Shadowing Practice: Emma Watson - One Young World 2016 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Reza Zaini Reviewer Thank you.
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Two years ago, I launched a campaign called HeForShe at the UN in New York.
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I was very nervous before that speech.
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The nerves were followed by a tremendous high immediately afterwards and a crashing low a few days after that.
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My best hopes and my worst fears were confirmed all at once.
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I had opened Pandora's box to a standing ovation
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and almost simultaneously a level of critique I had never experienced in my life
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and the beginning of what would become a series of threats.
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The last two years have been a baptism of fire,
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to say the least, where I learnt just how little I know and also how much.
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It was my scary first step as an activist, a word I never imagined that I would use to describe myself.
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So, reading the applications of activists who applied here for One Young World Scholarships was surprising to me.
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Here I was reading the stories of people from nearly 200 different countries from around the world with experiences
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that I couldn't even imagine.
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I mean, I really just, they were so out of this world to me.
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And yet, their notes looked like my notes.
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The same themes emerged over and over and over again.
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There was so much overlap with the things that I had been thinking about and that I had been struggling with.
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Because the truth is, it had never been about being an activist.
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It was about the choice to make myself visible.
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and the choices that you made to do that too.
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Apart from the significant progress the world has made in the cause for equality, the best thing about the last two years has been this.
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Finding people from such disparate experiences and communities that I found that I have something in common with.
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This is a community of artists, spiritual teachers, dreamers, thinkers, doers,
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who work together and support each other.
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For the first time in my life, I found my sisterhood, a brotherhood, however you want to describe it.
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I found my tribe.
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My hope for you while you're here is that you will find some of your tribe too.
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I really needed mine.
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Bobby Kennedy, when he was senator for New York,
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said, Each time a man or woman stands up for an ideal Or acts to improve the lots of others
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Or strikes out against injustice
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He sends forth a tiny ripple of hope
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And crossing each other from a million different centres of energy
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Those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest wall of oppression and resistance.
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That's what we are doing.
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We, the entire spectrum of the feminist movement,
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are building an unstoppable current for which we need ripples of hope from every age,
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race, ability, walk of life from every human experience.
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I feel gender equality is as important as any of the other goals that we are here to discuss.
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And actually, if anything, it is even more important because it intersects with every single other issue that we face.
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We all have feminine and masculine energies within us.
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And both forces need to be lifted up, respected.
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They need to work together in order to make the world go round.
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Each of you are here at One Young World because you do something important.
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And it is so exciting to see you all come together in one room, because One Young World isn't about saying what I,
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each of us individually, can do, but what we can do.
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Working together, supporting, and listening to each other.
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It's in that spirit
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that I am delighted to introduce nine activists who were the first recipients of a One Young World scholarship
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that I am very honoured to have in my name.
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They are working to secure real progress towards a gender equal world
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and I hope that their stories will inspire you as much as they have inspired me.
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In a moment, I'm going to ask them to come onto the stage, but before I do, I want to offer a few statements of my own
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that I have struggled with and continue to struggle with on a daily basis, but that I have found inspiring.
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I want to ask you to take a moment, you can keep your eyes closed or keep them open,
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and ask yourself if these have any truth for you in them.
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I am willing to be seen.
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I am willing to speak up.
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I am I am willing to keep going.
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I am willing to listen to what others have to say.
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I am willing to go forward even when I feel alone.
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I am willing to go to bed each night at peace with myself.
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I am willing to be my biggest, bestest, most powerful self.
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These seven statements scare the absolute shit out of me.
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But I know that they are at the crux of it all.
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At the end of the day, and when all is said and done,
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I know that these are the ways that I want to have lived my life.
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I know each one of you probably will have encountered one of these statements in the last 48 hours, and if you have, thank you for being here.
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I appreciate it.
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It's truly an honor to be here with you all.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 73 frases y 900 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 8:41. El hablante habla despacio, unas 104 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. 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

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
activist sustantivo/ˈæk.tɪ.vɪst/activista
inspire verbo/ɪnˈspaɪə(ɹ)/inspirar, infundir
equality sustantivo/ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/igualdad
ideal adjetivo/aɪˈdi(ə)l/ideal, idóneo
afterwards adverbio/ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/después, consecuentemente
confirm verbo/kənˈfɝm/confirmar
spiritual adjetivo/ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/espiritual
visible adjetivo/ˈvɪzɪb(ə)l/visible
introduce verbo/ˌɪntɹəˈdus/presentar
scary adjetivo/ˈskɛə.ɹi/temible, espantoso
encounter verbo/ɪnˈkaʊntɚ/encontrar, encontrarse
spectrum sustantivo/ˈspɛktɹəm/espectro
nerve sustantivo/nɝv/nervio
simultaneously adverbio/ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/simultáneamente
scholarship sustantivo/ˈskɑːləɹʃɪp/beca

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
speak up verbo/ˌspik ˈʌp/hablar más alto, hablar más fuerte
stand up for verboromper una lanza por, romper lanzas por

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 4 contracciones y formas reducidas, como couldn't, I'm, isn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: brotherhood /ˈbɹʌðɚˌhʊd/, thinker /ˈθɪŋ.kɚ/
  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: scholarship /ˈskɑːləɹʃɪp/, oppression /əˈpɹɛʃən/, ovation /oʊˈveɪ.ʃən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: equality /ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/, simultaneously /ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/, recipient /ɹəˈsɪp.i.ənt/, individually /ˌɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒ(u)əli/, unstoppable /ʌnˈstɔ.pə.bəl/

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 activist, inspire, equality.

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 been · has made · have inspired
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacewere followed · were confirmed · be lifted

¿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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