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Sado Island is a short boat ride from mainland Japan.
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It has a population of only about 50,000,
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despite being one of the nation's largest islands.
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A gold mine on Sado boosted Japan's wealth in the 17th century.
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There are cultural riches too,
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such as cute tube-like boats, and ancient performing arts.
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One family is preserving Sato's culinary traditions.
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And everything they do starts with delicious rice.
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Let's follow their story by looking through the kitchen window.
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A vast flatland sits between Sado's rugged terrain.
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Farmers here have been harnessing the nutrient-rich mountain water for thousands of years.
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Even today, they produce some of the best rice to be found anywhere in Japan.
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Sado's rural areas aren't just good for farming farming.
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They also provide an ideal habitat for the Japanese crested ibis.
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Conservationists in the country have brought it back from extinction.
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They sleep in the woods and feed on creatures in the paddies.
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People in the community have worked hard to maintain this healthy ecosystem.
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The sound of the birds are the same.
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The sound of the birds are the same.
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Yes, it was the same.
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The birds are the same.
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I've been here for 10 years since I've been a bird.
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It's nice and nice and nice.
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I've been working on the birds with a bird.
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I can also have a lot of fun to do with the food.
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Aida Tadaki is the latest in a long line of rice farmers to manage these patties.
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Friends and family chip in too.
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Growing season starts in spring.
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It all begins with the seeds.
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Just one can produce 300 to 500 grains of rice.
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They're first mixed with soil to create seabeds.
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And a week later, they're sprouting.
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Tadaaki takes the seedlings to his paddies.
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Tadaaki takes the seedlings to his patties.
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Some of the work needs modern machinery.
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Tadaki currently manages the paddies with just three other people,
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so efficiency is key.
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Growing rice is hard work,
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but even more so back in the day.
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Tadaki's wife, Naomi, is preparing lunch at home.
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The family grow a popular variety of rice called koshihikari.
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And their efforts have won high praise.
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Our rice is sometimes dubbed Super Koshihikari.
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Today's lunch is onigiri rice balls.
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The other ingredients include homemade miso paste and umeboshi pickled plums.
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The rice needs to be squeezed firmly so it doesn't fall apart,
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but not too hard or the texture will be spoiled.
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Onigiri are like an extension of the person who made them.
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Naomi coats these with a generous layer of miso paste.
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No filling inside.
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Miso and umeboshi are tasty and functional.
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Because they act like preservatives,
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stopping the rice from going bad.
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That's not so important if eaten right away,
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but oniguri were invented as a meal for farmers out in the field.
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Naomi arrives at the paddies.
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She's also brought fried eggs and other side dishes.
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But naturally, her onigiri are the highlight.
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Simple, tasty, and to be enjoyed wherever you may be.
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Onigiri, a fast food like no other.
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Tadaaki has recharged, and he finishes planting the seedlings in no time.
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Tadaaki was born and raised on Sado Island,
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but he moved elsewhere and worked as a civil engineer.
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He later returned with his family and found a job at the city hall.
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I was a little sick and I decided to live in 2010 to make a job.
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Tadaaki's father Yasuaki is the pioneer of an organic farming method using local oyster shells
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Tadaaki had only been at the helm a short while before Yasuaki became ill too
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Suddenly he had to take on all the work himself
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Things
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started
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looking up when Tada Aki drew on his experience as an engineer.
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Tadaaki came up with all sorts of ideas to improve the quality of his rice.
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He uses mineral-rich sea water to raise the seedlings.
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And he's embraced technology.
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Satellite imagery shows the paddy from above.
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The red areas are not well fertilized,
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and the green areas have too much.
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The rice planting machine uses the data to optimize distribution.
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Tadaaki wasn't just aiming for large-scale production.
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He also wanted to grow rice with care,
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like the farmers of old in their small patties.
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The hard work has paid off.
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He consistently produces high quality rice,
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and he's now one of Sado Island's key rice producers.
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Still, Japan's rice industry is facing a significant hurdle.
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People don't eat as much of it as they used to.
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Tada Aki has found a new way to promote his produce.
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He makes rice dumplings called dango.
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for a delicious treat dating back more than 1,200 years.
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And making them is all so simple.
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Mix rice flour with water,
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roll into balls, and steam.
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Tadaaki and his family even opened a store in 2024.
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Sounds weird.
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Customers can also have their they're to be eaten quickly while they're still hot.
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This is to See Little Mu butter.
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That's rare, and seen the Could.
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And at the heart of it all, Rice.
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Here's Tadaaki's mother, Katsumi This is a red-nigth.
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If you grow this, you'll have a red-nigth.
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The family mostly eat vegetables.
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She grows organically.
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It's always been that way for Tadaaki.
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This is a pachy.
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Today, they'll dine in the open air.
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A feast of colorful dishes made with homegrown vegetables.
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And of course, rice.
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It's been made in a traditional cooker called mushi kamado.
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They are designed to be airtight,
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which traps the umami flavor and produces a wonderful chewy texture.
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Let's eat.
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It's delicious.
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It's not only good to say it.
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I'm happy.
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Tadaki's grains have earned his father's seal of approval.
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But I am very happy to say, so smooth.
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I experienced the nuovo dog community today,
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and there is much like the dancing industry.
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Keeping somebody standing us while walking and joining them and fighting I expect it's It's about belonged.
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My place as a last 풍ido ratic of Sado Islander.
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Whatever you call it as a Vernado.
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That's the story of one Sado Islander and his family.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 123 frases y 1011 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 14:53. El hablante habla despacio, unas 68 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. 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

15 palabras menos comunes del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

  • paddy /ˈpædi/ (sustantivo) — arroz con cáscara, arroz en cáscara. Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested.
  • farmer /ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/ (sustantivo) — granjero, granjera. A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm.
  • delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/ (adjetivo) — delicioso, sabroso. Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.
  • patty /ˈpæti/ (sustantivo) — empanadilla, tortita. A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape.
  • dish /dɪʃ/ (sustantivo) — vajilla. A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
  • grain /ɡɹeɪn/ (sustantivo) — grano. The harvested seeds of various grass food crops, especially wheat, maize, rye, barley, and rice.
  • vegetable /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/ (sustantivo) — verdura, legumbre. A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice…
  • texture /ˈtɛkst͡ʃə(ɹ)/ (sustantivo) — textura. The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.
  • pasta /ˈpɑ.stə/ (sustantivo) — pasta. Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating.
  • tasty /ˈteɪsti/ (adjetivo) — de buen gusto. Having a pleasant or satisfying flavor.
  • vast /væst/ (adjetivo) — vasto, enorme. Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
  • earn /ɝn/ (verbo) — ganar, granjear. To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.
  • meal /ˈmiːl/ (sustantivo) — comida, pitanza. Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.
  • naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/ (adverbio) — naturalmente, a natura. In a natural manner.
  • egg /ɛɡ/ (sustantivo) — huevo, aguautle. An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell…

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

  • come up with (verbo) — ingeniar, ingeniarse. To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
  • draw on (verbo) — recurrir a. To sketch or mark with pencil, crayon, etc., on a given surface.
  • fall apart (verbo) — despedazarse, desintegrarse. To disintegrate, to break into pieces.
  • look up /ˌlʊk ˈʌp/ (verbo) — mejorar. To have better prospects.
  • pay off (verbo) — valer la pena, salir a cuenta. To bribe, especially to deter oversight.

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 14 contracciones y formas reducidas, como they're, I've, aren't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, dish /dɪʃ/, extension /ɪkˈstɛnʃən/, shell /ʃɛl/, efficiency /ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, efficiency /ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/, consistently /kənˈsɪstəntli/, machinery /məˈʃiːnəɹi/, ecosystem /ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/

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 paddy, farmer, delicious.

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — una acción que empezó antes y continúahave been harnessing · I've been working
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacebe found · is sometimes dubbed · be squeezed
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorahave brought · have worked · I've been

¿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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