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When you're looking out for a partner,
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try to find one who's had their heart very badly broken by one or even better two or three exes.
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Imagine you're on a date across the table from someone with a truly tragic story to tell.
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Their ex pursued them intensely for a year, proposed after six months, bought a house with them and spoke excitedly about children.
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Then it emerged that from the very beginning there had been another family.
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There was even a new baby in the month of the proposal.
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We compose our face into an expression of gravity and sympathy.
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We might murmur, how awful, and that must have been devastating.
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But another thought should quietly cross our minds.
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This may be one of the most promising things we could ever have learned about a new companion
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or indeed about anyone we might hope to love.
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Dating profiles tend to mention hobbies and show us photographs.
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The more important detail gets left off –
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that this is someone who cried for two years over a person they used to call squirrel.
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We could naturally learn the wrong lessons from having our heart broken.
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But we might also return to love with a heightened sense of gratitude and responsibility.
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There's nothing like waiting desperately for a reply to a text to teach us the value of answering promptly to messages.
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Having always had to initiate sex, we'll become very careful about explaining those evenings when we're not in the mood.
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After months of shouting, a quiet walk around the block discussing the local architecture tends to feel thrilling.
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Someone who's never offered to pay becomes our finest teacher in generosity.
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With our hearts broken, we stop scoffing at steadiness, we learn to be properly grateful for tenderness,
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we say a thank you built out of years of crying for a bunch of primroses or a handmade card.
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And if the partner ever did have to leave us,
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there is an above average chance that they would think very carefully about how to do the ending.
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We are sorry, of course, for anyone who does get their hearts broken.
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The ex really did seem beastly, but a part of our mind can't
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and shouldn't help thanking every monster for taking our prospective companion on a journey to hell.
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Our minds are by nature ungrateful.
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don't learn too much about love from being only loved well.
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It generally takes an affair to make us appreciate honesty.
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The foundation of a capacity to love properly might just be heartbreak.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Why Heartbroken People Make the Best Lovers”. Las palabras que más se repiten: broken, learn, month. Este vídeo tiene 31 frases y 426 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:50. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 150 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 82 % 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 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| companion sustantivo | /kəmˈpæn.jən/ | compañero, compañera |
| compose verbo | /kəmˈpəʊz/ | componer |
| devastate verbo | /ˈdɛv.ə.steɪt/ | devastar |
| heartbreak sustantivo | /ˈhɑɹt.bɹeɪk/ | desamor, corazón roto |
| heighten verbo | /ˈhaɪ̯.tən/ | elevar |
| murmur sustantivo | /ˈmɝ.mɚ/ | soplo |
| primrose sustantivo | /ˈpɹɪm.ɹoʊz/ | primavera |
| steadiness sustantivo | /ˈstɛdinəs/ | firmeza |
| tenderness sustantivo | /ˈtɛn.dɚ.nɪs/ | ternura, terneza |
| ungrateful adjetivo | /ʌnˈɡɹeɪtfəl/ | desagradecido, ingrato |
| intensely adverbio | /ɪnˈtɛnsli/ | intensamente |
| generosity sustantivo | /ˌd͡ʒɛn.əˈɹɑ.sə.ti/ | generosidad, dadivosidad |
| handmade adjetivo | /ˈhændˌmeɪd/ | hecho a mano |
| squirrel sustantivo | /ˈskwɪ.ɹ(ə)l/ | ardilla |
| thrill verbo | /θɹɪl/ | emocionar, excitar |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| walk around verbo | deambular |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 7 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, can't, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: thrill /θɹɪl/, sympathy /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: initiate /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.eɪt/, shout /ʃaʊt/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: generosity /ˌd͡ʒɛn.əˈɹɑ.sə.ti/, initiate /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.eɪt/, desperately /ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹət.li/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: steadiness /ˈstɛdinəs/, squirrel /ˈskwɪ.ɹ(ə)l/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: devastate /ˈdɛv.ə.steɪt/, prospective /pɹəˈspɛktɪv/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: compose /kəmˈpəʊz/, primrose /ˈpɹɪm.ɹoʊz/, propose /pɹəˈpəʊz/
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 companion, compose, devastate.
¿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.