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Hello?
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Hi, my name is Seth McElroy, and I'm calling from Pest Control.
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Is James going?
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Yeah, speaking.
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Hey, James, how are you today?
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Not bad.
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What can I do for you?
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Well, I wanted to call you because of a situation that we're dealing with here.
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As you know, we were at your house about two weeks ago dealing with a rat issue.
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Yeah, yeah.
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We got rid of him real well.
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Were you happy with your service?
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Yeah, no complaints.
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I liked it.
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Thank you.
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No problem.
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We are having an issue here, though, the rat that we caught from your place?
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Right.
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He's very sad.
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What do you mean?
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Well, we've had him here in the office ever since we took him from your place, and every day he's in his cage, he's kind of just moping around.
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I know it's probably hard to hear.
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I don't understand.
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You kept the rat?
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Yeah, we did.
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We named him Scraps.
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And all of us here really want the best for him.
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And we think that actually the problem is he misses your home.
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Okay, wait a minute.
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You're telling me the rat you caught is sad and you want to bring him back to my house?
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Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying.
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One of my guys, Harold, is his name.
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He's going to come and bring scraps back to you.
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No, no, no. You can't do that.
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That's why I paid you to get rid of him.
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I can't have a rat in my house.
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I know, but did you hear what I said?
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He's really sad.
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I don't care what he is.
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I don't want the rat back in my house.
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That's the whole point of me having you come up to the house is
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that I pay you and you take care I don't have to give, you're supposed to keep the rack.
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Listen, if you refuse to take Scraps back, I'll just drive him over to your house myself and let him loose in your backyard.
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At least that'll make him happy.
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If I see anybody in my backyard, I swear I will go to that office
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and smack this shit out of you if you bring this rat back to my house.
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We'll gladly refund your money if we can just bring Scraps back to your house.
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Scraps is just homesick.
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Well, it's not his house, it's my house, and I don't want him in it.
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You know, it was both of your, you're kind of like roommates.
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really no no no no no no I paid a mortgage
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this right doesn't do a thing you keep the track well
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look at it from scraps perspective okay he was all happy living in your house eating off of the food
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that you had left over and things like that
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and now he's in a cage in a pest control office
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that's not fun what is wrong with you anyway I pay you to do a job to kill this rat
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and then you take the rat home
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and now you want to bring the rat back here
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that makes no sense what's wrong with you I think it makes perfect sense
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if you're an animal lover and have any kind of heart at all.
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You sound just callous.
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Okay, number one, rats are not animals.
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I have a dog.
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The dog's an animal.
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A rat is a rat.
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I am sorry, sir.
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A rat is an animal just like everybody else.
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No, no, no, no. It's a rat.
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They spread disease and filth.
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The Black Plague was rats, and you want to bring them back to my house?
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Kill it.
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Oh, you're going to hold that against scraps?
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Okay, that's ancient history.
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Nobody's died from the Black Plague in at least 10 years.
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It's not even supposed to be in anybody's house It's not a pet, it's not a gerbil, it's not a hamster, it's a rat It has feelings It's an animal and it has feelings

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Your rat is sad”. Las palabras que más se repiten: rat, scraps, animal, sad. Este vídeo tiene 75 frases y 672 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:58. El hablante habla rápido, unas 227 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 86 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar. 12 de sus 75 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
scrap sustantivo/ˈskɹæp/resto
pest sustantivo/pɛst/peste, pestilencia
backyard sustantivo/bækˈjɑːd/traspatio, patio trasero
cage sustantivo/keɪd͡ʒ/jaula, gayola
rat sustantivo/ɹæt/rata
callous adjetivo/ˈkæləs/insensible, cruel
gerbil sustantivo/ˈd͡ʒɝbl̩/gerbillo, gerbil
hamster sustantivo/ˈhæm(p)stɚ/hámster
smack verbo/smæk/lapear, sopapear
gladly adverbio/ˈɡlædli/gustosamente, a solaz
roommate sustantivo/ˈɹu(m)ˌmeɪt/compañero de cuarto
rack sustantivo/ɹæk/estante, estantería
refund sustantivo/ɹɪˈfʌnd/reembolso, reintegro
lover sustantivo/ˈlʌvɚ/amante, enamorado
complaint sustantivo/kəmˈpleɪnt/queja

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

  • What can I do for you?
  • Were you happy with your service?
  • What do you mean?
  • I know it's probably hard to hear.
  • I know, but did you hear what I said?

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasI'm calling · we're dealing · are having
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicciónI'll just drive · that'll make · will go
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un plan o algo que se ve venirHe's going to come · you're going to hold

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 20 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, you're, can't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: scrap /ˈskɹæp/, smack /smæk/
  • /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: cage /keɪd͡ʒ/, gerbil /ˈd͡ʒɝbl̩/
  • /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: hamster /ˈhæm(p)stɚ/, homesick /ˈhoʊ̯m.sɪk/

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 scrap, pest, backyard.

¿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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