シャドーイング練習: American English Connected Reading | Food You Tried For The First Time - 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 answer
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where you're saying what you tried for the first time at a restaurant.
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Let's take a look.
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It seems crazy now.
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It seems crazy.
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So here the T will turn into a glottal stop.
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It seems.
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It seems crazy.
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At the beginning of the sentence, the whole word it, because it's such a short
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and common word gets reduced quite a lot and it blends with the next word.
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It seems, it seems crazy, it seems crazy now, it seems crazy now, but I was already in college,
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but I, we tap that t in but, but I was, was.
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We reduce that uh in was, and that's just a very short quick uh sound.
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But I was already in college.
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Connect the in with the sound in college.
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But I was already in college, already in college, the first time I had boba.
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The first time.
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The first time I had boba.
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So here the two T sounds in first time connect.
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The first time I had boba.
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I'd never heard of it.
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I'd never.
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So we're going to put that D and the N together, and it's called a nasal release.
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It's the N coming out of your nose as your tongue is saying D.
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I'd nn.
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I'd never.
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I'd never heard of it at all when I was growing up.
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Heard of it at all.
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We're going to connect all of these short words here.
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Of it at all.
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The word at gets kind of reduced to something sounding quite a lot like the word It.
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Heard of it at all.
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Heard of it at all.
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Heard of it at all.
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I'd never heard of it at all when I was growing up.
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When nigh connect the nuh to the i sound, and was also gets that same reduced vowel.
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I'd never heard of it at all when I was growing up.
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The city I grew up in didn't have, didn't have.
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Glottal stop there with the T before the H.
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Didn't have.
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The city I grew up in didn't have much in the way.
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Much in the.
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So we connect the N and the TH together. In the.
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Didn't have much in the way of Asian food or dessert places.
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Asian food or dessert places.
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Now here this word or I could choose to break up the sentence and add some emotion to it, Asian food or dessert places,
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or I could link them together and I could say Asian food or dessert places.
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If I link them together and I don't give any emotion to the sentence, or turns into er.
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Asian food or dessert places, Asian food or dessert places.
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So here, dessert, there's a glottal stop there for the t, dessert places, dessert places back then.
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I remember being really surprised.
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I remember.
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So here, I remember.
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That first syllable in remember gets kind of reduced or blended with I.
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I remember.
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I remember.
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I remember.
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I remember being really surprised.
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Really is the reduced form of really, and most people use really in connected speech.
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I remember being really, really surprised when I...
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Surprised when I...
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Connect that D and the W there.
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Surprised when I...
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It sounds kind of funny to connect it with no words around it.
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Really surprised when...
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Surprised when I tried boba.
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Tried boba.
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In the same way, we're going to connect D and B here.
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Tried boba.
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Tried boba.
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Tried boba for the first time.
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For turns into for.
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Tried boba for the first time.
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Connect the T and the T there again.
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First time.
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I was like.
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I was like.
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So here was connects to I, and the vowel in was gets reduced.
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It's much shorter.
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I was like, I was like, I was like, do you eat these little pearls? Do you? Do you?
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So here, d is the reduced form of do.
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Do you eat becomes do you eat? Do you?
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Do you eat?
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Do you eat?
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Do you eat these?
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So we want to connect you and eat.
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We do that with a little wha sound.
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You, you eat, you eat these.
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Then we take the tea in eat and turn that into a glottal stop.
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Do you eat these little pearls?
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Do you eat these little pearls?
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Do you just only drink the tea?
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Do you just, just, just, so just, the uh sound turns into something closer to I.
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Just, just, do you just only drink the tea?
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Also, the tea in just disappears in fast speech.
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Do you just, do you just, do you just only drink the tea?
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Only drink the tea?
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What are you supposed to do?
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What are you supposed to do?
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So here, what are you turns into what are you?
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What are you supposed to do?
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Here, supposed, supposed drops that I from the first syllable.
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Supposed becomes sposed.
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What are you supposed to do?
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Sposed.
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Connect the D and the T here.
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Supposed to.
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And we reduce the vowel in two, but then we have the full vowel for do.
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What are you supposed to do? To do.
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What are you supposed to do?
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In this video, I'll read the text twice.
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First, with all the natural sound changes, but at a lower speed.
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Then, at a normal speed with all the sound changes again.
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Let me know in the comments which one you like.
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Are you looking for a single course that explains all the connected speech rules, plus gives you thousands of sentences to practice with?
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I've put together a full pronunciation course, focused exactly on how American English really sounds.
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Believe me, this has been a huge amount of research on my end, and it's full of all the little details that they never tell you in textbooks.
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All you have to do is follow along and let the repetition do the work.
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I'll put the link in the description, but now let's get back to the video.
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It seems crazy now, but I was already in college the first time I had boba.
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I'd never heard of it at all when I was growing up.
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The city I grew up in didn't have much in the way of Asian food or dessert places back then.
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I remember being really surprised when I tried boba for the first time.
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I was like, do you eat these little pearls?
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Do you just only drink the tea?
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What are you supposed to do?
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It seems crazy now, but I was already in college the first time I had boba.
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It seems crazy now, but I was already in college the first time I had boba.
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I'd never heard of it at all when I was growing up.
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The city I grew up in didn't have much in the way of Asian food or dessert places back then.
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I remember being really surprised when I tried boba for the first time.
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I was like, do you eat these little pearls?
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Do you just only drink the tea?
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What are you supposed to do?

文脈と背景

この動画では、アメリカ英語における「コネクテッド・リーディング」を通じて、レストランで初めて試した食べ物に関するエピソードを学びます。スピーカーであるアレックスは、日常会話においてしばしば行われる言葉のつながりや音の変化について詳しく教えてくれます。特に、短い言葉がどのように連結され、流れるように発音されるかに焦点を当てています。このような実生活の文脈を通じて、言葉の使い方を学ぶことは、英語スピーキング練習において非常に効果的です。

日常コミュニケーションのためのトップ5フレーズ

  • It seems crazy.（まるでクレイジーに見える）
  • I'd never heard of it.（それを聞いたことがなかった）
  • But I was already in college.（でも、私はすでに大学にいた）
  • Didn't have much in the way.（あまりなかった）
  • Asian food or dessert places.（アジア料理やデザートのお店）

これらのフレーズは、英語の会話の中で非常によく使われる表現であり、特にアメリカ文化における食について話す際に役立ちます。

段階的シャドーイングガイド

このビデオの内容を効果的に学ぶためには、以下のステップで進めることをおすすめします。これにより、英語シャドーイングを通じてスピーキングスキルを向上させることができます。

  1. 音声を聴く: 初めに、ビデオの音声を数回聴き、全体のフローを理解しましょう。
  2. フレーズを反復する: 各フレーズを聴いた後に自分でも音声を再現してください。特に「コネクテッド・スピーチ」である部分に注目し、shadow speechを実践します。
  3. 短いセクションに分ける: 長い文を短いセクションに分け、一つずつ丁寧に発音する練習をします。これにより細かい音の変化を意識できます。
  4. 感情を込める: フレーズに感情を込めて話すことで、実際の会話に近い練習ができます。
  5. 録音して確認: 自分の発音を録音し、元の音声と比較します。このプロセスにより、改善点を見つけやすくなります。

この方法を通じて、感情や流れを大切にした英語発音が身につき、shadow speakの質も向上するでしょう。継続して練習し、良質な英語スピーキング練習の成果を実感してください。

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。