シャドーイング練習: 美音连读练习 American English Connected Reading | A trip to a forest - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Hey, what's up?
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It's Alex.
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Today I'd like to talk about the connected readings in a passage I wrote about a trip
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that I took to a forest on an island.
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Let's take a look.
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I was quickly and completely bewitched by the incredible beauty of the forests.
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I was, was, we say was very quickly here
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because it's the beginning of the sentence and the stress is on quickly bewitched.
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I was quickly and completely bewitched by the incredible beauty of the forests.
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And come, and completely.
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In this whole passage, you'll see that and loosens its de at the end of the word.
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And completely, and completely, and completely bewitched by the incredible.
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The incredible, we kind of add a y between the and incredible.
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The incredible beauty of the forests.
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The air was perfectly crisp.
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The air, we add a ya here as well, the air was perfectly crisp.
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Now, perfectly has a t in it when it's written out, and if you're speaking very carefully, you would pronounce the t perfectly.
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But in rapid speech, that turns into perfectly.
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There's no t.
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Perfectly.
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The air was perfectly crisp.
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The grass was astonishingly green.
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Was a, was astonishingly.
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was astonishingly connect those two words together.
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And when I, and when I, again, that d disappears, and when I stopped walking,
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I could just hear trees and wind.
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I could just, that d at the end of could connects to the j at the beginning of just.
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Could just, You don't need to separate them, so you don't need to say could just.
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I could just hear.
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That sounds a little bit too artificial.
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It's better to say I could just.
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I could just hear trees and wind.
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And again, we drop the d at the end of and. And wind.
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The main path branched off into smaller paths.
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Branched off.
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Connect the d to the a in off.
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branched off into smaller paths.
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Into.
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Not into, but into.
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Into smaller paths.
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And I saw, and I saw dozens of huge orb wavers in their webs.
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In their, in their webs.
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In there, in there.
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When I say the nuh in in, it connects to the the, so my tongue stays between my teeth.
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In there, in their webs.
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Evidence that the larger part of the tourists had stopped tramping about for the season. That the...
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Here the T at the end of that turns into a glottal stop, and we reduce the vowel in that.
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It turns into that...
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That the larger part of the tourists...
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Part of the...
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The T in part turns into a tap.
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Part of the...
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Part of the... of the.
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And the F in of disappears.
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Part of the.
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Part of the tourists.
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The larger part of the tourists had stopped tramping about. Had stopped.
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Had gets reduced in its vowel, and the D connects to the S in stopped. Had stopped.
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Had stopped tramping.
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Stop tramping.
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Let D and T connect together.
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Stop tramping about for the season.
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Now the T in about turns into a glottal stop.
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About, about for the season.
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It doesn't disappear.
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We don't say about for the season.
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We say about for the season. About for the season.
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And for the becomes very small and very short and connects together.
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For the, for the, for the season.
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I saw very few people at all except when I was near the beaches. At all.
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We say those very quickly. At all.
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Very few people at all.
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People at all.
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Except when I was.
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Except when I.
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Except.
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That T at the end of except disappears.
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We just keep the P.
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Except when I was near the beaches. When I. When I. When I.
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Near the beaches.
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The beaches.
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Here I'm saying the very quickly and kind of connecting it to the b in beaches.
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The beaches.
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Near the beaches. And surely. And surely.
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Now that D disappears and we connect the N in and to S in surely. And surely.
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And surely they were only a fraction of those who come at the height of summer. At the. At the. At the.
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So here at turns into an at glottal stop, at the, at the height of summer.
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At the height of summer.
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I was quickly and completely bewitched by the incredible beauty of the forests.
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The air was perfectly crisp, the grass was astonishingly green, and when I stopped walking I could just hear trees and wind.
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The main path branched off into smaller paths, and I saw dozens of huge orb weavers in their webs,
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evidence that the larger part of the tourists had stopped tramping about for the season.
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I saw very few people at all except when I was near the beaches, and surely they were only a fraction of those who come at the height of summer.

このレッスンについて

このレッスンでは、森林への旅行に関する文章を通じて、アメリカ英語の美音連読の練習を行います。リスニングとスピーキングのスキルを向上させるために、特に文の流れを意識し、単語同士のつながりを意識して発音することに焦点を当てます。これにより、自然な会話のリズムを掴むことができ、英語スピーキング練習に役立つでしょう。

キーワードとフレーズ

  • bewitched - 魅了された
  • perfectly crisp - 完全に爽やか
  • astonishingly green - 驚くほど緑の
  • branch off - 分岐する
  • orb weavers - 円網を作るクモ
  • glottal stop - 声門閉鎖音
  • wind - 風
  • into smaller paths - 小道に入る

練習のコツ

この動画のスピードとトーンに合ったシャドーイングを実践するためには、以下のポイントに注意してください：

  • 文章を聞く際は、特に単語のつながりや連結に注意を払いましょう。たとえば、「could just」といった表現は、単語の切れ目を無くして滑らかに発音することが大切です。
  • 声に出してみるときは、個々の単語の発音だけでなく、フレーズ全体の流れを意識してください。「that the larger part of the tourists」といった部分は、スムーズに流れるように言えるように練習しましょう。
  • スピードを徐々に上げて、自分のペースで発音を練習します。目指すのは、自然な会話のスピードです。
  • 「英語スピーキング練習」で見かけるような自然な表現を意識して、文の中でのアクセントやイントネーションに集中ください。
  • シャドーイングを繰り返すことで、言語能力が向上し、IELTS スピーキング対策にも役立ちます。文章の内容を理解しながら、発音とリズムを習得しましょう。

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。