Shadowing Practice: THE $21,000 FIRST CLASS AIRPLANE SEAT - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Want to see the coolest thing I've ever seen in an airplane seat?
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When I think of the greatest days in my entire life, I think of when my children were born, or perhaps when my son graduated high school,
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or today, when I was upgraded from business to first on Emirates.
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I don't know what I did to deserve this, I really don't.
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Oh my god, Smacks, writing kit.
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We're in the air, just left Dubai.
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I got my own doors.
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It's like my own little house over here.
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Total privacy.
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The TV here is enormous, it's like a movie theater, it's touch screen,
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but you can also control it with this thing it's like a mini iPad remote now
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if I want to drink and I don't want to have to call them
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and the fact that that's motorized is just ridiculous completely unnecessary
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The purser told me that I just order whatever I want whenever I want and there's no meal time.
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You just tell them to cook you something and they cook it.
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Like being at a real restaurant.
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This, this is caviar.
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If you don't know, caviar is fish eggs.
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Salty!
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In addition to the amenities kit
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This lovely thing which has all kinds of great surprises in it like shaving cream
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and deodorant and all kinds of sh like that They gave me this big bag see and in here here.
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Slippers.
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Eye shades. And pajamas.
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Very nice.
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I brought my own pajamas but I appreciate the gesture.
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Alright, this is what it looks like when it goes from a seat from a chair To a bed
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This is more comfortable than my bed at It's so cozy.
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The moment has arrived.
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She just told me my shower is ready.
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So you have to reserve the shower, like make a reservation.
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I reserved it for as close to landing as possible, we land in an hour and 45 minutes, so it's shower time.
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This is going to be so, so awesome.
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Once you're inside, you close the door to get the water, and you adjust the temperature.
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Once you find, you press that button, the water will come, you press again, it will stop.
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This is it.
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The real deal.
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The dream.
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Showering on an airplane.
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I've got 30 minutes in here.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I've got 5 minutes of running water in the shower.
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That gives me 25 other minutes to fill.
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That's a real work it.
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Dreams do come true, I am showering on an airframe.
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This is amazing, it's everything I'd hoped it would be.
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I am 43 ,000 feet in the air right now.
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Woo!
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Do I feel fresh and clean?
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This concludes my airplane shower spot experience.
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Thank you.
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Truly, truly extraordinary experience.
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Did you shower?
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Yeah, of course I did.
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How was it?
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Amazing.
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Incredible, right?
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Cool, eh?
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Unbelievable.
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see you later thank you it really does change your whole relationship with travel
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when you take what was the most painful part of traveling
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and instead of that being a terrible experience goes from pain It's so much better than the job,
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like it's so much more pleasure than it is It's like a meatball
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It's a fish Thank you man
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “THE $21,000 FIRST CLASS AIRPLANE SEAT”. Las palabras que más se repiten: shower, airplane, experience. Este vídeo tiene 64 frases y 540 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 9:03. El hablante habla despacio, unas 60 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 84 % 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:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
airplane sustantivo/ˈɛɹˌpleɪ̯n/avión, aeroplano
caviar sustantivo/ˈkæv.iˌɑɹ/caviar
pajamas sustantivo/pəˈd͡ʒɑ.məz/pijama, pijamas
deodorant sustantivo/diˈoʊ.də.ɹənt/desodorante
meatball sustantivoalbóndiga, almóndiga
purser sustantivo/ˈpɝsɚ/sobrecargo
slipper sustantivo/ˈslɪpə(ɹ)/zapatilla, pantufla
salty adjetivo/ˈsɔlti/salado, salobre
shave verbo/ˈʃeɪ̯v/afeitar, rapar
gesture sustantivo/ˈd͡ʒɛs.t͡ʃɚ/gesto, ademán
conclude verbo/kənˈkluːd/concluir
adjust verbo/əˈd͡ʒʌst/ajustar, arreglar
unbelievable adjetivo/ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/increíble
shade sustantivo/ʃeɪd/sombra
unnecessary adjetivo/ʌnˈnɛs.əˌsɛɹ.i/innecesario, desnecesario (disused)

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • It's like my own little house over here.
  • If you don't know, caviar is fish eggs.
  • Do I feel fresh and clean?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahoraI've ever seen · has arrived
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacewere born · was upgraded

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 10 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I've, I'd. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shave /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, reservation /ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/, shade /ʃeɪd/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: deodorant /diˈoʊ.də.ɹənt/, amenities /əˈmɛn.ə.tiːz/, reservation /ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/, unbelievable /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/, unnecessary /ʌnˈnɛs.əˌsɛɹ.i/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: caviar /ˈkæv.iˌɑɹ/, shave /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, reservation /ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/, unbelievable /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: pajamas /pəˈd͡ʒɑ.məz/, amenities /əˈmɛn.ə.tiːz/, reservation /ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/
  • /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: pajamas /pəˈd͡ʒɑ.məz/, gesture /ˈd͡ʒɛs.t͡ʃɚ/, adjust /əˈd͡ʒʌst/

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 airplane, caviar, pajamas.

¿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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