Shadowing Practice: The Most Critical Social Skill - Learn English Speaking with Video
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People can say anything they want to with words, so we don't ever really say exactly what we feel.
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But our body language does not lie.
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It's very difficult to lie with your body language.
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Even the finest actors in the world find it very difficult to lie with their voice because the voice reveals people's feelings.
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You want to be observant.
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the most important skill that you can have in in the work world in the business world and in life
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is knowing how to observe people and not be
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so wrapped up in yourself and be outer directed so
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when you're in a situation like you've entered a job for the first time
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your tendency is to be all insecure
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and think did i say the wrong thing am i doing am i dressing incorrectly am i fitting in
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and you're not observing you're thinking about yourself
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right and the whole game is to be observing it's like you're observing the world the different games
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that are going on what people are doing what they're like
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what their tastes are like what the boss is like there
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are all these levels of power going on you want to get outside of yourself
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and simply observe right and not be thinking about yourself as much
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and if you become a really good observer of people
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which is something that i developed over all of these different jobs
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that i had i wasn't necessarily the best uh person figuring out the game
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but i was very observant about people and their nature
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and their flaws and such
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if you become an astute observer of the people around you
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you will have this the game will be much easier to
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to manage right you will know this is a person who
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is insecure i cannot offend them i cannot say the right the wrong thing to them.
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This is a person who's strong and secure.
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I want to be with them.
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I want them to mentor me.
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They can, you know, you want to be able to take criticism from other people.
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In other words, be less insecure and be more kind of outer motivated and paying attention to the people around you.
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And so it sounds like sort of half the battle is sort of naming what other people are.
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So saying like, oh, this, this happened.
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Robert did this thing, which tells me he cares about how he's perceived perception
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and relevance is important to Robert so I'm going to name a person like
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that right and so often
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when you're young you're just thinking I I I mean me
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you don't even know to name another right interesting well the thing also
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that you want to understand is everything is a sign so
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when you're observing another thing is enjoy this aspect of it
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because it's actually a lot of fun it's like watching a movie and observing people and understanding them.
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But everything people do is a sign.
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So if they're showing up late at meetings or they're not returning your phone calls, it's not some innocent event.
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It means something.
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It's coming from some place within them.
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They're telling you something about themselves indirectly.
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If their desk is a mess, right, they can't organize their desk, it's a sign of something else going on inside them, right?
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If they're not returning your phone calls, on and on and on every little thing that people do.
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Sometimes when I read an email, I can sense that there's a little bit of anger as an undertone.
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You can sense people's tone, not just in what they say, but in how they write something, right?
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There's not this usual kind of polite tone.
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There's a little bit of a sharpness.
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There's a word or two that indicates that they're upset, they're angry.
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Every little thing that people do is a sign.
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You're not paranoid because it's actually a lot of fun
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and you're decoding what's going on because people wear masks they smile
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and they say i love your ideas cody you're brilliant you're wonderful
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but inside they're thinking something else
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and you have to be able to pick up all of
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these signs yeah it seems like a lot of us have lost a lot of
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that gut intuition like we don't we're told to not trust
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your first instinct yeah you know we're told to not cross the street when we feel a certain way, because that could be rude to somebody else.
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We're sort of continuously being told to mask this feeling we get in our gut.
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How do you reopen that again?
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Like if you're sitting in a room with a bunch of people in the workplace
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and you're trying to figure out how to play this game,
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what is the mental game Robert plays to sort of pick up these undercurrents that somebody might not be able to see?
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Well, I wrote a book called The Laws of Human Nature, sort of my last book, and I have a very long chapter in there about nonverbal communication.
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And it's extremely important skill to develop.
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And what that means is people can say anything they want to with words.
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In fact, They generally do.
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They never really exactly say what's on their mind.
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That's how it is in the social world.
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Because if you said what was exactly on your mind, you would be offending a lot of people.
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So we don't ever really say exactly what we feel.
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But our body language does not lie.
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It's very difficult to lie with your body language.
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Even the finest actors in the world find it very difficult to lie with their voice
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because the voice reveals people's feelings right
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so you want to be observant we're very good at picking these kind of cues up
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so you may not realize it but you sense
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that something is wrong about this person that you've just met this is something
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that in the i talk a lot about in the art
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of seduction i've dealt with with women who've written me back they had a gut feeling
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that this man
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that they met was wrong there was something bad about him they got a bad feeling from it
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but what happens is you don't trust that feeling and then
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because you're not as you say in our culture it's not something
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that we value and then we go on we have a relationship
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and then we find the hard way out
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that our original gut instinct was the correct one
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so you want to trust these feelings they're very valuable we are animals we think we're all
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so intellectual we've got our our frontal cortex that governs everything
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but inside we operate on emotions on instincts on feelings on
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sensations it's a nonverbal form of communication it comes out in people's gestures
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and how they move how they stand right they're at a party you're talking to them
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but their feet are pointing in a different direction they're not
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so interested in you their eyes reveal if they're really listening to you
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or not a real smile lights up the whole face a fake smile's all kind of tight
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that's wonderful i really like right yeah on
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and on it's insane language you can understand exactly what people are thinking
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but you have to do this to be able to reach
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this kind of level of understanding you have to shut off
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your own mind you have to shut off all your internal chatter You have to observe
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and you have to see exactly what, try to read and detect what that particular sign means.
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And you won't believe how often you are very accurate with it.
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You can detect people's resentment, people's envy.
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And as I said, I wrote a whole chapter about signs that you can look at tomorrow and learn about this language.
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It's just that you're not paying attention and you don't value this form because we're so verbal.
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We think everything has to do with words, but it doesn't.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “The Most Critical Social Skill”. Las palabras que más se repiten: feeling, sign, lie, language, exactly. Este vídeo tiene 110 frases y 1356 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 7:40. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 177 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 88 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| observe verbo | /əbˈzɜːv/ | servar, observar |
| insecure adjetivo | /ɪnsəˈkjʊɹ/ | inseguro, en globo |
| instinct sustantivo | /ˈɪn.stɪŋkt/ | instinto |
| offend verbo | /əˈfɛnd/ | ofender |
| observer sustantivo | /əbˈzɝvɚ/ | observador |
| detect verbo | /dɪˈtɛkt/ | detectar |
| astute adjetivo | /əsˈtjuːt/ | astuto, sagaz |
| chatter verbo | /ˈt͡ʃætɚ/ | cotorrear, parlar |
| decode verbo | /dɪˈkəʊd/ | decodificar, descodificar |
| frontal adjetivo | /ˈfɹʌn.təl/ | frontal |
| reopen verbo | /ɹiːˈəʊpən/ | reabrir, reabrirse |
| seduction sustantivo | /sɪˈdʌk.ʃn̩/ | seducción |
| sharpness sustantivo | agudeza | |
| undercurrent sustantivo | /ˈʌndɚˌkʌɹənt/ | contracorriente, subcorriente |
| undertone sustantivo | /ˈʌndə(ɹ)təʊn/ | infratono, subtono |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| figure out verbo | averiguar, captar |
| pick up verbo | coger, asir |
| light up verbo | iluminar |
| show up verbo | comparecer, personarse |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- It's very difficult to lie with your body language.
- They're telling you something about themselves indirectly.
- How do you reopen that again?
- You can detect people's resentment, people's envy.
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 50 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, they're, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: seduction /sɪˈdʌk.ʃn̩/, intuition /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/, sensation /sɛnˈseɪʃən/, perception /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: undercurrent /ˈʌndɚˌkʌɹənt/, intuition /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/, incorrectly /ˌɪnkəˈɹɛk(t).li/, indirectly /ˌɪn.dɪˈɹɛk(t).li/, continuously /kənˈtɪnjuəsli/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: observe /əbˈzɜːv/, observant /əbˈzɝvənt/, observer /əbˈzɝvɚ/, motivate /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/, govern /ˈɡʌv.ən/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: observe /əbˈzɜːv/, observant /əbˈzɝvənt/, observer /əbˈzɝvɚ/, resentment /ɹɪˈzɛnt.mənt/, organize /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/
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 observe, insecure, instinct.
¿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.