シャドーイング練習: MASTER English Pronunciation | DIFFICULT SOUNDS (TH, B, P, CH, SH) - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

Hello and my name is James.

Welcome to Easy English with James.

And today I want to talk to you a little bit about pronunciation.

Now, pronunciation is one of the things that most people find most difficult when studying English.

Everyone wants to sound like a native speaker.

And there are some hiccups, some problems along the way.

There are some sounds that most people find very difficult and today we're going to look at them sounds.

Our first sound today is the th sound.

Now this sound can be split into two different types.

The first is a voiced sound.

This is the sound that you hear when people say words like the or those, these.

And it's caused by vibrating your tongue.

If you imagine a mobile phone, when it's ringing it vibrates.

If you put your tongue out of your mouth just in between your teeth

and you vibrate your tongue as you make the sound th, th, th.

This is the sound that you want to make when you produce the th voiced sound.

This, that, these, those, them and their.

The other th sound is a voiceless sound.

This is what we say when you hear words like theatre,

theatre or thank you or Thursday

or even the popular superhero character Thor okay this sound is

a little bit different what we do is we do the

same thing we put the tongue out of the mouth

but this time we blow air in between the tongue and the top of our mouth like this

okay so every time somebody says thank you

or Thursday what they're doing is blowing

that air out of their mouth this is one of the most important sounds

and if you get this right I promise you people will think

that your ability to to pronounce English is really on quite

a high level the next sound actually this is more like two sounds

but they're often confused with each other the first is the CH sound as as in chat

or chips or change and the second is the sh sound as in shoot or ship or shine

now the mouth is in the same position okay like so sh but for the sh sound that's this one

The SH sound we control it by continually making the sound for a little bit longer.

Like so.

The CH sound right here we make by making a strong blast of sound.

Like so.

CH CH CH.

You might have heard a common tongue twister with this one.

For the SH sound we have tongue twisters like she sells sea shells by the seashore.

For the CH you might have a tongue twister like how much wood could a woodchuck chuck

if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

Practice both of these and

if you can master these two sounds again it will really help you to produce a natural sounding voice

when you're speaking and communicating in English.

The next two sounds.

Very very similar problem.

We have the P sound as in pot or pig

or pepper and the bee sound as in baby bad bigger these two sounds also can be called voiced

and unvoiced or voiceless

and a lot of people have problems with these two sounds

it's quite hard for a non-native native speaker to hear the difference.

But it's very important to know the difference between the two.

The first sound, our p sound, comes from down in your belly

and it's produced by blasting air out of the mouth as you put your mouth into this position.

Pot, pig, pepper, police

but the b sound there is none of this blasting feeling

for the b sound it's simply a vibration somewhere down here again like

so big better bellow bad and you can hear the difference between

that sound okay if you practice these two sounds you'll find

that your ability to hear the difference when people are speaking to you improves as you practice.

So it's a good idea to repeat these sounds as often as possible.

Okay, thanks for joining us today.

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See you again for the next video.

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。

シャドーイング練習: MASTER English Pronunciation | DIFFICULT SOUNDS (TH, B, P, CH, SH) - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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