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Hello!
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Today we are bringing a English lesson with Zootopia, the beautiful Disney movie.
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With Shakira's voice as Gazelle, Zootopia is really nice.
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It's crazy, beautiful, diverse city.
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We celebrate our different things.
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If it's the first time you study with us, we tell you that we use movies, series and television programs and songs to learn English.
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And really works, because unlike most of the methods to learn English, our method is fun and easy, as David tells us.
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To continue practicing, you just click the subscribe button and the bell icon.
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Now, let's learn English.
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fair to see fur!
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Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm.
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Excuse me?
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Down here?
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Hi.
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O. M.
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Good.
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They really did hire a bunny.
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What?
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I gotta tell you, you are even cuter than I thought you'd be!
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You probably didn't know, but a bunny can call another bunny cute, but when I'm doing a little good, I'm so little...
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I am so sorry.
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Me, Benjamin Klawhauser.
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The guy everyone thinks is just a slabby donut -loving cop stereotyping you.
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It's okay.
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Oh, you've actually got...
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There's a...
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In your net, the full...
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Oh, who you went, you little dickens?
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I should get the roll call.
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So, which way do I...
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Oh, bullpen's over there to the left.
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Thank you.
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Poor little buddy from Giddy.
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This phrase works as a game of words because it has a double meaning.
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The expression to bear once in, to show the dientes, means having a violent reaction or dangerous to something or something.
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Ejemplos
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Esta frase proviene del comportamiento de animales como perros o lobos cuando se sienten amenazados.
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Como en la escena lo dice un lobo, tiene un significado literal en lugar del metafórico que suele tener.
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Por eso la frase termina siendo bastante humorística.
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Tutopia is full of these words.
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OMG, OMG, is a very common word for OMG, a phrase that is used to express surprise or emotion for something.
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Fíjate.
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Hi, it's me.
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Oh my god.
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Los hablantes nativos tienden a suavizar las palabras relacionadas con la religión,
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como Dios o Jesús, porque muchas personas pueden considerar ofensivo decir estas palabras en vano.
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Por eso, la frase oh my god tiene muchas variantes, entre ellas oh my goodness.
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They really did higher up on me.
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El verbo to hire someone significa contratar o emplear a alguien.
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Ejemplos, she was hired three years ago.
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We need to hire a lawyer to solve the problem.
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Sorry, tell me about Professor Proton.
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Professor Proton hosted my favorite science show when I was a child.
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I never missed an episode.
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Leonard, look, he's still available for parties and events.
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We should hire him.
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To fire someone es un verbo que significa despedir, echar a alguien de un trabajo.
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Ejemplo, we have to fire him for being dishonest.
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They really did hire a bunny.
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What?
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In English, conejo se dice rabbit.
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Bunny is a way of referring to a bunny.
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That's why we usually translate it to bunny por conejito.
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Por ejemplo, en inglés llamamos al conejo de Pascuas Easter Bunny.
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Gotta es la contracción de got to y se usa como un sinónimo más informal de have to do something,
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tener que hacer algo.
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Ejemplos, I gotta study.
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You gotta come to my birthday.
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Have to funciona como un verbo modal de obligación de forma bastante parecida al verbo modal must.
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Si quieres saber más acerca de los verbos modales, échale un vistazo a nuestra lección.
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Escuchemos de nuevo cómo Benjamin dice esto.
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Aquí tenemos un ejemplo de American tea, té americana.
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Esta es la forma en que los nativos Estados Unidos pronuncian un sonido T cuando se encuentra entre dos sonidos vocales.
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En estos casos la T suena como una D.
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Encontramos la American T en muchas palabras como water,
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meter, meeting, y en palabras con doble T rodeada por vocales como en better, pretty, cotton.
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E e incluso cuando se trata de más palabras siempre y cuando el sonido T se encuentra rodeado por vocales.
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Lot of Cat and Dog Entonces, en lugar de decir Gotta,
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Benjamin dice Recuerda, para seguir practicando con nosotros,
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no olvides darle click al botón de suscripción y al ícono de la campana.
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A bunny can call another bunny cute, but when other animals do it, it's a little...
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I am so sorry.
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Me, Benjamin Klawhauser.
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The guy everyone thinks is just a flabby donut -loving cop stereotyping you.
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El adjetivo flabby significa flácido, fofo.
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Ejemplos, my arms are getting flabby.
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You need to exercise to firm up your flabby thighs.
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Cop, a way of something informal to say police.
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Presta especial atención a la construcción de esta palabra, donut loving.
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Es lo que llamamos un adjetivo compuesto, compound adjective.
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En inglés se pueden componer palabras a partir de la combinación de otras palabras usando un guión.
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Muchos adjetivos se componen de esta manera.
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No tenemos una traducción literal al español, porque en español no podemos componer palabras de esta manera.
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La traducción al castellano de donut loving es un concepto.
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Amante de las donas.
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Stereotype, estereotipo A stereotype is a preconceived idea, especially about a group of people.
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La mayoría de los estereotipos se basan en el prejuicio, prejudice.
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Fíjate que Benjamin está usando la palabra como verbo, to stereotype, estereotipar.
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Ejemplo, feminists are sometimes stereotyped as aggressive and unattractive.
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Hi, Mommy.
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So you just assumed I was here?
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Because I'm an ignorant old woman married to prayer? But you are here.
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Still, you shouldn't stereotype.
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It's okay.
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Oh, you've actually got, there's a, in your neck, the fold, the, there's.
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Quizás sepas que to fold es un verbo que significa doblar o plegar, como en, I folded the letter in half and put it in an envelope.
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The table can be folded when not in use.
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Pero aquí fold es un sustantivo, el pliegue, y refiere a una parte de algo,
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especialmente tela, que está doblada o cuelga como si hubiera sido doblada.
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Judy se refiere al pliegue del cuello de Benjamin.
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Esto es porque Benjamin tiene una papada, en inglés, double chin, que literalmente significa doble mentón.
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Dickens is a word used to express enojo or surprise.
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Funciona as we use in Spanish, but this translation is not literal.
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Ejemplo, what the dickens are you doing with that paint?
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Sir, those penguins, they never made it to Madagascar.
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F*!
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But where are the Dickens?
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Esta expresión se usa más a menudo cuando hablamos con niños o sobre ellos, en la frase Little Dickens.
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En ese sentido, Little Dickens es igual a Little Devil, pequeño diablo o demonio, pero más sutil.
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Fíjate.
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Roll call, el momento en que se toma o pasa lista.
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Roll call is the reading of a list of names to a group of people to check who is there.
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No hay una traducción literal de este término al español.
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Bullpen significa literalmente un recinto cerrado para toros, bulls.
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Es gracioso que se use in Zootopia because Chief Bogo is a buffalo macho, also called Bull.
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However, when referring to any type of office, the term bullpen is informal for referring to a large room without divisor walls.
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In general, this area is for the junior employees, since the senior employees usually have individual offices.
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The phrase, to be eaten alive, significa ser comido vivo, y se usa para decir que alguien será derrotado por completo por alguien mucho más fuerte.
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Ejemplo, She was afraid that her son would be eaten alive in the competition.
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Como Benjamin ve a Judy como una pequeña conejita, piensa que es imposible que tenga éxito como policía.
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Aquí hay de nuevo un juego de palabras.
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En Zootopia, y como estamos hablando de animales, es literalmente posible que Judy sea comida viva.
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Hey, Officer Hopps, you ready to make the world a better place?
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Attendant!
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All right, all right.
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Everybody sit.
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I've got three items on the docket.
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First, we need to acknowledge the elephant in the room.
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Francine.
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Happy birthday.
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Oh, yeah?
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Oh!
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Number two.
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There are some new recruits with us I should introduce, but I'm not going to because I don't care.
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Finally, we have 14 missing mammal cases.
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All predators from a giant polar bear to a teensy little otter.
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And City Hall is right up my tail to find them.
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This is priority number one.
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Assignments?
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Officers Grisoli, Fangmire, Delgado, your teams take missing mammals from the rainforest district.
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Officers McHorn, Ridovitz, Wolford, your teams take Sahara Square.
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Officers Higgins, Snarlow, Trunkabee, Tundra Town.
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And finally, our first bunny, Officer Hopps.
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Parking duty.
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Dismissed.
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Parking duty?
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Chief?
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Chief Bogo?
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Sir, you said there were 14 missing mammal cases. So?
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So I can handle one.
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You probably forgot, but I was top of my class at the academy.
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Didn't forget.
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Just don't care.
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Officer, official.
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Se refiere a un rango determinado en las Fuerzas Armadas y también en la Policía.
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In general, when we dirig ourselves to a police officer, we call it Officer.
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Do you want to learn English with Rachel, Ross and others?
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Well, we have many more lessons with friends in our channel.
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Hey, Officer Hopps.
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¿Notaste el nombre del personaje principal?
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Judy es una coneja y su apellido es Hopps.
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Esto es algo cómico porque el verbo to hop refiere a la manera en que saltan los conejos, dando esos saltos cortos o brincos.
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Hopp puede funcionar también como sustantivo, brinco.
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Hey, officer Hopps, are you ready to make the world a better place?
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Al hablar de manera informal, es muy común que los nativos eliminen el verbo auxiliar en las preguntas.
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Por eso, en lugar de decir, are you ready, Judy simplemente dice, you ready?
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Are you ready to make the world a better place?
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Are you ready to make the world a better place?
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Lo mismo ocurre con otros verbos auxiliares.
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Do you think?
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You think?
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Is he coming?
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He coming? Have you seen it?
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You seen it?
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This is a military estadounidense, que significa attention, atención.
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Item, item, puede referir a un elemento en una lista o a un artículo.
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Docket es una lista de temas que se discutirán en una reunión.
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Puede traducirse por agenda, programa o temario, entre otras.
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Ejemplo, The new library will be the first item on the committee's docket.
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Esta es una palabra un poco formal, pero aquí es apropiada, ya que la está utilizando el jefe de policía.
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To acknowledge, reconocer, aceptar o admitir Ejemplos You must acknowledge the truth of her arguments.
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He does not acknowledge that he has done anything wrong.
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La expresión, the elephant in the room, refiere a un problema o asunto importante y obvio que la gente evita discutir o reconocer.
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Are we going to talk about it?
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Why?
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The elephant in the room.
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What an elephant.
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I guess not then.
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Una vez más, tenemos un uso divertido de una expresión figurativa, porque, en este caso, el elefante en la sala es de verdad un elefante.
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Number two.
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There are some new recruits with us I should introduce, but I'm not going to because I don't care.
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Recruit, recluta.
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A recruit is a new member of an organization.
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Generalmente se usa este término para la organización militar, the military.
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Como la policía es una organización jerárquica similar a la organización militar, hay muchas palabras y expresiones que se comparten.
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A ten hut, recruits, dismissed.
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To introduce someone, is presentar a alguien a otra persona o grupo.
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She'll introduce me to her mother.
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The lead singer introduced each member of the band.
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My dear.
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Finally.
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We have 14 missing mammal cases.
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La policía lidia a diario con diferentes casos.
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Cases.
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A case is a particular problem that needs to be solved.
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Missing es un adjetivo que significa perdido, que no se encuentra.
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Ejemplo, my phone is missing.
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Ahora bien, si usamos missing para referirnos a una persona, entonces quiere decir que no se conoce su ubicación.
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Ejemplo, they still hope to be to find their missing son.
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We have 14 missing mammal cases, all predators, from a giant polar bear to a teensy little otter.
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Predator, depredador.
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A predator is an animal that kills and eats other animals.
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Presa se dice prey.
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Ah!
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Blood!
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Blood!
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Blood!
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Ahem.
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Death.
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Back then, the world was divided in two.
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Vicious predator or meek prey.
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But over time, we evolve and move beyond our primitive savage way.
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Now, predator and prey live in harmony.
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Tinsy es un adjetivo que significa muy pequeño.
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Las tres son correctas.
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teensy, tiny, miniscule e itsy bitsy son todas palabras que significan muy pequeño.
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La frase up my tail es en realidad un juego de palabras derivada de la frase up my butt,
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hasta mi trasero, que se usa para referirse a algo que te tiene molesto o irritado.
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Fíjate.
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The expression up my butt is vulgar, and that's why here butt, trasero, has been changed by tail, cola.
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This is possible because Chief Bogo is a buffalo and, in fact, has cola.
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Assignments.
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Officers, Grisoli, Fangmire, Delgado, your teams take missing mammals from the rainforest district.
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Assignment, Asignación o Tarea An assignment is a piece of work that is given to someone.
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Officers, McHorn, Ride of Itz, Walford.
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Your team takes Sahara Square.
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Officers Higgins, Snarlow, Trunkabee, Tundra Town.
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And finally, our first bunny, Officer Hopps.
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Parking duty.
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Dismissed.
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Parking duty?
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Duty es el trabajo por el que eres responsable.
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Duty recibió la asignación de Parking Duty, es decir, que es responsable de todo lo relacionado con el estacionamiento, como controlar los parquímetros.
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Si un auto está estacionado fuera de regla, entonces Judy tendrá que hacerle una multa de estacionamiento, a parking tickets.
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De hecho, Chief Bogo le encarga a Judy 100 multas al día.
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To dismiss es un verbo que significa permitir a alguien que se retire.
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Ejemplo, Lieutenant, do you have anything further for this witness?
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Thanks, Danny.
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I love Washington.
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Excuse me.
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I didn't dismiss you.
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I beg your pardon.
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I'm not through with my examination.
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Sit down.
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Además, T -Dismissed means to decide that someone or something is important and it is not worth thinking or talking about it.
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You said there were 14 missing mammal cases.
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As a word, chief means a person with a high rank or the highest rank in a company or organization.
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For example, police chiefs, army chiefs, industry chiefs.
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Sir, sir, sir, is used to direct himself in a court and respectful to a man who is considered a authority.
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Here, as Judy is talking about his superior, he treats it in a court.
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To handle, manejar, manipular When we use it to refer to a situation,
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we are saying that we can handle or deal with that situation, even if it's a difficult situation.
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Ejemplos A new man was appointed to handle the crisis.
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She's very good at handling her patients.
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Escuchemos de nuevo a Judy decir esto.
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Judy hizo algo que los hablantes nativos hacen todo el tiempo y es reducir el verbo can.
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En lugar de decir un sonido a largo, can, lo reducimos a un sonido y corto, can.
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Top of the class, el o la mejor de la clase.
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El o la mejor alumna lo es porque obtuvo las mejores notas, marks o grades.
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Entonces, de todos los graduados de la Academia de Policía, Judy egresó como la mejor alumna.
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De hecho, él o la mejor alumna es elegida para dar el discurso de despedida, lo que en inglés llamamos valedictorian.
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Fíjate.
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The first rabbit officer, Judy Hopps.
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You probably forgot, but I was top of my class at the academy.
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Didn't forget.
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Just don't care.
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Sir, I'm not just some token bunny.
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Well, then writing a hundred tickets a day should be easy.
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Come on!
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He fared his teeth first!
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Excuse me?
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Down here?
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Hi.
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O .M.
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Goodness.
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They really did hire a bunny.
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What?!
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I gotta tell you, you are even cuter than I thought you'd be.
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Oh, uh, you probably didn't know, but a bunny can call another bunny cute, but when other animals do it, it's a little...
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I am so sorry.
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Me, Benjamin Klawhauser.
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The guy everyone thinks is just a flabby donut -loving cop stereotyping you.
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Oh.
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It's okay.
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Oh.
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You've actually got...
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There's a...
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A what?
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In your neck, the full... Where?
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The...
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Oh, there you went, you little dickens!
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Oh!
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I should get to roll call.
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So which way do I?
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Oh, bullpen's over there to the left.
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Great.
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Thank you.
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Aww.
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That poor little buddy's gonna get eaten alive.
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Hey, Officer Hopps.
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You ready to make the world a better place?
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Ahem.
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Attend it!
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All right.
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All right.
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Everybody sit.
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I've got three items on the docket.
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First, and then the other.
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We need to acknowledge the elephant in the room.
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Francine.
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Happy birthday.
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Number two.
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There are some new recruits with us I should introduce, but I'm not going to because I don't care.
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Finally, we have 14 missing mammal cases.
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All predators from a giant polar bear to a teensy little otter.
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And City Hall is right up my tail to find them.
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This is priority number one.
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Assignments?
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Officers Grisoli, Fangmire, Delgado, your teams take missing mammals from the rainforest district.
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Officers McHorn, Reinovitz, Walford, your teams take Sahara Square.
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Officers Higgins, Snarlow, Trunkabee, Tundra Town.
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And finally, our first bunny, Officer Hopps.
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Parking duty.
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Dismissed.
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Parking duty?
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Well, that's all for today.
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I hope you enjoyed it a lot and learned it, of course.
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Now, see you in English.
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See you next time!
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Probably.
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Totally.
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Learn English with Zootopia: Fun Practice for Speaking Skills
This lesson uses scenes from Disney's Zootopia to help you practice English speaking, vocabulary, and understanding of everyday phrases. You'll explore natural dialogue, double meanings, and common expressions, all while enjoying a beloved movie. It's a great way to make learning engaging—perfect for those looking to improve their skills with videos.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases to Master
- "OMG": A casual abbreviation for "Oh my God," used to show surprise. Natives often soften it to "Oh my goodness" to avoid potential offense.
- "To hire": Means to employ someone. Example: "She was hired as a teacher last month."
- "Bunny": A cute term for a rabbit, often used in friendly or playful contexts.
- "Bullpen": A large open area in a police station where officers work. Useful for understanding workplace vocabulary.
- "Double meaning": A phrase that has two interpretations. The video uses this for humor, like when a wolf says "bear once in" (a play on words with a literal and figurative sense).
Practice Tips for Shadowing Success
Shadowing—repeating lines aloud right after the speaker—is a powerful way to improve pronunciation and fluency. For this video, focus on the speed and tone of the dialogue. Characters like Benjamin Klawhauser speak quickly with enthusiasm, so start by pausing after short phrases and mimicking his rhythm. This helps with "shadowspeak"—the ability to match native speakers' cadence.
Pay attention to softened words, like "Oh my goodness" instead of "Oh my God." Natives often adjust their language to be polite, so practicing these variants will make your speech sound more natural. Use this as a "shadowing site" moment: pick 3-5 lines, replay them, and repeat until you match the intonation. This method works because it connects learning to context, making it easier to remember phrases in real conversations. Whether you're new to shadowing or refining your skills, this video offers the perfect mix of fun and practice to boost your English speaking.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was hired · are sometimes stereotyped · can be folded |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has done · has been changed |
| Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea | should get · should hire · shouldn't stereotype |
| Comparatives -er than / more … than — comparing two things | cuter than |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.