Prática de Shadowing: Robert De Niro on Acting - Michael Parkinson Interview [1981] - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo

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Alec Guinness once said on the show
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that I asked him what he had to do before he got into a character
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and he said he had to get the walk right.
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Right.
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But you actually, you research them, don't you?
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You go and live like them before you do the part.
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Well, what he says is very true for me too because some actors work cerebrally, some work physically.
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I like to work physically a lot of times it helps me feel like, I mean clothes, putting on certain clothes can give you a feeling of another character,
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which it does to actual people who are characters.
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It helps them identify with the role that they want to play in life, be a businessman or whatever they want to, you know.
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And one thing can give it to you.
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A walk can give it to you.
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Just that one walk, you can play that one thing through a whole play or a movie and it can do it.
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So I agree with that, you know.
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The point I was going to make, of course, was that...
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I do the other two.
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Yeah, I mean, the way when you did Taxi Driver, for instance, I mean, you went and actually worked as a cabbie, didn't you?
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Yeah.
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Did anybody ever recognize you then?
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Only once or twice.
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Once I had an actor who wanted me to take him to the airport and he recognized me.
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So the whole thing was blown because I couldn't, you know, all we could do was talk about acting.
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And I didn't want him to pay me.
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But he insisted on paying me.
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I said, okay, pay me.
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No tip, though.
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And the other time I just, some people got out of the cab and I looked at his eyes.
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You know, you have a plaque with your name on it.
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I turned that around so nobody could see the name, which a lot of cabbies do anyway.
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And I looked him in the eye and the guy recognized me right away and just said, you were in Godfather II, he recognized me from that. And that was it.
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Otherwise, people don't even look at you, they don't know.
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You know, it's like a waiter in a restaurant.
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They don't, you know, you don't exist in a way.
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That was kind of...
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And in New York, New York as well, you actually learned how to play the instrument, the sax, didn't you?
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Although, I mean, you needn't have done because you could have mimed it because the music wasn't yours, was it?
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No, it wasn't mine.
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It was done by George Yeo, except that I wanted to learn the fingering, which I did.
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And I learned how to play everything in the movie.
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It wasn't, the whole point was not to learn how to play the sax to be,
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you know, I could never play it as well as he did or the way Jake fights and so on.
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But the movies are an illusion and the whole point is to be able to recreate this without looking like a fool.
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I didn't want to look like I didn't know what I was doing because when I look at a movie, I see, you know, somebody with the fingering, for example, they're all out of, you know, they're all on step, out of sync.
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Playing a jazz musician.
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And I want to throw it away.
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The point is to learn to throw it away the way a person who actually does know it, they don't over-emphasize it.
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It's like an actor who overacts because they don't really know the situation and don't have the confidence to just be, you know, be straight.
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Robert, you're at the top of the tree now.
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You've got a very strongly tip for a second Academy Award.
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Yet I do know for a certain fact that you don't like the thing about the, the traditional trappings of being a film star, do you?
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In some ways, yeah.
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You don't like them?
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Well, only that...
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as far as the.. being recognized in certain situations, you like a certain amount of privacy.
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And, no, but I enjoy it, don't get me wrong.
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I mean, certain things are drag, but that's part of it.
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I have no complaints whatsoever.
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What about your next project?
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What are you going to do?
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That's called The King of Comedy, and I'm doing it with Jerry Lewis, and Marty Scorsese is going to direct it.
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It's about a guy who kidnaps someone like yourself.
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A chat show host.
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Yeah, to get on the show and do his act, which turns out to be very good.
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You've not been doing any research while we've been sitting here, have you?
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No. No, you haven't?
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No. All right.
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But all success with that, all success too with Raging Bull.
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As I say, I do hope it gets a wider audience because it is a magnificent movie.
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It's not what you call family entertainment of its kind.
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I think it's one of the best movies I've ever seen.
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Robert De Niro.
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Thank you.

Por que esse vídeo é ótimo para praticar fala em inglês?

O diálogo entre Robert De Niro e Michael Parkinson é um material excepcional para quem quer melhorar a pronúncia em inglês e a fluência. A conversa é natural, com pausas, interrupções e expressões coloquiais que refletem como o inglês é falado no cotidiano. Além disso, a variedade de tópicos — desde a atuação até a vida de estrela — expõe o ouvinte a diferentes registros, tornando-o perfeito para o shadowing em inglês, uma técnica que envolve repetir frases imitando a pronúncia, intonação e ritmo do falante.

Analisando frases naturais do vídeo

Vamos quebrar algumas frases para entender por que elas soam autênticas:

  • "I like to work physically a lot of times it helps me feel like...": A ausência de vírgula entre "times" e "it" é uma característica da fala informal, mostrando que o falante está pensando enquanto fala. Isso é comum na conversa real e ensina a não se preocupar com perfeccionismo gramatical no momento da fala.
  • "You know, it's like a waiter in a restaurant. They don't, you know, you don't exist in a way.": A repetição de "you know" é um preenchimento natural, usado para dar tempo ao falante de organizar as ideias. Essas expressões ajudam a tornar a fala mais fluida e menos robótica.
  • "No tip, though.": A palavra "though" no final da frase adiciona um tom de contraste, comum em situações coloquiais. Ela mostra que o falante está corrigindo ou acrescentando uma informação de forma informal.

Rotina de prática com shadowing

Para usar esse vídeo no shadowing em inglês, siga esse passo a passo:

  1. Escute um trecho curto (5-10 segundos) do vídeo e preste atenção ao ritmo e à intonação.
  2. Pare o vídeo e repita a frase imitando exatamente o que ouviu, tentando igualar a pronúncia e a velocidade. Use um gravador para registrar sua voz.
  3. Compare sua gravação com o original. Observe diferenças na entonação (por exemplo, em "I said, okay, pay me. No tip, though.") e na pronúncia de palavras como "recognize" ou "illusion".
  4. Repita o processo até que sua versão fique o mais próxima possível do original. Isso ajuda a treinar o ouvido e a musculatura da fala, melhorando a fluência.

Essa rotina é simples, mas eficaz. Para ampliar os resultados, use um shadowing site ou ferramentas que permitem controlar a velocidade do áudio. Lembre-se: o shadow speak é sobre imitar e se adaptar, não sobre ser perfeito. Com prática diária, você notará uma melhora na pronúncia e na confiança ao falar inglês.

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.