Shadowing Practice: What's Your Funny Bone? - Learn English Speaking with Video
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♩ Squeaks and I just got back from playing in the big pile of leaves near the Fort!
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But something kind of strange happened.
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When we came inside for lunch, I accidentally hit my elbow against the table in the Fort’s kitchen, and it actually really hurt.
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Even weirder, I felt pain all the way down my arm to my fingers, even though only my elbow hit the table.
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Don’t worry, Squeaks.
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I’m totally okay now!
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Still, I didn’t hit my elbow against the table that hard against the table.
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So why did it hurt so much?
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And why did I feel a strange tingly pain all the way to my fingers?
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I know my fingers didn’t hit the table, just my elbow.
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Weird, right?
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Well, the part of the elbow I hit is called the funny bone.
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It’s way more sensitive than other parts of your body, so if you accidentally bump it, it can really hurt.
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But the reason I could feel it all the way in the tips of my fingers is that the funny bone isn’t a bone at all.
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It’s actually a nerve.
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A nerve helps information travel between your body and your brain.
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We have them all throughout our bodies, from our fingers to our toes and everywhere in between.
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And there’s a special name for all these nerves: the nervous system.
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It helps us do, well, everything.
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When we touch something with our fingers, we can feel it because the nerves in our fingers are carrying the message all the way from our hand to our brain.
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The message tells the brain, “Hey, we’re touching something right now!” The nervous system also helps us see, carrying the picture from our eyes to our brain.
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So, we really need our nervous system, or else different parts of our body wouldn’t be able to communicate with our brain.
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Our brain works with the rest of our body to make sense of the world.
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And that includes when we feel pain.
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You might be wondering why we need to feel pain at all.
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I mean, it really hurts!
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But our nervous system is actually helping us!
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Say I had some soup that was too hot.
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If my nervous system didn’t tell my brain “That soup is too hot,” I could burn my mouth by continuing to eat it.
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But since my nervous system spoke up, I knew to let the soup cool off just a little bit.
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So, let’s go back to when I hurt my elbow.
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For most of the body, the nervous system is protected by other parts of the body, like muscles.
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Basically, it’s padded nicely so that if I, say, bump my leg or the side of my arm, it doesn’t hurt that much.
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But on this little part of my elbow, the nerve isn’t protected.
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This nerve has a special name: the ulnar nerve.
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The ulnar nerve runs from your neck, down your shoulder, all the way to your hand.
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Then it splits into two branches – one is inside your pinky finger and the other branch is inside your ring finger.
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When the nerve gets bumped at your elbow, it actually bumps up right against your bone!
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That’s why it hurts so much.
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And you can feel that pain all the way down the rest of your ulnar nerve, to your fingers.
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But, don’t worry, if you do accidentally bump your funny bone, the pain will go away.
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Although you should always tell a grown-up just in case.
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So, now you know why bumping your funny bone hurts so much.
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But that doesn’t explain why we call it a “funny bone”!
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Getting hurt isn’t funny.
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Well, people have two ideas about where the name came from.
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The first idea has to do with one of the bones in your arm close to where the nerve is.
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This bone is called the humerus, and that sounds a lot like humorous, which is another word for funny.
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The second idea is just that it feels funny when you hit your funny bone – not “ha ha” funny, but that it’s kind of weird, which is another way that people use the word “funny.” Well, Squeaks, from now on, I’m going to be careful not to hit my elbow.
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But if I do, at least now I know why it hurts and that the pain will go away soon!
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Thanks for joining us.
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If you want to keep learning about the weird and fascinating ways that our bodies work, and keep discovering stuff about our amazing world, hit the subscribe button, and we’ll see you next time here at the Fort!
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel A2 se basa en el vídeo “What's Your Funny Bone?”. Las palabras que más se repiten: nerve, funny, bone, finger, hurt. Este vídeo tiene 52 frases y 776 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:50. El hablante habla rápido, unas 203 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. 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
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| nerve sustantivo | /nɝv/ | nervio |
| finger sustantivo | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | dedo, alambres |
| bone sustantivo | /boʊn/ | hueso |
| elbow sustantivo | /ˈɛlboʊ̯/ | codo |
| bump sustantivo | /bʌmp/ | bache, bulto |
| accidentally adverbio | /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/ | accidentalmente, sin querer |
| soup sustantivo | /sup/ | sopa, caldo |
| sensitive adjetivo | /ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv/ | sensible |
| muscle sustantivo | /ˈmʌs.əl/ | músculo |
| discover verbo | /dɪˈskʌvə/ | descubrir |
| leaf sustantivo | /lif/ | hoja, foja (desus.) |
| pile sustantivo | /paɪl/ | montón, rimero |
| nicely adverbio | /ˈnaɪs.li/ | espléndidamente, bien |
| toe sustantivo | /təʊ/ | dedo del pie, dedo de pie m ortejo |
| subscribe verbo | /səbˈskɹaɪb/ | suscribirse, subscribirse |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| go away verbo | irse, marcharse | |
| grow up verbo | crecer | |
| speak up verbo | /ˌspik ˈʌp/ | hablar más alto, hablar más fuerte |
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 | is called · is protected · isn't protected |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | humorous, which is · weird, which is |
| Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicción | will go · we'll see |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos días | are carrying · is actually helping |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 15 contracciones y formas reducidas, como didn't, isn't, doesn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: accidentally /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: nerve /nɝv/, sensitive /ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv/, discover /dɪˈskʌvə/
- /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: humorous /ˈhjuːməɹəs/, humerus /ˈhjuːməɹəs/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como nerve, finger, bone.
¿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.