Prática de Shadowing: 美音连读练习 American English Connected Reading | A trip to a forest - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo

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Hey, what's up?
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It's Alex.
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Today I'd like to talk about the connected readings in a passage I wrote about a trip
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that I took to a forest on an island.
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Let's take a look.
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I was quickly and completely bewitched by the incredible beauty of the forests.
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I was, was, we say was very quickly here
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because it's the beginning of the sentence and the stress is on quickly bewitched.
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I was quickly and completely bewitched by the incredible beauty of the forests.
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And come, and completely.
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In this whole passage, you'll see that and loosens its de at the end of the word.
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And completely, and completely, and completely bewitched by the incredible.
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The incredible, we kind of add a y between the and incredible.
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The incredible beauty of the forests.
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The air was perfectly crisp.
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The air, we add a ya here as well, the air was perfectly crisp.
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Now, perfectly has a t in it when it's written out, and if you're speaking very carefully, you would pronounce the t perfectly.
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But in rapid speech, that turns into perfectly.
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There's no t.
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Perfectly.
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The air was perfectly crisp.
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The grass was astonishingly green.
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Was a, was astonishingly.
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was astonishingly connect those two words together.
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And when I, and when I, again, that d disappears, and when I stopped walking,
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I could just hear trees and wind.
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I could just, that d at the end of could connects to the j at the beginning of just.
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Could just, You don't need to separate them, so you don't need to say could just.
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I could just hear.
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That sounds a little bit too artificial.
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It's better to say I could just.
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I could just hear trees and wind.
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And again, we drop the d at the end of and. And wind.
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The main path branched off into smaller paths.
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Branched off.
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Connect the d to the a in off.
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branched off into smaller paths.
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Into.
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Not into, but into.
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Into smaller paths.
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And I saw, and I saw dozens of huge orb wavers in their webs.
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In their, in their webs.
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In there, in there.
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When I say the nuh in in, it connects to the the, so my tongue stays between my teeth.
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In there, in their webs.
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Evidence that the larger part of the tourists had stopped tramping about for the season. That the...
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Here the T at the end of that turns into a glottal stop, and we reduce the vowel in that.
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It turns into that...
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That the larger part of the tourists...
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Part of the...
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The T in part turns into a tap.
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Part of the...
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Part of the... of the.
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And the F in of disappears.
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Part of the.
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Part of the tourists.
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The larger part of the tourists had stopped tramping about. Had stopped.
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Had gets reduced in its vowel, and the D connects to the S in stopped. Had stopped.
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Had stopped tramping.
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Stop tramping.
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Let D and T connect together.
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Stop tramping about for the season.
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Now the T in about turns into a glottal stop.
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About, about for the season.
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It doesn't disappear.
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We don't say about for the season.
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We say about for the season. About for the season.
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And for the becomes very small and very short and connects together.
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For the, for the, for the season.
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I saw very few people at all except when I was near the beaches. At all.
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We say those very quickly. At all.
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Very few people at all.
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People at all.
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Except when I was.
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Except when I.
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Except.
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That T at the end of except disappears.
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We just keep the P.
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Except when I was near the beaches. When I. When I. When I.
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Near the beaches.
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The beaches.
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Here I'm saying the very quickly and kind of connecting it to the b in beaches.
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The beaches.
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Near the beaches. And surely. And surely.
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Now that D disappears and we connect the N in and to S in surely. And surely.
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And surely they were only a fraction of those who come at the height of summer. At the. At the. At the.
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So here at turns into an at glottal stop, at the, at the height of summer.
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At the height of summer.
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I was quickly and completely bewitched by the incredible beauty of the forests.
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The air was perfectly crisp, the grass was astonishingly green, and when I stopped walking I could just hear trees and wind.
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The main path branched off into smaller paths, and I saw dozens of huge orb weavers in their webs,
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evidence that the larger part of the tourists had stopped tramping about for the season.
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I saw very few people at all except when I was near the beaches, and surely they were only a fraction of those who come at the height of summer.

Por que praticar a fala com este vídeo?

Neste vídeo, você terá a oportunidade de explorar a prática de “shadowing” em um contexto divertido e envolvente. A história de uma viagem a uma floresta oferece não apenas um cenário vibrante, mas também um rico conteúdo para melhorar sua pronúncia em inglês. A técnica de shadowing, que consiste em repetir o que você ouve em tempo real, pode ajudar a internalizar a sonoridade e a fluidez do inglês americano. Ao praticar com este tipo de material, você não apenas melhora suas habilidades de fala, mas também ganha confiança ao comunicar-se em inglês.

Gramática & Expressões em Contexto

No vídeo, o apresentador utiliza várias estruturas gramaticais interessantes que merecem ser destacadas:

  • Pretérito simples: “I was quickly and completely bewitched...” Esse tempo verbal é essencial para descrever ações concluídas no passado.
  • Conjunções: O uso de “and” se torna uma ferramenta de ligação que facilita a fluidez. Aqui, a forma reduzida “and completely” é ideal para praticar a ligação de sons.
  • Conexões de palavras: A frase “I could just hear trees and wind” ilustra como as palavras se conectam naturalmente na fala rápida, melhorando a compreensão auditiva.
  • Artigos definidos: “the incredible beauty of the forests” demonstra a importância de saber como usar artigos corretamente em inglês.
  • O uso de glotal stops: O apresentador menciona “that the...” onde o “t” termina em uma pausa glotal. Essa técnica é comum em inglês falado rapidamente e fundamental para a pronúncia natural.

Armadilhas Comuns de Pronúncia

Algumas palavras e frases apresentadas no vídeo podem representar desafios de pronúncia para os aprendizes:

  • "Perfectly": Muitas vezes pronunciado como “perfectly” (com o “t” escondido) em conversas rápidas. Praticar essa ligação pode ajudar a evitar confusões.
  • "Into": Observe como é frequentemente pronunciado como “into” e não “in to”. Essa redução é comum no inglês falado.
  • Conexão de sons: Preste atenção nas transições entre “in their” e “in there”, que ligam os sons de forma fluida. Isso é um ótimo exercício para quem deseja melhorar a pronúncia em inglês.

Ao utilizar este vídeo como parte de seus estudos de shadowing em inglês, você estará em um caminho promissor para não apenas entender, mas também utilizar a pronúncia e entonação do inglês autêntico. Não hesite em aproveitar estas dicas e práticas para enriquecer sua jornada de aprender inglês com youtube!

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.