Shadowing Practice: Toronto Sun Interview — Mackenzie Foy — 2018 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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The film is based off the book by E.T.A.
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Hoffman and it also draws inspiration from the ballet, but there are a couple of Christian turns in the film that are new.
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Clara is, she has the same strength and fearlessness as she does in the book and in the ballet, but in this version her mother has just passed away,
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so she's dealing with that grief and that pain and trying to be strong for her family, but also just feeling like she's broken and lost inside.
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And then she finds herself in this world that her mother created that has, you know, has darkness in it and is being threatened.
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And she finds that she is the princess and that she must protect this world.
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And she goes on this journey of, you know, epic action adventure, but also of finding herself.
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It was so much fun filming with everyone.
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They were so nice and happy and it was just a wonderful energy on set.
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And yeah, I really enjoyed talking to them and going into our characters and just having fun.
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And they built these sets that were incredibly practical and the costumes and the hair and makeup.
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So it was really just, we came to work every day and we kind of just played in this fantasy world.
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So you got the Land of Snowflakes, Land of Flowers, Land of Sweets, and a Mysterious Fourth Realm.
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What's your favorite one?
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Ooh, this is always changing, but right now I really like the Land of Snowflakes, just because it's so beautiful.
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It's got these really pretty wintry blues and silvers, and it's very sparkly and happy, and I really like it.
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So what was it like for you to see these realms realized on the big screen, you know, in all their CGI glory?
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Yeah, well, a lot of what you see in the film is actually there, So especially in the fourth realm, those sets were real.
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They really built those forests.
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They really built, you know, the broken down sets and the creepiness.
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Yeah, so it was really amazing being on those sets
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and just wandering around and discovering the world just as much as Clara.
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Nutcracker in the Four Realms is going to kick off Christmas.
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It's going to kick off the holiday season for us.
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What's your favorite Christmas memory or what's your favorite tradition about the holidays?
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My favorite tradition, I love decorating with my family we all wait until we're
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all together to like fully you know go all out
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and decorate which i really really love doing
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and also baking cookies on christmas eve and um yeah
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and also just like on days
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when we're all together we just sit on the couch with the dog
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and the cat and a big blanket and hot chocolate
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and we just watch christmas movies all day and that's that's so much fun

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Toronto Sun Interview — Mackenzie Foy — 2018”. Las palabras que más se repiten: realm, christmas, favorite, Land, built. Este vídeo tiene 33 frases y 492 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:30. El hablante habla rápido, unas 197 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 88 % 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 13 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
decorate verbo/ˈdɛkəɹeɪt/decorar, engalanar
ballet sustantivo/bælˈeɪ/ballet, baile
fearlessness sustantivo/ˈfɪəlɪsnɪs/impavidez, demasía
nutcracker sustantivo/ˈnʌtˌkɹækɚ/cascanueces
wintry adjetivo/ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹi/invernal
wander verbo/ˈwɑndɚ/vagar, divagar
bake verbo/beɪk/hornear, enhornar
threaten verbo/ˈθɹɛt.n̩/conminar, amagar
cookie sustantivo/ˈkʊki/galleta
blanket sustantivo/ˈblæŋ.kɪt/manta, cobija
grief sustantivo/ɡɹiːf/pesar, pesadumbre
couch sustantivo/ˈkaʊ̯t͡ʃ/sofá, sillón
costume sustantivo/ˈkɑsˌt(j)um/traje

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
break down verbodescomponerse, averiarse
pass away verbofallecer, dejarnos

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 decorate, ballet, fearlessness.

¿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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