シャドーイング練習: BRITISH ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION (RP accent) - /eə/ vowel sound (hair, parent, air) - YouTubeで英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Hello and welcome back to English with Lucy.
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Today is an exciting day because I'm starting a new mini-series with you guys all about British English pronunciation.
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Now arguably one of the most difficult parts of learning English is the pronunciation of the many many vowel sounds.
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So the first part of this series is going to be all about the different vowel sounds that we use
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in British English.
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Quickly, before we get started,
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make sure you connect with me on all of my social media.
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I've got my Instagram, my Facebook,
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my Weibo, and of course my YouTube channel.
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And as I've mentioned before,
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I have a Patreon site where you can sponsor me and earn some really nice rewards like Skype lessons and handwritten cards.
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Before we get started, I just want to make one thing clear.
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I am not trying to make you get rid of your accent.
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Accents make us unique.
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I just want to help you improve your pronunciation so that you can be better understood and can communicate more easily.
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So don't go crazy and think I must use my accent,
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I must use my accent because A,
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it's really difficult and B, why?
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Unless you want to be an actor for a specific job role, there's no need.
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A story that might surprise some of you is that throughout my childhood and some of my teenage years,
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I was really, really embarrassed of my accent.
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I have a relatively posh British accent and some people used to make fun of me at school.
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But now I've realised that accents don't matter.
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What does matter is bad pronunciation and this is where I come in to help you guys.
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Okay, so the vowel sound that we're going to use today is the phoneme air and it's written like this.
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I do think it's important for you guys to recognise things like these
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because when you want to learn how to pronounce a word,
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you can search on any dictionary and the phonetics will really,
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really help you understand how to pronounce each word.
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Now, I mostly teach Spanish students and they really,
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really struggle with this phoneme.
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So this phoneme is a diphthong.
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That means it is two vowel sounds combined in one syllable.
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So to make the air sound we combine the e and the uh air.
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But normally British English speakers will just say air and we'll change the pitch air air.
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So in the first part of the diphthong,
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we use the eh sound.
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So I've got my mouth wide and my tongue relaxed.
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In the second part it's the it's the schwa.
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My whole mouth is relaxed and it's just a little push of voice.
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So I'm going air.
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The last thing that you must do is propel a lot of air through your lungs as you say this vowel sound.
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So I don't want air, I want air.
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Breathy.
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The breathier you are, the more British you sound.
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So firstly we have the word air,
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this magic gas that's all around us.
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Now it's written A-I-R, but we do not pronounce the R at the end of the word.
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Americans, however do pronounce it so we say air
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and they would say air
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so after the air vowel sound we don't pronounce the R
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unless a vowel then comes after the R like in area
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area now I'm going to give you a couple of examples of words
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that end in the air sound that you might have been pronouncing incorrectly firstly Finally,
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we've got the words that end in A-I-R.
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Air, chair, hair, fair, and millionaire.
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Then we've got the words that end in A-R-E care,
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aware, share, square Then we've got the words that end in E-A-R So we've got bear,
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tear, pair, swear Then we've got air used in the middle of a word So we've got things with AR.
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Parent.
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The names.
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Mary.
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Sarah.
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Various.
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Then we've got words with AIR.
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Like hairy or dairy.
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Then we've got the British spelling for aeroplane. With AER.
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We've got aeroplane or aerobics.
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And finally we've got the EAR in words such as unbearable.
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Hopefully today's lesson has helped you in some way.
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Make sure you subscribe because there will be more videos of this type coming very very soon.
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I really do want to help you with your pronunciation
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and I think looking at it vowel by vowel is really going to be a good way of doing that.
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So that's it for today's class.
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Make sure you connect with me on all my social media and I will see you in the next episode.
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Bye bye.
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Then we have air used in the middle of the road.
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In the middle of the road?
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この動画で話す練習をする理由は？
この動画は、イギリス英語の発音、特に/eə/の母音に焦点を当てています。この母音は、多くの日本語話者にとって難しいものですが、正しい発音ができるようになると、英語でのコミュニケーションがぐっと楽になります。YouTubeで英語学習をしている方には特におすすめです。簡単に言えば、この音をマスターすることで、より効果的に意思を伝えられ、相手に理解されやすくなります。リスニング力も向上し、英語スピーキング練習を助けることができるのです。
文法と文脈における表現
この動画の中で使用されている重要な構造をいくつか分析してみましょう。
- 音素の認識 - 母音の発音を理解するためには、辞書を参照することが重要です。特に音声記号が役立ちます。
- 二重母音の説明 - /eə/という音は、二つの母音が一つの音節に結合したものです。この理解が発音向上につながります。
- 発声の方法 - 発音時にどのように声を出すかについての具体的な説明があり、これが影響を与えます。
これらの表現を使うことで、あなたの英語学習が深まるでしょう。また、shadow speak技法を取り入れることで、実際に話す練習ができます。
一般的な発音の罠
動画内で扱われているいくつかの難しい単語やアクセントも注意が必要です。
- air - この単語はA-I-Rと綴りますが、最後のRを発音しないのがイギリス英語の特徴です。アメリカ英語ではRを発音します。
- motherとbrother - これらの単語は、イギリス英語とアメリカ英語での発音の違いが際立ちます。
- breathy sounds - よりブリティッシュな響きを持たせるために、息を多く使って発音することが求められます。
これらの道に迷いやすい要素を理解しながら、英語スピーキング練習を続けていくことで、発音スキルの向上につながります。動画を繰り返し視聴し、しっかりと練習を重ねましょう。
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。