シャドーイング練習: American English Intonation (Part Two) | Daily English Topic: Wanting to get the car fixed - 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 intonation in the short
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piece where someone is making an appointment to get their car fixed.
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Let's take a look.
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Hi, I want to make an appointment to bring my car in.
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Hi, hi.
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So we're greeting somebody, and this is probably a phone conversation.
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Hi, I want to make an appointment to bring my car in.
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You're making kind of a request when you're on the phone
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and you're kind of explaining what the phone call is going to be about.
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you go up even at the end of the sentence here.
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In a lot of videos, I talk about going down at the end of the sentence most of the time.
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And so this is an example where we're going to go up at the end of the sentence.
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I want to make an appointment to bring my car in.
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To bring my car in.
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It's a 2013 Ford Focus.
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It's a 2013 Ford Focus.
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We go up with Ford and up with 2013 because both of those modify focus.
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It's a 2013 Ford Focus.
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When I get on the highway, when I get on the highway, so I'm introducing the topic here.
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When I get on the highway, something is going to happen, right?
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So I keep my tone high to tell you that I'm just beginning this sentence.
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When I get on the highway, you can hear kind of a loud noise.
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Loud modifies noise, so loud noise coming from the back half of the car.
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Car is the end of the sentence, so we'll go down there.
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You can hear kind of a loud noise coming from the
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back half back half of the car the back half is
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an important piece of information it's where the noise is coming
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from back half of the car like a rumbling loud enough
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to hear it from the inside loud enough inside those are
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the two stress points here it's a very loud sound
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and you can hear it inside the car loud enough to
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hear it from the inside we're kind of speaking evenly hear it from the inside and then going down again with side.
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It's weird.
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It's weird.
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We want to put some emotion into our voices here.
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It's weird because I just had it looked at a few months ago.
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It's weird because I just had it looked at.
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I just had it looked at.
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You can imagine you're a little bit frustrated, so you're going down with your voice for more of these words.
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I just had it looked at.
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I just had it looked at a few months ago.
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Maybe not that angry, but you can feel the emotion here with the words going down in pitch.
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It's weird because I just had it looked at a few months ago.
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A few months ago.
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A few months.
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A few modifies months, so it's a higher tone there.
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A few months ago.
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I'm not sure what's going on with it.
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I'm not sure what's going on with it.
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Not sure what.
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I'm not sure what's going on with it.
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Again, if you put more emotion into it, if you say, I'm not sure what's going on with it, it just becomes a more exaggerated version of the intonation I've shown here.
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I'm not sure what's going on with it.
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Do you have any open slots this week?
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What I'm asking for in this section is open slots, meaning open appointments, open times I can bring the car in.
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So, do you have any open slots this week?
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I go up with my voice at the end here because it's a yes-no question.
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The person I'm talking to could say, yes, we do, or no, we don't.
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You'll have to come in another time.
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So, for yes-no questions, we go up with the voice at the end.
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Do you have any open slots this week?
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Do you have any open slots this week?
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Open is a little higher than slots
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because we have to dip with our voices in order to go up at the end.
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Do you have any open slots this week?
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Do you have any open slots this week?
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Hi, I want to make an appointment to bring my car in.
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It's a 2013 Ford Focus.
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When I get on the highway, you can hear kind of a loud noise coming from the back half of the car.
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Like a rumbling, loud enough to hear it from the inside.
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It's weird because I just had it looked at a few months ago.
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I'm not sure what's going on with it.
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Do you have any open slots this week?
文脈と背景
このビデオでは、アメリカ英語のイントネーションに焦点を当てています。話し手アレックスは、車を修理するための予約を取る際の会話を例に取り、どのように声のトーンを変えるか、特に文の終わりで声を上げることでどのように感情を表現するかを説明しています。この会話は電話でのやり取りの一例であり、実際の生活に役立つ英語表現を学ぶ良い機会です。
日常コミュニケーションのためのトップ5フレーズ
- Hi, I want to make an appointment to bring my car in. （こんにちは、車を持ってくるための予約を取りたいです。）
- It's making a loud noise from the back half of the car. （車の後半から大きな音がしています。）
- It's weird because I just had it looked at a few months ago. （数か月前に見てもらったばかりなのに、変です。）
- The noise is loud enough to hear it from inside. （その音は中からでも聞こえるくらい大きいです。）
- I’m not sure what's going on with it. （何が起こっているのかわかりません。）
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学ぶためには、以下のステップに従って「shadow speak」を練習することが重要です。英語の発音を良くするために、シャドースピーチを通じて実践を重ねます。
- ビデオを視聴: まずはビデオを通して鑑賞し、全体の内容を把握します。
- フレーズをピックアップ: 上記のフレーズを自身で書き出し、声に出して練習します。
- シャドーイングの練習: アレックスの発音に合わせて、声のトーンやリズムを真似してみてください。特に、文の終わりでのトーンの上昇や下降に注意を払いましょう。
- 感情を込めて話す: 文章に感情を乗せて話すことで、より自然な会話ができるようになります。例えば、「weird」という言葉に感情を込めて発音してみましょう。
- 繰り返し練習: 定期的にこのフレーズを繰り返すことで、自然に口に出せるようになります。
この方法で練習することで、日常会話に役立つスキルが身につきます。YouTubeで英語学習を進めることで、自信を持って英会話ができるようになります。是非、シャドースピーチを活用してみてください。
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。