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For some of us, happiness and excitement never seem to last for very long.
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Every time we finally take pride in ourselves and develop a confidence about the future, something adverse seems to happen within a relatively short order.
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It might be something that we find ourselves actively doing that collapses our spirits, or we start to worry acutely about a matter that suddenly enters our minds,
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or an incident occurs from out of the blue that unsettles us.
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Maybe we read something online that seems mean-minded and worrying.
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Or we catch sight of ourselves in the mirror and feel repulsed.
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Or we suddenly think of something we said or did seven
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and a half years ago that may have been misinterpreted and misconstrued and start to panic.
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Or by some odd impulse that we really don't understand and so can't resist, we do something foolish and contrary to our normal values, which brings on guilt and shame.
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And as a result, we are brought back down to earth fairly sharply.
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We end up, only hours or days after the good mood began, in a familiar place of fear, anxiety and disappointment.
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It can be as if, without quite realising it, we are operating under some sort of secret law.
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Thou shalt never be exuberant.
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Thou shalt never live life too much to the full.
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Thou shalt never be too happy, thou shalt not believe in yourself, thou shalt worry a lot.
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Where might such perverse and sad edicts have come from?
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It may be the result of growing up in an environment where our flourishing was somehow deemed unwelcome and provocative.
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Had we ever been too conspicuously happy, we might have upset a parent who was battling a sense of despair
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or resignation and was furious at the deprivations they had once had to endure.
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We may have grown up to associate a low, fearful mood with safety.
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Sadness means you don't get attacked, it doesn't provoke envy, it keeps you out of trouble.
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Whenever happiness does seem on the cards, a part of us will hence be very keen to return us to a lower altitude as soon as possible.
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To achieve our ends, there may be some favourite websites we like to go to
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that confirm that we are unattractive or strange or in danger.
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We may provoke arguments, insults or offence.
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We've got a repertoire of secret skills to wipe the smile off our own faces.
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Were any of this to ring bells, we should ask ourselves what incentives against happiness and self-satisfaction might there have been in our early lives?
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Who might we have upset with our joy?
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Was there a conflict between our flourishing and someone else's sense of well-being?
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Then we need to reassure the frightened child in us
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that the person who demanded our sadness as a price for their protection is no longer in authority over us.
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We don't have to apologise for being attractive or intelligent or gifted or within reach of stability, sanity, potency and good spirits.
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We are, whatever we once believed, allowed to live without continuous sadness and fear.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “Why We Sabotage Our Own Happiness”. Las palabras que más se repiten: shalt, thou, ourselves, seem, sadness. Este vídeo tiene 33 frases y 525 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:05. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 170 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 80 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| sadness sustantivo | /ˈsædnəs/ | tristeza, engurrio |
| provoke verbo | /pɹəˈvəʊk/ | provocar |
| flourish verbo | /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/ | florecer, florescer |
| acutely adverbio | /əˈkjuːtli/ | intensamente |
| conspicuously adverbio | notablemente, obviamente | |
| deprivation sustantivo | /ˌdɛp.ɹɪˈveɪʃən/ | privación |
| exuberant adjetivo | /ɪɡˈzuːbəɹənt/ | exuberante |
| frighten verbo | /ˈfɹaɪ.tən/ | atemorizar, amedrentar |
| misinterpret verbo | /ˌmɪs.ɪnˈtɜː.pɹɪt/ | malinterpretar |
| perverse adjetivo | /pɚˈvɝs/ | perverso |
| potency sustantivo | /ˈpəʊtənsi/ | potencia, polenta |
| provocative adjetivo | /pɹəˈvɒk.ə.tɪv/ | provocador, provocativo |
| reassure verbo | /ˌɹi.əˈʃʊɹ/ | tranquilizar |
| repertoire sustantivo | /ˈɹɛp.əɹ.twɑɹ/ | repertorio |
| repulse verbo | /ɹɪˈpʌls/ | repulsar |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| end up verbo | terminar, ir a parar |
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 come · have been |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | have been misinterpreted · are brought |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 6 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, can't, doesn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: flourish /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/, deprivation /ˌdɛp.ɹɪˈveɪʃən/, reassure /ˌɹi.əˈʃʊɹ/, sharply /ˈʃɑɹpli/, foolish /ˈfuː.lɪʃ/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: deprivation /ˌdɛp.ɹɪˈveɪʃən/, exuberant /ɪɡˈzuːbəɹənt/, misinterpret /ˌmɪs.ɪnˈtɜː.pɹɪt/, provocative /pɹəˈvɒk.ə.tɪv/, disappointment /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/
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 sadness, provoke, flourish.
¿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.