Shadowing Practice: Emma Watson Plays With Kittens (While Answering Fan Questions) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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- Little ones!
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Yeah, oh my god, I want them all (laughs).
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Hi little guy.
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Hello. I'm dying, I can't even concentrate on what you're saying.
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(light music) (Emma squeals) I'm here with BuzzFeed, I'm playing with tiny cute kittens.
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My day is made.
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We designed for Belle this ring that would sit on her little finger.
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The costume designer saw that I had one which my mom had given to me, and she was like, can I design one for Belle?
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Because Belle's mother dies when she's really young.
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My mom is still alive and healthy and well, just as a side-note.
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Anyway, I was really proud of the ring and thought it was so beautiful that I asked if I could keep one, and they said I could.
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Do you want to come down?
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Is this a little high for you?
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Oh no, you kind of want to stay.
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Okay, you go here, you stay there, and you can come down here.
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(upbeat music) I just wanted to make sure that we stayed true to the original.
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So when Kevin Kline was gonna make Maurice less kind of like the inventor, and he wasn't gonna have that as his story anymore, I was like well could we use that for Belle?
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And so we made Belle this inventor who invents this washing machine, so that she can sit and read while it's doing her washing.
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This one's chasing its own shadow, literally.
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This is too much.
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(light music) I would want her to know that she is a force to be reckoned with and, never to underestimate her own power.
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Sometimes particularly young girls feel like their voice doesn't matter, and what they have to say doesn't really matter and, I think I would want her to know that it does.
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Oh, look at the rose pedals, look.
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Pretty rose pedals.
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(light music) So many times.
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When people have told me that I can't do something, it's gonna be too hard, or whatever else, I try to use that as motivation.
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Sometimes someone telling you that you won't be able to do something.
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I'm like oh you don't know what you just did.
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Oh it's its shadow again.
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Too cute. (light music) In my imagining, she opens the library that's in the castle, and she turns it into a school, and a public library, which she runs.
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I love that all of these guys are crazy and this one is just chill.
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(light music) Yes, they share the love of books.
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Hermione and Belle are like perfect head and heart girls.
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They have both.
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They're super smart, but they also have this incredible empathy, and compassion, and ability to see kind of beyond things, and be non-judgemental.
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(light music) When we completed the final dance at the end of the movie, I had the sound guys play Happy, and Kevin Kline started doing the conga, and like everyone joined in.
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It was the most surreal thing I've ever seen.
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Everyone in costume, in the Beauty and the Beast ballroom, doing the conga.
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(light music) We think that we live in a post-feminist society, and we do not.
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So we're told we don't need feminism anymore, that we have the vote, that like we're all good.
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And I think actually that's incredibly disconcerting because then, when young women move into the world and they realize, oh why am I not being paid the same?
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Why am I being treated differently?
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And they start to blame themselves, because they don't understand that they're part of a historic pattern, they're part of a much larger system which is kind of working a little bit against them.
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Um, no, I don't want it to be over!
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Please don't let it be over.
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I never want to leave, I only want to be into you by Buzzfeed from now on.
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I'm really gonna struggle to say goodbye to this guy.
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Massive shout-out to Best Friends Animal Society, who save hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds of kittens.
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They make sure that these guys find a home.
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This has been the highlight of my press tour, without a doubt.
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We're peaking right now.
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There's nothing that's gonna top this.
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(light music)

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Emma Watson Plays With Kittens”. Este vídeo tiene 53 frases y 709 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:08. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 171 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 86 % 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:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
conga sustantivo/ˈkɑŋɡə/conga, tambó
inventor sustantivo/ɪnˈvɛntɚ/inventor, inventora
pedal sustantivo/ˈpɛdəl/pedal
kitten sustantivo/ˈkɪtən̩/gatito, minino
costume sustantivo/ˈkɑsˌt(j)um/traje
disconcert verbo/ˌdɪskənˈsɝt/desconcertar
judgmental adjetivo/ˌd͡ʒʌd͡ʒˈmɛnt(ə)l/crítico, juzgador
squeal verbo/skwil/chillar
ballroom sustantivo/ˈbɔːlɹuːm/salón de baile
upbeat adjetivo/ʌpˈbit/optimista, positivo
invent verbo/ɪnˈvɛnt/inventar
surreal adjetivo/səˈɹiː(.ə)l/surreal
underestimate verbo/ʌndɚˈɛs.tɪ.meɪt/subestimar
empathy sustantivo/ˈɛmpəθi/empatía
reckon verbo/ˈɹɛkən/censar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

  • Do you want to come down?
  • Is this a little high for you?
  • It was the most surreal thing I've ever seen.
  • Why am I being treated differently?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo haceis made · be reckoned · being paid
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorahave told · I've ever seen · has been

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 29 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, gonna, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: compassion /kəmˈpæʃ.ən/, shout /ʃaʊt/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: underestimate /ʌndɚˈɛs.tɪ.meɪt/, feminism /ˈfɛmɪnɪz(ə)m/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: inventor /ɪnˈvɛntɚ/, invent /ɪnˈvɛnt/

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 conga, inventor, pedal.

¿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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