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Do you want to learn English?
¿Quieres aprender inglés?
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Well, you need to practice every day.
Bueno, hay que practicar todos los días.
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Welcome to 365 Days of English.
Bienvenidos a 365 Días de Inglés.
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where I'm making a new video for you every day for the next year.
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Watch this video once now.
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and save it to watch it tomorrow and next week and your English will become very, very good, very, very quickly.
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I promise you.
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Today, we are talking about why social media is is bad for you.
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but how you can use it, to learn English.
pero ¿cómo puedes usarlo para aprender inglés?
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Everybody has social media.
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Everybody has TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, Snapchat, whatever.
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Everybody has social media.
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And we spend a lot of time.
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We spend a lot of time every day on social media and it's not good.
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for our health.
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It's bad for our mental health.
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It's bad for our brains.
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Because when we use social media so much, we turn our brain off.
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right on off.
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Meaning it stops working.
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Write in the comments if you agree with this.
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Spending a lot of time on social media, let's say Instagram, makes you insecure.
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Which means you see all of these people that are on vacations, that look so pretty or handsome,
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that are having so much fun, that have a lot of friends.
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You see all these people that have everything. But you don't.
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And so you become insecure or jealous.
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You don't feel good about yourself, even though the posts that you see on Instagram are not real.
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Because Many people have perfect Instagrams.
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Meaning it looks like they have perfect lives.
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Their lives are so good.
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They're so happy. But...
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It's not true, right?
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They're.. only posting what they want other people to see.
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they're only posting the good parts.
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when in life, There are a lot of bad parts, but you never see that on Instagram.
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And it looks like people have perfect lives.
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But nobody has a perfect life.
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Nobody has a perfect life.
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Although it looks that way, it seems that way.
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It's not true.
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So that's one thing.
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Social media makes us insecure or jealous because we want what other people have.
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But another thing is that it's not good for our brains.
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Okay, here are some new words for you.
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when you're on social media, when you're scrolling through social media, There's a lot of stimulation.
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Stimulation like there are a lot of crazy things that you see on social media.
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You see happy things and then you see sad things and then you're happy.
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Oh and then something's funny.
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And then you see something depressing and then you see something break your heart.
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and then you're happy again.
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and your brain does not know what to do.
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Your brain doesn't know to be happy or to be sad.
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Your brain does not know how to act because it's experiencing all of these new emotions all at once.
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It's experiencing so many new emotions.
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Happiness, sadness, sorrow, elation, depression, and then joy, and then excitement,
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and then back to sadness.
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Your brain is experiencing so much.
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That means there's so much happening.
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There's so much going on and your brain just turns off.
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But there is one thing that social media can actually be good for and that is learning new things.
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I mean, look at us.
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us right now you are learning English.
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and you are learning English from social media.
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Okay, learning English is not easy.
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It is not easy.
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But social media can help.
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Especially if you use it the right way, if you're watching Comprehensible Input, if you're following English creators,
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English accounts, and using your English on the social media.
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texting your friends in English, or commenting in English, or whatever.
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Social media is really, really, really good for that.
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So today we have spoken We talked about...
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why social media is bad for you?
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But.. how you can use it as your superpower,
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as your secret tool to learning English.
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Remember, save this video to watch again tomorrow or next week so you see the same words and remember them easier.
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Remember, with me, you learn English every day.
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Have a good day, my friends.
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Peace.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Stop Scrolling, Start Learning English”. Las palabras que más se repiten: English, brain, learning, perfect, Instagram. Este vídeo tiene 78 frases y 693 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:51. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 119 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 92 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 14 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
insecure adjetivo/ɪnsəˈkjʊɹ/inseguro, en globo
jealous adjetivo/ˈd͡ʒɛl.əs/celoso, encelado
emotion sustantivo/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/afecto, emoción
sadness sustantivo/ˈsædnəs/tristeza, engurrio
stimulation sustantivo/stɪm.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/estimulación
happiness sustantivo/ˈhæpinɪs/felicidad
vacation sustantivo/veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/vacaciones, vacación
handsome adjetivo/ˈhæn.səm/apuesto, guapo
excitement sustantivo/ɪkˈsaɪtmənt/emoción
scroll sustantivo/skɹoʊl/rollo, pergamino
depressing adjetivo/dɪˈpɹɛsɪŋ/deprimente
sorrow sustantivo/ˈsɑɹoʊ/pesar, pesadumbre
elation sustantivo/ɪˈleɪʃən/euforia, elación
superpower sustantivosuperpotencia, hiperpotencia

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
turn off verboapagar

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 13 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, they're, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, stimulation /stɪm.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/, vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, elation /ɪˈleɪʃən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: stimulation /stɪm.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/, scroll /skɹoʊl/
  • /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: happiness /ˈhæpinɪs/, handsome /ˈhæn.səm/

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 insecure, jealous, emotion.

¿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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