Shadowing Practice: 10 Questions for Reese Witherspoon - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Reese Witherspoon is an Academy Award winning actress, a mother of two and a woman who has been romanced on screen by both Wilson brothers.
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Reese, welcome.
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Thank you.
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So you're the honorary chair of the Avon Foundation and one of its big issues is breast cancer.
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Is there something that we're not doing in the fight against breast cancer?
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There's so much that's being done.
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There's so much research and progress that has been made but as with anything that is you know a a global epidemic,
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I think it needs to be dealt with continually.
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And when you talk about every three minutes a woman is diagnosed worldwide,
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I think it's still a situation where we have to create research and funding is always necessary and education.
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Being an advocate and being in movies and also probably donating to causes, which do What do you find to be,
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for the celebrity, the most effective way of effecting change?
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Fundraising is of utmost importance, especially when you're talking about new technologies and new sciences and education.
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But, you know, it's wonderful to see my colleagues making movies about breast cancer, you know, and really showing the psychological parts of it
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that are so important for women to understand and families to sort of talk about.
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She said once that the, this is a quote, the battles we face in this business aren't financial, but they are moral.
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And I wonder how much those two things are intertwined, that the reason people suspend their morals is because there's so much money on the line.
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Well, I think certainly when you talk about any amount of money, I mean, there's morality involved.
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And I think every day you make choices that you have to live with for the rest of your life.
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And I think, you know, it's just like any other life situation.
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You just have to make choices that, you know, hopefully reflect your true character.
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And I hope to be doing that in the movie industry.
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Although it's always dangerous territory when you're talking about morals and character.
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It's really the sign of a fall to come, usually.
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You've made some incredibly successful movies and you've made some that were disappointing in the box office.
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Do you feel differently about that afterwards?
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Yeah, of course.
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When movies are disappointing, it's more than just the financial sort of disappointment.
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It's a real emotional experience because you've carried that with you
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and you put a lot of effort and energy into the movie and all of the people that you've worked with.
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But it makes It makes all the successes that much better.
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But yeah, I've had disastrous Saturday mornings where you're like, oh really?
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That movie is not going to do well, is it?
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So, you survive.
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Can you ever tell?
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Nope.
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I'm really bad at that.
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I can't ever prognosticate what people are going to like or not like.
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So I just try to go with what I would want to see and try to bear in mind, you know, people have very difficult lives.
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They want to go and enjoy themselves at the movies.
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it's easier to just go to a movie and not think for a while.
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Did you ever think Legally Blonde would take off as hugely as it did?
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No, I had no idea it was going to be so successful.
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I really loved that character.
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I loved Elle Wood so much.
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She was just really interesting, one of those sort of great innocents in the world, you know.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “10 Questions for Reese Witherspoon”. Las palabras que más se repiten: movie, breast, moral, cancer, character. Este vídeo tiene 46 frases y 595 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:18. El hablante habla rápido, unas 180 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 87 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir. 7 de sus 46 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:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| disappoint verbo | /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt/ | decepcionar, desilusionar |
| diagnose verbo | /ˈdaɪ.əɡˌnoʊs/ | diagnosticar |
| intertwine verbo | /ˌɪntəɹˈtwaɪn/ | entretejer, entrelazar |
| prognosticate verbo | /pɹɒɡˈnɒstɪkeɪt/ | pronosticar |
| honorary adjetivo | /ˈɑn.əˌɹɛɹ.i/ | honorario |
| suspend verbo | /səsˈpɛnd/ | suspender |
| disastrous adjetivo | /dɪˈzæs.tɹəs/ | desastroso |
| epidemic sustantivo | /ˌɛpɪˈdɛmɪk/ | epidemia |
| fundraising sustantivo | /ˈfʌndˌɹeɪzɪŋ/ | cuestación |
| utter verbo | /ˈʌtəɹ/ | resolgar, resollar |
| morality sustantivo | /məˈɹælɪti/ | moralidad |
| continually adverbio | /kənˈtɪnjuəli/ | continuadamente, continuamente |
| colleague sustantivo | /ˈkɒliːɡ/ | colega, compañero |
| disappointment sustantivo | /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/ | decepción, ahueve |
| donate verbo | /ˈdoʊˌneɪt/ | donar, delejar |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| take off verbo | quitarse |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- Do you feel differently about that afterwards?
- Can you ever tell?
- I'm really bad at that.
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | has been romanced · being done · has been made |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | has been romanced · has been made · You've made |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 13 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, you've, aren't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: prognosticate /pɹɒɡˈnɒstɪkeɪt/, honorary /ˈɑn.əˌɹɛɹ.i/, epidemic /ˌɛpɪˈdɛmɪk/, morality /məˈɹælɪti/, continually /kənˈtɪnjuəli/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: disastrous /dɪˈzæs.tɹəs/, fundraising /ˈfʌndˌɹeɪzɪŋ/
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 disappoint, diagnose, intertwine.
¿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.