Shadowing Practice: 全英｜为什么很多美国女孩不想结婚？Why aren't people getting married anymore? - Learn English Speaking with Video
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What do American girls really think about marriage?
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To be honest, from my experience,
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I would say that most of us don't want to get married at all.
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But that's not to say that there aren't a lot of people here who still want to get married,
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and of course, everyone has their own opinions about marriage.
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But overall, I think the trend is that most Americans are not getting married,
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or they're getting married much later in life.
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First, I think it's really important to understand
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that our dating culture is really different
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and most people here will date purely out of love
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and we don't really consider too much about our partner's financial status
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or their job or how much property they have and no,
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there is no Tylee in America.
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Usually after you're married, you'll go buy a house together and and combine your incomes to pay it off together.
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So when we're dating, we basically just think it's important to find someone with similar values and similar life goals,
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but mostly we want someone that we can fall in love with
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and someone who brings joy and happiness to our day-to-day life.
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Because if we're gonna spend the rest of our life with one person,
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it better be someone that we truly want to see every day.
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So why don't American girls want to get married?
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There are two main reasons,
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and the first one is that it's super hard to find a really good guy here.
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A lot of American guys don't do any household chores.
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They're not really good at taking care of the kids and they can be extremely selfish.
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So for girls after they get married they're expected to keep doing their full-time jobs
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and take care of the house and do all of the child care.
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So I can tell you from experience of watching my mom do this,
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it can get really really exhausting.
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In Chinese, there's the phrase 中男情女,
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and I think a lot of people think that America isn't this way,
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but in most places, I would say it really is,
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and girls are expected to do a lot more than boys.
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For example, I have three brothers,
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and I'm the only daughter,
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so I was expected to do a lot more than them and before I was even 10 years old,
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I could cook, clean, do the dishes,
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mow the yard, take care of the house,
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and take care of my younger brothers.
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Literally anything needed to be done around the house,
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I could do it and I was expected to do it.
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But even to this day,
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I don't even think that some of my brothers know how to do the laundry.
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So there are a lot of things in American culture that are are really unfair for women and in turn,
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it's kind of given us this negative impression of marriage.
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And this leads us to the second reason that American girls don't really want to get married anymore,
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which is because these days most girls can live a very full and happy life being totally independent.
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More and more women are getting a better education,
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which leads them to higher paying jobs and being able to fully support themselves.
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In the past, girls were expected to get married and have kids
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and just live as a housewife and
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if you didn't do this it was basically socially unacceptable and you could be ostracized from society.
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But now I would say most of the girls that I know are living perfectly happy lives,
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being totally independent, and they have a good group of friends
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and family who support them while they go study or work to support themselves.
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Getting married is definitely not the main focus of their entire life.
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I think it's super important
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that girls are able to have this choice to choose what they want their future to be
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and while it may be the case that most Americans don't really want to get married,
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there are still plenty of Americans who do get married.
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Especially if you go to some smaller towns in America where the cost of living is much lower
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and people can have a more relaxed lifestyle,
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you'll be able to see more and more people getting married
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and having kids because they don't need to work so much
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or they can rely on one person's income if they have a really good job.
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So in these situations there are some women who are housewives and there's no real negative connotation to this word
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unless you say it like she's just a housewife.
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Then it can come off as really judgmental.
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Most Americans don't really judge when someone says they're a housewife
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or a stay-at-home mom or something like that
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because we know how hard it is to take care of the whole house and to raise kids basically on your own.
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Some people might feel jealous
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or they might feel like those women aren't living up to their full potential by just being a housewife,
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but those judgmental people are really just a minority.
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So even though a lot of American girls are choosing not to get married recently,
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I would say that deep down,
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a lot of us still do want to get married.
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It's just really hard to find the right person.
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I think marriage should be pretty simple and easy and really romantic as long as we have that right person.
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But without that person, I think it just makes life way more difficult for a lot of women.
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Anyway, I hope this video helped you understand more about American culture
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and let me know in the comments if you share any similar thoughts
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or feelings or if you have any questions feel free to ask and I'll see you guys next time.
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Bye!
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “全英｜为什么很多美国女孩不想结婚？Why aren't people getting married anymore?”. Las palabras que más se repiten: married, girls, expected, housewife, marriage. Este vídeo tiene 83 frases y 983 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:52. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 168 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 91 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 12 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| housewife sustantivo | /ˈhaʊs.waɪf/ | ama de casa, mujer de su casa |
| judgmental adjetivo | /ˌd͡ʒʌd͡ʒˈmɛnt(ə)l/ | crítico, juzgador |
| connotation sustantivo | /ˌkɑnəˈteɪʃən/ | connotación |
| ostracize verbo | /ˈɒstɹəsaɪz/ | aislar, excluir |
| exhaust verbo | /ɪɡˈzɔst/ | agotar |
| unacceptable adjetivo | /ˌʌn.ækˈsɛp.tə.bl̩/ | inaceptable, no ser de recibo |
| socially adverbio | /ˈsoʊʃəli/ | socialmente |
| laundry sustantivo | /ˈlɔːn.dɹi/ | colada, lavado |
| purely adverbio | /ˈpjʊɹli/ | puramente |
| selfish adjetivo | /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/ | egoísta |
| combine verbo | /kəmˈbaɪn/ | combinar, juntar |
| unfair adjetivo | /ʌnˈfɛɚ/ | injusto, que no vale |
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 | are expected · was expected · be done |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | someone who brings · women who are |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 25 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, they're, aren't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: connotation /ˌkɑnəˈteɪʃən/, socially /ˈsoʊʃəli/, selfish /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: connotation /ˌkɑnəˈteɪʃən/, unacceptable /ˌʌn.ækˈsɛp.tə.bl̩/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: ostracize /ˈɒstɹəsaɪz/, exhaust /ɪɡˈzɔst/
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 housewife, judgmental, connotation.
¿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.