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So here we have yet another, yet another thought -provoking picture here.
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And so, let's take a look.
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So to kick off right kick off We're gonna start by just taking a look at the picture itself, okay?
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Okay So just to kick off, we're going to look at the picture.
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before we start getting into the deeper messages behind the picture.
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So in the picture we can see a man here and he's sweating.
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He's sweating profusely.
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Look at that.
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He's sweating profusely.
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Means he's sweating a lot.
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He's really sweating and he's also holding his hands near his groin area.
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just down here.
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This is kind of the groin area.
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To put it politely, yes, he's got his hands covering his groin area.
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He looks incredibly embarrassed here, right?
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He's sweating profusely.
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He's covering up his groin area.
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he's very embarrassed and on the smartphone here he is completely naked
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so on the smartphone he's also covering his groin area and
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and he's completely naked and if we look at his eyes His eyes are in the shape of a spiral.
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Yes, it's a spiral.
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So you see this shape where his eyes are.
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It's a spiral like this, right?
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He's got spiral shapes for his eyes.
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That's how the artist has drawn his eyes.
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The artist has drawn his eyes in the shape of a spiral.
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Like that.
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So that's the picture.
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So now that we've got that out of the way, now we've got that out of the way, let's move on to the deeper meaning of the picture.
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What do you think the artist is trying to convey with this picture?
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What message do you think the artist is trying to convey?
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Obviously this is yet another picture about technology and the modern world.
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You know I think I understand, I think I understand this picture in that in today's day and age, right?
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In today's day and age
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it's quite easy to be publicly embarrassed on social media right
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people are recording things on their phones all the time all the time
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if you embarrass yourself in public you can end up going viral right
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if somebody records you doing something embarrassing in public that video can then be put onto social media.
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And if you are really unlucky, that video can then go viral.
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And everybody in the world will see it.
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There are a lot of cases of people who have been recorded against their will, completely against their will.
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They didn't know they were being recorded, but somebody recorded them.
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or took a picture of them,
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and they ended up going viral and now their image is now all over the internet all over the world
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they are turned into a meme.
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Yes, do you know what a meme is?
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M -E -M -E a meme, they end up being turned into a meme.
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And all of this is of course completely against their will.
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And the problem with going viral on social media
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with a picture of you or a video of you is that you have no means by which to control this, right?
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You have no means by which to stop this video or image spreading like wildfire, yes, online.
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Because the thing is, online, embarrassing pictures and videos, they tend to spread like wildfire.
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embarrassed yes they really enjoy Watching other people get embarrassed now.
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There is a term for this in German.
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There's a German word for this and that is schadenfreude Okay, this is a German word.
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Schadenfreude means getting pleasure by watching the misfortune of others or by watching the embarrassment of others you get pleasure.
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and this is incredibly common online and when an embarrassing video surfaces online,
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when an embarrassing video surfaces online, it often spreads like wildfire.
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So imagine, imagine you're walking down the street and then you trip over and you end up
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landing in a bucket of paint or something.
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Something ridiculous.
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You trip over and then your head ends up in a bucket of red paint or something.
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And then, unbeknownst to you, unbeknownst to you, there's a teenager recording the incident on his phone.
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Completely unbeknownst to you, there's a teenager right there recording it.
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This teenager then puts it on TikTok, And then, because it's so embarrassing,
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because you've tripped over, landed in a bucket of red paint,
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and then your face is covered in red paint something like that something really embarrassing because it's so embarrassing It's very funny.
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It's hilarious for other people to watch.
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And this teenager uploads it to TikTok and the video spreads like wildfire all over TikTok.
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Really gets millions and millions of views.
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And all of this, of course, is completely outside of your control.
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There is nothing you can do to stop this video spreading like wildfire online.
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And I think that's how a lot of us feel today in a way.
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A lot of us are kind of have been embarrassed online.
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Or we are scared of this happening to us, especially...
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young people and teenagers right?
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Teenagers nowadays have to grow up in a world where all of their actions are recorded forever online.
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Everybody does dumb things as a teenager, yes? everybody does stupid things as a teenager,
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however the difference is, when I was younger and I did dumb things, It was not really recorded to the extent that it is today.
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right?
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Although when I was younger we did have Facebook, social media was not quite as big as it is today.
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And I think there's a big difference between growing up now and growing up 20 years ago.
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In fact, the difference is night and day.
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right the difference between growing up nowadays and growing up say 10 20 years ago it's really night and day
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because of how social media has changed everything.
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Social media has changed the experience of adolescence, yes, becoming a teenager, going through adolescence.
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And the difference is really night and day, I think.
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And I think a lot of teenagers are really terrified of having this happen to them, right?
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Teenagers nowadays are a lot more careful about what they do in public.
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They don't do as many stupid things because they may be recorded.
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unbeknownst to them they may be recorded put online
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and then their video may spread like wildfire online
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and then everybody in their class will see it and not only
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that but everybody in the world will see how they have embarrassed themselves.
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And I think that's maybe the message if I had to hazard a guess
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if I had to hazard a guess I would say that's the kind of message that this artist
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wanted to convey with this picture you know, if I had to hazard a guess,
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I would say that's probably what the artist is getting at with this picture.
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I don't know exactly what they're trying to say, but I think that is probably what the artist is getting at.
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I think that's what they're trying to get at with this picture.
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Anyway, that's the end of the video.
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Thank you for watching.
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Keep listening to English and I will see you in the next one.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Upper Intermediate (B2) English Listening - Publicly Embarrassed Online”. Las palabras que más se repiten: picture, teenager, online, embarrassed, embarrassing. Este vídeo tiene 103 frases y 1207 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 8:51. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 136 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.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
teenager sustantivo/ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/adolescente, adolescentes
embarrass verbo/ɪmˈbæɹəs/avergonzar, abochornar
embarrassed adjetivo/ɪmˈbæɹ.əst/avergonzado
wildfire sustantivo/ˈwaɪldˌfaɪər/incendio forestal, fuego incontrolado
sweat verbo/swɛt/sudar, transpirar
groin sustantivo/ˈɡɹoɪ̯n/ ~ /ˈɡɹɔɪ̯n/ingle
spiral sustantivo/ˈspaɪɹəl/espiral
unbeknownst adjetivo/ˌʌnbɪˈnoʊnst/sin el conocimiento de, desconocido
meme sustantivo/miːm/meme
viral adjetivo/ˈvaɪɹəl/viral, vírico
convey verbo/kənˈveɪ/trasladar, transladar
hazard sustantivo/ˈhæzəd/escollo
bucket sustantivo/ˈbʌkɪt/balde, cubeta
nowadays adverbio/ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/hoy en día, hogaño
adolescence sustantivo/ˌædəˈlɛsəns/adolescencia

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
end up verboterminar, ir a parar
grow up verbocrecer
cover up verboencubrir, cohonestar
go through verboatravesar

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 hacebe put · have been recorded · being recorded
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorahas drawn · have been recorded · you've tripped

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 12 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, they're, we're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: adolescence /ˌædəˈlɛsəns/, schadenfreude /ˈʃɑː.dənˌfɹɔɪ.də/, embarrassment /ɪmˈbæɹ.əs.mənt/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: sweat /swɛt/, spiral /ˈspaɪɹəl/, smartphone /ˈsmɑɹtfoʊn/, scare /skɛɚ/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: viral /ˈvaɪɹəl/, convey /kənˈveɪ/, provoke /pɹəˈvəʊk/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: hazard /ˈhæzəd/, nowadays /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/

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 teenager, embarrass, embarrassed.

¿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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