Shadowing Practice: Speak More Clearly: 4 Speech Therapy Exercises for Articulation! - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Do you mumble?
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Want to improve your articulation?
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Do you have dysarthria caused by a stroke or other neurologic disease?
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This video is to help you speak more clearly now.
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We're going to do 4 speech exercises to practice speaking more clearly.
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Talking is an automatic process and speaking more clearly initially involves turning this into a voluntary process.
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How? By over-enunciating and slowing your rate of speech.
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First let's talk about over-enunciating or over-articulating.
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Dysarthria tends to impact consonants the most. So focusing on crisp and exaggerated consonant production will help your speech clarity.
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For example, if I'm saying the word "talk" over-articulating the "t" and the "k" sound are going to help the clarity of that word. Talk.
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It might feel a little funny at first to practice speaking this way but you get used to your oral motor movements becoming bigger and more precise.
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Practicing precise and accurate articulations requires you to slow down.
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Try taking a deep breath before you start speaking and using pauses in natural places like the ends of phrases, sentences and between thoughts.
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Especially if you've had a stroke or other neurologic disease your articulators like your tongue and your lips may need some extra time to reach their targets than prior to the neurologic incident.
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So while we do these next exercises keep in mind to over-articulate and go slow.
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Exercise 1. Let's do diadochokinetic tasks.
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Speech therapists often use this as an assessment tool, but it can also be used as an exercise for speech coordination.
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We're going to repeat or alternate some syllabic speech sounds.
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Go slowly enough so that you can maintain the same rate and clarity.
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And you can gradually speed up as long as your clarity does not change.
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The first syllable we'll do is "puh".
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Take a deep breath breath and say "puh" 10 times. Puh puh puh puh puh puh puh puh puh puh.
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Now "tuh" Tuh tuh tuh tuh tuh tuh tuh tuh tuh tuh "kuh" Kuh kuh kuh kuh kuh kuh kuh kuh kuh kuh And now we'll put two of those together. "Puh-tuh" If you can't keep up with my rate just go as slow as you need to to keep that crisp production at an even rate.
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Puh-tuh puh-tuh puh-tuh puh-tuh puh-tuh puh-tuh puh-tuh puh-tuh puh-tuh puh-tuh All right, now we'll put all three together for "puh-tuh-kuh." Deep breath.
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Puh-tuh-kuh puh-tuh-kuh puh-tuh-kuh puh-tuh-kuh puh-tuh-kuh puh-tuh-kuh puh-tuh-kuh puh-tuh-kuh puh-tuh-kuh puh-tuh-kuh.
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That's challenging. I ran out of breath at the end.
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Just for fun let's do it one more time with the word "patty cake".
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Deep breath.
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Patty cake patty cake patty cake patty cake patty cake patty cake patty cake patty cake patty cake patty cake. Nice job.
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Exercise 2. We're going to say some multisyllabic words. I'll say the word then you repeat it.
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If this feels easy you can try putting these words into a sentence, like, I live in California.
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It's true I really do.
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Exercise 3. Tongue twisters are a great way to practice your articulatory coordination and clarity. Your goal is not speed, it's accuracy and clarity.
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So go slow enough so that your articulation is crisp.
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I used to use this tongue twister as a kid. Pretty sure my dad taught me it.
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Here we go: Exercise 4 is your homework.
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Take the strategies practiced today and apply them to reading out loud.
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You can read a book, a social media post, the newspaper but read it aloud practicing over-articulation slowed speech and using pauses in natural places while reading.
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It might take some time to implement the speech strategies during spontaneous conversation and you'll need consistent practice to help these strategies become more natural and generalize to your spontaneous conversation.
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To track your progress record yourself telling a story or reading out loud and then repeat that recording in a month after you practice on a daily basis.
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Let me know how these exercises worked for you and be kind to yourself!
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “Speak More Clearly: 4 Speech Therapy Exercises for Articulation!”. Las palabras que más se repiten: puh, tuh, kuh, patty, cake. Este vídeo tiene 41 frases y 701 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 7:14. El hablante habla despacio, unas 97 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. Solo el 71 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| patty sustantivo | /ˈpæti/ | empanadilla, tortita |
| clarity sustantivo | /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/ | claridad |
| articulation sustantivo | /ɑɹˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/ | articulación |
| neurological adjetivo | /nɝəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/ | neurológico |
| articulate verbo | /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/ | articular, vocalizar |
| consonant sustantivo | /ˈkɑn.sə.nənt/ | consonante |
| dysarthria sustantivo | disartria | |
| enunciate verbo | /ɪˈnʌnsiˌeɪt/ | enunciar, letrear |
| spontaneous adjetivo | /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/ | espontáneo |
| coordination sustantivo | /kəʊˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃən/ | coordinación |
| pause sustantivo | /pɔːz/ | pausa |
| articulatory adjetivo | /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.ləˌtɔɹ.i/ | articulatorio |
| exaggerate verbo | /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/ | exagerar |
| generalize verbo | /ˈd͡ʒɛn.(ə.)ɹə.laɪz/ | generalizar |
| mumble verbo | /ˈmʌmbəl/ | mascullar, mascujar |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| keep up with verbo | seguir, ir al paso | |
| slow down verbo | desacelerar, decelerar | |
| speed up verbo | /spiːdˈʌp/ | acelerar, apurarse |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- Want to improve your articulation?
- Do you have dysarthria caused by a stroke or other neurologic disease?
- First let's talk about over-enunciating or over-articulating.
- The first syllable we'll do is "puh".
- We're going to say some multisyllabic words.
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 11 contracciones y formas reducidas, como we'll, we're, can't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: articulation /ɑɹˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, coordination /kəʊˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: articulation /ɑɹˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, neurological /nɝəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/, articulate /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/, enunciate /ɪˈnʌnsiˌeɪt/, spontaneous /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: pause /pɔːz/, exaggerate /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/, generalize /ˈd͡ʒɛn.(ə.)ɹə.laɪz/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: neurological /nɝəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/, exaggerate /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/, generalize /ˈd͡ʒɛn.(ə.)ɹə.laɪz/
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 patty, clarity, articulation.
¿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.