Shadowing Practice: Slow English - WINTER ❄️ A1 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hello everyone and welcome to English Cozy Chat,
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a slow English podcast which helps you to learn English in a fun and natural way.
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This episode is for beginner English learners.
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My name is Maria, and today we're going to talk about why I love winter.
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I love winter for many reasons.
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Winter, where I live, is the coldest season of the year.
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In winter, I like to wear warm clothes.
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When it's cold, I wear jeans,
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a sweater, a hat, gloves, and a coat.
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Wearing my winter clothes makes me feel warm and cozy.
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At night, it also gets very cold during the winter.
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I sleep with a big blanket.
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In the morning, sometimes I don't want to get out of bed
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because I feel so warm and cozy and the air is cold.
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Many places are very snowy and icy during the winter.
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Where I live, it's cold, but there is no snow.
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Many days, it is cold, but it is still sunny
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and nice outside i wish it would snow though
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because i love the snow does it snow where you live Do you like the snow?
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Sometimes in winter, we drive to the mountains in Spain.
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These mountains are called the Pyrenees.
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It snows there every winter her.
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When we go to the mountains, I like to ski.
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I think skiing is fun.
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I used to snowboard snowboarding is also fun skiing
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and snowboarding are hard to learn you must practice a lot
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but when you learn skiing and snowboarding is very fun I like skiing with friends
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My favorite part of skiing with friends is drinking hot chocolate afterwards.
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I also like sledding.
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Sledding is when you sit on a sled and go down a hill.
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A sled is like a small seat that you sit on and use to go down the mountains.
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Sometimes you go very fast.
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You go fast when the hill is steep.
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And after you go down,
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you have to walk back up the mountain with your sled.
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Sometimes this can be very tiring sharing.
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When you reach the top of the mountain, You sled back down again.
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When I was a little girl,
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I lived in a place where it snowed in the winter. When it snowed,
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they canceled school so we did not have school
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when it snowed when it snowed we would stay home at our house
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and go sledding it was always very fun do you like to sled
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or do you like to ski or snowboard?
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When it's cold, I like to stay inside where it's nice and warm.
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Sometimes we build a fire in my fireplace.
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I love the smell of the wood burning in the fireplace.
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The smell and the heat makes me feel warm and cozy.
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My favorite time of year to cook is winter.
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I like making soups and stews.
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Stews are like a thick soup that has meat and vegetables and potatoes.
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I also love to bake things in the oven during the winter.
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I love how it fills my kitchen with warm heat and the smell of good food.
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I love to bake chicken,
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fish, pasta dishes, and also pastries.
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Sometimes I make cookies, and other times I make cakes.
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The smell of the food baking in the oven or cooking on the stove when it's cold outside makes me really happy.
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Do you like to cook?
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What kind of dishes do you like to make in the winter?
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The days are also shorter in winter.
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It gets dark very early.
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I like it when it gets dark early because I like to stay inside and read,
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listen to music, watch TV,
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or just spend time with my family.
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In the summer, I like spending lots of time outside when it's warm and sunny and the days are long.
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But in the winter, I like to spend more time inside.
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I like both winter and summer for different reasons.
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which one do you like more winter
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or summer what do you like about winter is it cold where you are in winter
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or is it warm thank you all so much for watching I hope you all enjoyed this video
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please let me know if you enjoyed it i hope you all have a wonderful day
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and i cannot wait to see you in the next episode bye

El escenario: Una charla acogedora sobre el invierno

En el video, Maria comparte sus razones para amar el invierno en un tono relajado y lento, ideal para principiantes. Habla de ropa cálida, actividades en la nieve, cocinar guisos y el confort de estar en casa. Este escenario refleja situaciones cotidianas donde puedes hablar de temporadas, gustos y rutinas, lo que lo hace perfecto para practicar inglés hablado en contextos reales.

Trozos útiles y colocaciones para memorizar

Aprende estas frases naturales que se usan constantemente al hablar de invierno:

  • "Warm and cozy": Se traduce como "cálido y acogedor" y describe la sensación de confort en climas fríos. Ejemplo: "Wearing my winter clothes makes me feel warm and cozy".
  • "Build a fire in the fireplace": "Hacer una fogata en la chimenea". Una actividad típica en invierno. Maria dice: "Sometimes we build a fire in my fireplace".
  • "Cancel school": "Cancelar clases". En lugares con nieve, es común escuchar: "When it snowed, they canceled school".
  • "Thick soup": "Sopa espesa". Se usa para describir guisos: "Stews are like a thick soup that has meat and vegetables".

Tu reto de shadowing: Repite y imita

El shadowing es una técnica excelente para mejorar la pronunciación en inglés y la fluidez. Aquí tienes tu tarea: reproduce el video, deténlo cada 5 segundos y repite en voz alta lo que dice Maria, imitando su tono y velocidad. Presta atención a frases como "I love the smell of the wood burning" o "Skiing and snowboarding are hard to learn". Practica 5 minutos al día: este sitio de shadowing te ayudará a internalizar el ritmo del inglés hablado. Recuerda, la clave es la constancia: cada repetición te acerca a una pronunciación más natural. ¿Listo? ¡Empieza ahora y verás cómo mejora tu inglés en poco tiempo!

Con videos como este, aprender inglés se convierte en una experiencia divertida. Usa el shadowing como herramienta y disfruta de cada paso: ¡tú puedes!

¿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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