シャドーイング練習: Everyday English: Talk About Your Job | American English Connected Reading - 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, let's look at the connected sounds in a short piece where somebody is explaining what kind of job they do.
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Now, this isn't actually my job.
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I just made this up.
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But let's take a look anyway.
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I'm a freelance drone photographer.
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I'm a freelance drone photographer.
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So there's not really any changed sounds here in this first sentence.
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But pay attention to how the sounds connect.
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I'm a free, I'm a freelance drone, drone photographer.
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All of these sounds connect to each other, the vowels and the consonants.
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I'm a freelance drone photographer.
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I own a couple different types of drones and people hire me to get aerial photos for them.
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I own a couple different types of drones.
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I own a couple different types.
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Different types.
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We connect the two T sounds together.
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Different types.
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And look at this.
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I'm not saying different.
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That first E in different is completely removed.
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I'm not saying different types.
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It's just different.
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Different types.
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I own a couple different types of drones.
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Here, of, before the consonant in drones, removes its sound.
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Types a drones.
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Types a drones.
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I own a couple different types of drones.
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And people hire me.
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And people, and people hire me.
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Now this is interesting and usually loosens its sound.
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It's normally an and people right and people but before a sound often turns into a sound.
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So it becomes and people and people hire me and people hire me.
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Now you can only say this if you're speaking quickly.
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As soon as you're speaking slowly, these connected sound rules don't usually apply.
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So if you're speaking slowly, and people hire me, and people.. now suddenly I'm saying every letter in the word,
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but as soon as I start speaking quickly, it's, and people hire me, and people hire me, and people hire me to get.. hire me to get..
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so the word to gets reduced a lot here.
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hire me to get aerial photos.
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So here to get ariel, there's a tap there, to get aerial photos, to get aerial photos.
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Hire me to get aerial photos for them.
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Forum.
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Forum.
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Now I could say for them, both are fine, but here aerial photos forum.
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Forum.
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The important part is that we're taking out the TH in them.
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Aerial photos for them.
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Most of my clients are businesses who want images for an ad campaign.
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Most of my clients, we take out the v in of again, most of my clients, sir, sir, most of my clients are businesses.
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You might have seen sometimes the apostrophe R E spelling of R.
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Most of my clients are businesses.
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You might have seen sometimes the apostrophe R-E spelling of R.
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Most of my clients are businesses.
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Now, in American English, we don't normally write that.
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It's very uncommon to see apostrophe R-E after an ordinary noun like clients, for example.
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But we say it like that.
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Most of my clients are businesses.
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Most of my clients are businesses who want images.
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Who want images.
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Here the T gets completely removed from want.
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Who won images for an ad campaign.
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For an ad campaign.
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Here for turns into fur.
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For an ad campaign.
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Like car dealerships or small farms.
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Like car.
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Like car dealerships.
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Here the K in like and the K in car connect together.
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Like car dealerships or small farms.
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or turns into just er, or small farms.
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I also sometimes do work for developers.
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I also connect these two vowel sounds together.
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I also sometimes, I also sometimes do work for developers.
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Here we're changing for into fur, for developers, for developers, for developers who want images of the land they're thinking about buying,
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who want images.
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And we're going to take out that T after the N before a vowel.
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Who wan images, who wan images of the land they're thinking about buying.
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Of the turns into a the.
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Wan images of the land, of the land there of the land they're thinking about buying
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and this is a series of complicated changes here of the land there
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so when I say land the D disappears and the N connects to the TH
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images of the land they're thinking about buying of the land they're thinking about buying.
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So we have two words here that end in ing, thinking about buying.
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In a lot of fast speech, the ing just turns into in.
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This happens to me if I'm speaking really informally, but if I'm speaking a little bit more formally, like if I'm talking about my job,
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I'll probably keep the ng sound at the end of an ing word thinking about buying instead of thinking about buy-in
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finally the t in about turns into a glottal stop thinking about thinking about about buying
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so whether you're saying ing or just in for the thinking
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and buying words the t in about will always turn into a glottal stop in fast speech.
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I'm a freelance drone photographer.
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I own a couple different types of drones and people hire me to get aerial photos for them.
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Most of my clients are businesses who want images for an ad campaign like car dealerships or small farms.
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I also sometimes do work for developers who want images of the land they're thinking about buying.

コンテキストと背景

この動画では、アメリカ英語の音のつながりに焦点を当てています。話者は、自分の職業について説明しながら、日常的な会話でよく使用されるフレーズや発音のコツを紹介しています。彼の例は「フリーランスのドローン写真家」であり、この職業を通して、音のリンクや省略について詳しく学ぶことができます。

日常コミュニケーションのためのトップ5フレーズ

  • I'm a freelance drone photographer.（私はフリーランスのドローン写真家です。）
  • I own a couple different types of drones.（いくつかの異なるタイプのドローンを所有しています。）
  • And people hire me to get aerial photos.（人々は私に空中写真を撮影してもらうために雇います。）
  • I could say for them.（彼らのためにと言うこともできます。）
  • Most of my clients are businesses.（私のクライアントのほとんどは企業です。）

ステップバイステップシャドーイングガイド

この動画で学んだ内容を効果的に吸収するために、以下のステップを試してみてください。

  1. まずはリスニング: 動画を見て、話者の言葉を注意深く聞きます。特に音のつながりや省略に注目してください。
  2. 繰り返し練習: 動画のフレーズを何度もリピートしてみましょう。短い句から始めて、徐々に長いフレーズに挑戦します。これは英語シャドーイングの基本です。
  3. 発音とリズムの確認: タイミングに注意し、話者のリズムと声の抑揚に合わせて声に出してみてください。
  4. 録音する: 自分の声を録音し、話者と比較することで、発音やイントネーションを改善するヒントが得られます。
  5. フィードバックを受ける: 友人や教師に自分の練習を聴いてもらい、アドバイスを求めることも効果的です。

これらの練習を通じて、日常会話での流暢さが向上し、IELTS スピーキング対策にも役立つでしょう。YouTubeで英語学習をしながら、楽しみつつスキルを磨いていきましょう。しっかりした準備と練習があれば、shadowspeaksやshadow speakを利用して、さらに自信を持って話すことができるようになります。

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。