you.
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It's kind of like torture for you.
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It's because you're like literally trying to instill in them a skill, but it's going to take six months versus you doing it really quick.
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So I think that's something that we're starting to play around with.
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Like the kids feed the cats.
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They're starting to collect the chicken eggs.
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They, of course, have to clean up their own stuff.
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Like they always clean up their own, their room, their books, their toys.
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Like that's important.
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You know, they have to put their shoes back.
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Those little things that are helpful, especially when there's three kids.
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Yeah.
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It's not super regimented though.
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It's kind of similar to how we were, at least I was.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I think in the summer though, Theo mows our grass.
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Oh yeah.
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He likes doing that.
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Freddy cleans up.
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It's a really light lawnmower, by the way.
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Yeah, it's not too hard.
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Freddy kind of cleans up the lawn before we do it.
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So they have some chores, but it's definitely different than what our grandparents did.
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I think that's the biggest gap.
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Our grandparents had very strict chores they were required to do.
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They required our parents to do.
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They were needed a lot more.
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Yeah, that was a much different life.
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My parents, I mean, my dad always said he would always help his mom wash dishes and
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It's at the table and they never were asked to they just did it is how he would explain it Yeah, very different different expectations.
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I think yeah Oh, they also weren't allowed to talk at the dinner table before mom their mom
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and dad spoke which Yeah, I could see that now might be kind of nice Yeah, yeah So when your parent
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when your dad sat down at the table as a child
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they had to be silent until the parents talked together like I I think like, oh, it'd be nice if I sat down at the table
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and me and Dan could talk and the kids were quiet and they listened.
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But how do you enforce that?
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Yeah.
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What was their trick?
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Like, how do you get that to happen?
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That is the mystery.
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If you have any ideas, let me know.
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It's not my life goal to have this happen, but it is, I think it's just a generational difference.
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Like a very different parenting style.
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Like my grandpa, my grandpa could give you a stare that could make you want to shut up.
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Maybe that's it.
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A lot more than I have.
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Yeah.
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So yeah, we're too nice.
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Okay.
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Well, this was our conversation about childhood.
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Thank you so much for joining us.
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Thank you, Dan.
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Oh, you're welcome.
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For bearing all for our students.
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I hope that this real life, not AI conversation has enriched your life.
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Thanks for not being a robot.
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You're welcome.
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And don't forget to download the free PDF worksheet for today's lesson.
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It includes all of the vocabulary you saw come up here, plus the bonus audio version, which is something you can listen to to help you understand fast English,
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all the stuff we talked about.
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And the way to get this is click on the link in the description, enter your name and email address, and voila, just like that it will land in your email inbox.
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It is my gift to you.
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So, make sure you download it.
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And thank you so much for being here.
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You're welcome.
522
Thank you so much for joining us.
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We'll see you the next time.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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But wait, do you want more?
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I recommend watching this video next where Dan and I have a conversation about education.
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In particular, you will see why Dan did not go to school until he was a teenager.
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What?
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And you'll learn a lot about the American education system and how it might be different from your country.
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I'll see you there.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Real English Conversation: English listening practice”. Este vídeo tiene 531 frases y 5022 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 26:22. El hablante habla rápido, unas 191 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| spank verbo | /ˈspæŋk/ | nalguear, zurrar |
| chore sustantivo | /t͡ʃoɹ/ | mandado, tarea |
| discipline sustantivo | /ˈdɪsəplɪn/ | disciplina |
| grandparent sustantivo | /ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/ | abuelo, abuela |
| trampoline sustantivo | /ˌtɹæmpəˈliːn/ | cama elástica, brincolín |
| worksheet sustantivo | hoja de trabajo | |
| tablet sustantivo | /ˈtæblət/ | placa |
| pendulum sustantivo | /ˈpɛnd͡ʒələm/ | péndulo |
| cautious adjetivo | /ˈkɔːʃəs/ | cauto, cauteloso |
| teenager sustantivo | /ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/ | adolescente, adolescentes |
| rude adjetivo | /ɹuːd/ | rudo, grosero |
| fathom verbo | /ˈfæðəm/ | sondar, sondear |
| millennial adjetivo | /mɪˈlɛn.ɪ.əl/ | milenario |
| permissive adjetivo | /pəɹˈmɪsɪv/ | permisivo |
| puberty sustantivo | /ˈpjuː.bə.ti/ | pubertad |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| clean up verbo | limpiar | |
| go out verbo | salir | |
| come out verbo | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | revelarse, salir a la luz |
| come up verbo | salir a relucir | |
| go off verbo | explotar | |
| grow up verbo | crecer | |
| pull down verbo | demoler | |
| shut up | /ʃʌt ʌp/ | cállate la boca, cállate |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- Tell me, how much freedom did you have?
- How much freedom did you have?
- Do you remember what you did that deserved?
- What did you ever get grounded as a child?
- Why would my mom be upset?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | have created · have added · have heard |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | be immersed · are attached · was allowed |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | English, which is · road which is · kids who I |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasado | was dating · were playing · was rolling |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 137 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, you're, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: fathom /ˈfæðəm/, authoritarian /əˌθɑ.ɹəˈtɛɹ.i.ən/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: cautious /ˈkɔːʃəs/, shady /ˈʃeɪdi/, punish /ˈpʌnɪʃ/, dish /dɪʃ/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: millennial /mɪˈlɛn.ɪ.əl/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, alligator /ˈæl.ɪ.ɡeɪ.tɚ/, authoritarian /əˌθɑ.ɹəˈtɛɹ.i.ən/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: spank /ˈspæŋk/, strict /stɹɪkt/, spanking /ˈspæŋkɪŋ/, stare /stɛɚ/, sneak /sniːk/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: permissive /pəɹˈmɪsɪv/, voilà /(v)wɑˈlɑ/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, variation /ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/, cave /keɪv/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: suburbs /ˈsʌbɝbz/, hazard /ˈhæzəd/, resistant /ɹəˈzɪstənt/, nowadays /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/, regards /ɹɪˈɡɑɹdz/
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 spank, chore, discipline.
¿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.