Shadowing Practice: Stop Translating in Your Head! Do This Instead - Learn English Speaking with Video
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This is why you can't speak fluently.
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So, what do you do in your free time?
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Oh, um...
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Okay, um, I usually play...
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Hey, where are you going?
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This happens because you keep translating from your mother tongue to English.
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And translating is the enemy of fluency let me give you an example there's a farmer who grows tomatoes
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and sells them for 50 cents per kilo a customer goes to the supermarket to buy tomatoes
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and he or she ends up paying two dollars a kilo
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so what happened 50 cents two dollars yes
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because the supermarket paid 50 cents to the the farmer added $1.5 per kilo and sold to the customer.
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But you might say, what does this have to do with English?
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Let me explain.
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In this example, the farmer is your brain.
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The supermarket is your mother tongue.
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And the customer is your English.
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You understand the connection?
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It goes from your brain to your mother tongue to English.
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But is there a way to improve this?
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Of course, cut the middleman, remove your mother tongue and connect your brain to English.
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That's the solution.
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Yes, you need to train your brain to think directly in English and put the mother tongue aside.
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And in this video, I'm going to show you four techniques that will help you think in English.
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Label everything.
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I've talked about this technique a lot.
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This is a very good one.
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The goal is to help your mind see things in your surrounding in English rather than in your mother tongue.
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Because normally when you look at this and if I ask you what is it, you would think about the name in your mother tongue first.
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But I want you to label the things in your surrounding environment, in your house, in your room, in your office, in English.
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Now you can have sticky notes or you can just point at them and name them every day.
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That's a plant.
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This is a dining table.
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chairs, a curtain, a ring light,
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camera, microphone, laptop, this thingy.
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Now, here's a pro tip.
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If you don't know the name of something, what would you do?
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You would Google the name in your mother tongue.
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What is X in English?
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Here's my suggestion.
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Don't do it because, again, you're going from your mind to your mother tongue to the English word.
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Go directly to the English word. But how?
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Describe on Google what this does and Google will show you the name.
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I almost dropped my phone.
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So you go on Google and you describe this.
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Something to hold cell phone on the desk and
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yes this is a phone holder a phone holder see how
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i got to the name without using my mother talk as
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the middleman now i know this is a phone holder pause this video now
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and look around you try to name the items in English.
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Do this every day.
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Be a sports commentator.
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What do sports commentators do?
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They describe every action that is happening on the football pitch.
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You are already seeing what's going on.
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They're passing the ball, they're trying to come up with a strategy to reach the goal and to score a goal.
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But the commentator keeps describing the actions.
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Yeah, isolated.
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Schedule here.
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Oh, yes!
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Now, here's what I want you to do.
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I want you to be the commentator of your daily life.
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Pretend you are a commentator, and as you are doing your daily tasks, describe them.
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Speak your actions out loud as you are doing them.
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Scene one.
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Oh, I picked up my phone.
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What is it going to do now?
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I am going to send a message to my friend.
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I'm looking for my friend.
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What was his name again?
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Jack.
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Where is Jack?
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Oh, there he is.
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Oh, look at my t-shirt.
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I'm going to have to adjust it, especially around the collar.
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Oh, maybe I need to wash it.
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Look at that beautiful plant.
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I really like it.
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I received it as a gift.
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Oh, I really need to have some coffee.
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But what kind of coffee?
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I'm thinking about the kind of coffee I want to have.
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Maybe I should add some milk.
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But hey, no, it's 5 p.m.
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If I have coffee, I won't be able to go to bed.
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I'm gonna shut up now, but you get the idea.
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I want you to talk about what is happening as it is happening.
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In the morning, you're in the kitchen preparing coffee for yourself.
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In the afternoon, you're going for a walk.
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You see people on the street.
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Just describe what's happening.
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Very important note, do not worry about grammar.
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We are not focusing on accuracy.
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It doesn't matter if you make mistakes.
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The point here is for your mind to connect everyday actions
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to English rather than first thinking about them in your mother tongue and then translating to English.
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Learn chunks, not single words.
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How do you speak?
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You use your knowledge to form sentences.
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And where is your knowledge?
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It's in your head.
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So what does your brain do?
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Your brain goes in and retrieves the knowledge.
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It goes in, it looks for a word, takes the word out, done.
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It goes in again, takes another word out.
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It goes in and takes another word out.
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It goes in and takes a sentence structure out.
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And this has to happen over and over and over again to form a single sentence.
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How can we make this happen faster?
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What if when your brain goes in, instead of retrieving one word,
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it takes out a bunch of words at the same time?
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hmm but how can
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that happen let's say instead of taking the word decision out
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it takes the word make an important decision out decision make
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an important decision rather than retrieving one word your brain can retrieve a group of words
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but how can you do that instead of learning single words,
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learn groups of words, also known as collocations.
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Yes, instead of learning single words, learn collocations.
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Think about the word decision.
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Decision is a noun.
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It's one word.
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Instead of learning decision alone, search for common collocations of this word.
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How?
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You can use a tool called Ausdick.
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It's a collocation dictionary.
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Let me show you how it works.
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You go to ausdick.com and you search for your word.
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In this case, it's decision.
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And then you can find the collocations we have now in collocations, big, crucial, faithful, important.
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We have verb collocations arrive at come to make reach take
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so let's say we write down three verb collocations make come to
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and reach and we also write down three adjective collocations big crucial
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and faithful now we can mix
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and match we can make chunks make a big decision reach a crucial decision come to a faithful decision
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and And now try to use these chunks in sentences.
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I need to make a big decision about my future career.
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The doctor reached a crucial decision about the best way to treat the patient.
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She came to a fateful decision to quit her corporate job and travel the world.
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Now, in your brain, instead of having the single word decision, you have three chunks of words.
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Make a big decision.
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Reach a crucial decision.
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Come to a fateful decision.
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And this time when your brain goes in to retrieve something it doesn't retrieve decision.
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It retrieves three collocations.
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Three chunks.
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And it will speed up the processing time by a lot.
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So learn collocations.
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Now before we get to the last technique which I think is the best and the most effective in short term, let me tell you something.
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All right, let's get back to the lesson.
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The sink or swim technique.
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I don't know how you learned to swim, but this is my story.
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Back when I was six years old, one day my father took me to a swimming pool.
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He picked me up and threw me into the deep part of the swimming pool.
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I was six years old.
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That was my first time.
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So I was basically fighting for my life.
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I had two options, whether to swim or to sink and drown.
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And so I did it.
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I learned how to tread water and to stay afloat.
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But yeah, I was traumatized.
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Don't do this.
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That's not good.
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Or maybe it is.
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Anyways, I want you to do the same with your English.
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I want you to jump into the water and then learn how to stay afloat. But how?
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Let me ask you a couple of questions.
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What is the language on your phone?
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Go to settings, general, language.
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What's the language?
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Is it set to English or your mother tongue?
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How about your laptop, your computer, your iPad, your tablet?
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If they are not set to English, go ahead right now and change the settings.
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Change it to English.
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And it's going to be a very interesting challenge
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because you will have to learn how to use your phone because you need it every day.
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You will have to learn how to navigate your laptop because you use it every day.
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It's just like jumping into the deep pool and then trying to learn how to swim.
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And there is a very good thing about this technique.
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You already know where the buttons are.
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So it's just a matter of trying a bit hard to understand what the words say
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because you already know where they are.
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And this will help you a lot.
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Because little by little, you will get used to the environment in English.
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And your brain will rely less on your mother talk.
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So right now, go ahead and change the settings.
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And that's it, guys.
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I hope you've enjoyed this lesson.
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Go to the comments section and let me know if you are going to do any of the four techniques.
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And don't forget to give the video a thumbs up and click subscribe.
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See ya.
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Thank you.
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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 Translating in Your Head! Do This Instead”. Las palabras que más se repiten: English, word, decision, mother, collocation. Este vídeo tiene 198 frases y 1805 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 12:43. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 142 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 86 % 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 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| collocation sustantivo | /ˌkɑ.ləˈkeɪ.ʃən/ | colocación, coaparición |
| retrieve verbo | /ɹɪˈtɹiːv/ | recobrar |
| chunk sustantivo | /t͡ʃʌŋk/ | trozo, pedazo |
| commentator sustantivo | /ˈkɑmənˌteɪtəɹ/ | comentador, comentadora |
| kilogram sustantivo | /ˈkɪləɡɹæm/ | kilogramo, quilogramo |
| supermarket sustantivo | /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/ | supermercado |
| translate verbo | /tɹænzˈleɪt/ | traducir, trasladar |
| faithful adjetivo | /ˈfeɪθ.fl̩/ | fiel |
| farmer sustantivo | /ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/ | granjero, granjera |
| afloat adjetivo | /əˈfloʊt/ | a flote |
| fateful adjetivo | /ˈfeɪtfəl/ | funesto |
| middleman sustantivo | [ˈmɪdɫ̩ˌmæn] | medianero |
| verb sustantivo | /vɝb/ | verbo |
| surround verbo | /səˈɹaʊnd/ | envolver, cercar |
| tomato sustantivo | /təˈmeɪ.toʊ/ | tomate, jitomate |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| go ahead verbo | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | venga, adelante |
| write down verbo | apuntar, anotar | |
| come up with verbo | ingeniar, ingeniarse | |
| end up verbo | terminar, ir a parar | |
| fill out verbo | /fɪl ˈaʊt/ | rellenar, cumplimentar |
| get back to verbo | responder / contestar (en un rato), volver / tornar a contactar | |
| pick up verbo | coger, asir | |
| shut up | /ʃʌt ʌp/ | cállate la boca, cállate |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- This is why you can't speak fluently.
- Hey, where are you going?
- If you don't know the name of something, what would you do?
- How can we make this happen faster?
- What is the language on your phone?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Oraciones condicionales if + oración, will/would + verbo — una condición y su resultado | If I have coffee, I won't be |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | I've talked · have prepared · you've enjoyed |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | was traumatized · are not set |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 22 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: faithful /ˈfeɪθ.fl̩/, thingy /ˈθɪŋi/, thumb /ˈθʌm/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: collocation /ˌkɑ.ləˈkeɪ.ʃən/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: collocation /ˌkɑ.ləˈkeɪ.ʃən/, commentator /ˈkɑmənˌteɪtəɹ/, supermarket /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, intermediate /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: sticky /ˈstɪki/, scan /skæn/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: retrieve /ɹɪˈtɹiːv/, verb /vɝb/, adjective /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/, navigate /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: translate /tɹænzˈleɪt/, traumatize /ˈtɹɔ.mə.taɪz/, pause /pɔːz/, anyways /ˈɛn.iˌweɪz/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como collocation, retrieve, chunk.
¿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.