Prática de Shadowing: A Little Guide to Sounding English 🌹| My Secrets! ✨🤫 | British English 👑 - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo
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Now it's one thing learning English, but what about sounding English?
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It's not the same thing, right?
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When you come to the UK, you will soon realize that the English that you learned at school is not the English being spoken here.
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Phrasal verbs, expressions, the British sense of humour, all makes up native English.
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Learning this will enable you to sound like yourself when you're speaking in English.
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If you live here or if you work with natives, you need to make connections with them.
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Life is all about connections with people.
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What are we waiting for?
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Let's get started.
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Ooh, it's horrible out there, isn't it?
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Miserable out there, isn't it?
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There's a creaky floorboard.
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I will stand in a new place.
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Right, I know I've said this time and time again, but it's really important to know how to talk about the weather.
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It sounds really trivial, but it's literally how we talk to one another.
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It's how we connect people around us.
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The way that you say it is really important.
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We don't just say "It's raining" or "It's sunny" no no no. We say Ooh, horrible out there, isn't it?
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Let me draw your attention to 'out there' and Isn't it?
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"Out there" just means in the general world.
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We're not being specific.
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And isn't it is called a tag question.
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It's a rhetorical question, so it doesn't need an answer.
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What?
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Why do we use those?
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To get rid of awkward silences.
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To increase the informality.
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That's the most important thing.
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You can exchange the word 'miserable' or 'horrible' for 'beautiful' if it's a lovely sunny day.
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Doesn't matter where you're from, what ties you all together, is that you're all dealing with the British weather.
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- - Number two: wish.
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The verb wish.
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Wish is in small talk.
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Most conversations.
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Bet you didn't know that, right?
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An example: I wish I was in Barbados.
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I wish I could magic away all the weeds in my garden.
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I wish I was a fairy.
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We use wish to talk about impossible situations that we wish were possible.
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We like to lament in British culture.
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We like to imagine.
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We're very whimsical people, really.
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The grammar of how to use wish is a little bit specific.
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It's quite tricky.
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We use the past tense even when we're using wish in the present or to talk about the future.
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I know, English doesn't make sense.
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Right now, I wish I was in Barbados.
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We're using "was" So the past tense in that sentence.
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I'll put some more examples on the screen just to show you that.
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Hopefully the sentences will make it clear, if not feel free to ask me about it in the comments.
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It's tipping it down outside.
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tipping it down, the floor's creaking and I can hear my baby upstairs.
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Concentrate on this video if you can.
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Sorry in advance.
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Number three: the time.
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We have a very natural way of telling the time here.
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We have a few things that we do.
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So what we say is instead of 30 minutes past, we say half past In fact, we often just say "half".
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So for example, it's half five.
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half six Half four.
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My bedtime used to be half ten.
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before I had a baby Now it's just whenever he sleeps.
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Which sometimes is never.
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Next, we have the humour.
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Everyone knows the British sense of humour is pretty unique.
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We're very sarcastic, we have what's called a dry sense of humour and also a dark sense of humour.
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But what we do a lot is we are self -deprecating.
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Do you know what that means?
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If you are self -deprecating, you don't take yourself very seriously.
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You make yourself the butt of the joke.
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You're happy to make fun of yourself.
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for the benefit of others.
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This will get you from 0 to 10 in likeability very, very quickly.
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It's also a way to remain humble, diffuse awkward situations.
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The goal is to show vulnerability, to make yourself more approachable.
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Kind of like saying, "No one's perfect, we're all in this crazy life together, and look at me, I'm failing." Failing beautifully.
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Gloriously!
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I will be making a whole video about this subject, you'll be happy to know.
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Here's an example of how you can be self -deprecating.
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"Ah, I've got a master's degree in engineering and yet I can't work out how to fold a fitted sheet."
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It's a challenge.
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I spent hours slaving away over a lovely soup and but somehow it turned blue and is completely inedible.
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I tried to make sourdough bread the other day
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But I think I've just ended up inventing a new type of doorstop.
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- very effective.
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Moving on, be specific about the type of rain.
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There is.
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British weather is interesting to us because it's always changing.
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The weather affects everything you do in your life.
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Every event you plan, Specifically the rain really affects everything.
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What will make you sound more English is if you know the vocabulary for each different type of rain.
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Drizzle.
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Drizzle is the kind of rain that is so annoying.
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In about 20 seconds flat, you are completely drenched.
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Even though when you look outside, It doesn't really look like it's raining that much.
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What we say is: it's drizzling.
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It's drizzling outside.
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Ugh!
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It's a lovely word, I think.
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It's a really onomatopoeic word, which means it sounds like kind of what it's describing.
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Light rain drizzling.
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So if you can recognise drizzle and not just call it rain, you're on the path to sounding more English.
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I have a bonus tip: simply just to pronounce your T's.
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I know that a lot of you want the modern RP British accent, which is really used in the South, around London and below.
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That's where you can hear not only traditional RP, but also modern RP a lot.
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Pronouncing your T's will make you sound British as opposed to sounding American.
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For example, the word "little", if you were American you'd say "little", "little".
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But we say "little".
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get these T's really really strong when you're speaking.
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T -T -T -T -T -T -T It's going to give you that accent that you want.
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If you don't want the modern RP accent, which is, by the way, the accent that I speak with, and you want a Cockney accent,
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Scottish accent, or a Scouse accent, well, I can't really help.
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I don't know those accents very well.
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There are many YouTube channels that can help you with that.
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So just type in that into YouTube and I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for.
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Don't forget your accent is like your identity here.
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Whether that's a kind of street slang accent or a more standard way of speaking.
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Anyway, I'm going to stop waffling on and let you get on with your day.
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It's been really fun talking about this today.
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I hope you found it useful.
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Let me know in the comments if you did.
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If you would like more of this please let me know because that really gives me confidence and encouragement.
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There's a lot more, as you can imagine, that I can teach you about.
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I'm wishing you the most wonderful day.
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I'll see you in the next video.
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Bye.
Sobre esta Lição
Nesta lição, você vai aprender como se expressar como um falante nativo de inglês britânico. O foco estará em como utilizar expressões comuns, como discutir o clima e usar o verbo "wish" em conversas cotidianas. Essas habilidades são essenciais para aumentar sua habilidade de prática de conversação em inglês e se conectar melhor com falantes nativos. Além disso, você vai descobrir como pequenas palavras e frases podem transformar sua maneira de se comunicar.
Vocabulário e Expressões Chave
- Horrible out there - Horrível lá fora
- Miserable - Miserável
- Isn't it? - Não é?
- Wish - Desejar
- I wish I was - Eu queria estar
- Whimsical - Fantasioso
- Tag question - Pergunta de confirmação
- Small talk - Conversa informal
Dicas de Prática
Para melhorar sua pronúncia em inglês, recomenda-se praticar usando a técnica de shadowspeak. Isso envolve repetir o que ouve em um vídeo ou áudio imediatamente após ouvir, imitando não apenas as palavras, mas também o tom e a cadência do falante. O vídeo mencionado tem um ritmo que é acessível para todos. Ao escutar os trechos sobre o clima e o uso do verbo "wish", tente shadow speech e mantenha um tom informal, como se estivesse em uma conversa casual com amigos. Isso ajuda a evitar silêncios constrangedores e traz mais naturalidade à sua fala. Lembre-se, quanto mais você praticar dessa maneira, mais confortável se tornará na sua prática de conversação em inglês. Não hesite em gravar sua voz e ouvir para observar seu progresso!
O que é a Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing é uma técnica de aprendizado de idiomas com base científica, originalmente desenvolvida para o treinamento de intérpretes profissionais. O método é simples, mas poderoso: você ouve áudio em inglês nativo e repete imediatamente em voz alta — como uma sombra seguindo o falante com 1-2 segundos de atraso. Pesquisas mostram melhora significativa na precisão da pronúncia, entonação, ritmo, sons conectados, compreensão auditiva e fluência na fala.