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I'm going to show you how to learn German when you really don't have time using seven simple cheat codes.

See, I've been learning and teaching languages for over 25 years.

I've written dozens of books, including ones in German, and I've noticed that people who succeed with learning German, they're not smarter, they're not more talented, and they definitely don't have more free time.

They just get a few really important things right from the very beginning.

So in this video, I'm going to give you seven cheat codes that make learning German feel easier almost immediately.

You'll learn what to focus on, what to ignore, and how to start speaking, even if you've only got a few minutes a day.

So let's start with the easiest win there is, and you're probably going to think I'm joking because it certainly doesn't look like it's easy, but look, have you ever seen anything written in German?

Maybe on social media, in subtitles, a poster, a page in a book?

What you see at first glance is a lot of long words and funny letters, and are those capital letters in the middle of a sentence?

What is that anyway?

A typo?

How do you even read this?

Well, the funny thing is almost everything that's making this look difficult is actually trying to help you.

Those capital letters, they're not random, they're actually doing you a big favor because German highlights the most important words on the page.

That's right.

So when you look at a sentence, read the capitals first, because in German, every noun starts with a capital letter, every person, every place, every thing.

And that means

And here is

the Polizeilederjacke of 1989.

It's not hurting that they look a lot like English.

This one means the wind, and the other means police leather jacket.

So before you've even worked out the grammar, you've already got a pretty good idea of what's going on, something to do with the wind, and a leather jacket.

Now you've just got to figure out what's actually happening.

For that, you will need the other six cheat codes.

Before we get there, if reading German that easily gives you a little buzz, well, hold onto that feeling,

because that buzz is the whole idea behind how we teach languages here at Story Learning.

We don't bury you with grammar rules from the beginning.

We hand you a little story that's full of words

that you can already half guess so that you're reading real German from page one, not page 100.

And if you want to feel that win for yourself, experience what that's like, I've written a free short story for you

that comes with audio so you can read and listen along

and actually show you exactly how to do this step by step

so that you can prove to yourself that learning German won't be as hard as you think.

To get this free story, You can scan the QR code on the screen with your phone, or you can look for the link in the description.

Then see how much you can understand using all the seven cheat codes in this video.

Now, if you were just wondering how on earth you were supposed to recognize police leather jackets when it's all one word, well, don't worry, because that's the next cheat.

See, in German, a leather jacket is one word, just like a gazillion other things are, and it can get even longer if it's a particular kind of jacket.

So naturally, people think learning German means memorizing thousands and thousands of gigantic words.

But luckily, that's actually the last thing you should be worrying about, because German isn't inventing a brand new word each time,

it's just snapping a few ordinary words together like Lego.

German loves doing this.

The trick is to reverse engineer the word.

So if you can't understand this long word, unclick it, break the Lego.

Okay, vintage leather jacket.

Well, now I get it, which means those famously enormous German words are not really enormous at all.

There's lots of little words hiding inside a bigger one that German happens to stick together.

Also the biggest clue to the meaning is going to be the last part.

So even if you're not sure what the first part of the word is, you still know it's a jacket and that's kind of enough a lot of the time to guess what the word is.

So just think, last part wins.

What's brilliant about this is that you can often guess words that you've never seen before.

Let's say you're reading a a new little scene like this one.

First you spot all the nouns and some are easy because they look like English.

German has tons of these by the way they're called cognates

and once you start breaking up the longer words it's actually pretty fun guessing what's going on.

But reading German is one thing.

How could you actually say those words out loud?

Because German pronunciation can be tricky and

so naturally this is where beginners get a bit nervous because you look at a word like this and you think, great I've got no idea what sound that is supposed to make.

Ackeree?

Is that the same as bakery?

Is that how you say it?

Well no, that EI at the end is a typical German spelling trick that catches people out.

EI versus IE.

They look almost identical but they sound completely different and a lot of words look like this.

So here's the cheat, when you get to the the EI, IE part, just ignore the first letter.

Say the second one.

If you see IE, the second letter is E, right?

So just say E as in Wien.

And if you see EI, the second letter is, yeah, you guessed it, I as in Wein.

All you need to remember is that mein is mein and fein is, well, fein.

Once your throat is dry from repeating that, you can wet your whistle with a glass of Weißwein.

You can tell her sie trinkt bier hier in Wien.

That is, she drinks beer here in Vienna.

That's it, one little trick and you'll get one of the most confusing parts of German right almost every time.

Great, now that you're feeling more comfortable, you might be ready to hang out with some Germans, but that can feel a bit intimidating.

What are you actually going to say?

Well, the quickest way to get speaking real German quickly is to learn a handful of ready-made chunks.

Now, chunks are little starter phrases where you memorize the first part

and then simply change the ending to say dozens of other things.

For example, here's a really useful chunk that means I feel like or I'm in the mood for.

I feel like pizza, I feel like beer, I feel like dancing, I feel like going home.

You just learn that set phrase, I feel like, and you swap out the last word or two to say whatever it is that you fancy doing.

And it's the ultimate social shortcut really, and that word that looks like lust, it means desire.

You can't forget that.

Ich habe Lust einkaufen zu gehen.

I feel like going shopping.

Ich habe Lust auf Pizza.

I'm up for pizza.

Here's another one.

I'm looking forward to, or I can't wait for.

I can't wait for the weekend.

I can't wait to go hiking.

You can even come up with a few fun ones yourself, like this little phrase, I'm scared of something.

Learn that little chunk and you can say, well, I'm scared of spiders, I'm scared of flying, I'm scared of the dark, I'm scared of watching Ollie's YouTube videos.

You're not building anything from scratch here, you're taking a small chunk of German, using it exactly as it is, and just adding your own detail at the end.

Learn five or six like this, and suddenly you can really say things, not perfectly, but enough to get words out of your mouth.

Even once you know all this stuff, there is one particular thing that can feel quite stressful from the very start.

How to say the.

See, German does something that English speakers find completely baffling.

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Every noun, every thing, comes with one of three little words and those words are der, die and das.

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You might remember that from school.

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They all basically mean the in English but German uses a different one for different nouns.

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So the artist, the gallery and the girl might each need a completely different version of the.

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And the last thing you want is to haul out a long grammar list to check every time.

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Stop worrying.

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Don't fight the die der das.

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Here is a brilliant little workaround that will help you out immediately.

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Whenever you've got the choice, talk about more than one thing instead of just one.

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It immediately cancels out the problem.

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Say you're at a train station in Berlin looking for the ticket machines.

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Well, instead of asking, where's the ticket machine?

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Ask, where are the ticket machines? not machine,

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machines, plural, because every plural noun in German gets the same definite article, die, always.

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It doesn't matter if you're talking about cats, clocks, or apple trees, they all get the exact same version of the.

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So next time you're walking around Germany, instead of worrying whether a pretzel or a pilsner is der, die, or das, just say the pretzels,

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the pilsners, and nine times out of ten you will be right, no guessing required.

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It's a silly little trick, but it's amazing how these little things give you confidence when it comes to But wait, that's not the only sneaky way around genders.

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Here's another fun one.

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You know how in English we say words like a doggy instead of dog?

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At least my 11 year old does.

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Well in German you can add Schen to the end of a noun.

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You're talking about a small version of it like a doggy and guess what?

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Every single Schen noun is automatically das.

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So if you can't remember the gender of Hund, which is dog, just think little dog.

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Das little dog every time.

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Pretty handy.

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But even with all these new skills, how are you going to handle a German person talking to you at seven million miles an hour?

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Because often when you hear native speakers it feels like someone's throwing the whole box of Lego down the stairs.

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Just this wall of sound.

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But here's the thing, German often hides one of the most important pieces of a sentence until the very end.

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The action.

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The verb.

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And without the verb you don't know what's happening.

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The trick is don't panic halfway through through the sentence.

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Let it finish.

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And while you're waiting for the ending, listen for the big words that come along, the nouns, people, places, things.

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Gummiband is...

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...noch irgendwo.

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Okay, I heard rubber band somewhere.

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Ich hab noch eins.

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Irgendwo.

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Ich glaub in einer Tasche.

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Hier?

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Nein.

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Ja, ich glaub in meiner Jackentasche, eine andere Jacke.

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Right, he said pockets and the other jacket pocket.

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Well, that's already enough for me to start to build a picture.

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Now, make a guess.

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I think he's looking for a rubber band that might be in his other jacket pocket.

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And don't worry if you're wrong, your brain absolutely loves making predictions like this.

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Then the sentence reaches the end, the verb arrives, and suddenly the whole picture clicks into place.

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It takes practice, but that's how good listeners work.

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They're not trying to catch every single word.

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They're always building a picture from the clues.

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This is how German works.

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It's like you're walking around a shop, putting things in your shopping basket, and it's only right at the end that you find out how much they all cost.

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You've got to bring them there anyway, right?

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Does this metaphor work?

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I don't know.

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Anyway, for now, you've got tons of little shortcuts to help you, but there's one final cheat that makes all the others stick.

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You've got to make this all personal.

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See, when you're in a hurry to get actually speaking German in front of real people

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and having a good time while you're at it, there's not much point wasting time practicing all the dog phrases if you only like cats,

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or how to ask for the right train if you never take trains and you only take taxis, or private helicopters or something.

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You're just overloading your memory with useless stuff, and next thing you know, you're out with friends, and then someone says, oh, go on then, say something in German.

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Can you say something in German?

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Can you say something in German about your dream of Wembley?

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Say something in German.

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Yep, and your mind just goes completely blank.

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Being there, I hate that.

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So forget all of that stuff.

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Your brain won't remember because it literally doesn't care.

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So instead, learn to say stuff you actually talk about in your own life.

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Your job, your family, your favorite rock bands, what you like to do on weekends, who your football team is.

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As for your cats, could you tell those Germans about the one who keeps getting stuck up a tree?

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Now, that's the German you'll actually use and because it matters to you, you'll remember it with half the effort.

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You can even bring in those little chunks now that we talked about earlier.

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I'm looking forward to the Guns N' Roses concert.

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Ich freue mich schon auf das Konzert.

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Ich freue mich auf.

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If it comes up in your everyday life, it belongs in your German and it's worth learning.

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Even the most obscure things are worth learning if they're personal to you.

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So start there and you'll never be stuck wondering what to say again.

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And by the way, if you've been learning German for a while and you're looking for something fun, a breath of fresh air to breathe into your learning, you might like to check out the Story Learning app.

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Because here we give you short stories that are written personalized for you.

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So we take your reading level and the stories magically adapt to your reading level as you go.

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So if they're too hard, we make the stories too easy.

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If the stories are too long, we make them shorter.

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We only write stories in the genres that you like

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but also when you save words from the story those words will reappear in future stories

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so that you're always kind of learning naturally the words that you want to learn.

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Lots of people are really enjoying the app there's a link in the description if you'd like to check out more.

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There's just one thing left to do now

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and that's figure out how you're going to make German a part of your everyday life

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because all the cheat codes in the world won't help you

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if you don't actually use them

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so my next video I'm going to show you a dead simple system for learning any language even

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if you've only got 15 minutes a day.

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このB1レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「How to Learn German FAST When You Don't Have Time」を教材にしています。繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：German, word, learning。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が198文、単語が2564語あります。音声の長さは13:11です。話す速さは速く、1分あたり約195語です。音のつながりや弱く発音される音が多くなります。単語の84%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。

この動画の重要語彙

動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語	発音	意味
jacket 名詞	/ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/	ジャケット
noun 名詞	/naʊn/	名詞
cheat 動詞	/ˈt͡ʃiːt/	騙す, まやかす
chunk 名詞	/t͡ʃʌŋk/	塊
scare 動詞	/skɛɚ/	威かす, 驚かす
phrase 名詞	/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/	句, 語句
verb 名詞	/vɝb/	動詞
grammar 名詞	/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/	文法
memorize 動詞	/ˈmɛm.əˌɹaɪ̯z/	記憶する, 覚える
pretzel 名詞	/ˈpɹɛt.səl/	プレッツェル
shortcut 名詞	/ˈʃɔːtkʌt/	近道
wean 動詞	/ˈwiːn/	乳離れさせる
plural 名詞	/ˈplʊəɹəl/	複数
buzz 名詞	/bʌz/	ブーン
clue 名詞	/kluː/	手掛かり, 切っ掛け

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	意味
check out 動詞	試験する, 検査する
look forward to 動詞	楽しみにする
find out 動詞	見出す, 調べる

繰り返し練習したい文

動画に出てくる短く完結した文です。日常会話でそのまま使えます。

How do you even read this?
How could you actually say those words out loud?
Is that how you say it?
What are you actually going to say?
I'm looking forward to, or I can't wait for.

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型	動画での表現
現在完了進行形 have/has been + -ing — 以前に始まり今も続いている動作	I've been learning · you've been learning
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している	I've written · you've even worked · you've never seen
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える	people who succeed · Hund, which is · one who keeps
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる	be stuck · are written

注意したい発音

話し手はyou're, I'm, you'veなど、短縮形や弱形を88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。

「th」の音: breathe /bɹiːð/, throat /ˈθɹoʊt/
「sh」と「zh」の音: shortcut /ˈʃɔːtkʌt/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, prediction /pɹɪˈdɪkʃən/, genre /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: intimidate /ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/, personalize /ˈpɜː.sə.nə.laɪz/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/

日本語話者が苦手な音：

/r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: pretzel /ˈpɹɛt.səl/, plural /ˈplʊəɹəl/, stressful /ˈstɹɛsfəl/, helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: verb /vɝb/, overload /ˌəʊvəˈləʊd/, invent /ɪnˈvɛnt/, vintage /ˈvɪn.tɪd͡ʒ/, versus /ˈvɝsəs/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, baffle /ˈbæf(ə)l/, confuse /kənˈfjuːz/, metaphor /ˈmɛt.ə.fɚ/, definite /ˈdɛfɪnɪt/

この動画での練習方法

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。
まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。jacket, noun, cheatなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

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。

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