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Today I'm going to go over something I find quite interesting about American English,
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and that is how different the same word can sound depending on where it falls in a sentence.
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I've been noticing recently some of my students from certain countries have the tendency to accent the last word in the sentence.
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And in general, American English goes down in pitch throughout a sentence.
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So actually, the words at the end of a sentence should be lower in pitch,
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lower in volume, more unstressed than the same word would be if it came earlier in the sentence.
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Let's take, for example, the word home in the sentences, I'll be home by three.
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Last night I drove the car home.
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Let's hear the word home in the first sentence, I'll be home by three, repeat it on a loop a few times to get it into our ear.
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I'll be home by three.
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Home, home, home, home.
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And now in the second sentence, last night I drove the car home.
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Last night I drove the car home.
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Home, home, home, home.
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And now let's compare, switching back and forth.
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Home, home, home, home, home, home, home, home, home.
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Clearly they are at two different pitches, two different volumes.
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Here I'm using the software program Pratt to view both sentences and the loops of the word home.
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The first sentence, I'll be home by three.
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And the loop for the word home in
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that sentence, home, home, home you can see that the volume is greater compared to the word home in the second sentence.
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And down here we see the pitch.
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Both of these sentences have the downward trend, the second one ending with this little dot down here,
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as most statements in English do.
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The word home in the first sentence is here, quite high in pitch, the word home in the second sentence, here, quite low in pitch.
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This section up here is the M, sort of just a grumble in the voice.
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It sort of stops sounding like speech at this point, doesn't it?
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It's so low in pitch, so low in volume, so far down in the throat.
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Yet when you hear it in the context of the sentence, Last night I drove the car home.
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You do identify it as the word home.
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Let's listen one more time to the loop where we alternate the word home from the two sentences.
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Home, home, home, home, home, home, home.
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So keep this in mind when you're speaking, when you're practicing reading out loud.
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Make sure you're not stressing the last word of a sentence by bringing it up in pitch or making it louder.
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Because in English, it's actually the opposite.
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The words at the end of the sentence will be lower in pitch and also softer.
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The final word in the sentence can sometimes be very low and very soft.
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That's it, and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 38 frases y 496 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:03. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 163 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 87 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
pitch sustantivo/pɪt͡ʃ/tiro
loop sustantivo/luːp/lazo, lazada
compare verbo/kəmˈpɛɚ/comparar, parangonar
throat sustantivo/ˈθɹoʊt/garganta, gorja
depend verbo/dɪˈpɛnd/depender/pender (de), ser dependiente (de)
accent sustantivo/ækˈsɛnt/acento léxico
alternate adjetivo/ˈɔl.tɚ.nət/alterno
tendency sustantivo/ˈtɛn.dən.si/tendencia
downward adverbio/ˈdaʊnwɚd/hacia abajo
grumble verbo/ˈɡɹʌmbl̩/gruñir
unstressed adjetivo/ʌnˈstɹɛst/átono, inacentuado
sentence sustantivo/ˈsɛn.təns/sentencia, condena
soft adjetivo/sɔft/blando, muelle
loud adjetivo/ˈlaʊ̯d/ruidoso, estrepitoso
context sustantivo/ˈkɑn.tɛkst/contexto, marco

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
go over verbosentar, pasar

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 11 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'll, you're, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como pitch, loop, compare.

¿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.

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