Shadowing Practice: Work-life balance — Jeff Bezos - Learn English Speaking with Video

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how do you go about establishing that work -life balance
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that everybody you know talks about
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and thinks about you've got yeah I mean you live a big life right
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and how do you how do you I get this question
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a lot I get it I teach senior executive kind of leadership classes at Amazon for our most senior execs
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and I also teach or not teach but I also speak to interns
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so kind of all across the spectrum
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and I get this question about work -life balance all the time from from both ends of the spectrum
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and the my view is I don't even like the phrase is work -life balance.
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I think it's misleading.
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I like the phrase work -life harmony because I know that if I am energized at work,
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happy at work, feeling like I'm adding value, part of a team, whatever energizes you, that makes me better at home.
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It makes me a better husband, a better father, and likewise, if I'm happy at home,
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it makes me a better employee, a better boss, all the things.
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It's not about, it's not primarily about, there may be crunch periods where it's about the number of hours in the week, but that's not the real thing.
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Usually, it's about, do you have energy?
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And is your work depriving you of energy, or is your work generating energy for you.
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And you know, there are people, everybody in this room knows people who fall into these two camps.
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You're in a meeting and the person comes in the room.
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Some people come into the meeting and they add energy to the meeting.
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Other people come into the meeting and the whole meeting just deflates.
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And those people just, they drain energy from the meeting.
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And you have to decide which of those kinds of people you're going to be.
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Are you going to add energy?
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And the same thing at home and the same thing at home
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and it's so it's a wheel it's a cycle it's a flywheel it's a circle it's not a balance
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because a balance that's why that metaphor is so dangerous
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because it implies there's a strict trade -off
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and you could be out of work have all the time for your family in the world
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but really depressed and demoralized about your work situation
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and your family wouldn't want to be anywhere near you they would wish you would take a vacation from them
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and so it's not about the number of hours not primarily I suppose
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if you went crazy with you know a hundred hours a week
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or something yeah that maybe maybe there are limits
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and they probably I've never had a problem and I think it's
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because both sides of my life give me energy
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and that's what I would recommend that's what I do recommend to interns and execs

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 37 frases y 486 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:47. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 174 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. 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:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
primarily adverbio/ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/primariamente
phrase sustantivo/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/frase
spectrum sustantivo/ˈspɛktɹəm/espectro
intern sustantivo/ˈɪntɝn/pasante, practicante
establish verbo/ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/establecer, establir
vacation sustantivo/veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/vacaciones, vacación
generate verbo/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/generar
depressed adjetivo/dɪˈpɹɛst/deprimido, abatido
harmony sustantivo/ˈhɑ̟ɹ.mə.ni/armonía, harmonía
drain sustantivo/dɹiːn/desagüe, drenaje
likewise adverbio/ˈlaɪkˌwaɪz/similarmente, ídem
imply verbo/ɪmˈplaɪ/implicar, acarrear
metaphor sustantivo/ˈmɛt.ə.fɚ/metáfora
crunch verbo/kɹʌnt͡ʃ/ronzar, crujir
energize verbo/ˈɛnəd͡ʒaɪz/jumpear

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 8 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, you're, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: primarily /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/, demoralize /dɪˈmɒɹəlaɪz/

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 primarily, phrase, spectrum.

¿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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