Shadowing Practice: Why Do We Fall - Motivational Video - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Let me tell you something you already know The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there if you let it.
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You, me or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life.
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But it ain't about how hard you hit.
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It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
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How much you can take and keep moving forward.
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That's how winning is done!
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Pain is temporary.
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It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or even a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place.
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If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
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The margin for error is so small...
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one-half a step too late or early, and you don't quite make it.
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One half-second too slow, too fast, you don't quite catch it.
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The inches we need are everywhere around us.
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They're in every break of the game, every minute, every second.
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You got a dream, you gotta protect it.
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People can't do something themselves they wanna tell you you can't do it.
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If you want something, go get it. Period.
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Don't be afraid to fail.
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You can’t always win, but don’t afraid of making decisions.
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You have to believe that something different can happen.
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He who says he can And he who says he can’t are both usually right Most of you said that you want to be successful, but you don’t want it bad.
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You just kinda want it.
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You don’t want it bad than you want to party.
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You don’t want it as much as you want to be cool.
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Most of you don’t want success as much as you want to sleep!
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
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Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
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It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
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You have to dig deep down, dig deep down and ask yourselves, Who do you want to be?
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Figuring out for yourselves what makes you happy, no matter how crazy it may sound to other people.
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Make a choice.
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Just decide, what it’s gonna be, who you’re gonna be, how you are going to do it.
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Just decide.
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Why not? Why can't I be MVP of the league?
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Why can't I be the best player in the league?
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I don’t see why. Why, why can't I do that?
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What is it you said to the kid?
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It ain't about how hard you hit.
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It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward.
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Get up. Get up.
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Get up and don't ever give up.
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And we can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us...
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or we can fight our way back into the light.
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We can climb out of hell...
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...one inch at a time.
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To be able at any moment Sacrifice what you are for what you will become.
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Most of you won't be successful because when you're studying, and you get tired, you quit.
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‘I’m not good in math.’ That’s right, because you never study!
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‘I’m no good in rhyme.’ Because you never write before!
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Talent you have naturally.
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Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.
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If you are not making someone else’s life better, you’re wasting your time.
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Don't cry to quit, cry to keep going.
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Don’t cry to quits.
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You already in pain, you already hurt. Get a reward from it.
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If you know what you're worth, go and get what you're worth!
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But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him or her or anybody!
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Cowards do that, and that ain't you!
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You're better than that!
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Every day is a new day.
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Every moment is a new moment.
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Now you've got to go out and show them that you're a new creature.
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Now! I'ma show you how great I am!
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In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it’s written “the kingdom of God is within man”, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!
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You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
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Now! What are you gonna do?
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Because limits like fears are often just an illusion.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Why Do We Fall - Motivational Video”. Las palabras que más se repiten: quit, moving, forward, hour, cry. Este vídeo tiene 67 frases y 774 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:53. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 131 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. 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 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
yourselves/jəˈsɛlvz/sí mismos, vosotros mismos
finger sustantivo/ˈfɪŋɡɚ/dedo, alambres
naturally adverbio/ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/naturalmente, a natura
temporary adjetivo/ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/temporario, temporáneo
adventure sustantivo/ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/aventura
happiness sustantivo/ˈhæpinɪs/felicidad
skill sustantivo/skɪl/destreza, habilidad
knee sustantivo/ni/rodilla, hinojo
reward sustantivo/ɹɪˈwɔɹd/recompensa
darkness sustantivo/ˈdɑɹk.nɪs/oscuridad
margin sustantivo/ˈmɑɹ.d͡ʒɪn/margen
climb verbo/ˈklaɪ̯m/escalar, subir
nasty adjetivo/ˈnæs.ti/sucio
sunshine sustantivo/ˈsʌnʃaɪn/sol, insolación
mathematics sustantivo/mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/matemáticas, matemática

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
move forward verboir adelante, adelantar
get up verbolevantarse
give up verborendirse, entregar
go out verbosalir

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

  • Why can't I be the best player in the league?
  • Why, why can't I do that?
  • What is it you said to the kid?
  • It ain't about how hard you hit.
  • What are you gonna do?

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 46 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, can't, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, seventeenth /ˌsɛvənˈtiːnθ/
  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: sunshine /ˈsʌnʃaɪn/, illusion /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, temporary /ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, inadequate /ɪnˈædəkwɪt/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: yourselves /jəˈsɛlvz/, adventure /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/, seventeenth /ˌsɛvənˈtiːnθ/

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 yourselves, finger, naturally.

¿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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