Shadowing Practice: Walk Your Own Road - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Freedom is the one thing that we as human beings all want.
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How do you live a free life on your terms?
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You can have an opinion, you can live the life you want, the life you want, dress the way you want.
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Everybody can be who they are.
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That's how it should be.
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Nowadays there's a lot of extremist views happening.
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I think they call it polarization.
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It's quite a big fancy word.
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Lots of us have strong beliefs about things.
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This is the way it should be done, it's like the black keys on the pianos, or no, things should be done this way,
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and it's like all the white keys on the piano.
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In my life I don't want to have any beliefs that's extremist or black or white.
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So for me In the year, everybody can have their opinion.
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You allowed your opinion, you allowed your life, you can live your life.
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I'm allowed my opinion, I can live my life.
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And I can live within Orange.
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Another thing we sometimes hold on to is identity.
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So, you know, what is your identity?
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And we create these identities.
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At the moment, the thing that I'm learning to let go of is the identity that's linked to my career.
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That's not my identity.
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Our identity is we are stardust,
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we magic, we beautiful human beings.
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This is the identity.
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The identity is not I'm an engineer,
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I'm a designer, I'm a musician, all these categories, boxes.
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I'm merging into plenty identities,
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many identities, but I don't want to be holding on to specific identities.
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The only constant in life will be change.
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The thing is for me, I've embraced change.
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Change in my work, change in people that's in my life, change in situations.
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The world's changing rapidly, there's lots of destruction going on,
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but the other side of destruction is creation.
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So what are you choosing?
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Are you choosing creation or are you choosing destruction?
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That's the thing, and I'm choosing creation.
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What's lovely about creativity, there's no borders in creativity.
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There's no final creative output.
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There's no final creative project, there's no final creative symphony.
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All of it creates, it's part of your journey.
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It's a nice feeling waking up with joy
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because I can remember a moment in my life where I woke up and I could not get out of bed.
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It's really wonderful to feel amazing when you open your eyes.
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childlike wonder where you're a joyous,
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excited human being that's here having this experience on this crazy planet.
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There's a lot of light and sparkles and then within that you also get the shadows.
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And we as humans have to accept the moment.
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It's the only way.
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Accepting yourself, accepting the exact moment you're in,
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accepting that you're the only one that can take the responsibility for you, for creating your life.
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By experiencing hardship or pain,
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you know when you're experiencing love and beauty and peace.
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It's like the yin and the yang.
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There's always the other side.
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And with finding the feeling, the one, you can actually understand the other one much better.
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And also you can now embrace it because you're like, oh, this is just another layer of life.
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It's just another colour.
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It's another shade of turquoise, another shade of teal, another shade of azul blue.
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And you just dive through it.
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The The
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walker your footsteps are the road and nothing more.
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The road is made by walking.
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Walking you make the road and turning to look behind you, you will see the path that you will never step upon again.
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Walker, there is no road, only the foam trails on the sea.
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This is for me very, very beautiful.
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The road appears as you walk, as you take the journey.
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It opens up and it's beautiful.
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We create our own meaning.
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So for me, the meaning is ethereal, it's just this foam.
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You can't actually hold on to foam.
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We as human beings, we want to hold on to things.
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I want to hold on to the people I love that's left or that's in various ways.
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We want to hold on to actually having a beautiful body or you want to hold on to your health,
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or you want to hold on to your possessions, you want to hold on to everything.
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And it's really in the letting go.
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I'm getting better at letting go.
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Definitely.
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As time passed on, as people pass through my life.
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But it's always going to be a challenge.
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I do struggle with loss, people, friends, that's not in my life anymore.
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It's odd, when people pass away,
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you've got these journeys with people and then all of a sudden they're not there anymore.
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I can see a train outside my window every day and life is like these stations.
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people jump on the train and then the train might stop and then they get off.
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And you're still continuing with the journey and while you're on the train, different people arrive.
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And it's really to have a lot of gratitude for the new connections,
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new people arriving, but having plenty of gratitude for people that's not with you on the journey anymore,
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and making every second count.
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Who is with you in those compartments? Are you ignoring them?
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Are you really speaking to them?
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And, you know, what are you making of your journey?
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You die how you live.
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So I trust that I'll be surrounded by the right people.
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Because The journey is becoming more and more exciting.
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So there's more and more, there's most wonderful people in my life.
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Got a message on my fridge.
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It was a beautiful card that I got from my sister, and it said, you are so loved.
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And there's so much love in the universe, and it's nice to be reminded of that.
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So if anybody is listening and going through a hard time, just know that there's a lot of love, and a lot of people love you.
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Kindness to yourself.
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It's a big one. Be kind.
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You are worthy of love.
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You are loved.
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You've got a role to play.
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Each human being has got a different experience.
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There's no person that's got a similar experience.
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And we don't quite, we'll never quite understand the other person's, what they're going through.
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So the thing is to be kind.
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We all have similar challenges changes.
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And that's also one way where you can have a lot more empathy for the other person.
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It's just a mirror coming back at you.
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It just shows you another aspect of you, the other human being.
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So it's just these reflections that's reflecting back.
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It's definitely a love story.
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You know, loving yourself much more, it's the only way to live, it brings a lot of peace.
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Thank you
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so much for watching this story all the way to the end.
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And a special thank you to all of you on Patreon who help us to make these films.
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If you want to join us on the journey please click the link over here, I think.
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It just wouldn't be possible without you.
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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 “Walk Your Own Road”. Las palabras que más se repiten: journey, hold, identity, beautiful, road. Este vídeo tiene 121 frases y 1203 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 15:51. El hablante habla despacio, unas 76 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 88 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
foam sustantivo/ˈfɔʊ̯m/espuma, jabonadura
shade sustantivo/ʃeɪd/sombra
extremist sustantivo/ɪkˈstɹiːmɪst/extremista
gratitude sustantivo/ˈɡɹæ.tɪ.tud/gratitud, conoscencia
creativity sustantivo/kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/creatividad
embrace verbo/ɛmˈbɹes/abrazar, embrazar
childlike adjetivo/ˈt͡ʃaɪldlaɪk/infantil
ethereal adjetivo/ɪˈθɪɚ.i.əl/etéreo
excite verbo/ɪkˈsaɪt/emocionar
footstep sustantivo/ˈfʊtstɛp/huella, paso
joyous adjetivo/ˈd͡ʒɔɪəs/alacre
polarization sustantivo/ˌpoʊlərɪˈzeɪʃən/polarización
sparkle sustantivo/ˈspɑɹ.kəl/destello, chispa
turquoise sustantivo/ˈtɝ.k(w)ɔɪz/turquesa
hardship sustantivo/ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/sufrimiento, apuro

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
go through verboatravesar
get off verbobajarse
get out of verbosalirse de, ponerse fuera de
pass away verbofallecer, dejarnos
pass through verboatravesar
wake up verbo/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/despertarse, recordar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • How do you live a free life on your terms?
  • I'm allowed my opinion, I can live my life.
  • Are you choosing creation or are you choosing destruction?
  • Who is with you in those compartments?
  • Are you really speaking to them?

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 27 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, you're, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: ethereal /ɪˈθɪɚ.i.əl/, empathy /ˈɛmpəθi/
  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shade /ʃeɪd/, polarization /ˌpoʊlərɪˈzeɪʃən/, hardship /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/, musician /mjuˈzɪʃən/, reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/, ethereal /ɪˈθɪɚ.i.əl/, polarization /ˌpoʊlərɪˈzeɪʃən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: sparkle /ˈspɑɹ.kəl/, stardust /ˈstɑɹˌdʌst/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/, dive /daɪv/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: polarization /ˌpoʊlərɪˈzeɪʃən/, turquoise /ˈtɝ.k(w)ɔɪz/, musician /mjuˈzɪʃən/, 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 foam, shade, extremist.

¿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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