Shadowing Practice: This Romantic Gesture Is Actually a Sign He's NOT SERIOUS - Learn English Speaking with Video

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But is it appropriate for someone who...
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No. Yeah.
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No, no, no, no, no. There's very little about what was just said that's appropriate.
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So for this week, I thought I'd do something a little different.
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I have a club called the Love Life Club, and every month I answer questions of my members.
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This one caught my attention as something that would be fun to bring to all of you here.
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It was someone who asked, How do you know the difference between someone who is love bombing you and someone who has real intentions?
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This was my answer.
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And by the way, don't forget to like this video, subscribe to this channel and hit the notification bell so that you get notified the next time we do a video.
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Can we do one final question?
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Please.
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Yeah.
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From someone called Tamila.
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How do I differentiate between love bombing and genuine attention?
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I met a man online.
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In brackets, I'm traveling out of country.
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He was pursuing me and is waiting to meet when I'm back in the US.
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We're in different states and he's organizing a day in his city, San Diego, in a month.
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In his text, there's a lot of us talk.
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Talk of living together, how many kids I'd want, asking me for my preferences on houses, calling me wifey, etc. Help.
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How do I differentiate between love bombing and genuine intention?
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How long has she been speaking to this man?
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She met him online.
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But how long ago?
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It doesn't say But is it appropriate for someone who know?
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Yeah, no, no, no, no, no There's very little about what was just said that's appropriate
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It's you know it that's has love bombing written all Over it.
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How do you not get swept up?
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Because it's a lovely thing to hear, right?
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You meet someone you find attractive, whatever, and they're saying all the right things, and they're saying all these, like, how do you stop yourself from getting carried away in those kinds of words?
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Here's what you hear in your head.
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You hear, imagine someone just rang your phone, like it was an unknown number, and you picked it up and it was a automated message
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and it said you have been selected from a random pool
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of people to collect two million dollars all you need to
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do to collect your winnings is to speak now with your bank account details so that we can deposit the funds
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that's what you imagine being said because if
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that happened we'd all be like hang up this doesn't make
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any sense why you're giving me two million dollars right now I've never been that lucky in my entire life
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it doesn't add up two million dollars is not that easy to make no
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if someone out of nowhere starts saying wifey this, wifey that, we're going to have this many kids, we're going to live in this house,
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either they are projecting to a scary degree,
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which means that there's something unhealthy about them
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and they believe they're this in love with you and they're mistaken because they don't even know you.
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So that love isn't real and you're dealing with a really unhealthy person, or you're dealing with a scammer.
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What they're scamming you out of, it might be sex, it might be money,
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it might be just all of your energy, and they're not going to give you anything in return.
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They're just going to bring you out to San Diego
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and have a fun with you and then send you back and be like, wifey what?
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I didn't say any of that.
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I don't remember any of that it's
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you know there's some they're trying to get something
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they're trying to get something
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so you you have to start seeing it for what it
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really is it feels nice to be told you just won a million dollars but you can't trust it
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and it's the same with this how can you feel this way about me you do not know me
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you have no idea who I am
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so either take the time to actually get to know who I am and let's start again or
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I'm going to see this for what it is
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which is either a gross projection or a manipulation but someone can only know you over time by asking questions,
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by taking the time to actually get to know you And by the way, be careful of like traveling to see someone who you don't know.
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I mean, in general, are they willing to make an effort to see you?
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Could they meet you halfway?
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You know, like, is there a way for the two of you to meet in a way
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that requires at least some mutual investment?
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Because the, you know, fly to be with me in my backyard is a very easy thing to say to someone.
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And I'm not saying that means they're dangerous or evil, but at the very least, it's like, it's a lot of work for you
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and none for them I think that's such a good point we've made it before
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but um just when somebody asks you to fly to see them it feels like investment
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because you go oh my god they really want to spend all this time with me
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but actually it's no investment
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if the person is thinking well I'm gonna have a nice weekend I'm gonna get sex out of it
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and then they fly home and i never have to think about it again
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or i certainly don't have to think about it further than
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that weekend and until i decide but we think it feels like
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because it feels like investment right it feels like it's something serious
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because you think oh this person wants to spend a weekend with me exactly
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so yeah i think that's really interesting what it is is
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you're depositing a whole lot of money for very little investment on their part.
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Thank you so much for watching.
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I can't wait to see what you think and I'll speak to you soon.
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Thank you.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “This Romantic Gesture Is Actually a Sign He's NOT SERIOUS”. Este vídeo tiene 88 frases y 1125 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 7:07. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 158 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 90 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir. 14 de sus 88 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
differentiate verbo/dɪf.əˈɹɛn.ʃi.eɪt/diferenciar
unhealthy adjetivo/ʌnˈhɛl.θi/insalubre, no / poco / nada saludable / salutífero
automate verbo/ˈɔ.təˌmeɪt/automatizar
notify verbo/ˈnoʊtɪfaɪ/notificar
projection sustantivo/pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/protuberancia
bracket sustantivo/ˈbɹækɪt/consola, soporte
manipulation sustantivo/məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/manipulación
backyard sustantivo/bækˈjɑːd/traspatio, patio trasero
notification sustantivo/ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/notificación
scam sustantivo/ˈskæm/estafa, timo
sweep verbo/swiːp/barrer
organize verbo/ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/organizar
subscribe verbo/səbˈskɹaɪb/suscribirse, subscribirse
halfway adverbio/ˌhæfˈweɪ/a mediados, a mitad de
preference sustantivo/ˈpɹɛf(ə)ɹ(ə)ns/preferencia

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
add up verboadicionar
hang up verbocolgar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Can we do one final question?
  • How do I differentiate between love bombing and genuine attention?
  • In brackets, I'm traveling out of country.
  • How do you not get swept up?
  • Could they meet you halfway?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacewas just said · have been selected · being said
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorahave been selected · I've never been · we've made
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosasomeone who asked · someone who know · someone who you

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 44 contracciones y formas reducidas, como they're, I'm, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: differentiate /dɪf.əˈɹɛn.ʃi.eɪt/, projection /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, manipulation /məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, intentions /ɪnˈtɛnʃənz/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: differentiate /dɪf.əˈɹɛn.ʃi.eɪt/, manipulation /məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: scam /ˈskæm/, sweep /swiːp/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: organize /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/, intentions /ɪnˈtɛnʃənz/
  • /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/, halfway /ˌhæfˈweɪ/

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 differentiate, unhealthy, automate.

¿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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