Shadowing Practice: Usborne First Reading - Level 04 - The Emperor and the Nightingale - Learn English Speaking with Video
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The Emperor and the Nightingale The Emperor of China was a very proud man.
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He always wanted the best of everything.
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His palace was made of fine white bricks.
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The roof was solid gold.
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The garden was full of bright flowers with silver bells.
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They tinkled in the wind.
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Music to my ears.
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The garden was very big.
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It was so big that even the emperor never saw it all.
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Oof!
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He never saw the little brown nightingale who lived in the trees.
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But other people saw the nightingale.
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The gardener saw her every day.
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He liked to listen to her singing.
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Her songs always made him smile.
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Cheer up!
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Cheer up!
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One day, the emperor was reading a book about his wonderful palace.
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The book said, the garden is full of bells that tinkle sweetly.
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The emperor smiled, but the next page made him frown.
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It went on, but the nightingale's song sounds sweeter than the bells.
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What's a nightingale?
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Why haven't I heard this nightingale?
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snapped the emperor Bring it to sing in the palace now!
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The palace servants never went into the garden They didn't know anything about the nightingale
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But they didn't dare to tell the emperor What's a nightingale?
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Where can we find it?
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They searched high and low.
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They looked under flowers and behind bushes.
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Spiders can't see.
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In the end, they had to ask the gardener.
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I can show you the nightingale, he said.
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Follow me.
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They walked and walked.
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Suddenly, they heard a croak.
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The nightingale! cried the servant.
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What music!
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The gardener smiled.
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No, that's a frog in the pond.
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He replied.
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A little later, they heard a loud moo.
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The nightingale! shouted the servant.
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What a voice!
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No, that's a cow in the field.
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The gardener told them he was trying not to laugh.
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In the end, they came to a tree.
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Just then, the nightingale began to sing.
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Cheer up!
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Cheer up!
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Such sweet music!
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When she finished, the servants collapsed.
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Little bird, the emperor wants you to sing in his palace, they said.
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My songs sound best out here.
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among the trees, said the bird, but I'll come.
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As she flew back to the palace with them,
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the emperor was surprised to see such a little browned bird.
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She's not very pretty, But when she sang,
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he was entranted by her voice.
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Cheer up, cheer up.
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The emperor liked her voice so much.
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He ordered her to stay and sing to him every day.
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The Emperor gave the Nightingale a silver cage,
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but she missed living outside, among the trees.
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Soon, the little brown bird was famous.
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Even the emperor of Japan came to hear her sing.
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Cheer up, cheer up.
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What a sweet voice.
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One day, a big box arrived at the palace.
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To the emperor of China.
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Here's an even better nightingale from the Emperor of Japan.
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Inside, there was another nightingale.
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This one had sparkling golden feathers.
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Its eyes were made of rubies.
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What a beautiful bird!
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When you turned a key, it sang like the little brown bird.
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Well, sort of.
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Tra la la!
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Although the tune was always exactly the same.
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Tra la la!
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The emperor was very happy.
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He was so happy, he forgot all about the little brown bird.
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She flew away and nobody noticed.
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The emperor played the golden nightingale every morning.
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Cha la la. And every evening.
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Cha la la.
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Until one day, instead of singing, it went and kerplunk!
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Something had broken inside.
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No one knew how to fix it.
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Now the emperor longed for the little brown bird But no one could find her,
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not even the gardener Then the emperor became sick He lay in bed,
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staring sadly at his broken bird.
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His room was full of silence and shadows.
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The doctors said he was close to death.
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Suddenly, the sound of birdsong filled the air.
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It was the real nightingale.
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Cheer up, cheer up.
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She had found out the emperor was sick.
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So she had come back to sing for him.
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She sang so sweetly that the shadows seemed to fade.
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The emperor smiled and he began to get better.
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Cheer up!
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Cheer up!
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Whistling Soon the emperor would swell again.
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I am sure the nightingale cured me, he thought.
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Please stay, he begged the little bird.
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You can have a golden cage and all the servants you want.
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I'll throw away the golden bird.
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I prefer to live outside among the trees,
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the nightingale replied, and she flew away.
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The emperor was very sad.
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He asked the gardener to plant a tree under his window.
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It will remind me of the nightingale, he said.
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The gardener watered the tree every day.
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It grew and grew.
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One day, the emperor heard something flutter past his window.
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He looked out.
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Cheer up!
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Cheer up!
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To his surprise, he saw two nightingales.
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They were building a nest in the tree.
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And when they sang, everyone in the palace smiled to hear them.
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The emperor most of awe.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel A2 se basa en el vídeo “Usborne First Reading - Level 04 - The Emperor and the Nightingale”. Las palabras que más se repiten: emperor, nightingale, cheer, bird, palace. Este vídeo tiene 122 frases y 840 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 12:47. El hablante habla despacio, unas 66 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 79 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
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| emperor sustantivo | /ˈɛmp(ə)ɹə/ | emperador |
| palace sustantivo | /ˈpælɪs/ | palacio |
| servant sustantivo | /ˈsɝvənt/ | sirviente, sirvienta f criado |
| shadow sustantivo | /ˈʃædəʊ̯/ | sombra |
| flower sustantivo | /ˈfloʊɚ/ | flor |
| cage sustantivo | /keɪd͡ʒ/ | jaula, gayola |
| silence sustantivo | /ˈsaɪ̯ləns/ | silencio |
| ear sustantivo | /ˈɪə̯/ | oído, oreja |
| arrive verbo | /əˈɹaɪv/ | llegar, arribar |
| remind verbo | /ɹəˈmaɪnd/ | (hacer) recordar/arrecordar, hacer acordar/arrecordar (se de) |
| cure verbo | /kjɔː/ | curar |
| dare verbo | /dɛ(ə)ɹ/ | osar, atreverse |
| tune sustantivo | /tjuːn/ | melodía |
| brick sustantivo | /ˈbɹɪk/ | ladrillo, tabique |
| spider sustantivo | /ˈspaɪ̯dɚ/ | araña |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| cheer up verbo | animarse |
| find out verbo | averiguar, anoticiarse |
| look out verbo | mirar a, dar a |
| throw away verbo | tirar, echar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- Why haven't I heard this nightingale?
- Where can we find it?
- I'll throw away the golden bird.
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | was made · was entranted · were made |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — una acción en curso en un momento del pasado | was reading · was trying |
| Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicción | I'll come · I'll throw · will remind |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 6 contracciones y formas reducidas, como didn't, I'll, can't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, shout /ʃaʊt/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: spider /ˈspaɪ̯dɚ/, snap /snæp/, stare /stɛɚ/, swell /swɛl/, sparkling /ˈspɑɹkl̩ɪŋ/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: servant /ˈsɝvənt/, arrive /əˈɹaɪv/
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 emperor, palace, servant.
¿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.