Shadowing Practice: SHADOWING + Speaking Practice = English Fluecy Training - Learn English Speaking with Video

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All right, welcome back English practicer. How you  feeling today? You having a good day? I hope so.
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Let's practice some English. We're going to  read a text. We're going to practice speaking.
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Try to repeat after me. Say the vocabulary and  phrases that you want to remember. Shadow me if you can. Just work on your fluency.  All right, let's jump into the text.
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to find meaning and stability in our lives.
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To find meaning and stability in our lives. That  is in other words to feel that life has purpose and is not constantly changing  in a scary way. So the stability is you know to feel like it's not constantly  changing in a scary way. That's stability.
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So that is to feel that life has purpose and  is not constantly changing in a scary way.
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There's a deep psychological truth  we need to face in order to find meaning and stability in our lives. There's  a deep psychological truth we need to face.
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What is to face? If you face something, you  confront it. You deal with it. You face it.
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We have to believe that something is  more important than just ourselves.
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So in order to find meaning  and stability in our lives, we have to believe that something is  more important than just ourselves.
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In other words, we need to feel connected  to a purpose or cause that is bigger than our own individual wants and needs. I'm  going to say that again. In other words, we need to feel connected to a purpose or cause that  is bigger than our own individual wants and needs.
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This always requires a leap of faith, which means  making a choice to trust or believe in something even when we don't have  complete proof or certainty.
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So, a leap of faith, what's a leap of faith?  That's making a choice to trust or believe in something even when we don't have complete proof  or certainty. We always want proof. We always want certainty, but we can't always have it. In those  situations, you need to take a leap of faith.
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Whether it's religion, belief in God, or  something spiritual, family, close relationships, or a career. Each of us eventually reaches a  moment where we have to make a real commitment.
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Each of us eventually reaches a moment  where we have to make a real commitment.
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You got to make a real commitment at some point.
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A commitment is a serious promise to ourselves  or to others that we will stay with something.
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Stay. If you stay with something, you keep doing  it. You keep trying. even when it's difficult.
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All right, I'm going to say that again. A  commitment is a serious pro promise to ourselves or to others that we will stay with something  and keep trying even when it's difficult.
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Often we have to make this promise without knowing  for sure if it's the perfect or right choice.
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Often we have to make this promise without  knowing for sure. Without knowing for sure if it's the perfect or right choice, air quotes right choice. There is no such thing  as right choice maybe. So that's why right choice.
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Okay. That's where faith becomes so important.  That's where faith becomes so important.
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By faith, we don't only mean religious belief.
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It's not just about religious belief. We don't  only mean religious belief. It can be that, but we also mean the willingness to trust that  our choices can lead to something meaningful.
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We also mean the willingness to trust that  our choices can lead to something meaningful.
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Even when the future is uncertain or confusing.  Even when the future is uncertain or confusing.
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In this sense, faith is part of  every important decision we make.
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In this sense, faith is part of  every important decision we make.
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In the end, nothing in life is completely secular.
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Secular. Do you know this word that it  means totally separate from belief or deeper values? So if something's separate  from religion, usually we say it's secular.
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So in the end, nothing in  life is completely secular, meaning totally separate  from belief or deeper values.
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All of our commitments, whether to people, work,  or ideas, are in their own way acts of faith.
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All of our commitments are acts of faith.  All of our commitments, whether to people, work, or ideas, are in  their own way acts of faith.
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We decide to care, to invest our time and energy and to keep going even though we can  never be 100% sure of the outcome.
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We can never know what the result will be. Even  though we can never be 100% sure of the outcome.
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But we decide to care to  invest our time and energy and to keep going even though we can  never be 100% sure of the outcome.
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That quiet act of trusting and continuing is what gives our life structure,  direction and a sense of real meaning.
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So what gives your life structure? What gives  your life direction? What gives your life a sense of real meaning? That quiet act of trusting and  continuing is what gives our lives structure, direction and a sense of real meaning. All  right, that's the text. Remember this is a English speaking practice. Sometimes you guys  judge me on the text and not on the practice.
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So, I had to remind you just now we are practicing  English and now we are going to practice shadowing nonstop. We're going to say the text. Let's  say it together. I'll keep a nice pace for you to follow along and say it with  me. Are you ready? Here we go.
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to find meaning and stability in our lives.  That is to feel that life has purpose and is not constantly changing in a scary way. There's  a deep psychological truth we need to face.
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We have to believe that something is more  important than just ourselves. In other words, we need to feel connected to a purpose or cause that  is bigger than our own individual wants and needs.
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This always requires a leap of  faith, which means making a choice to trust or believe in something even when  we don't have complete proof or certainty.
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Whether it's religion, something spiritual,  family, close relationships, or a career, each of us eventually reaches a moment  where we have to make a real commitment.
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A commitment is a serious  promise to ourselves or to others that we will stay with something and  keep trying even when it's difficult.
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Often we have to make this promise without knowing  for sure if it's the perfect or right choice.
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That's where faith becomes so important. By  faith, we don't only mean religious belief.
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We also mean the willingness to trust that  our choices can lead to something meaningful.
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Even when the future is uncertain or confusing.
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In this sense, faith is part of every  important decision we make. In the end, nothing in life is completely secular, meaning  totally separate from belief or deeper values.
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All of our commitments, whether to people, work,  or ideas, are in their own way acts of faith.
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We decide to care, to invest our  time and energy, and to keep going even though we can never be 100% sure of  the outcome. That quiet act of trusting and continuing is what gives our lives structure,  direction, and a sense of real meaning.
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Boom. Good workout. Way to go. Way to exercise  those English speaking muscles with me again today. Keep moving forward one step at a time.  I'll see you in the next English speaking practice

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “SHADOWING + Speaking Practice = English Fluecy Training”. Las palabras que más se repiten: faith, choice, commitment, meaning, belief. Este vídeo tiene 52 frases y 1269 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 11:53. El hablante habla despacio, unas 107 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 88 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir. 9 de sus 52 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
leap verbo/ˈliːp/saltar, brincar
secular adjetivo/ˈsɛkjʊlə/seglar, laico
certainty sustantivo/ˈsɝtn̩ti/certeza, certitud
confuse verbo/kənˈfjuːz/confundir, barahustar
willingness sustantivo/ˈwɪlɪŋnəs/voluntariedad, alacridad
uncertain adjetivo/ʌnˈsɜɹ.tən/incierto, poco certero
meaningful adjetivo/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/significativo
fluency sustantivo/ˈfluːənsi/fluidez, fluencia
practiser sustantivopracticante, practicador
confront verbo/kənˈfɹʌnt/enfrentar, confrontar
vocabulary sustantivo/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/vocabulario
workout sustantivo/ˈwɝk.aʊ̯t/entrenamiento

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
move forward verboir adelante, adelantar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • How you  feeling today?
  • You having a good day?
  • We're going to  read a text.
  • What gives  your life direction?
  • What gives your life a sense of real meaning?

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 14 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, we're, I'll. 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. 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 leap, secular, certainty.

¿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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