Shadowing Practice: Unit 4.2: Changed (Vocabulary) | Effortless English || JUN SHARE - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hello, this is AJ.
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Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for changed.
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Okay, let's start.
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In the beginning the woman writes my husband of 39 years so they have been married 39 years my husband of 39 years no longer hugs me no longer means not anymore no longer means in the past yes in the past he did it in the past he did but now he does not so he no longer hugs me hugs hugs means holds h-o-l-d right hug means to hold someone that you like or love to hug okay so her husband does not hug her anymore no longer hugs me or shows me any affection.
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Affection.
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Affection means kindness, love.
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Usually affection means touching, touching somehow maybe kissing maybe hugging maybe holding those are all affection affection so affection means sh how you show your love kissing hugging holding hands those are all affection.
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Okay, so no more affection from him.
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She says, I have seen him through cancer and diabetes.
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Diabetes, diabetes is a blood sugar disease, blood sugar disease, blood sugar problem cancer you probably know cancer cancer is a serious disease serious disease hard to cure cure is c-u-r-e c-u-r-e so cancer is hard to cure difficult to cure so her husband in the past in the past he had cancer and diabetes diabetes she says i have seen him through seen him through cancer and diabetes okay to see someone through means you helped them with right means you stayed with them you stayed with them and you help them.
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So, I have seen him through cancer means I stayed with him and helped him when he had cancer.
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When he had cancer, I did not leave.
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I stayed and I helped him.
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That's what see him through or seen him through means.
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For example, I might say my mom saw me through many diseases.
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Okay.
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When I was a child, I was sick.
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My mom saw me through those diseases, right?
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She stayed with me.
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She took care of me.
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She helped me.
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She saw me through.
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Okay.
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So this wife saw him through cancer and diabetes.
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She stayed with him.
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She helped him.
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Learn the whole phrase to see someone through, right?
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Don't worry about each word.
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It's each word you think oh I don't understand.
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Right?
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Just remember the whole phrase, the three words together.
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To see someone through something, some problem.
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See someone through a problem.
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Okay.
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She says we have four grown children.
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Okay.
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The children are older now, they're adults, and we have been seeing a therapist for a year and a half.
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A therapist.
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A therapist is a professional helper, maybe a psychologist, maybe a family counselor.
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So a therapist helps you with your problems.
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You talk to them and they help you.
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So maybe if you feel bad you say, oh, I feel bad, I'm sad, and the therapist talks to you, helps you feel better.
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So the husband and the wife are going to a therapist, seeing a therapist.
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Seeing here, seeing means meeting, m-e-e-t, meeting or going to, right?
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So sometimes the verb see has a different meaning.
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It means to meet or to go to.
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Sometimes it means to date, like a man and a woman.
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I say I'm seeing her.
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It means I'm dating her.
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I'm going with her.
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I'm meeting her a lot.
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So they're meeting a therapist a lot.
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They're seeing a therapist.
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They started a year and a half ago.
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They go.
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they say we have problems please help us okay so she's then she says he is kind, generous and friendly.
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Okay.
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So her husband is nice but there are no compliments.
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Compliments.
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Compliments.
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A compliment is a nice word or sentence about someone.
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You say something nice to someone.
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For example, you say, Oh, you are very beautiful.
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Okay?
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That sentence, you are very beautiful, that is a compliment.
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a something nice you say to another person.
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It's a compliment.
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So her husband does not say nice things to her now.
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Not anymore.
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No more compliments.
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And also she says there There are no compliments or any of the flirtatious banter we used to enjoy.
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Banter.
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Banter means fun conversation.
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Not serious.
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Not serious.
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Banter is not serious conversation.
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Banter is fun conversation and maybe funny conversation.
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Flirtatious.
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Okay, this comes from flirt.
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To flirt, a verb, to flirt means to attract the opposite sex.
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For example, a man took talks to a woman because she is beautiful.
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He says, oh, I like you.
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You are pretty.
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Come to dinner with me.
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Okay, that we call that flirting.
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Flirting.
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Talking to someone you want a date with talking to someone you are attracted to someone you like so flirtatious It's an adjective.
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So flirtatious banter, the phrase.
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Flirtatious banter means fun conversation about dating or about affection or maybe about sex.
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That's flirtatious banter.
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It's playing, playing with conversation with someone you like.
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Maybe husband and wife, maybe, you know, woman and man.
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We call that flirtatious banter.
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Kind of fun conversation between a man and a woman.
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Okay.
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So but that's not that's not happening now.
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Finally last paragraph she says he swears he's not having an affair.
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Okay the verb to swear to swear here to swear means to promise.
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To promise.
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So he promises he's not having an affair.
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He swears.
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Swear has another meaning.
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So be careful.
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Swear also means to say bad words like shit.
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If you say shit, then you are swearing.
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So that's the second meaning.
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But here, here, swear means to promise.
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To promise.
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He promises, he swears, he's not having an affair.
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Okay, an affair an affair is means an affair means dating another person when you are married So if you are married but you have another girlfriend or boyfriend, then you are having an affair.
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Okay?
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So an affair means seeing an extra girlfriend or boyfriend or meeting an extra girlfriend or boyfriend.
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That's having an affair.
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We use the verb have.
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Having an affair.
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So he promises he's not having an affair.
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He doesn't have another woman.
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and he doesn't know why he has changed he doesn't know why he's not showing affection he's not fun with his wife anymore he doesn't know why and then finally she says perhaps you do you meaning abby or us us the people reading the letter perhaps we know it's got a question okay that is all that is all of the vocabulary she signs this grace in phoenix grace is a woman's name okay grace is a name phoenix is a city phoenix phoenix arizona arizona is the state phoenix is the city and phoenix arizona is in the southwest part of the united states so she lives in phoenix Arizona okay that is all of the vocabulary lesson listen to it many times bye
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “Unit 4.2: Changed”. Las palabras que más se repiten: affection, affair, cancer, banter, therapist. Este vídeo tiene 118 frases y 1161 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 14:42. El hablante habla despacio, unas 79 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 82 % 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 |
|---|---|---|
| affection sustantivo | /əˈfɛk.ʃən/ | afecto, afección |
| banter verbo | /ˈbæntə/ | charlar, bromear |
| therapist sustantivo | /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/ | terapeuta |
| compliment sustantivo | /ˈkɑmpləmənt/ | cumplido, falago |
| flirtatious adjetivo | /flɚˈteɪʃəs/ | coqueto |
| hug verbo | /hʌɡ/ | abrazar |
| verb sustantivo | /vɝb/ | verbo |
| vocabulary sustantivo | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | vocabulario |
| adjective sustantivo | /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/ | adjetivo |
| helper sustantivo | /ˈhɛlpɚ/ | ayudante, ayudador |
| litter sustantivo | /ˈlɪt.ɚ/ | cama, lecho |
| counselor sustantivo | /ˈkaʊnsələ(ɹ)/ | consejero |
| psychologist sustantivo | /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/ | psicólogo, psicóloga |
| kindness sustantivo | /ˈkaɪnd.nəs/ | amabilidad, bondad |
| paragraph sustantivo | /ˈpæɹəɡɹæf/ | párrafo, parágrafo |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- It's each word you think oh I don't understand.
- I say I'm seeing her.
- It means I'm dating her.
- I'm meeting her a lot.
- It's playing, playing with conversation with someone you like.
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 14 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, doesn't, they're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: affection /əˈfɛk.ʃən/, flirtatious /flɚˈteɪʃəs/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: verb /vɝb/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, adjective /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: adjective /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/, psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/
- /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: hug /hʌɡ/, helper /ˈhɛlpɚ/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como affection, banter, therapist.
¿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.