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When asked what's the biggest mistake we make in life, the Buddha replied, the biggest mistake is you think you have time.
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Time is free, but it's priceless.
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You can't own it, but you can use it.
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You can't keep it, but you can spend it.
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And once it's lost, you can never get it back.
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The average person lives 78 years.
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We spend 28 .3 years of our life sleeping.
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That's almost a third of our life, but 30 % of us struggle to sleep well.
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We spend 10 .5 years of our life working, but over 50 % of us want to leave our current jobs.
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Time is more valuable than money.
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You can get more money, but you can never get more time.
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We spend nine years on TV and social media.
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We spend six years doing chores.
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We spend four years eating and drinking.
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We spend three and a half years in education.
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We spend two and a half years grooming.
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We spend two and a half years shopping.
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We spend one and a half years in childcare and we spend 1 .3 years commuting.
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That leaves us with nine years.
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How will we spend that time?
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Steve Jobs said your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life.
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So there's good news and there's bad news.
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The bad news is time flies, the good news is you're the pilot.
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Imagine you wake up every day with $86 ,400 in your bank account
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and at the end of the night it's all gone.
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Whether you spent it or not.
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And then the next day you get another $86 ,400.
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What would we do with it?
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Every day 86 ,400 seconds are deposited into your life account.
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At the end of the day, once they're all used up, you get a new 86 ,400 seconds.
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We would never waste it if it was money.
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So why do we waste it when it comes to time?
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Those seconds are so much more powerful than dollars because you can always make more dollars, you can't always make more time.
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To realise the value of one year, ask a student who failed a grade.
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To realise the value of one month, ask a mother who lost her child in the final month.
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To realise the value of one week, ask the editor of an online magazine.
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To realise the value of one hour, ask the couple who's in a long distance relationship.
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To realize the value of one minute, ask the person who just missed a bus, train or plane
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To realize the value of one second, ask the person who just missed an accident
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And to realize the value of a millisecond,
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ask the person who just came second at the Olympics We think that it's people wasting our time,
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that it's really us giving them the permission to do that and in reality these two people live inside us.
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Don't let someone be a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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Some of us lose the people most important to us because we don't value their time.
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Some of us don't recognize how important someone is to us until they're gone.
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Inside all of us are two voices.
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One voice that wants to uplift, one voice that wants us to expand, one voice that wants us to grow and then there's the other voice,
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the voice that holds us back, the voice that makes us lazy, the voice that makes us complacent, the voice that restricts us from our potential.
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Every day from the moment we wake up to the moment
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we go to sleep inside of us there's this battle between the two voices and guess which one wins?
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The one that we listen to the most, the one that we feed, the one that we amplify.
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It is our choice of how we use our time.
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Life and time are the best two teachers.
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Life teaches us to make good use of time and time teaches us the value of life.
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And as William Shakespeare said, time is very slow for those who want, very fast for those who are scared,
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very long for those who are sad very short for those who celebrate but for those who love time is eternal

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “The Value of TIME - Powerful Motivational Speech”. Las palabras que más se repiten: spend, voice, value, realise, waste. Este vídeo tiene 56 frases y 703 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:38. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 152 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 94 % 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

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
priority sustantivo/pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/prioridad
expand verbo/ɪkˈspænd/ampliar
deposit sustantivo/dɪˈpɑ.zɪt/depósito
lazy adjetivo/ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)/perezoso, flojo
leaf sustantivo/lif/hoja, foja (desus.)
eternal adjetivo/ɪˈtɝ.nl̩/eterno, eternal
scare verbo/skɛɚ/asustar, atemorizar
restrict verbo/ɹɪˈstɹɪkt/restringir, cortapisar
groom verbo/ɡɹum/acicalar
priceless adjetivo/ˈpɹaɪslɪs/inestimable, no tener precio
commute verbo/kəˈmjuːt/conmutar, indultar
amplify verbo/ˈæm.plə.faɪ/amplificar
childcare sustantivocuidado infantil
chore sustantivo/t͡ʃoɹ/mandado, tarea
complacent adjetivo/kəmˈpleɪsənt/autocomplaciente, contentadizo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
wake up verbo/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/despertarse, recordar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • You can't own it, but you can use it.
  • You can't keep it, but you can spend it.
  • How will we spend that time?
  • What would we do with it?

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 10 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, can't, they're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, millisecond /ˈmɪlɪˌsɛkənd/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: deposit /dɪˈpɑ.zɪt/, lazy /ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)/

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 priority, expand, deposit.

¿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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