Shadowing Practice: Sabrina Carpenter - Thumbs (Lyrics Video) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Somewhere in the world there is a father and a mother
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And the father is a son who has a mother The
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mother has a daughter who gets married to the brother of a mother
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And they're all just trying to multiply with one another
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way of the world it never ends till the end then
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you start again that's just the way of the world that's
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just the way of the world someone in the world they
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think they're working for themselves they get up every day to
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go to work for someone else somebody works for them and
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so they think they got it made
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but they're all just working to get paid the very same and so they keep on
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They're gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, little lady, that dumb dumb.
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And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, little lady, that dumb dumb.
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They're gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, little lady, that dumb dumb.
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So the people robbed the bank and the police came to get him
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but they let him get away Cause they aren't just working
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to get paid the very same Cause that's just the way of the world It never ends till the end
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and you start again That's just the way of the world That's just the way of the world
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And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skittledy -dead -dum, skittledy -dead -dum,
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skittledy -dead -dum, skittledy -dead -dum, skittledy -dead -dum, skittledy -dead -dum,
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skittledy -dead -dum, skittledy -dead -dum, skittledy -dead -dum, skittledy -dead -dum,
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skittledy -dead -dum, Don't believe everything that you hear Let it go through your left
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and right ear Don't just march to the beat of
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that drum Don't be one of them people just twiddling their
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thumbs Cause that's just the way of the world It never ends till the end
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and then you start again That's just the way of the world That's just the way of the world
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And so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and
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so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and so they keep on twiddling their thumbs and so they keep on tw
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We're gonna keep on, twiddling them thumbs, skiddle -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led
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-led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led
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-led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led
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-led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led
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-led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led
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-led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led
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-led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led
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-led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led
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-led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led
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-led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led -led - No, no, no. We're gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
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kiddle -dee -dee -dust, dum -dum.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Sabrina Carpenter - Thumbs”. Las palabras que más se repiten: led, thumbs, dum, skittledy, dead. Este vídeo tiene 66 frases y 772 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:17. El hablante habla rápido, unas 235 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 82 % 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 10 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
thumb sustantivo/ˈθʌm/pulgar, pólice
dust sustantivo/dʌst/polvo
rob verbo/ɹɑb/robar
drum sustantivo/ˈdɹʌm/tambor
multiply verbo/ˈmʌltɪplaɪ/multiplicar, amochiguar
dumb verbo/dʌm/atontar
lady sustantivo/ˈleɪ.di/señora, dama
till/tɪl/hasta, hasta que
somebody/ˈsʌmˌbədi/alguien
somewhere adverbio/ˈsʌm.wɛɹ/en alguna parte, en algún lugar

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
get away verboalejarse
get up verbolevantarse
go through verboatravesar

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un plan o algo que se ve venirgonna keep
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasthey're working · aren't just working

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 15 contracciones y formas reducidas, como they're, gonna, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

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 thumb, dust, rob.

¿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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