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Do you believe in ghosts?
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Yes.
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People always make fun of me because whenever they have a sleepover with me,
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I'll be in bed and at some point in the night there's a hundred percent chance that I will wake up screaming,
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run around the room, something will be in the room.
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I will always pick up on the ghost that is there.
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In my dreams, kind of like I'll wake up and I'll see a guy in the corner.
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He like banged his head and then I'll be like, we need to save him, we need to save him.
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Then I'll wake up the next morning and everyone's like, you were crazy last night.
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And then we search it up and it's like 30 year old man died in room, blah, blah, blah.
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And I'm in that room.
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It's happened to me so many times.
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I don't think they're mean.
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I usually am pretty scared of them.
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One of the things on my rider
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now is they have to scrub the internet for the word haunted beside any place
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that we go to because they will come visit me in my sleep. So.
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I started dancing when I was six.
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My mom was my dance coach my whole life.
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My mom is one of the scariest people to walk into the room during rehearsals, for sure.
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Honestly, my mom would just be like, tell a story and perform from your heart.
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And she was my biggest motivator.
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I loved her.
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Were you always this ridiculously limber?
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No, I was actually pretty stiff when I was younger.
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And then when I was seven, I made a bet that I would get all my splits.
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And then I did.
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I also worked with this really intense Russian rhythmic gymnastics coach.
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She would make me sit on two chairs,
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one leg on one chair and then one leg on the other and she would like sit on my knees.
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It was crazy.
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I was definitely a theater kid.
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Dancing was the only place I really felt understood.
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You can see it all over the internet.
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I have way too many videos of me at musical theater competitions, me trying out for Broadway shows.
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I did everything on the planet and I had a YouTube channel with all of them.
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I was really intense.
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I would get to the competitions two hours early.
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I'd have like an abs set, a squat set.
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I was like eight years old.
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And what were your costumes?
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They were kind of ugly because me and my mom were designing them, so they were always a little ugly.
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But I didn't really get too nervous.
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Stages don't really freak me out.
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Did you go up to auditioning for So You Think You Can Dance?
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I did.
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I was 11 or 12 years old, and I had to get an O1 visa to go audition.
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I was in this long yellow dress, and I did this really emotional violin orchestra piece, and it was really intense.
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What posters did you have in your room growing up?
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I didn't have any posters.
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For a while, I went through a really emo phase.
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I would write everything on my wall, be like, nobody understands me.
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It was actually like the most embarrassing high school thing I could have done
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because then we would have people over and then they would see this wall.
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It was a phase.
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I loved to play dress up when I was younger.
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I would always come downstairs and have my mom's pearls and like a beret and like wings on.
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Every single Halloween, I would be seven different characters mixed into one.
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When I was three, my mom wanted me to be Bam Bam from The Flintstones.
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I had bone in my head and then I said I also want to be a cowboy and a fairy.
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So then I had cowboy boots on, fairy wings, pearls.
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My mom was like, you are too and you look like a hooker.
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I was literally like, had her lipstick on, her makeup on, it was crazy.
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Who was your cinematic or movie or TV crush when you were growing up?
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It used to be Leonardo DiCaprio in Catch Me If You Can specifically.
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I love him in Titanic too.
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Have I ever crashed a party?
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I've definitely crashed a party when I was younger.
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I went to the same school as my brother.
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I was just like, get me into your parties.
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I just want to be your friend.
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I was like, you're not my friend.
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It was a time with lots of friction between us.
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I would just try to get in anywhere he was.
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I'd be like, why are you here?
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Do you have any good scars?
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I have one scar on my foot, on like the side of my foot.
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Wow, I've literally never talked about this before.
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I got cut by coral when I was five.
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It has stayed with me my whole life.
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I used to live in the Middle East, so we were swimming in the ocean.
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I thought I got bit by a shark.
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I'm like the most dramatic person ever.
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I'm like, Mom, a shark got me.
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It's like the smallest little scar.
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My dad's like running in to save me.
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Where was your first kiss?
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My first kiss was on a couch with my first boyfriend in his living room.
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It was crazy.
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I remember explaining to my friends, like you will never experience this feeling in your life.
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It's the craziest rush of emotions.
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They're like, girl, you're the last one to kiss out of our friend group.
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Maybe it just made it really amazing in my head.
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Did you stay together after the first kiss?
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Yeah, for a year and a half.
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It was very cute.
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What was the best event on your birthday?
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I was always competing on my birthday.
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When I was younger, because I have the same birthday as Canada,
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so I'd be like, walk outside and see all the fireworks and be like, for me?
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My dad's like, Jesus, we're raising a diva.
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But I'd be like, I can't believe he did all this for me.
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And they're like, it's Canada.
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Do you do karaoke?
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When I was like eight years old, I did karaoke.
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Grenade by Bruno Mars.
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It's literally like the best song ever.
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It's not your usual eight -year -old song.
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Definitely not.
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No, I was an emotional child.
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I was that kid that every Friday would pull on my mom's laptop, photo booth it, karaoke for like six hours.
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Oh yeah, every karaoke song I'd be like in front of the laptop.
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Today's the day that I'm going to become famous.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Tate McRae Talks Ghosts, First Kiss, & Emo Phase”. Este vídeo tiene 113 frases y 1129 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:55. El hablante habla rápido, unas 230 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. Solo el 81 % 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:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| intense adjetivo | /ɪnˈtɛns/ | intenso |
| scar sustantivo | /skɑɹ/ | alforza, facial chirlo |
| ghost sustantivo | /ɡoʊst/ | fantasma, espectro |
| ugly adjetivo | /ˈʌɡli/ | feo |
| theater sustantivo | /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/ | teatro |
| laptop sustantivo | /ˈlæp.tɑp/ | portátil, computador portátil |
| poster sustantivo | /ˈpoʊstɚ/ | cartel, póster |
| pearl sustantivo | /pɝl/ | perla |
| cowboy sustantivo | /ˈkaʊˌbɔɪ/ | vaquero, gaucho |
| audition sustantivo | /ɑˈdɪʃən/ | audición |
| rush verbo | /ɹʌʃ/ | correr, apurarse |
| bone sustantivo | /boʊn/ | hueso |
| dramatic adjetivo | /dɹəˈmætɪk/ | dramático |
| compete verbo | /kəmˈpiːt/ | competir, competer (disused) |
| scary adjetivo | /ˈskɛə.ɹi/ | temible, espantoso |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| wake up verbo | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | despertarse, recordar |
| grow up verbo | crecer | |
| dress up verbo | vestirse de gala, ponerse elegante | |
| go through verbo | atravesar | |
| pick up on verbo | percatarse de, pillar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- Do you believe in ghosts?
- Were you always this ridiculously limber?
- Have I ever crashed a party?
- I'd be like, why are you here?
- Do you have any good scars?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + verbo — un hábito o estado pasado que ya no es cierto | used to be · used to live |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | Have I ever crashed · I've definitely crashed · has stayed |
| Superlativos the -est / the most … — lo más alto o lo más bajo de un grupo | the scariest · my biggest · the most embarrassing |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasado | were designing · were growing · were swimming |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 27 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'd, I'll, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: theater /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/, booth /buθ/, rhythmic /ˈɹɪð.mɪk/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, crush /kɹʌʃ/, friction /ˈfɹɪkʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: ridiculously /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs.li/, karaoke /ˈkæ.ɹiˌəʊ.ki/, kinematic /kɪn.əˈmæt.ɪk/, motivator /ˈməʊ.təˌveɪ.tə/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: scar /skɑɹ/, scary /ˈskɛə.ɹi/, swim /swɪm/, scream /skɹiːm/, scare /skɛɚ/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: visa /ˈviːzə/, violin /ˌvaɪ.əˈlɪn/, motivator /ˈməʊ.təˌveɪ.tə/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: visa /ˈviːzə/, downstairs /daʊnˈstɛɹz/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como intense, scar, ghost.
¿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.