Prática de Shadowing: Oprah Winfrey: The Secret of My Success - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo

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My life is fueled by my being.
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Yep.
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And the being fuels the doing.
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So I come from a centered place.
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I come from a focused place.
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I come from compassion.
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It's just my nature.
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I come from a willingness to understand and to be understood.
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Right.
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And I come from wanting to, to, to connect.
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I mean, the secret of that show for 25 years is that people could see themselves in me.
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All over the world, they could see themselves in me.
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And even as I became more and more financially successful, which was a big surprise to me,
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I was like, oh my God, this is so exciting.
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You mean you got more than that 30,000?
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I got more than 30,000 by the time I was 30.
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So, so my, but what I realized is through the whole process,
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because I'm grounded in my own self, that although I could have more shoes,
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my feet stayed on the ground, although I was wearing better shoes.
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These are kind of cute today too.
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So I could keep my feet on the ground even though I could get more shoes.
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And I could understand, I could understand that it really was because I was grounded.
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I've, I've done the, was doing and continue to this day to do the consciousness work.
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I work at staying awake.
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And being awakened is just another word for spirituality, but spirituality throws people off and they think you mean religion.
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When I was hiring people for my company for own, looking for presidents, when people would come in, I'd say, tell me what is your spiritual practice?
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And literally, people would go, well, I'm not religious.
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I said, I didn't ask you about your religion.
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I asked you what's your spiritual practice.
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What do you do to take care of yourself?
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What do you do to keep yourself centered?
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What do you do to the, and one woman started crying.
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You know that's not the person.
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Right?
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That's a sign.
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That's a sign.
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So, so to answer your question, everything is fueled that comes from me really wanting to be a better person on Earth.
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And this is what I know to be true.
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The reason why the show worked is because I understood that that audience,
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my viewers, the people who watched us every day and would come and just like you all did, get tickets and they would come with their family.
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You all just came across campus, but that's good too.
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But people would come from all over the world just to be there with their aunts
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and their mothers and they'd come with their cousins and there'd be a few men in there going, what the hell
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or saying well I went to Oprah with you I went
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to Oprah at all at least get me clear for three
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or four weeks I went to Oprah with you I had such regard for
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that and I just had a conversation with John Mackey who runs Whole Foods
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and has written this fabulous book you should get it called conscious capitalism.
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And he was talking about how the investment in the stakeholders, the people who you are serving,
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that connection between the people who you're trying to serve
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and sell to is equally as important as the people who you're buying from, equally as important as the people who are, you know, supporting you financially,
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as your stockholders if you are, you know, you know, a public company.
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So I always understood that there really was no difference between me and the audience.
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At times I might have had better shoes, but at the core, the core of, of, of what really matters,
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that we are the same.
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And you know how I know that?
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Because all of us are seeking the same thing.
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You're here at this fabulous school and we'll go out into the world
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and each pursue based upon what you believe your talents are, what your skills are, are,
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maybe your gifts are, but you're seeking the same thing.
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Everybody wants to fulfill the highest, truest expression of yourself as a human being.
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That's what you're looking for.
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The highest, truest expression of yourself as a human being.
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And because I understand that, I understand that if you're working in a bakery and that's where you want to be, and that may be the,
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that may be what you've always wanted to do is to bake pies for people
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or bake cakes for people or to offer your gift, then, then that's, that's for you.
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And there's no difference between you and me, except that's how, that's your platform.
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That's your show every day.
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So my understanding of that has allowed me to, you know, to reach everyone.
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And, and there's no way that you wouldn't, because that's, that's what I truly feel.

Por que praticar a fala com este vídeo?

Praticar a fala em inglês com vídeos inspiradores, como o de Oprah Winfrey, oferece uma oportunidade única para os estudantes se conectarem emocionalmente com o conteúdo. Ao ouvir uma figura influente compartilhar suas experiências e visões de vida, você não só melhora sua pronúncia, mas também desenvolve habilidades de compreensão auditiva e empatia. O fato de Oprah falar de um lugar de compaixão e conexão humana permite que você veja como a linguagem pode ser usada para comunicar sentimentos profundos. Aprender inglês com YouTube pode ser ainda mais eficaz quando se utiliza a técnica de shadowing, onde você repete o que ouve, imitando a entonação e o ritmo do falante.

Gramática & Expressões em Contexto

No discurso de Oprah, ela usa várias estruturas que são valiosas para os estudantes de inglês. Aqui estão algumas importantes:

  • I come from: Essa expressão é utilizada para indicar a origem de suas emoções ou ações. Exemplo: "Eu venho de um lugar centrado."
  • What do you do to: Uma forma comum de perguntar sobre hábitos ou práticas, que pode ser muito útil em conversas informais.
  • Although: Estrutura de conjunção usada para contrastar ideias, como em "eu poderia ter mais sapatos, embora meus pés permaneçam no chão."

Essas expressões podem ser praticadas através de exercícios de shadowing em inglês, onde você tenta repetir as frases enquanto mantém a mesma entonação e ritmo do falante.

Armadilhas Comuns de Pronúncia

Durante o vídeo, algumas palavras podem representar desafios de pronúncia para os aprendizes de inglês. Por exemplo:

  • Grounded: A pronúncia correta pode ser difícil para falantes não nativos, pois os sons da vogal "ou" e da letra "d" podem ser confusos.
  • Spirituality: Preste atenção na forma como as sílabas são pronunciadas, já que muitos estudantes tendem a encurtar a palavra.
  • Consciousness: Uma palavra longa que deve ser falada com clareza para evitar confusão com sonoridades similares.

Utilizar técnicas como shadowspeak pode ser uma maneira eficiente de superar essas dificuldades, permitindo que você ouça as nuances da pronúncia diretamente de falantes nativos e imite as suas produções verbais.

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.