シャドーイング練習: How To Speak Upper Class Eton - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

練習モードを選ぶ

各モードは全画面の練習ルームで開きます。

96 文

文が短すぎたり長すぎる場合は、Editをタップして調整してください。

Hello, it's John here.

Today we have a very interesting topic for you.

That is the Eton accent and vocabulary.

Now, Eton is one of the most prestigious schools in the UK, if not the most prestigious.

So where is Eton?

Well, it's about 20 miles from central London, very close to the town of Windsor.

Here is a sample of former pupils who all went to Eton.

We have Damien Lewis, Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Bear Grylls and Ian Fleming all went to Eton.

Plus two other prime ministers, British prime ministers who went to Eton

and they're the ones we're going to focus on today because I have recordings of both of them,

that being Boris Johnson, for many people this is an astonishing moment of hope, and David Cameron.

And that is something we should all be grateful for.

And we're going to analyse their accent.

Then we're going to look at the specific vocabulary that's used at Eton College.

So, by the end of the video, you should know how to speak Eton.

So, let's start with Boris.

Let's hear the way he speaks in this speech.

Tonight we are leaving the European Union.

For many people this is an astonishing moment of hope.

A moment they thought would never come.

And there are many, of course, who feel a sense of anxiety and loss.

And then there's a third group, perhaps the biggest, who had started to worry that the whole political wrangle would never come to an end.

So Boris certainly speaks with an RP or Received Pronunciation accent.

He's got various features, pronunciation features to his accent.

Let's go through them now.

OK, so the first thing you'll notice is he's got quite a throaty way of speaking, really at the back of the throat,

you know, a bit like this.

Political wrangle.

On top of that, he's got this sort of start -stop rhythm to it,

like as if everything he's saying is actually a sound bite.

Perhaps the biggest.

Couple that with his highly melodic intonation and he's surely got your attention. Of hope.

Now, he's obviously nurtured this accent to sound, I don't know, privileged or upper class.

And you can really tell that he went to a private school.

He's got that kind of feel about his accent.

He uses words that RP speakers would use, like astonishing.

And he's got the classic RP vowel sound, like thought.

Yes, so he's got this sound just like in classic RP.

Plus it's a version of RP that's quite rare these days, although you have to say it does stand out because of that.

Now let's move on to David Cameron who is also an Old Etonian.

Here's his speech, the first speech he made as PM of Britain.

Her Majesty the Queen has asked me to form a new government and I have accepted.

Before I talk about that new government, let me say something about the one that has just passed.

Compared with a decade ago...

So, he speaks very clearly.

Again, you could probably tell that he's been to a privately educated school.

Maybe not exactly Eton, but he does speak.. he takes care in what he says and he speaks very clearly.

He also, you would say, has an RP accent.

That's because the first thing you realise is he doesn't like to drop sounds, especially his T's.

He always says his T's like in government.

Government.

Yes?

Like that.

Form a new government.

The next sound we'll pick up on is the classic RP sound of the O.

Now I say it a more modern way.

I say O and he says O, O.

Right?

So, people who want to enunciate, who want to speak RP generally take care of their vowel sounds.

He says this O, O, AGO, AGO, HOPE, right?

So, that is a clear indication of speaking received pronunciation as well.

OK, let's move on to the vocabulary.

Now, the first word, where would the schools be without teachers?

And this is a word that Etonians use for teachers.

It is used in one or two other private schools as well, but it's also used at Eton.

So, they call teachers beaks,

as in a bird beak and you can literally replace the word teacher for the word beak in sentences in at Eton.

Everybody, the beak's coming.

Finish up your homework now, quick.

Something like that.

Next, when I was looking at the fees for Eton, which are obviously extremely high, I noticed that the year is split into halves.

However, the halves are divided into three.

So, there's three halves to the year.

That's very strange, isn't it?

The next two are connected with eating.

The first one is chambers.

And that's a break in the morning when you can have a snack.

I guess at Eton you would say something like...

OK chaps, it's 11 o 'clock.

Time for chambers.

The second one is messing, which means to prepare a snack in the afternoon at your boarding house.

Because obviously all the kids at Eton live in boarding houses.

OK.

Shall we put everything that we've learnt into a sentence?

so that we can speak Eton.

So in this half we're having chambers at 11

and then we're going to go back to the house at 3 for messing.

But we have to be at the chapel at 3 .30 otherwise the beaks will come hunting for us.

And there you have it, a crash course in speaking upper class Eton.

Now I hope you've learned a few things about the Eton accent

and I hope you can take it away and just for pleasure or for whatever, enjoy yourself with the accent.

Remember to like and subscribe to the channel for more videos on accents

and remember right here you can get a better British accent.

My name is John and I'll say see you later, stay connected, bye.

So I hope you thoroughly enjoyed this accent video today

and I hope now you can speak a bit more Eton and a bit more RP.

アプリをダウンロード

流暢に話すために必要なすべて

AI発音採点文ごとに採点

IPA練習すべての音をマスター

単語学習自分の単語帳を作る

単語ゲーム遊びながら覚える

QRをスキャン

Download on theApp Store Get it onGoogle Play

FOR YOU

このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

このスピーキングレッスンは、動画「How To Speak Upper Class Eton」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：Eton, accent, speak, sound, word。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が96文、単語が1020語あります。音声の長さは6:57です。話す速さは1分あたり約147語で安定しており、シャドーイングしやすいペースです。単語の83%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

動画に出てくる覚えておきたい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語	発音	意味
accent 名詞	/ækˈsɛnt/	強音, 強調
chamber 名詞	/ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbɚ/	寝室, 部屋
vocabulary 名詞	/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/	語彙, 語彙力
pronunciation 名詞	/pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/	発音, 読み
connect 動詞	/kəˈnɛkt/	繋げる
snack 名詞	/snæk/	軽食, スナック
topic 名詞	/ˈtɑpɪk/	話題, テーマ
anxiety 名詞	/æŋˈzaɪ.əti/	心配, 不安
compare 動詞	/kəmˈpɛɚ/	比べる, 比較する
clock 名詞	/klɑk/	走行距離計
grateful 形容詞	/ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/	有難い, 感謝する
bite 動詞	/baɪt/	噛む
throat 名詞	/ˈθɹoʊt/	喉
privilege 名詞	/ˈpɹɪv.(ɪ.)lɪd͡ʒ/	特権
homework 名詞	/ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/	宿題, 課題

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。

Let's hear the way he speaks in this speech.
Let's go through them now.
That's very strange, isn't it?
Shall we put everything that we've learnt into a sentence?

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
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している	has asked · has just passed · he's been
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	is split · are divided · are connected
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える	people who want · Eton, which are · messing, which means

注意したい発音

話し手はwe're, doesn't, don'tなど、短縮形や弱形を14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: throat /ˈθɹoʊt/, thoroughly /ˈθʌɹ.ə.li/, rhythm /ˈɹɪð.əm/, throaty /ˈθɹəʊti/
「sh」と「zh」の音: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, indication /ɪndɪˈkeɪʃən/, astonish /əˈstɑnɪʃ/, intonation /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, indication /ɪndɪˈkeɪʃən/, enunciate /ɪˈnʌnsiˌeɪt/

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: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, grateful /ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/, privilege /ˈpɹɪv.(ɪ.)lɪd͡ʒ/, thoroughly /ˈθʌɹ.ə.li/, privately /ˈpɹaɪvɪtli/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, privilege /ˈpɹɪv.(ɪ.)lɪd͡ʒ/, divide /dɪˈvaɪd/, privately /ˈpɹaɪvɪtli/, vowel /ˈvaʊ.əl/
子音の連続 — 間に母音を入れない: accent /ækˈsɛnt/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, connect /kəˈnɛkt/, snack /snæk/, prestigious /pɹɛˈstiːd͡ʒəs/

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。
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。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。accent, chamber, vocabulary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。

シャドーイングのやり方: ステップ別の完全ガイドを読む →

シャドーイング練習: How To Speak Upper Class Eton - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

練習モードを選ぶ

アプリをダウンロード

おすすめ動画

The RP English Accent – What is it, how does it sound, and who uses it?

Listening #english #speakenglish

SEtalk: Your Accent Is Not a Mistake

Best Of UK MPs Wildest Heckles & Insults Compilation

Speak like Thomas Shelby | British accent | English speaking | Peaky blinders lesson #4

Adele speaking with her strong accent

When British Actors Are Forced to Do American Accents!

10 Rules to Sound Like a Native English Speaker | British English

London and its accents

Shadowing British English | 1984 by George Orwell – Part 1 | RP Pronunciation Practice

English Learning Podcast: New UK Prime Minister?

Learn BRITISH ENGLISH with FOOTBALL Players