Prática de Shadowing: Being a beauty influencer - 6 Minute English - Aprenda a falar inglês com o YouTube

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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 Sam.
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In the UK, there's a well-known children's game called Happy Families.
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Players have to collect all the cards belonging to one family.
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There's a butcher, a baker,
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a carpenter, a doctor and a tailor.
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of the traditional jobs that people in the UK have been doing for centuries.
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But since the invention of the internet and social media,
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a more up-to-date list of jobs in the 21st century would be very different.
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It would include modern jobs which didn't exist before.
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Online jobs like web designer and YouTuber.
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One of the most unusual of these new digital jobs is
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the influencer – someone who is paid by a company to promote their brand on social media,
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encouraging people to buy their products.
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In this programme, we'll meet two beauty influencers from different parts of the world – Nigeria and Pakistan.
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We'll discover how these women are using their online influence to change attitudes towards female beauty and,
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as usual, we'll learn some related vocabulary too.
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But first I have a question for you, Sam.
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YouTube makeup tutorials are very modern,
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but make-up has been around for a long time.
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So when was lipstick first used?
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Was it a around 3,000 years ago by the ancient Celts,
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b around 4,000 years ago by the ancient Egyptians,
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or c around 5,000 years ago by the ancient Sumerians?
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I'll say it was being used 5,000 years ago by the ancient Sumerians.
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OK, Sam, we'll find out if you're right later on.
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Dima Ume is a beauty influencer from Nigeria.
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She's been creating make-up video tutorials for women of colour for eight years and has hundreds of thousands of followers.
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Her videos go from eyebrow-shaping tips to shopping trips in Nigeria's bigger city, Lagos.
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Here's Dima telling BBC World Service programme The Conversation how her life as an influencer got started.
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So, I did a Makeup Do's and Don't video in 2017.
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I had seen a couple of people do it prior to that,
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but then, you know, I kind of did it in a way that was a bit funny,
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maybe cracked a couple of jokes around the ways
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or the maybe not so great ways some people were doing things at the time and that video just took off.
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In 2017, Dima made a YouTube video of make-up do's
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and don'ts – rules about what to do
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and what not to do in a certain situation or when doing a certain activity.
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Dima wasn't the first Nigerian influencer to post videos on YouTube,
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but the difference was her humour – the way she laughed and cracked jokes.
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More and more people started watching Dima's make-up videos and they soon took off,
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meaning they suddenly became successful and popular.
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Our next beauty influencer is Ramal Mehmud,
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a photographer turned make-up artist based in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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As well as make-up tips,
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Ramal creates colourful face painting designs which,
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she says, helped her through a period of depression.
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She has popular Instagram and YouTube accounts on which she shares content to help other women with their confidence and mental health.
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Like Deema, Ramal now has Instagram followers numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
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So how does she decide what to share in her blogs and videos?
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What boundaries does she set for her followers?
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Here's what Ramal told BBC World Service programme, The Conversation.
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Well, people are very intrigued about your personal life as a blogger.
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That's a given.
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But you need to have strong boundaries.
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I do share about my family and friends.
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You actually have to ask people if they are comfortable being on your platform or not.
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Ramal says her followers are intrigued about her personal life.
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If you're intrigued, you're very interested in someone,
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often because of something unusual or unexpected about them.
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Ramal accepts that her followers' interest in her personal life is a given – something
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that is considered to be a fact or that is certain to happen.
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For example, you could say,
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it's a given that there will be champagne at a typical British wedding.
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Meaning, it's certain, it's a fact, there will be champagne.
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But just because her followers' interest in her life is a given,
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that doesn't mean Ramal shares everything with them.
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She has to set boundaries.
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Both Dima and Ramal make money as beauty influencers,
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but what's amazing is how they're using social media to start conversations about what beauty means to women in their country,
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and sharing some great lipstick tips as well.
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And speaking of lipstick, let's reveal the answer to my question.
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Sam, I asked you when lipstick was first used.
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I said it was around 5,000 years ago by the ancient Sumerians.
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Which was the correct answer!
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Ancient Sumerians, both men and women,
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painted their faces, eyes and lips – a very early kind of lipstick.
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OK, let's recap the vocabulary from this programme on influencers – people who influence their social media followers to try different products.
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Do's and don'ts are rules about what you should and shouldn't do in certain situations.
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To crack a joke means to tell a joke.
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The phrasal verb take off means to suddenly become popular or successful.
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If you are intrigued, you are interested in someone,
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often because of something unusual about them.
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And finally, a given – describe something that is considered to be a fact or that is certain to happen.
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Once again, our six minutes are up.
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Goodbye for now.
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Bye-bye.
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6 Minute English from the BBC.

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Por que praticar a conversação com este vídeo?

O vídeo "Being a beauty influencer" oferece uma ótima oportunidade para aprender inglês com YouTube enquanto explora o mundo dos influenciadores de beleza. A natureza envolvente das histórias contadas por Dima Ume e Ramal Mehmud permite que você pratique a prática de conversação em inglês de forma divertida. Ouvir seus relatos e dicas ajuda a desenvolver a fluência, além de expandir seu vocabulário sobre beleza e cultura contemporânea. A conversa sobre experiências pessoais e desafios que essas influenciadoras enfrentam proporciona contextos ricos para que você use o shadowspeak – uma técnica onde você repete o que ouve imediatamente, aprimorando sua pronúncia e ritmo.

Gramática & Expressões em Contexto

No vídeo, várias estruturas gramaticais e expressões são usadas que podem enriquecer seu aprendizado:

  • “took off”: Essa expressão significa que algo se tornou popular rapidamente. Por exemplo, “Seu canal tomou conta da internet.”
  • “make-up do's and don'ts”: Expressão usada para descrever regras sobre o que fazer e o que evitar em maquiagem, ideal para aprender termos relacionados a beleza.
  • “based in”: Uma frase útil para indicar localização, como em “Ela é uma artista de maquiagem baseada em Islamabad.”
  • “helped her through”: Uma expressão que significa que algo ajudou alguém a superar dificuldades; ótimo para descrever experiências pessoais.

Integrar essas expressões em sua prática de conversação pode levar seu inglês a um novo nível, tornando suas falas mais naturais e autênticas.

Traps comuns de pronúncia

Durante o vídeo, você encontrará algumas palavras e expressões que podem ser desafiadoras para pronunciar:

  • “influencer”: A pronúncia correta é [ɪnˈfluː.ən.sər], prestando atenção na ênfase na segunda sílaba.
  • “make-up”: Lembre-se de que “make” e “up” são duas sílabas separadas, e a ênfase deve ficar no “make”.
  • “confidence”: Esta palavra pode ser complicada; ela é pronunciada como [ˈkɒnfɪdəns], com um som suave no inalador.

Praticar essas palavras usando o shadow speak permitirá que você melhore sua entonação e se acostume com a musicalidade do inglês falado.

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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