Shadowing Practice: Speak English Like Michael Scott! ☕️ | The Office Shadowing Practice - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Yes, it is true.
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I, Michael Scott, am signing up with an online dating service.
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Thousands of people have done it, and I am going to do it.
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I need a username, and I have a great one.
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Little kid lover.
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That way people will know exactly where my priorities are at.
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Yes, it is true.
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I, Michael Scott, am signing up with an online dating service.
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Thousands of people have done it, and I'm going to do it.
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I need a username.
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And I have a great one.
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Little kid lover.
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That way people will know exactly where my priorities are at.
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Once I brought in a duck to prepare for lunch, and people got upset.
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Apparently they got attached to the duck and didn't want to see it killed.
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I brought in a duck to prepare for lunch, And people got upset.
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Apparently they got attached to the duck and didn't want to see it killed.
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He always gives me the best Christmas gifts.
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He'll take a memory or a private joke and he'll create something totally unique.
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I love them.
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So this year I made him something.
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A comic book.
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He always gives me the best Christmas gifts.
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He'll take a memory or a private joke and he'll create something totally unique.
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I love them.
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So this year I made him something.
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A comic book.
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Jim and I are great friends.
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We hang out a ton, mostly at work.
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But the fact that he told me his secret and no one else says everything about our friendship.
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And it is why I intend on keeping that secret for as long as I possibly can.
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Jim and I are great friends.
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We hang out a ton, mostly at work.
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But the fact that he told me his secret and no one else says everything about our friendship.
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And it is why I intend on keeping that secret for as long as I possibly can.
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What is it like being single?
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I like it.
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I like starting each day with a sense of possibility.
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And I'm optimistic because every day I get a little more desperate.
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And desperate situations yield the quickest result.
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What is it like being single?
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I like it.
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I like starting each day with a sense of possibility.
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And I'm optimistic because every day I get a little more desperate.
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And desperate situations yield the quickest results.
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Oh, yes, hello, how are you?
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Good to see you.
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Wow, you've really grown up.
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You know what?
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Don't mind me saying so.
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She has turned into a stone-cold fox.
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Better keep the frat boys away from her.
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Oh, yes, hello, how are you?
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Good to see you.
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Wow, you've really grown up.
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You know what?
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Don't mind me saying so.
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She is turning into a stone cold fox.
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Better keep the frat boys away from her.
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I don't understand why Michael is wasting his time with Spanish.
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I have it on very good authority that within 20 years, everyone will be speaking German. Or a Chinese-German hybrid.
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I don't understand why Michael is wasting his time with Spanish.
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I have it on very good authority that within 20 years,
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everyone will be speaking German. Or a Chinese-German hybrid.
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Santa, wonderful tradition.
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Everybody loves Santa.
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Everybody can't get enough of the jolly old man.
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But that is a myth.
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Because you know what?
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He is not necessarily a big fat guy with a beard.
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He's not necessarily an old guy.
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He's not going to have a big fat gross Santa Claus.
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It's going to be cool, sleek Santa.
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Santa, wonderful tradition.
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Everybody loves Santa.
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Everybody can't get enough of the jolly old man.
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But that is a myth.
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Because you know what?
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He is not necessarily a big fat guy with a beard.
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He's not necessarily an old guy.
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He's not going to have a big, fat, gross Santa Claus.
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It's going to be cool, sleek Santa.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Speak English Like Michael Scott! ☕️”. Las palabras que más se repiten: Santa, duck, desperate, necessarily, everybody. Este vídeo tiene 82 frases y 660 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:55. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 111 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 82 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
duck sustantivo/dʌk/pato, ánade
desperate adjetivo/ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹɪt/desesperado, que necesita desesperadamente
sleek adjetivo/sliːk/liso
attach verbo/əˈtæt͡ʃ/adjuntar, atachar
username sustantivonombre de usuario
optimistic adjetivo/ˌɒptɪˈmɪstɪk/optimista
beard sustantivo/bɪɹd/barba
myth sustantivo/mɪθ/mito
intend verbo/ɪnˈtɛnd/pretender, intencionar
hybrid sustantivo/ˈhaɪ.bɹɪd/híbrido
yield verbo/jiːld/producir, dar
lover sustantivo/ˈlʌvɚ/amante, enamorado

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
grow up verbocrecer

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Wow, you've really grown up.
  • Don't mind me saying so.
  • Because you know what?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorahave done · you've really grown · has turned
Superlativos the -est / the most … — lo más alto o lo más bajo de un grupothe best · the quickest
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un plan o algo que se ve veniram going to do · I'm going to do · He's not going to have
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicciónwill know · He'll take · will be

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 17 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, he'll, I'm. 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 duck, desperate, sleek.

¿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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