Shadowing Practice: Response to Mark Carney’s speech in Davos - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Prime Minister Carney's well-crafted and eloquently delivered speech at Davos has been widely noted, and I want to start by offering my own praise.
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The Prime Minister is right to restate what many have said for years.
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Canada must become more self-reliant, less dependent, and work with like-minded countries to advance our interests.
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And Conservatives are, as always, willing to work with him to turn these words into results.
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What stood out most to me was when he pointed out, quote, the gaps between rhetoric and reality.
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That's especially true here at home.
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If liberal words and good intentions were tradable commodities, Canada would already be the richest nation on earth.
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Unfortunately, after a decade of promises and grand speeches, liberals have made our economy costly and dependent, more so than ever.
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After nearly a year as Prime Minister, Mark Carney has made things only worse.
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The deficit has doubled.
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Food inflation has doubled that in the States.
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Housing costs have also doubled, the worst in the G7.
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No pipelines are approved.
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Anti-development laws removed.
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The military has a massive recruiting and equipment shortfall.
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There's still no free trade between provinces.
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No crime laws have been passed.
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And the Prime Minister's signature promise of negotiating a win with the U.S is unfulfilled.
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Indeed, U.S tariffs have more than doubled on Canada, while Mr. Carney's promised counter-tariffs have vanished along with his elbows.
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Those unkept promises, which followed grand speeches and announcements, make us especially vulnerable to the world's dangers.
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We have had enough words.
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Now we need results.
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Now we need to unblock our resources.
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Now we must approve pipelines.
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Now we must bolster our military to protect our soil, sea, and skies.
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Now we need to crack down on foreign interference, threats, and intimidation of our people from hostile powers like China, Russia, and Iran.
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The last five years have shown us that we can't count on others.
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Our closest neighbor and largest trading partner, the United States, struck us with tariffs and questioned our sovereignty.
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Now that is short-sighted and I believe it will hurt them too.
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But we can't control what they do and no one can control what President Trump does or says.
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I know it's tempting to say our relationship with America is over forever.
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But here's the reality.
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We still live next door to the biggest economy and military the world has ever seen.
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We sell 20 times more to the U.S than we do to China.
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One in 10 Canadian jobs rely directly or indirectly on trade with America.
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We owe it to those workers, our friends, family and fellow Canadians to ensure those jobs don't go away.
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Growing and diversifying our economy is essential, as all political parties have been saying for decades.
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But we must also remember that our trade and security partnership with the U.S is centuries old and will outlast one president.
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To quote the British Liberal Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, we have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies.
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Our interests are eternal and perpetual and those interests it is our duty to follow.
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We should continue to work with allies within the U.S.
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that are outside the administration to minimize the damage until a larger relationship repair can be completed.
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And I restate once again my offer to the Prime Minister that conservatives stand ready to help his government fight U.S tariffs.
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But while we hope for the best, it would be naive to assume that things will go back to exactly what they were.
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Whether the next administration is Republican or Democrat, tariffs may be here for the foreseeable future.
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None of that, though, is an excuse for letting our guard down and repeating past mistakes
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by making Canada even more vulnerable to aggressive powers like the People's Republic of China, which the Prime Minister himself called our greatest threat only a few months ago.
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It was with great irony
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that the Prime Minister quoted one of the greatest heroes of the 20th century fight against totalitarian communism,
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Vaclav Havel, less than a week after launching a, quote, strategic partnership for a new world order with the Chinese communist regime,
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a partnership that includes plans to deepen engagement on national security issues at a senior level.
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We cannot throw caution to the wind with a regime that kidnaps our citizens, steals our technology, interferes in our elections,
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sets up illegal police stations on our soil
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and has a history of using trade as a tool for diplomatic warfare against us.
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If this is what the Prime Minister meant
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when he told the Davos crowd that he is calibrating our relationships so their depth reflects our values,
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then I seriously question his values and frankly his judgment.
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Of course, we have to trade with China, as we always have, but without losing our compass or our national security.
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At the same time, we must continue the work of Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister who expanded our network of trade with more like-minded middle power countries.
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Not a new idea.
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In fact, we already have free trade with most of the middle powers
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that the Prime Minister recognized in his Davos speech after the previous Conservative government negotiated agreements with a record 46 countries.
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Given that we already have these agreements in place.
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What stops us from growing trade with those countries is not their trade barriers on us, but our trade barriers on ourselves.
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Liberal laws like C-69 and C-48 make it impossible to approve projects or ship energy to other countries on different coasts.
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It takes 19 years to approve a mine in Canada.
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The Liberal government has created these laws and obstacles and almost a year after taking office,
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Mr. Carney has not removed a single law or bureaucracy or approved a single pipeline or remove the industrial carbon tax,
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which drives food and housing costs up and industry out.
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There are hundreds of billions of private dollars looking to invest in wildly profitable projects like a pipeline to the Pacific.
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Money to get Canada's energy flowing and Canada's workers working.
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We have the resources under our feet.
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The only thing missing is permits.
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The federal permits from the Kearney government which are still among the slowest in the world.
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Grand announcements, new government agencies, signing ceremonies, red carpets and stacking new laws and bureaucracies on top of old ones will do nothing.
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There's no magic to this.
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What we need is for the Carney government to get out of the way and approve these privately funded projects.
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Mr. Carney told the crowd in Davos that, quote, a country that cannot feed itself, fuel itself or defend itself has few options.
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So why can't we?
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Just this week, Canada was declared the food inflation capital of the G7.
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And last year, Canadians who can't feed themselves made a record 2 million visits to a food bank every single month.
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More than double than the number from seven years ago.
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In a country with almost endless farming potential.
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Potential.
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We have the potential to be the most affordable and the richest country in the world because we have the most land, resources and coastline.
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We need to unblock our potential.
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Stop stopping and start starting.
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That's why Conservatives proposed the Canadian Sovereignty Act.
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It's a detailed plan to unlock and unblock Canada's potential and make our country more affordable, self-reliant and sovereign.
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It aims to bring home the half trillion dollars of investment that's been driven to the U.S over the last decade, with practical steps like ending capital gains tax on reinvestments in Canada,
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which would be economic rocket fuel for business startups, high-tech inventions, and massive money-making job-creating projects,
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repealing anti-pipeline and anti-development laws to legalize fast and safe approval of pipelines and shipping energy to our East Coast,
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including a new pipeline to the Pacific, which would ship a million barrels of capital a day and $30 billion a year,
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the single biggest increase in our exports overseas.
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Let's go from having the second slowest permits in the OECD to the fastest.
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Let's end the industrial carbon tax on industry and farmers so that they can more affordably produce what we need.
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Let's create free trade bonuses for provinces
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and territories to open up their markets to fellow Canadians tear down internal barriers and strengthen national economic unity.
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We need new rules and tax incentives preventing Canadian technologies,
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intellectual property, and strategic assets from being sold to hostile foreign states and state-influenced interests.
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We need to cut taxes on work, investment, home building, and energy so that we can make more with less.
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Doing Doing so will make us both autonomous and affordable.
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The more food we grow, the more energy we supply ourselves, the more we will be able to afford, the stronger our dollar will be,
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and the more purchasing power our families will enjoy.
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That's why I'm announcing today
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that next week we Conservatives will introduce a motion in Canada's Parliament to pass the Canadian Sovereignty Act.
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Speaking about sovereignty, we need a strong and sovereign national defense.
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And what we do on defense is something that we control alone.
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We don't have to ask anybody's permission to have a strong state-of-the-art military and defend ourselves.
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But could we really defend ourselves today?
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Once again, Mr. Carney has talked a big game about building up our armed forces, but after nearly a year as Prime Minister, he hasn't even begun to deliver.
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It's been pushing promises down the road, smoke and mirror budgeting, and and commitments of things he might one day do.
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Just trust us.
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We really want to do it, just not yet.
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Look, we all support the sovereignty of Greenland and Denmark, but we must be able to support our own Arctic sovereignty.
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Right now, we only have 300 full-time members of the military stationed in the Arctic, in a territory that is larger than most countries.
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We have the largest coastline in the world, and yet we have just a regular naval force of 8,400 personnel.
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A sovereign country must be able to defend its people and its territory.
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Conservatives have a detailed plan to restore our armed forces and our great martial tradition,
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to fix our recruitment crisis and expand regular force and reserve force dramatically and immediately,
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increase recruitment and promotions by driving merit and not political correctness,
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Re-establishing a permanent military presence in the Arctic with CFB Iqaluit, a new Arctic naval base,
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and upgrade Inuvik to full base status for fighters and tankers.
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To back sovereignty with real hardware by requiring four new icebreakers,
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including AWACS aircraft, to detect threats to our Arctic skies.
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to fast-track upgrades to submarines,
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helicopters, northern hubs, to strengthen boots-on-the-ground presence by doubling the Canadian Rangers and creating an Army Reserve unit in Whitehorse.
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So far, Mr. Carney, in this regard and in every other,
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has been very fortunate to be judged by his rhetoric and his stated intentions rather than by his results, because nearly a year into his term.
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The rhetoric has changed, but the reality is not.
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The illusion of purpose is there, but the results have not shown up with it.
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We need to do things, not just say them.
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Canada Strong can no longer be a slogan, nor True North Strong and Free, just a motto.
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We must put our people and our country first in everything that we do.
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Then and only then will Canada be autonomous and affordable, secure and self-reliant.
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To paraphrase Henley, we are the masters of our fate.
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We are the captains of our soul.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Response to Mark Carney’s speech in Davos”. Las palabras que más se repiten: Prime, Minister, trade, Canada, Canadian. Este vídeo tiene 137 frases y 1963 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 12:28. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 157 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. 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
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| sovereignty sustantivo | /ˈsɑv(ə)ɹənti/ | soberanía |
| pipeline sustantivo | /ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn/ | oleoducto, tubería |
| tariff sustantivo | /ˈtæɹəf/ | arancel |
| approve verbo | /əˈpɹuːv/ | aprobar, sancionar |
| reliant adjetivo | dependiente | |
| unblock verbo | /ʌnˈblɒk/ | desbloquear |
| sovereign sustantivo | /ˈsɑv(ə)ɹɪn/ | soberano, coya |
| barrier sustantivo | /ˈbæɹi.ə/ | barrera |
| restate verbo | repetir, reiterar | |
| coastline sustantivo | línea costera | |
| bureaucracy sustantivo | /bjʊˈɹɑ.kɹə.si/ | burocracia |
| perpetual adjetivo | /pɚˈpɛt͡ʃuəl/ | perpetuo |
| autonomous adjetivo | /ɔˈtɑnəməs/ | autónomo |
| negotiate verbo | /nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/ | negociar |
| recruitment sustantivo | /rɪˈkruːt.mənt / | reclutamiento |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| get out of verbo | salirse de, ponerse fuera de |
| go away verbo | irse, marcharse |
| point out verbo | señalar, apuntar |
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — una acción que empezó antes y continúa | have been saying · It's been pushing |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | has been · have said · have made |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | are approved · have been passed · is unfulfilled |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 8 contracciones y formas reducidas, como can't, don't, hasn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: negotiate /nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/, intentions /ɪnˈtɛnʃənz/, inflation /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/, intimidation /ɪntɪmɪˈdeɪʃən/, vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: sovereignty /ˈsɑv(ə)ɹənti/, bureaucracy /bjʊˈɹɑ.kɹə.si/, autonomous /ɔˈtɑnəməs/, negotiate /nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/, affordably /əˈfɔː(ɹ).də.bli/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: strengthen /ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θən/, slogan /ˈsloʊɡən/, startup /ˈstɑɹtˌʌp/, stack /stæk/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: sovereignty /ˈsɑv(ə)ɹənti/, approve /əˈpɹuːv/, sovereign /ˈsɑv(ə)ɹɪn/, provinces /ˈpɹɔv.ɪns.ɪz/, diversify /daɪˈvɝ.sə.faɪ/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: provinces /ˈpɹɔv.ɪns.ɪz/, intentions /ɪnˈtɛnʃənz/, legalize /ˈliːɡəlaɪz/, paraphrase /ˈpæɹəfɹeɪz/, minimize /ˈmɪn.ɪˌmaɪz/
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 sovereignty, pipeline, tariff.
¿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.