Shadowing Practice: What is Social Science? - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Social science is really the study of society
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and as social scientists we're trying to understand why society is the way it is, why are there rich people,
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why there poor people, why have we got inequality, what makes a society flourish?
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It's a collection of academic disciplines that are orientated to investigating our or experiences of the human world.
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Social science is the study of people, all the way from their individuals, so their thoughts, feelings and behaviours,
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to groups in society, to the institutions that govern their behaviour.
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So government, markets, economies, all these things capture social sciences.
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It's the science that tries to explore society and understand society.
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It's kind of a nosy Parker's charter, it's how do we all work?
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How do we fit together?
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It encompasses everyday life because you're always interacting with people, so I just think it's a really broad, fascinating thing that kind of everyone will have some kind of innate interest
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and be able to relate to on a daily basis.
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Almost all aspects of society fall under the remit of one or other social sciences.
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Some subjects, if you study them, you're studying really a very narrow set of skills,
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whereas social science gives you a very broad range of skills which is very attractive to a wide range of employers.
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The key thing that distinguishes a social science degree is that you get a set of analytical skills.
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You learn how to approach a problem analytically, you learn some critical thinking skills and these things are marketable.
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It can take you everywhere you want so you can work for governmental organisations
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or for private companies or set up your own business.
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It can take you in a lot of different directions.
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I'm currently working in market research so that's obviously really related to social science because I'm studying people in a marketing perspective.
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It really doesn't narrow your range of options
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and that's one of the very attractive things I think about it
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because employers from industry to commerce through to charities through to
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research there are opportunities for you to go into all of those areas.
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You can do social research for government you can do it for private firms
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and then you can do kind of any kind of job
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that just requires good people skills and being able to think analytically
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and kind of all the things that you get from being a graduate and going to university.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “What is Social Science?”. Las palabras que más se repiten: science, society, skills, range, study. Este vídeo tiene 29 frases y 412 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:23. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 172 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. 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 11 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
analytically adverbio/ˌæn.əˈlɪt.ɪ.kli/analíticamente
encompass verbo/ɪnˈkʌmpəs/circundar
fascinate verbo/ˈfæsɪneɪt/fascinar
innate adjetivo/ɪˈneɪt/innato, nato
marketable adjetivocomerciable, marquetinero
flourish verbo/ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/florecer, florescer
govern verbo/ˈɡʌv.ən/gobernar
governmental adjetivo/ˌɡʌvɚnˈmɛnt(ə)l/gubernamental
distinguish verbo/dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/distinguir
inequality sustantivo/ˌɪn.ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/desigualdad
interact verbo/ɪn.təˈɹækt/interactuar

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 6 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, you're, doesn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: flourish /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/, distinguish /dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: analytically /ˌæn.əˈlɪt.ɪ.kli/, analytical /ˌæn.əˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/, governmental /ˌɡʌvɚnˈmɛnt(ə)l/, inequality /ˌɪn.ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: govern /ˈɡʌv.ən/, governmental /ˌɡʌvɚnˈmɛnt(ə)l/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como analytically, encompass, fascinate.

¿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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