シャドーイング練習: American English Connected Reading | Business Metrics Report - 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, let's look at the connected sounds in a short passage that involves using statistics in a work conversation.
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Let's take a look.
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We've been doing really well recently.
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Doing really well recently.
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I could change this to doing if I wanted to.
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Personally, I prefer to say ing a little bit more than in in most conversations.
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But when I speak quickly, or if I'm happy or excited about the thing I'm talking about, maybe I'll say doing instead.
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We've been doing really well recently.
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We've been doing really well recently.
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We've been doing really well recently with the new website content. With the. With the.
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So here the TH sounds connect together into just one. With the.
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With the new website content.
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Website content.
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So here the T sounds here in website and content turn into glottal stops.
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Website content.
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The ending T sounds get completely cut off in my throat website content.
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Take a look at this.
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Take a.. so here we'll connect the uh to take and look at this.
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We connect together.
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So look at this.
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The T turns into the TH sound in this.
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Take a look at this.
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I use this sentence all the time, so I think it's a useful sentence to practice on its own.
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Take a look at this.
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Take a look at this.
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Two or three months ago, two or three months ago, so two or three, we have OR turning into ER, two or three, two or three months ago.
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In months, we can take out that TH sound completely.
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Now it's important to learn this word with the full pronunciation, months, because when you're speaking slowly you have to say the THS.
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But when we speak quickly we all say months here in the US.
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Months.
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Two or three months ago, two or three months ago we were averaging about 200 hits a day.
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Averaging.
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So that e, a-v-e-r, right, in averaging we take out that e, right?
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There's no sound there.
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Averaging.
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Averaging about.
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Averaging.
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We connect that ng to the following uh sound.
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Averaging about two.
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Here we connect those two T sounds together. About two.
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Averaging about 200 hits a day on our blog articles.
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But that was actually, but that was, here we'll connect the T and TH,
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and we'll connect the T to the W by turning the T into a glottal stop.
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Before a W, a T usually turns into a glottal stop.
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But that was, but that was actually, but that was actually after a downward trend.
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Actually, we don't say actually, we say actually.
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But that was actually after a downward trend.
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Downward trend.
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The D and the T connect together.
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Downward trend.
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So that means, so that means, that means, glottal stop there for the T in that, so that means we were regularly,
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were regularly, that's a long r sound, we were regularly, we were regularly getting 300 hits a day before that.
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Before that.
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Glottal stop there at the end of the sentence.
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Before that.
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Now though, check this out.
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Now though, check this out.
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Another glottal stop there in out.
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Check this out.
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You can see, you can see, these vowels in you and can turn into very, very quick sounds.
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You can see, you can see, you can see we're up to four up to, up to.
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Here the two turns into to.
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You can see we're up to 400 views per day.
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400 views per day.
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400 views per day on average this month.
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So for 400 views per day, this is the main point of my sentence.
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I'm not going to connect any sounds here.
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400 views per day.
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I keep my voice smooth and steady.
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400 views per day.
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I'm not adding any glottal stops or breaks in my voice there, but I'm also being very clear with all the consonants and vowels.
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400 views per day on average. On average.
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Now I'm connecting those sounds together.
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On average this month.
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This month.
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Of course, month ends in the th sound.
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There's no s there, so we have to say nth at the end of the word.
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this month.
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We've been doing really well recently with the new website content.
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Take a look at this.
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Two or three months ago we were averaging about 200 hits a day on our blog articles, but that was actually after a downward trend,
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so that means we were regularly getting 300 hits a day before that.
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Now though, check this out.
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You can see we're up to 400 views per day on average this month.
この動画で話す練習をする理由は？
この動画は、ビジネス会話における統計を使った短い段落を扱っています。効果的に英語を話すためには、実際のシナリオで使われる自然な音のつながりを理解することが重要です。「英語シャドーイング」や「shadowspeak」などのスキルを向上させるために、実際の会話を聴いて模倣することが役立ちます。この練習を通じて、リスニング力も改善され、自信を持って会話ができるようになります。
文法と文脈における表現
- 現在完了形の使用: 「We've been doing really well recently」という表現では、過去から現在にかけての継続的な成功を強調しています。
- 接続音: 「about 200 hits a day」のように、言葉がどのように自然に結びつくかを理解することで、聴き取る力が向上します。
- グロッタルストップ: 「but that was」や「website content」といった部分では、発音における音の省略を意識することが重要です。このようなポイントは、英語を流ちょうに話すために理解しておくべきです。
一般的な発音の落とし穴
動画内では、特定の発音が難しい言葉やアクセントがいくつか登場します。例えば、「months」という単語は、スローペースで話すときには完全に発音されますが、「months」と短縮されることが多いため、注意が必要です。さらに、「actually」は「アクチュアリー」と発音されるため、少し注意が必要です。これらの発音の違いを練習することで、より自然な英会話ができるようになります。
動画の内容を繰り返し聴きながら、実際に声に出して練習することが、「shadowing site」や関連する「shadowspeaks」のテクニックをマスターするためには欠かせません。ビジネスシーンで使えるフレーズを身に付け、実用的な会話力を高めましょう。
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。