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It can be easy to feel, as we look back on our lives, that we have been singularly inept in our choices and behaviours.
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Why did we waste so long here?
¿Por qué perdimos tanto tiempo aquí?
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Why didn't we see what they were doing there?
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Why didn't we speak up sooner?
¿Por qué no alzamos la voz antes?
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Or hold our nerve?
¿O mantenemos la calma?
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In such self -recriminatory moods, it can be more than merely sentimental to remind ourselves of a fundamental fact about relationships
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that we miss when we despair of our conduct they sit in an area of exceptional importance in
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which we are granted astonishingly few chances to practice before having to make vastly consequential decisions imagine
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if we were asked to become great violinists
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and were given all of six lessons to perfect our craft or
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if we were expected to master the javelin after four perfunctory
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throws we'd know the odds were stacked against us we'd have
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compassion for our often miserable performances we'd understand what we were
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up against without us being aware much the same level of
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unpreparedness holds true of relationships even a highly experienced lover might
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have only eight partners before getting married most of us have two
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or three someone might have shared a home with just one
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other person before deciding to place a new human being on the earth.
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None of us has ever been asked to pass an examination in love before going on a date.
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From the other side of failure, we chastise ourselves for how little we've understood.
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We don't appreciate how much there is to understand how infinitely more complicated relationships are than any musical instrument.
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It's entirely to be expected that the sounds we make are frequently terrifying.
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Let's imagine that there are some 30 key lessons to learn about relationships,
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30 things we might have to get the hang of before having any real chance at managing our lives successfully.
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We might begin to summarize these lessons as follows.
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Always speak up when you're feeling undervalued.
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Complain with clarity and kindness not despair or rage.
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Never try to persuade anyone to love you.
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Don't set out to fix anyone's childhood.
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An absence of attraction is fateful, but then attraction isn't enough.
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They should be like a best friend, but this isn't just a friendship.
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Resentment at a mother or father has a very long tail.
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Someone who hates therapy doesn't just hate therapy, they're liable to hate introspection and dialogue too.
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Flee from anyone defensive, never get together with someone just because they are right on paper.
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If something breaks down once, the chances of it ever working a second time are beyond minimal.
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And so on and so forth.
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The challenge is that though we might state these lessons simply enough,
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to get the hang of each one properly requires at least eight months and more usually several years or even decades.
Dominar cada una de ellas correctamente requiere al menos ocho meses y, por lo general, varios años o incluso décadas.
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We need to experience the finer nuances of the issues through summers and winters, through journeys and work crises, in the slow despair of quiet Sunday afternoons.
Necesitamos experimentar los matices más sutiles de los problemas a lo largo de los veranos y los inviernos, a través de los viajes y las crisis laborales, en la lenta desesperación de las tranquilas tardes de domingo.
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We need time, encouragement and the right to fail without tragedy.
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We wouldn't be any less generous after telling a trumpet player to support their notes from the diaphragm.
No seríamos menos generosos después de decirle a un trompetista que apoye las notas desde el diafragma.
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In a depressed moment in middle age, we might try to categorise phases of our love lives according to the slow lessons
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that we've taken away from each one of them.
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For example, don't keep making an effort if they're not.
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Caitlin, four and a half years.
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Beware of people who can't articulate their emotions jonathan six months
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don't wait around hoping they'll explain why they acted as they
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did roshin three years don't have children before the bond is
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properly formed way way 20 years we would need to live
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to at least 500 years old to stand any realistic chance
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of picking up our craft instead we're rushed on stage
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and have to work out the right way to hold the bow before a live audience.
y tienen que averiguar la forma correcta de sujetar el arco delante de un público en directo.
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Those who haven't generated disaster and mutiny are luckier than they are talented.
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We aren't miserable because we're stupid, but because we weren't ever trained,
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because we exist in a culture morbidly and mysteriously resistant to emotional education.
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We leave things to chance, out of a feeling that it might be cold or unromantic,
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to apply some the same basic discipline and foresight that we would resort to before operating a lawnmower or floor polisher.
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We teach people to become brain surgeons and pilots, yet leave the roles of partner and parent to intuition.
Formamos a personas para que se conviertan en neurocirujanos y pilotos, pero dejamos los roles de pareja y padre/madre a la intuición.
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A better arranged culture would itemise the key lessons of love for people in their last year of school.
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and then impose a universal intensive training program with some of the rigor of an architecture or accountancy qualification.
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We would think of novels and films, not as entertainment, but as chances to hone the lessons of love we'd learned in an analytical form elsewhere.
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We'd use video games to place us in digitized scenarios before we had to face them in reality.
Utilizábamos los videojuegos para situarnos en escenarios digitalizados antes de tener que enfrentarnos a ellos en la realidad.
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We'd ask ourselves for patience and be aware, without humiliation of how blind we necessarily were.
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We've made a mess, no doubt.
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We don't, on top of everything else, need to be surprised that we did so.
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This is a game with at least 30 traps in it, and we began to play long before we'd ever realised that the instruction manual had been tossed aside.
Este juego tiene al menos 30 trampas, y empezamos a jugar mucho antes de darnos cuenta de que habíamos dejado el manual de instrucciones a un lado.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Este vídeo tiene 66 frases y 898 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:41. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 158 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 81 % 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:
- lesson /ˈlɛs.ən/ (sustantivo) — lección. A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
- despair /dɪˈspɛə(ɹ)/ (sustantivo) — desespero. Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
- attraction /əˈtɹækʃn̩/ (sustantivo) — atracción. The tendency to attract.
- miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/ (adjetivo) — miserable, mísero. In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
- universal /ˌjunəˈvɜɹs(ə)l/ (adjetivo) — universal. Of or pertaining to the universe.
- necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/ (adverbio) — necesariamente. Inevitably; of necessity.
- rush /ɹʌʃ/ (verbo) — correr, apurarse. To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully.
- complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/ (adjetivo) — complicado. Difficult or convoluted.
- elsewhere /ˈɛlsˌʍɛɹ/ (adverbio) — en otro lugar, en otros sitios. Synonym of somewhere else: in, at, or to some other place.
- successfully /səkˈsɛs.fə.li/ (adverbio) — exitosamente. In a successful manner; with success; without failing.
- 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.
- odd /ɑd/ (adjetivo) — extraño, raro. Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
- disaster /dɪˈzɑːs.təː/ (sustantivo) — desastre. An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent…
- friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/ (sustantivo) — amistad, amistanza (disused). The condition of being friends.
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
- speak up /ˌspik ˈʌp/ (verbo) — hablar más alto, hablar más fuerte. To talk more loudly or clearly.
- break down (verbo) — descomponerse, averiarse. To stop functioning.
- go on /ˈɡoʊˌɒn/ (verbo) — continuar. To continue in extent.
- pick up (verbo) — coger, asir. To lift; to grasp and raise.
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 32 contracciones y formas reducidas, como we'd, don't, we've. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: attraction /əˈtɹækʃn̩/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, patience /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/, universal /ˌjunəˈvɜɹs(ə)l/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, successfully /səkˈsɛs.fə.li/
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 lesson, despair, attraction.
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
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| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | are granted · were asked · were given |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | have been · has ever been asked · we've understood |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | Someone who hates · people who can · Those who haven |
¿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.