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Saving money.
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The importance of learning to save.
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Why is saving money so important?
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There are three important benefits of saving money.
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First, it provides security for unexpected events.
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Second, it prepares people to make large purchases,
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and third, it creates a secure retirement.
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When it comes to savings,
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everybody should be saving for emergencies.
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Everybody should have emergency savings.
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It should be a priority.
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Everybody should have it, and everybody will need it.
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What is emergency savings?
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It is money saved for an emergency.
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It's money saved for unexpected expenses,
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an illness, or perhaps a loss of a job.
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It is recommended that we all have at least six months of living expenses saved.
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Unfortunately, most Americans don't have an emergency savings.
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In fact, most people are living paycheck to paycheck.
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50% of Americans can't cover a $500 unexpected expense,
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and 45% of Americans have no savings.
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The second reason you should be saving is for those large and needed purchases.
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Having savings makes buying big ticket items easier and cheaper.
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You're able to buy these needed items with cash instead of borrowing.
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Using credit, which is borrowing,
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to buy items is not a good idea.
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Credit is expensive, more so it keeps you from saving.
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In fact, one of the reasons why many Americans are struggling to save is because of credit card debt.
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According to Experian, the average American has over $6,000 in credit card debt.
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The third reason why you should be saving is for retirement.
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You may not think about it now because you're young,
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but eventually we'll all hit that age where we'll need to retire.
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And if you're going to survive,
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you need to have savings.
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What about Social Security as retirement?
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Be careful.
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You can't depend on it,
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and it will not be enough to survive.
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The average benefit a person receives from Social Security is $1,200.
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Though saving for retirement is critically important,
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most Americans are not doing so.
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52% of households over 55 have zero save for retirement.
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Unfortunately, America is facing a savings crisis.
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Most Americans over the last decade have not been saving enough.
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Don't fall in that trap.
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It's important for your financial security and stability to begin saving.
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Now that you've learned the importance of saving,
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the next step is to learn the strategies to help you save,
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to help you save for your future and your security.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “Saving Money - Why it is Important to Save Money”. Las palabras que más se repiten: saving, retirement, save, security, emergency. Este vídeo tiene 50 frases y 396 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:55. El hablante habla despacio, unas 101 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 89 % 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 11 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
expense sustantivo/ɪkˈspɛns/gasto, dispendio
unexpected adjetivo/ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd/inesperado, inopinado
household adjetivo/ˈhaʊshoʊld/casero, hogareño
illness sustantivo/ˈɪl.nəs/enfermedad
priority sustantivo/pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/prioridad
trap sustantivo/tɹæp/trampa, cepo
stability sustantivo/stəˈbɪlɪti/estabilidad
depend verbo/dɪˈpɛnd/depender/pender (de), ser dependiente (de)
retire verbo/ɹəˈtaɪɹ/jubilar
critically adverbio/ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kə.li/críticamente
paycheck sustantivo/ˈpeɪ.t͡ʃɛk/cheque de pago, cheque salarial

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

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

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: unexpected /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd/, priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, stability /stəˈbɪlɪti/, critically /ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kə.li/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como expense, unexpected, household.

¿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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