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When love is working, we want it to last, of course, forever.
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It isn't enough that it should have been nice today and that we've got some plans for tomorrow.
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We beg the lover to promise that they're going to be with us until the end.
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A dog can be happy in the present moment.
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We aren't satisfied until we've secured the next half century.
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We can read this same demented longing for permanence in the histories of whole nations and peoples.
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It's why we build arches, consecrate temples, write treaties in gold, put up statues to generals, saying to ourselves in the future,
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in effect, we want to and will be always loyal till the final hour of the final day.
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The difficulty in all this is that we're largely made of water.
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Most bits of us at a cellular level weren't here five years ago and won't be here in another five.
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Everything is in motion.
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The planet is rotating at 67 ,000 miles an hour around a sun
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that's going to go dark in five billion short years from now.
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And still, we decide to get married.
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The surest prediction any of us can make about ourselves is that we're going to forget.
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We've forgotten the famous generals.
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We no longer remember the old songs.
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The ancient gods mean nothing to us anymore.
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When we were 11, we said we were going to love
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Bobby until the end of time.
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Then we changed class and hung out mostly with Jen, who was later replaced with Ahmed, none of whom we've seen in two decades.
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The countries that plan to be allies for the next millennium have, despite the triumphal arch, taken up arms again.
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The old temples are being converted into flats.
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Our bodies give us no more guarantees than our emotion.
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An aneurysm might get us tomorrow.
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We can be felled by a coin dropped from a second floor.
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We can be safe by recognising that there is no safety.
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We should at all times keep a small bag packed at the back of a cupboard.
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The good news is that despite our feeling of fragility, though we might now use baby language with our new partner,
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we aren't in fact small, helpless children.
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We'd survive if it ended, we're canny, we've lost everything before, and can do so again if the next relationship collapses.
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All of which frees us to do our best to savour the rest of today with our new friend,
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aware that nothing has been promised to us for even the first part of tomorrow.
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And that's absolutely fine.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Why Love NEVER Lasts FOREVER”. Este vídeo tiene 34 frases y 434 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:19. El hablante habla rápido, unas 188 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 86 % 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 |
|---|---|---|
| temple sustantivo | /ˈtɛm.pl̩/ | templo |
| arch sustantivo | /ɑɹt͡ʃ/ | arco |
| guarantee sustantivo | /ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/ | garantía, caución |
| difficulty sustantivo | /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/ | dificultad |
| treaty sustantivo | /ˈtɹiti/ | tratado |
| lover sustantivo | /ˈlʌvɚ/ | amante, enamorado |
| loyal adjetivo | /ˈlɔɪəl/ | leal |
| coin sustantivo | /ˈkoɪ̯n/ | moneda, numerario |
| emotion sustantivo | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | afecto, emoción |
| collapse verbo | /kəˈlæps/ | derrumbarse, desplomarse |
| convert verbo | /kənˈvɝt/ | convertir |
| ally sustantivo | /ˈæl.aɪ/ | aliado, aliada |
| statue sustantivo | /ˈstæt͡ʃu/ | estatua |
| satisfy verbo | /ˈsætɪsfaɪ/ | satisfacer |
| prediction sustantivo | /pɹɪˈdɪkʃən/ | predicción |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| put up verbo | colgar |
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | we've secured · We've forgotten · we've seen |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | being converted · can be felled · has been promised |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 15 contracciones y formas reducidas, como we've, we're, aren't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, prediction /pɹɪˈdɪkʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/, aneurysm /ˈæn.jəɹ.ɪz.əm/, fragility /fɹəˈd͡ʒɪlɪti/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: lover /ˈlʌvɚ/, convert /kənˈvɝt/, savour /ˈseɪvəɹ/
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 temple, arch, guarantee.
¿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.