Shadowing Practice: Chris Rock's Opening Monologue - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Man, I counted at least 15 black people on that montage.
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Hey!
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Well, I'm here at the Academy Awards, otherwise known as the White People's Choice Awards.
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You realize, if they nominated host, I wouldn't even get this job.
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That's right, y'all be watching Neil Patrick Harris right now.
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But here's the crazy thing.
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This is the wildest, craziest Oscars to ever host, because we got all this controversy.
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There's no black nominees, you know?
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And people are like, Chris, you should boycott.
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Chris, you should quit.
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You should quit.
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How come there's only unemployed people that tell you to quit something, huh?
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No one with a job ever tells you to quit.
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I wanted to quit.
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So I thought about quitting.
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I thought about it real hard, but I realized they're gonna have the Oscars anyway.
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They're not gonna cancel the Oscars because I quit.
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You know?
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And the last thing I need is to lose another job to Kevin Hart, okay?
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I don't need that.
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Kev, Kev right there.
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Kev make movies fast.
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Every month.
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I know the stars don't make movies that fast.
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Now, the thing is, why are we protesting?
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That's the big question.
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Why this Oscars?
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Why this Oscars, you know?
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It's the 88th Academy Awards.
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It's the 88th Academy Awards,
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which means this whole no black nominees thing has happened at least 71 other times.
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Okay?
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You got to figure that it happened in the 50s, In the 60s, you know, in the 60s, one of those years, Sidney didn't put out a movie,
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I'm sure, I'm sure there were no black nominees some of those years, say, 62 or 63, and black people did not protest.
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Why?
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Because we had real things to protest at the time.
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You know?
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We had real things to protest.
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You know, it's too busy being raped and lynched to care about who won best cinematographer.
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You know, when your grandmother's swinging from a tree, it's really hard to care about best documentary foreign short.
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But what happened this year?
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What happened?
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People went mad, you know?
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Spike got mad, and Charlton got mad, and Jada went mad, and Will went mad.
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Everybody went mad, you know?
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It's quite like Jada got mad.
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Jada says she's not coming, protesting.
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I'm like, is she on a TV show?
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Jada's going to boycott the Oscars.
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Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna's panties.
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I wasn't invited.
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Oh, that's not an invitation I would turn down.
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I'm not hating.
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I understand you're mad.
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Jayda's mad her man, Will, was not nominated for concussion.
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I get it.
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I get it.
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Tell the truth.
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I get it.
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I get it.
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You get mad that it's not fair that Will was this good and didn't get nominated.
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You're right.
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It's also not fair that Will was paid $20 million for Wild Wild West, okay?
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Okay?
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Things, you know...
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You know, this year, you know, You know, this year at Oscars, things are gonna be a little different.
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This thing, things are gonna be a little different at the Oscars.
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This year, in the in-memoriam package, it's just gonna be black people that were shot by the cops on their way to the movies.
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Yes, yes, I said it, all right?
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Hey, if you want black nominees every year, you need to just have black categories.
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That's what you need.
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You need to have black categories.
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You already do it with men and women.
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Think about it.
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There's no real reason for there to be a man in a woman category in acting.
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It's track, it's not, come on.
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There's no reason.
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It's not track and field.
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You don't have to separate them.
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You know, Robert De Niro's never said, I better slow this acting down so Meryl Streep could catch up.
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No. Not at all, man.
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If you want black people every year at the Oscars, just have black categories, like...
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Best black friend.
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That's right.
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And the winner for the 18th year in a row is Wanda Sykes.
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This is Wanda's 18th black Oscar.
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But here's the real question.
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The real question everybody wants to know, everybody wants to know in the world, is is Hollywood racist?
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Is Hollywood racist?
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You know, that's a...
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You know, you got to go at that the right way.
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Is it...is it Vernon Cross racist?
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No. Is it fetch me some lemonade racist?
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No. No, no, no. It's a different type of racist.
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Now, I remember one night I was at a fundraiser for President Obama, a lot of you were there, and, you know, it's me and all of Hollywood,
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And all the, you know, it's all of us there.
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And there's about four black people there.
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Me, uh, let's see, Quincy Jones, Russell Simmons, Questlove.
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You know, the usual suspects, right?
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You know?
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And every black actor that wasn't working.
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Needless to say, Keb Hart was not there, okay?
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So, at some point, you get to take a picture with the president, you know?
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And as they're setting up the picture, you get, like, a little moment with the president.
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I'm like, Mr. President, you see all these writers and producers and actors?
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They don't hire black people.
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And they're the nicest white people on earth.
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They're liberals.
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Cheese.
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That's right.
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Is Hollywood racist?
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You're damn right Hollywood's racist, but it ain't that racist that you've grown accustomed to.
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Hollywood is sorority racist.
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It's like, we like you, Rhonda, but you're not a kappa.
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That's how Hollywood's, yeah?
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But things are changing.
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Things are changing.
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Yeah, we got a Black Rocky this year.
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Yeah, some people call it Creed, I call it Black Rocky.
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And that's a big, that's an unbelievable statement.
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because Rocky takes place in a world where white athletes are as good as black athletes.
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Sorry, Rocky's a science fiction movie.
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There are things that happen in Star Wars that are more believable than things that happen in Rocky, okay?
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But hey, we're here to honor actors.
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We're here to honor actors.
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We're here to honor film, you know.
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And there's a lot of snubs, a lot of snubs.
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One of the biggest snubs no one's talking about.
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My favorite actor in the world is Paul Giamatti.
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Paul Giamatti, I believe, is the greatest actor in the world.
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Think about what Paul Giamatti has done the last couple of years.
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Last year, he's in 12 Years a Slave, hates black people.
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This year, he's in Straight Outta Compton, loves black people.
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Last year, he's whooping Lupita.
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This year, he's crying at Easy E's funeral.
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Now, that's range.
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Yeah, Ben Affleck can't do that.
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But what I'm trying to say is, you know, it's not about boycotting anything is just we want opportunity.
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We want black actors to get the same opportunities as white actors.
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That's it.
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That's it.
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You know?
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Not just once.
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You know, Leo gets a great part every year.
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And, you know, everybody...
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All you guys get great parts all the time.
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But what about the black actors?
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Look at Jamie Foxx.
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Jamie Foxx is one of the best actors in the world, man.
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Jamie Foxx, yeah!
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Jamie Foxx was so good in Ray that they went to the hospital and unplugged the real Ray Charles.
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It's like, we don't need two of these.
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No, man.
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But the big thing, you know, everything's not about race, man.
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Another big thing tonight is you're not allowed, Somebody told me that you're not allowed to ask women what they're wearing anymore.
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It's the whole thing, you know, ask her more.
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You have to ask her more.
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Now, you know, it's like, you ask the men more.
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Hey, everything's not sexism.
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Everything's not racism.
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They ask the men more because the men are all wearing the same outfits, okay?
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Every guy there is wearing the exact same thing.
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You know, if George Clooney showed up with a lime green tux on and a swan coming out his ass,
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somebody would go, what you wearing, George?
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Hey, welcome to the 88 Oscar Gaby Awards.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Chris Rock's Opening Monologue”. Las palabras que más se repiten: Oscar, actor, mad, racist, quit. Este vídeo tiene 165 frases y 1348 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 9:59. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 135 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 83 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar. 34 de sus 165 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 |
|---|---|---|
| boycott sustantivo | /ˈbɔɪkɑt/ | boicot, boicoteo |
| nominee sustantivo | /ˌnɒmɪˈniː/ | nominado, nominada |
| snub verbo | /snʌb/ | desairar, hacer un feo |
| nominate verbo | /ˈnɑ.mɪ.neɪt/ | postular, nominar |
| athlete sustantivo | /ˈæθ.liːt/ | atleta |
| believable adjetivo | /bɪˈliːvəbl̩/ | creíble |
| montage sustantivo | /mɑnˈtɑʒ/ | montaje |
| sorority sustantivo | /səˈrɔrəti/ | sororidad |
| unplug verbo | /ʌnˈplʌɡ/ | desenchufar |
| sexism sustantivo | /ˈsɛksɪzm̩/ | sexismo |
| concussion sustantivo | /kəŋkˈəʃɪn/ | conmoción cerebral, concusión |
| fundraiser sustantivo | /ˈfʌnd.ɹeɪ.zɚ/ | recaudación de fondos, cuestación |
| accustomed adjetivo | /əˈkʌs.təmd/ | acostumbrado, sólito |
| fetch verbo | /fɛt͡ʃ/ | traer, buscar |
| needless adjetivo | /ˈniːdləs/ | sin necesidad |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| catch up verbo | enredar | |
| come out verbo | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | revelarse, salir a la luz |
| put out verbo | sacar | |
| turn down verbo | rechazar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- There's no black nominees, you know?
- I know the stars don't make movies that fast.
- Yes, yes, I said it, all right?
- You don't have to separate them.
- Is it fetch me some lemonade racist?
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 | being raped · wasn't invited · was not nominated |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | has happened · you've grown · has done |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 41 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, they're, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: montage /mɑnˈtɑʒ/, concussion /kəŋkˈəʃɪn/, invitation /ɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: sorority /səˈrɔrəti/, unbelievable /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/, invitation /ɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: snub /snʌb/, swan /swɑn/, spike /spaɪk/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: believable /bɪˈliːvəbl̩/, unbelievable /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/, invitation /ɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: sexism /ˈsɛksɪzm̩/, fundraiser /ˈfʌnd.ɹeɪ.zɚ/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como boycott, nominee, snub.
¿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.