Shadowing Practice: This Encounter With a Stranger Was a MIRACLE! - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Excuse me, I really love your style.
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Oh, thank you.
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You look so lovely.
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Oh, thank you.
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Thanks a lot.
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I'm a portrait photographer.
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Oh, really?
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So I take pictures of people and I walk around and I try and find somebody who looks interesting.
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Yeah.
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So I can show you what I do.
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Yeah.
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What's your name?
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Sarah.
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Sarah.
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Where are you from, Sarah?
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You're from London or?
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Shanghai.
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Shanghai.
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Yeah.
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So where are you from?
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I'm from Ireland.
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Have you ever been to Ireland?
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Haven't yet.
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How old are you, Sarah?
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20s?
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You can guess first.
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It's always a bad thing to ask somebody to guess.
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But I'm gonna say 25?
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Actually 37.
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37?
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Wow.
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Because you look much younger than 37.
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This is my first time.
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First time in London.
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Yeah.
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Have you been through anything in life?
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Something difficult that taught you something?
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10 or 12 years ago.
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I got married.
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and then I decided to divorce.
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But my family means my parents, my friends and my parents, they couldn't understand.
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They really feel disappointed.
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No, you have to trust yourself.
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You have to trust your heart.
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Yeah, so I feel so isolated.
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That is a difficult time.
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Are you an only child?
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and I'm very close to them and I never want to disappoint them.
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You have also very good eye contact, Sarah.
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Is that something you've always had or is it something you've learned?
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Or maybe you're not even aware of it?
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I didn't even aware.
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I think this is a connection.
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You are a con person.
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That's why I didn't run away.
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I think I'm beloved by my parents.
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So am I, so am I.
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We say when we have enough love we can share with others.
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People always feel dangerous.
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in the world.
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Of course, have a lot of dangerous risk in the world.
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The love Sight is stronger.
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You're still like hopeful and a romantic person.
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Yes, yes.
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I think love is never fail.
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Do you ever feel lonely?
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Yeah, yes.
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Sometimes it's hard for me to ask for help.
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How has this experience been for you?
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And you can be honest?
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Yeah, I'm trying to think about what kind of magic.
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Magic?
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Yeah. or miracle.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “This Encounter With a Stranger Was a MIRACLE!”. Este vídeo tiene 72 frases y 369 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:07. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 118 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 85 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar. 18 de sus 72 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 12 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
shanghai verbo/ˈʃæŋ.haɪ/emborrachar
romantic adjetivo/ɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/romántico
disappointed adjetivo/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/decepcionado
divorce sustantivo/dɪˈvɔːs/divorcio
photographer sustantivo/fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fɚ/fotógrafo, fotógrafa
lonely adjetivo/ˈloʊnli/solitario, solo
portrait sustantivo/ˈpɔɹtɹət/retrato
beloved adjetivo/bɪˈlʌvd/amado, querido
miracle sustantivo/ˈmɪɹ.ə.kəl/milagro, miraglo
hopeful adjetivo/ˈhoʊpfl̩/esperanzado
disappoint verbo/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt/decepcionar, desilusionar
isolate verbo/ˈaɪ.sə.leɪt/aislar

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
run away verbohuir
walk around verbodeambular

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Have you been through anything in life?
  • Something difficult that taught you something?
  • Are you an only child?
  • Is that something you've always had or is it something you've learned?
  • Do you ever feel lonely?

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 16 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, you're, didn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, photographer /fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fɚ/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: divorce /dɪˈvɔːs/, beloved /bɪˈlʌvd/
  • /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: shanghai /ˈʃæŋ.haɪ/, hopeful /ˈhoʊpfl̩/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como shanghai, romantic, disappointed.

¿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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