Chào các thính giả yêu mến của chương trình Học Tiếng Anh qua các chủ đề của chương trình học tiếng anh cùng Radiome. Mình là Diệu Hoa.
Chủ đề nghe Tiếng Anh của chúng ta ngày hôm nay có tựa đề là:
Cosplay: Playing Your Favorite Character có nghĩa là Hóa trang, chơi nhân vật yêu thích của bạn
Vì bài nghe khá dài nên mình sẽ tách làm hai phần để các bạn dễ dàng theo dõi hơn nhé!
Các bạn cùng chú ý lắng nghe với tiết tấu chậm rãi của chương trình Spotlight nhé. Note lại những từ bạn nghe chưa rõ và xem lại ở bản text để làm phong phú thêm vốn từ vựng của mình nhé!

Cosplay: Playing Your Favorite Character.
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Welcome to Spotlight. I’m Robin Basselin.
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And I’m Ryan Geertsma. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand no matter where in the world they live.
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It is the middle of July. Jamie is standing outside of a large building.  She is in San Diego, California, in the United States. It is warm outside.  But Jamie is wearing a lot of clothing. She is dressed in a man’s shirt, dress coat, trousers and neck tie. Over the top of this, she is wearing a long, brown coat. And on her feet are sport shoes. These clothes would look very unusual on a woman in most any place. But in San Diego in July, no one seems to think it is strange. In fact, all around Jamie, there are many other people dressed in strange, unusual clothing.
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Jamie and the people around her are dressed unusually because they are cosplayers. A cosplayer - or costume player - is someone who wears clothing to look like their favorite character from a film, television show, or book. Jamie is dressed as The Tenth Doctor from the British television program, Doctor Who. And she is at one of the largest gatherings of cosplayers in the world - “San Diego Comic Con.”  Cosplayers like Jamie wear costumes to have fun. And they join together to enjoy a different cultural experience. Today’s Spotlight is on “cosplay.”
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It is not unusual to be a fan of a television program, film or story. Fans are people who really enjoy particular stories, characters or even performers. Often, they like to see pictures of and read news stories about them. And many people even want to look or be like their favorite television, film or story characters.
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Cosplay is an extreme way of showing that a person is a fan of something. For example, a fan of the Japanesetelevision program Sailor Moon might dress like the program’s main character. She might wear shoes that go up to her knees and a long fake hair wig.
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Allison is a cosplayer from Georgia in the United States. She does a kind of cosplay called “crossplay.” Crossplay is when a person acts like a character who is a different sex. A woman may cosplay as a man, or a man maycosplay as a woman. Allison told The Guardian news organization:
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“It is very satisfying when you play your part so well that people do not recognize that you are a crossplayer until you speak.”
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Many large fan groups have conventions or gatherings. At these conferences, fans meet together. They discuss elements of the program they enjoy with other fans. And they also meet the people who create the programs. These conventions also provide a chance for people to do cosplay with other fans.
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Courtney Stoker is a writer. She wrote a story about fan conferences and cosplay for The Guardian news organization. She explains,
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“Cosplayers…are a huge part of these conventions. They show people the costumes they make. They have their pictures taken. And they act like the characters. The reasons for doing cosplay are different for different people, but there is one common element. Cosplay offers a very public way to react to the published artwork and the fan community at the same time.”
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One of the most famous cosplay conventions is “San Diego Comic Con.” In July of every year, thousands of fans,television and film stars, and writers travel to attend this gathering. However, the world’s largest cosplay event is called Comiket. It happens twice a year in Tokyo, Japan. And people from all over the world travel to attend.

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