Prática de Shadowing: Choose Your Life: The Secret to Living Your Truth & Finding Meaning - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo

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There is no ways you can make it on this ocean called planet Earth without that boat called self.
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It’s a sail ship...
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spirit sails it.
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Where it goes, you cannot know.
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The only compass you have on this boat is your heart.
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My mom told me a lot to always think about tomorrow.
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And it was something that she lived.
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Living in a state of fear where you believe that it’s the last tomato so I must cut it in half so that I can have again tomorrow.
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I grew up in a very poor area where people didn’t have much.
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The fridge would be full one week in a month.
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And then the rest of the three weeks there’s a bottle of water and mayonnaise that’s been left over for the past three months.
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But I ate every day.
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She would give even though she didn’t have.
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She would make it happen.
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I can’t be thankful enough.
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When I was growing up, it was explained to me what my name means, Mthunzi Gamama.
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It means ‘moms place of rest’.
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So my purpose for my name is one who must grow up and then look after my mom.
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At around age eleven was the time when I started feeling the pressures of society’s expectations, my mom’s expectations.
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How you feel, that’s not a question that we ask where we’re from.
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You must find a vocation that brings in the most income boy or else you are a waste of opportunity.
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I had always known that the expectations that people have of me, they were going to get disappointed.
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Because I was not going to be a doctor.
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I was not going to be an accountant.
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I knew those were not the options for me.
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Right now my mom and I aren’t talking.
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And the reason for that... sorry man...
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The reason for that is because of the person I have chosen to be.
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She has known me her whole life.
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She had thought she knew me.
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Me too. I thought I knew me too.
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And then I got to a point where I realised that I was going deeper and deeper into learning me.
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I had misled myself a lot and made decisions that were not loving to me.
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It hurts because she’s holding onto what she thinks she knows about me.
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And that is no longer here.
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I read somewhere a simple line that said ‘On the other side of your fear is the life that you want.’ And I think that this is just that.
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It’s time to put the fear down and to pick up the heart and light it up and follow where it goes.
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I have come to a place where I have removed all those layers of these opinions to come to this bareness...
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this absolute bare reality of who I am.
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For the first time in my life I don’t have this voice of authority that I need to answer to before I make a decision.
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And this sort of freedom is so great for my kids and for myself.
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For my kids, what I hope for is for them to have the confidence to make the decisions that make them happy.
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The freedom to follow your heart... unapologetically.
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To know that whatever it is that you’re going to do will work for as long as you put your energy and your heart into it.
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You’re just here to follow your heart.
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And to do that... whatever that is.
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I hope one day that my mom gets to see the light that she brought into this world.
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I have forgiven my mom for not understanding who I am... what I am.
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You have to forgive because people are going to hurt you.
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People are going to come and do something that’s going to make you not believe in love, make you not believe in security.
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Things like that are going to happen on Earth.
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And you’re going to have to forgive some very hard things.
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You can’t be happy unless you have forgiven.
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Forgiveness and happiness are the same thing.
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If I could have one gift for every human being on this earth it would be a piece of happiness.
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Where happiness happens is what a human being is.
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It’s a quality of beingness that is above the murmur of worry or uncertainty.
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I’d wish a person to wake up and with all the unknowns that this mystery is, still be blown away by the amount of absolute lovingness that comes from being on this planet.
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That they find for themselves the courage to jump, to run into the unknown.
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(Why are you not scared? Why do you trust?) Because I am love.
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Love has got nothing to be scared of.
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And I trust because I have been given a reason to trust...
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by love. And if you follow your heart, everything is fine.

Por que praticar a fala com este vídeo?

Praticar a fala em inglês, especialmente com um vídeo como "Choose Your Life", oferece uma oportunidade rica para aperfeiçoar suas habilidades linguísticas. Este vídeo aborda temas emocionais e pessoais, permitindo que você se conecte tanto com o conteúdo quanto com a língua. Ao repetir as falas do orador, você não apenas melhora sua pronúncia, mas também internaliza a estrutura de frases e o vocabulário em um contexto relevante. Além disso, o uso de histórias pessoais e sentimentos profundos pode facilitar a memorização das expressões, tornando a aprendizagem mais significativa. A prática através de aprender inglês com youtube é uma abordagem excelente para quem busca maneiras interativas de estudar.

Gramática & Expressões em Contexto

  • “On the other side of your fear is the life that you want”: Esta estrutura enfatiza a importância de enfrentar o medo para alcançar seus objetivos. A frase mostra o uso da preposição "on" para expressar localização abstrata.
  • “You must find a vocation that brings in the most income”: Aqui, vemos a obrigação expressa pelo verbo modal "must". É uma estrutura comum em inglês para descrever necessidades ou deveres.
  • “I have forgiven my mom for not understanding who I am”: O uso do present perfect ("have forgiven") indica uma ação concluída que ainda é relevante no presente. Essa é uma construção importante para descrever experiências passadas com impacto atual.

Essas expressões e estruturas são fundamentais para se comunicar eficazmente em inglês e podem ser praticadas através do shadow speech, onde você repete o que ouve para aprimorar a fluência.

Armadilhas Comuns de Pronúncia

No vídeo, alguns termos podem ser desafiadores para a pronúncia. Palavras como “fear” e “understanding” podem ser pronunciadas de forma diferente dependendo do sotaque e da região. É importante prestar atenção à tensão e entonação ao redor dessas palavras. Além disso, a expressão “living in a state of fear” merece destaque: a fluência e a ligação entre as palavras podem dificultar a compreensão. Praticar com esses sons em particular pode ajudar a melhorar a pronúncia em inglês e garantir uma comunicação mais clara. Use o shadow speak para repetir lentamente cada frase e focar nos sons desafiadores.

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.