Shadowing Practice: Twenty One Pilots Interview - Tyler (part 1) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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So first, hi.
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-Hi.
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-How are you?
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I'm good, how are you?
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-I'm okay, thank you.
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-Okay.
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Do you recall the first record that you bought?
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- First record I ever bought.
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Whew.
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I remember the first tape I ever bought.
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Actually like a cassette tape.
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Do you know what that is?
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I was-- I'm old enough to remember.
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OK, good.
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It was by a band called DC Talk.
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and I don't know if you know who they are, but it was my first piece of music I ever bought.
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And I hate that stuff.
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And what made you buy this specific thing?
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- Thank you.
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My dad was coaching basketball for a bunch of high schoolers, and I was just a little
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elementary school kid and they were all listening to this band and I wanted to listen with them because
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Because when you're in elementary school, nothing's cooler than a high schooler.
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I bought the cassette.
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And that's instilling you the Well, the desire to make music?
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No, not at all actually.
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I didn't even think about writing music.
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So if you think about it, I bought the cassette when I was in first grade.
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I didn't start playing music until I was in 11th grade, so 10 years later.
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You're a self -taught musician.
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What then made you pick up the piano and other instruments?
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What made me pick up an instrument?
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I guess...
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identity issues because I didn't know who I was and I thought I was I thought it was one thing.
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You know, it's like all about When you go to school and you interact with different kids, you try to figure out who you are.
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What am I?
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Am I the jock?
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Am I the guy who's in theater?
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Am I in a choir?
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Do I play songs?
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Do I whatever?
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And I was really I was really drawn to something different than what I was in high school.
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Because in high school I was a guy who did sports.
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And I didn't really like that, I didn't think.
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So when I first started learning how to play the piano, I was, I think I just accidentally found that.
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And I liked, I liked who I was when I was doing that.
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So did it help you find your identity more?
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None of my family does any music or anything.
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So I was just the weird music guy, you know, it was an anchor encouraged or?
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No, in my family.
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Yeah, they didn't really understand what was going on because like I said, none of them really are musical at all.
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But they thought it was cool.
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You know, it's like I set up a microphone and you know my own, you know, little studio in the basement and my mom's and
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washing the dishes
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and she hears her son screaming his head off down in the basement trying to record vocals
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and she's got to be thinking what the heck is going on with him.
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So I'm sure that they were really confused.
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But now, you know, now I'm in a different country getting interviewed by you
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because of the stupid songs that I wrote in my basement.
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Fair enough.
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Do you still have those recordings, those very first recordings?
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Did you ever listen to them?
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I have some of the first recordings I've ever done still on my computer
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and I guard those with my life because I don't want anyone to ever hear them.
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tons and tons of songs labeled Tyler Joseph because
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that was my name and I figured that was what I should call the person who was writing the songs.
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And now it looks ridiculous to see my name just copied over
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and over and over again because of all the weird songs I wrote in the past.
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Yeah, you're not going to hear those.
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But something must have compelled you to keep them.
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Yeah, you're right.
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I don't know.
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I mean, I've thrown away a lot of stuff.
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And I mostly throw away ideas now more than ever because when I try to write, I get a lot out of it.
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It helps me work through things.
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Like in a cathartic sense?
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Absolutely.
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It's my word actually.
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It's my favorite word.
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Catharsis is...
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I had that word as a vocabulary word in high school and I'll never forget it because it explained exactly um, what songwriting is for me.
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And, uh, you don't need to keep the song in order to feel the effect of something like that.
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So sometimes I'll throw things away, but But back then, I didn't throw stuff away as much because it was so precious.
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Because they were my first songs ever.
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You can always hold on to your first songs.
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And they're terrible.
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Well, looking back, how did you describe them as being terrible?
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What then helped you develop as a musician?
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Listening to other songs.
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I became a student of the radio and a student of the internet.
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So some specific bands maybe or?
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Specifically No, I think that I took different things from from different bands.
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You know, there's an aspect of my live performance that I've taken from dozens of different performers.
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There's an aspect of the way that I deliver a vocal on a track
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that I take from six other people who record in a studio.
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There's an aspect of my songwriting that I couldn't even begin to talk about only two or three bands that
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And it's not even fair for me to even talk about just two of them, you know.
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So I like to not even mention it.
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It's just so many.
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So it's more, not certain elements, certain bands, but certain elements that exist in a lot of bands
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and a lot of music and then compile them and make it your own?
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Yeah, there's a...
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For example, something that has influenced me, there's a song, and I don't want to throw everything on to this one band,
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but there's a song by The Killers, they do a music video, too.
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And he's standing in the middle of the city in Japan, I believe, and he looks dead in the camera, and his eyes are really calm,
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but there's a moment where his hand kind of suggesting I'm trying to come across as if I'm fine,
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but really there's something wrong.
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I think of a moment like that.
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That has influenced me musically more than any song has.
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I come from a generation that had YouTube.
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I could look up anything I wanted.
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I was influenced My Chemical Romance, where They're playing in just this dusty abyss.
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They just pour it all out.
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That's how much I want to believe in my music.
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So those things I think of just different moments.
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But those bands are amazing.
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But I want to be better than them.
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It actually sounds like on your website there's this bio section where you talk about joy
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and happiness and the distinction between them.
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And this sounds very much like what you just described, the pretense of happiness, but actually it's just joy which fades away.
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Is that correct?
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Yeah.
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No, I think that what I get out of traveling around the world now, being able to play music,
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things that just translate perfectly.
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You have sexuality, you know, people are attracted to one another.
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You know, you have food, people love food.
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Everybody in the entire world likes food. And you have music.
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And really those are like the only things that there are.
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I mean, I'm sure we can come up with some other theories, but you know, you think about music and how and how it just applies to to everyone.
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Universal...
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It's very...
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Universal is a perfect word for it.
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So, so then I start, as a songwriter, I start thinking of other universal Concepts.
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And I think that one of those whether or not people really understand it is the concept of
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trying to figure out how to go about this life in a way that you
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enjoy yourself or in a way that you like who you are.
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And whether or not you like who you are is really hinged upon whether or not you have joy.
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Because I'm happy that I'm here right now talking to you.
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but then something else can happen where I'm about to go play a show
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and nothing goes right and then I'm not happy anymore.
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It's very, It's fleeting.
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it gets influenced by the things that are going on around me and if I'm controlled by just that, then I'm gonna go nuts.
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I need to find something bigger.
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I need to find something that I have joy, which I feel like kind of, it spans out over my entire life.
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If hopefully, you know, more than just a moment, hopefully a day, a month, years, where joy just is is there and I think that when you find joy, then you find peace.
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And when you find peace, then you have obviously found something to believe in.
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But it is still, I assume, then a continuous struggle to find it.
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Absolutely.
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And that's.. that goes back to...
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another universal language. And that's...
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struggling to find peace.
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And that's something I think that every single person on Earth has to figure out.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Twenty One Pilots Interview - Tyler”. Las palabras que más se repiten: song, band, joy, bought. Este vídeo tiene 151 frases y 1565 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 10:40. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 147 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 83 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar. 24 de sus 151 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
cassette sustantivo/kəˈsɛt/casete
basement sustantivo/ˈbeɪsmənt/sótano, béisment
musician sustantivo/mjuˈzɪʃən/músico, música
vocal adjetivo/ˈvoʊ̯.kəl/vocal
catharsis sustantivo/kəˈθɑɹˌsɪs/catarsis
compel verbo/kəmˈpɛl/compeler
compile verbo/kəmˈpaɪl/copilar, recopilar
instill verbo/ɪnˈstɪl/insuflar, infundir
musically adverbio/ˈmjuːzɪkəli/musicalmente
pretense sustantivo/ˈpɹiːtɛns/pretensión, pretenso
dusty adjetivo/ˈdʌsti/polvoriento, polvoroso
microphone sustantivo/ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfəʊn/micrófono
performer sustantivo/pɚˈfɔɹmɚ/artista, ejecutor
vocabulary sustantivo/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/vocabulario
fade verbo/feɪd/desteñir, desvaírse

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
figure out verboaveriguar, captar
pick up verbocoger, asir
throw away verbotirar, echar
come across verbopasarse a
come up with verboingeniar, ingeniarse
get out of verbosalirse de, ponerse fuera de
head off verboecharse a andar
look back verborecordar, volver la cabeza

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • I'm good, how are you?
  • Do you recall the first record that you bought?
  • Do you know what that is?
  • What made me pick up an instrument?
  • Am I the guy who's in theater?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahoraI've ever done · I've thrown · I've taken
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacewas really drawn · was influenced · are attracted
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosaguy who did · person who was · people who record

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 39 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, didn't, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: catharsis /kəˈθɑɹˌsɪs/, cathartic /kəˈθɑɹtɪk/
  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: musician /mjuˈzɪʃən/, distinction /dɪˈstɪŋkʃən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: musically /ˈmjuːzɪkəli/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: span /spæn/, scream /skɹiːm/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vocal /ˈvoʊ̯.kəl/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: musician /mjuˈzɪʃən/, musically /ˈmjuːzɪkəli/, translate /tɹænzˈleɪt/

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 cassette, basement, musician.

¿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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