Shadowing Practice: The Spectacular Now - You are absolutely beautiful - Learn English Speaking with Video

Creando lección...
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If that guy was bugging you.
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No, he's fine.
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Yeah.
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OK.
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Done?
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Ooh, can I try that?
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What, this?
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I don't know, this is some pretty serious stuff.
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Taste.
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You sure?
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Yes.
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All right, yeah, there you go.
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Go for it.
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It's pretty strong.
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Oh, my god.
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Yeah.
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Ew.
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Yeah, I know.
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Whoa.
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I know.
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I told you.
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How do you drink that?
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I don't know, I guess I've just been doing it for a while.
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Well, I don't know.
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You know who gave me my first beer? Who?
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My dad.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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I was probably six years old.
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He used to take me to baseball games every Saturday and then let me have little sips of it.
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Did you get drunk?
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No, I didn't get drunk, but, I mean, it tasted really nice.
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It felt warm.
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Where does he know, your dad?
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He's an airline pilot.
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Really?
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Yeah, he flies all across the country.
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Saturday, that's awesome.
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Dude, he is awesome.
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I don't know what he was doing with my mom for that long, but...
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Are they, like, divorced?
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Yeah.
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She made them leave us a long time ago.
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Want some more?
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Try it?
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Yeah?
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Why not?
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Kind of sounds like we have the same mom.
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Yeah?
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How so?
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Um, well, for example, I got into college today, but there's no way that my mom will let me go, so...
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You got into college today?
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Mm -hmm.
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That's awesome.
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Yeah, thank you.
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Hey, congratulations.
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Which is really cool, because that's where my sister lives, but...
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Amy, I don't know what to say.
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That's, dude, that's awesome.
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Congratulations.
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It doesn't matter.
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I mean, it's not that big of a deal, and there's no way that I'll go, so it's...
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What are you talking about?
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Well, I mean, my mom.
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I have to help her with the route.
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What does your mom have to do with this?
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The route?
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Yeah, she has the route.
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She's, like, alone all the time.
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Yeah, she's alone.
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Amy, your mom is a grown woman.
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She, like, she can take care of the paper route herself.
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You are definitely going to Philly.
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You're 100 % you're going to Philly.
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Yeah, I know.
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Yeah, you are.
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No, dude, there's no buts about it.
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Amy, don't you understand?
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You are this, like, incredibly gifted, genius person, and you got all these people around you telling you that you can't do shit, and that's got to stop.
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You need to start standing up for yourself.
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How?
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How?
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I'll teach you.
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Take another swig of that stuff.
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Get that down there.
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Down the hatch.
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OK, now repeat after me.
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Mom, get off my motherfucking back.
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What?
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Yes.
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No. Yeah, I can't say it Mom hit off my back.
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No, you gotta do the motherfucking.
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Yes, you can Do it say it mom get off of my fucking back motherfucking fuck Motherfuck go Yes
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Who else who else I like this I don't know.
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Stay out of my motherfucking business, Crystal.
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Fuck you, Crystal.
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Yeah, fuck you.
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What about, uh, like, ex -boyfriends?
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Say, we need an ex -boyfriend in there.
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No, I don't have an ex -boyfriend.
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Who's like an ex -boyfriend that just, like, really pissed you off, that you just, uh, that just, like, you hated?
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And if they're just, right.
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I don't have an ex -boyfriend.
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What?
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Yeah.
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You don't have a single, you're 17 years old, you don't have an ex -boyfriend?
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I know.
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Really?
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Some other guys don't look at me like that.
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Yeah, absolutely guys look at you like that.
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No, no, no. I just saw two guys looking at you like that.
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Eric Wolf and Cody Dennis were 100 % hitting on you.
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No, we were just talking.
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They were not hitting on me.
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No, no. There's absolutely no way.
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Why don't you think they were hitting on you? Because.
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I'm just, they weren't.
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Because you're what?
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Amy, you're absolutely beautiful.
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Oh my God, no.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “The Spectacular Now - You are absolutely beautiful”. Las palabras que más se repiten: mom, boyfriend, motherfucking, amy, route. Este vídeo tiene 120 frases y 657 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:37. El hablante habla rápido, unas 181 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 88 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir. 33 de sus 120 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:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
congratulations/kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/felicidades, enhorabuena
incredibly adverbio/ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/increíblemente
divorce sustantivo/dɪˈvɔːs/divorcio
genius sustantivo/ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/genio, genia
bug sustantivo/bʌɡ/chinche
airline sustantivo/ˈɛɹˌlaɪn/aerolínea, compañía aérea
hatch verbo/hæt͡ʃ/eclosionar
whoa/woʊ/so, cho
sip verbo/sɪp/sorber, libar
swig sustantivo/swɪɡ/lingotazo, mecatazo
boyfriend sustantivo/ˈbɔɪˌfɹɛnd/novio, pololo
teach verbo/ˈtiːt͡ʃ/enseñar
baseball sustantivo/ˈbeɪs.bɔl/béisbol, beisbol
pilot sustantivo/ˈpaɪ̯.lət/práctico
repeat verbo/ɹɪˈpiːt/repetir, menudear

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
get off verbobajarse
stand up for verboromper una lanza por, romper lanzas por

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Ooh, can I try that?
  • How do you drink that?
  • You know who gave me my first beer?
  • Where does he know, your dad?
  • Why don't you think they were hitting on you?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasadowas bugging · was doing · were just talking
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicciónwill let · I'll go · I'll teach
Obligación: must / have to / need to decir que algo es necesariohave to help · have to do · need to start

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 29 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, you're, can't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/

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 congratulations, incredibly, divorce.

¿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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