Shadowing Practice: Relationship dilemmas – B2 English Listening Test - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Emma I met Josh at a colleague's birthday party a few weeks ago.
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I hadn't even planned to stay long,
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but the atmosphere was so relaxed,
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everyone was in such a good mood,
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and I just kind of got swept up in it.
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At first I just thought he was attractive.
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I definitely fancied him, but I didn't expect anything to actually happen.
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And then, he came over and started chatting me up.
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He was confident, but not arrogant, which I really liked.
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We spent most of the evening talking and flirting
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and by the end of the night it honestly felt like we'd really hit it off.
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A few days later we went on a date.
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It was meant to be casual,
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just coffee, but we ended up talking for three hours without even noticing the time.
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Three hours!
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Since then we've seen each other a few more times,
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and I can feel myself starting to fall for him.
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that's the part that makes me nervous.
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I have this tendency to fall head over heels really quickly.
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My friends always say I get carried away too easily,
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especially when I really like someone.
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So I'm trying to slow myself down.
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I keep telling myself not to imagine our entire future together after only a couple of dates.
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It's still early days.
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But when you meet someone you genuinely connect with,
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it's so hard not to get excited.
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Sophia.
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Ashley's my best friend.
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We go back years, all the way to elementary school.
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We grew up in the same neighborhood and,
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um, used to spend almost every afternoon together.
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When we were younger, I really looked up to her.
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She was confident and outspoken,
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and I probably idolized her more than I realized.
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Lately, though, we just don't see eye to eye anymore.
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We disagree about almost everything.
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My job, my partner, even where I choose to live.
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Conversations that used to feel easy now feel tense.
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Sometimes I feel like she has it in for me,
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like she's constantly criticizing my decisions.
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Because of that, I don't open up to her the way I used to.
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About a year ago, her boyfriend of three years dumped her for another woman, and she changed.
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She became more negative and withdrawn.
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Maybe she expected me to be there for her 24-7,
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and I was at first,
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but, um, a lot is going on in my own life,
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and I can't keep that up all the time.
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Part of me wants to talk it through and make up with her,
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because our friendship means a lot to me.
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But another part of me wonders whether we've simply changed too much.
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I don't want us to drift apart,
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but I also don't want to feel judged all the time.
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Daniel I've been seeing my girlfriend Laura for a long time.
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We actually go back almost five years now.
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We met at uni.
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We were in the same seminar group in our first year.
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We've always got along well,
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and we still have a lot in common.
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We're the same age, like the same music and films,
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and we even work in similar fields.
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The trouble is that recently things have felt different.
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Don't get me wrong, there's no drama,
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we never argue, nothing like that.
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It's just that the relationship feels less intense than it used to.
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I know every couple has their ups and downs
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and I'm sensible enough to understand that the excitement of the early days doesn't last forever.
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But sometimes I wonder whether we've started to take each other for granted and are slowly drifting apart.
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We still care about each other,
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but we don't exactly worship each other the way we used to.
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I'm just not sure whether we're moving forward or simply staying together because it's comfortable.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Relationship dilemmas – B2 English Listening Test”. Este vídeo tiene 70 frases y 639 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:45. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 170 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 85 % 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:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
idolize verbo/ˈaɪdəlaɪz/idolatrar
outspoken adjetivofranco, opinado
criticize verbo/ˈkɹɪtɪsaɪz/criticar, culpar
arrogant adjetivo/ˈæɹəɡənt/arrogante, soberbio
seminar sustantivo/ˈsɛmɪnɑɹ/seminario
heel sustantivo/hil/talón, calcaño
tense sustantivo/tɛns/tiempo
tendency sustantivo/ˈtɛn.dən.si/tendencia
sweep verbo/swiːp/barrer
sensible adjetivo/ˈsɛn.sɪ.bəl/razonable, sensato
withdraw verbo/wɪðˈdɹɔ/retirar
dump verbo/dʌmp/tirar a la basura, arrojar
disagree verbo/dɪsəˈɡɹi/no estar de acuerdo, desacordar
genuinely adverbio/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/auténticamente, genuinamente
excitement sustantivo/ɪkˈsaɪtmənt/emoción

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
drift apart verbodistanciarse
carried away adjetivoembalado, enajenado
end up verboterminar, ir a parar
get along verbollevarse bien con, avenirse
look up to verborespetar
move forward verboir adelante, adelantar

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
“Used to” used to + verbo — un hábito o estado pasado que ya no es ciertoused to spend · used to feel
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorawe've seen · we've simply changed · have felt

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 21 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, we've, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: idolize /ˈaɪdəlaɪz/, criticize /ˈkɹɪtɪsaɪz/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como idolize, outspoken, criticize.

¿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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