Shadowing Practice: Repeat-After-Me + Shadowing Practice | 'TH' Sounds in English - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hey guys!
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Welcome or welcome back to my channel.
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I'm Claire, a native speaker from the US,
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but I'm also an English teacher and I'm a professionally trained singer.
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So I have been trained in the international phonetic alphabet.
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And if you don't know what that is,
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it is the alphabet that covers all the sounds that exist internationally for every language.
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So of course, Some languages do not use certain sounds that others do,
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but if you learn the phonetic symbols that match the sounds,
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especially ones that don't exist in your native language,
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that can really help you to better understand those sounds every time you run into them.
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Now, one of the trickiest sounds
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that non-native speakers struggle with in English is the voiced and unvoiced sound that is usually represented by TH.
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So the TH sound in English is formed by placing your tongue between your teeth
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and lightly pressing the tip of your tongue to the bottom of your front teeth.
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To achieve the voiced TH sound,
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gently place your fingers on your throat and feel the vibrations when you make the sound.
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So you can feel that vibrating.
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The unvoiced th sound you won't be able to feel any vibrations on your throat.
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So for that one you're just pushing air through the teeth and the tongue without bringing the vocal cords together.
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So without those vibrations.
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So to help us practice both of these voiced and unvoiced TH sounds in English,
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I'm going to take you through a repeat after me and then shadowing practice.
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So it's pretty simple.
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First, you will just repeat after me and then you will say it
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with me at the same time matching my pronunciation and inflection.
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So that's a practice we call shadowing.
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If you aren't familiar with my other shadowing videos,
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I have a playlist here on my channel that I will link here.
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So go check that out if you found this practice useful.
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All right, let's get started.
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English made easy with Claire.
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So first, repeat after me.
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This year, this year, our first word here uses the voiced TH sound.
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So you will feel the vibrations.
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This, this year.
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My mother wanted to do something special for her birthday.
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Good.
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So here we have another voiced TH sound.
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Mother.
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Mother.
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So this one's a little bit faster because it's in the middle of the word,
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but you still should feel those vibrations.
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Mother.
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Um, mother.
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And then the second word with TH uses the unvoiced sound.
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And again, this one is quick because it comes in the middle of the word.
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Birthday.
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Birthday.
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No vibrations.
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Birth.
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Birthday.
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Okay, let's say that whole sentence again.
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Repeat after me.
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This year my mother wanted to do something special for her birthday.
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The first thing she said was...
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The first thing, thing, unvoiced,
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the first thing she said was,
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I don't want a big party.
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I don't want a big party.
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Instead, we drove through the countryside to a quiet little spa.
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Threw, through.
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That's an unvoiced TH sound.
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Instead, we drove through the countryside to a quiet little spa.
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Repeat again.
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Even though it was simple.
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Though, though.
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This word looks a lot like through,
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but it has the voiced TH sound.
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So we'll feel that here.
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Though.
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Though.
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Even though it was simple,
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it felt like the perfect getaway.
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It felt like the perfect getaway.
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In the afternoon, in the afternoon,
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we decided to sunbathe by the pool.
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So just after initially saying this word sunbathe,
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can you guess if it's voiced or unvoiced?
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Say it a couple times to yourself.
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This one is voiced.
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We can feel the vibration.
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Sunbathe.
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Sunbathe.
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And it might not be so obvious because it comes at the end of the word.
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We wouldn't generally in rapid speech really pronounce it slowly bathe, right?
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But this one is voiced.
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Sunbathe.
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Sunbathe.
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In the afternoon, we decided to sunbathe by the pool.
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Later on, she enjoyed a long, relaxing bath.
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So here, bath looks very similar to bathe,
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but they have different pronunciations.
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Bath uses the unvoiced TH.
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Bath.
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Bath.
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Later on, she enjoyed a long relaxing bath.
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At the end of the day,
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at the end of the day,
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my mother smiled and said, smiled.
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That's an often mispronounced word.
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Smiled.
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This was exactly what I needed.
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This was exactly what I needed.
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Repeat the whole sentence after me.
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At the end of the day,
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my mother smiled and said,
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this was exactly what I needed.
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Okay, now for our shadowing practice.
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So you are going to say the whole story with me at the same time.
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Repeat this part of the video as many times as you like until you feel comfortable,
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especially with the voiced and unvoiced TH sound.
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Here we go.
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This year, my mother wanted to do something special for her birthday.
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The first thing she said was,
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I don't want a big party.
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Instead, we drove through the countryside to a quiet little spa.
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Even though it was simple,
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it felt like the perfect getaway.
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In the afternoon, we decided to sunbathe by the pool.
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Later on, she enjoyed a long, relaxing bath.
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At the end of the day,
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my mother smiled and said,
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this was exactly what I needed.
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All right, so I hope that repeat after me
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and shadowing practice helped you a little bit better to understand the th sounds in English
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and the difference between the voiced and unvoiced.
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It's a really tricky sound if you don't have it in your native language,
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so don't be discouraged if you aren't getting it immediately after this video.
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Like I said, you can repeat this video as many times as you need
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and practice slowly trying the different sounds on your own.
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And over time, the more shadowing practice you do,
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the more comfortable and confident you will be in producing these sounds.
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Let me know in the comments if you have any other pronunciation requests for future videos like this.
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Of course, if you are a member of my YouTube channel,
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you get priority reply.
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So click the join button below to find out more about that.
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Give me a like and subscribe to my channel so that you don't miss out on my future shadowing practice videos.
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And I will see you in the next one.
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Bye.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Repeat-After-Me + Shadowing Practice”. Las palabras que más se repiten: sound, voiced, unvoiced, mother, repeat. Este vídeo tiene 141 frases y 1071 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 11:16. El hablante habla despacio, unas 95 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 84 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
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| sunbathe verbo | /ˈsʌnbeɪð/ | tomar el sol, solearse |
| vibration sustantivo | /vaɪˈbɹeɪʃən/ | vibración |
| pronunciation sustantivo | /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/ | pronunciación |
| getaway sustantivo | escapatoria | |
| countryside sustantivo | /ˈkʌn.tɹiˌsaɪd/ | campo, campaña |
| bathe verbo | /beɪð/ | bañarse |
| phonetic adjetivo | /fəˈnɛt.ɪk/ | fonético |
| alphabet sustantivo | /ˈæl.fəˌbɛt/ | alfabeto, abecedario |
| tricky adjetivo | /ˈtɹɪk.i/ | dificultoso, chungo |
| inflection sustantivo | /ɪnˈflɛkʃən/ | flexión |
| mispronounce verbo | /ˌmɪspɹəˈnaʊns/ | pronunciar mal |
| vibrate verbo | /ˈvaɪ.bɹeɪt/ | vibrar |
| discourage verbo | /dɪsˈkɝɪd͡ʒ/ | descorazonar, acobardar |
| playlist sustantivo | /ˈpleɪˌlɪst/ | lista de reproducción |
| professionally adverbio | profesionalmente |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| find out verbo | averiguar, anoticiarse |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 18 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, aren't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: sunbathe /ˈsʌnbeɪð/, bathe /beɪð/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: vibration /vaɪˈbɹeɪʃən/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, inflection /ɪnˈflɛkʃən/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: unvoiced /ˌʌnˈvɔɪst/, vibration /vaɪˈbɹeɪʃən/, vibrate /ˈvaɪ.bɹeɪt/, vocal /ˈvoʊ̯.kəl/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: discourage /dɪsˈkɝɪd͡ʒ/, gently /ˈd͡ʒɛntli/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como sunbathe, vibration, pronunciation.
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.