Prática de Shadowing: Why being bored is a good thing - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo

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Boredom.
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A state of being that's gotten a pretty bad rap over the years.
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But as I'm continuously trying to navigate this super connected world we're now living in, the constant consumption of media has not only left me feeling pretty drained,
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but the more I think that being bored isn't such a bad thing.
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In fact, from a creative standpoint, it might actually be a really good thing.
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Just hear me out.
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I feel like we live in a very overstimulated world.
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And lately it feels like a little much.
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Changes to Instagram, a growing trend in the US.
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We're always being bombarded with information.
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From social media platforms, keeping up with the trends, what should we make and who should we watch.
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It's all here to keep us busy and scrolling.
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Jumping from one device to another and often not taking breaks for extended periods of time.
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to be entertained could turn into a life that's distracted.
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I sense that most people have encountered this at some point or another but lately just everything has been feeling like noise.
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Everything online is starting to look like a copy of one another
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and as someone who's caught between trying to make sense of it
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while also barely keeping up with the pace of the world, it can get a little...
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overwhelming.
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and I think it's affecting my creativity.
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you A while in my search for an antidote, there was one idea I became increasingly curious about.
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It started when I read Austin Kleon's book, "Steal Like an Artist." In the book, he says, "Take time to be bored.
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Creative people need time to just sit around
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and do nothing." I want to see what happens when I embrace this idea of boredom over the next couple of days.
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If there is any difference at all in the creativity, in my ideas.
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Did I need a detox?
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Did I not?
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Did I hate it?
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Was it useless?
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Just for an hour or two each day, how hard can that be?
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So it's day one and I went a good, I was doing good.
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I was doing good for the first two minutes, and then I just reached for my phone.
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out of habit.
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I'm literally purposely doing this experiment.
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The habit of just like picking up and checking our phones when we're literally doing nothing.
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crazy.
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So yeah, if that's a any indication how things are going.
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You see, an interesting thing happens when you're in a less stimulated state.
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Our minds are able to wander, to get creative with problem -solving, and let one storm in ideas find the space to plant roots and grow.
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Just like when we get our best ideas in the shower, or think of new characters for our book on our commute, our body goes on autopilot,
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and our minds go somewhere else.
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Being bored literally has to be laying around doing nothing.
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I think that it counts as washing the dishes and folding your laundry, going for a walk, normal mundane everyday things,
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just without reaching for your phone to help pass the time.
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It's interesting that boredom is not typically something that's pursued, but many of the world's problems are because there is just too much of everything.
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content.
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at least in the beginning.
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Okay, so I have been really enjoying this experiment so far.
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It's only been three days, but I feel like there is
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something about needing to fill the silence and also being alone with your thoughts it's almost It can be uncomfortable.
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It has just been really nice to not be living from screen to screen all the time
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and instead feeling like I'm living in the real world.
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It's also been really nice to just have the space to think, just allowing you to have that designated time.
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I know that sounds so weird because creativity is such an organic thing, but we live in such a busy world.
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Our schedules are often filled up from like hour to hour.
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This is also feeling a lot like a dopamine detox.
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Mainly because I'm doing this like every single day.
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Now that I'm doing this experiment, I'm realizing like how much it actually plays into my daily life.
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I think that the more society becomes obsessed with productivity, the more we need to search for small pockets of time to be bored.
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But it's not just about doing nothing, but I find it's more so choosing to be observant of the world around you every now and then.
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Being left to my thoughts without media and posts telling me how to feel.
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every time I need to fill the silence.
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but instead embracing it.
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Sometimes it feels like boredom can be one of the most undesirable states you can be in.
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We go so much out of our way to occupy our time with other work or projects, and maybe there are some things we can learn from it.
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Alright, so I've been doing this for about a week now.
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It got easier as the days went on.
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I started to embrace it more.
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It's been really interesting to see new ideas and also old ideas.
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Just ponderings that randomly have come up one
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or two hours every afternoon may not seem like a lot
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but I think that there's a real compound effect there to just be intentional with
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that time to embrace this boredom and this mundaneness and see what comes up from that.
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We often already have everything we need to think up new ideas or find inspiration around us.
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But I think it's a matter of really creating the time to facilitate that.
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Not too much and not too little of it, but just enough that when we do to our creative work we feel ready to.
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So this isn't really a solution or a groundbreaking discovery, but perhaps an alternate perspective on nurturing our creativity.
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As Steve Jobs once said, boredom allows one to indulge in curiosity, and out of curiosity comes everything.
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I've been on hold on baby with you.
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O que você vai aprender

Este vídeo ajuda a desenvolver três habilidades práticas de conversação em inglês: a capacidade de falar sobre tópicos reflexivos com fluidez, a articulação de ideias complexas de forma natural e a adaptação do tom de voz para transmitir nuances emocionais, como a curiosidade e a autoanálise. Essas habilidades são essenciais para debates informais e apresentações pessoais.

Ouça esses sons

No áudio, observemos a connected speech (fala conectada) em frases como "it might actually be" (pronunciado como /ɪt maɪt ˈækʧuəli biː/ com ligação suave entre "might" e "actually") e "I feel like we" (onde "like" é reduzido a /laɪk/ e liga-se a "we" sem pausa). Além disso, a redução de "did I not" para /dɪd aɪ nɑːt/ e "how hard can that be" com ênfase no "hard" mostram como a fala nativa evita pausas excessivas, criando um fluxo contínuo.

Fale como um nativo

Para imitar o ritmo e a ênfase do locutor, use a técnica de shadowing em inglês: reproduza frases como "the constant consumption of media has not only left me feeling pretty drained" repetindo-as imediatamente após o áudio, focando na ênfase em "constant", "consumption" e "drained". Note que o locutor usa uma entonação ascendente nas perguntas retóricas, como "Did I need a detox?", para manter a atenção. Além disso, pratique a pausa antes de palavras-chave, como "In fact" e "Just hear me out", para dar destaque às ideias principais. Essa prática ajuda a melhorar a pronúncia em inglês e a se sentir mais confortável com a fluidez natural da língua. Para aprimorar, use um shadowing site que permita ajustar a velocidade do áudio, garantindo que você siga o ritmo sem perder a clareza.

A chave é combinar a observação da fala conectada com a repetição sistemática, o que fortalece a memória muscular e a capacidade de se comunicar de forma autêntica. Lembre-se: o shadow speech não é apenas sobre repetir, mas sobre absorver a musicalidade da língua.

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.

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