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You already know the Thailand that I'm about to describe.
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People dancing at the full moon party, the skyline from a rooftop bar, a condo with a pool that costs less than a single room back home.
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Thailand earned that reputation by turning itself from a rice economy into Southeast Asia's success story.
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And every other country in the region was envious.
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But that Thailand doesn't exist anymore.
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The economy grew roughly 2 % last year and is on track to do even less this year.
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Thai households are drowning in debt.
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It's getting old considerably faster than it's getting rich.
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And last year, more Thais passed away than were born.
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Meanwhile, about 900 kilometers to the east, another country grew 8%.
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Vietnam.
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Apple, Samsung, Nvidia and even Lego are building there.
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21 million foreigners visited last year and quite a lot of them never went home.
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And if you think that Vietnam is just playing catch -up with Thailand, then you need to stay tuned.
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Because we'll look at the exact approach Thailand used to build its economy, the point at which that stopped working,
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and how Vietnam ended up running a similar strategy, but much more effectively.
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My name is Nick and this is the Finance Bureau.
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In the 1980s and 90s, Thailand built itself up at a spectacular pace.
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And that model kept working for quite a while afterward.
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Thailand was cheap, it was stable, and it was open.
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So foreign manufacturers came looking for somewhere to build things that wasn't Japan.
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The Japanese car makers arrived first, and they didn't just bolt vehicles together.
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They built an entire ecosystem for themselves the seat makers, the wiring harness people, the brake suppliers,
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the small family workshops stamping out brackets in provincial towns.
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That's how Thailand earned the nickname the Detroit of Asia.
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And a car plant brings thousands of reliable manufacturing wages with it.
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Those wages created something Thailand had never really had before, which was a consumer class with money left over at the end of the month.
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And then the tourists arrived on top of all of that.
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And Bangkok became the place every regional business put its office because that's where the flights were going.
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For about 30 years the whole thing compounded perfectly.
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But notice what each of those stages I just mentioned has in common.
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Each was based on Thailand being the cheapest good option in the region and when it comes down to it, that was the driving force.
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Not so much the beaches or the food as great as they were.
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The primary thing was that Thailand was cheap.
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So what happens to that strategy when the country essentially succeeds and stops being cheap?
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Well that's the problem and economists have quite the term for it, the middle income trap.
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In case you're not familiar, the middle income trap goes like this, albeit in very basic terms.
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A poor country can get richer pretty quickly by offering cheap labor and attracting investment.
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But as wages rise, that advantage starts to disappear.
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The country becomes too expensive to compete with cheaper economies without becoming productive or innovative enough to compete with richer ones.
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The only escape is to start making things that you only make, moving up into design, into components,
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into the high -value end where price isn't the only reason that people buy from you.
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But Thailand struggled to make that jump.
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It kept assembling other people's designs at a steadily rising cost, which just doesn't work in the long run.
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And again, the car industry demonstrates this.
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Thailand bet its entire manufacturing base on the internal combustion engine,
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on the assumption that the world would keep needing pickup trucks with pistons in them for another 30 years.
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And then the Chinese EV makers walked in.
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And not slowly either.
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Within a couple of years they had taken more than 80 % of the Thai EV market.
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And the legacy players folded fast.
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Honda, for example, stopped its car production at its Ayutaya plant.
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Suzuki exited Thai manufacturing entirely.
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Sibiru shut down local assembly.
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And bear in mind that these aren't distressed no -name operations.
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These are the companies that built the Thai middle class into what it is today.
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But there's more to it than that, because an electric vehicle needs only a fraction of the parts a combustion car does.
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No engine block, no gearbox, no exhaust system, no fuel injection, and a fraction of the moving components overall.
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So it isn't just the assembly plant that takes the worst of it it's the entire supplier network
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The hundreds of small and medium workshops that existed to feed parts into engines that nobody is building anymore.
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And that network was the Thai middle class.
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And this is the bit that people just get wrong when they talk about Thailand losing to China.
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The technology changed while the country was still perfecting the previous one, which is the middle income trap in its purest form,
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being beaten on price and being made irrelevant on product.
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But this raises a question.
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If the wages stopped moving, how did the lifestyle keep going?
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Well, on credit.
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Thailand's household debt is around 87 % of GDP, with total private debt somewhere around 170%.
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Those are numbers you'd normally associate with a rich country, not one still trying to become one.
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And the composition is even more worrying, because the borrowing has shifted away from assets and towards everyday spending.
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Mortgages, whether you think they're a good idea or not, are essentially a bet on the future.
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Borrowing for clothes, groceries or school fees, that's something else.
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So the banks get nervous,
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they tighten lending, consumption stalls and the domestic economy that was supposed to take over from exports simply can't do the job.
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And on top of all of this, Thailand has a major demographics issue, even more so than most.
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Thailand has a negative natural population growth and one of the fastest aging societies in developing Asia.
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Fewer workers, more retirees and a shrinking tax base, along with a debt pile that doesn't shrink to match.
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Countries usually get old after they get rich.
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Thailand is attempting it in the other order and that just doesn't bode well.
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Meanwhile, one thing people have historically pointed to as a major source of strength is tourism.
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But that tourism is mature.
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The arrivals came back after the pandemic but the big Chinese spending didn't come back with them.
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Guys, the reality is that you can't grow a country the second time on tourism
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And it appears that Thailand is finding that out the hard way.
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Now, keeping track of how factory closures, debt and demographics all connect to move markets takes more time than most people have in a day,
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Right, back to Southeast Asia and this is where Vietnam comes in.
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Because, while Thailand's old growth strategy has started to stall, Vietnam has been following a similar approach,
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only much faster and with considerably better timing in.
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Stage one, same as Thailand, be the cheap, stable alternative when the world goes looking for one.
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Except Vietnam didn't have to advertise because every multinational board out there decided
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that being all in on China was a risk they no longer wanted to hold.
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Samsung now makes a big share of its global phone output in Vietnam.
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Apple suppliers have shifted iPad, had MacBook and AirPods assembly in.
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Nike and Adidas produce there at serious scale.
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Lego opened a plant costing about a billion dollars.
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And Nvidia has discussed putting AI infrastructure and R &D on the ground.
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Foreign investment pledges in the first half of this year ran over 60 % higher than the year before.
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Absolutely booming.
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Stage two, same as Thailand, build out the ecosystem.
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Now remember guys that Thailand's boom was assembling foreign products and it stayed assembling foreign products.
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Vietnam is doing plenty of that too but it's also landing chip work,
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display work and AI adjacent infrastructure at a stage of development where Thailand was still bolting pickup trucks together.
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It's reaching the higher value rung much earlier in its own growth journey.
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And it's also laying the ports, the expressways and the power to carry it all.
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Stage 3, same as Thailand, the wages create a consumer class.
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Growth of 8 % in 2025, another 8 % through the first half of 2026,
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and GDP per capita crossing into upper middle income territory.
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Growth at that rate changes the country visibly year to year.
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I mean the skyline you have a mental image of on your last trip looks entirely different on your next one.
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And that's what Thailand had in the 90s and going into the 2000s.
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And that brings us to tourism and expats.
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Because tourism and expats aren't a separate topic, they're essentially the lagging indicator of industrial growth.
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The money arrives first, then the infrastructure and then the foreigners.
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21 million foreign visitors last year, up around 20 % with 25 million targeted this year.
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Da Nang has become the coastal remote work hub, Ho Chi Minh City the commercial one,
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and living costs run roughly 20 to 35 % below the equivalent life in Bangkok.
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And if you dig into the expat forums or tourist feedback, things become very clear.
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Listen to how people describe Vietnam right now.
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Cheap, chaotic, fast, everything half -built and getting better.
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That is word for word what people said about Thailand when they first fell in love with it.
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Thailand today is a finished product, beautiful and functional, but also priced accordingly.
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Vietnam is still under construction, and being under construction is kind of the whole appeal.
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Now, to be fair, it's not all sunshine and rainbows for people looking to join the Vietnam growth story.
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Vietnam has no self -sponsored digital nomad visa.
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Foreigners can't own any land at all.
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Condo ownership is leasehold and capped per building.
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So the country is being flooded with individuals it hasn't finished writing the rules for.
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But part of that could be by design, of course.
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However, at a macro level, some things are shifting for would -be investors.
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FTSE Russell is set to reclassify Vietnam from a frontier market to a secondary emerging market.
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And that's the same institutional tier as Thailand is in.
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You know what that means, guys? the large passive funds that were barred from holding Vietnamese equities now have to buy them, whether they have an opinion on it or not.
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Vietnam has also officially crossed into the upper middle income status this year
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and the government has shifted its tourism strategy away from raw arrival numbers towards higher value visitors
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which incidentally is the move a country makes when it knows the cheap phase is ending.
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Thailand is doing something similar but very much after the fact.
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Vietnam is acting with proper foresight.
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Now, as critical as I've been in this video, Thailand isn't going to fade into total irrelevance.
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It just ran out of runway when the approach
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that made it successful kind of stalled and the country's leaders didn't manage to adapt in time.
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The closing car plants, the household debt, the demographic issues, the beaches that can only be discovered once,
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it all traces back to the same fundamental problem of a strategy that didn't change with time.
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Now Vietnam is running a similar strategy, and investment is pouring in while the cities are transforming.
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Except in Vietnam's case, it gets to tweak its strategy with Thailand's mistakes right there as a warning and a lesson.
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Southeast Asia's center of gravity has moved.
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Thailand was the obvious choice for the last generation, but Vietnam appears to be the obvious choice for this one.
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The only question is whether Vietnam will truly learn from where Thailand went wrong.
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Only time will tell for sure, but right now the momentum is all going one way.
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But that's just my view from Ho Chi Minh City.
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What do you reckon?
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Is Vietnam the future of Southeast Asia or will it eventually run into the same issues facing Thailand right now.
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Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição
Esta aula de conversação de nível B2 usa o vídeo “The SECRET Behind Asia's Miracle Economy”. Este vídeo tem 154 frases e 2057 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 13:37. O falante fala em ritmo natural, cerca de 151 palavras por minuto, próximo de uma conversa do dia a dia. Apenas 79% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês, por isso o vocabulário é exigente.
Vocabulário principal deste vídeo
As 15 palavras mais avançadas do vídeo, com pronúncia e significado:
| Palavra | Pronúncia | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| foreigner substantivo | /ˈfɔɹ.ɪ.nɚ/ | estrangeiro, estrangeira |
| assemble verbo | /əˈsɛm.bəl/ | montar, juntar |
| stall substantivo | /stɔːl/ | baia, boxe |
| supplier substantivo | /səˈplaɪə/ | fornecedor, fornecedora |
| demographic adjetivo | /ˌdɛm.əˈɡɹæf.ɪk/ | demográfico |
| condominium substantivo | /ˌkɑn.dəˈmɪn.i.əm/ | condomínio, condomínio edilício |
| skyline substantivo | /ˈskaɪˌlaɪn/ | linha do céu, skyline |
| combustion substantivo | /kəmˈbʌs.t͡ʃən/ | combustão, queima |
| ecosystem substantivo | /ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/ | ecossistema |
| emerge verbo | /ɪˈmɝd͡ʒ/ | emergir |
| fraction substantivo | /ˈfɹæk.ʃən/ | fração, fracção |
| considerably advérbio | /kənˈsɪdəɹəbli/ | consideravelmente |
| visitor substantivo | /ˈvɪzɪtɚ/ | visita |
| bolt substantivo | /boʊlt/ | parafuso |
| workshop substantivo | /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/ | oficina |
Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir
| Palavra | Significado |
|---|---|
| come back verbo | voltar |
| end up verbo | terminar, acabar |
| pass away verbo | falecer, ir-se |
| run over verbo | atropelar |
| shut down verbo | apagar, encerrar |
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 | has shifted · has started · have shifted |
| Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem faz | were born · was based · aren't distressed |
| Orações relativas who / which + oração — informação extra sobre uma pessoa ou coisa | before, which was · one, which is |
Pronúncia para ficar de olho
O falante usa 26 contrações e formas reduzidas, como didn't, doesn't, can't. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.
- Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: fraction /ˈfɹæk.ʃən/, workshop /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/, injection /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/, institutional /ˌɪn.stɪˈtju.ʃə.nəl/, assumption /əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n/
- Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: demographic /ˌdɛm.əˈɡɹæf.ɪk/, condominium /ˌkɑn.dəˈmɪn.i.əm/, ecosystem /ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/, considerably /kənˈsɪdəɹəbli/, macroeconomics /ˌmæk.ɹoʊˌiː.kəˈnɒ.mɪks/
Sons difíceis para falantes de português:
- Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: demographic /ˌdɛm.əˈɡɹæf.ɪk/, expat /ˈɛksˌpæt/, bolt /boʊlt/, workshop /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/, foresight /ˈfɔɹsaɪt/
- /l/ final — a língua toca o céu da boca, não vira “u”: assemble /əˈsɛm.bəl/, stall /stɔːl/, institutional /ˌɪn.stɪˈtju.ʃə.nəl/, provincial /pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/, pile /paɪl/
- /h/ — um sopro suave, diferente do “r”: harness /ˈhɑɹ.nəs/, honda /ˈhɑndə/, historically /hɪˈstɔɹɪkli/
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 foreigner, assemble, stall.
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.