シャドーイング練習: GET READY FOR MOVERS TRACK 50-51 - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が26文、単語が134語あります。 音声の長さは1:29です。 話す速さはゆっくりで、1分あたり約91語です。一つ一つの音をまねる余裕があります。 英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は78%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくるやや難しい単語13語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

• spider /ˈspaɪ̯dɚ/ (名詞) — 蜘蛛, クモ. Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
• bedroom /ˈbɛdˌɹum/ (名詞) — 寝室. A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.
• pet /pɛt/ (名詞) — ペット, 愛玩動物. An animal kept as a companion or otherwise for pleasure, rather than for some practical benefit or use.
• mouse /maʊs/ (名詞) — 鼠, ネズミ. Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.
• snake /sneɪk/ (名詞) — 蛇, ヘビ. Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
• cage /keɪd͡ʒ/ (名詞) — 檻, 篭. An enclosure made of spaced bars, normally to hold animals while providing some ventilation.
• elephant /ˈɛlɪfənt/ (名詞) — 象, ゾウ. A large mammal of the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and native to Africa and Asia.
• frighten /ˈfɹaɪ.tən/ (動詞) — 怖がらせる. To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.
• favourite /ˈfeɪv.ɹɪt/ (形容詞) — お気に入りの, 最も好きな. Most-liked. (In other words, [person]'s favorite [noun] = the [noun] that [person] likes the most.)
• careful /ˈkɛɹfəl/ (形容詞) — 思慮深い. Taking care; attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.
• circle /ˈsɜɹkəl/ (名詞) — 円, 丸. A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center).
• animal /ˈænɪməl/ (名詞) — 動物, 生き物. A multicellular organism of the kingdom Animalia that is usually mobile, with cells that are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing them from plants…
• fly /ˈflaɪ̯/ (名詞) — ハエ目, 双翅目. Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.

注意したい発音

話し手はcan't, didn't, I'mなど、短縮形や弱形を6回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

この動画での練習方法

1. まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
2. 通常の速度で一文ずつシャドーイングし、話し手のリズムに合うまで繰り返します。
3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。spider, bedroom, petなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。