Shadowing Practice: Robbie Amell | Code 8 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Good afternoon.
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Good afternoon.
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I love the fact that this film approaches the future in kind of a dark way.
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And in some strange way, some of these films, they feel like a different future.
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But this feels very much like it could be tomorrow.
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Yeah.
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You know, we didn't want to make it fully dystopian.
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But at the same time, you know, it had to be a world that is difficult for these people to live in.
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But with that being said, we also wanted it to feel very grounded and very relatable.
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And, you know, you look at these Boston Dynamics videos, robots, and you look at all the drone work out there.
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You're like, this is, you know, not that far off.
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It's not far off at all, really.
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And I love even seeing Connor, like, working.
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Seeing him use his abilities to do work is something I don't think I've seen in a film like this ever.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, you know, when we set out to make the movie, we knew we wanted to make something we were fans of.
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But at the same time, we wanted to make something grounded and real and relatable.
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So this, you know, this story of how far someone would go to save a loved one, something that we thought everyone could relate to.
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And then we wanted to take the sci-fi element and just give it our own little twist.
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Right.
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And I do love too the idea how much depth you've taken from the short
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and added to this story now that there's so much more to the world than even seemed possible.
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It's remarkable.
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Thanks.
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Yeah.
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The short we always looked at as a world builder and a proof of concept of like, give us your money and it'll look good.
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It won't look cheap.
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But, you know, the world building process, Jeff Chan, who directed it, and really captained the whole ship,
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and Chris Paré, they really built something cool that I want to see more of and hope that we get to make more of.
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And I love that you speak to it as well, The fact that it feels like a film that had a much higher budget.
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The effects, everything feels way beyond what you guys had to work with.
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Yeah, I mean, you know, we had more money than we expected to have just
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because of how well the Indiegogo campaign went and working with telefilm and Elevation.
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But we didn't have nearly as much money as it looked like we did because nobody got paid on the movie.
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We had unbelievably talented people working on it who really cared.
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Play Fight Visual Effects, we did the visual effects, are out of Toronto, and they're friends of ours, and they worked their asses off just hours and hours and hours.
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The amount of sweat equity in this movie is obscene.
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And, you know, the difference is that there's a lot of movies, or not even movies, there's a lot of projects in the entertainment world where you'll see people coasting.
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And you can say that about any job in the world because, you know, not every job or, you know, not every job is the same.
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Right.
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And sometimes it's a paycheck.
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Sometimes, you know, like the people you're working with, sometimes you're just having a bad day.
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We had awesome people who were excited to be at work every day and really care about what they were putting together.
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That's amazing.
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Well, speaking about Connor, did you walk away with something
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that stuck with you from him? because I've often talked to actors who said, you know, they were in a in a role that left them with something at the end.
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Would you say there was something from him?
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That might be a tough question, but...
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No, I think there's a lot of me in Connor.
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Part of that is because Chris Paré writes so well for the way I speak.
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Part of it is working with my family.
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Right.
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And part of it is the relationship Connor has with his mom.
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Kari Matcha was the first audition tape I watched for my mom.
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And she reminds me so much of my real mom.
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Really?
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That's amazing.
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I texted Jeff.
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I'm like, that's her.
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She's the one.
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And I sent it to my mom.
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My mom thought the same thing.
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But she was just so good.
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She made my job easy.
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you know I it was so easy for me to picture my mom lying there
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and to put myself in that position
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I wouldn't say I walked away with anything from Connor
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but I also don't think I'm done with him yet you
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know I want to make more I want to continue the story so maybe after that That's cool.
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Well, working with your cousin, what's it like?
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Because you haven't really worked together that much.
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Yeah, we had a scene together in Flash where we fought reverse Flash, but didn't say anything to each other.
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It was great.
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You know, it was cool to see his process and just get to work with him and play off each other.
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Especially because Garrett is an intense frenemy or something else.
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He's certainly not a friend of Connor.
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Yeah.
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That must be fun to play with, someone that you actually know to be like button heads basically.
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Yeah, it was really cool.
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And the other part that was great was we were our own bosses.
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So, you know, we were able to massage and shape these scenes in the way that we felt worked best
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and was strongest for the film.
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But other than that, just getting to hang out for five weeks was awesome.
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We hadn't spent that much time together in years.
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Right.
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That's very cool.
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Well, last thing I'd like to know is certainly, do you have a dream that you imagine if you came back to this world where you'd like to see Connor,
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what you'd like to see him doing?
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I'm not nearly a good enough writer to answer that question.
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I think that, you know,
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Jeff and Chris have already started thinking of the next step for Connor and Garrett and Code 8 as a whole.
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So hopefully the movie does well and we can make that a reality.
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So people need to go out and see it opening weekend especially, right?
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You know, opening weekend or video on demand.
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Right.
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You know, I don't go to the theaters much anymore, so I get it.
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You know, like we wanted to make the movie as accessible as possible.
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So video on demand, iTunes everywhere, December 13th.
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If you can see it in theaters, it's big, it's loud, and the visual effects are amazing.
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But at the same time, if you want to watch it at home, it's cold out.
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It's a good time of year for it.
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It's great.
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Awesome.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Robbie Amell”. Las palabras que más se repiten: Connor, movie, mom, cool, film. Este vídeo tiene 106 frases y 1175 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 7:15. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 162 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 89 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 12 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| relatable adjetivo | [ɹɪˈleɪ.tə.bɫ̩] | relacionable, vinculable |
| dystopian adjetivo | /dɪsˈtoʊ.pi.ən/ | distópico |
| frenemy sustantivo | /ˈfɹɛ.nɪ.mi/ | amienemigo |
| obscene adjetivo | /əbˈsiːn/ | obsceno |
| paycheck sustantivo | /ˈpeɪ.t͡ʃɛk/ | cheque de pago, cheque salarial |
| unbelievably adverbio | increíblemente | |
| audition sustantivo | /ɑˈdɪʃən/ | audición |
| builder sustantivo | /ˈbɪl.dəɹ/ | constructor, constructora |
| drone sustantivo | /dɹoʊn/ | zángano, abejón |
| massage sustantivo | /məˈsɑ(d)ʒ/ | masaje |
| sweat verbo | /swɛt/ | sudar, transpirar |
| accessible adjetivo | /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/ | accesible, asequible |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| go out verbo | salir |
| put together verbo | construir, elaborar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- Would you say there was something from him?
- Well, working with your cousin, what's it like?
- Because you haven't really worked together that much.
- We hadn't spent that much time together in years.
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 25 contracciones y formas reducidas, como didn't, don't, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/, massage /məˈsɑ(d)ʒ/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: dystopian /dɪsˈtoʊ.pi.ən/, accessible /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/
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 relatable, dystopian, frenemy.
¿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.