シャドーイング練習: American English Connected Reading ｜Restaurant review - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

レッスンを作成中...
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Hey, what's up?
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It's Alex.
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Today we're going to look at the connected readings in a sample of ordinary English from a restaurant review
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that I found online.
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Let's take a look.
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This restaurant looks so generic and boring from the outside.
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This restaurant, restaurant, we don't pronounce that a-u in the middle, restaurant, looks so, looks so,
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we connect those two s sounds, looks so generic and boring.
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AND boring becomes and boring.
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That D at the end of AND.
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Some speakers do different things with this.
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I personally make it a very very weak D.
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My tongue is in position to say D but it doesn't really say it.
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It just goes straight to B. And boring. And boring. And boring.
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So generic and boring from the outside
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that I didn't go for years from the outside the yeah
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yeah the outside we put a yeah there from the outside
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that I didn't go for years that I
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that I we link those two words together and the final T in
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that turns into a flap that I
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that I didn't go didn't didn't that's a glottal stop instead of a T at the end,
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didn't go for years. For years.
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For turns into for. For years.
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Assuming that it was an overpriced tourist trap.
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That it wasn't.
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That it wasn't.
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It's funny to me how all those four words kind of combine into one very quick thing, because they're not the focus of the sentence.
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That it wasn't.
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Assuming that it was an overpriced...
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Assuming that it was an over...
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That it was an...
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That it was an overpriced tourist trap.
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Overpriced tourist trap.
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The D and T connect together, and then the T and T connect together.
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Overpriced tourist trap.
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Now, some people say tourist.
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I say tourist.
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This is one of those words that has multiple acceptable pronunciations in American English.
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Tourist trap.
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Tourist trap.
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I say tourist trap.
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I finally went and I was very pleasantly surprised.
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Went.
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That T at the end turns into a glottal stop.
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I finally went and I was very pleasantly surprised.
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Pleasant-ly.
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There's another glottal stop T there.
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Pleasant-ly surprised.
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Surprised.
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Not sur-prised, but surprised.
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I got the seafood plate.
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I got the seafood plate.
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I got the.
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Got the.
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We connect those T's together.
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Got the.
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Got the seafood plate that had, that had, that had, that had, that turns into a very very short word.
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That, that, that had, that had to, that had to, that had to, d and t connect together.
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Two of the best shrimp I've ever eaten.
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Two of the best shrimp.
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Now of the we could say other or of the.
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Two of the best, two of the best, two of the best shrimp.
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But that T in best disappears, and the two S sounds connect.
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Best shrimp.
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Two of the best shrimp I've ever eaten.
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Eaten.
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Eaten.
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We have a glottal stop there.
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Eaten.
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A crab cake.
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Grilled fish.
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Grilled fish.
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Again, that D kind of weakens before that F sound grilled fish,
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grilled fish, grilled fish, and mashed Okinawan sweet potato,
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and mashed, now that D disappears because we connect the N with M,
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and mashed, and mashed, and mashed Okinawan.
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Now with mashed Okinawan, the D sound is pronounced completely, but it's connected to the next syllable.
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Mashtokinawan.
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Mashtokinawan sweet potato.
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Mashtokinawan sweet potato.
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That T in sweet turns into a glottal stop.
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Sweet potato.
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Sweet potato.
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All over a Thai coconut cream sauce.
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Same thing for the T in coconut.
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Coconut cream sauce.
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It's a little bit expensive.
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It's a tap and it's kind of hard to say.
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We had two taps there.
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One in little and the other in bit.
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Little bit expensive.
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For what you get compared to other places.
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For what you get.
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For what you get.
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For what you get.
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For what you get.
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Now even though you is a pronoun, that's an important word, we still don't really stress it here.
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For what ya, for what ya, for what ya, because the stress is going to be on get.
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For what you get, for what you get compared to other places.
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Get, that T disappears, turns into a glottal stop.
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Get compared to, get compared to other places.
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Compared to.
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And those D and T sounds link together, and the vowel in TO reduces to UH,
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compared TO, compared to other places, compared to other places.
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Now, right there, I did a linking sound between two other,
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two other, or tother, tother.
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You can put the linking sound in, or you can choose to leave it out.
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It's your decision.
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Compared to other places.
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Compared to other places.
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They both sound just fine to me.
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But I still look forward to going back.
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But I, we tap that T in but I, still look.
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Connect those L sounds together.
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Still look forward to.
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Forward to.
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Now we have that same thing where two connects with forward to forward to forward to going back.
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This restaurant looks so generic and boring from the outside
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that I didn't go for years assuming that it was an overpriced tourist trap.
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I finally went and I was very pleasantly surprised.
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I got the seafood plate that had two of the best shrimp I've ever eaten, a crab cake, grilled fish,
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and mashed Okinawan sweet potato all over a Thai coconut cream sauce.
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It's a little bit expensive for what you get compared to other places, but I still look forward to going back.

コンテキストと背景

このビデオでは、アメリカ英語の発音とリーディングに焦点を当て、レストランレビューのサンプルを通じて普通の英語のつながりを探ります。スピーカーのアレックスは、特に連結音や発音の違いに注目し、英語を学ぶ際の具体的な実践方法を提供しています。特に、聞き取ることが難しい連結音やグロッタルストップといった特徴がある発音に触れ、リスニングとスピーキングのスキル向上を目指します。これにより英語の発音を良くすることができるでしょう。

日常会話のためのトップ5フレーズ

  • レストラン：「restaurant」という単語は、中間の「a-u」を発音しません。
  • 見えはGeneric:「looks so generic and boring」というフレーズは、流れるように発音します。
  • グロッタルストップ:「didn’t」の「t」は、グロッタルストップとして扱われます。
  • 観光客の罠：「tourist trap」は、複数の発音がある単語の一例です。
  • 驚き：「surprised」は、「sur-prised」ではなく、「surprised」と発音します。

ステップバイステップ シャドーイングガイド

このビデオの内容を効果的に練習するためのガイドを以下に示します。まず、「shadowspeak」のテクニックを活用して、スピーカーの発音を真似てみましょう。

  1. 聞く: ビデオを再生し、アレックスの発音を注意深く聞きます。
  2. リピート: セクションごとに一時停止し、続けて発音を真似ます。特に「didn’t go」や「overpriced tourist trap」に注意しましょう。
  3. 比較: 自分の発音とアレックスの発音を録音し、聞き比べます。どの部分が異なるかを確認します。
  4. 修正: 聞き取った内容を基に、自分の発音を改善します。特にグロッタルストップを意識しましょう。
  5. 磨く: 日常会話にこれらのフレーズを取り入れ、シャドースピーチを実践します。

この方法で練習することで、英語の発音を良くするだけでなく、自然なイントネーションと流れを身につけることができるでしょう。さあ、練習を始めましょう！

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。