シャドーイング練習: 7 Ways You're Overcomplicating English Learning - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Hello everyone!
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Today we're going to talk about ways in which you are over complicating English learning.
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You're probably doing this.
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If you're learning a language, if you're learning English, you're probably over complicating it.
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So I'm going to try to simplify it for you because that's what I do on this channel.
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I keep it real, I keep it realistic, and I keep it simple.
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All right?
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Keep it simple.
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Let's get into it.
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Number one, do not try to talk fast.
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There are a lot of things in learning a language
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that you don't need to force because it will come naturally with more practice, more experience, more fluency as you advance.
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It will happen naturally.
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You will speak faster as you get better, as you practice, as you improve.
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You don't need to try, okay?
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A lot of you are coming from languages that you speak very quickly, like Spanish, for example.
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That's just one example, but a lot of you speak very quickly in your native language
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and you want to try to do the same thing in English.
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But you don't need to think about that.
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You need to focus on saying the correct words using the correct vocabulary, the correct verbs and verb tenses,
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the correct pronunciation clear enough that people can understand you.
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That is way more important than the speed.
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The speed is like the least important thing.
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If you haven't noticed, I am a native speaker of English and I speak slow.
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I edit my videos to cut out the pauses and to make it seem faster, but the reality is I speak quite slow.
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And then on top of that, American English is a pretty slow dialect.
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It's a pretty slow language compared to some others.
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We have a very relaxed, casual way of talking, and I think the slower you talk,
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the more relaxed and calm and easygoing you seem.
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Sometimes I think when we talk too fast, I think it's coming from a place of anxiety, but it depends on the person.
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It depends on each person's individual brain and the way
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that they process what they want to say and connect it to their mouth.
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It's not really something that has to do
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so much with whether you're a native speaker or not or how advanced you are.
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Obviously, you're going to speak slow if you're a beginner, if you have a low level, if you have very low speaking experience, like very little speaking practice and experience.
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But really, it's something that has to do with your personality more than anything.
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And what I'm telling you is that often the personality of American English is like very relaxed.
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I speak slow and I'm able to do everything I need to do as a native speaker.
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So there's no reason to try to speak fast.
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All right.
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So this is one less thing to worry about.
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I want you to completely forget about that.
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And I'm guilty of this too, because I speak Spanish and I try to speak fast sometimes, but then I'm more likely to make mistakes when I do that.
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So it's better to just not even try to do that, try to speak correctly, and then the speed will naturally come as you advance,
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as you get more practice.
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The more times you practice saying a sentence or phrase, you will get faster at it without even trying.
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But first, you need to make that you're saying that sentence correctly
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and clearly the number one thing i think you should focus on
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when you're practicing speaking another language is pronunciation especially with english
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so i think
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that makes it simpler for you it's you don't have to
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focus on 20 million different things just focus on speaking clearly
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and correctly all right next one i've talked about this before
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in a previous video don't worry about translating in your head this is also something that you should not be forcing.
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This also comes naturally with practice, with experience, with fluency as you advance.
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When you are learning new things, it is necessary to translate from your native language to the new language.
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Sometimes literally, sometimes not.
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It depends.
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But this is necessary because you're not a little baby, you're not a little child, you need a reference point.
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So it's totally normal and natural and inevitable to translate from your native language to the new language.
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You don't need to worry about trying to force yourself to think in English or your new language.
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Just continue working on your English and over time with more and more practice, more speaking, more listening, more exposure,
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you will start to think in English more often.
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You will find yourself thinking in English naturally, but not even all the time.
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I speak Spanish.
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I learned Spanish.
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I think in Spanish most of the time when I'm speaking Spanish, but sometimes I still have to think about, okay, now what am I trying to say in English and how would we say that in Spanish?
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And I have to try to think about stuff like that.
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This is normal.
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It's great to learn new ways of thinking in a new language.
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That's absolutely necessary.
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When you're studying English, it's important to have thoughts like, oh, that's how they say it in English.
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Oh, that's different than how they say it in my native language.
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Okay, so the way of thinking about it is a little different.
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Instead of thinking like this, they think like this.
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That will help you speak English correctly.
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That will help you think in English.
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So those are great thoughts to have when you're studying, but you don't need to like try to force that.
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Like that should just happen naturally when you're learning English.
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Like, huh, oh, they say that differently.
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That's a different way of thinking.
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Okay, great.
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I'll try to think like that.
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I'll try to remember that.
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But you don't need to get frustrated with yourself because you're translating things from your native language, okay?
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There should be zero frustration, okay?
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There should be no pressure because all of this stuff is just a natural part of learning a language.
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Everybody wants to learn a language overnight, but it just, it doesn't happen.
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It takes years and years of experiences and learning all kinds of little contextual details and, oh, in this case, they say this,
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but in this case, they say that, It takes years of that.
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So you have to just trust the process and relax.
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Next one.
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Don't waste your time learning uncommon idioms.
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There are so many English teachers on the internet who love to make videos teaching strange idioms.
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A lot of them we don't use very often.
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There are a lot of phrases that exist in English
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that are not things you're gonna hear more than once a year maximum.
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A lot of idioms, a lot of phrases are not as common as students are led to believe.
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I think it's good to watch English teachers' videos like mine, for example, that help you identify some of your mistakes.
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That kind of point out common mistakes that students make and to kind of correct that.
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I think teachers are really helpful for that.
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But I think for learning how we speak on a day-to-day basis, like learning how native speakers really talk,
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you have to listen to native speakers talking naturally.
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And that's where you'll learn the idioms and, you know, the realistic ones, the realistic phrases and words and idioms.
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And I'm not talking about movies and TV shows, because movies and TV shows are made with scripts.
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It's not real spontaneous talking.
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There are literal professional writers, like people whose entire career,
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entire job is to write scripts as creative and interesting and funny and colorful and exciting as possible.
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That's not realistic speaking.
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That's not everyday real life talking.
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That is a script.
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So I'm not talking about movies and TV shows.
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I'm talking about natural, spontaneous podcasts, YouTube videos like mine, for example, where you can clearly see that I'm not speaking from a script.
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This is natural.
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Videos where people are just talking naturally.
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Instagram videos, TikTok, whatever.
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When people are talking to a camera or they're having a conversation with somebody else, like in a podcast, but it's all spontaneous, natural.
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It's not scripted.
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And you can tell.
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You can tell when it's scripted and when it's not.
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So you need to be listening to unscripted native speakers, speaking the dialect that you want to learn, that you want to improve on.
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And that is where you will learn the phrases and everything that people really use on a regular basis.
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If you're watching English teachers saying, don't say once in a while, say once in a blue moon, you need to stop.
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Okay.
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Because even though once in a blue moon exists and you might hear a native speaker say it, I think I've only heard one person in my entire life say that, but anyways, the truth is,
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is that it's just not common enough to be worth your time.
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We only have so much time to focus on the language that we're learning.
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So it's much better to focus on the way more useful language, the way that the phrases that are so much more common and useful.
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And you don't need a million ways of saying the same thing.
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Just need like one, maybe two ways of saying something.
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That's it.
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So bottom line, yes, there are tons of idioms in English.
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A lot of them are not even that common and not even really worth learning in general.
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Keep it simple.
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Don't overcomplicate English.
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Next one.
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Okay, this next one is continuing from what I was talking about before, how movies and TV shows are made with a script.
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And also, there are a lot of reasons why movies and TV shows are harder to understand than YouTube videos and podcasts.
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A lot of times, the audio quality sucks, so much so that even native speakers will use subtitles sometimes because the audio is so bad.
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It's so hard to hear.
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Oftentimes they're like whispering.
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There's like sound effects and stuff.
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Like I said, it's a script.
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So not only is it not spontaneous talking, like they're not thinking as they speak, they're just like robotically reciting a script,
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but it's also just like a much faster pace because of that.
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If you like watching movies and TV shows and you think that it helps you go ahead.
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I'm not here to discourage that at all.
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I certainly use some movies and TV shows to help me with my Spanish,
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but my favorite resources, the most useful resources for me were always YouTube videos,
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Instagram videos, normal, normal speaking podcasts.
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I haven't listened to a lot of podcasts in Spanish, but if I had to learn the language again, or if I wanted to learn a new language, I would probably do that.
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Podcasts are a great tool and there's so many of them in English.
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I mean, so many podcasts in English.
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All you got to do is just Google it.
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Just search like podcasts in English.
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It's just so many.
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If you're learning English, you're learning a language that is just everywhere on the internet.
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I mean, there are so many resources.
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There's so much content of native English speakers, naturally speaking.
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There's really no reason you have to watch like movies and TV shows or scripted things.
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So if you find yourself struggling with movies and TV shows, like it's just, it just seems like it's hard
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and it's just frustrating and you understand YouTube videos and podcasts a lot easier, then don't worry about it.
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Don't make it more complicated than it needs to be.
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You know, don't overcomplicate it for yourself.
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Just stick to the realistic English resources.
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Just last night, I watched a Colombian movie of these kids that like, they grew up in the street.
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They're like kids that live in the street and they have like a super street dialect of Colombia.
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It's like Colombian Spanish, but like super like, you know, the kids who live in the street, you know what I mean?
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And so, yeah, I put on the subtitles because I wasn't going to understand a lot of that.
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But imagine if I tried to judge my Spanish ability based on that video.
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Like imagine if I got frustrated like oh like no I understand I understand
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that of course I'm not going to understand this that's not even like the dialect I'm even concerned with
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and that's the thing pay attention to what you're watching there's probably like different accents
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and dialects and different things like don't get frustrated about the fact
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that you don't easily understand a million different versions of the
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language you're trying to learn that's a lot of pressure you're putting on your brain.
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If you understand 99 or 100% of my videos of me speaking, you're doing fantastic.
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I understand that I speak slowly and clearly about simple topics right into the microphone with good audio editing, so it's a lot easier.
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But if you understand me talking, what that tells me is that it's not really your English knowledge that's lacking.
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You know a ton of English.
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But a lot of people when they speak, they don't enunciate very well.
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They speak too fast.
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They don't speak clearly.
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They speak too quiet.
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Oh my God.
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The amount of times I've had to tell Spanish speakers to speak up, to speak louder, to yell at me because they're talking too quiet.
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And I'm like, what the hell are you saying to me right now?
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I know what you're saying in Spanish, but you're talking too quietly.
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You need to speak up.
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Recently, I got a comment on my YouTube channel that said, hello, profe, I understand everything that you say,
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but my problem is when I listen to other native speakers who seem like they are mumbling, you know, they don't speak clear and in low tone of voice,
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what do you recommend me to do?
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Thank you, and by the way, I'm a very big fan of your channel, see you.
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Okay, I just read that word for words.
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It wasn't totally correct English, but I just read it exactly.
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Thank you for your support.
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To respond to you, if you're listening to native speakers who are mumbling
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or have a low tone of voice and you're frustrated about that because you're frustrated with your own English, what are you doing?
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Why are you frustrated with your ability to understand when these people don't even know how to speak?
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okay you should be frustrated with them not knowing how to speak
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and that's the thing a lot of people just speak really
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badly a lot of native speakers are not considerate of others
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when they speak most of them have never learned another language
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or they just never really thought about it they're just not
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really aware of the importance of speaking clearly these people annoy
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me too you know what you need to tell them speak
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up i don't understand you you're mumbling you need to speak
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clearly you need to enunciate i cannot hear you that's what you need to say
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because i'm a native speaker and that's what I would say to them in English or Spanish.
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Any language.
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I don't care.
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It's ridiculous.
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Why are you taking responsibility for not understanding someone who can't even speak well?
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If you understand people who speak clearly and you don't understand people who don't, that's not your problem.
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Stop taking responsibility for that.
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Stop getting frustrated with yourself.
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Even native speakers, we don't understand each other when we don't speak clearly or sometimes we just don't hear each other.
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So don't overcomplicate it for yourself by putting pressure on yourself
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and getting frustrated when you don't understand every single thing and every person in English all the time.
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Because that's not realistic.
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Do you understand everybody in your native language all the time?
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Do you understand everything all the time super easily?
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How many times are you speaking your native language and you go, what?
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What did you say?
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What?
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What?
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I didn't hear that.
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What?
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what are you talking about?
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Like how many times do you do?
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A lot, right?
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So relax, okay?
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Relax.
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You need to understand that this isn't even about you.
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It's about people being bad speakers or just like natural human miscommunication.
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Sometimes we just don't hear each other.
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We just, you know, also English is a language with a lot of contractions, a lot of things that run together.
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So yeah, bottom line, relax.
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The next way you're overcomplicating your English probably is by thinking
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that you need to talk to someone or a native speaker or anyone in English in order to practice your English,
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in order to practice speaking.
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You need to understand the difference between speaking and conversation.
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So many people think that those things are the same.
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They're not.
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Speaking is just like producing sound, saying words, saying sentences.
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It's just you doing the action yourself.
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Conversation is when at least two people are doing that to each other, right?
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Unless we're talking about a conversation between you and yourself, but that's more of an abstract concept, but you could do that also, but you don't have to.
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Generally, a conversation is between two or more people, right?
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Speaking is not a conversation.
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Speaking is just speaking.
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So you don't need anyone to practice speaking, just like you don't need anyone to practice a musical instrument.
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Maybe if you want to play a whole song with a band, you do, but to just practice your guitar, you don't need anybody else.
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To study for literally anything, you know, anything you want to learn, you don't need anybody else.
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Like you can just study it by yourself.
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So why would speaking a language be any different?
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You need to stop thinking of speaking as being the same thing as conversation.
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So when I say you need to practice speaking, you need to do speaking practice.
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I'm not talking about conversation you can
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if you want to you could take a conversation class with me
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or any other teacher on the internet who offers that
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but you don't need to to practice speaking you got to
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be creative it doesn't matter what it is it doesn't matter
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what you talk about it doesn't matter how you do it just speak don't try to tell me
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that you don't have a million thoughts in your head
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because I know you do I know you have a million
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and one thoughts in your head I know that there are a million and one things going on in your life, in the world that you could talk about.
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There are a million videos and things on the internet, articles and everything that you could respond to.
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You can literally listen to a podcast and pretend
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that you are in the podcast and occasionally pause the video to give your opinion in the conversation.
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Like there is just so many ways that you can practice speaking.
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Most of you have heard about shadowing, but it's not just that.
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It's anything.
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And as you advance, you will challenge yourself with more complicated topics.
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Try talking about politics in the language that you're learning.
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Try talking about other controversial topics.
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Talk about difficult things.
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Read an article.
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Watch a video.
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Respond to it.
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Give your opinion.
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Try to talk about what you learned.
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Talk about your day.
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Talk about your week.
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Talk about your dreams and aspirations.
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Literally anything.
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Oh my god, anything.
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I don't want to hear anybody asking me this question again of like, how do I do this?
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Like use a little bit of creativity.
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Okay.
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Figure it out.
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So many people are used to having their hand held and like being walked through everything.
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And that's just, that's just not, you got to grow out of that as an adult.
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Like you got to become more autodidactic because otherwise you're just sabotaging yourself and your growth in many ways.
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So yeah, don't overcomplicate speaking practice by thinking that you need to talk to someone.
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You don't.
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Or you can talk to someone without their knowledge.
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You know, you can talk to someone on the internet without them even knowing.
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You know, you can respond to them in your bedroom, like a one-sided conversation that they are not aware of.
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You know, if it helps you, you can imagine you're talking to someone, you know, you can respond to someone on the internet or whatever.
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But the point is, is you don't actually have to be physically, literally talking to someone in order to practice speaking.
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All right, next one.
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Don't overcomplicate learning English by watching a million videos on YouTube about how to learn English.
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I see so many videos like this.
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Sometimes these are the most viewed, the most popular videos.
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Not even the videos that are actually teaching you English.
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No. So often I see that these videos that are actually teaching English have very little views.
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Like nobody even cares.
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Nobody even wants to watch those.
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But the videos that are about how to learn English, everybody's watching.
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Those videos that are like how I went from B1 to C2 in a year or in six months, it has like a million views.
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But the video that's actually giving you an English lesson, an actual like speaking, listen to me and practice speaking,
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shadowing, whatever, it has two views.
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Everybody is like searching for this secret method and how to maximize and how to go faster and faster.
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And it's just, it's a big waste of time.
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I think, I think it's a big waste of time.
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I never watched a single video like this about learning Spanish.
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I learned Spanish to an advanced level.
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And I did not watch a single video about how to learn Spanish.
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I just consumed content in Spanish as much as I could and practice speaking as much as I could.
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That's what I did.
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I cannot complicate it even if I tried to.
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The solution is often so simple and people don't want to accept it
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and they don't want to actually put in the work to actually learn the language, the day-to-day learning, studying of the language.
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So they would rather watch a million videos about how to learn instead of actually learning.
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If you are one of these people who watches videos about how to learn English, I think you know how to learn English by now.
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These people are not going to give you some magic solution.
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They're all telling you the same thing in different ways.
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And a lot of them are sponsored.
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So they say, oh, pay a subscription and try this app or try this website or try whatever.
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It's because they're sponsored.
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You don't need any of that stuff either.
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You just need consistent practice, exposure, effort, discipline.
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That's it.
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And if you look for content that you enjoy, if you look for things that you like about topics that you like, whatever you would do in your native language,
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but do it in English, you will enjoy it more and you're more likely to do it.
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I have always loved watching cooking videos.
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So when I was learning Spanish, I watched videos about cooking in Spanish.
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That is one of a million examples.
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That made it feel like I'm not even studying.
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I'm just doing something for fun, for entertainment, and it happens to be in Spanish.
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I still do this.
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I follow a lot of content about topics that I like, but it's in other languages, Spanish or Portuguese, because it gives me that regular exposure to it.
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You just have to find the content that you genuinely enjoy, but it's in the language you want to learn.
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Then it won't even feel like studying.
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Don't overcomplicate it by forcing yourself to look at content that doesn't even interest you just for the sake of learning.
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And stop watching videos trying to find the method of how to learn English.
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It's the same way you learned your native language.
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Exposure, practice, exposure, practice.
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That's it.
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And the final way
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that people overcomplicate English is by thinking they need to move to another country where that language is spoken.
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But then they live there for years and they realize, wait a minute, I still have very little contact with native speakers,
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even though I'm living in a country where the language is spoken.
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And the contact that I do have, they don't correct me.
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They don't help me.
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And then they take classes with me.
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They contact me and they say, I've been living in the United States for 10 years, for 20 years.
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And, you know, I'm still insecure about my English.
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I'm still insecure about it.
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And they have great English, right?
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But they're insecure about it because if you don't understand
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that learning a language is a lifelong process
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and you'll never be like a native speaker exactly You will keep feeling insecure
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and you'll keep getting frustrated and you'll be living in the United States for 20 years
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and even working in English and you'll still take a class with me and be like, I don't feel confident with my English.
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I think people have unrealistic expectations for themselves in a foreign language.
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And they also have unrealistic expectations for living in a country that speaks the language.
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They don't realize that, okay, even if you have a job in another language, you're going to be mostly talking about work-related stuff all the time.
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Not much more than that.
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And your co-workers are not going to help you with your English.
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Like they're not going to like correct you and give you feedback.
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And you're going to know how to talk about stuff at work, but you're not going to know how to talk about anything else.
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And it's not like your neighbors are just going to come over to your house
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and start talking to you all the time.
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And like, yeah, let's have conversation.
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Let's be best friends.
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It's just not realistic.
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It just doesn't happen, especially in places like the United States, for example.
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The reality is most of the time people live in their bubble of their family and their friends that they already have,
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and they're in their car and they're at home and they're maybe at work, but people live in their bubbles.
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And people in English-speaking countries are not like super interested in talking to everybody because they're used to it.
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They're not surprised to see foreigners or non-native English speakers.
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It's nothing special.
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It's nothing new there.
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And if you already have a decent level and you're single, you know, you could use dating apps and you could, you know, you could try to get an English speaking partner.
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And I mean, that would be great.
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But a lot of people are already in a relationship when they want to move to another country.
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And so you're really going to be in a bubble.
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So yeah, the answer to become fluent in a language is not to move to a country that speaks that language.
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Think about how many people, I mean, millions and millions and millions of people do that.
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They move to other countries and they don't speak, they don't become fluent in that language.
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You're also not going to become fluent by taking a course
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or even from taking conversation classes or from just watching content in English, just listening.
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It's a combination of a lot of different things.
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And really the most important part is your individual speaking practice that doesn't even require you to spend money.
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It doesn't even require you to leave your room, to leave your house.
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It's the easiest and also most important way to improve in a language.
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And yet it's the thing that people think of the least when they say, oh, I want to improve.
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I want to learn.
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They don't think of that.
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Everybody is always looking for an external solution.
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Oh, I need to go to a school.
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I need to go to another country.
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I need to spend money over here.
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That's not how you build your foundation of fluency.
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That's not how you achieve fluency.
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And for some people, it's going to be easier than others.
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We all learn at different speeds.
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We retain information at different levels of easiness.
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I don't know.
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For some of us, it's really easy to imitate sounds.
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For other people, it's really hard.
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But everybody can improve.
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Everybody can improve with consistent exposure and practice.
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All right.
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So those are just some of the ways
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that you might be overcomplicating learning English and most of it is in your mind.
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Most of it is just you need to change the way you think about learning English.
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It's not even like what you're doing that's a problem.
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It's like just the way you're thinking about it.
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All right, so I hope this video helped you.
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Let me know in the comments
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if I made you think about something in a new way that you haven't thought about before.
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I appreciate your feedback and I hope you have a wonderful day or night.
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See you in the next one.
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Bye!
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この動画は誰に向けて作られたのか？
英語学習において「何か間違っている」と不安に思い、余計なことに頭を悩ませている初心者から中級者まで。スピーキングのスピードや発音にこだわり過ぎ、効率的な練習ができていない人に最適。「英語スピーキング練習」をシンプルにし、自然な習得を目指す人に必見です。
覚えておきたいフレーズとその意味
- keep it real：現実的に考える、飾らないでやる
- come naturally：自然に身につく、自然に起こる
- relaxed and casual：リラックスした、くつろいだ
これらのフレーズは日常会話でよく使われ、「英語を自然に話す」コツを表しています。
発音を良くする方法：スピーカーのポイントを学ぶ
動画では「スピードよりも正確さと明瞭さ」が強調されています。英語の発音を良くするには、まず単語の発音やアクセントをしっかり確認し、ゆっくりとはっきり話すことが重要です。英語シャドーイング（shadow speak）の練習が効果的です。スピーカーの発音を真似て即座に繰り返し、リズムやイントネーションを体得しましょう。アメリカ英語はリラックスした話し方が特徴なので、無理に早く話すのではなく、自然なペースで練習することで、発音と同時に「くつろいだ印象」も醸し出せます。
シャドーイングの際は、スピーカーのポーズや息継ぎも注意して観察しましょう。これが「shadow speech」のコツで、単なる発音の真似ではなく、自然な会話の流れを学ぶことができます。
シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。