Prática de Shadowing: Tony: A Soldier’s Journey - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo
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In the fall of 1944, U.S.
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Army medic Anthony Tony Acevedo was sent to fight in Europe during World War II.
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He served in the 275th Infantry Regiment, 70th Infantry Division, known as the Trailblazers.
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In freezing temperatures and heavy snow, along with 600,000 fellow Americans, he faced a ferocious German offensive in the Battle of the Bulge.
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During the brutal six-week battle between December 1944 and January 1945, tens of thousands were killed or wounded.
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It was Tony's first combat experience, and he bravely tended to the wounded under machine gun fire.
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We went to battle and on my assignment, I headed with Company B and I just followed.
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I carried my duffel bag and all my equipment with me and
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everybody used to laugh at me and yell at me and say, Anthony, drop that, drop all that stuff.
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They're gonna kill you.
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You're a sore thumb, you.
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I said, no, this is, that's gonna save my life.
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We were marching towards a ridge and I heard an echo.
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Medic!
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Medic!
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Because there were machine guns going on back and forth
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and I was carrying my stuff with me so finally I picked up the sound and I started to head downhill.
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Then I saw up ahead a cave with Germans.
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Well, there were about six Germans in there with machine guns.
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I mean just you thought there were thousands of them.
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and at that time when they start shooting at me, my stuff went up in the air, my duffel bag and everything.
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I fell on the ground and crawled to my helmet.
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And before I knew it, I was with the fellas that were wounded.
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I had my prayer book with me and I would use some phrases that wouldn't be too long, but enough for that person,
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that soldier, to motivate him, make him feel motivated, feel free of fear.
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That's what he was.
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He was afraid.
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The Germans were getting closer and closer.
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We ran out of ammunition until finally we were caught when the Germans came up the hill and we had to surrender.
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When the Germans took us, they forced us to get our boots off and walk down the slope barefooted in the snow.
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It was up to our waist and marched for about almost a mile to the trucks.
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They were sent to Stalag 9B, a camp for prisoners of war near Bad Orb, Germany.
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Tony became prisoner number 27016.
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Conditions in the crowded camp were terrible.
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Tony used the limited medical supplies that he had managed to save in order to treat the sick and wounded.
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In January 1945, German officers began identifying and separating Jewish POWs
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and those whom they believed to be Jews from the rest of the American soldiers.
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Tony was also separated, perhaps because he was Mexican-American.
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The newly separated group, including Tony, were then transported to Berga under Elster, a forced labor camp in Germany.
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Much like the conditions in the prisoner of war camp, food was scarce and prisoners were given little sustenance for the hard days of forced labor.
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The bread was a mix of barley with sawdust, ground glass and ground sand.
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It would make you sick to the stomach.
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Disease and malnutrition would soon plague the American prisoners.
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On one occasion we received a package, a Red Cross package, and that's how I got my diary.
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Throughout his time in the camp, Tony kept a secret diary of his experiences.
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He wrote in it nearly every day.
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In it, he recorded how his group were forced to clear tunnels to make way for an underground factory
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that Nazi officials hoped would be out of sight of Allied bombers.
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March 21, 1945.
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More planes came over today.
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Their bombs were dropped not very far from here.
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Another one of our boys is pretty low today.
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He's not expected to live to light.
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April 3rd, 1945.
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Excellent news today.
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Americans are only a hundred kilometers from here.
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Rumors are that we are to be moved away.
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When the Nazi guards realized that the American troops were closing in, they evacuated the POWs from Berga on a forced march.
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April 9th, 1945.
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We marched 10 kilometers today.
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We started out with 304 men.
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Now we have 287.
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April 20th to 22nd, 1945.
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Day and night, it rained.
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Every man was wet from top to bottom.
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Every 25 yards there lay three or four men.
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Men that couldn't make the march had to drop out.
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They were shot.
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April 23, 1945.
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We were liberated today.
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Of the 350 American POWs at Berga under Elster, approximately 70 died.
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Most of them died or were executed during the forced evacuation of the camp.
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Tony's fountain pen miraculously endured his imprisonment.
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It allowed him to secretly document his first-hand account of life as an American prisoner of war in Germany,
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and would bear witness to the dates and causes of his fellow soldiers' deaths.
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This was, he explained, his moral obligation.
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God gave me that ink to last.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição
Esta aula de conversação de nível B2 usa o vídeo “Tony: A Soldier’s Journey”. As palavras que mais se repetem: German, prisoner, Tony, camp, forced. Este vídeo tem 78 frases e 828 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 6:50. O falante mantém um ritmo estável de cerca de 121 palavras por minuto, confortável para o shadowing. Apenas 80% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| prisoner substantivo | /ˈpɹɪzənə/ | prisioneiro, preso |
| motivate verbo | /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/ | motivar |
| diary substantivo | /ˈdaɪ.ə.ɹi/ | diário |
| barley substantivo | /ˈbɑɹli/ | cevada |
| ferocious adjetivo | /fəˈɹoʊʃəs/ | feroz |
| liberate verbo | /ˈlɪbəˌɹeɪt/ | libertar |
| malnutrition substantivo | /ˌmæl.nuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/ | desnutrição |
| miraculously advérbio | /məˈɹækjələsli/ | milagrosamente |
| evacuate verbo | /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/ | evacuar |
| scarce adjetivo | /ˈskɛɚs/ | escasso |
| downhill advérbio | /ˌdaʊnˈhɪl/ | ladeira abaixo |
| rumor substantivo | /ˈɹumɚ/ | rumor, boato |
| evacuation substantivo | /ɪˌvækjuˈeɪʃən/ | evacuação |
| crawl verbo | /kɹɔːl/ | rastejar |
| endure verbo | /ɪnˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)/ | aguentar, prevalecer |
Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir
| Palavra | Significado |
|---|---|
| pick up verbo | pegar |
Pronúncia para ficar de olho
O falante usa 6 contrações e formas reduzidas, como gonna, couldn't, they're. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.
- Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: ferocious /fəˈɹoʊʃəs/, malnutrition /ˌmæl.nuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/, evacuation /ɪˌvækjuˈeɪʃən/, ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/, obligation /ˌɑ.blɪˈɡeɪ.ʃn̩/
- Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: malnutrition /ˌmæl.nuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/, miraculously /məˈɹækjələsli/, evacuate /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/, evacuation /ɪˌvækjuˈeɪʃən/, ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/
Sons difíceis para falantes de português:
- Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: motivate /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/, barefooted /ˈbɛɚ.fʊt.ɪd/, liberate /ˈlɪbəˌɹeɪt/, evacuate /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/, troop /tɹup/
- /l/ final — a língua toca o céu da boca, não vira “u”: duffel /dʌfəl/, downhill /ˌdaʊnˈhɪl/, crawl /kɹɔːl/, yell /jɛl/, brutal /ˈbɹuːtəl/
- /h/ — um sopro suave, diferente do “r”: downhill /ˌdaʊnˈhɪl/, helmet /ˈhɛlmɪt/
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 prisoner, motivate, diary.
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.