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Hello and welcome to another shadowing practice video with me, Claire, a native speaker from the US.
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Hello and welcome to another shadowing practice video with me, Claire, a native speaker from the US.
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I'm also a trained opera singer, so I've studied the International Phonetic Alphabet or IPA, so I've studied the correct pronunciation of sounds in multiple languages.
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In this video, So we're going to practice shadowing with a professional business presentation.
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Even if English is not your native language, you may need to use English at work or even give presentations in English if you work for an international or US company.
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You want to be understood.
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So even though you don't need to sound just like a native speaker, pronunciation and intonation are crucial.
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And of course, knowing some key phrases or common business English terms are also important to build confidence and overall fluency at work.
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So I'll first read through the presentation at a natural pace.
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Then we'll go through some of the key phrases and of course pronunciation tips.
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Finally, we'll shadow it together so you can sound more natural and confident at work.
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Let's go!
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English made easy with Claire Good morning everyone!
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Thanks for being here today.
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I want to walk you through our latest project and what the next steps are.
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As you know, our team has been working on optimizing the user experience on our website.
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Over the past month, we've run several tests and gathered valuable feedback from our customers.
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One key improvement is our new checkout process.
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We've reduced the number of steps from 5 to 3, which has already increased conversions by 20%.
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Looking ahead, we're planning to roll out these updates globally by next quarter.
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That means we need to finalize testing and prepare our teams for the launch.
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If you have any questions, feel free to reach out and I'd be happy to discuss this further.
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Thanks again for your time.
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Alright, so that was the initial read through at a normal speaking pace.
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Let's go through it slowly together.
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So we'll take the first section.
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Good morning everyone.
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Thanks for being here today.
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Thanks for being here today.
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That whole phrase can really be connected.
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So individually, we of course have the pronunciation of words like for, being, and today.
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in natural, quick speech, we in American English tend to close down some of the vowels or turn these vowels into the schwa sound.
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So the schwa sound is the uh sound, like in the word banana.
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There's two schwas in banana.
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And that happens in today.
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Today.
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Not today, but today.
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Today.
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So very rapid speech.
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Those vowels get dropped or, you know, changed into this schwa sound.
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And for becomes for in rapid speech.
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Thanks for.
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Thanks for being here today.
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For the words that end in ing, we don't need to completely drop the g every time so that it's thanks for being here today.
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That might come with certain dialects, but what we want to do is connect the ing sounds to the next word, like with this connected speech.
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Being here, being here.
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Otherwise we have being here.
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And many native speakers don't speak like that.
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We don't have to separate each word, but have this really connected speech,
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which often then modifies the vowels like for today, or you can elide sounds at the ends of words that squish on to the following word.
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So shadowing practice is really helpful for learning full phrases that you might use.
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And this is a really common one.
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Thanks for being here today.
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because if you start a business presentation, that's a really polite way to start the meeting.
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Okay, let's keep going.
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I want to walk you through our latest project and what the next steps are.
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So again, I wanna, that isn't just reserved for casual speech.
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You could be giving a business presentation and instead of saying want to say wanna and most native speakers speak like that all the time.
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I want to walk you through our latest project so that's completely acceptable.
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Now walk you through.
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Walk through is a phrasal verb which means to explain something step by step and this is a great one to know for business English.
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I want to walk you through our latest project and what the next steps are.
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Okay, moving on.
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As you know, our team has been working on optimizing the user experience on our website.
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Now really important when you have a comma, you always want to pause.
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don't just plow through the commas.
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As you know, our team has been working, right?
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There's a, it implies a pause there.
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As you know, and then further, and you'll notice that my intonation goes up a little bit when there's a phrase with a comma.
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And there's a little, there's more phrases like this to come and I'll point them out as well.
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As you know, our team has been working on optimizing the user experience on our website.
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So every time you have a comma, you can imagine the intonation going up at the, once you get to the end of the comma phrase, and then for the next phrase that ends in a period, the intonation goes back down.
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It happens again in the next sentence.
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over the past month, pause, we've run several tests and gathered valuable feedback from our customers.
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Intonation goes down right before the period, and it goes up right before the comma.
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And this makes it really clear the structure of your sentence.
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So even though we can't see what you're saying when you're giving a presentation, We understand the structure of the sentence because of your intonation.
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So even if you don't pronounce all of the words exactly like me, intonation is really, really important for this, for being understood.
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Now, in the previous sentence, we had a word ending in ing with the same concept of alighting with the word after it.
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Our team has been working on, working on.
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So we don't need to drop the G completely working on, but we do allied the sounds.
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Just it's a little bit softer than working, working on.
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That helps with giving it a flow as well.
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Our team has been working on.
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Our team has been working on.
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So it all kind of flows together.
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Okay, next section.
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One key improvement is our new checkout process.
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I want to point out the word key here, which I think I've used quite a lot in this video already.
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And key as an adjective means important or major.
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So one important improvement is this one key improvement, a word that we use a lot in business English.
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We've reduced the number of steps from five to three.
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Again, my intonation just went up because there was a comma, so there's more to come.
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I'm not done with my sentence.
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Which has already increased conversions by 20%.
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And then my intonation goes back down.
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Again, we have the linking of the words, which is already, which is already increased.
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And this happens a lot with the word has.
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if we are speaking in the present perfect, has increased, which is, which is already, right?
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Which has.
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So because which ends with the CH sound, we can align that with the beginning H
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of has, which is, and has the vowel modifies to is.
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It's more of a clipped vowel modification due to rapid speech.
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Again, so which has already increased conversions by 20%.
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It's kind of like when we have contractions anyway, like we've reduced.
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We don't always have to say we have reduced.
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We don't tend to write out these contractions that we would say in rapid speech, like which is increased, but we do speak like that.
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So the same principle, we've reduced,
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that's all squished together with this contraction there is an unwritten contraction for
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which is increased looking ahead we're planning to roll out these updates globally
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by next quarter looking ahead that is connected speech as well looking ahead and we pause after the comma we're planning to roll out these updates.
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Roll out means to introduce something new and is often used in a business context.
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That means we need to finalize testing and prepare our teams for the launch.
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So again, in American English, a lot of the smaller words, the vowels are dropped or modified.
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We need to finalize.
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To finalize.
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Prepare our teams.
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Often the word our can sound like our in rapid speech.
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Prepare our teams.
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That's also very connected.
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For the launch.
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So for instead of for.
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Again, those aren't really necessary for being understood, but that's for those of you who would like to work on the American accent.
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And the word here, launch, means the beginning of something, usually a campaign or a product in the marketing world.
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If you have any questions, feel free to reach out and I'd be happy to discuss this further.
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Thanks again for your time.
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So we have the phrase, feel free to, feel free to, feel free to reach out, feel free to contact me, feel free to write me an email.
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And it's a casual way to say, don't hesitate to do something.
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So if you wanted to be more formal, you could say, don't hesitate to reach out, but feel free is a nice phrase to have.
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And right at the end, another great business phrase we have, thanks for your time.
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And that's used to acknowledge people's time.
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And it's a polite business phrase to use at either the beginning or the end of a meeting or presentation.
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Okay, so a lot of what we covered in today's shadowing video
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was the concept of connected speech and maybe learning phrases not as individual words,
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but together in a phrase where you can connect the speech to sound a little more natural and fluent.
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We also talked about linking the ends of words with the beginning of the next word.
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Like we do this very often for words that end in ing.
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Or if the sounds are similar at the beginning, at the end and the beginning of the next word, like which and has, which is.
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And we also covered a few business phrases and phrasal verbs that are really useful to know, especially when speaking.
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So now let's shadow the full presentation together.
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Try to match my rhythm and intonation and word stress as well as pronunciation as best you can.
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If you want, you can pause the video after each section or sentence and repeat after me,
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or better yet, say the words with me at the same time and try and shadow how I say it or maybe both work well.
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First repeat after me and then afterwards try and shadow with me.
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Good morning everyone.
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Thanks for being here today.
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I want to walk you through our latest project and what the next steps are.
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As you know, our team has been working on optimizing the user experience on our website.
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Over the past month, we've run several tests and gathered valuable feedback from our customers.
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One key improvement is our new checkout process.
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We've reduced the number of steps from five to three, which has already increased conversions by 20%.
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Looking ahead, we're planning to roll out these updates globally by next quarter.
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That means we need to finalize testing and prepare our teams for the launch.
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If you have any questions, feel free to reach out and I'd be happy to discuss this further.
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Thanks again for your time.
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I hope this video was helpful and even if your goal is not to perfect the American accent or try and change your own accent,
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it's still really important to practice the correct stress of a word or the stressed word within a sentence or the intonation of that sentence so that the structure is clear.
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All of these things are really important for being understood.
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So take what you want from the video and leave what you don't, but hopefully you learned something new and it was helpful.
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Of course, if you did think so, give it a like and subscribe to my channel if you want more videos like this.
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I have a playlist for shadowing videos, and I'll be in your feeds with another video next week.
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So bye for now.
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Thank you.
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このビデオでは、アメリカのネイティブスピーカーでオペラ歌手のクレアが、ビジネスプレゼンテーションでのシャドーイング練習を提供します。彼女は国際音声記号（IPA）を学び、様々な言語の正しい発音を習得しました。このセッションでは、特に英語が母国語でない方が国際的な環境やアメリカの企業で働く際に必要なスピーキングスキルを向上させることを目的としています。
日常的なコミュニケーションのための5つのフレーズ
- Good morning everyone! - 皆さん、おはようございます！
- Thanks for being here today. - 今日はここにいてくれてありがとう。
- I want to walk you through our latest project. - 私たちの最新プロジェクトについて説明したいと思います。
- We've reduced the number of steps from 5 to 3. - ステップ数を5から3に減らしました。
- If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. - 質問があれば、遠慮なくご連絡ください。
これらのフレーズは、ビジネスシーンでよく使われるため、覚えておくと良いでしょう。特に、英語スピーキング練習に役立ちます。
段階的なシャドーイングガイド
ビデオで紹介されている内容を通じて、シャドーイング技術を活用していきましょう。以下のステップで練習を進めてください。
- 初めての読み聞かせ: クレアが行ったプレゼンテーションを自然なスピードで聞いて、全体の流れを理解します。
- フレーズの理解: 大切なフレーズや発音のポイントを確認し、どのように言葉がつながっているかを観察します。
- 発音練習: 限られたスピードで音読し、英語の発音を良くする練習を行います。たとえば、「today」の部分で母音が変わることに注意しましょう。
- シャドーイング: クレアの音声に合わせて、同時に発声します。英語のリズムや抑揚を意識し、shadow speechを実践します。
- フィードバック: 録音を振り返り、発音やフレーズの使い方にどれだけ自然に近づけたかを評価します。
このプロセスを通じて、日常のビジネスコミュニケーションをよりスムーズにし、自信を持って会話ができるようになります。英語シャドーイングの練習を通じて、流暢さと自然さを兼ね備えたスピーキングスキルを身につけましょう。
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。