Prática de Shadowing: Honey Coffee Processing - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo

In recent years, a processing method known as honey has become more common, especially in parts of Central America.

While washed coffee has all of its fruit material removed as quickly as possible, including the skin and the mucilage, in a honey process, only the skin is fully removed,

and the seed is allowed to dry in some or all of its fruit mucilage.

Honey processing is not as widely used as some of the other methods, but it's increasingly found in places like Costa Rica and El Salvador.

While it shares similarities with the Brazilian pulp natural process, there are differences to both the methodology and the results.

As with any type of post -harvest processing, the steps involved vary from place to place.

In this video, we'll look at how the Chacon family at Las Lajas Micromil

in Costa Rica achieves their coffee's distinct profiles using the honey process.

Just as in the washed process, coffee cherries first need to be picked ripe and sorted to make sure that only the best cherries are included in production.

Also identical to the washed process is the fact that the coffee needs to be depulped as soon as possible after picking, usually between 8 and 12 hours.

There are several variations of honey coffee that are commonly found in Costa Rica and elsewhere, and they're typically described with reference to color.

You'll often find yellow, red, and black honeys from different mills, for instance.

At Las Lajas, all of the honey coffee starts out the same way.

The cherry skin is removed by a depulping machine, but 100 % of the mucilage is left on the seeds.

The main focus of producing honey coffees at Las Lajas is in the drying phase.

coffees at this mill are taken directly from the depulper to the drying area

depending on the weather that day and on what oscar

and francisca chacon decide is best for

that lot the seeds in their mucilage will be set out to dry in one of several different ways

for yellow honeys as seen here coffee's moved onto tarp covered patios under full sun

or it's raked into a thin layer for fast even drying.

For something more fruity and fermented tasting, such as a red or a black honey, the coffee's piled in the greenhouse for certain amounts of time before being agitated,

rotated, aerated, and raked out by mill staff.

During the drying time, the coffee's fermenting and developing the characteristics that are unique to each honey profile.

Drying time depends on both the weather and the individual style of honey process being applied, but it usually takes between two to three weeks for the coffee to reach about 11 % moisture.

At Las Lajas, the Chacones focus primarily on honey and natural coffees, and they produce yellow, red, and black honeys with coffees from their different farms.

Each honey style has a slightly different profile.

Yellow tends to be the most mild in terms of fruitiness, most closely resembling a washed coffee.

Red honey tends to have bigger fruit flavors and sweetness, as well as a noticeably more syrupy body.

Black honeys express more whiny, boozy, or jammy characteristics with a creamy body, almost like a lighter version of a natural.

While this is just one example of the honey process, the chacones are considered standard bearers of the style within the industry, and they're a great example of intentional and innovative processing methodology.

Once the coffee is fully dried, it'll be stored in its parchment layer in a warehouse until it's ready to be exported.

Then the parchment layer will be removed and the coffee gets shipped.

We'll see you next time.

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Esta aula de conversação usa o vídeo “Honey Coffee Processing”. As palavras que mais se repetem: Honey, coffee, process, drying, Chacon. Este vídeo tem 27 frases e 611 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 4:31. O falante mantém um ritmo estável de cerca de 135 palavras por minuto, confortável para o shadowing. Apenas 75% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês, por isso o vocabulário é exigente.

Vocabulário principal deste vídeo

15 palavras do vídeo que vale a pena aprender, com pronúncia e significado:

Palavra	Pronúncia	Significado
layer substantivo	/ˈleɪ̯ɚ/	camada
mill substantivo	/mɪl/	moenda, moinho
cherry substantivo	/ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/	cereja
seed substantivo	/siːd/	semente
depend verbo	/dɪˈpɛnd/	depender
characteristic substantivo	/ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/	característica, caraterística
methodology substantivo	/ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/	metodologia
thin adjetivo	/ˈθɪn/	fino
commonly advérbio	/ˈkɑmənli/	comumente
increasingly advérbio		cada vez mais
distinct adjetivo	/dɪˈstɪŋkt/	distinto
vary verbo	/ˈvɛəɹi/	variar
export substantivo	/ˈɛks.pɔɹt/	exportado
identical adjetivo	/ɪˈdɛntɪkl̩/	idêntico
pile substantivo	/paɪl/	pilha, monte (desordenado)

Pronúncia para ficar de olho

Os sons de “th”: methodology /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, thin /ˈθɪn/
Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: variation /ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/
Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: characteristic /ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/, methodology /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, primarily /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/, innovative /ˈɪn.əˌveɪtɪv/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/

Sons difíceis para falantes de português:

Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: seed /siːd/, depend /dɪˈpɛnd/, characteristic /ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/, distinct /dɪˈstɪŋkt/, export /ˈɛks.pɔɹt/
/l/ final — a língua toca o céu da boca, não vira “u”: mill /mɪl/, pile /paɪl/, resemble /ɹɪˈzɛmbəl/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/
/h/ — um sopro suave, diferente do “r”: warehouse /ˈwɛə(ɹ)haʊs/, harvest /ˈhɑɹ.vəst/, greenhouse /ˈɡɹːnˌ(h)aʊs/

Como praticar com este vídeo

Ouça o vídeo inteiro uma vez sem falar e anote as palavras que você não conhece.
Faça shadowing frase por frase na velocidade normal, repetindo cada uma até o seu ritmo ficar igual ao do falante.
Grave a sua voz e compare com o original, prestando atenção a palavras como layer, mill, cherry.

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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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Pronúncia para ficar de olho

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