シャドーイング練習: American English Connected Reading | IELTS Topic: Describe a crowded place you have visited (part 2) - 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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Let's look at the intonations in each sentence in the Connected Reading video about a crowded place that I've been.
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Let's take a look.
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When I think of a crowded place...
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So remember, this is the first section of a sentence.
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It's called a clause, and the clauses are marked in a sentence usually by commas.
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We usually go up with our voices at the end of a clause, before the end of a sentence.
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When I think of a crowded place, place, so we're going up with our voices there.
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When I think of a crowded place, and we're stressing I because the interviewer or whoever is talking to us has asked, what do you think?
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Or what do you think of when you think of a crowded place?
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And so we're contrasting that you, even if they didn't use that word, with the word I.
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When I think of a crowded place, think of a is not that important for the meaning of this sentence,
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because it's answering a question.
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What crowded place do you think of?
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Describe a crowded place.
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So think is not that important.
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Crowded place is answering the question directly.
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And of a, those are just function words, so they get de-stressed.
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When I think of a crowded place, the first image that comes to mind, this part is a great example of de-stressing function words.
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The first image that comes to mind, mind, we're rising our voices again,
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go up with your voice again on mind because we're not done with the sentence, is the central train station in Milan.
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Is the central train station in Milan. So
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when we have a two noun phrase usually the first noun
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here train is a higher pitch than the second noun station
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central train station central train station in Milan in Milan and
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so station ended on kind of a lower tone in needs to transition between that lower tone and Milan,
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which is a stressed word in the sentence because it's important.
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It's where the train station was, so we stress it. In Milan.
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Then we go down with our voices at the end of the sentence.
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When I think of a crowded place, the first image that comes to mind is the central train station in Milan.
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I went there in high school with my family.
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I went there in high school with my family.
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I went there in high school with my family.
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I, in, with my, these are all function words, and the meaning here is, went there, high school, family, right?
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If you only hear those words, you understand what the sentence probably means.
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So those are the meaning words in the sentence.
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And it was the, all of those sounds kind of get connected into one lower tone chunk.
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And it was the, and it was the first time I'd ever been.
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First time I'd ever been.
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First time I'd ever been to a big European train station.
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Now here, train station is the stressed part at the end of the sentence.
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So train station, we still have a higher tone on train compared to station, but it's a falling tone here.
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Train station.
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European rises to meet that falling tone before going back down.
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A big European train station.
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And it was the first time I'd ever been to a big European train station.
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I went there in high school with my family, and it was the first time I'd ever been to a big European train station.
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I was shocked by how many people there were.
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I was shocked.
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So was here is such a short word, and I wrote it here as an intermediate place between low I and high shocked.
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I was shocked.
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You could also say it as I was, both in a low tone.
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I was shocked.
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Or you could have it as a rising tone like that.
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Both are fine.
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I was shocked.
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I was shocked by how many people there were.
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How many people.
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How many people there were.
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So stay even on how many people there were, and then we kind of dip down how many people there were.
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We're going up again with were to show we're not done talking yet.
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There were in such an enormous space.
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Such an enormous space.
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Now we're done talking, we're done with that sentence at space, so we go down with kind of a falling tone,
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and so everything else kind of matches with the same rolling intonation.
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There were in such an enormous space, such an enormous space.
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It felt crowded and well-organized at the same time.
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So I said just now we were done with this sentence.
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It's really just done with one section of a sentence,
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and I've written a dash here to show that we're connecting two complete sentences into one longer breath, one longer idea.
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This is really common in spoken English to just keep talking and connect sentences together.
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Sometimes, when you're doing that, the sentences will follow the same rules of intonation as if they were shorter sentences.
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It felt crowded and well-organized at the same time.
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Crowded and well-organized, we have two adjectives here connected with and, and when we have that,
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they're usually both spoken with kind of a high tone, and usually there's another dipping or rolling intonation there.
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It felt crowded and well organized at the same time.
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And we rise on same to meet time as we go down there in pitch.
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So we go up to get to the beginning of time, same time.
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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.
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I also want to talk about the rhythm a little bit here.
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Crowded and well-organized.
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I'm stretching out crowded because it's the most important thing about how I feel about this space, right?
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It felt crowded.
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It's a crowded space.
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So I'm stressing it by lengthening that vowel.
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It felt crowded, and by rising my voice there,
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I'm letting you know I'm going to say another adjective and well-organized crowded and well-organized 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
この動画で話す練習をする理由
この動画では、混雑した場所についての英語を学ぶことができます。特に、IELTSスピーキング対策として役立つ内容です。英語を話す際の表現力を高めるためには、実際の会話の流れを学ぶことが重要です。動画の中で、話し手がどう自分の経験を語るかを分析することで、あなた自身のスピーキングスキルを向上させることができます。
文法とコンテキストの中の表現
この動画で頻繁に使用される文法構造を以下に示します。
- When I think of a crowded place - このフレーズで、考えを表現するためのきっかけとして「when」を使用しています。
- The first image that comes to mind - 特定のイメージを思い浮かべるための定型表現です。
- I was shocked by how many people there were - 感情を表すための使い方であり、注意を引く文です。
これらの表現をマスターすることで、英語を話す際により自然で流暢なコミュニケーションが可能になります。特に、YouTubeで英語学習をする際に、これらのフレーズを何度も繰り返すことは非常に効果的です。
一般的な発音の罠
動画内での発音に関して、いくつか注意すべき点があります。
- train station - このフレーズでは、「train」と「station」の音が繋がるため、スムーズに発音することが重要です。
- crowded place - 「crowded」の発音は注意が必要で、音の強弱をしっかりつけることで意味が伝わりやすくなります。
- the first time - 「the」と「first」が繋がる際に、言葉が流れるように発音する練習をしましょう。
これらの重要なポイントに注意を払いながら、shadowspeakを用いた練習を行えば、発音の精度が大きく向上します。より多くの英語の音に慣れることで、自信を持って話せるようになるでしょう。
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。