シャドーイング練習: American English Connected Reading | Business English: A meeting at a tech company - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

レッスンを作成中...
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Hey, what's up?
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It's Alex.
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Today, let's look at the connected sounds in a short excerpt
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from a meeting at a tech company where somebody is talking about fixing a problem.
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Let's take a look.
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I just wanted to update everyone.
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I just wanted.
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So here, just wanted, that T gets dropped.
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Just wanted.
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I just wanted.
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Now here, wanted, the T in the middle of wanted gets completely removed too.
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wanted wanted to update and this is interesting
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because we could say to update with a wuh sound in the middle
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or we could just relax speak quickly
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and say to update to update I just wanted to update
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I just wanted to update everyone update everyone update everyone that's a very light T at the end
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and it connects to the e in every.
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I just wanted to update everyone about the website issues people were reporting. About the. About the.
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That t at the end of about gets connected to the the in the. About the.
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About the website issues.
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Website issues.
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Now here there's a tap t.
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Website issues.
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Website issues.
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Website issues.
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Website issues.
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People were reporting.
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People were.
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Now that L sound before a W sound gets reduced.
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People were.
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It's not a very strong people were.
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There's not a strong L there.
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People were reporting.
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Now we have two r sounds right next to each other. Were reporting.
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And they just link together.
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People were reporting.
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About the website issue is people were reporting.
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We found the bug yesterday.
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We found the, found the, the D and TH connect together.
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Found the, found the bug yesterday.
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G and Y.
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It doesn't make a new sound, but you can hear it kind of connects.
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G, yesterday, found the bug yesterday.
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G, yesterday, we found the bug yesterday.
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And pushed out a fix.
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And pushed, that D in and gets removed.
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and pushed and pushed out a fix.
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Pushed out a fix.
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The D and the OW sound connect together, and the T and the UH sound connect together.
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Pushed out a fix.
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The D and the OW sound connect together and the T and the UH sound connect together.
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Pushed out a fix.
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Pushed out a fix early this morning.
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Pushed out a fix early this morning.
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So here this gets reduced very heavily.
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Early this, this, this, the vowel and the the sound both get reduced.
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They're spoken very quickly without a really full sound.
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This, this, early this morning.
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It should have only affected.
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It should have.
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So here, it turns into it.
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It should.
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It should.
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It's a glottal stop instead of a T in it.
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It should have only.
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Now here, have, should have turns into should've.
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It should have only affected a handful of users.
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Handful.
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That D in handful is either really, really light or not there at all.
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Handful.
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Handful.
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Both are okay, with or without the D.
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A handful of users.
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And here, of gets reduced.
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You could say handful of users, handful of users, or handful of users.
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Both are okay.
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We can have a v sound or nothing.
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Handful of users.
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Both are okay.
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Handful of users running older browsers.
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We'll keep an eye out.
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We'll keep an eye out.
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That will turns into will.
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The L at the end of will gets reduced and it's not really a full L sound.
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It's more like a vowel.
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Will, will keep.
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Now, this reduction only works in fast speech.
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You've got to say the L if you're speaking slowly and clearly.
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Will keep, will keep an eye out.
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Or, will keep, will keep an eye out.
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Will keep an eye out for any new bug reports.
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Now, two things here.
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With for, we turn for into fur.
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Fur, like there's no vowel at all.
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and then out before an F, before any consonant sound, turns into out with a glottal stop.
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Out for any.
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Out for any.
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We'll keep an eye out for any new bug reports.
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I just wanted to update everyone about the website issues people were reporting.
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We found the bug yesterday and pushed out a fix early this morning.
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It should have only affected a handful of users running older browsers.
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We'll keep an eye out for any new bug reports.

コンテキストと背景

この動画では、アメリカのテクノロジー企業での会議の一幕が取り上げられています。話しているのはアレックスで、ウェブサイトの問題を解決するためのアップデートについて話しています。英語学習者にとって、このようなビジネスシーンはリスニングスキルを向上させる絶好の機会です。アメリカ英語の特徴的な音の連結を理解することで、より自然にな話し方を身につけることができます。

日常コミュニケーションのためのトップ5フレーズ

  • I just wanted to update everyone. （皆にアップデートしたかった。）」
  • About the website issues.（ウェブサイトの問題について）」
  • We found the bug yesterday.（昨日バグを見つけました。）」
  • And pushed out a fix.（修正を適用しました。）」
  • People were reporting.（人々が報告していました。）」

ステップバイステップシャドウイングガイド

この動画の音声を効果的に練習するために、以下の手順を参考にしてください。

  1. 動画を視聴する：最初は、全体を理解するために動画を一度視聴しましょう。
  2. フレーズを抽出する：上記のトップ5フレーズをメモして、内容を把握します。
  3. 発音を確認する：各フレーズを止めて、アレックスの発音を真似します。この際、特に音の連結「wanted to」や「pushed out」に注意してください。
  4. シャドウイング練習：フレーズをリピートし、アレックスの声に合わせる練習をします。これにより、英語の発音を良くすることができます。
  5. 繰り返す：何度も練習して、リズムやイントネーションを体が覚えるまで繰り返しましょう。

これらのステップを通じて、shadow speechやshadowspeakの技術を身につけることで、リスニングやスピーキング能力が向上します。また、IELTS スピーキング対策としても非常に効果的です。

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。