シャドーイング練習: Change the ND sound like this in English! - 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 talk about one particular rule in American English Connected Speech, then I'll illustrate it using an example from a long conversation that I wrote.
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Let's take a look.
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So the rule is that we drop the D in some words ending in ND before a consonant.
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So we have this word around, around the space, and we can simply take out this D, around the space.
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This is such a natural thing for people to do.
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You hear people do this all the time without even thinking.
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People don't even notice that they're making this pronunciation change.
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Around the space.
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What also happens in this particular example is that the N and the TH connect.
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Normally, an N is made with your tongue behind the front top teeth, but when it's before a TH, it actually goes between your teeth.
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So, around the space, as if that D didn't exist.
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Let's see how it looks in an example.
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So, for this conversation, I've written a short dialogue between a student and an owner of a pottery studio.
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And the student is interested in maybe signing up for a pottery class.
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The student says, oh yeah, like what?
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I was thinking about signing up for like an intro to pottery class.
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Oh yeah, like what?
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What?
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So we take off this T at the end of what here, it turns into a glottal stop.
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Oh yeah, like what?
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I was thinking about, thinking about, when we have ing in a word that has more than one syllable,
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usually a verb with ing at the end, we often delete this ing and just say in instead.
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Thinking, thinking about.
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I was thinking about signing up.
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Thinking about.
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Again, we have a glottal stop instead of the t.
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I was thinking about signing up for like an intro to pottery class.
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Fur, like an.
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So four turns into fur.
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Fur, like an, like an, like an, here like and an connect together and the vowel in and kind of gets reduced.
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For like an intro to pottery class.
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Intro to pottery class.
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We definitely have those.
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We definitely have those.
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Definitely has a glottal stop in the middle.
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We definitely have those.
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Those are on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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Those are on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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You see we take out the D before the consonant here.
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Those are on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6.30 to 7.30 p.m.
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From 6.30 to 7.30 p.m.
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To gets reduced into to 6.30 to 7.30 p.m.
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Can you show me around the space?
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Can you show me around the space? Can ya?
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U turns into ya.
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Can you show me around the space?
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Around turns into around the, like we saw in the rule here.
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Can you show me around the space?
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I would be happy to.
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I would be happy to.
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Here would be, we reduce this D here before the B.
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I would be happy to.
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Here's the pottery area.
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Here's the pottery area.
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Pottery area.
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Remember, we have a lot of vowels here and we're going to connect them like this.
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Pottery area.
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We don't want to separate these two words with a glottal stop.
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It's not pottery area.
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It's pottery area.
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Here's the pottery area with the wheels, with the, with the wheels, with the.
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When we connect these two sounds, it's mostly a voiceless th sound with a tiny little voiced one at the end with the,
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with the, with the wheels and the kiln.
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Take off the D here in and.
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And the kiln in the back.
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The wheels and the kiln in the back.
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In the also connects together just like we have around the, in the.
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The kiln in the back.
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A kiln is a special type of oven used in a pottery studio.
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That word isn't very common in everyday speech, but in the context of this conversation, it's an important vocabulary word to know.
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Alright, let's read the whole thing one last time.
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Oh yeah, like what?
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I was thinking about signing up for like an intro to pottery class.
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We definitely have those.
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Those are on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6.30 to 7.30pm.
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Can you show me around the space?
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I would be happy to.
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Here's the pottery area with the wheels and the kiln in the back.
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Alright, if you thought that was interesting, then you might enjoy the full video.
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In the full video, I talk about a much longer conversation, and I examine not only the connected sounds, but also the intonation, the specialized vocabulary,
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and the politeness and formality levels used by each person in the conversation.
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I put the link to the full video in the comments in the description below, so if you're interested, check it out.
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I'll see you there.
このレッスンについて
このレッスンでは、アメリカ英語の連結音において「ND」の音の変化に焦点を当てます。具体的には、特定の単語の「D」を、後ろに子音が続く場合に省略するルールを学びます。動画の会話例を通じて、ネイティブスピーカーがどのように自然にこの変化を使っているか理解できるようになります。
重要な語彙 & フレーズ
- around - 周り
- thinking about - 考えていること
- pottery class - 陶芸クラス
- glottal stop - 声門閉鎖音
- definitely - 確かに
- can you - できますか
- like an - のように
- those are - それらは
練習のコツ
この動画では、自然な会話のペースで話されているため、shadowspeakを実践するのに最適です。初心者の方は、動画を何度も視聴しながら、各フレーズを繰り返してみてください。特に「D」を省略する部分や、母音の減少に注意しましょう。たとえば、「Can you show me around the space?」のように、ネイティブスピーカーが実際にどのように発音しているかに耳を傾け、真似してみてください。
動画のトーンはカジュアルで親しみやすいので、自信を持って声に出して練習することが大切です。YouTubeで英語学習をしている場合は、発音やイントネーションに重点を置き、自分の声を録音して聴き返すことも効果的です。こうした練習を続けることで、IELTS スピーキング対策にも役立ちます。
この方法で、より自然な英会話ができるようになるでしょう。定期的に練習し、shadowing siteを利用して自分の進捗を確認してください。
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。