Shadowing Practice: Emma Watson speech for HeForShe Second Year Anniversary (20/9/16) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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But first, we will hear from a woman who has lent her name and voice to this important solidarity movement.
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UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, Thought Leader,
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and Leading Actor, Emma Watson.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Gosh, I'm so overwhelmed.
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Thank you to everyone that has shared their story tonight
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and has contributed to what has been the most heartwarming moment of my year.
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Good evening.
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Being a part of HeForShe for the last two years has been an incredible learning experience for me.
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There have been some really hard moments,
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and a lot of amazing ones,
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ones I never could have imagined.
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The UN Secretary General, the entire EU Commission,
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the NATO Secretary General, the President of the International Olympic Committee,
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numerous heads of state, and politicians from around the world,
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including those that you've heard from tonight,
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and everyone from Usain Bolt to Tom Hanks,
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and now all he for she.
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We've crashed the UN website on multiple occasions.
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Sorry about that.
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We have lit up the Empire State Building,
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seen he for she in Times Square,
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and made it a term in the Urban Dictionary.
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After two billion media impressions,
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1.1 million pledged he or she's have made practical commitments,
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as have some of the world's leading universities and companies,
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to make gender equality a priority in their work and within their communities.
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Surprisingly though, it was during the hard moments
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that I made the best discoveries about what it means to be part of this movement.
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There is genuinely a spectrum of amazing feminists out there who have not only given me invaluable advice
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but also broadened my perspective and reinforced my belief that we are all linked.
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We all belong to a long history of people who have made sacrifices,
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some groups much more than others,
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in order to make indefinably large contributions to our modern lives.
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We've seen seismic shifts in culture recently.
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I couldn't believe my eyes when I turned on the TV to see
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that Bud Light was plunging gender equality and equal pay as part of their current advertising campaign.
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We already have some amazing things happening,
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some amazing female leaders, but I don't know if I would have believed you if you had told me two years ago,
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before I made my he-for-she speech,
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that we might have the first female president of the United States.
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Please don't let me down, America.
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A female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,
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and possibly, for the first time in history,
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a female UN Secretary General.
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While women still only make up such a small percentage of political leadership,
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to quote the awesome Michelle Obama,
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because of these women, girls and boys all over the world will have real life examples that women are leaders.
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In the last two years,
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if I have learned anything,
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if they have shown me anything,
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it is that nothing, nothing is impossible.
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And that's why tonight, as well as saying thank you from the bottom of my heart for all that you have done,
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I ask you to recommit yourself to be a part of gender equality.
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I genuinely feel that we are closer to a gender equal world,
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certainly closer than we were two years ago,
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and I know that each and every he for she has played such a huge part in that.
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I am proud to have been part of lots of amazing things in my life,
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but there is nothing that I am prouder of than being part of this.
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Thank you so much.
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Have a wonderful night.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “Emma Watson speech for HeForShe Second Year Anniversary”. Las palabras que más se repiten: amazing, gender, female, equality, Secretary. Este vídeo tiene 62 frases y 595 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:09. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 116 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 87 % 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 11 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
broaden verbo[ˈbɹɔː.dn̩]ensanchar
overwhelm verbo/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/apabullar, arrollar
plunge verbo/plʌnd͡ʒ/sumergir, zambullir
seismic adjetivo/ˈsaɪzmɪk/sísmico
invaluable adjetivo/ɪnˈvælju(ə)bl̩/invalorable, inestimable
reinforce verbo/ˌɹiː.ɪnˈfɔːs/reforzar, socalzar
solidarity sustantivo/ˌsɑ.ləˈdæɹ.ə.ti/solidaridad
gosh/ɡɑːʃ/Dios mío, caramba
lend verbo/ˈlɛnd/prestar, emprestar
pledge sustantivo/plɛd͡ʒ/promesa solemne, juramento
surprisingly adverbio/səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/sorprendentemente, sorpresivamente

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 ahorahas lent · has shared · has contributed
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosawoman who has · people who have

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 7 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, we've, couldn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: invaluable /ɪnˈvælju(ə)bl̩/, solidarity /ˌsɑ.ləˈdæɹ.ə.ti/, surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, invaluable /ɪnˈvælju(ə)bl̩/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: seismic /ˈsaɪzmɪk/, surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/
  • /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: plunge /plʌnd͡ʒ/, pledge /plɛd͡ʒ/

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 broaden, overwhelm, plunge.

¿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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