シャドーイング練習: Everyday English Intonation: Sorry for Being Late - 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 now look at the intonations in this short piece about somebody apologizing for being late.
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Hey, I'm so sorry I'm late.
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Hey, I'm so sorry I'm late.
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So we have so sorry.
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Hey, I'm so sorry I'm late.
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The I'm here gets reduced both times.
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Hey, I'm so sorry I'm late.
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I took the wrong exit.
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I took the wrong exit.
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So wrong is a little bit higher because it's modifying exit.
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I took the wrong exit.
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I took 282 instead of 283.
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So this is interesting.
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We're comparing the two numbers.
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282 instead of 283.
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The stress point is on two and then three.
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I took 282 instead of 283.
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And so before that stress point, we're rising in that word.
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You can treat 282 and 283 both as individual words.
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282, 283.
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Then it was all one-way roads for like three miles.
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Then it was all...
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So I'm stressing then, and normally a word like then doesn't get much stress in a sentence.
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Here though, I'm explaining a sequence of events.
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This happened, then that happened.
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So there's stress on the word then.
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Then it was all one-way roads for like three miles.
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One-way roads.
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High, high fall.
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One-way roads for like, we reduce for like here, for like three miles.
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And then we have three miles kind of in a higher tone to explain, you know, the feeling that I've got for like three miles.
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I had to drive three miles in the wrong direction.
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Until I could turn around and get back on the highway until I could turn around again, turn around again.
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That's another stress point because that's the list of what I'm doing.
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I'm explaining the list of things that caused me to be late
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and so one of these major things is that I had to turn around again and get back on the highway.
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So the stress points there are the important parts of the sentence.
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It's what's bringing information to the listener instead of just doing grammatical function words.
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And then the traffic started getting backed up.
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And then the, and then the, again we're stressing then, and then the traffic started getting backed up.
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Started getting backed up.
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So we're falling at the end of the sentence.
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This is a long sentence.
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And then the traffic started getting backed up.
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And so even though it's the end of a sentence, I still want to put some emotion into it and give a little bit of a falling tone to these words.
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The traffic started getting backed up, backed up, especially on the two words backed up, backed up.
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I can't believe it took so I can't believe it took so long.
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I can't believe it took so long.
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The stress points are here.
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I've got a negative feeling.
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I'm putting emotion into my sentence, and the stress points go on, believe it took so long.
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I can't believe it took so long.
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So it and so get almost totally reduced.
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I'm saying them with such a light voice here.
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I'm never taking that exit again.
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I'm never taking.
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I'm never taking that exit again.
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So here the main point of this sentence is never.
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If I kind of stopped listening and I just heard the word never, I would understand that it's the end of the person's explanation and they're saying, I'm never taking that exit again.
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They're never going to do again what made them late.
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So the stress is definitely on never and then we have some weaker stress here on taking that exit again.
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Taking that exit again.
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Hey, I'm so sorry I'm late.
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I took the wrong exit.
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I took 282 instead of 283.
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Then it was all one-way roads for like three miles until I could turn around again and get back on the highway, and then the traffic started getting backed up.
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I can't believe it took so long.
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I'm never taking that exit again.
このビデオで話す練習をする理由
このビデオでは、遅れて到着したことを謝る日常会話のイントネーションに焦点を当てています。英語のスピーキング練習を通じて、実際のコミュニケーションに役立つ表現や発音のコツを学ぶことができます。また、shadowspeakやshadow speechを活用することで、リアルな会話を模倣しながら自信を持って話す力を身につけることが可能です。英語のスピーキング練習を行うことで、IELTSのスピーキング対策にも効果的です。
文法と文脈での表現
このビデオでは、特に以下の重要な構造と表現が使用されています：
- I'm so sorry I'm late. - 遅れたことを謝る基本的な表現です。このフレーズは、状況に応じて柔軟に使うことができます。
- I took the wrong exit. - 自分の失敗を素直に認めることで、相手に理解を求める表現です。
- Instead of - 比較をする際の便利なフレーズで、選択肢を明確に示します。これを使うことで、自分の意図をより明確に伝えることができます。
- Then it was all one-way roads - 物事の順序を説明するときに使われる表現です。このような文脈での「then」は、話の流れをスムーズにするために重要な役割を果たします。
- I can't believe it took so long. - 自分の感情を表す際に効果的なフレーズで、感情を込めて話すことがコミュニケーションを豊かにします。
一般的な発音の罠
このビデオでの発音にはいくつかのトリッキーな言葉やアクセントがあります：
- wrong - 強調することで、重要さが伝わります。発音時には少し高めにすることがポイントです。
- twoとthree - 数字の発音はリズムを持って伝えましょう。特に、比較する際のイントネーションが大切です。
- backed up - 文中で2回繰り返されますが、最後の部分で少し強いトーンを使うことで感情がより伝わります。
これらのポイントを意識しながら練習することで、より自然な英語のスピーキングスキルを磨くことができます。英語スピーキング練習において、こうした要素を取り入れることが効果的です。
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。