Prática de Shadowing: fear - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo
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Fear helps you stay alive, but I feel like in today's age, it feels much more like a burden than a function of survival.
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Sure, the world can be a scary place sometimes, like when you actually see a bear, but I just don't see bears that much.
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And I think fear is just a little more annoying than it is helpful in most parts of my life.
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The first thing I think of when I think of fear is flying.
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Fun fact about me, I used to not be afraid of flying at all.
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And actually, I thought it was a lot of fun.
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But now, unfortunately, flying is so much more of a hassle than it used to be.
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One of the more recent times I was flying, the pilot came over the intercom and said, "Hello passengers, we are coming close to our destination." "Uh,
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and we are going down." "And as we are going down to our destination, I ask everyone to fasten their seatbelts and return their seats to their upright position for landing." Um,
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can we work on our phrasing a little?
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Or provide context?
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When inside of a giant metal tube in the sky, I thought for a moment that I was actually gonna die.
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I can't totally describe the feeling of doom that I felt in that moment, but I can kind of make a facial expression that represents it.
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It was like that, but on the inside.
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I used to think it would be cool to have flight as a superpower, but with fear of flying, it would just be terrible.
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Wheeeee!
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*cough
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cough cough cough cough cough *
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*cough
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cough cough cough cough cough *
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cough cough cough cough cough *
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cough cough cough cough cough *
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cough cough cough cough cough *
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be really cool to see everything with no obstructed view.
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But the closer I got to the glass boxes, the more my brain cranked up my fear.
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There's never been a mechanical failure.
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It's gonna be fine.
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Yeah, but what if it's not fine?
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What if it breaks for the first time when you stand on it?
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There's always a first time for everything.
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But it's maintained regularly.
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And look at all the other people doing it.
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They're okay.
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Yeah, but what if when you get on a bug flies into a bird's mouth and it chokes, which causes it to hit a plane, which makes the plane crash and the plane hits a screw on the glass box.
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And then, but the plane actually recovery supplies away so everybody's happy about that.
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But the screw spins until it comes out and unbravelled the whole glass box and you fall?
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Hmm.
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No, yeah, that's a good point.
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So when it was my turn to go into the glass box, I decided to not.
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The building is well maintained and has never had a mechanical failure, and I could have had a cool experience, but I was just too freaked out.
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However, even if fear is sometimes annoying, I stand by my wariness of mechanical failures.
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Things happen.
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If there really are infinite realities inside of infinite universes, then that means somewhere out there, there's an Andy that met a terrible fate.
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place and enjoy the view without my brain screaming code red all the time.
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Again, I prove my point.
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Fire can be useful for a lot of things, like roasting marshmallows, pyrotechnics, and whenever you want lions to hop through a ring of fire.
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So, despite all of these joys that fire brings us, I am also afraid of fire.
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But only big fire.
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I'm not, like, screaming at candles and stuff.
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It's specifically scary when it's out of control.
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I've seen videos of people driving through or even next to forest fires, which awakens a deep and primal fear.
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And I'm not even in the situation.
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I can't imagine the courage firefighters must have to fight forest fires.
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There's a lot of Fs in that sentence.
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Did you know the size of a loose fire doubles every 60 seconds?
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You gonna put that out?
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Yeah, yeah, are you...
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Shuck.
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Show an example.
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I can't remember where I heard that fact, but it's very scary!
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Fire is incredible.
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It can feed you, it can protect you, but if you're not careful with it, fire can totally and completely destroy everything you've ever known or loved.
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Hey, hey, I said pass the marshmallows?
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Oh yeah, sorry.
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Here you go!
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Darkness.
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It's the idea of the unknown.
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Anything could be right out in front of your face and you wouldn't know!
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at a nearby movie theater.
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When the movie finished up and everybody left, my plan was just to walk home.
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Eventually, I get to my neighborhood and I see a dark figure in the distance and there's no light.
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I start to get a little nervous because I don't know what or who that is.
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At this point, my mind is starting to sound the alarms again.
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A murderer?
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A bear?
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An eldritch creature of the night?
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Whatever it is.
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Adrenaline.
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As the shape gets closer, it starts to look more and more humanoid.
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Then, I see it's a person and they're running
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and I think it's pretty fast
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and I think it's running directly at me I am in
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danger there is no reason anyone should be running at night
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at anyone I am not fighting nor flighting I'm just standing there baked in fear they get closer
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and closer and once they were close enough hello hey I They were just on a nighttime jog.
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The funny thing about darkness is, it messes with your sight.
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When your brain doesn't get all the information it needs, it'll just do you the favor of filling in the gaps itself.
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So my brain just assumed it was getting attacked, it was just an hallucination stemming from my fear.
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Cool.
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That is the thing that freaks me out about darkness.
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It's unknown.
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And that scares me.
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Anyway, those are my top fears.
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Thanks for watching.
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Ah!
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Para quem é esse vídeo?
Se você é um aprendiz de inglês intermediário querendo melhorar a fala, expandir o vocabulário e entender a linguagem coloquial, esse vídeo é perfeito! Ele mergulha em uma conversa natural sobre medo, com exemplos reais e expressões cotidianas, ideal para praticar shadow speech (imitar a pronúncia e intonação) e se sentir mais confortável com diálogos informais. Ótimo para quem quer aprender inglês com YouTube de forma divertida e eficaz!
Palavras e expressões para roubar (e usar!)
- Burden – Carga. No vídeo: "fear feels much more like a burden" (o medo parece mais uma carga).
- Hassle – Bobeira, problema. Exemplo: "flying is so much more of a hassle" (voar é muito mais chato).
- Doom – Destino trágico. A sensação de "doom" é como se o fim estivesse chegando.
- Cranked up – Aumentou, intensificou. "My brain cranked up my fear" (meu cérebro aumentou o medo).
- Freaked out – Assustado, nervoso. "I was just too freaked out" (eu estava muito assustado).
Como acertar a pronúncia nesse vídeo
O narrador tem uma intonação casual e clara, perfeita para praticar shadow speak. Preste atenção a:
- A redução de "going to" para "gonna" (ex: "I thought I was gonna die") – uma marca da fala coloquial.
- A pronúncia de "mechanical" (mecânico) – destaque o "ch" suave, não "sh".
- A pausa e a ênfase em frases como "There's always a first time for everything" – a intonação sobe no final, mostrando dúvida.
Use o método shadowspeaks: reproduza um trecho curto, pause e imite exatamente o tom, ritmo e pausas. Isso ajuda a melhorar a pronúncia em inglês de forma rápida!
Mesmo que o medo seja o tema, o vídeo é uma oportunidade incrível para evoluir. Basta clicar, ouvir e repetir – e você verá progresso em pouco tempo!
Gramática neste vídeo
As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:
| Estrutura | No vídeo |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + verbo — um hábito ou estado do passado que não é mais verdade | used to not · used to be · used to think |
| Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agora | I've seen · you've ever known |
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.