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From a distance, it can all seem very silly.
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These people have gone to Lourdes, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, in the hope that the Virgin Mary might cure them of cancer and heart disease.
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These people have gone to Medjugorje in Bosnia Herzegovina to pray they might get a chance to talk to dead beloved relatives.
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And these people are praying at the Western Wailing Wall of the old Jewish Temple in Jeruselam and leaving all sort of notes for God to read in the cracks between the stones.
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No wonder some Atheists just think the whole of religion is ludicrous, and they aren't bothered about saying so very directly.
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But that's the wrong way to look at religion.
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What religion teaches us isn't about what's true, but about what many of us here on earth desperately want to be true, for some pretty understandable reasons.
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At one point in the bible, Jesus goes into the house of a man called Jarus, whose 12-year-old daughter has just died.
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Everyone is weeping and lamenting. But Jesus calmly says that she's not dead, she's just asleep.
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"Little girl, I say to you get up!" He says.
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We shouldn't laugh or dismiss the whole thing as nonsense.
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When your child is very sick, you may well end up believing in miracles.
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Because at the end of the day, under immense psychological pressures, you love your child more than you care about the laws of physics and biology.
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And when your loved ones do die, it can take a very robust mind indeed not to imagine, late at night when the sadness becomes overwhelming, that somehow your parent, or child, or friend, is somewhere still around and in a better place than they were.
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And that they might be able to see us as we go about our daily lives and forgive us and understand what we, perhaps, never found a way to say to them.
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And when you're in a complete mess, and all you want to do is cry in shame, you might well start to long for someone who could understand. Someone wise and forgiving, with kindly sympathetic eyes who wont judge and will be patient and kindly, like an ideal mother.
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Science may very rightly deny the existence of the Virgin Mary, let alone paradise and miracles.
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But these beliefs shouldn't just be interpreted as pieces of stupidity.
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They are signs of extreme emotional distress and desperation, which should rightly elicit in us understanding and sympathy.
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Religious beliefs are, of course, technically false.
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But they're coming from a very tender and vulnerable place, which needs our empathy.
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Of course Atheists are technically right. But there's no point getting maddened by the apparent irrationality of the religious.
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We have to understand it and appreciate the intensity of the longings that lead some of us to believe in fantasies against all odds.
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Because reality is just sometimes unbearably painful.
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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 Religious Beliefs Aren't Just Silly”. Este vídeo tiene 24 frases y 490 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:57. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 166 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 |
|---|---|---|
| kindly adverbio | /ˈkaɪn(d)li/ | bondadosamente |
| technically adverbio | /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/ | en realidad, de hecho |
| miracle sustantivo | /ˈmɪɹ.ə.kəl/ | milagro, miraglo |
| elicit verbo | /ɪˈlɪsɪt/ | suscitar, elicitar |
| foothill sustantivo | piedemonte, faldeo | |
| lament sustantivo | /ləˈmɛnt/ | lamento, lamentación |
| ludicrous adjetivo | /ˈluː.dɪ.kɹəs/ | disparatado, descabellado |
| overwhelm verbo | /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/ | apabullar, arrollar |
| unbearably adverbio | insufriblemente, insoportablemente | |
| longing sustantivo | /ˈlɔːŋɪŋ/ | añoranza, anhelo |
| madden verbo | /ˈmædən/ | enloquecer |
| desperation sustantivo | /ˌdɛspəˈɹeɪʃən/ | desesperación |
| calmly adverbio | /ˈkɑː(ɹ)m.li/ | calmamente, calmosamente |
| stupidity sustantivo | /stuˈpɪdɪti/ | estupidez, burricie |
| empathy sustantivo | /ˈɛmpəθi/ | empatía |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| end up verbo | terminar, ir a parar |
| get up verbo | levantarse |
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 | have gone |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | aren't bothered · be interpreted |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 6 contracciones y formas reducidas, como shouldn't, aren't, isn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: empathy /ˈɛmpəθi/, sympathetic /ˌsɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/, sympathy /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: irrationality /ɪˌɹæʃ.əˈnæl.ə.ti/, desperation /ˌdɛspəˈɹeɪʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, irrationality /ɪˌɹæʃ.əˈnæl.ə.ti/, desperation /ˌdɛspəˈɹeɪʃən/, stupidity /stuˈpɪdɪti/, sympathetic /ˌsɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, beloved /bɪˈlʌvd/
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 kindly, technically, miracle.
¿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.