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Hi, I'm Owen Wilson and this is the Wired Autocomplete Interview.
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No, I have not Googled myself.
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I can't think of anything worse.
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How did Owen Wilson get his start?
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I guess University of Texas,
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Wes Anderson and I became friends and college roommates and then we started writing a screenplay together that became Bottle Rocket.
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How did Owen Wilson get his nose broken?
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At University of Texas, yeah, playing...
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We were doing intramural flag football and I got banged.
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But also I think just like as a kid, just roughhousing.
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How many movies are Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller in together?
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I don't know, feels like 70.
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You know, because we have a lot of sequels and stuff.
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So we have the Meet the Parents, so there's three.
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We have the Night at the Museums.
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That's three right there.
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Although Ben was never there at Night at the Museum because, you know, Steve Coogan and I play these little miniature characters, so they didn't need him there.
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Then we were in Royal Tenenbaums and Starsky and Hutch,
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and the first movie, Permanent Midnight.
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I feel like there's one more, but that's nine right there.
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I'm going to say 12.
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12?
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12 movies.
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There's 12 with Ben?
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What am I leaving out?
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Oh yeah, Zoolanders!
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Yeah, how could I forget that?
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Yeah, yeah, we had two Zoolanders.
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I think it's 11, but they're telling me 12.
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Okay, how many movies are Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn in together?
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Wedding Crashers, of course, and Zoolander, and...
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Oh, and Internship, so it's just three.
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Four.
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Four?
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Thirstbeat Hutch, too.
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Oh, he was, yeah, that's right.
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He's really funny.
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He kind of does a little dancing thing in the bar mitzvah scene that makes me laugh.
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Let's go right here.
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Is Owen Wilson in every Wes Anderson movie?
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No, I'm not.
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I wasn't in Moonrise Kingdom and I wasn't in a few others.
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I guess my favorite, I mean I always have a soft spot for Bottle Rocket, the first one, but then Darjeeling Limited,
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I think the story kind of about Three Brothers was something that, of course, I can relate to.
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And I just love being in India, so maybe that's my favorite.
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Is Owen Wilson Australian?
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Yes.
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He is.
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G'day.
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Why do people think that?
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Do they think that?
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Is that something they think?
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I think that's kind of nice because Australians kind of, they sort of have the reputation of sort of a kind of a hail fellow well met.
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And maybe there is sort of,
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I'm from Texas, and maybe there is a slight overlap in kind of the brashness of Texans and Australians.
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I like a lot of Australian movies and I've had fun being there.
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So, yeah, let's say yes.
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Okay, next one.
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Is Owen Wilson a good skateboarder?
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You know, this one people think a lot that I'm a skateboarder because I did this skate video, yeah, right, that Spike Jonze directed.
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I do a trick in it that people think is me, but some people say it's Eric Costin and they did a cowboy switch
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and it wasn't me but I think it was me.
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Is Owen Wilson coming back to Loki?
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Um, yes, he is coming back to Loki, and I think we're gonna start filming that pretty soon.
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I had a great time working on Loki.
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I really enjoyed Tom Hiddleston and all the people on that.
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It's very satisfying doing that.
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Who was older, Luke or Owen Wilson?
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That would be, I'm older, I'm three years older than Luke.
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Was Owen Wilson in a fraternity?
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Decidedly not in a fraternity.
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I didn't graduate from college.
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Were you in the frat pack though?
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That's kind of like a fraternity of...
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Um, yeah, was that, what did they call that?
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Frat pack.
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They, no, I think the frat...
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Wasn't that the thing with Rob Lowe and Emilio Estevez in them?
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I think they, that's what got called the frat pack.
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But maybe the group of comedians that they talk about, sort of...
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Ben Stiller and Jack Black.
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I forget what the name was for that, but yeah, maybe I was a member of that.
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I wouldn't want to be a member of any club that would have someone like me as a member.
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What's that joke?
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Was Owen Wilson a model?
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No, I wasn't. Who...
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What does this one mean?
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What's this one?
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Who is your daddy, Owen Wilson?
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My father, who's my dad?
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My dad is Robert Wilson, Bob Wilson, Great dad and from Boston,
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although we grew up in Dallas because my dad worked in Dallas.
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And when we were kids, he was the head of the PBS station in Dallas.
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Just a great guy.
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Yeah, I miss him.
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Well, I worked with Ed Helms on that movie Father Figures, and we just had a great time working together.
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It's funny, kind of when you show up to work, kind of, you know, some days you kind of look forward to it more than others, but when I was working with Ed, I knew, you know, when I showed up,
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it was gonna be fun just kind of talking.
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Sometimes it can be kind of awkward when you're kind of left sort of sitting, you know, in a car doing a scene when they're not rolling, but with Ed and I,
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I don't know, we just really got along.
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Owen Wilson turkey movie, Freebirds, where I think the tagline was, hang on to your nuggets.
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Pretty good.
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And Owen Wilson's Zoolander quotes.
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I mean, the one that people always say is, Hansel's so hot right now.
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But I think that was Will Ferrell who says that.
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Oh, there's something about with spider monkeys, like tripping with spider monkeys,
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doing chocolate mesclun, I can't remember what it was.
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Oh, who you trying to get crazy with, essay?
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Don't you know I'm loco?
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Yeah, and that came from that Cypress Hill song.
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Owen Wilson and Jennifer Lopez together again in Marry Me.
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And we worked in Anaconda,
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and I think this movie was about proving that that chemistry that we showed in Anaconda wasn't just a fluke.
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Owen Wilson, yellow jumpsuit.
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That would be Bottle Rocket, but, you know, I've worn a jumpsuit in a lot of movies, and I feel like it's always a good...
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When I see that in my wardrobe, I feel like it's gonna be a good movie, because I wore it in Zoolander, in Behind Enemy Lines.
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I'm sort of wearing a jumpsuit, a flight suit.
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With Jackie Chan, did I have one?
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That seems like I had a jumpsuit, but they're saying no. But yes, Canary Yellow Jumpsuit and Bottle Rocket.
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Owen Wilson haunted house movie.
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Well, this is a genre that I'm returning to.
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I did The Haunting, and that wasn't wonderfully received,
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and so, you know, a lot of people would have maybe shied away from that genre, but I'm going back, and this time we're going to get it right.
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Although I think it still did well.
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And it was fun.
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There was a good cast on that movie.
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And I had fun doing it.
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Owen Wilson, Boba Fett.
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What's the connection there?
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I don't know.
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I mean, I...
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No, not that I know of.
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But I like that character.
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Boba Fett is like one of the...
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He's the bounty hunter, right?
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Yeah, so as a kid, you know, that was like one of the cool characters, Bubba Fett.
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Great name, too, Bubba Fett.
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What is Owen Wilson filming?
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Right now, I'm in New Orleans, and we're making a movie called Haunted Mansion.
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And what is the source material for this?
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Is it a book or is it this?
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No, it's actually a ride, a Disney ride.
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What animal does Owen Wilson play in Fantastic Mr. Fox?
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I played Coach Skip, I think, and the name of the game is, uh, Slap, Slap Bat?
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Or Slap Back?
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Or Hot Box?
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No, Hot Box is something we've played as kids where it's like a man in the middle
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that you're trying to tag out.
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What is Owen Wilson's middle name?
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My middle name is Cunningham, and that's my mom's maiden name, and Luke and Andrew, my two brothers, they also have the same middle name you know
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when you're like a kid and people kind of look up your middle name in school so they would kind of, you know, say Richie Cunningham and stuff,
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kind of make fun of it from Happy Days.
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What color are Owen Wilson's eyes?
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Blue.
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Azure.
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Does Owen Wilson play guitar?
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No, I don't, although in Starsky and Hutch, they have me kind of playing a guitar,
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and I'm actually on the soundtrack for Starsky and Hutch, singing a David Soule song, Don't Give Up On Me Baby, I think.
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And actually, when I was in Australia, I remember walking into a bar and hearing a song going, God, that voice sounds familiar.
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And it was my voice, although I'm not very musical.
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My friend George Straculius, who did the music on Starsky & Hutch, said that I broke three auto-tune machines trying to get that song right.
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Does Owen Wilson have tattoos?
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I just have one tattoo that I got in college on my shoulder, a four-leaf clover that says luck.
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I wanted it to say lucky, and then I kind of chickened out and just had it say luck.
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Does Owen Wilson sing?
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Well, I kind of answered that.
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That was part of my guitar answer.
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I wish I did sing, or wish I did sing well, but I'll do karaoke.
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And if you can't sing that well, you know a good karaoke song, one that I choose?
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Tequila.
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Because there isn't much singing.
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All you have to do is go, tequila.
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Okay.
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That's it.
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Well, that was just kind of a real walk down memory lane for me, and it was great just kind of freestyling and kind of moonwalking and,
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you know, going through that.

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Este vídeo tiene 175 frases y 1674 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 10:42. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 157 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 78 % 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 del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
guitar sustantivo/ɡɪˈtɑɹ/guitarra, jarana
fraternity sustantivo/fɹəˈtɜɹnəti/hermandad
spider sustantivo/ˈspaɪ̯dɚ/araña
genre sustantivo/ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/género
tattoo sustantivo/tæˈtuː/tatuaje
monkey sustantivo/ˈmʌŋki/mono, chango
haunt verbo/hɔnt/rondar, embrujar
trick sustantivo/ˈtɹɪk/truco, artimaña
reputation sustantivo/ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/reputación, nombradía
hunter sustantivo/ˈhʌntɚ/perro de caza
daddy sustantivo/ˈdædi/papá, papaíto
chemistry sustantivo/ˈkɛm.ɪ.stɹi/química
bang sustantivo/ˈbæŋ/estallido, estruendo
awkward adjetivo/ˈɔk.wɚd/torpe, desmañado
tune sustantivo/tjuːn/melodía

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
get along verbollevarse bien con, avenirse
go through verboatravesar
leave out verbodejar de lado
look forward to verbono ver la hora de, quedar a la espera de
look up verbo/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/mejorar
show up verbocomparecer, personarse

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 50 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, wasn't, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: genre /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/, reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, shy /ʃaɪ/, azure /ˈæʒɚ/, brashness /ˈbɹæʃ.nəs/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: fraternity /fɹəˈtɜɹnəti/, reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, comedian /kəˈmiː.di.ən/, automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/, miniature /ˈmɪn.(i)ə.tʃəɹ/

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 guitar, fraternity, spider.

¿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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