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I have a new hobby.
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I am collecting stories that I can actually prove are told among the Russian people.
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They make them up themselves, they tell them between themselves, reveals they've got a great sense of humor, and they've also got a little cynical attitude about things in their country.
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The story was an American and a Russian arguing about their two countries, and the American said, look, in my country I can walk into the Oval Office, I can pound the President's desk and say,
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Mr. President, I don't like the way you're running our country.
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And the Russians said, I can do that.
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The Americans said, you can?
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He says, yes, I can go into the Kremlin, to the General Secretary's office, pound his desk and say, Mr. General Secretary, I don't like the way President Reagan's running his country.
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I didn't tell this one to Gorbachev.
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you know there's a 10 year delay delay in the soviet union of delivery of an automobile
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and you go through a quite a process when you're ready to buy
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and then you put up the money in advance this man he laid down his money
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and then the fellow he was in
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that was in charge said to him okay come back in 10 years
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and get your car and he said morning or afternoon And the fellow behind the counter said,
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Well, ten years from now, what difference does it make?
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And he said, well, the plumber's coming in the morning.
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Less than one family out of seven in the Soviet Union owns an automobile.
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Most of the automobiles are driven by the bureaucrats.
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So an order went out one day to the police that anyone caught speeding.
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Anyone, no matter who, gets a ticket.
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Well, Gorbachev came out of his country home, his dacha.
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He was late getting to the Kremlin.
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There was his limousine and driver waiting.
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He told the driver to get in the back seat he'd drive, and down the road he went.
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They passed two motorcycle cops.
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One took out after him.
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And pretty soon he's back with his buddy, and his buddy says, Well, did you give him a ticket?
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And he said, No. Well, he said, Why not?
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Oh, he said, Too important.
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Well, he said, we're told to give anybody a ticket, no matter who it is.
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Oh, he said, no, no, this one was, I could, well, he said, who was it?
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He said, I couldn't recognize him, but his driver was Gorbachev.
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One of the heads of state
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that I met with on this visit told me the story about the two fellows in the Soviet Union
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that were walking down the street, and one of them says, have we really achieved full communism?
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Is this it?
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Is this now full communism?
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And the other one said, oh, hell no, things are going to get a lot worse.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 39 frases y 488 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:45. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 177 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 87 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
automobile sustantivo/ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/automóvil, carro
desk sustantivo/dɛsk/escritorio, pupitre
buddy/ˈbʌdi/compañero, acompañante
delay sustantivo/dɪˈleɪ̯/retraso, demora
communism sustantivo/ˈkɒmjᵿnɪz(ə)m/comunismo
argue verbo/ˈɑɹ.ɡju/argüir, argumentar
reveal verbo/ɹɪˈviːl/revelar, propalar
collect verbo/ˈkɑlɪkt/juntar, recoger
cop sustantivo/kɑp/tombo, paco
motorcycle sustantivo/ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/motocicleta, moto
hobby sustantivo/ˈhɑ.bi/afición, hobby
humour sustantivo/ˈhjuːmɚ/humor, gracia
cynical adjetivo/ˈsɪnɪkəl/cínico, resabiado
bureaucrat sustantivo/ˈbjʊɹəkɹæt/burócrata
dacha sustantivo/ˈdɑ.t͡ʃə/dacha

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
go out verbosalir
go through verboatravesar
lay down verbosoltar
put up verbocolgar
take out verbosacar

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 10 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, they've, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/, motorcycle /ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/

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 automobile, desk, buddy.

¿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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