シャドーイング練習: American English Intonation | Business English: A meeting at a tech company - 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 sentence intonation in this recent connected reading
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video about a tech meeting where somebody is discussing problems they solved.
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Let's take a look.
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I just wanted to update everyone.
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I Duh.
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So I and to get reduced a lot in terms of the tone of your voice.
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I just wanted to update everyone.
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I just wanted.. update everyone.
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I just wanted to update everyone about the website issues people were reporting.
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So website issues is important here, but if you say update and then there's issues, then of course you're updating people about the issues.
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So about is kind of a filler word.
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It's not really a function word, but it's pretty close and it gets reduced in the sentence.
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About the website issues, people were reporting.
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People were reporting.
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So we're going to go down with reporting.
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So from people were, We're going to go rise with our voices
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and go up to get ready to go down for reporting.
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People were reporting.
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But the website issue is people were reporting.
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We found the bug yesterday.
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We found the bug yesterday.
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Here we'll start again with we, a very low tone we.
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We found the bug yesterday.
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We found the bug yesterday.
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So found the bug is all kind of in a higher tone.
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Yesterday, we're beginning to get to a section of the sentence.
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Really, we've finished a section of the sentence when we say yesterday.
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We found the bug yesterday, and so we'll keep our tone rising to let the listener know that we've finished one section of the sentence, but we're still talking.
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We're not done.
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We found the bug yesterday and pushed out a fix early this morning, and pushed out a fix early this morning, and pushed out a fix early this morning.
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So pushed out is the verb here, a fix, pushed out a fix.
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So to keep the rhythm, we need a de-stressed part, so that's a.
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Pushed out a.. pushed out a fix.
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Pushed out a fix early this morning.
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And again, we're falling on morning, it's the end of the sentence, so we rise with the previous words to get ready for the fall.
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Pushed out a fix earlier this morning.
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It should have only affected...
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It should have only affected...
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It should have only affected...
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So those parts are high, we're introducing the new topic of the sentence.
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It should have only affected...
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It should have... Should have...
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And I'm keeping my tone high also to show that I'm not perfectly confident that it didn't affect lots of users, right?
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Maybe it affected a lot of users, but I'm keeping my tone high to say that I hope it didn't affect that many users.
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It should have only affected a handful of users, a handful of users, a handful of users.
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We're rising again because we're finishing another section of the sentence, another chunk.
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A handful of users running older browsers, running older browsers.
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A handful of users running older browsers.
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Again, down at the end of the sentence with browsers, and so we'll say a handful of users running older browsers.
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They'll rise and fall there for each section of the sentence.
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We'll keep an eye out.
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We'll keep an eye out for any new bug reports.
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We'll keep an eye out.
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We'll...
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And these are super low in the tone here.
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We'll keep an eye out for any...
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We'll keep an eye out for any new bug reports.
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For any new bug reports.
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Bug reports.
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Bug reports.
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So bug report is a noun phrase, right?
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It's bug report, bug report.
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And so the stress at the end of the sentence is on bug, bug report, bug reports.
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And then we just keep going down for the last few syllables of that phrase, bug reports, to finish out the sentence with a low tone like is required.
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We'll keep an eye out for any new bug reports.
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I just wanted to update everyone about the website issues people were reporting.
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We found the bug yesterday and pushed out a fix early this morning.
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It should have only affected a handful of users running older browsers.
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We'll keep an eye out for any new bug reports.
このレッスンについて
このレッスンでは、アメリカ英語のイントネーションやビジネス会議の文脈でのリズム的な話し方について学びます。特に、声のトーンを使って情報を効果的に伝える方法に焦点を当てます。この動画では、問題解決に関する会話を通じて、英語スピーキング練習や英語の発音を良くするためのテクニックを学びます。
重要な語彙とフレーズ
- update - 更新する
- website issues - ウェブサイトの問題
- found the bug - バグを見つけた
- pushed out a fix - 修正を出した
- affected - 影響を受けた
- a handful of users - 少数のユーザー
- running older browsers - 古いブラウザを使用している
練習のヒント
このビデオの速さやトーンに合わせて英語シャドーイングを行うのは非常に効果的です。まず、ゆっくりとしたペースでイントネーションを確認し、その後徐々に速く発音してみてください。会話のリズムに注意しながら、声のトーンを上げたり下げたりする練習も大切です。
たとえば、“We found the bug yesterday”というフレーズでは、”We”を低めのトーンで始め、”found the bug”でトーンを上げ、”yesterday”で再びトーンを下げることがポイントです。このように、文の一部ごとにトーンをコントロールすることが、英語の発音を良くするための鍵です。
また、 IELTS スピーキング対策としてもこの練習が役立ちますので、ぜひ反復して実践してください。リズムやトーンに気を付けて練習することで、自然な会話ができるようになります。英語スピーキング練習を通じて、自信を持ってコミュニケーションをとりましょう。
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。