Prática de Shadowing: Japan's Anti-Procrastination Café - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo
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This is the world's first anti-procrastination cafe.
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And of course it's in Japan.
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All of the coolest stuff is in Japan.
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In this cafe, once you enter, you aren't allowed to leave until all your work is done.
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You write out all of your goals for the evening and choose one of three difficulty levels.
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Level 1 is a verbal confirmation with the staff upon leaving that you completed everything you set out to do.
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So, it's pretty simple and honestly it seems quite easy to get out of doing the work in this one.
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You can just lie whenever you're leaving, just lie to the staff like, yeah, I got my work done.
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That's by design though, this is the easiest difficulty.
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Level 2, which is normal difficulty, sees a staff member check in on you every hour.
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And finally level 3, the hardest difficulty, has staff members frequently standing directly behind you and applying pressure.
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That one seems a little excessive, but hey, I mean, if you've got a deadline for tomorrow and you work well under pressure, you gotta do what you gotta do.
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Customers pay around about 85p or a little over a dollar every 30 minutes, and with that they get Wi-Fi and charging ports for their laptops.
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Interestingly though, there are no food products to buy at all.
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The only beverages are self-served tea and coffee that come at no extra charge.
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Which you might really need, because the owner is so committed to you finishing your work, that he will keep you there even if it means staying past cafe opening hours.
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But apparently the people of Tokyo really love this place, and is incredibly effective at helping them achieve their goals.
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Could this really be the answer to the world's procrastination problem?
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I'll just have to see for myself.
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Okay, so maybe I don't have the budget to just go to Japan and go to one of these actual anti-procrastination cafes, but what I'm going to do is experiment to see how this actually works.
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I went to my local cafe with an excessively long to-do list
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and I was not going to leave until I completed everything.
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Let's see just how effective these anti-procrastination cafes really are.
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Okay, so I just got out of there, I actually got everything I wanted to get done, done, to a really high quality, much faster than I thought I would.
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So I got it done faster than I thought I would, and to a higher quality than I thought I would.
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Now at this point these cafes probably seem amazing, and you're probably wishing you had these in your local area, but there is a caveat here.
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You see, I've tried sitting down for other big work sessions before in other cafes
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and libraries as I'm sure most of you watching have as well, but I wasn't nearly as productive.
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With the difference being, every time I've done it before, I was doing work that I just didn't care about, I just didn't naturally enjoy.
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Whereas this time it was something I was genuinely passionate about, YouTube.
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People are always looking for a quick fix and a hack for procrastination, and sure those things can work in the short term,
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but in the long term you're always going to struggle if you don't actually enjoy your work at all.
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But hey, even the most passionate workers procrastinate sometimes, so these cafes are perfect if you're just looking for that little bit of extra incentive to meet the deadline.
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And who knows, maybe one day Tokyo won't be the only city to have their local anti-procrastination cafe.
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Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição
Esta aula de conversação de nível B1 usa o vídeo “Japan's Anti-Procrastination Café”. As palavras que mais se repetem: cafe, procrastination, difficulty, anti, staff. Este vídeo tem 34 frases e 615 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 3:18. O falante fala rápido, cerca de 187 palavras por minuto, então espere sons ligados e reduzidos. 84% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês; vale a pena estudar o restante antes de começar.
Vocabulário principal deste vídeo
As 15 palavras mais avançadas do vídeo, com pronúncia e significado:
| Palavra | Pronúncia | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| procrastination substantivo | /pɹəʊˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/ | procrastinação |
| café substantivo | /ˌkæˈfeɪ/ | café, cafeteria |
| passionate adjetivo | /ˈpæʃənɪt/ | ardente |
| deadline substantivo | /ˈdɛdˌlaɪn/ | prazo final |
| caveat substantivo | /ˈkæviɑt/ | advertência, aviso |
| excessively advérbio | /ɪkˈsɛsɪvli/ | excessivamente |
| procrastinate verbo | /pɹoʊˈkɹæs.tə.neɪt/ | procrastinar |
| interestingly advérbio | interessantemente | |
| beverage substantivo | /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/ | bebida |
| verbal adjetivo | /ˈvɜː.bəl/ | verbal |
| incentive substantivo | /ɪnˈsɛntɪv/ | incentivo, motivação |
| confirmation substantivo | /ˌkɑn.fəɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/ | confirmação |
| excessive adjetivo | /ɪkˈsɛsɪv/ | excessivo |
| productive adjetivo | /pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/ | produtivo |
| laptop substantivo | /ˈlæp.tɑp/ | computador portátil, portátil |
Gramática neste vídeo
As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:
| Estrutura | No vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agora | I've tried · I've done |
| Superlativos the -est / the most … — o maior ou o menor de um grupo | the coolest · the easiest · the hardest |
| Comparativos -er than / more … than — comparar duas coisas | faster than |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que está acontecendo agora ou nestes dias | you're leaving · you're probably wishing · are always looking |
Pronúncia para ficar de olho
O falante usa 19 contrações e formas reduzidas, como you're, didn't, don't. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.
- Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: procrastination /pɹəʊˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/, confirmation /ˌkɑn.fəɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/
- Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: procrastination /pɹəʊˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, excessively /ɪkˈsɛsɪvli/, procrastinate /pɹoʊˈkɹæs.tə.neɪt/, confirmation /ˌkɑn.fəɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/
Sons difíceis para falantes de português:
- Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/, caveat /ˈkæviɑt/, procrastinate /pɹoʊˈkɹæs.tə.neɪt/, laptop /ˈlæp.tɑp/
Como praticar com este vídeo
- Ouça o vídeo inteiro uma vez sem falar e anote as palavras que você não conhece.
- Comece na velocidade 0,75×, faça shadowing frase por frase e volte à velocidade normal quando ficar fácil.
- Grave a sua voz e compare com o original, prestando atenção a palavras como procrastination, café, passionate.
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.