シャドーイング練習: American English Connected Reading | IELTS Topic: Describe an occasion when you lost sth - 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 look at the connected sounds in a short text to answer the question, describe an occasion when you lost something.
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Let's take a look.
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It's funny.
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The first thing that comes to mind isn't something very expensive.
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It's funny.
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When you begin a sentence with the word it's, I sometimes notice that people completely drop the i part,
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and they just begin with it's funny, it's funny, it's funny.
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They kind of connect the it's to the next word.
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It's funny.
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Now this doesn't always happen.
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If someone's speaking a little bit more clearly, they wouldn't do this, and it wouldn't happen quite so obviously in the middle of a sentence.
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It's funny, the first thing that comes to mind, the first thing, you know, the t in first thing gets deleted,
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the first thing that comes to mind, that, the T in that, turns into a glottal stop, that, that comes to mind,
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isn't something very expensive, isn't, the T in isn't also turns into a glottal stop, isn't something, isn't something.
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And now if I say this faster, I might say isn't something, and remove the T entirely, no glottal stop, isn't something, isn't something.
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Or if I'm speaking a little slower and clearer, I'll say isn't something.
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Isn't something with a glottal stop.
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But I just happen to have.
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But I just happen to have.
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But I, that T in but turns into a tap before I, and the T in just gets deleted because it's in front of a consonant.
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Just happen.
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But I just happen to have.
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But I just happen to have a very strong memory about it. About it.
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Here about that T turns into a tap. About it. About it.
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I was waiting for a bus.
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I was waiting for a bus once. For a.
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Here for a turns into for a.
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I was waiting for a for a bus once and I left some sunglasses.
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An-ni.
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That D in and disappears a lot of a time.
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And I, and I, and I left some.
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So here the T in left some gets removed.
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Left some sunglasses.
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And I left some sunglasses on the bench.
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On the, on the bench.
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That N and TH connect together.
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On the bench.
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Once I was in the bus and driving away, in the bus, just like on the, we connect in the.
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The N and TH connect together.
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In the bus and driving away.
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Here, and, because it's between two consonants, we remove the A and the D sounds.
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N driving becomes bus and driving.
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Once I was in the bus and driving away, bus and driving away, it's just an N sound.
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I saw them out the window.
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Now here, I saw them.
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That's a little bit extra clear.
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We could say, I saw him.
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I saw him out the window.
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Saw him.
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We could remove the th entirely.
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That's okay.
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I saw him out the window.
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Here, out the, we connect that sound together, and you could think of it as a glottal stop plus th,
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out the, or you could think of it as the t connecting into th, out the.
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Both are fine.
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I saw him out the window and knew they were gone forever.
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Window, new.
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Here, window.
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Well, this consonant's a little bit softer than s, so we have a little bit of an e sound.
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Window, and it's not just an end sound.
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So I'm removing the d.
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It's not just window, n, new.
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It's window, when, when, when.
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So we have a small uh sound.
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Window-wen-nu.
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Now the d gets removed.
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Window-wen-nu.
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And the two n sounds, after the d gets removed, the two n sounds get connected.
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And new they were gone forever.
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It's been almost 15 years.
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Almost 15?
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The t disappears between s and f.
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Almost 15 years since then.
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And I still try to take.
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And I still...
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We remove the D in AND I.
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And I still try to take.
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Here to gets reduced quite a lot.
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Try to.
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Try to.
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That T is kind of a very light dd sound.
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Try to.
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Try to take.
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And the vowel is reduced too.
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Try to take better care of my sunglasses.
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Here of turns into uh before an M sound.
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Better care of my sunglasses.
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care of my sunglasses.
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It's funny, the first thing that comes to mind isn't something very expensive, but I just happen to have a very strong memory about it.
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I was waiting for a bus once and I left some sunglasses on the bench.
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Once I was in the bus and driving away, I saw them out the window and knew they were gone forever.
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It's been almost 15 years since then, and I still try to take better care of my sunglasses.

コンテキストと背景

このビデオでは、アメリカ英語の連結音について触れています。特に、IELTSに関連する「何かを失った出来事を描写する」テーマを取り上げ、スピーキングの練習に役立つ内容が盛り込まれています。話者のアレックスは、言葉の流れを自然に保ちながらも、文の中での発音の変化や連結音に焦点を当てています。このような表現は、日常会話やIELTS スピーキング対策において非常に重要です。

日常コミュニケーションのためのトップ5のフレーズ

  • It's funny.（面白いですね。）
  • The first thing that comes to mind.（最初に思い浮かぶこと。）
  • Isn't something very expensive.（高価なものではない。）
  • Left some sunglasses.（サングラスを置き忘れた。）
  • I saw them out the window.（窓から見えました。）

これらのフレーズは、日常の会話で実際に使える表現が含まれています。特に、英語シャドーイングを通じてこれらのフレーズを練習することで、スピーキングスキルを向上させることができます。

段階的シャドーイングガイド

この特定のビデオを効果的に学ぶためには、次のステップを踏むことをお勧めします。

  1. ビデオを視聴する前に、目標を設定しましょう。IELTS スピーキング対策として、特にどのフレーズや発音に注意を払いたいのかを決めます。
  2. 最初に字幕を確認し、テキストの内容を理解します。理解した後は、英語の音声と一緒に実際に声に出して確認します。
  3. 英語シャドーイングを実践します。アレックスの話し方に合わせて自分の声を重ねていくことで、発音やリズムを体験的に学びます。
  4. 特に難しい部分は繰り返し練習しましょう。何度も練習することで、スムーズに話せるようになります。
  5. 最後に、自分の声を録音して再度確認します。改善すべきポイントを見つけ、次回の練習に活かします。

これらのステップを踏むことで、shadowspeaksの技術を学び、YouTubeで英語学習を通じて、より良いスピーキングスキルを身につけましょう。

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。