Shadowing Practice: Why We Should Draw More (and Photograph Less) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Whenever something looks interesting or beautiful, there's a natural impulse to want to capture and preserve it.
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Which means, in this day and age, that we're likely to reach for our phones and take a picture.
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Though this might seem like an ideal solution, there's a big problem associated with it.
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We're likely to be so busy taking the pictures, we forget to look at the world, whose beauty and interests prompted us to take a photograph in the first place.
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These problems seem to be very much of today, a consequence of the tiny phones in our pockets.
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But they were noticed right at the beginning of the history of photography, when the average camera was the size of a grandfather clock.
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The first person to notice them was the English art critic John Ruskin.
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He was very impressed by cameras, at first, but gradually he grew very suspicious of them, believing that they blinded us to our surroundings.
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To try to correct this blindness, Ruskin recommended that all of us take up drawing.
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Not with a view to becoming great artists, but simply because through the act of trying to recreate on paper what we see in the world,
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we study it in a way we never do when we simply take a photograph.
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Summing up what he had attempted to do in four years of teaching and writing manuals on drawing, Ruskin wrote, Let two persons go out for a walk,
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the one a good sketcher, the other having no taste of the kind.
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Let them go down a green lane.
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There will be a great difference in the scene as perceived by the two individuals.
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The one will see a lane and trees.
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He will perceive the trees to be green, though he will think nothing about it.
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He will see that the sun shines and that it has a cheerful effect.
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And that's all.
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But what will the sketcher see?
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His eye is accustomed to search into the cause of beauty and penetrate the minutest parts of loveliness.
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He looks up and observes how the showery
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and subdivided sunshine comes sprinkled down among the gleaming leaves overhead till the air is filled with an emerald light.
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He will see here and there a bough emerging from the veil of leaves.
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He will see the jewel brightness of the emerald moss and the variegated and fantastic lichens, white and blue, purple and red,
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all mellowed and mingled into a single garment of beauty.
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Then come the cavernous trunks and the twisted roots that grasp with their snake-like coils at the steep bank,
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whose turfy slope is inlaid with flowers of a thousand dyes.
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Is this not worth seeing?
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Yet if you are not a sketcher, you will pass along the green lane, and when you come home again have nothing to say
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or to think about it but that you went down such and such a lane.
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Thank you.
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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 We Should Draw More”. Las palabras que más se repiten: lane, Ruskin, sketcher, beauty, green. Este vídeo tiene 32 frases y 494 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:47. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 177 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 81 % 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 |
|---|---|---|
| emerald sustantivo | /ˈɛm.(ə.)ɹəld/ | esmeralda |
| perceive verbo | /pɚˈsiv/ | percibir, apercibirse de |
| blindness sustantivo | /ˈblaɪndnəs/ | ceguera |
| cavernous adjetivo | /ˈkæv.ɚ.nəs/ | cavernoso |
| lichen sustantivo | /ˈlaɪ.kən/ | liquen |
| mellow adjetivo | /ˈmɛloʊ/ | mantecoso, blando |
| mingle verbo | /ˈmɪŋ.ɡəl/ | mezclar, entremezclar |
| sprinkle verbo | /ˈspɹɪŋkəl/ | salpicar, rociar |
| subdivide verbo | /ˌsʌb.dɪˈvaɪd/ | subdividir |
| variegated adjetivo | /ˈvɛ(ə)ɹi.əˌɡeɪtɪd/ | variegado, abigarrado |
| recreate verbo | /ˈɹɛk.ɹi.eɪt/ | recrearse |
| penetrate verbo | /ˈpɛnɪtɹeɪt/ | penetrar |
| brightness sustantivo | /ˈbɹaɪtnəs/ | brillo |
| garment sustantivo | /ˈɡɑɹmənt/ | prenda, prenda de vestir |
| cheerful adjetivo | /ˈt͡ʃɪɹfl̩/ | animado, alegre |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| look up verbo | /ˌlʊk ˈʌp/ | mejorar |
| pass along verbo | hacer llegar | |
| sum up verbo | sumar |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: showery /ˈʃaʊəɹi/, suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/, sunshine /ˈsʌnʃaɪn/, shine /ʃaɪn/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: sprinkle /ˈspɹɪŋkəl/, slope /sloʊp/, steep /stiːp/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: perceive /pɚˈsiv/, cavernous /ˈkæv.ɚ.nəs/, loveliness /ˈlʌvlinəs/, subdivide /ˌsʌb.dɪˈvaɪd/, variegated /ˈvɛ(ə)ɹi.əˌɡeɪtɪd/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: surroundings /səˈɹaʊndɪŋz/, observe /əbˈzɜːv/, preserve /pɹəˈzɝv/
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 emerald, perceive, blindness.
¿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.