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Too much can go wrong, can't it?
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Not just the marriage, not just the wedding, even the proposal.
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What if I did it?
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What if I finally got down on one knee and said to the person I love most in the world, will you marry me?
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Instead of saying yes, she said, yep.
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I've got to spend the rest of my life thinking, I don't know that she meant this.
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Still, I'd love to see the Instagram post.
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She said, yep.
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I don't relate, this is the thing.
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A lot of my newly married friends, I don't relate to them one bit, okay?
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They all say the same stuff.
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They all go, oh, me and my wife, we make such a team.
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Me and my hubby are such a good team.
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I don't feel like me and my girlfriend are a team at all.
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If anything, she is my fiercest rival.
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I want her to succeed outside the house.
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In the house, I spend all my time waiting for her to slip up
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and do something she has previously told me off for doing.
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Oh, that's the holy grail.
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She'll go, oh yeah, it seems that you put a wash on this morning
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and then you've not done anything about it all day.
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So now it's been sat there all day, hasn't it, stewing.
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And now we're gonna to have to do it all again because it smells worse than it did when we started.
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So now we're going to have to do that all over again, which is a waste of water and energy and therefore money.
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I'm not very happy about this.
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Yesssss!
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One all!
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Alright, like 28-1, but I'll take a consolation goal.
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That's what a real long-term relationship looks like, isn't it?
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I'll prove it.
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Every single one of you in this room who's in a long-term relationship right after the show, Go into the WhatsApp, the text conversation that you have with your partner.
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Go into the media section of the WhatsApp, scroll back to the very beginning, and then look through it chronologically.
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You can pinpoint the moments that it changes.
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From, like, a sexy nude to a screen grab of a recipe from BBC Good Food.
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All the way to a passive-aggressive photo of a plate one of you left out on the side.
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That's where we all get to eventually.
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Wordless plate pictures.
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The only way you send or receive a nude in a long-term relationship is if one of you has a rash.

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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 reality of long term relationships”. Este vídeo tiene 38 frases y 426 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 1:58. El hablante habla rápido, unas 217 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. 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
relate verbo/ɹɪˈleɪt/relatar
nude adjetivo/n(j)uːd/desnudo, calato
proposal sustantivo/pɹəˈpoʊzəl/propuesta
newly adverbio/ˈnuli/nuevamente, recién
sexy adjetivo/ˈsɛksi/sexy
marry verbo/ˈmæɹi/casar, casarse
knee sustantivo/ni/rodilla, hinojo
aggressive adjetivo/əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/agresivo
slip verbo/ˈslɪp/deslizarse, resbalar
recipe sustantivo/ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/receta
rival sustantivo/ˈɹaɪvəl/rival
passive adjetivo/ˈpæs.ɪv/pasivo
fierce adjetivo/fɪɹs/fiero, enconado
scroll sustantivo/skɹoʊl/rollo, pergamino
rash sustantivo/ɹæʃ/eflorescencia, sarpullido

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Too much can go wrong, can't it?
  • What if I did it?
  • I don't relate, this is the thing.
  • I'm not very happy about this.
  • That's where we all get to eventually.

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 17 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'll, we're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: rash /ɹæʃ/, consolation /ˌkɑn.səˈleɪ.ʃən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: consolation /ˌkɑn.səˈleɪ.ʃən/, chronologically /ˌkɹɒnəˈlɒdʒɪkli/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: slip /ˈslɪp/, scroll /skɹoʊl/, stew /stu/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: aggressive /əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/, rival /ˈɹaɪvəl/, passive /ˈpæs.ɪv/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como relate, nude, proposal.

¿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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