Shadowing Practice: What is Emotional Intelligence? - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Emotional intelligence is the quality that enables us to confront with patience,
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insight and imagination the many problems that we face in our affective relationship with ourselves and with other people.
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The term emotional intelligence may sound odd.
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We're used to referring to intelligence just as a general quality, without unpicking a particular variety a person might possess.
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and therefore we don't tend to highlight the value of a distinctive sort of intelligence
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which currently does not enjoy the prestige it should.
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Every sort of intelligence signals an ability to navigate well around a particular set of challenges mathematical, linguistic, technical, commercial.
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When we say that someone is clever but add that they've made a mess of their personal lives
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or that they've acquired a fortune but are restless and sad, or that they are powerful but intolerant and unimaginative,
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we're pointing to a deficit in what deserves to be called emotional intelligence.
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In social life, we can feel the presence of emotional intelligence in a sensitivity to the moods of others,
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and in a readiness to grasp the surprising things that may be going on for other people beneath the surface.
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Emotional intelligence recognizes a role for interpretation and knows that,
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for example, a fiery outburst might be a disguised plea for help, or that a long political rant may be provoked by hunger,
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or that concealed within a forceful jolliness may be a sorrow that has been sentimentally disavowed.
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In relation to ourselves, emotional intelligence shows up in a scepticism around our emotions, especially those of love, desire,
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anger, envy, anxiety and professional ambition.
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The emotionally intelligent refuse to just trust their first impulses or the inherent wisdom of their feelings.
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They know that hatred may mask love, that anger may be a cover for sadness and
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that we are prone to huge and costly inaccuracies around whom we desire and what we really want.
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Emotional intelligence is also what distinguishes those who are crushed by
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failure from those who know how to greet the troubles of existence with a melancholy and, at points, darkly humorous resilience.
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The emotionally intelligent appreciate the role of well-handled pessimism within the overall economy of a good life.
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intelligence isn't an inborn talent.
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It's always the result of education.
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Specifically, education in how to interpret ourselves, in where our emotions arise from, in how our childhoods influence us,
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and in how we might best navigate our fears and our wishes.
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In the ideal society, it would be routine to be taught emotional intelligence from the youngest age, before we'd had the opportunity to make too many mistakes.
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It's because we have, until now, not taken emotional education seriously enough that our species has grown ever more technically adept
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while retaining the level of wisdom of our earliest days with catastrophic results.
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We are now evolved monkeys with nuclear weapons.
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It appears that the fate of civilization depends on our capacity to master the mechanisms of emotional education before it's too late.
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An emotional education means something far beyond just normal education as we've conceived of it to date.
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Though it should ideally include courses in every year of school or college, emotional education is more than something that should just take place in classrooms, at the hands of teachers,
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and come to a halt around the age of 21.
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One, the central vehicle for the transfer of emotional intelligence is culture, from its highest to its most popular level.
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Culture is the field that can ritualize and consistently promote the absorption of emotional intelligence.
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The lessons might be embedded in a tragedy or a TV series, a pop song or a novel, a work of architecture or a YouTube film.
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We can envisage the entire apparatus of culture as a subtle mechanism designed to point us towards greater emotional intelligence.
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We will never progress as a species, and will indeed grow into ever greater, technologically armed menaces to ourselves,
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until we've accepted the challenges and opportunities of properly educating ourselves in emotional intelligence.
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Our technical intelligence is great of course.
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It's led us to tame nature and conquer this planet.
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But a wiser, saner future for the human race must depend on a capacity to master
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and then seductively teach one another the rudiments of emotional intelligence while there is still time.
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Thank you.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 46 frases y 722 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:25. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 133 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 78 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras menos comunes del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

  • anger /ˈæŋɡə/ (sustantivo) — enfado, enojo. A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism, usually combined with an urge to yell, curse, damage or destroy things, or harm…
  • wisdom /ˈwɪzdəm/ (sustantivo) — sabiduría. An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
  • intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/ (adjetivo) — inteligente. Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
  • mechanism /ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/ (sustantivo) — mecanismo. Any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.
  • depend /dɪˈpɛnd/ (verbo) — depender/pender (de), ser dependiente (de). To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition
  • emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ (sustantivo) — afecto, emoción. A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data.
  • emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/ (adverbio) — emocionalmente. In an emotional manner; displaying emotion.
  • navigate /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/ (verbo) — navegar, singlar. To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course.
  • lesson /ˈlɛs.ən/ (sustantivo) — lección. A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
  • anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/ (sustantivo) — zozobra, ansiedad. An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.
  • hungry /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ (adjetivo) — hambriento, tener hambre. Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
  • refer /ɹɪˈfɜː/ (verbo) — referir, remitir. To direct the attention of (someone toward something).
  • ideal /aɪˈdi(ə)l/ (adjetivo) — ideal, idóneo. Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
  • mood /muːd/ (sustantivo) — humor m ánimo, estado de ánimo. A mental or emotional state, composure.
  • architecture /ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃə/ (sustantivo) — arquitectura. The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 9 contracciones y formas reducidas, como they've, we're, we've. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: beneath /bɪˈniːθ/, mathematical /ˌmæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/
  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, relation /ɹɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, interpretation /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/, mechanism /ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, architecture /ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃə/

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 anger, wisdom, intelligent.

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 ahorathey've made · they've acquired · has been
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacebe called · may be provoked · are crushed
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosathose who are · those who know

¿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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