Prática de Shadowing: Are you following your dreams? ⏲️ 6 Minute English - Aprenda a falar inglês com o YouTube

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6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Neil.
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And I'm Beth.
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When I was a boy,
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I wanted to be a fireman when I grew up.
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How about you, Beth?
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Did you have any childhood dreams?
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I wanted to be an astronaut and fly to the moon.
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When we're young, most of us have big dreams and plans for the future.
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Unfortunately, as we grow up,
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these childhood dreams often get lost in the adult world of jobs,
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money, families and careers – but not for everyone.
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Daisy from New Zealand and Herman from Argentina are two people who decided to follow their childhood dreams.
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They wanted the world to become a utopia – a perfect,
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ideal society where everyone is happy and gets along with each other.
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In this programme, we'll be hearing how Daisy and Herman made their dreams come true,
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not by changing the world, but by changing themselves.
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And as usual, we'll be learning some new vocabulary too.
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But before that, I have a question for you, Beth.
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Following your dreams can be tough,
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but not following them can leave you regretting all the things you wanted to do but didn't.
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In 2012,
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Australian nurse Bronnie Ware wrote her best-selling book The Top 5
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Regrets of the Dying after interviewing terminally ill patients about their life regrets.
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So, what do you think their top regret was?
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Was it a I wish I hadn't worked so hard,
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b I wish I had followed my dreams,
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or c I wish I'd made more money?
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Well, I'll guess it's b they wish they had followed their dreams.
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OK Beth, I'll reveal the correct answer at the end of the programme.
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The first dreamer we're going to meet lives in Riverside,
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a peace-loving community in New Zealand where everyone shares everything.
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Riverside members work for the community's businesses,
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including a farm, a hotel and a cafe.
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All the money they earn is collected and shared between everyone equally.
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Daisy, who was born in East Germany, joined Riverside in 2004.
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Here she explains her belief in sharing to BBC World Service programme The Documentary.
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What I think I always believed in is
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that the sharing of resources can provide a group of people with quite a great advantage.
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But it doesn't matter how many hours you work or what work you do.
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Everyone is getting the same amount.
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And that is something that many people outside of Riverside really struggle with
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and where they are often getting this communism label attached to us.
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Because it seems so outlandish for people.
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Riverside isn't a communist community.
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In fact, people with many different political views live there.
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But Daisy says that local people struggle with the idea that everything is shared.
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If you struggle with an idea,
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you find it difficult to accept or think about it.
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Daisy also says some local people call Riverside outlandish, strange and unusual.
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Our second group of dreamers are a family, the Zaps.
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In 2000, childhood sweethearts Herman and Candelaria Zap bought a vintage car
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and set off from Argentina to travel around the world with less than three and a half thousand dollars in their pockets.
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22 years and three children later,
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they have visited over a hundred countries,
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meeting with countless people and experiences on the way.
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Here, Herman Zapp explains to BBC World Service's The Documentary how following his dream has changed him for the better.
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I am so happy with Herman that is now now that I know now,
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not the one who wanted to conquer the world,
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but the one who was conquered by the world.
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I learned so much from people.
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It's amazing how the more you meet people,
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the more you know stories,
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how much more humble you become because you notice that you are a beautiful,
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tiny piece of sand, but a very important piece of sand like everyone is, right?
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After many years travelling, meeting new people and hearing their stories,
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Herman is more humble, not proud or arrogant.
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He no longer wants to conquer the world to control it by force.
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Rather, he has been conquered by his experiences.
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Hermann compares himself to a beautiful but tiny piece of sand
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and uses the phrase a grain of sand to describe things which are insignificant in themselves,
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but at the same time are an important part of the whole.
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Daisy and Herman are rare examples of dreamers who followed their dream and found a happy life lived without regret.
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Which reminds me of your question, Neil.
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Yes, I asked about Bronnie Ware's book,
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The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying.
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What do you think the number one regret was, Beth?
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I guessed it was B, not following your dreams.
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Which was the right answer!
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Not having the courage to follow your dreams was listed as the top life regret.
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At least we have people like Daisy and Herman to remind us dreams can come true.
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OK, let's recap the vocabulary from this programme,
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starting with Utopia, a perfect world where everyone is happy.
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If you struggle with an idea,
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you find it difficult to accept.
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The adjective outlandish means strange and unusual.
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To conquer something means to control it by force.
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Someone who is humble is not proud or arrogant.
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And finally, the phrase a grain of sand describes something which is both insignificant yet somehow important.
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Once again, our six minutes are up.
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Bye for now.
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Goodbye.

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Este conteúdo é excelente para a sua prática de inglês oral, pois aborda temas universais como aspirações, arrependimentos e a busca por uma vida feliz e sem remorso. Você terá a oportunidade de ouvir a discussão sobre a importância de viver sem arrependimentos, além de se familiarizar com a gramática usada para descrever desejos não realizados (como "I wish I had followed my dreams") e experiências de vida no presente perfeito. É uma excelente fonte para expandir seu vocabulário e padrões de fala em contextos de discussão pessoal e reflexão.

Vocabulário e Frases Importantes

  • Childhood dreams: Sonhos que tínhamos quando éramos crianças. Ex: "Most of us have big childhood dreams and plans for the future."
  • Make dreams come true: Realizar sonhos. Ex: "Hearing how Daisy and Herman made their dreams come true."
  • Struggle with an idea: Ter dificuldade em aceitar ou compreender uma ideia. Ex: "Local people struggle with the idea that everything is shared."
  • Outlandish: Estranho, bizarro, incomum. Ex: "It seems so outlandish for people."
  • Humble: Humilde; que não é orgulhoso ou arrogante. Ex: "The more you meet people, the more humble you become."
  • Conquer the world: Conquistar o mundo; controlar algo pela força ou influência. Ex: "Not the one who wanted to conquer the world, but the one who was conquered by the world."
  • A grain of sand: Um grão de areia; uma metáfora para algo insignificante em si, mas parte importante de um todo. Ex: "You are a beautiful, tiny piece of sand, but a very important piece of sand like everyone is."
  • Life regrets: Arrependimentos de vida. Ex: "Interviewing terminally ill patients about their life regrets."

Dicas de Prática para Este Vídeo

Este episódio de 6 Minute English é um recurso valioso para aprimorar sua fluência em inglês e prática de pronúncia. Aqui estão algumas dicas específicas para aplicar a técnica de shadowing:

  • Velocidade da Fala e Sotaque: Os apresentadores da BBC Learning English falam em um ritmo moderado e claro, com um sotaque britânico padrão. Isso o torna ideal para a prática de inglês oral, pois a dicção é excelente para imitação. Concentre-se em copiar a entonação e o ritmo natural das frases.
  • Foco na Articulação: Preste atenção à articulação de palavras-chave e à forma como os apresentadores conectam as palavras. A clareza é uma característica forte da BBC, o que é perfeito para refinar sua própria pronúncia.
  • Dificuldade do Tema: O tópico é inspirador e reflexivo, com vocabulário de nível intermediário a avançado. Ao praticar o shadowing, você estará internalizando não apenas o som, mas também as estruturas gramaticais e o léxico para discutir ideias complexas e abstratas, o que é extremamente útil para se preparar para o IELTS speaking ou qualquer conversa mais profunda.
  • Imite Sentenças Completas: Em vez de apenas palavras soltas, tente repetir sentenças inteiras imediatamente após ouvi-las. Isso ajudará você a desenvolver o ritmo e a melodia da fala em inglês de forma mais eficaz.

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.

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