Shadowing Practice: Shorts - Edinburgh Castle - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland.
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It is a very beautiful old city.
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About 400,000 people live in the city and 6 million people visit every year.
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Every year in August there is a festival in the city with a lot of theatre, music, dance and comedy.
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The original city was built on the Royal Mile.
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This is a street in Edinburgh's old town.
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The Royal Mile is about 1.6 kilometres long.
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It starts at Holyrood Palace and finishes at Edinburgh Castle.
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It is called the Royal Mile because it connects two royal homes.
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The castle is nearly a thousand years old.
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It stands on an enormous piece of volcanic rock and it looks down on the rest of the city.
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King David I of Scotland was the first king who built on the rock in about 1130.
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He built this chapel and named it Queen Mary's Chapel, after his mother.
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For the next 300 years, the castle was at the centre of wars between England and Scotland.
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In the 15th century, the castle became the home of the King of Scotland.
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Each new king added to the castle.
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In 1511, James IV built the Great Hall.
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In the 16th century, James VI added extra defences to the castle entrance.
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In the 18th century, Scotland officially became part part of the United Kingdom.
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The last battle at the castle was in 1745 when Prince Charles Edward Stuart, who was nicknamed Bonnie Prince Charlie,
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tried to capture the castle.
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In the early 19th century, the castle was a prison, but it is now a tourist attraction.
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About one and a quarter million people visit the castle every year.
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They come to see the buildings and to hear the stories.
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They also come to see and hear the one o'clock gun.
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Soldiers fire this every day at exactly one o'clock.
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But they really come for the views of the city of Edinburgh.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel A2 se basa en el vídeo “Shorts - Edinburgh Castle”. Las palabras que más se repiten: castle, Scotland, royal, century, built. Este vídeo tiene 27 frases y 314 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:38. El hablante habla despacio, unas 86 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 84 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
11 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| castle sustantivo | /ˈkɑːsəl/ | castillo, castro |
| chapel sustantivo | /ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/ | capilla |
| capture verbo | /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/ | capturar |
| entrance sustantivo | /ˈɛn.tɹəns/ | entrada |
| connect verbo | /kəˈnɛkt/ | conectar, empalmar |
| enormous adjetivo | /ɪˈnɔː.məs/ | enorme, ingente |
| attraction sustantivo | /əˈtɹækʃn̩/ | atracción |
| nickname sustantivo | /ˈnɪkneɪm/ | apodo, mote |
| volcanic adjetivo | /vɔlˈkænɪk/ | volcánico |
| kilometre sustantivo | /kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/ | kilómetro, quilómetro |
| officially adverbio | /əˈfɪʃ.(ə.)li/ | oficialmente |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| look down on verbo | menospreciar, ningunear |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, attraction /əˈtɹækʃn̩/, officially /əˈfɪʃ.(ə.)li/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: kilometre /kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/, officially /əˈfɪʃ.(ə.)li/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como castle, chapel, capture.
¿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.