Prática de Shadowing: Your Assumptions About People Could Be Wrong, Here's Why | Reverse Assumptions - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo

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Music Where do you work?
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I am a freelancer.
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I've been working in advertising for a little bit.
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What do you do for a living?
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I am a residential coordinator.
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My job is to help people with mental disabilities, maintain a sense of independence in the workplace and in the neighborhood.
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I work in a home with adults with mental disabilities.
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I've also worked as a teacher and with students with mental disabilities.
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What do you do?
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I teach voice lessons to people and I music direct children's musicals.
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What's your family like?
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I have a pretty big family.
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I'm the youngest.
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My brother was in a motorcycle accident a month after I graduated high school
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and he ended up losing his right arm and had a traumatic brain injury.
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I never thought about ableism or being an abled body person until this happened.
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I have a disability and throughout my life I had some insecurities about it.
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Like how was I supposed to like contribute in a world
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that I felt like everyone had the same abilities and I had different?
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Like I feel for your brother, you know?
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A wise woman she told me, you know, I shouldn't, don't feel sorry for them.
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They don't want that.
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They just want you to understand.
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I myself suffer from mental illness in a sense, and I hardly ever talk about it.
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It took me years to recover, literally recover my psyche.
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I've been working with people with disabilities since I was 17.
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But the things that I've seen, it made me so much more of an advocate.
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It's weird that growing up, I feel like my parents were always really fearful for me getting into adulthood.
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And I kind of always thought like, why don't you guys think I have a future?
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We live in kind of like a new world.
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Now we're talking about it.
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Now this is like an open thing.
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What do you like about yourself?
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I'm athletic.
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I mean, I work out.
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I try to get some cardio in, and I'm good at it.
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Yeah, well, you have that up on me.
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I hate exercise so much.
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I like the kind of exercise where you don't have to think about the fact that you're exercising.
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You sound like you're 25.
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I bet you got a blue shirt on, blue jeans.
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I bet you was born in Chicago.
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I bet you are a soprano, because I know you say as you're saying.
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You are some type of Hispanic background,
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between like 5'10", 6' tall, around your late 30s.
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I think you are 29.
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I think you're wearing a t-shirt and jeans.
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I think you're from the East Coast, maybe like Pennsylvania.
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Maybe mixed, maybe Asian.
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Kind of petite, short.
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I know you give small little hints at some kind of walking apparatus.
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Not in the chair, though.
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I feel like you're pretty young, 19, 20.
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Hey.
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Hey.
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What's up?
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I was right about a couple things.
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It's so weird having a couple conversations.
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I was visualizing you a whole different way.
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Oh, really?
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A whole different.
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I thought you had a blue shirt.
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You got the brown hair.
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I said you were 29?
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No, I'm not.
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I'm 23.
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Oh, what's all I?
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You said I was 25.
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I'm from the south.
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I'm from EFUS.
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I'm from EFUS, embassy.
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I'm from San Jose, Silicon Valley.
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Oh, okay.
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I am German, not Norwegian.
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You're not German in here?
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Sure, yeah.
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Like a lot.
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You said I was a soprano, I'm not.
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Oh, alto?
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Yeah, low voice.
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Alto, I was a tenor.
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That makes sense.
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You sound like a tenor.
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Let's just sing randomly.
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Sure, yeah.
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Let's sing a song.
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Alright.
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What you saying?
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What's all I going to say?
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We'll do that later.
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Hi.
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Hi.
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Finally I actually meet you.
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I feel like I know you.
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I did not expect you in a chair other than when you gave tiny little hints.
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It threw me off for a second.
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And I'm actually 29.
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29?
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Wow.
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I was really off.
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You were right.
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I actually am Asian, which no one guesses.
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So you guessed it without looking.
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In looking now, I was like, I was wrong.
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You gave me some inches, I was like, sweet, I'll take it.
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What do you got?
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I think you said five, eight, six.
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I'm like, oh my god, I'm like five, seven, on a good day, maybe?
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I said short, petite, so I was pretty spot on.
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I don't know how tall you would be.
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I don't think you would tower over me.
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No, 5'1".
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As we get older, things get harder, right?
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I'm just having to come to face with the fact that I think I'm a little sensitive.
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I think you're too hard on yourself.
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I think you just feel things and that's good.
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Yeah.
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You're like, I'm sensitive.
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You're just, you're a person with feelings. For sure. For sure.
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I gotta ask you, what's like the toughest challenge that I'm like? getting dressed, getting fed.
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No, so I'm actually not confined to the chair.
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I can do a little bit of walking, but I walked a lot as a kid, and I only started using the wheelchair when I was in high school.
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But I grew up with my parents being fearful of my future, you know?
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Like, I don't know how she's gonna make it in the world.
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And they would say things to me like, well, we wanna get a house that we can have like an apartment that you can live in, like a basement apartment.
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I'm like, I don't need to live with you.
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I can do this on my own.
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It was nice to meet you, Oshie.
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Yeah, it was nice to meet you too.
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Carolyn, it was really nice meeting you.
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I honestly had a great experience just talking to you.
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So I don't know if you're a handshaker or a hugger, but I still give you hugs.
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Yeah.
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That's just awesome.
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It was fun.
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It's nice to meet you, Albert.
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Likewise.

Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição

Esta aula de conversação de nível B2 usa o vídeo “Your Assumptions About People Could Be Wrong, Here's Why”. As palavras que mais se repetem: disabilities, mental, meet. Este vídeo tem 136 frases e 1005 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 5:59. O falante fala em ritmo natural, cerca de 168 palavras por minuto, próximo de uma conversa do dia a dia. Apenas 78% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês, por isso o vocabulário é exigente. 21 das 136 frases são perguntas, por isso é um bom treino para a entonação de perguntas e respostas curtas.

Vocabulário principal deste vídeo

As 15 palavras mais avançadas do vídeo, com pronúncia e significado:

PalavraPronúnciaSignificado
alto substantivo/ˈæl.toʊ/contralto
soprano substantivo/səˈpɹænoʊ/soprano
tenor substantivo/ˈtɛnə(ɹ)/tenor
fearful adjetivo/ˈfɪəfəl/amedrontador
hint substantivo/hɪnt/dica, indício
ableism substantivo/ˈeɪ.bə.lɪ.zəm/capacitismo, validismo ableísmo
cardio substantivo/ˈkɑɹ.di.oʊ/cárdio
confine verbo/ˈkɑnfaɪn/confinar
freelancer substantivo/ˈfɹiˌlæn.səɹ/freelancer, autônomo
visualize verbo/ˈvɪʒuəˌlaɪz/visualizar
insecurity substantivoinsegurança
adulthood substantivoidade adulta, fase adulta
apparatus substantivo/ˌæp.əˈɹeɪ.təs/aparelho, equipamento
traumatic adjetivo/tɹɔˈmætɪk/traumático
wheelchair substantivo/ˈ(h)wilt͡ʃɛɹ/cadeira de rodas

Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir

PalavraPronúnciaSignificado
end up verboterminar, acabar
grow up verbocrescer
work out verbo/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/calcular

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 do for a living?
  • What's your family like?
  • What do you like about yourself?
  • What's all I going to say?
  • I gotta ask you, what's like the toughest challenge that I'm like?

Gramática neste vídeo

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

EstruturaNo vídeo
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — uma ação que começou antes e continuaI've been working
Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agoraI've also worked · I've seen

Pronúncia para ficar de olho

O falante usa 51 contrações e formas reduzidas, como I'm, you're, don't. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.

  • Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: ableism /ˈeɪ.bə.lɪ.zəm/, apparatus /ˌæp.əˈɹeɪ.təs/, motorcycle /ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/

Sons difíceis para falantes de português:

  • Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: petite /pəˈtiːt/, hint /hɪnt/, traumatic /tɹɔˈmætɪk/, youngest /ˈjʌŋ.ɡɪst/, hug /hʌɡ/
  • /l/ final — a língua toca o céu da boca, não vira “u”: fearful /ˈfɪəfəl/, motorcycle /ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/
  • /h/ — um sopro suave, diferente do “r”: hint /hɪnt/, hugger /ˈhʌɡɚ/, wheelchair /ˈ(h)wilt͡ʃɛɹ/, hug /hʌɡ/

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 alto, soprano, tenor.

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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