Shadowing Practice: Santana's Acid Trip - Learn English Speaking with Video

Now, Carlos, I know you've told this story a million times, but I have to ask.

It's been reported that every time you look at your performance at Woodstock and the Woodstock documentary, you either flinch or avert your eyes.

Why?

What is it about that performance that makes you do that?

Well when we landed, we were in this helicopter and I never seen so many, it was like an ocean of hair and teeth and arms

and when we landed the first person that I saw was Jerry Garcia and he says, what time are you going to go on?

I said, apparently two bands after you and he goes, well they make yourself comfortable, it's like 12.30 in the afternoon,

we're not going to go on until like 1 in the morning.

And I go, oh, I guess we're going to go around 3 o'clock in the morning.

Yeah, in the meantime, you want some of this?

And I was like, sure.

You know, I just did the math between now.

Yeah, I'll be fine by then.

What was it?

It was acid.

It was LSD.

And so I went, and as soon as I took it,

it was like, everything became another dimension.

And then I see this phase coming and saying, if you don't play now, you're not going to play at all.

You need to go on right now.

And I'm like, oh my God.

okay, you know, I thought I had six, seven hours to recuperate from because, you know, it's kind of like a roller coaster.

You know, you go through this.

And so I said, okay, take a deep breath.

And I discovered a mantra back then without even knowing, God, please help me.

Help me to stay in tune and in time.

And I promise I'll never do this again.

Sure.

So I went up there and so when I started playing, of course, the guitar neck,

the neck and the guitar started wavering, you know, like a snake.

And I was like, oh, uh-oh.

So I just started making faces because I was trying to keep it tame, you know, I was trying to keep it from slithering all over the place.

When I first saw the movie, Jimi Hendrix lady took me to see it.

He had left that morning for Maui.

So she says, hey man, what are you doing?

I says, oh, you know, just got a day off.

Well, go unpack your stuff and come.

I want to take you to this movie.

What movie?

I says, what's that?

What's that?

They made a movie?

Yeah, wait till you see it.

We saw it last night with Jimmy and when you guys came on, you guys freaked him out.

I go, really?

He goes, he loves your energy, man.

He loves your performance and he's like,

so you know it's such a beautiful badge of honor that someone so imperial like Jimi Hendrix would dig our performance.

I feel really grateful because it takes a lot of courage to go in front of 550,000 people

at the peak of this mine expensive,

kind of like a shaman going through from, anyway.

Fortunately it was successful.

It was more than successful.

I mean, it was masterful.

I know you're a modest guy, but you stole the show.

I give the credit to God, man, because that's what I keep praying for.

Always, just like with diligence, please, please, please.

I trusted that my fingers knew where to go and what to do.

What I was calling up to make the connection was with my spirit and God, so that God would say,

okay, take a deep breath, take a deep breath, and I'm going to guide you, navigate through all this mind hallucination stuff.

Because, you know, it's, and then I began to really like it.

I used to do it here in New York a lot.

But I thought you promised God you wouldn't do it again.

You didn't keep your promise?

Well, I didn't do that specific acid.

You know, I took some other, like, a mezcal and any peyote and other kind of stuff.

Actually, nowadays, I don't think people are, maybe under supervision, I'm not endorsing it,

but I would say that even Cary Grant under supervision needed to, because when you take it, it's also like a snake shedding all beliefs.

You know, under supervision, it's actually very therapeutically healing for you.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Santana's Acid Trip”. Las palabras que más se repiten: performance, movie, supervision, breath, deep. Este vídeo tiene 69 frases y 748 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:43. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 159 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 82 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar. 12 de sus 69 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
flinch verbo	/ˈflɪnt͡ʃ/	estremecerse, reaccionar
hallucination sustantivo	/həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/	alucinación, ilusión
peyote sustantivo	/peɪˈjoʊti/	peyote, wokowi
recuperate verbo	/ɹɪˈk(j)uːpəˌɹeɪt/	recuperarse
shaman sustantivo	/ˈʃɑːmən/	chamán, chamana
slither verbo	/ˈslɪðɚ/	reptar, ratear
therapeutically adverbio	/ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk.li/	terapéuticamente
unpack verbo	/ʌnˈpæk/	desempacar, deshacer
mantra sustantivo	/ˈmɑn.tɹə/	mantra
diligence sustantivo	/ˈdɪlɪd͡ʒəns/	diligencia, esmero
tame verbo	/teɪm/	amansar, domar
endorse verbo	/ɪnˈdoɹs/	secundar, respaldar
navigate verbo	/ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/	navegar, singlar
coaster sustantivo	/ˈkoʊ̯s.tɚ/	costero
fortunately adverbio	/ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/	afortunadamente, dichosamente

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Significado
go around verbo	cundir
go through verbo	atravesar
go up verbo	subir

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

What is it about that performance that makes you do that?
I says, what's that?
You didn't keep your promise?

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 15 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, didn't, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “th”: slither /ˈslɪðɚ/, therapeutically /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk.li/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: supervision /ˌs(j)uːpəˈvɪʒən/, hallucination /həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/, shaman /ˈʃɑːmən/, dimension /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: supervision /ˌs(j)uːpəˈvɪʒən/, hallucination /həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/, recuperate /ɹɪˈk(j)uːpəˌɹeɪt/, therapeutically /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk.li/, fortunately /ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: supervision /ˌs(j)uːpəˈvɪʒən/, navigate /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/
/dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: diligence /ˈdɪlɪd͡ʒəns/, badge /bæd͡ʒ/
/h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: hallucination /həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/, heal /ˈhiːl/, helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/

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 flinch, hallucination, peyote.

¿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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