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We've been talking, Mauricio, about a person that you like or admire, and I'd like to discuss with you one or two more general questions related to well-known people.
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Let's consider, first of all, famous people in Colombia.
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What kind of people become famous in your country?
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Well, there is a singer.
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His name is Juanes.
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He's a particular singer because he's famous, he has very, very good songs.
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But lately he has been working for peace in Colombia.
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Maybe you know, but in Colombia we have a very, a problem, internal problem.
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Yeah.
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So he's also working for peace, working for people in need, trying to get in touch with other countries.
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Why did you get to the president of Venezuela?
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Because our president and Chavez, who is the president of Venezuela, they weren't so friendly to each other.
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So this singer, Juanes, sang in a border city and he brings people from Venezuela and from Colombia.
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And they sang there like for four or five hours.
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And they bring more singers as well.
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People from Cuba, from venezuela so people who are singers
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and people who are in politics they're famous are there any
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other types of people who are famous in your country um
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gabriel garcia marquez he's a writer he won the nobel prize in 1982
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if i'm not wrong i'm not exactly sure do you think
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that most people feel that writers are very famous people no
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that wasn't my first choice actually so But that depends on each one,
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because if I would like to read, I would find this person very interesting and very famous.
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Do you think that the people
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that we think are famous today are similar to the types of people who were famous in the past?
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No, they have changed a lot.
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Really?
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In what way?
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The way that everyone can know them from the internet.
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So internet brings more communication and more things around.
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So I can know someone from another country more easily right now than before.
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So that could change a little bit.
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Do you think it's easier for people to become famous now?
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Yeah, even you can upload something on YouTube, for example, and you can be famous for 15 seconds or 15 minutes or maybe,
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I don't know, we'll take it up to one month.
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So what will happen in the future?
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What kind of people will become famous in the future, do you think?
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Well, that depends on what they do.
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I can be famous, I don't know, if I do something very weird right now, I can be famous.
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I can be famous.
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Or, but mainly politicians are famous.
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Let's go on and talk about people in the public eye.
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Do you think that there are more advantages or disadvantages to being famous?
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Well, I think it's disadvantages.
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What are they?
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Because they don't have private life.
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They have to socialise with people from their own area.
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Singers with singers, writers with writers, things like that for themselves.
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They can socialise, socialise in a proper way.
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They have to socialise with people from their own area.
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Singers with singers, writers with writers, things like that.
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What about the advantages?
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Advantages?
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Well, the huge one, money.
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Money and they can be treated in a different way sometimes.
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Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?
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No. In my opinion, I prefer my privacy.
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I prefer to go to a restaurant.
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I prefer to be a normal person, to be in between everyone and meet people from different places without being treated differently.
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Thank you very much, Mauricio.
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That's the end of the speaking test.
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Thank you.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Las palabras que más se repiten: famous, singer, writer, socialise, venezuela. Este vídeo tiene 62 frases y 609 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:27. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 137 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 88 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir. 13 de sus 62 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
disadvantage sustantivo/ˌdɪsədˈvæntɪd͡ʒ/desventaja
depend verbo/dɪˈpɛnd/depender/pender (de), ser dependiente (de)
privacy sustantivo/ˈpɹaɪ.və.si/intimidad, privacidad
noble adjetivo/ˈnoʊbəl/noble
differently adverbio/ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/diferentemente
politician sustantivo/ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/político, política
upload verbo/ˈʌpˌloʊd/subir, cargar
admire verbo/ədˈmaɪɹ/admirar
socialize verbo/ˈsoʊʃəlaɪz/socializar, sociabilizarse
outweigh verbo/ˌaʊtˈweɪ/pesar más que, preponderar
singer sustantivo/ˈsɪŋ.ɚ/cantante, cantor
writer sustantivo/ˈɹaɪ.təɹ/escritor, escritora
prefer verbo[pɹɪˈfɝ]preferir, anteponer
sing verbo/ˈsɪŋ/cantar
communication sustantivo/kəˌmjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/comunicación

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — una acción que empezó antes y continúaWe've been talking · has been working
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosapeople who are · people who were
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacecan be treated · being treated

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 11 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, I'd. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: politician /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/, socialize /ˈsoʊʃəlaɪz/, communication /kəˌmjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: disadvantage /ˌdɪsədˈvæntɪd͡ʒ/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, politician /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/, communication /kəˌmjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: disadvantage /ˌdɪsədˈvæntɪd͡ʒ/, privacy /ˈpɹaɪ.və.si/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: socialize /ˈsoʊʃəlaɪz/, prize /ˈpɹaɪ̯z/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como disadvantage, depend, privacy.

¿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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