Shadowing Practice: The Childhood years - As Told By Marilyn Monroe - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I never lived with my mother.

My mother's first husband was named Baker.

Her second husband was Mortensen, but she was long since divorced when I was born.

She had, you know, mental disturbances, and she was taken away.

I called every woman I would see, I'd say, oh, there's a mama.

And if I see a man, I'd say, there's a daddy.

One morning I was having a bath, actually, and I referred to the woman as Mama,

and she said, I'm not your mother.

Don't call me mother anymore.

Call me aunt so-and-so.

The one who comes here with the red hair, she's your mother.

So to learn that she was my mother was quite a shock.

It was the red hair.

I said, but he's my daddy.

She said, no, you call him uncle.

Although they weren't my aunt and uncle.

I was only boarding there.

They adopted the boy that they had, that they were born in.

You see, some places I lived, I was taken there at the end of the school term, and they were planning to keep me.

But then after the summer they'd had enough.

So then I was taken to another place.

So that's one of so many.

See, I don't think there's 12, but there were quite a few.

Ten counting the orphans home.

I know I went to six different grammar schools.

You know, that's before you're in the seventh grade.

There was one other family I stayed with for a short time.

Because a woman used to have to deliver things.

I don't know her husband made things

and she was to deliver them to these plates and I used to get so car sick driving

I didn't like the world around me too much because it was kind of grim

but I loved playing I loved playing with the children in the neighborhood you could imagine anything

and pretend anything but I loved to play house and it was like,

you know, you can make your own boundaries, your own situation.

Other children like to play with me because I could think of things, you know, I'd say, now we're going to have murder, then a divorce, and then they say, how do you think of that?

I don't know.

Because then I heard, that's acting, I said, that's what I want to be.

You know, you could play.

They used to take me to movies here in Hollywood.

Every Saturday and Sunday I was taken there because they worked during the week.

They worked very hard and they didn't want to be bothered with a child around the house, I think.

You know, you can't blame them.

They were very tired.

So I was taken there in the morning and wait till the movie opened.

I tried to fit my foot.

My feet prints are there now, but I would try to, you know.

I never could get my feet in there.

My feet were always too big.

For 10 cents, I would go in,

sit in the first row and I watched all kinds of movies like Cleopatra with Claudio Colbert, that I remembered very well.

I'd sit there and I'd see it over and over and over and over again till late at night.

I was supposed to come out at dark but but of course I didn't know when it was dark.

That was when I was very small.

When I was seven years old, my favorite was Jean Harlow.

And the reason why she was my favorite, because she had white hair and I had white hair.

And I dreamed of having golden hair, but instead mine was white.

So when she had white hair, I felt close to her.

And Clark Gable, I'm sure he won't mind if I say it, I used to always think of him as my father.

I pretended that he was my father.

I never pretended anyone was my mother, I don't know why, but I always pretended he was my father.

I would go in my room and I would act out every part.

Only I would act out before that happened or after, and I would act out all the parts.

What he said and what she said and what he felt and she felt can usually be sad.

And then suddenly I was taken to the orphan's home.

I was only nine or ten.

And I put my feet down on the sidewalk and they had to drag me in.

I said, I'm not an orphan.

And then later some people said, well, it's better you forget about your mother.

I said, but where is my mother? and they said, she's dead.

I used to sit up in the window and cry

because I'd look over and I'd see RKO

and I knew my mother had work there and she'd been a cutter there and all the kids were asleep.

Grace used to come to the orphanage and take me out sometime.

Well, she was my legal guardian, and she once worked as a film editor, and she had been my mother's best friend.

I could put on her lipstick.

I was only nine or ten.

And she would take me someplace to have my hair curled, which was unheard of because I had straight hair.

Things like that meant a great deal to me.

I cleaned that dormitory where I slept.

Oh, everything had to be perfect, you know.

You swept and then you dusted everything.

We had a bed and a chair.

We had a locker downstairs.

Also the kitchen, you could earn money there.

I washed 100 plates, 100 cups, spoons, and forks, and you made five cents a month.

And they took one penny for Sunday school.

So you had one penny left.

So you hope you can buy your friend or friends some little thing at Christmas.

Well, I complained bitterly to Grace, who was my guardian.

There were these people who took me for a while.

Grace was financially unable to care for me,

but I'm very grateful that they at least assumed the responsibility because I could have just been kept there until I'm 18.

Thank you.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 93 frases y 1038 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 9:30. El hablante habla despacio, unas 109 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 83 % 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:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
pretend verbo	/pɹəˈtɛnd/	aparentar, hacer de
uncle sustantivo	/ˈʌŋ.kl̩/	tío
daddy sustantivo	/ˈdædi/	papá, papaíto
divorce sustantivo	/dɪˈvɔːs/	divorcio
guardian sustantivo	/ˈɡɑɹ.din/	apoderado, tutor
aunt sustantivo	/ɑːnt/	tía
penny sustantivo	/ˈpɛni/	penique
orphan sustantivo	/ˈɔɹfən/	huérfano, huérfana
earn verbo	/ɝn/	ganar, granjear
shock sustantivo	/ʃɔk/	choque
wash verbo	/wɑʃ/	lavar
refer verbo	/ɹɪˈfɜː/	referir, remitir
bath sustantivo	/bɑːθ/	bañera
dragon sustantivo	/ˈdɹæɡən/	dragón, guiverno
dust sustantivo	/dʌst/	polvo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
look over verbo		revisar
take away verbo	/ˌteɪk əˈweɪ/	quitar

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 have · used to get · used to take
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	was named · was born · was taken
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa	one who comes · curled, which was · people who took

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 27 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'd, don't, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “th”: bath /bɑːθ/, bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, seventh /ˈsɛvənθ/
Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shock /ʃɔk/, wash /wɑʃ/

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 pretend, uncle, daddy.

¿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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