Shadowing Practice: Daniel Day Lewis on Acting - Learn English Speaking with Video

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The interesting thing about the script, I think, it seemed to me anyway, that it wasn't a predominant feature, his disability.
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I was just struck by,
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more than anything else, by his anger at the way in which he was perceived and misunderstood sometimes,
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and his desire that the record should be set straight.
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And I felt he was a pioneer, in a way.
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He was actually charting territory, which had never been charted before,
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and I think my heroes have always been people that have actually ventured into that kind of territory,
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and he never let up.
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He continued to confront people, confronted his own fears, which takes huge courage, and he confronted other people's fears head on.
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Is it more important that the role be interesting or the character be interesting?
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I tend really to only work on things that I'm I have a kind of compulsion to do
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but they are so varied yeah roles that we've seen you in
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so far it certainly that they're certainly the things that most interest me tend to be
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um at some distance from my own life and they tend to be at some
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distance from the characters that have interested me before as well
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You were going to be a cabinet maker at one stage, yes.
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It's really just a coincidence that I'm not, I think, because during the year after I left school,
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I was really more active in my pursuit of that.
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I mean, I tried to find apprenticeships, and I was very fussy.
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I was always very fussy about who I wanted to work with, and there was one designer craftsman in the country who I thought was extraordinary
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and I just waited and he didn't have room in his workshops
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and and he couldn't take on any more apprentices
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and then in the end I just thought I'll try for one theatre school
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and see what happens and that it had been a passion for years
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but I'd rather in my last years at school I began to think
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that the theatre profession was rather kind of suspect
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and perhaps it is yeah and and so on and
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so it was cabinet making
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and by sheer coincidence the two possibilities happened at exactly the same time
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and i just decided to to go to theater school do
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you ever run up a little coffee table now no i
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haven't laid my hands on on wood since since i stopped
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and i i don't know why just because i i love doing it
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so much i couldn't think of doing it as a hobby i suppose at the age of 12
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when I kind of made up my mind I wasn't aware of the the less attractive side of the profession
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and certainly by the time it came for me to choose
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a direction to go in after I left school I began to be aware of it
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and although I never doubted that I would enjoy the work I did have grave doubts about whether or not I'd
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be able to live up to the way of life
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it was something I had to try and although I have had periods of unemployment which weren't pleasant
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it's always been worth it.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Daniel Day Lewis on Acting”. Las palabras que más se repiten: tend, interesting, certainly. Este vídeo tiene 41 frases y 545 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:24. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 160 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 81 % 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:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
confront verbo/kənˈfɹʌnt/enfrentar, confrontar
chart sustantivo/t͡ʃɑɹt/chart
profession sustantivo/pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/profesión, profesión de fe
coincidence sustantivo/kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/coincidencia, casualidad
passion sustantivo/ˈpæʃən/pasión
anger sustantivo/ˈæŋɡə/enfado, enojo
designer sustantivo/dɪˈzaɪnɚ/diseñador, diseñadora
extraordinary adjetivo/ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/extraordinario, descomunal
script sustantivo/skɹɪpt/escrito, escripto
theater sustantivo/ˈθi(ə)tɚ/teatro
courage sustantivo/ˈkʌ.ɹɪd͡ʒ/coraje, valor
grave sustantivo/ɡɹeɪv/sepultura, fosa
venture verbo/ˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ/aventurar
vary verbo/ˈvɛəɹi/variar
maker sustantivo/ˈmeɪk.ɚ/hacedor, fabricante

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
make up verbo/ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/reponer, suplir

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorahave always been · we've seen · have interested
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacewas just struck · was perceived · should be set

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 15 contracciones y formas reducidas, como couldn't, I'd, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: profession /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, workshop /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/, sheer /ʃɪɚ/, apprenticeship /əˈpɹɛn.tɪs.ʃɪp/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: coincidence /kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, unemployment /ʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/, disability /dɪsəˈbɪlɪti/, apprenticeship /əˈpɹɛn.tɪs.ʃɪp/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: grave /ɡɹeɪv/, venture /ˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ/, vary /ˈvɛəɹi/, perceive /pɚˈsiv/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: designer /dɪˈzaɪnɚ/, pleasant /ˈplɛz.ənt/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como confront, chart, profession.

¿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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