Shadowing Practice: telling my story - Learn English Speaking with Video

hey it's hayley and my voice is a little gone i'm making this video

because i wanted to tell this story in my own words

of just where i've been at health wise for the last month

and kind of what i've gone through

and what the story is here i think as some people know a lot of people know

or you may not know i had like a very scary incident on march 10th basically i was

sitting at breakfast with my husband having a normal day normal conversation

and we were in the middle of talking

and all of a sudden i felt this really weird sensation

that kind of like traveled down my arm from my shoulder all the way down to my fingertips

and it made my fingertips feel really numb and weird

and i was sitting there

and i was kind of going like this trying to figure out like what the sensation was

and where it was coming from and justin was like are you okay

and i just didn't respond because i wasn't sure

and then he asked me again and um

when i went to respond i couldn't speak the right side

of my face started drooping i couldn't get a sentence out

everything was coming out like not even jumbled just like couldn't get any of the words out

so obviously immediately i thought i was having a stroke like

a full-blown stroke um he thought i was having a stroke

so right away he asked for somebody to please call 9-1-1

and get a doctor where we were there happened to be a doctor there a medic there who rushed over

and they started

asking me questions they started testing my arms definitely the scariest moment of my life i had

so many things running through my head the number one thing

being i'm having a stroke i'm really scared i don't know

what's going on i don't know why this is happening am i gonna have permanent issues from this like

so many things were running through my head

that um were really freaking me out

and really really really scaring me the facial drooping lasted for probably like 30 seconds

maybe a little bit more i honestly i wasn't i couldn't see myself of course

so i don't really know but i do know

that it like subsided fairly fast and so they were asking me questions

and do you know where you are do you know your name

and i knew all of the answers in my head

but as soon as i would try to say it it

i just could not get it out it was like my tongue

and my mouth just could not form the sentences and the responses.

So obviously that was really, really scary.

So I got up, I could walk totally fine.

At that point, it was really just like the speech issue.

Went back to my house,

waited for the ambulance to come.

At that point, speech started to come back a little bit,

got in the ambulance to the hospital.

There was actually a funny moment where they were calling into the hospital to explain what they were bringing in.

And they were like, I have a 30 year old female.

And I was like, I'm 25.

I had to make sure that they weren't going to age me five years for no reason, you know?

And I noticed that when the speech came back and I felt like I could talk,

as soon as my anxiety would like settle in or hit me,

it would make my speech feel funny again.

when I started feeling really scared and really anxious,

it just made everything worse.

But by the time I got to the emergency room,

I was pretty much back to normal,

could talk, wasn't having any issues with my face or my arm.

They did like the stroke checklist in the emergency room and I scored a zero.

I wasn't having any symptoms anymore.

So basically they did some scans and they were able to see

that I had suffered a small blood clot to my brain which they labeled and categorized as something called a TIA.

I'm gonna try to put the definitions of everything I talk about under here so that I don't butcher it.

Basically it's like having a mini stroke.

It definitely feels like having a stroke except my body was able to resolve it pretty quickly

and then I didn't have any more issues for the whole rest of the day

and the whole rest of the time that I was in the hospital.

I felt really thankful and grateful for that, that it wasn't worse.

I wasn't going to have any permanent issues,

but you know, my scans did show

that I had a lack of oxygen to a certain part of my brain for a certain amount of time.

Still definitely really, really scary.

So when I was in the emergency room, they kept me overnight.

They did tons of tests.

They did blood tests to see if I had a clotting disorder or if I had an autoimmune disease or

they did everything and anything

that they could think of they did they also did a certain test called a bubble echo

which is when they do an echo on your heart

and they take saline and they kind of i don't want to say shake it up

but they they make it so it has bubbles in it

and then they put the bubbles in your vein to see

if you have any bubbles escaping out of any part of your heart

and what they're looking for in

that test is something called a pfo basically what a pfo is something

that you are born with

and typically at birth it's supposed to close on its own except sometimes it does not

and it's a flap that's kind of like this between the right

and the left chambers of the heart so

when i was in the emergency room they did this test they didn't see anything they told me

that i didn't have a pfo so the next day i was discharged

and i went down to ucla to see some more doctors to do some more thorough in-depth testing

because at that point they didn't really have an answer

or a conclusion for why this had happened they did come

to the conclusion of why they think i had a blood clot in the first place in the conclusion

that all of the the doctors came to was three different things.

One was that I had just recently started birth control pills

which i should have never been on

because i am somebody who suffered from migraines anyway

and i just did not talk to my doctor about this

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so ladies if you suffer from bad migraines

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and you plan on being on birth control pills make sure you tell your doctor

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because having a stroke is a potential side effect from

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birth control pills the second thing was i had recently had covid

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and that was something that they thought was a contributing factor

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and then the third thing was

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that i had recently gone on a really long flight i had flown to paris

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and back in a very short amount of time

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and i slept through the whole flight both ways didn't get up

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and move around never thought about wearing compression socks

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so basically all of the doctors came to the conclusion

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that it was a perfect storm that led to me having a small blood clot

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and that was the conclusion

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so they still didn't know necessarily how the blood clot traveled to my brain

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so when i went down to ucla we did some more in-depth testing

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and when i went there they did something called a transcranial doppler

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which is basically a very a much more accurate test to find a pfo

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and what they do is similarly they do the saline with the bubbles they inject it

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but with this test they listen for the sound of bubbles escaping in in the heart

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if they don't hear anything presumably you you don't have a pfo

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if they hear a little bit you might have one

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but it's small and if they hear tons of bubbles escaping you have one

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it's probably large so I I did this test

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and they actually found that I had a grade 5 PFO

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which is the highest uh grade that you can have

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so mine was fairly large but at this point too I was just grateful

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that they found it and that they knew that it was there and also the conclusion was that

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I had a blood clot that traveled into my heart

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and instead of what typically happens if you have a small blood clot is

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that the heart will filter the blood clot to your lungs

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and your lungs will absorb because the lungs are so big and they can handle it.

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What happened with me is my blood clot actually escaped through the flap

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or the hole in my heart and it traveled to my brain and that is why I suffered a TIA.

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So the recommendation from my doctors at UCLA was to have a procedure done called a PFO closure,

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which is when they go through your groin,

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through the femoral vein in your groin,

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and they travel up to the heart,

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and they put this small little button.

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It looks like a little button.

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That buttons close the flap in the heart,

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and then eventually your heart tissue grows back over the closure device and that's it.

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And then you have it forever and you continue on with normal life.

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So I recently got the PFO closure done and it went very smoothly.

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I'm recovering really well, really fast.

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I feel great.

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The biggest thing I feel honestly is I just feel really relieved that we were able to figure everything out,

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that we were able to get it closed,

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that I will be able to just move on from this really scary situation

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and just live my life and it was definitely a really eye-opening thing for me.

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I definitely felt a lot of anxiety through the situation because from when the TIA happened,

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when I had the procedure to close the PFO,

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I just was really nervous a lot of the time about having another TIA

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or experiencing those symptoms again and then I would get really bad anxiety

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and my anxiety was kind of making me feel funny.

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It would make my fingers and hands feel kind of tingly

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and I just honestly like had a really really hard time in the in-between.

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So ever since the TIA I have been on a blood thinner

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and aspirin every single day

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and I was also having an issue with the blood thinner medication because it was exacerbating my anxiety.

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It was making me feel very out of it, just really sleepy.

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but I was able to figure out the dose with my doctor and now I feel much better.

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Now that it's all done I feel so much relief

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and I feel just so grateful to all of the doctors at Eisenhower Medical Center who took care of me,

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all the doctors at UCLA who took care of me,

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Dr. Tobis who performed my procedure and has taken really good care of me.

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Yeah, it's kind of like hard for me to tell this story.

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You know, I've only really up until now told friends and family and people that I know and that I'm close to,

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but I felt like it was important for me to share this

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and because it already was like kind of a public situation and people kind of knew,

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but they didn't really know the full story

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and I also wanted to wait to explain everything until my procedure was done and finished and

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everything had gone smoothly and was okay.

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That's my story.

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That's what happened.

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If there's anybody that watches this that has gone through the same thing or something similar,

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I definitely really empathize with you and I understand how life-altering and scary it is.

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And if there's anybody out there who sees this

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and has maybe experienced similar things but doesn't really know the reason

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or know why i would definitely encourage you to talk to a doctor

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and yeah so this is what happened and um thanks for watching

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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 “telling my story”. Las palabras que más se repiten: doctor, blood, pfo, clot, stroke. Este vídeo tiene 180 frases y 2113 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 12:35. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 168 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 82 % 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
clot sustantivo	/klɑt/	coágulo, cuajarón
bubble sustantivo	/ˈbʌbəl/	burbuja, pompa
flap sustantivo	/flæp/	solapa, solape
pill sustantivo	/pɪl/	píldora, pastilla
scare verbo	/skɛɚ/	asustar, atemorizar
lung sustantivo	/ˈlʌŋ/	pulmón
closure sustantivo	/ˈkloʊ.ʒɚ/	cierre, clausura
fingertip sustantivo	/ˈfɪŋɡɚˌtɪp/	yema del dedo
groin sustantivo	/ˈɡɹoɪ̯n/ ~ /ˈɡɹɔɪ̯n/	ingle
migraine sustantivo	/ˈmaɪɡɹeɪn/	migraña, jaqueca
saline adjetivo	/ˈseɪ.laɪn/	salino, salífero
symptom sustantivo	/ˈsɪm(p)təm/	síntoma
smoothly adverbio	/ˈsmuːðli/	suavemente, lisamente
vein sustantivo	/veɪn/	vena
sensation sustantivo	/sɛnˈseɪʃən/	sensación

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
go through verbo		atravesar
figure out verbo		averiguar, captar
get up verbo		levantarse
run through verbo		resumir
come out verbo	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	revelarse, salir a la luz
move around verbo		movilizarse

Gramática en este vídeo

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

Estructura	En el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	i've been · i've gone · have been
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	are born · was discharged · was done

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 40 contracciones y formas reducidas, como didn't, don't, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “th”: smoothly /ˈsmuːðli/, empathize /ˈɛmpəˌθaɪz/, thankful /ˈθæŋkfəl/, thorough /ˈθʌɹoʊ/
Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: closure /ˈkloʊ.ʒɚ/, sensation /sɛnˈseɪʃən/, compression /kəmˈpɹɛʃ.ən/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: categorize /ˈkætɪɡəˌɹaɪz/, exacerbate /ɪɡˈzæsɚˌbeɪt/, presumably /pɹɪˈzuːməbli/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, medication /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: scare /skɛɚ/, smoothly /ˈsmuːðli/, scan /skæn/, sleepy /ˈsliːpi/
/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vein /veɪn/, relieve /ɹɪˈliːv/, resolve /ɹɪˈzɑlv/, overnight /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈnaɪt/
/z/ — sonora, no /s/: categorize /ˈkætɪɡəˌɹaɪz/, empathize /ˈɛmpəˌθaɪz/, exacerbate /ɪɡˈzæsɚˌbeɪt/, presumably /pɹɪˈzuːməbli/, resolve /ɹɪˈzɑlv/

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 clot, bubble, flap.

¿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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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Gramática en este vídeo

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?