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Hi, my name is Marissa, and welcome to my source materials.
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Have you guys ever seen this?
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Okay, this looks like just a regular box, but it's not.
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This is a vanity.
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Growing up, I wanted one of these so badly, but my mom wasn't really into buying me girly things,
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so I would just grow up playing cards with my little brother.
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Now that I have adult money, I just want myself one.
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I just love all the little compartments.
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There's a drawer, and then you just keep opening.
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There's this, it keeps going.
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I don't know who approved of this many drawers, but it's great.
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I love the little surprises.
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Like, you guys would not believe this. And here, too.
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I just really love objects that like reveal themselves.
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And I think as a designer, good interfaces don't always reveal themselves at once.
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Like they kind of reward curiosity.
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I love designing moments where people are like, wait, there's something else.
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Wait, there's another layer to it.
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It's like a little good like Easter egg moment.
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It's the anticipation.
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That's what it is.
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I love a good buildup.
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I first got this book because I just really like the green.
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Very performative of me, I know.
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But it turned out to be one of my favorite books.
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I really like this book because there have always been women building cool things in tech.
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Mindy is such an amazing person.
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I love that she cares about the internet culture enough to just document everything.
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Most of us women don't always end up in history books and I love that this book is the opposite of that.
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Okay, next item.
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This has a very special place in my heart.
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So this is my elementary school lunchbox, and it's called Pinto in Thai, which means like three -tiered lunchbox.
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There was this sense of like surprise and like anticipation.
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What do I get to eat today?
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And it kind of just depends on my grandma, and I just love the sound of this rice and stir -fried as a top.
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And then the middle one, sometimes she would pack soup or noodles or a side of vegetables.
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Bottom layer is my favorite.
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She would pack a sweet treat on my lucky days.
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I realize I don't like my food touching because of this.
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Yeah.
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And then this next book is The Tree of Coats.
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This book couldn't exist as a PDF file, and that's the reason why I love this book so much.
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There are words cut out, and it's so delicate.
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You have to be so gentle flipping through the pages.
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It's also such a fun take on negative space as well.
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So I've been into hardware recently.
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This is a makeup cyber deck.
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I put grass on here just so that, you know, touch grass.
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It has a keyboard, a mouse, and I'm gonna put a screen on here.
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So just imagine there's a screen here for now.
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Cyberdeck is kind of like an upcycled computer.
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You take apart the computer that you know, and then you put it into an unexpected medium.
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It's like a little eyeshadow palette inspired by that little vanity box.
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And then I also have a drawer with all the makeup brushes.
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I've just been seeing so many cool girls building Cyberdex.
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I'm like, I want to learn how to do that.
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Once I figure out the electronics, which is the hardest part, this is the brain of the Cyberdex.
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It's a Raspberry Pi.
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It's the brain of the operation.
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So I need to figure out how I want to mount it on.
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I'm going to put a Zoom meeting on here.
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I can do my makeup and like take my meetings at the same time.
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I also started watching like
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Totally Spies not too long ago.
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And they have like a little makeup compact and I would call their boss on their makeup compact.
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So I was like, why not?
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Why don't I?
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Yeah.
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I love it though.
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Like I just needed a break from like vibe coding.
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I want to be able to touch things again and like get my hands dirty again.
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Don't mind me, I'm just gonna plan my next side quest on here.
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This book is about how to wrap five eggs.
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It really changed my perspective on like packaging design.
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You have to solve so many problems at once.
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Like how do you keep something cool?
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How do you keep something warm?
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Like how do you make sure it commutes well?
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I just love flipping through these pages.
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It's just... So pretty.
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All of these packaging are like natural materials too.
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Mostly bamboo, like wood and ceramics.
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Yeah, I'm such a hoarder when it comes to like packaging.
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And that's when I know it's good packaging design because I don't want to throw them away.
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Let me introduce you to my pencil case.
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Every button does different thing.
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This one opens a pencil sharpener.
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You can sharpen your pencil.
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And then this is also a compartment.
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Sometimes I would put like tringets in here, friendship bracelet necklace situation.
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And this would be my class schedule.
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But then sometimes I would put like cheat codes on here.
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This is my favorite book of all time.
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I read it every time I need a good cry.
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This one is about enabling the dreams of others by Randy Pouch.
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He was a professor at Carnegie Mellon.
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He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in his 40s.
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Before he passed, he gave his last lecture, which is also the title of the book.
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It turned out that this whole lecture was for his children to hold on to before he passed.
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It's so emotional, but not in a depressing way.
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I always feel like hopeful after I finish reading it.
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Have a good cry and then go on and like design
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and build like the most ridiculous idea I've had in my head for a long time.
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This tear off calendar, my grandparents always had one in their house.
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Every day they would tear off a page.
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It's so satisfying.
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I just feel like it's so special that you get to hold a day in your hand.
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Everything is on Google Calendar, and it's just another day.
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It just disappears into the land of Google Calendar.
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When I wake up in a really bad mood, sometimes I would tear it off.
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I would demonstrate.
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I would tear it off.
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I would be like this.
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I would crumble the page.
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I would toss it. so
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “9 Designs That Inspired Meshtimes, One of Tech's Most Creative Minds”. Las palabras que más se repiten: makeup, packaging, tear, page. Este vídeo tiene 115 frases y 1101 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 7:22. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 150 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 79 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| package sustantivo | /ˈpæk.ɪd͡ʒ/ | paquete, kete |
| tear verbo | /tɛɹ/ | rasgar, desgarrar |
| calendar sustantivo | /ˈkæl.ən.də/ | calendario |
| pencil sustantivo | /ˈpɛnsəl/ | lápiz |
| drawer sustantivo | /dɹɔɹ/ | cajón, gaveta |
| reveal verbo | /ɹɪˈviːl/ | revelar, propalar |
| layer sustantivo | /ˈleɪ̯ɚ/ | capa, tongada |
| grass sustantivo | /ɡɹɑːs/ | pasto, hierba |
| flip verbo | /flɪp/ | darle vuelta, voltear |
| lecture sustantivo | /ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə/ | aleccionamiento, lectivo |
| compact adjetivo | /kəmˈpækt/ | compacto |
| anticipation sustantivo | /ænˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən/ | previsión, anticipación |
| vanity sustantivo | /ˈvænəti/ | vanidad |
| compartment sustantivo | /kəmˈpɑɹtmənt/ | compartimiento, compartimento |
| mount verbo | /maʊnt/ | montar, cabalgar |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| figure out verbo | averiguar, captar | |
| grow up verbo | crecer | |
| tear off verbo | /teɹ ɑf/ | terrafear |
| cut out verbo | dejar de, dejar | |
| turn out verbo | resultar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- Have you guys ever seen this?
- There's a drawer, and then you just keep opening.
- What do I get to eat today?
- How do you keep something warm?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | have always been · I've been · I've had |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | Thai, which means · electronics, which is · lecture, which is |
| Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbos seguidos de la forma en -ing | keep opening · love designing · started watching |
| Superlativos the -est / the most … — lo más alto o lo más bajo de un grupo | the hardest · the most ridiculous |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 19 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, I've. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: anticipation /ænˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, brush /bɹʌʃ/, sharpen /ˈʃɑɹpən/, sharpener /ˈʃɑː(ɹ)pənə(ɹ)/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: anticipation /ænˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən/, ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, elementary /ˌɛləˈmɛntəɹi/, unexpected /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd/, electronics /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪks/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: reveal /ɹɪˈviːl/, vanity /ˈvænəti/, solve /sɒlv/, approve /əˈpɹuːv/, vegetable /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: package /ˈpæk.ɪd͡ʒ/, gentle /ˈd͡ʒɛntl̩/, vegetable /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/
- /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: hardware /ˈhɑɹdˌwɛɹ/, hopeful /ˈhoʊpfl̩/, hoarder /ˈhɔɹdɚ/
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 package, tear, calendar.
¿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.