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Unit 5.
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Be a taste of two cities.
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The city of Sao Paulo, Brazil has hundreds of Japanese restaurants.
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A world away, in Hamamatsu, Japan, there are many places to buy and eat Brazilian food.
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Why is each country's food so popular in the other?
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The answer to this question dates back to the early 20th century.
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In 1908, people from Japan began moving to Brazil to work on coffee plantations.
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Many of these Japanese immigrants, called Niki, moved to Sao Paulo and settled in a neighbourhood called Liberdade.
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Like many immigrants, they spoke their native language and prepared traditional foods from their home country.
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Over time, the Niki opened many Japanese markets and restaurants in the Liberdade district.
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Today, this neighbourhood has one of the largest Japanese communities outside of Japan.
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Restaurants sell ramen, noodles and sushi on every corner.
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Also, each weekend there is a large street market.
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Street sellers sell traditional Japanese goods and foods.
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The event is popular with both city residents and tourists.
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See, in the 1980s, three generations after the first Niki settled in Brazil, a reverse migration began to take place.
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Over 300,000 Japanese Brazilians moved to Japan, mainly to work in electronics and automobile factories.
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Many settled in Hamamatsu, a city on the east coast of Japan.
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Most Japanese Brazilians spoke only their native language Portuguese.
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They also missed the foods and culture of Brazil.
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Over time, a number of Brazilian restaurants and stores opened in Hamamatsu.
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Today, there is still a large Brazilian population in the city.
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All over Hamamatsu, food shops and restaurants sell traditional Brazilian foods, such as Pão de Queijo, a type of bread, and Fehoada,
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a bean stew with beef and pork.
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D. Today it's possible to eat excellent Japanese food in Sao Paulo and traditional Brazilian cuisine, too in Hamamatsu.
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Whether travelling through Brazil or Japan, it's worth visiting these two cities to experience the tastes and cultures of their unique immigrant communities.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “READING EXPLORER 1 UNIT 5B A TASTE OF TWO CITIES”. Las palabras que más se repiten: Japanese, Brazilian, Japan, Hamamatsu, restaurants. Este vídeo tiene 27 frases y 326 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:27. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 133 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 75 % 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 10 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
immigrant sustantivo/ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/inmigrante
noodle sustantivo/ˈnu.dəl/fideo, tallarín
sushi sustantivo/ˈsuːʃi/sushi
plantation sustantivo/plænˈteɪʃən/plantación, plantío
cuisine sustantivo/kwɪˈziːn/cocina, gastronomía
automobile sustantivo/ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/automóvil, carro
bean sustantivo/ˈbi(ː)n/haba, frijol
seller sustantivo/ˈsɛlɚ/vendedor, vendedora
migration sustantivo/maɪˈɡɹeɪʃ(ə)n/migración
electronics sustantivo/ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪks/electrónica

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: sushi /ˈsuːʃi/, plantation /plænˈteɪʃən/, migration /maɪˈɡɹeɪʃ(ə)n/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/, electronics /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪks/

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 immigrant, noodle, sushi.

¿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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