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Is the door to Iron Man totally closed?
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Because I don't believe it is.
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Every day, the reset button, the space bar gets pressed, and it's like, now what?
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30 years, he has struggled with a dangerous drug addiction that nearly destroyed him.
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And today, he says he's clean, he's in love.
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And so by the time you're in prison, that's not rock bottom for you?
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Nope.
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It's easy to embrace hopelessness when things seem insurmountable.
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And yet, it's actually just a matter of time until all of the elements come together for things to be all right.
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I mean, I believe that, you know, most difficult situations will resolve themselves if you are persistent and if you don't give up entirely.
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And that's what I never did.
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I never gave up.
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Do you still get urges to do drugs?
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I have not even an inkling of a desire.
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It's not that difficult to overcome these seemingly ghastly problems.
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What's hard is to decide. that thing
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that you're wearing around your neck yes being as you are
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obviously known as being iron man are you concerned with wearing
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a large thing in the exact same spot life is funny
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because i was doing this before i ever got fitted for the rt
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so it was more of uh art imitating oddball stuff i was doing anyway even more interesting
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because maybe you were born to be iron man
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because iron man obviously had that loosely pre -arranged destiny
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and what's incredible is how far afield you can go from it
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and still find your way back this concept of things just
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sort of falling into place i'm a big believer in that too what is that though is that you
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getting out of your own way isn't
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that 70 of it yeah yeah i'd say it's 70 maintenance
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of what can i do to do my part to stay out of the way
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and then the other part i always think of it as like this little super thin invisible thread
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but you can feel the tug
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and you just kind of you have to be really gentle you have to pause
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when agitated and you have to go for it
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when you're gonna like there's four walls in here
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which one has the map behind it you it's that one
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and you knock down the wall and it's there you know yeah what is
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that though that's a synchronicity yeah uh intuition
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i don't know right it's the big i don't know
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and i really feel it's so funny at this point in my life
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and being you know kind of middle -aged and all
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that well i know i'm going to fly around the world i'm going to sell some soap
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and i know i have a new project
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and i know i've just retired my jersey on this 12 -year journey i've been on
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and uh and how do i want to start
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and it came up how would you like to go yes
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that's exactly what i'm going to do i'm going to go have the joe rogan experience
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and kick off this year and this season
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and this new chapter by doing what i love i think part of the reason i'm still
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so interested not just in life
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but also you know getting to do what i do is
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i'm a fan i love movies i love creativity i love music i love i love culture
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and the fact that i actually have a place in it
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while i'm observing it and digging it is like it's it's
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it's an honor even though he has a whole lot of
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money even though he's iron man dude here's the deal he's still nice my daughter is four years old
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and she says daddy don't you know iron man can't you
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hook it up it's my birthday can he come to my birthday can you make it happen daddy
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and this is at his height this is when it's everything is going
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and i text him
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and i said listen man uh my daughter you know she loves iron man
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if you got time you know i'm saying you know
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if you'd stop by
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and this is the day before her birth this saturday sunday
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is is the birthday he texts back he said is 12
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o 'clock noon good is the door to iron man totally closed
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because i don't believe it is oh you guys can go through time now let me ask you the question
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if i pick the jersey back up
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and put it on wouldn't you feel a little bit like
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oh no crap no oh i i love you as iron man
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so i would i would if you if they opened up this time machine
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and you popped out i just imagine the moment where everybody
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goes crazy it would be amazing it'd be great i would love
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that but i also love you hanging it up it's just i keep thinking see clearly
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and it's difficult because i i feel like we all just get buffeted by feelings
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and ego or fears or little you know chips of resentments
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or intuitions that are tied to something maybe higher
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but you think is out of your reach or whatever
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so i need to be kept uh right -sized because i can easily fall into
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Self -seeking and depression and self -pity and judgment and all that stuff.
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It's kind of a, it's a bit of a default, but I spend enough energy and I've had enough.
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help over enough years to actually just say oh that's that's
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just awful destructive behavior you're entertaining in your head you know
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if i'm noticing anything now it's that we need to shift
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and we need new challenges and just like society
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and politics things are moving and morphing and the information age is making things
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so everything's learning and growing from everything so quickly and improving or disproving.
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But for me, it's just incredible.
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Our culture never encourages taking a break, never encourages saying, don't chase that thing because you've got it in your hands.
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So confidence, you know, there's been times when I felt I'm in possession of it.
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And then you want to let go a little bit
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because it's only ever the moment and life guiding you the wind is
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so at your back
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that you're like wow are you just are you just you know jumping over the waves
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and all that by yourself and you're like you bet i am
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but there's a physics to the moment and the winds at your back
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and then the wind does what the fucking wind does
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and it changes and if you're left there thinking what you know
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so i think it's great to be in full possession of what you would call supreme confidence
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and then see what happens if you don't hold on to it so hard because it's great, but it is a bit of an illusion because like everything else, it's always changing.
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Always know what your action is because then
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when you come in in the morning confident or
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when you come in in the morning and you can't hit your ass with both hands, you know what to do.
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Just boil down what it is you're doing, whether there's a camera around or just what am I doing today?
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Today, I'm showing up and I'm trying to be honest
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and also to listen and learn but really my action today is I'm beginning a process of promotion.
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You actually take comfort in the fact that your eyesight is starting to dwindle?
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You want to chase it
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but what I appreciate is you know where you're at by what you're able to retain
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if you fight for it and the things that are going no matter what you do.
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Sometimes it's about I don't need to try to use something to hold on to everything.
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I want to pick the five or seven things
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that I definitely want to hold on to
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and I want to watch the rest of it go in and out with the tides.
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Smile, though your heart is aching.
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Smile, even though it's breaking.
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When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Robert Downey Jr's Speech Will Leave You SPEECHLESS — Best Life Advice”. Este vídeo tiene 117 frases y 1391 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 7:53. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 177 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. 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
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| encourage verbo | /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ | alentar, arengar |
| chase verbo | /t͡ʃeɪs/ | perseguir, asenderear |
| possession sustantivo | /pəˈzɛʃn̩/ | posesión |
| daddy sustantivo | /ˈdædi/ | papá, papaíto |
| intuition sustantivo | /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/ | intuición |
| awful adjetivo | /ˈɔːfʊl/ | infumable, malísimo |
| cloud sustantivo | /ˈklaʊ̯d/ | nube, nimbo |
| element sustantivo | /ˈɛləmənt/ | elemento |
| thread sustantivo | /ˈθɹɛd/ | hilo, bouclé (buclé) |
| clock sustantivo | /klɑk/ | cuentakilómetros |
| comfort sustantivo | /ˈkʌm.fət/ | comodidad, confort |
| promotion sustantivo | /pɹəˈmoʊʃn̩/ | ascenso, promoción |
| physics sustantivo | /ˈfɪz.ɪks/ | física |
| hook sustantivo | /hʊk/ | gancho, garfio |
| knock verbo | /nɑk/ | llamar a, golpear |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| give up verbo | rendirse, entregar |
| back up verbo | retroceder, ciar |
| boil down verbo | hervirle el agua a, herver el líquido de |
| come up verbo | salir a relucir |
| get out of verbo | salirse de, ponerse fuera de |
| go through verbo | atravesar |
| knock down verbo | derribar |
| show up verbo | comparecer, personarse |
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 | has struggled · i've just retired · I've had |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | were born · are tied · be kept |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 46 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, you're, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: thin /ˈθɪn/, thread /ˈθɹɛd/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: possession /pəˈzɛʃn̩/, intuition /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/, promotion /pɹəˈmoʊʃn̩/, addiction /əˈdɪkˌʃən/, illusion /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: intuition /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/, invisible /ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/, creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: overcome /ˌəʊ.vəˈkʌm/, resolve /ɹɪˈzɑlv/, invisible /ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/, observe /əbˈzɜːv/, creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: possession /pəˈzɛʃn̩/, physics /ˈfɪz.ɪks/, resolve /ɹɪˈzɑlv/, invisible /ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/, observe /əbˈzɜːv/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: encourage /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/, judgment /ˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒ.mənt/, gentle /ˈd͡ʒɛntl̩/, urge /ɜːd͡ʒ/, arrange /əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
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 encourage, chase, possession.
¿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.