Shadowing Practice: Realistic Day Working in Tech | London (office vlog) - Learn English Speaking with Video

Creando lección...
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Let's go.
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I'm going to cook it.
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Good morning.
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I've just jumped into a meeting room because I have a doctor's appointment in a couple of minutes.
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I figured I'd just take it from work, save to me the trip of going in, and also I don't have to wait around in a doctor's meeting room, which is always a plus.
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It's actually a beautiful Friday morning, as you may have seen on my commute in.
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I realized the hack with winters here is you just have to be well prepared.
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Do you have the right thermals?
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Do you have the right gloves?
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My favorite hack is having these pocket warmers.
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They're these nifty little electrical hand warmers.
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You just turn them on.
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They have three settings.
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They've literally gotten me through negative 12 degrees in Korea, negative 5 degrees in Norway,
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and I swear by them and they can get me through a one degree morning in London.
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Mornings are so cozy especially when the sun's coming in the UV is like virtually zero
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and you can soak up the sun guilt-free and everyone's all rugged up and cozy so I love it.
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It's shaping up to be a pretty good Friday so I'll take you along.
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If you're new here I'm Elasha and I moved from Australia to London a little over two years ago.
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I work in cloud growth and sales at Microsoft and this is typically what a Friday my life looks like.
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Fridays in the office are usually pretty quiet.
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During the week meeting rooms can be impossible to get
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but I had lots of choices today given a very quiet office
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and I I managed to slip into one this morning for
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a quick virtual doctor's appointment before jumping straight into my morning meetings.
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Following lunch, I settled into a solid work block.
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I work as a conduit between Microsoft and Microsoft Azure reseller organisations, who each have a number of customers at various points across their cloud journey.
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So a big part of my role is helping enable them to grow more.
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I've been out and about a lot over the past couple of weeks just out visiting clients.
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So this work block was really to tie up any loose ends to make sure I can start Monday strong.
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Fridays are also when we have our pod or team syncs.
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And it's a great chance to catch up with my direct team, share updates and fill each other in on what we've been working on.
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I'm
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going to
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go to the next video.
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Oh, my God so
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it's terrible lighting in here
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but this is going to be my favorite spot in the office to watch the sunset
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or lack thereof for sunset because I think the sun has already set the days are
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so short now it's basically sunset by mid-afternoon fridays are the time to wrap up any loose ends
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and action any actions that slip through the cracks during the week and I feel like
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I've done a pretty good job at getting some emails out
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that have been sitting in my inbox and also doing my expenses Which is extremely boring to do, but it's got to be done I also keep getting this notification for some training
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that I have due at the end of this month So i'm thinking now that i've made myself a tea.
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I might get to that training.
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It's actually really funny We have this global standard training
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that we have to do Whoever's created it from a microsoft education standpoint kudos to them
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because it's honestly so funny The training itself is in the form of a TV show.
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So there are different seasons for every year.
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There are the same characters that reappear in the seasons that are following their own character arc.
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I was going to say customer journey.
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That's not it.
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It's so funny because I've been doing this training for a few years now.
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And the characters have evolved as I've evolved.
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And some of the conversations they talk about have evolved.
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Like, you know, when I joined, AI probably wasn't as big of a deal as it is now.
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So now there's a bigger focus on security and compliance.
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It's really interesting and I'm actually quite looking forward to it.
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It's definitely not one of those trainings that I just skipped through.
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Because let's be honest, there's always some of those.
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Microsoft runs on trust and our success depends on each of us taking action okay i hope this isn't confidential
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oh no no no this isn't good oh no oh no
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bang on This is the most dramatic thing I've ever seen.
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I'm hooked.
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This is where I'll be for the next half an hour.
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By the time I'm sending out these last couple of messages, the sun is already long gone.
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There's something
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so satisfying about closing all my tabs on a Friday evening
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it just feels symbolic like I'm officially wrapping up the work week.
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Just a few final touches and then I'm off to dinner with friends,
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which in my books feels like the perfect way to end a work week. so

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 71 frases y 869 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 7:48. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 111 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 81 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
sunset sustantivo/ˈsʌnˌsɛt/puesta del sol, puesta de sol
evolve verbo/ɪˈvɑlv/desarrollar
cloud sustantivo/ˈklaʊ̯d/nube, nimbo
slip verbo/ˈslɪp/deslizarse, resbalar
wrap verbo/ɹæp/envolver, fajar
pocket sustantivo/ˈpɑ.kɪt/bolsillo, bolsa
crack sustantivo/kɹæk/grieta
dramatic adjetivo/dɹəˈmætɪk/dramático
hook sustantivo/hʊk/gancho, garfio
settle verbo/ˈsɛtəl/resolver, dirimir
bang sustantivo/ˈbæŋ/estallido, estruendo
virtual adjetivo/ˈvɜɹt͡ʃuəl/virtual
enable verbo/ɪˈneɪ.bəl/habilitar, posibilitar
virtually adverbio/ˈvɚ.t͡ʃə.wə.li/prácticamente
expense sustantivo/ɪkˈspɛns/gasto, dispendio

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
wrap up verboenvolver, arrebujar
look forward to verbono ver la hora de, quedar a la espera de
send out verboemitir
tie up verboapersogar

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — una acción que empezó antes y continúawe've been working · have been sitting · I've been doing
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahoraI've just jumped · I've been · has already set
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosaroom, which is · expenses Which is

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 27 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, I've, I'll. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: organisation /ˈɔː.ɡə.naɪˌzeɪ.ʃən/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, confidential /ˌkɔn.fɪˈdɛn.ʃəl/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: electrical /ɪˈlɛktɹɪkəl/, organisation /ˈɔː.ɡə.naɪˌzeɪ.ʃən/, virtually /ˈvɚ.t͡ʃə.wə.li/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, confidential /ˌkɔn.fɪˈdɛn.ʃəl/

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 sunset, evolve, cloud.

¿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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