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My home
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Hi guys!
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Welcome to my house!
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I'm so happy you're here!
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Hi Kate!
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Hi!
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This neighborhood is so quiet and peaceful.
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I love it!
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Yeah!
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I'm so happy to live here!
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Please come in!
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I can't wait to show you my new house!
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The hallway is really bright and spacious.
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I like it very much.
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Let me show you the downstairs rooms.
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Please follow me.
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This is the living room with the TV and the speakers,
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a coffee table in the middle,
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the sofa and two armchairs.
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Wow, I love the color.
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It looks gorgeous.
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I can see you have some nice family photos there.
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Yes, that's right.
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Okay, let's move to the next room.
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This is the dining room.
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We use it mostly on special occasions.
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We usually eat in the kitchen.
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The table is really large and the chairs are so elegant.
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I can see there is a tablecloth on the table.
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Are you expecting guests tonight?
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That's right.
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My grandparents are coming tonight,
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so we're gonna have dinner here.
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Come on, let me show you the kitchen now.
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So this is my beautiful kitchen,
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my mom's favorite area of the house.
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Wow, I think it's lovely.
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It's not too big, but we have everything we need.
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A sink, a stove, a dishwasher,
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a microwave and a fridge.
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We also have many cupboards and drawers.
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Okay, let's go to the next room, the study.
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This is the study.
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I usually come here when I want to read a book.
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There are so many interesting books in the bookcase.
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I can lend you a book if you like, Jimmy.
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Really?
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That's so nice of you, Kate.
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Thanks.
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Do you usually do your homework here?
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No, I always do it in my bedroom.
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My parents come here pretty often when they need to work on the laptop.
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This is the downstairs bathroom.
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It looks very nice.
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I can see there is only a shower here.
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There isn't a bathtub.
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The bathtubs are in the upstairs bathrooms.
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Let me show you now another room, the basement.
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This is our special place, the rec room.
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Have a seat please.
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What is the rec room?
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It means recreation room and it's used for our free time.
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My dad loves playing billiards with his friends here.
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And we also watch TV or play different games with our friends.
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This is the laundry room.
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It's pretty small.
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Here we keep the washing machine,
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the laundry basket, the ironing board and the iron,
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the cleaning tools and the boiler.
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This is the garage.
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We also keep here our bikes and some other stuff besides the car.
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Upstairs we have three bedrooms with their own bathrooms.
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Let me show you my bedroom.
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Wow, a bedroom in the attic.
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This is fantastic.
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Yes, it's under the roof.
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So the ceiling is very low near the walls and high in the center.
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You have many great posters on the wall.
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Hey, whose is this guitar?
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Is it yours?
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May I play some songs?
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It's mine.
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You may, sure.
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This is my bathroom.
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That is the bathtub.
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It's so cool to have your own bathroom inside your bedroom.
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Let's go out on the balcony now.
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I love the view from the balcony.
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and the flowers are beautiful.
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This is the backyard.
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We have a small vegetable garden here.
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I love eating fresh vegetables from my garden.
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And I can see you have a very cute dog here.
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What's his name?
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His name is Ziggy.
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What a cute shadow of here.
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What do you keep inside?
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We keep all the garden tools here and a lawn mower.
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This is the patio with a swing,
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a barbecue and a gazebo.
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I wish I had a garden with a gazebo too.
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I live in a townhouse,
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which means there are houses on both sides.
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There are three floors in total,
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the ground floor, the first floor and the second floor.
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My bedroom is right at the top.
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It's a pity we don't have a garden,
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but there is a park in front of our house.
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That's nice.
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What about you, Jimmy?
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Where do you live?
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I live in an apartment on the 6th floor of a high rise.
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What's your apartment like?
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It's quite big.
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There are 3 bedrooms, a big living room and a kitchen.
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But we don't have a dining room.
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Thank you.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel A2 se basa en el vídeo “Talking about Your Home in English”. Las palabras que más se repiten: bedroom, bathroom, garden, floor, kitchen. Este vídeo tiene 117 frases y 733 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 7:11. El hablante habla despacio, unas 102 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 81 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
bedroom sustantivo/ˈbɛdˌɹum/alcoba, dormitorio
laundry sustantivo/ˈlɔːn.dɹi/colada, lavado
vegetable sustantivo/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/verdura, legumbre
upstairs adverbio/ˌʌpˈstɛɹz/arriba
balcony sustantivo/ˈbælkəni/balcón
downstairs adverbio/daʊnˈstɛɹz/abajo
guitar sustantivo/ɡɪˈtɑɹ/guitarra, jarana
wash verbo/wɑʃ/lavar
shadow sustantivo/ˈʃædəʊ̯/sombra
flower sustantivo/ˈfloʊɚ/flor
occasion sustantivo/əˈkeɪ̯ʒən/ocasión
gorgeous adjetivo/ˈɡoɹd͡ʒəs/guapísimo, hermosísimo
swing verbo/ˈswɪŋ/balancear, mecerse
garage sustantivo/ɡəˈɹɑʒ/garaje, cochera
laptop sustantivo/ˈlæp.tɑp/portátil, computador portátil

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Are you expecting guests tonight?
  • Do you usually do your homework here?
  • May I play some songs?
  • What do you keep inside?
  • What's your apartment like?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbos seguidos de la forma en -ingloves playing · love eating
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasAre you expecting · are coming

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 9 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, can't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: wash /wɑʃ/, shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, occasion /əˈkeɪ̯ʒən/, garage /ɡəˈɹɑʒ/, recreation /ɹiːkɹiˈeɪʃən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: swing /ˈswɪŋ/, stove /stoʊv/, spacious /ˈspeɪʃ.əs/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vegetable /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/, microwave /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌweɪv/, stove /stoʊv/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: upstairs /ˌʌpˈstɛɹz/, downstairs /daʊnˈstɛɹz/, billiards /ˈbɪl.jɚdz/

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 bedroom, laundry, vegetable.

¿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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