Prática de Shadowing: What happens to the æ sound when you speak fast? - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo

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Hey, what's up?
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It's Alex.
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Today we're going to look at this pronunciation rule for connected speech
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and then see how it works in the context of a longer text
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that I wrote that's part of an example response for a speaking test.
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Let's take a look.
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So the rule here is that we're going to reduce a or an in short words in rapid speech.
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So again, this doesn't happen all the time.
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It's just when you're speaking very quickly.
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Air fryers are.
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So a short word, a function word like this, Air fryer zur, zur.
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Kind of taking out the ah here in R.
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Air fryer zur, air fryer zur.
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Next, a in an also gets reduced.
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It ends up kind of sounding like an i in in.
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Get them an air fryer.
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Get them an air fryer.
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Get them an in in.
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Get them an air fryer.
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It's a really short and unstressed sound, and it kind of shifts toward i as opposed to an.
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Get him an air fryer.
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Something like that.
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So let's see how this and other pronunciation rules work in context.
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This is a sample answer for a question asking you to describe something interesting in your home.
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This is talking about an air fryer.
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First, air fryers are cheap.
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Air fryers are cheap.
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So this is what we saw in the rules, right?
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We're kind of just going straight from that Z in friars to R in R.
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Air fryers are cheap.
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First, air fryers are cheap.
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You see a lot of people write sometimes apostrophe R E to show that this vowel is taken out,
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but this is actually not standard for American English.
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We don't write like this when we follow the American rules of English writing.
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It seems a little bit unusual.
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So even though we say it, we always write A-R-E.
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First, air fryers are cheap.
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You can get a low-end model for like 50 bucks.
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You can get a, you can get a, so here can gets really reduced and it blends with get.
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You can get a, it's kind of just like kuh, n.
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You can get a, you can get a, you can get a low-end model, a low-end model, low-end model.
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And we take out that d in end.
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You can get a low-end model for like $50.
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For gets reduced to for.
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For like $50, you can get a low-end model for like $50.
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Or a high-end one for $1 or $200.
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Or a high-end one for $1 or $200.
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High-end one.
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So here that D before the W, it's a little bit stronger than before the M.
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Before the M, it really disappears.
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We can call it a reduced D.
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A high-end one.
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High-end one for $1 or $200.
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For $1 or $2.
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Here that's just an er instead of an or sound.
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That's a price range where you could easily buy it for
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someone is a nice gift that's a price range where you could easily buy it for someone
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so here this beginning of the sentence doesn't really have any
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changed sounds just remember to blend the words together instead of
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saying them one at a time that's a price range where you could easily buy it for someone.
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Here though, at it, we definitely turn that into a colloidal stop, and we apply the same rule where we have for turning into for.
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Buy it for someone is a nice gift.
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Here that a in as gets turned into the i that we were talking about earlier.
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Someone is a nice gift.
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Again, don't clearly and slowly say someone is a nice gift.
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It's not the word is, it's the word as.
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Just remember that as turns into something closer to is in very rapid speech, but it's very reduced too.
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So whoever you're talking to shouldn't mishear it as is instead.
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For someone is a nice gift.
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So if someone moves in somewhere, so if someone, so if, so if, here the so with, we have a very reduced i there.
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So if someone, so if, so if someone moves in somewhere and throws a housewarming party and throws, take off the D and and,
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and throws a housewarming party one of their friends might get
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him an air fryer one of their friends take off the in of one of their friends no d there
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and friends one of their friends might get him might get him glottal stop here get him
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Here we take off the TH in them.
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Get them.
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Now that T turns into that tapping T.
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Get them.
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Get them an air fryer.
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That's a little tapping T symbol there.
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Get them.
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It's not an R.
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Get them an air fryer.
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Here that an air fryer gets turned into that I sound.
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Might get them an air fryer.
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Get them an air fryer.
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Let's read the whole thing all the way through.
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First, air fryers are cheap.
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You can get a low-end model for like 50 bucks or a high-end one for $100 or $200.
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That's a price range where you could easily buy it for someone as a nice gift.
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So if someone moves in somewhere and throws a housewarming party, one of their friends might get them an air fryer.
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If you thought this video was helpful, then check out the link I put in the description in the comments where I have the full video.
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That goes into a lot more detail with more pronunciation rules, a lot longer of an example text, and I even talk about things like intonation, vocabulary, and organization.
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If that sounds like fun, then click the link and I'll see you there.
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And also let me know in the comments, what other sounds and words you want me to analyze in American English.
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I'll see you next time.

Por que praticar a fala com este vídeo?

Praticar a fala em inglês com vídeos como este é essencial para os estudantes que desejam melhorar a pronúncia em inglês e ganhar fluência na conversação. Ao escutar como o falante nativo se expressa rapidamente, você pode aprender a identificar e imitar os padrões de ligação de palavras (connected speech) que são comuns na fala do dia a dia. Além disso, esta técnica ajuda na construção da confiança ao falar, permitindo que você se familiarize com a linguagem coloquial. Com aprender inglês com youtube, você tem acesso a recursos visuais que tornam a aprendizagem mais dinâmica e envolvente.

Gramática e Expressões em Contexto

No vídeo, Alex utiliza várias estruturas gramaticais e expressões que são características da fala rápida em inglês. Aqui estão algumas delas:

  • Redução de artigos: Palavras como “a” ou “an” são frequentemente reduzidas em contextos informais, refletindo a naturalidade da língua falada. Por exemplo, “get them an air fryer” fica quase como “get 'em an air fryer”.
  • Elisão de consoantes: O som “d” em “end” é frequentemente omitido em fala rápida, tornando “low-end model” mais fluido.
  • Mesclagem de palavras: A expressão “you can get a” se torna “you can get a”, escutando como “you can get a”.

Armadilhas Comuns de Pronúncia

Os aprendizes de inglês podem encontrar algumas armadilhas de pronúncia neste vídeo. Aqui estão as palavras e expressões a serem observadas:

  • Palavra 'air fryer': A forma abreviada “air fryer zur” pode ser confusa, e a pronúncia pode ser desafiadora na fala rápida.
  • Consoantes finais: Sons como “d” em palavras como “end” muitas vezes desaparecem, o que pode dificultar a compreensão se não for treinado.
  • Expressões de ligação: Mesclar as palavras quando falamos rapidamente é um desafio. A prática de shadowing em inglês pode ajudar a superar essa dificuldade, permitindo que você reproduza a fluência e o ritmo do falante original.

Nas suas práticas de fala, tente imitar a maneira como Alex pronuncia e liga as palavras. Use o método shadowspeaks para reverberar sua pronúncia até que se torne natural. Essa técnica não só ajudará você a se acostumar com esses padrões de fala, mas também a melhorar a pronúncia em inglês de forma eficaz.

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.