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In China, there is a village where women have small feet.
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So small, an iPhone is bigger than them.
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So small, even kids have bigger feet.
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What is this village and why is this happening?
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There's only 10 left in the world.
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Wow, really only 10?
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They are no longer around.
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When I was in China, I heard about a village with small feet.
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I couldn't believe it, so I took the first flight out to go see it for myself.
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Let's go!
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I left the rich part of China and landed here in a farming village
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where mostly poor people live many of them have never seen a foreigner before we were the only tourists in town What's up?
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Yeah!
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Yeah!
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Yeah!
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Video!
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Yoku!
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Video!
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Move!
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Hey!
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We walked around the village looking for women with small feet.
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And unfortunately we couldn't find any.
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We knocked on doors and people didn't want to talk to us and other people told us the women have died what happened?
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they are no longer around we almost gave up and headed home until we saw a small room with a grandma and her son inside her name was Fuji Pang Hello, I'm Fuji Pang
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She was 95 years old, but her feet looked like they belonged to a five-year-old.
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Turns out she is the one we came to look for.
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She's one of 10 people in the entire village still alive with this kind of feet.
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In ancient China, if you wanted to be a beautiful woman, you had to get small feet.
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so mothers would crush the feet of their daughters intentionally for years
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so that they stop growing so they remain small in ancient china this was considered beautiful
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it's a status symbol feet three inch small and you become the golden lotus She has been here for 60 years.
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She left her for 60 years?
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She left her for 60 years.
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Why are her feet?
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You said, she doesn't have to be able to do it.
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How old did you start to do it?
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I was 10 years old.
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10 plus, she started to wrap her feet.
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So maybe that's why she couldn't achieve a really small...
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It doesn't make sense to us now, but 40 to 50% of all women in China were forced to have small feet for the rest of their lives.
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I'm surprised this was considered a job.
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Beautiful.
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I mean, you know how it is.
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Because the top of the foot looks kind of bulbous, you know what I mean?
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Yeah.
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Luckily, this tradition ended 90 years ago.
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Most women with small feet have passed away, and the last small shoe factory closed in 1999.
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It's beautiful.
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It's beautiful.
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It's beautiful.
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They feel very beautiful.
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The tradition may have died, but there are many others that continue to exist.
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To this day, women still have to change their body to look beautiful.
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In China, they make feet small.
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In Britain, they make the waist small.
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and in America, they make the breasts big.
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So many painful ways for women to look beautiful in our society.
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It's crazy.
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I can't believe that just happened.
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The meeting with Fujipeng was eye-opening to all of us because the price women paid and continue to pay is high.
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The price of beauty is painful.
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The price of beauty is unnecessary.
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Let us change standards of beauty today so our kids in the future can just be themselves.
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Thank you so much.
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And I'll see you tomorrow for another video.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “The Village of Small Feet”. Las palabras que más se repiten: feet, beautiful, china, village, voice. Este vídeo tiene 78 frases y 754 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 6:10. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 122 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 90 % 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 |
|---|---|---|
| bulbous adjetivo | /ˈbʌlbəs/ | bulboso |
| foreigner sustantivo | /ˈfɔɹ.ɪ.nɚ/ | extranjero, extranjera |
| lotus sustantivo | /ˈloʊtəs/ | loto |
| intentionally adverbio | /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/ | intencionalmente, intencionadamente |
| luckily adverbio | /ˈlʌk.ɪ.li/ | afortunadamente, por suerte |
| waist sustantivo | /weɪst/ | cintura, cinto |
| desperately adverbio | /ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹət.li/ | desesperadamente |
| entrepreneur sustantivo | /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/ | emprendedor, emprendedor comercial |
| grandma sustantivo | /ˈɡɹænmɑː/ | abuela, abuelita |
| crush verbo | /kɹʌʃ/ | aplastar, destripar |
| unnecessary adjetivo | /ʌnˈnɛs.əˌsɛɹ.i/ | innecesario, desnecesario (disused) |
| wrap verbo | /ɹæp/ | envolver, fajar |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| give up verbo | rendirse, entregar |
| pass away verbo | fallecer, dejarnos |
| turn out verbo | resultar |
| walk around verbo | deambular |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- How old did you start to do it?
- I'm surprised this was considered a job.
- I can't believe that just happened.
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | have never seen · have died · has been |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | was considered · were forced |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 16 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, couldn't, doesn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: intentionally /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/, crush /kɹʌʃ/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: intentionally /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/, desperately /ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹət.li/, entrepreneur /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/, unnecessary /ʌnˈnɛs.əˌsɛɹ.i/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como bulbous, foreigner, lotus.
¿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.