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We know the Amazon rainforest is home to some of the planet's most exotic creatures.
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But could it also be sheltering life forms not of this Earth?
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April 23rd, 2024.
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A group of conservationists flies a drone over an undisclosed location in the Amazon.
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Later, when the team reviews the footage, something odd appears.
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A spooky, alien-like creature seems to be hiding among the green canopy of the forest.
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Did you catch it?
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The footage is blurry, but when we enhance it,
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we see what appears to be a gray-colored being nestled between the trees.
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It looks to have a large,
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bulbous head, a long, thin body,
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and with these oversized, almond-shaped eyes,
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it immediately invites comparison to the classic gray aliens described by alleged abductees.
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The footage adds to a long pattern of strange Amazonian sightings.
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Brazilian researcher Roni Vernet recently documented UFOs near the villages of Amazonian indigenous tribes.
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Videos our experts still can't explain.
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The object started to descend very,
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very low on the top three level,
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and start to go inside the forest and going out of the forest.
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After some minutes, I started to realize that,
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oh, OK, this is not something normal.
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This is something really anomalous.
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It makes sense that a hyper-intelligent alien species might use the Amazon to their advantage.
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If you were an alien species that didn't want to panic the local human beings living on the planet,
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I think that is a reasonable spot to hide out.
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Another theory is that this creature is returning to a place where aliens had prior contact with humans.
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In the early 1920s, there was a British explorer named Percy Fawcett,
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and he actually uncovered an ancient Portuguese manuscript that described an absolutely wondrous Amazonian city.
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The city supposedly had crazy advanced architecture and also very advanced knowledge of astronomy and mathematics.
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In his cryptic journals, Fawcett hinted that the city of Z was built by a long-lost advanced civilization of spiritually evolved entities.
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Some believe he was referring to beings, not of this Earth.
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It's rumored that he actually believed this to be an outpost for some sort of extraterrestrial beings
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that had visited Earth millions of years ago.
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Some people have speculated that perhaps that's why there are so many UFO sightings and such alien interests in the Amazon.
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After years of searching for the lost city of Z,
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Percy Fawcett and his son vanished deep in the Amazon.
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While many believe they were killed by hostile tribes or succumbed to disease,
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others speculate Fawcett may have made first contact with beings not of this world.
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Could this creature be connected?
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Let's see what our experts think.
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Are we just not seeing the forest for the trees?
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Some foliage can look like animals,
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like this supposed dog-man creature that turned out to be a bush.
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As I rewatched it, I did see something move,
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and I do think that it is actually something living in the forest.
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This is what we're seeing.
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Here you can detect the creature's head turning to the left.
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But could this really be an incognito extraterrestrial?
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Before we run too far with that notion,
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we need to rule out some other potential explanations.
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Although I do see resemblance physically to an alien,
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I think there are much more plausible and logical answers as to what this is.
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This could be a young bird perched high up in the canopy and perhaps a nest.
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The Amazon has many bird species.
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One of them is the harpy eagle,
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which is a really large bird of prey.
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It looks like its eyes and mouth are opening or changing.
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But I think shadow effects from light,
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because remember, we're in the canopy here,
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there's sun going through leaves.
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So I think that's what we're seeing that's creating that appearance rather than an actual alien with a mouth and eyes.
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Our verdict?
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This is no alien, but a harpy eagle,
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one of the largest and most powerful eagles in the world.
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While it may not be extraterrestrial,
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the harpy eagle is a legend unto itself.
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Named after the harpies of Greek mythology,
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these birds can build nests about five feet wide and have talons as long as a grizzly bear's claws.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Spooky Encounter in the Amazon Jungle”. Las palabras que más se repiten: alien, Amazon, creature, forest, Fawcett. Este vídeo tiene 68 frases y 714 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:54. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 145 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 76 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
eagle sustantivo/ˈiːɡəl/águila
extraterrestrial adjetivo/ˌɛk.stɹə.təˈɹɛs.tɹi.əl/extraterrestre, alienígena
canopy sustantivo/ˈkæ.nə.pi/dosel, palio
sighting sustantivo/ˈsaɪtɪŋ/avistamiento, avistaje
speculate verbo/ˈspɛk.jʊˌleɪt/especular, elucubrar
nest sustantivo/nɛst/nido
allege verbo/əˈlɛd͡ʒ/alegar
anomalous adjetivo/əˈnɑmələs/anómalo
blurry adjetivo/ˈblɜːɹi/borroso, desenfocado
bulbous adjetivo/ˈbʌlbəs/bulboso
conservationist sustantivoconservacionista
cryptic adjetivo/ˈkɹɪptɪk/críptico
foliage sustantivo/ˈfoʊliɪd͡ʒ/follaje
incognito adverbio/ˌɪnkɒɡˈniːtoʊ/de incógnito
nestle verbo/ˈnɛsəl/acomodarse, acurrucarse

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
go through verboatravesar
rule out verbodescartar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Did you catch it?
  • Videos our experts still can't explain.
  • Let's see what our experts think.
  • Are we just not seeing the forest for the trees?
  • This is what we're seeing.

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 5 contracciones y formas reducidas, como we're, can't, didn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: mythology /mɪˈθɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, notion /ˈnoʊʃən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: extraterrestrial /ˌɛk.stɹə.təˈɹɛs.tɹi.əl/, anomalous /əˈnɑmələs/, incognito /ˌɪnkɒɡˈniːtoʊ/, astronomy /əˈstɹɑ.nə.mi/, mythology /mɪˈθɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: speculate /ˈspɛk.jʊˌleɪt/, spooky /ˈspuːki/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: uncover /ʌnˈkʌvɚ/, vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/, evolve /ɪˈvɑlv/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, verdict /ˈvɜː.dɪkt/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: grizzly /ˈɡɹɪzli/, resemblance /ɹəˈzɛmbləns/, plausible /ˈplɑ.zɪ.bəl/, exotic /ɪɡˈzɑtɪk/, supposedly /səˈpoʊ̯.zɪd.li/

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 eagle, extraterrestrial, canopy.

¿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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