Shadowing Practice: Working as a Fire Protection Engineer - First Six Months Experience - Learn English Speaking with Video
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It's now been half a year since I started working as a fire engineer
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and during that time I had a total of 53 projects ranging from smaller projects like sheds
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and offices to shopping centers and health clinics and here are some of my thoughts.
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For my first day at work I got a quick introduction to the basic commands in AutoCAD
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and the company's routines and was then handed the CAD drawings of a new building.
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I got a few minutes to look at it before having
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a meeting with my co-worker without really knowing anything about consultant
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work whatsoever where the drawings was for a new two-story shopping center with a two-story parking garage
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and this was going to be my first ever project.
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That specific project quite literally just started digging just around a month ago
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which got me understanding of how long the pre-building process of new buildings actually take.
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Now that I got quite a routine built I start every new project by going through the plans of the building, seeing a situation in comparison to other buildings,
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as well as a distance to the closest fire department.
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I then instantly start to sketch out the ideas of how
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the fire protection strategy can be made as efficiently as possible
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with my knowledge of the pre-accepted rulesets from the regulations before even writing a single word in the report.
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After sketching off the drawings, I get it up in the report, running down the criteria given for the specific risk category that the building is set in, using the regulation's 17 chapters on fire safety,
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ranging from a building's load-bearing capacity to securing the safety of the fire department in an emergency situation.
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If there's some parts of the regulation that seems a bit redundant for for the specific buildings or even hard to achieve, it might be needed to do some extra analysis,
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calculations or simulations to prove that the fire safety of the building is achieved without that specific criteria.
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So far during my 53 projects, there's been the need to do that for 60% of them.
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So it's quite a common practice.
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Doing this involves doing some other measures such as the installment of sprinkler systems where it's not technically a requirement, direct alarm to the fire departments,
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or just passive measures that will just secure a quick egress of the building.
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But I think I'll dive more into that in a different video.
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It gets quite hard to keep track of all the projects, as in a busy day you might work on up towards 10 different projects at the same time, so to stay organized I got a folder with shortcuts to all my projects,
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links from our work database, while also typing up the progress of each project onto my personal Notion page or OneNote.
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When I first started I was very afraid to do any mistakes, as a slight mishap from my part might result in an unsafe construction being built
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but luckily our internal quality control ensures
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that there's at least three engineers on each project where one creates the product one does a thorough quality control
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and a third person evaluates the quality control as the final
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step before the project is sent out to a customer
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if it's a more complicated project where some of the solutions
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are not amongst the regulations pre-accepted ones it might also require the separate quality control from a different firm
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which has their own multi-step quality control it really puts your mind to ease a little bit more than
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if you were the sole responsible person for each project.
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All in all, I really like my job.
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The fact that every building is different and
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that some buildings will require a totally new solution
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that needs to be simulated and documented to fit the regulations makes it that you're constantly learning something new.
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There's also different routes to take as a fire engineer, but becoming a fire safety advisor was most likely the best fit for me personally as I enjoy using my brain.
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And even though it's mainly an office job, you also get to go out on site and see what the sentences that you write in the report actually mean.
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Another route
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that I would personally consider doing is experimental fire research as
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you get to see more of what the different solutions Amongst other things actually does firsthand.
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So during my bachelor thesis we did multiple full-scale experiments and I had a lot of fun
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So we did experiments using water curtain sprinklers protecting windows towards an outdoor emergency path
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So you can watch this playlist next if you're interested in
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that it shows the whole process from gathering theory to finishing the actual experiments Anyways, thanks for watching and have a good one.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “Working as a Fire Protection Engineer - First Six Months Experience”. Las palabras que más se repiten: project, quality, regulation, safety, specific. Este vídeo tiene 49 frases y 814 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:39. El hablante habla rápido, unas 223 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 83 % 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 |
|---|---|---|
| criterion sustantivo | /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/ | criterio, criteriómetro (foundationless) |
| sprinkler sustantivo | /ˈspɹiŋklɚ/ | aspersor, aspersor de irrigación |
| sketch sustantivo | /ˈskɛt͡ʃ/ | esquicio, bosquejo |
| egress sustantivo | /ˈiːɡɹɛs/ | salida |
| firsthand adjetivo | /ˈfɜːstˌhænd/ | de primera mano |
| mishap sustantivo | /ˈmɪshæp/ | percance |
| shortcut sustantivo | /ˈʃɔːtkʌt/ | atajo, atrecho |
| simulate verbo | /ˈsɪm.jə.lət/ | simular |
| installment sustantivo | /ɪnˈstɔːl.mənt/ | cuota, plazo |
| redundant adjetivo | /ɹɪˈdʌn.dənt/ | superfluo, redundante |
| playlist sustantivo | /ˈpleɪˌlɪst/ | lista de reproducción |
| unsafe adjetivo | /ʌnˈseɪf/ | inseguro |
| folder sustantivo | /ˈfoʊldɚ/ | carpeta, fólder |
| calculation sustantivo | /ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn̩/ | cálculo, calculación |
| efficiently adverbio | eficientemente |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| go through verbo | atravesar |
| run down verbo | atropellar |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 3 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, I'll. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: thorough /ˈθʌɹoʊ/, thesis /ˈθisɪs/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shortcut /ˈʃɔːtkʌt/, calculation /ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn̩/, simulation /ˌsɪm.jəˈleɪ.ʃn̩/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: criterion /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/, whatsoever /ˌ(h)wʌtsoʊˈɛvɚ/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: sprinkler /ˈspɹiŋklɚ/, sketch /ˈskɛt͡ʃ/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: whatsoever /ˌ(h)wʌtsoʊˈɛvɚ/, evaluate /ɪˈvaljʊeɪt/, advisor /ædˈvaɪ.zə(ɹ)/, passive /ˈpæs.ɪv/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: organize /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/, advisor /ædˈvaɪ.zə(ɹ)/
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 criterion, sprinkler, sketch.
¿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.