Prática de Shadowing: When Love Isn't Easy - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo
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You're up in the middle of the night and again you're in trouble in love.
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You had another discussion over dinner.
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You tried to get them to see that sometimes
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because of X you do Y and they respond with Z and it's unpleasant.
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And they countered at first politely and then with mounting irritation
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that even though A you think B and that's why C is maddening to them.
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Both of you tried, pretty valiantly, to get your points across with calm and kindness.
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Both of you managed to be more or less polite, more or less restrained, more or less grown up.
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And by the end of two hours of conversation, you parted in an almost affectionate way and went to sleep in different rooms.
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But it's not enough and you know it.
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That's why you're up at 3am hearing the rain fall.
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You're pursued by questions.
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What do you keep doing wrong in love?
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Do you even belong together with this obviously very nice person?
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Why is it so hard?
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You briefly wonder what it would be like to leave.
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You picture some new dates.
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But the picture soon curdles.
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The horror of starting all over again with someone new.
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You'd miss your partner.
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You have a lot of shared memories.
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There used to be, until quite recently, considerable hope.
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You don't know what to do.
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If only there was someone to speak to.
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A wise, kind person who would know how to cut through this.
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Then you realise that more than a solution, what you really want is someone who could understand how hard it is that there isn't one.
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Someone who would just say, I know, I know.
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Sometimes we don't need solutions.
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We need sympathy for our impasses.
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We need to know that we're not idiots for having the challenges we have.
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That other sensible people have been here too.
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That it could almost be okay to have this difficulty forever.
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Maybe it's just one of life's givens.
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That's when a bracing, pessimistic philosophy is called for.
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The sort that says, of course you're miserable, you're alive.
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Of course it's a mess.
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Welcome to existence.
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Of course love is a bit impossible.
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You're a human being.
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This isn't the first choice, naturally naturally.
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You wanted to sort this out perfectly, the way you like to sort out other things perfectly, at work, in domestic life.
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But this isn't a cupboard or an accounting document.
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The number of people who have this area of life properly sorted out is minuscule, perhaps below 1%.
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You have failed here, that's for sure, but you're not exceptionally stupid for that.
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You're averagely mad, averagely emotionally perturbed,
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and what you're trying to do is something exceptionally, extraordinarily, dementedly hard.
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Poor you and poor all of us.
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Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição
Esta aula de conversação de nível C1 usa o vídeo “When Love Isn't Easy”. Este vídeo tem 47 frases e 466 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 2:49. O falante fala em ritmo natural, cerca de 165 palavras por minuto, próximo de uma conversa do dia a dia. 87% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês; vale a pena estudar o restante antes de começar.
Vocabulário principal deste vídeo
As 15 palavras mais avançadas do vídeo, com pronúncia e significado:
| Palavra | Pronúncia | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| exceptionally advérbio | /ɪkˈsɛp(t)ʃənəli/ | excepcionalmente |
| affectionate adjetivo | /əˈfɛkʃənət/ | afetuoso |
| cupboard substantivo | /ˈkʌb.əd/ | armário |
| curdle verbo | /ˈkɝ.dəl/ | coalhar |
| extraordinarily advérbio | extraordinariamente | |
| impasse substantivo | /ˈɪmpæs/ | impasse |
| minuscule substantivo | /ˈmɪnəˌskjul/ | minúscula |
| pessimistic adjetivo | /ˌpɛ.səˈmɪs.tɪk/ | pessimista |
| restrain verbo | /ɹɪˈstɹeɪn/ | conter, coibir |
| madden verbo | /ˈmædən/ | deixar louco |
| unpleasant adjetivo | /ʌnˈplɛzn̩t/ | desagradável, injucundo |
| polite adjetivo | /pəˈlaɪt/ | educado, polido |
| sensible adjetivo | /ˈsɛn.sɪ.bəl/ | sensato |
| kindness substantivo | /ˈkaɪnd.nəs/ | gentileza |
| sympathy substantivo | /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/ | compaixão |
Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir
| Palavra | Significado |
|---|---|
| sort out verbo | resolver, esclarecer |
| grow up verbo | crescer |
Frases que vale a pena repetir
Frases curtas e completas do vídeo que você pode usar na conversa do dia a dia:
- What do you keep doing wrong in love?
- Do you even belong together with this obviously very nice person?
- You don't know what to do.
- Sometimes we don't need solutions.
Gramática neste vídeo
As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:
| Estrutura | No vídeo |
|---|---|
| Orações relativas who / which + oração — informação extra sobre uma pessoa ou coisa | person who would · someone who could · Someone who would |
| Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agora | have been · have failed |
Pronúncia para ficar de olho
O falante usa 17 contrações e formas reduzidas, como you're, isn't, don't. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.
- Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: exceptionally /ɪkˈsɛp(t)ʃənəli/, affectionate /əˈfɛkʃənət/, irritation /ˌɪɹ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/
- Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: exceptionally /ɪkˈsɛp(t)ʃənəli/, affectionate /əˈfɛkʃənət/, irritation /ˌɪɹ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/, pessimistic /ˌpɛ.səˈmɪs.tɪk/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/
Sons difíceis para falantes de português:
- Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: affectionate /əˈfɛkʃənət/, cupboard /ˈkʌb.əd/, perturb /pəɹˈtɜɹb/, pessimistic /ˌpɛ.səˈmɪs.tɪk/, unpleasant /ʌnˈplɛzn̩t/
- /l/ final — a língua toca o céu da boca, não vira “u”: curdle /ˈkɝ.dəl/, minuscule /ˈmɪnəˌskjul/, sensible /ˈsɛn.sɪ.bəl/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/
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 exceptionally, affectionate, cupboard.
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.