Shadowing Practice: Daniel Day-Lewis - 'Movies 101' Part 2 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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You described to us how you met Jim Sheridan.
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Now this was the beginning of a real collaboration between you and Jim Sheridan.
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And to me it seems to be also parallel in your life with a real affection for things Irish, for people Irish, for the culture Irish.
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Do you think that that began with the relationship with Jim Sheridan?
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Or do you think that your interest in Jim Sheridan and your interest in that story, and In the Name of the Father and the Boxer, part of your trilogy of Irish films,
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Do you think that they came out of what was there already?
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Well as much as I love Jim Sheridan and as Much as he has been a great influence in my life.
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I couldn't really give him the credit
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For that too it was really the other way around
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because my father I suppose I was probably four years old when I first
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Went with my father with my family to to the west of Ireland
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He wasn't from the West actually was from from County Leash
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which had been called Queens County in the old days and And from an early age, we began to think of it as being a place that was,
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if not home, certainly as close to home and perhaps something almost better than home, which was a sanctuary, a place that you could escape to and always find what you were looking for,
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a certain quietude.
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And I grew up in England, and I mean, I am by culture and education an Englishman, and I've never tried to deny it,
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but I suppose in some sense, and I might share this with a lot of people that work in the performing arts,
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I felt a sense of alienation within my own society.
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And something about the nature of the class system there appalled me, as it had done my parents too.
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And Ireland always beckoned throughout the years, and I was fairly confident that at some time I would move over there.
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Your dad was a successful writer of detective stories and also a poet,
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but your grandfather started in the film industry when it was silent, 1922.
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And for 40 years, Michael Balkin, later Sir Michael Balkin, literally dominated the industry.
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He created Ealing Studios, where all those spectacular black and white films came from.
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When you were a little boy, Anyway, was that where you were introduced to the movies through your grandfather?
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I wasn't really introduced to movies, Richard.
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I mean, I didn't know what my grandfather did until I was quite a bit older.
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When I discovered the Ealing Commodays,
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it was quite a revelation to me because my grandfather had long since retired from the business,
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and I grew very close to him after my father died and grew very, very fond of him.
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But as a young kid,
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he was quite an intimidating character and I don't remember ever having many conversations with him. But really,
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I suppose the theater was more of an influence through my
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mother who had started out her life as an actress and when she married my father, she more or less put that to one side,
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but still occasionally did things.
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And it was, and her father, my grandfather, was appalled when she became an actress.
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I mean, he thought it was the next thing to becoming a hooker as far as he was concerned.
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It was that, you know, it was an absolutely unacceptable.
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You're going on the stage.
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You're going on the stage.
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My daughter was going on the stage.
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I know, it was outrageous.
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Well, that caused a storm in the house.
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But it was through my mom that I began to meet a few people.
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And we lived, I watched from the top window of our house as they rebuilt from the ground up a cinema
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that had been bombed during the war.
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And they built it into a theater, which is now the Greenwich Theater.
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And my mother always sort of made it clear to anyone
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that was working at the theater that the house was open to them
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if they wanted to just come and relax and spend a bit of time there.
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And I got to meet some lovely people during that time.
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One of the things I read that you wrote a long time ago is you said, as a youngster, I rather liked actors because I found them to be generous and warm-hearted people.
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Well, now you know actors.
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Do you still think that that's true?
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Yes, I do.
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You do?
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Yes, I do.
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Do you remember when you said to your folks, I think this is the career I've chosen.
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I think I want to go into theater.
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I want to be an actor.
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I think I kind of kept it to myself for a while.
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I think it was more of a kind of private decision I made when I was around 12.
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But it seemed to be a decision made out of necessity, because at that time I was just really a layabout
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and the only time I ever really used energy it more
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or less got me into trouble some kind or another and
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and like many people the theater seemed a forgiving trade
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and my first boarding school that I was sent to
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which was absolutely unforgiving in pretty much every respect all the reprobates congregated in the art room not
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because we were artists
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because there was just this tiny little corridor of of of liberty of some kind in that place and so
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um it began there strangely in this hugely restrictive environment where the world seemed pretty bleak
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because a boarding school is your world whatever lies outside of
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it is eclipsed by the by by the the day-to-day horror
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and i was struggling i mean i was really struggling to keep my head above water
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so so the theater seemed you know without knowing anything about it the The theater seemed to be the life for me.
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Excuse me.
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And I had one moment, I suppose you could call it, as people often talk about defining moments, and mine would seem to have an unpromising orator
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which was that I was given a bit part in a production of Cry the Beloved Country.
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Does that play mean anything to you?
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It's set in South Africa.
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Yeah, it was a play about the horrors of apartheid.
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That's exactly right, yeah got it um
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and i was cast as a little black boy
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because of course woe betide that there should be any black children in this school
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or if they were they were hidden away in some in the east wing
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or something and so i had to and i had a little tiny little t-shirt and a pair of skimpy shorts,
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and that meant that I had to cover my body in makeup and my face and wear a little wig.
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And the thing that I really loved about this, for that two hours a night,
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you walked onto a place that was flooded with light in an otherwise dark world
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and it was as simple as
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that even from the very beginning working in the theater I understood certain things about myself
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and again I'm very grateful for that because it's not it's not invariably true
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that you understand what it is that you need is an early stage
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because there's so much you're impelled to do so many things that go against the grain very often.
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It's you know it's gonna be a tough life
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and from my point of view I assumed I was gonna have a life in the theatre
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because very few English actors at that time were getting a chance in movies.
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Much as I loved films it never really occurred to me that that would be a part of my life.
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We all really thought we were gonna work in the theatre
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and maybe do a bit of TV to pay the bills
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now and then so
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and the theater world is very different you know the theater
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world is not it's you know you may I suppose gain some recognition
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but it's just not it's not in the say you know
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what I'm talking about it's not to the same degree you go out
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and you play to 800 people right 900 yeah night here a movie goes out
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and you're that big to most of them as well If they've got the cheat sheets, you're like, you need binoculars to see who you are.
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So, you know, and that was my early years spent working in the theater.
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I knew that the capacity to do this work was something that was a delicate thing.
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Whatever it was at one's very core that led one to do this work,
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I knew that it was not indestructible and that if I kept putting myself in situations that made me uneasy,
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which could be doing work that i didn't believe in even when i didn't have a choice in the matter
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or having to hulk myself around even auditions this sounds like horribly arrogant
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but open auditions i did a couple of those for the rsc
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and the national where you sit in a room with 50 other
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miserable actors working on a piece of shakespeare and then you walk into a room with seven
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men all puffed up with self-importance and you know you strut around
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and they they look at you like a specimen of some kind.
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And I went up.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Daniel Day-Lewis - 'Movies 101' Part 2”. Este vídeo tiene 119 frases y 1609 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 9:16. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 174 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 84 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| appall verbo | /əˈpɔːl/ | consternar, abrumar |
| audition sustantivo | /ɑˈdɪʃən/ | audición |
| alienation sustantivo | /ˌeɪli.əˈneɪʃən/ | alienación |
| beckon verbo | /ˈbɛkən/ | llamar con señas, hacer ademanes para que se acerque |
| binoculars sustantivo | /(ˌ)baɪˈnɑ.kjə.lɚz/ | prismáticos, binoculares |
| congregate verbo | /ˈkɒŋɡɹəɡeɪt/ | congregar |
| hookah sustantivo | /ˈhu.kə/ | narguile, shisha |
| horribly adverbio | /ˈhɔɹəbli/ | horriblemente |
| indestructible adjetivo | /ɪndɪˈstɹʌktɪbəl/ | indestructible |
| intimidate verbo | /ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/ | intimidar, amedrentar |
| invariably adverbio | /ɪnˈvɛɹ.i.ə.bli/ | invariablemente |
| orator sustantivo | /ˈɒ.ɹə.tə(ɹ)/ | orador, oradora |
| quietude sustantivo | /ˈkwaɪ.ɪ.t(j)uːd/ | quietud |
| reprobate adjetivo | /ˈɹɛpɹəbət/ | maldito, anatematizado |
| uneasy adjetivo | /ʌnˈiːzi/ | incómodo |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| go out verbo | salir |
| go up verbo | subir |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- Do you think that they came out of what was there already?
- You're going on the stage.
- Do you still think that that's true?
- Does that play mean anything to you?
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 | had been called · were introduced · wasn't really introduced |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | has been · I've never tried · I've chosen |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | home, which was · theater, which is |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 20 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, didn't, gonna. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/, alienation /ˌeɪli.əˈneɪʃən/, affection /əˈfɛk.ʃən/, revelation /ˌɹɛv.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: alienation /ˌeɪli.əˈneɪʃən/, binoculars /(ˌ)baɪˈnɑ.kjə.lɚz/, indestructible /ɪndɪˈstɹʌktɪbəl/, intimidate /ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/, invariably /ɪnˈvɛɹ.i.ə.bli/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: skimpy /ˈskɪmpi/, strangely /ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒli/, specimen /ˈspɛsɪmɪn/, spectacular /spɛkˈtæk.jə.lɚ/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: invariably /ɪnˈvɛɹ.i.ə.bli/, restrictive /ɹɪˈstɹɪktɪv/, revelation /ˌɹɛv.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: binoculars /(ˌ)baɪˈnɑ.kjə.lɚz/, uneasy /ʌnˈiːzi/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/
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 appall, audition, alienation.
¿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.