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One surprising thing about a good English accent, copying gets you there faster than studying.
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And shadowing is how you do that.
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You hear a native speaker and you copy everything.
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The sounds, the rhythm and the mouth movements.
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Today, I will show you how to shadow common but difficult English words in three different situations.
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Starting with this one.
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Making matcha is our morning ritual, and we're going to learn some English words while we do it.
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It's the same format as the last video.
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You watch and listen first.
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I'll narrate as we go.
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And then we'll rewind.
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And you will practice your shadowing.
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Now let's go to the kitchen and see what Chang is up to.
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Hello there.
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What are you up to?
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Chang is sieving the matcha powder with the sieve.
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Now she's pouring in the hot water.
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The temperature has to be just right.
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Chang, what's next?
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Time to whisk.
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Now she's whisking the matcha.
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Meanwhile, I'm putting these circular ice cubes into the glasses and pouring in the oat milk.
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Chang has just finished whisking.
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The matcha is silky and glossy.
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Silky is like smooth and glossy is like shiny.
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Oh, lovely.
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Look at that colour.
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Now, let's shadow some tricky words.
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Making matcha is our morning ritual.
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Chang is sieving the matcha powder with the sieve.
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Now, she's pouring in the hot water.
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The temperature has to be just right.
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The matcha is silky and glossy.
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Glossy is like smooth and glossy is like shiny.
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Good job.
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Three pronunciation notes.
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First, pay attention to the word sieve.
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It's spelled like believe but it's a short ih ih sound.
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It rhymes with give and live.
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Give me a sieve and I'll live forever.
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Secondly, ritual.
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It's a ch sound.
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The same ch as in nature, picture and furniture.
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Thirdly, temperature.
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The stress is on the first syllable, temp, temperature.
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It's the same pattern as the word literature, literature.
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Got it?
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Good.
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Now, speaking of temperature...
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This is our fridge.
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And on the fridge we have some very special souvenirs.
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We have photos, stickers and fridge magnets.
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Why are these souvenirs special?
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Well, they remind us of our trip in Korea five months ago.
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We went to Korea for my 30th birthday.
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We spent a week in Seoul where we ate the best croissants in our lives.
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Sorry, France.
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We also saw unreal views up at Namsan Tower.
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It was freezing though.
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Then we took a train to Busan.
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We stayed in a hotel by the beach.
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Our favourite spots in Busan were the cultural villages.
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The alleys were narrow and the streets were hilly.
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There was street art everywhere.
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We found a lovely souvenir shop and we bought some fridge magnets.
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This is our fridge.
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And on the fridge, we have some very special souvenirs.
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In Korea, we spent a week in Seoul.
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Where we ate the best croissants in our lives.
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The best croissants in our lives.
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Sorry, France.
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Then, we took a train to Busan.
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Where we stayed in a hotel by the beach.
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Our favorite spots in Busan were the cultural villages.
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We found a lovely souvenir shop on the coastline.
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And we bought some fridge magnets.
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three words to pay attention to here.
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The first one, croissant.
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It looks like croissant, but we say croissant, croissant.
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We borrowed that word from the French.
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Secondly, cultural, cultural.
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And just like ritual and temperature from earlier, that T U sound is a ch.
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Cultural, temperature, ritual.
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Ch.
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Can you hear it?
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Good.
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And the final word is souvenir.
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The stress is on the final syllable.
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Souvenir.
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Souvenir.
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It's the same pattern as the word engineer.
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Engineer.
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Souvenir.
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Engineer.
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And souvenir literally means memory in French.
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So I hope that sticks in your memory.
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I want you to pause this video now
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and tell me in the comments what sounds that you find difficult in the English language.
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If you comment below and let me know, then I can make a shadowing video on these sounds to help you become a pro at pro-annunciation.
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Let me know.
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Now, let's do some shadowing online.
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There's a new shadowing tool on Sprout I would love to show you guys.
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Let's get Chang to demonstrate.
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Ta-da!
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Let's do some shadowing.
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What topic should I choose?
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I'm going to choose AI and technology.
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Start shadowing.
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AI is a big part of our lives now.
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AI is a big part of our lives now.
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It's in our phones and computers.
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It's in our phones and computers.
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Things like smart assistants use AI.
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I need to slow it down.
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Things like smart assistants use AI.
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Things like smart assistants use AI.
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I want to translate this.
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Let you Vietnamese.
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New gadgets come out all the time.
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Now, back to Jay.
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If you're curious about this shadowing tool, I will leave a link in the description for anyone who wants to try.
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This is a dictionary and normally dictionaries are boring.
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But today I want to make this dictionary fun.
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I want to play a creative English speaking game to improve our English speaking.
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And there's a game that we invented called Memory Spark.
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How do you play?
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Open a random page and choose a random word.
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Trampoline.
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So what memory or story does trampoline spark for me?
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Well, I remember when I was five years old and we were staying at my parents friend's country house.
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I remember this big blue trampoline in their garden and I loved that trampoline.
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When we arrived I sprinted to the back door into the garden
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and leapt in the air but I didn't see the glass.
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I smashed my nose on the glass and it started bleeding.
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My excitement turned to tears but all was okay
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when my mum comforted me with a bag of frozen peas on my nose.
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By linking the new vocabulary to a memory or a story from your past,
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you are connecting it to an emotion, which means it's easier for you to remember that new word.
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It's also a way for you to practice your English speaking in a spontaneous way, which is how all conversation happens.
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Now, let's shadow my pornos story.
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I remember when I was five years old.
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I was staying at my parents' friends' country house.
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And they had a big blue trampoline outside.
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I was so excited to bounce that I sprinted towards the garden,
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but I didn't see the glass doors.
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So, I leapt in the air and I smashed into the glass.
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My nose started bleeding And my excitement turned to tears.
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But everything felt better when my mum put a bag of frozen peas on my nose.
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My poor nose.
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Pay attention to these three words.
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First, trampoline.
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Trampoline.
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Again, the stress is on the final syllable, the last sound.
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Trampoline.
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It's the same pattern as magazine.
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I read a magazine on the trampoline.
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Good.
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Second, lept.
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Lept is the past participle of leap in British English,
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and it's the same pattern as sleep and slept or dream and dreamt.
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The third word, smashed.
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Tt, smashed.
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a t-t sound at the end, and that follows the same pattern as words like wished,
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washed, walked, and talked.
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What's that I can smell?
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What's that I can hear?
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Huh, are you improving at English?
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I think you might be.
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In this video, we shadowed vocabulary from three different situations.
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First, through actions, we made matcha.
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Second, through a story, where I talked about my travels in Korea.
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And lastly, through a creative speaking game where we learned to tie words to memories and emotions to remember them more easily.
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And now I have a question for you.
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Can you tell me in the comments what sounds are difficult for you in English?
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What words do you find difficult to pronounce?
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If you let me know, then I'll make a video to help you.
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so you can become a pro at pronunciation.
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Thank you, have a great day, and peace.

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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 Practice to Fix Your English Pronunciation”. Las palabras que más se repiten: word, souvenir, English, trampoline, sound. Este vídeo tiene 178 frases y 1342 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 15:41. El hablante habla despacio, unas 86 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. Solo el 77 % 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 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
souvenir sustantivo/ˈsu.vəˌnɪɹ/recuerdo, tornaviaje
trampoline sustantivo/ˌtɹæmpəˈliːn/cama elástica, brincolín
matcha sustantivo/ˈmɑ.t͡ʃə/matcha
croissant sustantivo/kɹəˈsɑnt/croissant, cruasán
sieve sustantivo/sɪv/cedazo, criba
glossy adjetivo/ˈɡlɔsi/brillante, lustroso
leap verbo/ˈliːp/saltar, brincar
ritual sustantivo/ˈɹɪt͡ʃ.u.əl/ritual
smash verbo/smæʃ/estrellar, destrozar
silky adjetivo/ˈsɪlki/sedoso
syllable sustantivo/ˈsɪl.ə.bəl/sílaba
whisk sustantivo/ˈwɪsk/barrido
magnet sustantivo/ˈmæɡ.nɪt/imán
distress sustantivo/dɪˈstɹɛs/distrés, distress
dictionary sustantivo/ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/diccionario, tumbaburros

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
come out verbo/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/revelarse, salir a la luz

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • What are you up to?
  • What topic should I choose?
  • What's that I can smell?
  • What's that I can hear?
  • What words do you find difficult to pronounce?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Oraciones condicionales if + oración, will/would + verbo — una condición y su resultadoIf you let me know, then I'll make
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosaanyone who wants · emotion, which means · way, which is
Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbos seguidos de la forma en -ingfinished whisking · Start shadowing · started bleeding
Superlativos the -est / the most … — lo más alto o lo más bajo de un grupothe best

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 10 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'll, didn't, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: thirdly /ˈθɚdli/, rhythm /ˈɹɪð.əm/
  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: smash /smæʃ/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, participle /ˈpɑɹtɪˌsɪpəl/, spontaneous /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: smash /smæʃ/, sprint /spɹɪnt/, spark /ˈspɑɹk/, sticker /ˈstɪkə/, spontaneous /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: souvenir /ˈsu.vəˌnɪɹ/, sieve /sɪv/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, invent /ɪnˈvɛnt/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: freeze /ˈfɹiːz/, translate /tɹænzˈleɪt/, pause /pɔːz/

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 souvenir, trampoline, matcha.

¿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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