シャドーイング練習: American English Connected Reading | IELTS Topic: Describe a crowded place you have visited (part 1) - 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 sounds in a sample IELTS response to the question, Describe a crowded place you have visited.
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Let's take a look.
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When I think of a crowded place, when I, when I, so we'll connect the nuh and the I together,
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when I, when I think of a, think of a.
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Now none of these sounds are changing.
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can't turn of into uh because the next sound is uh
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so when i think of but we link all these together
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think of when i think of a when i think of a crowded place the first image that comes to mind
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that comes to mind, that and to get reduced.
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That comes to mind.
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The first image that comes to mind is the central train station in Milan.
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Is the central train station in Milan.
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So here in Milan, We have an interesting choice here.
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n plus m can turn into just M.
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So, in Milan, that works.
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But that only happens in very fast speech.
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And Milan is a place that a lot of Americans might not have heard of.
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It's not a place that we talk about very frequently.
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So, a lot of people might make the choice to carefully separate these two words,
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in Milan, in Milan, and have a clear n-m sound.
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But if you're speaking with someone you know well, then this will change to in Milan, with no n- sound.
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I went there in high school.
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I went there.
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I went there.
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So here the T and TH combine into just TH.
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I went there.
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I went there in high school.
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The R in there connects to in.
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There in.
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There in high school.
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I went there in high school with my family. With my.
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The TH is a little bit of a complicated sound to make, so if you're speaking very quickly, it could just turn into with my,
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with my, with my, with my.
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My tongue is just barely coming out between my teeth.
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With my, with my, with my.
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But remember, if you're speaking slowly or even at a medium speed, you should probably say with my, with my, with my.
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Because it sounds a little bit strange to use connected sounds from really fast speech if you're not speaking very fast.
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I went there in high school with my family, and it was.. was, and it was.
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Here, and turns into an, and it connects to was by turning the T into a glottal stop.
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And it was.
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And it was.
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And it was the first time.
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Now here we'll connect first time.
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Connect both T's together so it's just first time.
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First time.
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The first time I'd ever been to a big European train station.
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Here, to wuh, we have kind of a wuh wuh wuh w sound in between the to and uh.
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Been to a big European train station.
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A big European train station.
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I was shocked by how many people there were in such an enormous space.
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So that beginning of the sentence doesn't really have any changed sounds.
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I was shocked by how many people there were in such an enormous space.
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And we connect enormous and space together.
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Such an enormous space.
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It felt crowded.
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And here we have two glottal stops right next to each other.
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It felt, it felt crowded.
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So those T's in it felt turn into glottal stops.
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It felt crowded and well organized.
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An well.
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That and turns into an again.
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An well organized at the same time.
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Here, at the is kind of reduced in the sentence rhythm, so it's spoken very quickly, and the T in at turns into a glottal stop
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or just connects to the th in the well organized at the same time at the at the same time
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when i think of a crowded place the first image
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that comes to mind is the central train station in milan i went there in high school with my family
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and it was the first time i'd ever been to a
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big european train station i was shocked by how many people there were in such an enormous space
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It felt crowded and well organized at the same time.

コンテキストと背景

この動画では、アメリカ英語の「つながった音」に焦点を当て、IELTSのトピック「訪れた混雑した場所を描写する」に関連するサンプル応答を分析しています。スピーカーであるアレックスは、特にミラノの中央駅という具体的な場所を挙げ、流暢な会話における音のつながりや減少について説明しています。彼は、言葉の流れるようなつながりが、英語を話す際の自然さや理解を高めることを示しています。

日常コミュニケーションのための5つのフレーズ

  • When I think of a crowded place - 混雑した場所を考えるとき
  • The first image that comes to mind - 最初に思い浮かぶイメージ
  • I went there in high school - 高校の時にそこに行きました
  • And it was the first time - それが初めてでした
  • With my family - 家族と一緒に

これらのフレーズは、実際の会話の中で非常に役立つ表現です。動画で紹介されたように、音のつながりを意識して練習することで、より自然な発話が可能になります。

ステップバイステップのシャドーイングガイド

この動画の内容をマスターするためには、以下の手順を試してみてください：

  1. 聞く：まず、アレックスの話す音声をじっくりと聞き、そのリズムやイントネーションに慣れましょう。
  2. シャドーイング：次に、音声を聞きながら自分も声に出してみましょう。この際、音がつながる部分や減少する音を意識してください。
  3. フレーズごとに練習：特に気に入ったフレーズを抜き出し、繰り返し声に出して練習しましょう。例えば「I went there in high school」をゆっくり言ったり、徐々に速くしたりしてみてください。
  4. 録音：自分の声を録音して、オリジナルの音声と比較してみましょう。これにより、自分の発音の改善点が明確になります。
  5. 日常に応用：これらのフレーズや音のつながりを日常の会話に活かしてみましょう。友人や家族との会話で積極的に使うことで、自然な英語スピーキング練習ができます。

音のつながりや減少を意識することで、流暢さや理解力が向上します。YouTubeで英語学習を行う際は、これらのテクニックを取り入れて、英語シャドーイングや英語スピーキング練習を楽しんでください。

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。