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Excuse me, sir.
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Excuse me, sir.
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Sorry to bother you.
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What?
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Sorry to bother you, I'm Chris.
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- Yeah.
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- And I'm a photographer, I'm a portrait photographer.
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And I just thought that you had like a really cool look.
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I noticed you over there and the hat and everything and the coats Are you from Dublin sir?
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Yeah. Are you?
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No, I don't live here anymore.
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I left many years ago.
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Oh, okay.
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I'm leaving tonight.
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I'm going back to London where I live.
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Oh, you're living in London?
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Yeah.
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Do you miss Dublin?
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Well, you have a certain...
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- That's not funny.
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- Empathy and nostalgic feeling for the place you're from originally.
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I'm not using my first name, I'm using my middle name, which is James.
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James, okay.
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And that's what I'm calling myself because it doesn't cause a hassle, right?
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Yeah.
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I've never been happy with my first name.
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You're a photographer, did you say?
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Yes, there's no money involved in this.
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You get the vibe and I know you're not...
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I'm not out to scam you or anything.
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I guess I know that, but unless you take that as a compliment.
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I look at myself this morning and I'm not happy with what I'm looking at, you know.
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I've always had a sense of appearance, right, since I was a young boy.
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When you're not rich, I mean, if I was rich, I'd...
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I mean, I've always had...
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what I would regard as impeccable taste, but now Here I am.
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- I'm going to go.
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Thank you.
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Not rich.
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And yet I still make a slight effort.
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You know, it's like if you haven't got money, you know what I'm saying?
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I should have money off my own bet, you know, because of my background and all the possibilities.
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I should, you know, be like a top lawyer or theoretically that was within my grasp, right?
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To be a top professional and to be pretty wealthy in that respect.
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Yes.
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I missed that train.
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Have you ever been married?
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Do you have family?
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What was your name?
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I'm Chris.
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I regard myself as Chris as the greatest failure that ever walked the planet Earth.
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Why?
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Because I am.
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Because I didn't achieve the very basics.
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I'm the could have been man.
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I call myself the could have been man.
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I could have been, right?
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I'm the could have been man, but I ended up with nothing.
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I didn't even get a life.
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And I tried from the age of 13.
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You know, and the girl I was looking was looking at the other geezer.
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important lesson you think you've learned over the course of your life?
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Never wanted to put anybody down or bully, you know?
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I have no tolerance for bullies.
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I put somebody down or make fun of somebody.
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If I could turn the clock back, I wouldn't hesitate to tell people exactly how I feel, which I didn't want to do, then I didn't want to hurt anybody, right?
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Yeah.
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Just bought a neckerchief.
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You want to put on your neckerchief, if you want?
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There's 9 million people in London, and I don't have a single friend.
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And I'm not saying that like I'm crying, that is the reality.
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I lived overseas in the Americas, North America and South America.
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And when I came back, they had all kind of disappeared.
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And I've been alone for the last 22 years.
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When I was quite young, I didn't need any friends.
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I'm chasing girls and I didn't want another guy.
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I had the dawn to be able to chat up and all the rest of it.
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And then they'd move in or try to move in.
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And of course it never dawned on me I'd get to this age
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and be practically penniless and not have a profession and all the rest of it, which I should have, right? Or money.
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I should have a profession.
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I should have money.
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I missed all of that.
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And not even a wife.
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You know since the age of four you could say I'm psychologically alone since the age of four
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My own mother was a piece of ice
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We had a horrifically bad relationship at one point very difficult woman piece of ice.
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There was no physical contact Very strange by an Irish woman.
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There was no hug.
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There was no kiss.
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There was no nothing.
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It was I do remember
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when I that school I was at when I was four years of it there was another kid that I After school, I went to his house.
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And his mother, was all over him, right?
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I can even feel this very day, that feeling.
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I wish she was my mother.
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And then you read about some British,
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English guy who's disappeared or in jail in India or Thailand and the parents fly over there.
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Yeah.
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When I came back from America, I stepped off the plane, nobody...
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I've never been met at any airport in my life by anybody.
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And I know in my heart I could have been tough in certain things.
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The other thing I might tell you, Chris, is I've always had it done for writing.
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and I wrote two plays which I'm very proud of, and they've been sitting there for 20 years.
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I've said recently that I make people laugh almost every day.
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I haven't made you laugh because I've been very serious, but I make people laugh every day.
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without even trying.
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Like I'm not trying to be.. but...
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and I said this is my greatest asset.
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My only contribution is complete strangers that I talk to.
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They crack up laughing sometimes.
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Chris, I mean, these people are wondering who is this famous guy?
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You know, I don't have a bitterness, but I could have, but I don't have it.
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And you've been very friendly and gracious to me and kind, and I appreciate that James.
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That's why, that says a lot about your character.
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It says a lot about your character.
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But there are times, um, uh, when you do feel low, you know?
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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 Raw Conversation I've Ever Had: Revisited”. Este vídeo tiene 118 frases y 1022 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:49. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 176 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 81 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente. 22 de sus 118 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| neckerchief sustantivo | /ˈnɛkə(ɹ)tʃɪf/ | pañuelo, fular |
| bully sustantivo | /ˈbʊli/ | bravucón, abusón |
| disappear verbo | /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/ | desaparecer, desparecer |
| profession sustantivo | /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/ | profesión, profesión de fe |
| bitterness sustantivo | /ˈbɪtənəs/ | amargo, amargura |
| impeccable adjetivo | /ɪmˈpɛkəbəl/ | impecable |
| nostalgic adjetivo | nostálgico | |
| penniless adjetivo | /ˈpɛ.nɪ.ləs/ | miserable |
| psychologically adverbio | psicológicamente | |
| hassle sustantivo | /ˈhæsl̩/ | lío, apuro |
| theoretically adverbio | teóricamente, en teoría | |
| empathy sustantivo | /ˈɛmpəθi/ | empatía |
| hesitate verbo | /ˈhɛz.ə.teɪt/ | vacilar, dudar |
| compliment sustantivo | /ˈkɑmpləmənt/ | cumplido, falago |
| vibe sustantivo | /vaɪb/ | onda, vibra |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- No, I don't live here anymore.
- I've never been happy with my first name.
- You're a photographer, did you say?
- You get the vibe and I know you're not...
- Have you ever been married?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Oraciones condicionales if + oración, will/would + verbo — una condición y su resultado | if I was rich, I'd |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | I've never been · I've always had · Have you ever been |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 55 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, I've, didn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: profession /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/, gracious /ˈɡɹeɪʃəs/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: impeccable /ɪmˈpɛkəbəl/, practically /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.k(ə.)li/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: hassle /ˈhæsl̩/, hesitate /ˈhɛz.ə.teɪt/
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 neckerchief, bully, disappear.
¿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.