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In this video, we'll do a shadowing practice using a TED Talk to improve your English speaking.
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Repeat three times.
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When I was in high school, when I was in high school, when I was in high school,
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my mom asked me to order a pizza for the family on a Friday night.
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My mom asked me to order a pizza for the family on a Friday night.
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My mom asked me to order a pizza for the family on a Friday night.
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I looked up the phone number in the phone book.
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I looked up the phone number in the phone book.
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I looked up the phone number in the phone book.
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And promptly handed the phone to my older brother to me.
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I promptly handed the phone to my older brother to place the call.
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I was too shy to talk to a stranger. To place the call.
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I was too shy to talk to a stranger. To place the call.
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I was too shy to talk to a stranger.
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Fast forward to college at the University of Illinois.
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Fast forward to college at the University of Illinois.
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Fast forward to college at the University of Illinois.
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My first time away from my small town.
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My first time away from my small town.
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My first time away from my small town.
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I spent the first several weeks crying in my dorm room.
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I spent the first several weeks crying in my dorm room.
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I spent the first several weeks crying in my dorm room.
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Two homesick partake in early freshman partying partying.
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Two homesick partake in early freshman partying.
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Two homesick partake in early freshman partying.
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The one frat party I did attend was so disappointing.
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The one frat party I did attend was so disappointing the one frat party I did attend was so disappointing
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I wanted to trade in my books abandoned my major and head back home to my small town
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I wanted to trade in my books abandoned my major and head back home to my small town.
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I wanted to trade in my books, abandon my major, and head back home to my small town.
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The confident behaviors I needed to pursue this dream,
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the confident behaviors I needed to pursue this dream,
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the confident behaviors I needed to pursue this dream were not yet available.
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And when I looked around were not yet available.
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And when I looked around, we're not yet available.
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And when I looked around, at the confident students walking around me around campus.
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At the confident students walking around me around campus.
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at the confident students walking around me around campus.
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Heads held high pursuing a dream that they had set out to achieve.
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Heads held high pursuing a dream that they had set out to achieve.
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Heads held high pursuing a dream that they had set out to achieve.
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I wanted that kind of confidence too.
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I wanted that kind of confidence too.
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I wanted that kind of confidence too.
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But my behaviors did not align with these confident attitudes.
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but my behaviors did not align with these confident attitudes but my behaviors did not align with these confident attitudes
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crying in my dorm room shying away from social engagement Crying in my dorm room,
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shying away from social engagement.
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Crying in my dorm room, shying away from social engagement
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Not showing up for class
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because I was worried others were smarter than me Not showing up for class
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because I was worried others were smarter than me Not showing up for class
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because I was worried others were smarter than me Quick vocab time Abandon Meaning
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To leave something and not continue it anymore For example I wanted to trade in my books, abandon my major, and head back home to my small town Pursue
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Meaning To try to achieve or follow something you really want For example Heads held high,
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pursuing a dream that they had set out to achieve.
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Now shadow without pausing.
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When I was in high school, my mom asked me to order a pizza for the family on a Friday night.
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I looked up the phone number in the phone book
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and promptly handed the phone to my older brother to place the call.
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I was too shy to talk to a stranger.
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Fast forward to college at the University of Illinois, my first time away from my small town.
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I spent the first several weeks crying in my dorm room, too homesick, partaking early freshman partying.
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The one frat party I did attend was so disappointing, I wanted to trade in my books, abandon my major, and head back home to my small town.
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The confident behaviors I needed to pursue this dream were not yet available.
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And when I looked around at the confident students walking around me around campus, heads held high, pursuing a dream that they had set out to achieve,
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I wanted that kind of confidence too.
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But my behaviors did not align with these confident attitudes.
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Crying in my dorm room, shying away from social engagement, not showing up for class because I was worried others were smarter than me.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Shadowing English with TED Talk”. Las palabras que más se repiten: confident, dream, town, dorm, behaviors. Este vídeo tiene 73 frases y 879 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 8:17. El hablante habla despacio, unas 106 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. Solo el 80 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 12 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
pursue verbo/pɚˈsu/perseguir
dormitory sustantivo/ˈdɔɹ.mɪˌtɔɹ.i/dormitorio
abandon verbo/əˈbæn.dən/renunciar, suspender
partake verbo/pɑɹˈteɪk/participar
align verbo/əˈlaɪn/alinearse, alinear
disappoint verbo/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt/decepcionar, desilusionar
freshman sustantivo/ˈfɹɛʃ.mən/novato, mechón
shy adjetivo/ʃaɪ/tímido, vergonzoso
engagement sustantivo/ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ.mənt/engagement
promptly adverbio/ˈpɹɑmptli/inmediatamente, rápidamente
pause sustantivo/pɔːz/pausa
subscribe verbo/səbˈskɹaɪb/suscribirse, subscribirse

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
look up verbo/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/mejorar
walk around verbodeambular

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Comparativos -er than / more … than — comparar dos cosassmarter than
Obligación: must / have to / need to decir que algo es necesarioneeded to pursue

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: freshman /ˈfɹɛʃ.mən/, shy /ʃaɪ/

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 pursue, dormitory, abandon.

¿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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