Prática de Shadowing: American English Connected Reading | IELTS Topic: Describe an Important Crop in Your Country - 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 look at the connected sounds in a short piece answering the question, describe an important food in your country.
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Let's take a look.
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In the US, I would say corn is the most important crop.
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In the US, to connect in the, we just use the th tongue position when we say na, in the.
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In the US, I would say, I would, would, would.
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So that vowel in would, would, it becomes very, very short.
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It becomes would, would, I would, I would.
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And now I'm not changing this to I'd.
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We could change this to I'd and say, I'd say corn is the most important crop.
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But in a more formal context, I would write the word would, and I would say the word would in a spoken answer.
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I would say, I would say, so listen to how the d sound at the end of would changes into the s.
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I would say, I would say, I would say corn is the most important crop.
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Corn is the most important.
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Mostim, mostim.
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So when we have an st ending, we almost always just keep the T if the next sound is a vowel.
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So I in important is a vowel, so we'll say most important.
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But now think about the glottal stop in important.
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Important.
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We actually have important.
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Important.
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In the middle of the word, there's a glottal stop.
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And then, because the next word is crop, we have a second glottal stop.
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Most important crop.
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Important crop.
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Native Americans were growing corn thousands of years before Europeans arrived.
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Native Americans, the Americans, just connect those sounds together,
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Native Americans were growing corn thousands of years.
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Thousands of years.
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We can take off the in of and just say thousands of years,
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thousands of years, thousands of years.
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I know the word thousands is a hard word, but there's no sound changes here.
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It's pronounced just like it's spelled thousands of years before Europeans arrived, before Europeans arrived, and now,
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And now we're gonna take out the D in AND and just say the AND.
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And now everyone in the world, everyone in the world eats corn sometimes.
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Everyone in the.. connect in the again.
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In the world eats corn sometimes.
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We make oil and sugar out of corn.
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We make goil and sugar.
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So connect make oil.
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Make goil, make goil and sugar and sugar, take out the d and and, out of corn.
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So here we'll connect out to of and so it's almost like it's written O-U-T-T-A.
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It is like that.
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Outta, outta, people write that if they're writing informally.
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In a more formal written answer you would never write O-U-T-T-A
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but you see it sometimes in comics or depictions of very casual speech in writing.
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So outta corn, we make oil and sugar out of corn and we use it to feed lots of animals too.
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And we, we take out the duh in and, and we use, we use, connect the two vowels here, and we use it to,
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use it to, connect the two T sounds, it too, and change the vowel in to.
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We use it to feed lots of animals too.
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Lots of animals, lots of animals too.
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Because animal starts with a vowel, we say lots of animals, lots of animals.
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I could say lots of animals instead of lots of animals, but that sounds a little bit too informal for this kind of answer.
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Corner, something made from corn.
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Corner, connect or to the previous word and reduce the vowel.
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Corner, corner, something made from corn.
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Also from gets a very, very light vowel.
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Made from, from, from corn or something made from corn is in a lot of foods people don't even realize.
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Is in a lot of foods.
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Here, a lot of foods, a lot of foods.
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You can think of it as the two F sounds are connecting
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or you can just think that the of word is connecting to lot.
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A lot of, just like out of before.
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A lot of foods people don't even realize.
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People don't even realize.
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Here we're going to take out the T in DON'T and say DON'T EVEN.
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DON'T EVEN REALIZE.
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In the US, I would say corn is the most important crop.
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Native Americans were growing corn thousands of years before Europeans arrived, and now everyone in the world eats corn sometimes.
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We make oil and sugar out of corn, and we use it to feed lots of animals too.
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Corn, or something made from corn, is in a lot of foods people don't even realize.

Contexto e Antecedentes

O vídeo é apresentado por Alex, que se concentra em técnicas de leitura conectada em inglês americano, com o objetivo de ajudar os aprendizes a descrever um assunto importante, como as culturas em seus países. Neste caso, ele fala sobre o milho como a cultura mais relevante nos Estados Unidos. Alex utiliza uma abordagem prática, analisando como os sons se conectam na fala diária, o que é fundamental para a prática de conversação em inglês. Compreender essas conexões sonoras não apenas facilita a comunicação, mas também melhora a fluência e a compreensão auditiva.

Top 5 Frases para Comunicação Diária

  • I would say corn is the most important crop.
  • Native Americans were growing corn thousands of years ago.
  • Everyone in the world eats corn sometimes.
  • We make oil and sugar out of corn.
  • We use it to feed lots of animals too.

Essas frases exemplificam a importância do milho, fornecendo um vocabulário relevante e útil para quem está melhorando a pronúncia em inglês. Praticar essas frases em um contexto de shadowing em inglês permitirá que você se familiarize com a intonação e a conexão entre as palavras.

Guia Passo a Passo para Praticar Shadowing

Para maximizar seu aprendizado com este vídeo, siga estes passos:

  1. Assista ao vídeo uma vez: ouça atentamente como os sons se conectam. Tome nota das partes que você achou mais desafiadoras.
  2. Desconstrua as falas: escute novamente e pause após cada frase. Tente repetir o que foi dito, focando na conexão dos sons, como “would say” que se torna quase “wou'd say”.
  3. Use a técnica de shadowspeak: repita imediatamente após o narrador. Essa técnica ajuda a melhorar a fluência e a memória auditiva.
  4. Grave sua voz: compare sua pronúncia com a do falante nativo. Isso ajudará a identificar áreas que necessitam de melhorias.
  5. Pratique regularmente: incorpore o shadowing em inglês na sua rotina diária. A prática consistente é chave para ver progresso.

Este guia ajudará você a dominar a fala conectada e, ao fazer isso, você não apenas melhorará sua pronúncia, mas também se tornará mais confiante na prática de conversação em inglês.

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.