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Hi, I'm Deva Cassell and I'm on the cover of Tathler Asia.

I'm a Virgo.

Yes, if I'm not mistaken,

I learned this when I was really little.

I'm a monkey.

That's very hard to tell actually.

I love a lot of different things,

but I love Japanese food.

Pasta.

Easy with like tomato sauce and basil.

I can cook a lot of stuff.

I actually love cooking and I like to come up with my own recipes,

but I do like to give it,

I would say, maybe like an Asian fusion.

I like risotto, because it doesn't come out good every time,

and it's a very specific kind of rice,

so I like trying different flavors and just blending different tastes.

My favorite show on Netflix is actually,

it came out very recently,

it's called Il Gatto Pardo.

It's a beautiful story, it's a beautiful series,

and I really recommend it.

Me?

Oh, you should mention that.

I play Angelica, Angelica Sedara.

Hard to tell, but I would consider myself more of a cat person.

I think I just have more of that feline attitude.

Bit of both, actually.

It takes a lot of energy from me to be around people,

but I also often need people to get more energy.

So it really balances out everything.

My love language is acts of service and physical touch.

I think it's a mix between oily and dry.

It really does whatever it wants.

It depends on the day.

To never stop at the first thing.

Just to always look for something different in you, from what I know.

Hopefully on a beach somewhere.

I haven't been to that many places.

I've been to India and Singapore.

And I'm going to go to Japan very soon,

which I'm very, very excited about because I've been waiting such a long time for that trip.

But I would love to explore more.

The food.

Casual chic, sort of a tomboy ballerina mix.

Depends on the mood, depends on the day

but I tend to for example always take my drinks hot even when it's really warm outside.

I love me a good either chai latte or vanilla latte.

I like a lot of things.

Neither.

I like tourmalines.

They're my favorites.

And more specifically, actually, I think we shot about with it today.

There was this tourmaline stone with these crocodiles that have a very specific name.

Yususha?

Yususha or something like that.

I forgot how to pronounce it,

but those were just my favorite piece.

I think one of my favorites that I've ever worn from Cartier.

wear me.

I mean I usually wear pretty small things.

I don't go for the extremes and I mean I don't usually wear

that much jewelry anyways because of my work you know I often have to change

and take it off and I don't get to wear it as much as I would like to.

So yeah but I do like very you know a nice pair of earrings I think is always really nice.

She wears some rings and she wore a lot of like these coral necklaces and earrings.

I mean they were very beautiful,

simple pieces as well, but I think they really represent her in their minimalism.

La joie.

Joy.

I was talking about it before,

it's like I really love the panthère.

I think it's such a beautiful symbol of la maison and it really symbolizes Cartier,

it embodies it so well,

but I connect more with Le Clou.

I really like that collection.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Getting to know Deva Cassel, our April 2025 cover star”. Las palabras que más se repiten: wear, favorite, beautiful, depends. Este vídeo tiene 76 frases y 597 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:39. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 164 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 76 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
depend verbo	/dɪˈpɛnd/	depender/pender (de), ser dependiente (de)
earring sustantivo	/ˈɪəɹɪŋ/	arete, arito
latte sustantivo	/ˈlɑ.teɪ/	latte
tourmaline sustantivo	/ˈtʊɚ.mə.lɪn/	turmalina
crocodile sustantivo	/ˈkɹɑkədaɪl/	cocodrilo, crocodilo
embody verbo	/ɪmˈbɒdi/	corporeizar, corporizar
feline adjetivo	/ˈfiːlaɪn/	felino
minimalism sustantivo	/ˈmɪn.ə.məl.ɪz.əm/	minimalismo
symbolize verbo	/ˈsɪmbəlaɪz/	simbolizar, parabolizar
tomboy sustantivo	/ˈtɑm.bɔɪ/	marimacha, marimacho
basil sustantivo	/ˈbæz.əl/	albahaca
chic adjetivo	/ʃik/	chic
jewellery sustantivo	/ˈd͡ʒʊ-/	joyería, joyas
vanilla sustantivo	/vəˈnɪl.ə/	vainilla
tomato sustantivo	/təˈmeɪ.toʊ/	tomate, jitomate

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
come out verbo	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	revelarse, salir a la luz
come up with verbo		ingeniar, ingeniarse

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 16 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, don't, I've. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: chic /ʃik/, fusion /ˈfjuː.ʒən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vanilla /vəˈnɪl.ə/, flavor /ˈfleɪvə/
/z/ — sonora, no /s/: extremes /ɪkˈstɹimz/, minimalism /ˈmɪn.ə.məl.ɪz.əm/, risotto /ɹɪˈzoʊtoʊ/, symbolize /ˈsɪmbəlaɪz/, basil /ˈbæz.əl/

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 depend, earring, latte.

¿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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