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Excuse me sir, I'm not selling anything I promise.
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I'm a portrait photographer.
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You're?
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I'm a portrait photographer and I think you have an amazing look.
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But you don't have to say yes to me.
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It's okay, I can show you what I do.
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No, I just checked your energy and your energy was good.
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What's your name sir?
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Xavier.
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Are you from London originally?
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I've always lived here.
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Jamaican heritage but yeah, lived in London most of my life.
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Excellent.
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Are you a happy man?
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Incredibly, yeah.
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You seem it?
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Yeah, because of the way how I view the world.
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The lens that I have is very truthful.
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Most of the time, people that are struggling with their life is because of what they're comparing it to.
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So I'm saying, okay, cool, stop comparing it to that.
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And now let's compare it to yourself.
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You're being a bad copy of somebody else rather than being an authentic version of self.
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How are you with getting your photo taken?
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Are you cool?
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You're cool, yeah?
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I'm all right.
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I'm over myself.
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I'm not lonely, I am alone sometimes.
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I spend a lot of time alone, even though I come from a huge family.
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I've got five older brothers.
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But I spend a lot of time alone.
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And what I do in that time, or what I do in that space, is create, I evolve, I imagine.
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And we used to do this thing when we were children.
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We used to sit down in class, we used to look out the window, and we used to do this thing that they call daydream.
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Most adults never daydream.
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You do it as a kid, you sit down and you just imagine, you imagine, you imagine, and the things that you imagine are brilliant things, are amazing things, and anything is possible.
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And then as adults, you sit down and that time is spent worrying, so you don't dream anymore.
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Your body doesn't know the difference between a thought and an event, your body just responds.
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There's a lot of people that have a lot of people around them and are lonely.
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So they're not alone, but they are lonely.
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When you understand the difference between the two, then you start appreciating, okay, cool.
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The best company that you need to have and keep is your own.
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And then make that a happy place or make that even an interesting place, a place that you can appreciate.
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Your authentic self, some people will hate, some people will love.
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And the ones that love you, they stay, the others, you let them pass.
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So then this loneliness thing then starts to disappear.
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And like, well, I put out this and they put out the wrong image.
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Stop lying.
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You're upset that they didn't believe it, but you didn't believe it.
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Do you have regrets in life?
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Do you believe in regrets?
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People say, by this age, by this stage, should be, should have, should this.
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And I'm like, well, for you maybe, but for me, no. I didn't design my life this way.
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So how I've designed my life, I'm living in perfect time and in perfect synchronicity with it.
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My mum, she's passed now.
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She'd always say, I don't mind dying as long as I live first.
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That's always stuck with me my whole life.
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I need to live.
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I need to do this.
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I need to just experience it.
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It's like, that might be bad.
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It's like, well, cool, I'll learn from that.
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Bad things can happen.
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Sometimes I will be alone.
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Sometimes I will feel depressed and stressed and anxious.
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So when you accept it, it's like, okay, cool, now I'm in it.
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What now?
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So I'm like, well, fine.
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Let's sit in this for a minute, for an hour.
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And I'll set a timer on it.
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And then I'm like, OK, I'm bored now.
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Let's go and do something else.
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And I'd go for a walk.
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I was going to go straight home.
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But I thought I'd go for a little stroll.
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I don't come down to the West End much.
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So when I do, I like coming around and looking at architecture.
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And just I love people watching as well.
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But the more people do that, the better it is.
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Sometimes people's poison, what they believe is poison, is actually their antidote, which is actually getting out,
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being amongst people, and going for walks and going for strolls and everybody's behind their phones.
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And that thing stops you from doing the one thing that we were born to do was touch, communicate, the social media isn't social.
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I just travelled a minute ago and I went to the airport and they go to me, you can go to the automatic machine.
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And I was like, no, thanks, I'd rather speak to a human.
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And the guy looked at me like, literally, his face was like, but I'm always trying to get human connection, contact.
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It's just key.
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We're desperate for it, but we're also a little bit scared of it.
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I'm speaking for myself.
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I'm desperate for it, but I'm also a little bit scared of it. Because?
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We're going up doing this, like going up to somebody.
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I'm always preparing for the worst.
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The person's going to be dismissive, be rude, and I'm going to feel rejected, but that hardly ever happens, actually.
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Your reference point is nine times out of ten?
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Yes.
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I'm good.
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You still focus on the one.
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Yeah.
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Why?
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You're always scanning for danger. For?
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Danger.
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The interesting thing is when you start thinking of the worst thing, the worst thing appears in your psyche, in your energy.
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So then think of the opposite.
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The minute you start challenging that narrative, then the narrative starts to disappear.
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Living is a choice.
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Dying is an inevitability.
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You don't have a say in it.
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Now, do you want to live?
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Perfect.
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Thank you so much.
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It's been a pleasure.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “This Could Be The Most Life-Changing Video You Watch Today”. Las palabras que más se repiten: cool, imagine, alone, sit. Este vídeo tiene 110 frases y 1003 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:58. El hablante habla rápido, unas 202 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 85 % 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:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| daydream verbo | /ˈdeɪdɹiːm/ | soñar despierto, pensar en la inmortalidad del cangrejo |
| stroll verbo | /stɹoʊl/ | pasearse, pasear |
| authentic adjetivo | /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/ | auténtico |
| scare verbo | /skɛɚ/ | asustar, atemorizar |
| poison sustantivo | /ˈpɔɪ.zən/ | veneno, ponzoña |
| disappear verbo | /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/ | desaparecer, desparecer |
| antidote sustantivo | /ˈæn.tɪ.doʊt/ | antídoto |
| dismissive adjetivo | /dəsˈmɪsɪv/ | displicente, dar(le) poca importancia a |
| inevitability sustantivo | /ɪˌnɛvɪtəˈbɪlɪti/ | inevitabilidad |
| synchronicity sustantivo | sincronicidad, sincronía | |
| truthful adjetivo | /ˈtɹuːθ.f(ə)l/ | veraz |
| loneliness sustantivo | /ˈloʊnlinəs/ | soledad |
| timer sustantivo | /ˈtaɪmɚ/ | temporizador |
| evolve verbo | /ɪˈvɑlv/ | desarrollar |
| bore verbo | /boɹ/ | aburrir |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| put out verbo | sacar | |
| sit down verbo | sentarse | |
| come around verbo | /kʌ.məˈɹaʊnd/ | entrar en razón |
| get out verbo | salir | |
| go up verbo | subir | |
| look out verbo | mirar a, dar a |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- What's your name sir?
- Are you a happy man?
- How are you with getting your photo taken?
- Do you have regrets in life?
- Do you believe in regrets?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + verbo — un hábito o estado pasado que ya no es cierto | used to do · used to sit |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | I've always lived · I've designed · It's been |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | is spent · were born |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 49 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, don't, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: authentic /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/, truthful /ˈtɹuːθ.f(ə)l/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: stroll /stɹoʊl/, scare /skɛɚ/, scan /skæn/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: dismissive /dəsˈmɪsɪv/, inevitability /ɪˌnɛvɪtəˈbɪlɪti/, evolve /ɪˈvɑlv/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: poison /ˈpɔɪ.zən/, lens /lɛnz/
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 daydream, stroll, authentic.
¿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.