Shadowing Practice: Speak Out C1-C2 3rd ed. Unit 2D. BBC Programmes - Learn English Speaking with Video

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L .A was part of Mexico until 1847, and ever since there's been an enduring legacy of immigration.
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A stone's throw from the glitz of downtown, there are neighborhoods where up to 94 percent of the residents come from latin america okay
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this is a whole other world
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mexicans are the largest ethnic group in the city
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but there are also millions from central america and they have brought with them their unique cuisine
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one of the most authentic places to try it is said to be a night market
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that sprung up in a latino neighborhood in west lake i've asked chef wes avila to show me around
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hi how you doing it's wonderful to meet you it's nice to meet
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you it's great this place isn't it fantastic it's one of my favorite places to come
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and eat this whole street right here is covered with food vendors it goes down about a block
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when it's really really busy what's cool about here is you have the central american stuff
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you got el salvador honduran you got guatemalan food
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so you'll find things that are a little more unique i want to taste la i want to know what it's about.
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This is a bit of an assault on my senses, just it's so bright and colorful and vibrant I can just hear that slapping.
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It's pretty overwhelming you'll hear that all the way up people either doing the pupusas or tortillas.
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This place is full of intriguing smells and there are loads of amazing looking dishes I've never seen before.
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So this is what I wanted to show you, we've got some chile relleno
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It's a stuffed poblano chile, with potato, green bean, and carrot.
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This is the Guatemalan take on the stuffed chili.
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It's fried in batter and loaded with spicy salsa, stacks of seasoned onion and chopped parsley.
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Where are you from?
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Guatemala.
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That looks really good.
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Is this a home -cooked recipe?
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Familia.
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Yeah, it's a family recipe.
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This is my first taste of Latin foods.
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Mmm, that's good.
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Yeah, that's really good.
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Can I have the recipe?
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Is it a secret?
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Yeah.
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Why is it important for you to make your dishes here?
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That's pretty special.
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Yeah.
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You know, it's a livelihood, but it's also a connection to home.
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Absolutely.
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I suppose that they don't have.
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Yeah, it's really important for her to, like, be connected to her country, and not to ever forget those roots.
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Dreams are big here, and you can feel that.
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You know, they're all out here happy, laughing, smiling, and cooking up foods that their grandparents cooked, that their mothers have cooked,
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and they are the start of the American dream.
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Inspired by the Central American flavours of the night market, I'm itching to get cooking.
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And Wes has invited me to use his restaurant kitchen in the trendy arts district of L .A.
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Wes is Mexican -American.
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He's part of a new breed of chefs using their heritage to fuse flavours from home with contemporary techniques, redefining Californian cuisine.
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Hi, Wes.
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How's it going?
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Look at this space!
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I'm feeling inspired, but I don't think it's going to be very traditional.
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That's okay, because what I do too is not really traditional.
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Is that allowed?
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Absolutely.
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Everything's allowed.
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It's California, it's LA, it's the Wild West.
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I've taken inspiration from the stuffed chilis I ate in the market, but instead of filling them,
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I'm using them as a base for a delicious warm chicken salad topped with a Latin -inspired salsa.
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I'm making a simple salsa to go with my grilled chicken salad.
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green tomatoes, radishes, and a Latin American classic barbecued corn.
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Corn is, uh, it's basically in the blood.
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It's great.
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Nice and bright.
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It looks very Angeleno.
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I've not heard that one before.
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What is Angeleno?
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Somebody who's born and raised here in Los Angeles, able to take flavours and ingredients from different places and reinterpret it.
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You kind of get the vibe and you feel it.
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It's a vibe.
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Yeah.
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Like me, Wes is first generation his dad immigrated to the u .s from mexico in the 70s oh hey
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and wes has invited him to join us for lunch.
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Wow.
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It's good.
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Very tasty.
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Fantastic.
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He's not cooking just traditional food.
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Look at his customers.
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There are not that many Mexicans here.
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It's like I cater to Angelenos, which is a big melting pot.
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Do you feel like he's living your American dream?
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Oh, yeah.
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Why did you come to America?
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To have a better life.
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I mean, we don't have any money, so I told my mom I got to go.
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I was 18.
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From first leaving Mexico, it took Wes's dad six years to get a green card, allowing him to live permanently in the U .S.
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Does America feel like home now?
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Oh, yeah.
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I feel like this is my country.
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There's something quite powerful about sitting there with Wes and his dad
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because it made me appreciate the struggles that my dad went through.
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I've always thought about it from my perspective.
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but never really thought about it from the immigrant's point of view.
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The person that had to move, the person that had to make those changes, the sacrifices that they had to make,
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hadn't really thought about how big that was.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Speak Out C1-C2 3rd ed. Unit 2D. BBC Programmes”. Las palabras que más se repiten: latin, dad, america. Este vídeo tiene 95 frases y 892 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:51. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 152 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 79 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
recipe sustantivo/ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/receta
inspire verbo/ɪnˈspaɪə(ɹ)/inspirar, infundir
salsa sustantivo/ˈsɑl.sə/salsa mexicana, salsa picante
invite verbo/ɪnˈvaɪt/invitar, convidar
chef sustantivo/ʃɛf/chef
dish sustantivo/dɪʃ/vajilla
corn sustantivo/ˈkɔːn/cereal, grano
salad sustantivo/ˈsæl.əd/ensalada
vibe sustantivo/vaɪb/onda, vibra
cuisine sustantivo/kwɪˈziːn/cocina, gastronomía
chili sustantivo/ˈt͡ʃɪli/chile, ají
immigration sustantivo/ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/inmigración
technique sustantivo/tɛkˈniːk/técnica
assault sustantivo/əˈsɔlt/asalto, acometimiento
inspiration sustantivo/ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/inspiración

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
go through verboatravesar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Where are you from?
  • Can I have the recipe?
  • Why is it important for you to make your dishes here?
  • I suppose that they don't have.
  • I've not heard that one before.

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 ahorathere's been · have brought · i've asked
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo haceis said · is covered · be connected

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 18 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I've, I'm, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: ethnic /ˈɛθ.nɪk/, authentic /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/
  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: chef /ʃɛf/, dish /dɪʃ/, immigration /ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: immigration /ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, permanently /ˈpɜː.mə.nənt.li/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: stack /stæk/, slap /slæp/, spicy /ˈspaɪsi/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: invite /ɪnˈvaɪt/, vibe /vaɪb/, vendor /ˈvɛn.dɚ/, vibrant /ˈvaɪbɹənt/, livelihood /ˈlaɪvlihʊd/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: cuisine /kwɪˈziːn/, resident /ˈɹɛzɪdənt/, fuse /fjuːz/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como recipe, inspire, salsa.

¿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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