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Hello everyone and welcome back to English Cozy Chat,
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where we have easy chats about all kinds of fun topics.
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Today we are going to talk about the change of seasons.
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The seasons are summer, fall, winter, and spring.
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And right now where I live, we are changing from summer to fall.
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We only have about two weeks left until we begin fall.
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I say fall more because I am from the United States.
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In the United Kingdom, they use autumn more frequently,
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but some people in the U .S also like to say autumn,
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but it means the same thing.
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So where I live, it is starting to feel like fall and honestly I am so excited about it.
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I always love summer so much but I'm also always ready for summer to be over.
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Now the days are starting to become slightly cooler especially in the morning
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and at night
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and after a really long summer of very hot days it really feels good to feel
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that nice fresh crisp air on your body.
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Sometimes the mornings are even a little bit foggy and I just think it feels very peaceful.
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After the long summer of wearing bathing suits and lighter clothing,
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something feels really good about putting on a jacket or putting on your blue jeans for the first time. For me,
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I love that cozy feeling of wearing sweaters and sweatshirts
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and warm cozy clothes and I always look forward to that whenever the seasons change.
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One of the main things that I look forward to in fall is the food.
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I have been looking forward to fall food now for about a month.
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During the summer, I cook very light meals.
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I eat a lot of salads and cold dishes and things
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that are very simple and easy to prepare that are nice and fresh.
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For example, raw vegetables or lots of hummus,
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guacamole, fruit, smoothies, things like that I always really crave nice, cool,
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fresh food.
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And in the colder months,
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I really enjoy making heartier, heavier, cozier food.
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Soups and stews are my absolute favorite.
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I love to make different kinds of soup such as lentil soup,
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vegetable soup, butternut squash soup.
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I like trying all kinds of new recipes and I also really love making stews.
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A stew is a soup but much heavier
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so people tend to put ingredients that are heavier and heartier in stews.
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In the summer I barely turn on my oven because it makes my kitchen so hot.
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So I really enjoy the first times,
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especially that I turn on my oven.
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I love to roast vegetables and potatoes and make other kinds of baked goods.
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I love the smell that fills my kitchen when I roast or bake something in the oven.
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And I roast or bake something in the oven almost every day during the colder months.
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I realized the other day that I had not even chopped an onion in a few months during this summer.
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I'm not sure why, but I'm always looking for easier dishes during the summer.
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But during the colder months, I like spending more time in the kitchen.
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I also feel hungrier in the fall and in the colder months.
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People say that you're hungrier in the colder months so that you put on more fat and stay warmer.
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I'm not sure if that's true,
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but my body always definitely wants more food whenever it's cold.
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I also love to make hot drinks during the colder months.
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I drink coffee year -round.
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Coffee is very important to me,
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but I also like making different kinds of hot drinks during the fall.
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My favorite is golden milk,
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which is a mix of soy and almond milk with turmeric and ginger and black pepper and cinnamon.
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This tastes so warm and I swear it feels like it warms my soul.
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Fall is also beautiful because of all of the beautiful colors that it has.
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In fall, the leaves start to turn orange and red and brown and yep,
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they fall to the ground, which we all know.
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This makes everything look very pretty.
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I love the way it sounds when I walk across dry leaves and it makes a nice crunchy sound.
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Where I used to live in North Carolina in the United States,
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it is known for being very beautiful in the fall.
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The leaves turn really bright orange and red and yellow,
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and it can be absolutely breathtaking.
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People drive a long way just so they can see the leaves.
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In Spain, it is also very pretty, but nothing like it was in North Carolina.
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In the fall, the days also start to get shorter.
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And there are many people who don't like this,
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but I personally kind of do like it.
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I do like that there is a change in the year.
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In the summer, days are long.
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And in the winter, they are very short.
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But I really appreciate when it starts to get darker sooner because it just gives me an excuse to stay home.
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It just feels really nice and cozy at home whenever it's cold outside,
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to be on the couch with a blanket, maybe you light a candle.
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For me, this is just a really nice atmosphere, which I really appreciate.
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But to be completely honest, when the winter season is over, I'm always very ready for the days to get longer.
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There are also lots of very fun activities that people like to do in the fall, depending on where you live.
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Lots of people like to go apple picking or go to a pumpkin patch.
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I know I always really enjoyed picking out a pumpkin whenever I was young and carving it.
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This is just something that is very fun and seasonal, especially for children.
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Lots of people like to bake apple pies or also cook with pumpkin and use these nice flavors like cinnamon and nutmeg.
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I know I have been reading a book to my kids about apples and apple pie recently,
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and they've been asking me every day to make apple pie,
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and I think we might make one this weekend.
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Sports are also very important in the fall.
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American football is a very popular sport in the United States,
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and I personally love American football,
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and for me, it's really not fall unless I have American football on the TV a couple times of the week.
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And in Spain, of course, soccer is always exciting.
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And I also like watching soccer during the fall.
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For me, fall is the start of the holiday season and I think that is so exciting.
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First there is Halloween which is such a great holiday
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and I will have to do an episode only on that one along with Thanksgiving.
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Both of these holidays are so much fun and a great way to celebrate the season.
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I am very lucky that I have great opportunities to celebrate both Halloween and Thanksgiving,
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even though I live in Spain.
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Where I live, Halloween is actually a very fun event and everyone gets into it.
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And on Thanksgiving, I like to have a party at my house where I invite other American families
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so we can celebrate all together.
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In Spain, where I live, there are also some very typical foods which are really delicious in the fall.
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One of them is roasted chestnuts.
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They roast the chestnuts in the street and they give them to people in a cone of newspaper.
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So whenever you hold those chestnuts, they warm up your hand and it feels so cozy.
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They are also super soft, slightly sweet, and delicious.
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They also roast sweet potatoes.
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This is my favorite way to eat sweet potatoes is whenever they are roasted whole they caramelize
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and get very sweet and I think they taste so delicious.
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So the change of season summer to fall is definitely my favorite change of season in the whole year.
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I would really love to know what's your favorite change of season or what do you like about fall?
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What is fall like where you live?
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Thank you so much for watching and I can't wait to see you in the next episode.
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Bye!

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Slow English Podcast - Fall🍂A2-B1 Listening Practice”. Las palabras que más se repiten: fall, summer, month, colder, soup. Este vídeo tiene 115 frases y 1379 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 14:44. El hablante habla despacio, unas 94 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 83 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
roast verbo/ɹoʊst/asar, rostir
soup sustantivo/sup/sopa, caldo
leaf sustantivo/lif/hoja, foja (desus.)
oven sustantivo/ˈʌ.vn̩/horno
bake verbo/beɪk/hornear, enhornar
delicious adjetivo/dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/delicioso, sabroso
potato sustantivo/pəˈteɪ.təʊ/patata, papa
vegetable sustantivo/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/verdura, legumbre
pumpkin sustantivo/ˈpʌm(p).kɪn/calabaza, calabazera
soccer sustantivo/ˈsɑk.ɚ/fútbol, futbol
hungry adjetivo/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/hambriento, tener hambre
autumn sustantivo/ˈɔtəm/otoño, otoñada
dish sustantivo/dɪʃ/vajilla
cinnamon sustantivo/ˈsɪnəmən/canelo
topic sustantivo/ˈtɑpɪk/tema, tópico

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
look forward to verbono ver la hora de, quedar a la espera de

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — una acción que empezó antes y continúahave been looking · have been reading · they've been asking
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo haceis known · is roasted · are roasted
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosapeople who don · Halloween which is · foods which are
Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbos seguidos de la forma en -ingenjoy making · love making · enjoyed picking

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 9 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, can't, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, bath /bɑːθ/, cloth /klɒθ/, breathtaking /ˈbɹɛθˌteɪ.kɪŋ/, smoothie /ˈsmuːði/
  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, dish /dɪʃ/, squash /skwɔʃ/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, caramelize /ˈkaɹ(ə)məlʌɪz/, guacamole /ˌɡwɑ.kəˈmol.i/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: sweater /ˈswɛtɚ/, squash /skwɔʃ/, stew /stu/, smoothie /ˈsmuːði/, sweatshirt /ˈswɛtʃəːt/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: oven /ˈʌ.vn̩/, vegetable /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/, invite /ɪnˈvaɪt/, flavor /ˈfleɪvə/, carving /ˈkɑɹvɪŋ/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: jeans /d͡ʒiːnz/, seasonal /ˈsiːzənəl/, cosy /ˈkoʊzi/, caramelize /ˈkaɹ(ə)məlʌɪz/

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 roast, soup, leaf.

¿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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