シャドーイング練習: American English Connected Reading | IELTS Topic: Describe an Important Crop in Your Country - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

レッスンを作成中...
1
Hey, what's up?
2
It's Alex.
3
Today I'd like to look at the connected sounds in a short piece answering the question, describe an important food in your country.
4
Let's take a look.
5
In the US, I would say corn is the most important crop.
6
In the US, to connect in the, we just use the th tongue position when we say na, in the.
7
In the US, I would say, I would, would, would.
8
So that vowel in would, would, it becomes very, very short.
9
It becomes would, would, I would, I would.
10
And now I'm not changing this to I'd.
11
We could change this to I'd and say, I'd say corn is the most important crop.
12
But in a more formal context, I would write the word would, and I would say the word would in a spoken answer.
13
I would say, I would say, so listen to how the d sound at the end of would changes into the s.
14
I would say, I would say, I would say corn is the most important crop.
15
Corn is the most important.
16
Mostim, mostim.
17
So when we have an st ending, we almost always just keep the T if the next sound is a vowel.
18
So I in important is a vowel, so we'll say most important.
19
But now think about the glottal stop in important.
20
Important.
21
We actually have important.
22
Important.
23
In the middle of the word, there's a glottal stop.
24
And then, because the next word is crop, we have a second glottal stop.
25
Most important crop.
26
Important crop.
27
Native Americans were growing corn thousands of years before Europeans arrived.
28
Native Americans, the Americans, just connect those sounds together,
29
Native Americans were growing corn thousands of years.
30
Thousands of years.
31
We can take off the in of and just say thousands of years,
32
thousands of years, thousands of years.
33
I know the word thousands is a hard word, but there's no sound changes here.
34
It's pronounced just like it's spelled thousands of years before Europeans arrived, before Europeans arrived, and now,
35
And now we're gonna take out the D in AND and just say the AND.
36
And now everyone in the world, everyone in the world eats corn sometimes.
37
Everyone in the.. connect in the again.
38
In the world eats corn sometimes.
39
We make oil and sugar out of corn.
40
We make goil and sugar.
41
So connect make oil.
42
Make goil, make goil and sugar and sugar, take out the d and and, out of corn.
43
So here we'll connect out to of and so it's almost like it's written O-U-T-T-A.
44
It is like that.
45
Outta, outta, people write that if they're writing informally.
46
In a more formal written answer you would never write O-U-T-T-A
47
but you see it sometimes in comics or depictions of very casual speech in writing.
48
So outta corn, we make oil and sugar out of corn and we use it to feed lots of animals too.
49
And we, we take out the duh in and, and we use, we use, connect the two vowels here, and we use it to,
50
use it to, connect the two T sounds, it too, and change the vowel in to.
51
We use it to feed lots of animals too.
52
Lots of animals, lots of animals too.
53
Because animal starts with a vowel, we say lots of animals, lots of animals.
54
I could say lots of animals instead of lots of animals, but that sounds a little bit too informal for this kind of answer.
55
Corner, something made from corn.
56
Corner, connect or to the previous word and reduce the vowel.
57
Corner, corner, something made from corn.
58
Also from gets a very, very light vowel.
59
Made from, from, from corn or something made from corn is in a lot of foods people don't even realize.
60
Is in a lot of foods.
61
Here, a lot of foods, a lot of foods.
62
You can think of it as the two F sounds are connecting
63
or you can just think that the of word is connecting to lot.
64
A lot of, just like out of before.
65
A lot of foods people don't even realize.
66
People don't even realize.
67
Here we're going to take out the T in DON'T and say DON'T EVEN.
68
DON'T EVEN REALIZE.
69
In the US, I would say corn is the most important crop.
70
Native Americans were growing corn thousands of years before Europeans arrived, and now everyone in the world eats corn sometimes.
71
We make oil and sugar out of corn, and we use it to feed lots of animals too.
72
Corn, or something made from corn, is in a lot of foods people don't even realize.

文脈と背景

この動画では、アメリカにおける重要な作物についての質問に答える短い文章を通して、音のつながり（connected sounds）に注目しています。スピーカーのアレックスは、英語を学ぶ人々がリスニングとスピーキング能力を向上させる手助けをしています。アメリカで最も重要な作物は「トウモロコシ」であり、このテーマを通じて、実際の会話でよく使われるフレーズや発音のコツを学ぶことができます。

日常コミュニケーションのためのトップ5フレーズ

  • I would say: 「私は言うだろう」 - 自分の意見を述べる際によく使われる表現です。
  • Most important crop: 「最も重要な作物」 - 作物の重要性を強調する表現です。
  • Thousands of years: 「何千年も」 - 長い歴史を示すフレーズです。
  • Out of corn: 「トウモロコシから」 - トウモロコシを原料として何かを作ることを示す表現です。
  • In the world: 「世界中で」 - 全体的な視点を持つ際に便利なフレーズです。

段階別シャドウイングガイド

このビデオでの難易度を克服するために、以下のステップを実践してみましょう。この方法を通じて、英語スピーキング練習の一環としてシャドースピーチ（shadow speech）を活用できます。

  1. 最初にリスニング: 動画を一度見て、内容を理解します。特に音のつながりに注目してください。
  2. 音を分解: 重要なフレーズをいくつか選び、個々の音に分けて発音してみます。「I would say」を「アイ ウッド サイ」と分けてみることがポイントです。
  3. シャドウイング: アレックスの発音に合わせて同じフレーズを繰り返します。速さやリズムに気を付けながら、何度も練習しましょう。
  4. 録音して確認: 自分の声を録音して、アレックスの発音と比べてみます。どこが違っているか確認し、改善を図ります。
  5. 繰り返し練習: 一度で終わらせず、定期的にこの練習を行うことで、より自然な発音や流暢さを身につけることができます。

このように、動画を利用してシャドースピーチやシャドースピーク（shadowspeak）を行うことで、確実に英語のスピーキング能力を向上させることができます。YouTubeで英語学習を楽しみながら、コミュニケーション力を高めていきましょう。

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。