Prática de Shadowing: Why don't you remember being a baby? - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo

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What's the earliest memory that you have?
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Well, I've got bad news, it's probably fake.
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According to neuroscientists, anyone who says they remember being a baby is probably lying, but they don't even know it.
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Psychologists did this experiment where they interviewed three -year -olds about real stuff.
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Zoo trips, first day of preschool, that kind of thing.
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Then they came back years later and asked those kids to recall those memories.
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By age 5, 6, or 7, they remembered 60 % or more of those early life events, But by age 8 or 9, they only remembered like 40%.
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Most of that early memory was gone, and it declines quickly from there.
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So you didn't forget being a baby when you were a baby.
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You forgot it in like second grade.
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Researchers from Yale put infant babies in an MRI, which is probably easier said than done.
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And they showed that a key memory area of the brain, called the hippocampus, well, it lights up when a baby locks in on, say, a photo that it's never seen before.
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So our memory is definitely running by about age 1.
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The memories get made, but something's happening to them after.
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Well, here's what we think's going on.
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During the first few years of life, that memory region of the brain is being flooded with new, growing neurons.
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This shuffles around the cells that were already there, rewiring the chain of neurons and basically breaking that old memory.
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There's research in mice that suggests that maybe those memories could still be hiding in there somewhere, they just can't be accessed test.
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See, when scientists zapped the original neurons with light in mice, some early memories came back.
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But we've never tested the same thing in humans, because it turns out to be pretty hard to recruit people to get fiber optic cables shoved in their brains.
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But why would a brain do this?
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When you're like one, you don't need to remember specific events as much as you
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need to figure out the rules for things like language or how the physical world works, so your brain focuses its energy on that.
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Still, nearly 40 % of people say that their first memory is from age 2 or younger.
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And somebody's probably going to be in the comments telling me that they definitely remember being born.
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But you probably don't.
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All this research suggests that those are almost certainly reconstructions that are pieced together from family stories and photos and later memories.
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So some version of you learned language, discovered what gravity was, and all those other things.
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But sadly, you can never meet that version of yourself.
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Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição

Este vídeo tem 30 frases e 442 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 2:19. O falante fala rápido, cerca de 190 palavras por minuto, então espere sons ligados e reduzidos. 88% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês, por isso o vocabulário é fácil de acompanhar.

Vocabulário principal deste vídeo

15 palavras menos comuns do vídeo, com pronúncia e significado:

  • mouse /maʊs/ (substantivo) — rato, camundongo. Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.
  • decline /dɪˈklaɪn/ (verbo) — declinar. To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
  • recall /ɹɪˈkɔl/ (verbo) — reconvocar. To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
  • discover /dɪˈskʌvə/ (verbo) — descobrir. To find or learn something for the first time.
  • experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/ (substantivo) — experimento, experiência. A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of…
  • flood /flʌd/ (substantivo) — cheia, enchente. An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
  • gravity /ˈɡɹævɪti/ (substantivo) — gravidade. Of an activity such as a ceremony, a person's conduct, etc.: the quality of being deeply serious and solemn, especially in a dignified manner; seriousness…
  • scientist /ˈsaɪəntəst/ (substantivo) — cientista. One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research…
  • sadly /ˈsædli/ (advérbio) — tristemente. In a sad manner; sorrowfully.
  • infant /ˈɪn.fənt/ (substantivo) — infante. A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.
  • reconstruction /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkʃən/ (substantivo) — reconstrução, restauração. The action of reconstructing something, not necessarily to the earlier state.
  • researcher /ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/ (substantivo) — pesquisador, pesquisadora. One who researches.
  • recruit /ɹɪˈkɹut/ (verbo) — recrutar. To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
  • psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/ (substantivo) — psicólogo, psicóloga. An expert in the field of psychology.
  • shove /ʃʌv/ (verbo) — empurrar. To push, especially roughly or with force.

Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir

  • come back (verbo) — voltar. To return to a place.
  • figure out (verbo) — descobrir, deduzir. To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
  • go on /ˈɡoʊˌɒn/ (verbo) — continuar. To continue in extent.

Pronúncia para ficar de olho

O falante usa 8 contrações e formas reduzidas, como don't, can't, didn't. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.

  • Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: reconstruction /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkʃən/, shove /ʃʌv/, shuffle /ˈʃʌfəl/
  • Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, reconstruction /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkʃən/, psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, hippocampus /ˌhɪpə(ʊ)ˈkæm.pəs/

Como praticar com este vídeo

  1. Ouça o vídeo inteiro uma vez sem falar e anote as palavras que você não conhece.
  2. Comece na velocidade 0,75×, faça shadowing frase por frase e volte à velocidade normal quando ficar fácil.
  3. Grave a sua voz e compare com o original, prestando atenção a palavras como mouse, decline, recall.

Gramática neste vídeo

As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:

EstruturaNo vídeo
Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem fazbeing flooded · can't be accessed · being born
Orações relativas who / which + oração — informação extra sobre uma pessoa ou coisaanyone who says · MRI, which is

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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