Shadowing Practice: We need to Abolish ICE. | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Representative, my name is Regina Vellamasta and I'm a graduate student at the Harris School of Public Policy.
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As a Latina and a former waitress and bartender,
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it's such an inspiration and an honor to hear you speak.
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My question is about immigration.
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A record 45 billion has gone into immigration enforcement.
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How will the average American family benefit from this investment and how do Democrats shape immigration reform moving forward?
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I think we're hard pressed to see how the average American's going to benefit from rounding up innocent people,
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building a mass surveillance state,
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giving impunity to folks that are shooting Americans dead in the street.
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We need to abolish ICE.
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And I can't tell you how the average American's gonna benefit from it,
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but I can tell you how we are gonna pay the price.
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We're gonna pay the price
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because a trillion dollars was gutted out of our healthcare care system to pay for an extrajudicial force
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that is building a mass surveillance database of everyday Americans,
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scanning your face, observing your online activity,
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looking at your purchases without so much as a judicial warrant when they decide to bust into people's houses.
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But on a deeper level,
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what this is going to cost us also in our economic outlook and our humanity.
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First in our economic outlook,
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one of the only reasons that the United States
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outperformed the rest of the developed world in terms of how we weathered the COVID pandemic,
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because while it was hard for us,
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the rest of the world had it way worse.
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And one of the only reasons that we fared the way that we did was because of immigrants.
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When you think about how immigrants show up in your life,
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whether they are your friends,
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your co-workers, etc. Our health care system stands to collapse without immigrants.
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Our food system stands to collapse.
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Our housing system stands to collapse.
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That's the economic point.
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Then there is the human point.
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What is it costing us?
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as human beings and as a society,
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to look the other way when women and children and innocent people and young men of promise
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are ripped off the street and thrown into a van and disappeared and you never see them again.
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There's what that costs them,
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but think about what it costs you to look the other way.
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What does it cost us as a society that starts to normalize looking the other way?
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Then we start looking the other way as women bleed out in parking lots in states that have banned abortion.
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We start looking the other way as VRA districts start to get stripped out of our Congress.
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We start looking the other way as the free press becomes consumed
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and intimidated by the very powers that they exist to check.
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What does it cost us and you as a human being to look the other way?
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And so there's the economic cost.
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your health care is going up long term care for our parents
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and grandparents are going to skyrocket it is costing us it's already costing us
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and then there's what does it cost our soul and that you know in a political context people think that that's
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naive flowery talk I don't think it is
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because what is all of this for
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if it is not to live a dignified life in a community and country of integrity.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel C2 se basa en el vídeo “We need to Abolish ICE”. Las palabras que más se repiten: cost, economic, costing, collapse, immigrants. Este vídeo tiene 51 frases y 570 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:59. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 114 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 84 % 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
immigrant sustantivo/ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/inmigrante
outlook sustantivo/ˈaʊtˌlʊk/parecer
abolish verbo/əˈbɑl.ɪʃ/abolir, suprimir
dignified adjetivo/ˈdɪɡnɪfaɪd/digno, respetable
extrajudicial adjetivoextrajudicial
grandparent sustantivo/ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/abuelo, abuela
impunity sustantivo/ɪmˈpjuːnɪti/impunidad
intimidate verbo/ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/intimidar, amedrentar
normalize verbo/ˈnɔː.mə.laɪz/normalizar
skyrocket verbo/ˈskaɪˌɹɒk.ɪt/dispararse, ponerse por las nubes
bartender sustantivo/ˈbɑɹˌtɛndɚ/bartender, barténder
waitress sustantivo/ˈweɪ.tɹɪs/camarera, mesera
bleed verbo/ˈbliːd/desangrar
naive adjetivo/naɪˈiv/cándido, ingenuo
consume verbo/kənˈsum/consumir

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
go up verbosubir
move forward verboir adelante, adelantar
rip off verboestafar, timar

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 ahorahas gone · have banned
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacewas gutted · are ripped

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 8 contracciones y formas reducidas, como gonna, we're, can't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: impunity /ɪmˈpjuːnɪti/, intimidate /ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: skyrocket /ˈskaɪˌɹɒk.ɪt/, scan /skæn/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: naive /naɪˈiv/, observe /əbˈzɜːv/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: normalize /ˈnɔː.mə.laɪz/, observe /əbˈzɜːv/

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 immigrant, outlook, abolish.

¿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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