シャドーイング練習: American English Intonation | IELTS Topic: Describe an object you find particularly beautiful - 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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Now I'd like to look at the pitch and accent changes in this short text about really old cars.
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I love the design of really old cars from the 1930s and 1940s.
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I love the design of really old cars.
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Love design really old cars from the 1930s and 1940s.
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So love design cars, these are all important words in the sentence.
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And 1930s and 1940s, we have kind of a rise and fall intonation there.
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The words and and from the get reduced, because they're just function words.
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They had so much style and character.
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Now I'm emphasizing style and character.
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They had so much style and character, because I'm also emphasizing that it was a lot.
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I'm emphasizing so much style and character.
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Compared to modern cars.
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Compared to modern cars.
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Here we say compared to in kind of a lower tone because we're contrasting.
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They had so much compared to modern cars.
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Modern cars.
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And then we'll go up with modern and kind of come down again with cars.
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Actually, when I was in high school, actually, actually, we're beginning the sentence actually, like this, and so we have kind of a rising tone.
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When I was, that's not that important to the sentence, so the important part is high school,
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high school, so that gets emphasized more than when I was.
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When I was in high school, I always thought when I grew up, I always thought when I grew up, remember when I, de-stressed.
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When I grew up, that I'd own one.
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I always thought when I grew up that I'd own one.
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Own one.
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Now, this is a long sentence, so one gets a kind of a rising tone, because it shows the listener that you're not done speaking yet.
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That I'd own one, that I'd own one, but of course they're not practical at all to drive around these days.
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But of course they're not practical at all to drive around these days.
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So sometimes when I'm saying the function words here, I'm not de-emphasizing them as much in some sentences compared to other sentences,
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and this is just kind of a personal preference.
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There's no rules specifically about when to de-stress them a little bit and when to de-stress function words a lot.
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So you'll hear sometimes the function words spoken in a medium tone, and that's fine too.
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The important part is keeping the flow of the sentence with the sentence chunks and stressing the important words.
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But of course, they're not practical at all to drive around these days.
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So you're practical at all.
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Those things are the thing that I'm emphasizing in the sentence.
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Practical at all.
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Not practical at all.
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These days.
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I'm stressing these because I'm comparing it to in the past.
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It was more practical to drive cars like that in the past, but these days.
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These days, they're not practical.
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Sometimes you can find a company that'll rent you a classic car.
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Sometimes you can find a company that'll, that'll, that'll.
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Remember, that'll is reduced a lot in speech and in terms of the tone as well as the vowels and consonants.
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That'll rent you a classic car for a few hours or a few days to drive around.
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For a few hours or a few days to drive around.
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A few hours or a few days to drive around.
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So normally we have this A or B intonation, the comparison intonation, hours or days.
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But because days here is still in the middle of the sentence, we can't give it a strong falling tone.
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I can't say a few hours or a few days to drive around, because it sounds like I'm ending the sentence a few hours or a few days to drive around.
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It sounded like I ended the sentence early.
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So, a few hours or a few days to drive around.
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We kind of go days, it goes down a little bit and then stays up to show that you're not done speaking.
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A few hours or a few days to drive around.
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I'd love to do something like that.
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I'd love, I'd love, rise, fall.
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I'd love to do something like that.
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I love the design of really old cars from the 1930s and 1940s.
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They had so much style and character compared to modern cars.
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Actually, when I was in high school, I always thought when I grew up that I'd own one, but of course they're not practical at all to drive around these days.
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Sometimes you can find a company that'll rent you a classic car for a few hours
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or a few days to drive around.
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I'd love to do something like that.
コンテキストと背景
このビデオでは、アメリカ英語のイントネーションとアクセントについて探求します。特に、1930年代と1940年代の古い車の魅力を語る内容が中心です。話者のアレックスは、これらの車が持っていたスタイルやキャラクターを強調し、現代の車との比較を通じて意見を述べています。このような会話は、IELTS スピーキング対策としても役立ちます。イントネーションの変化に注目することで、英語のスピーキングにおける表現力を向上させることができます。
日常コミュニケーションのためのトップ5フレーズ
- 「実際のところ、」- 例: 実際のところ、私はいつも思っていました。
- 「スタイルやキャラクターがとても豊か」- 例: あの車にはスタイルやキャラクターがたくさんありました。
- 「比較すると」- 例: 現代の車と比較すると、あの車は本当に魅力的です。
- 「運転するのには実用的ではない」- 例: でも、最近は運転するのに実用的ではありませんね。
- 「クラシックカーをレンタルできる会社がある」- 例: 時々、クラシックカーをレンタルできる会社があります。
ステップバイステップのシャドウイングガイド
このビデオでのシャドウイングを効果的に行うための手順を以下に示します。
- 短いフレーズで開始: 最初に短いフレーズを繰り返し、イントネーションに注目します。強調するべき単語を意識しましょう。
- 音声を聴き取り: ビデオを再生し、話者の声に合わせて口を動かす練習をします。shadow speechを使って、自然なリズムを身につけましょう。
- 長い文章に挑戦: ゆっくりとしたペースで長い文章を練習します。「実際のところ、私はいつも思っていました」のようなフレーズを使い、文全体の流れをつかみます。
- 感情を込める: 話者が強調したい部分に感情を込めて発音します。例えば、「スタイルやキャラクターがとても豊か」と言うときには、自信を持って言いましょう。
- フィードバックを得る: 自分のシャドウイングを録音し、自分のスピーキングを見直すことも大切です。どの部分が効果的かを分析し、改善点を探ります。
このように、ビデオに合わせた英語スピーキング練習を行うことで、自然なイントネーションやアクセントの使い方を習得し、会話力を向上させることができます。自信を持って、シャドウスピークを続けてください！
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。