シャドーイング練習: Repeat-After-Me + Shadowing Practice | 'TH' Sounds in English - YouTubeで英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Hey guys!
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Welcome or welcome back to my channel.
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I'm Claire, a native speaker from the US,
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but I'm also an English teacher and I'm a professionally trained singer.
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So I have been trained in the international phonetic alphabet.
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And if you don't know what that is,
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it is the alphabet that covers all the sounds that exist internationally for every language.
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So of course, Some languages do not use certain sounds that others do,
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but if you learn the phonetic symbols that match the sounds,
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especially ones that don't exist in your native language,
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that can really help you to better understand those sounds every time you run into them.
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Now, one of the trickiest sounds
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that non-native speakers struggle with in English is the voiced and unvoiced sound that is usually represented by TH.
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So the TH sound in English is formed by placing your tongue between your teeth
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and lightly pressing the tip of your tongue to the bottom of your front teeth.
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To achieve the voiced TH sound,
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gently place your fingers on your throat and feel the vibrations when you make the sound.
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So you can feel that vibrating.
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The unvoiced th sound you won't be able to feel any vibrations on your throat.
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So for that one you're just pushing air through the teeth and the tongue without bringing the vocal cords together.
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So without those vibrations.
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So to help us practice both of these voiced and unvoiced TH sounds in English,
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I'm going to take you through a repeat after me and then shadowing practice.
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So it's pretty simple.
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First, you will just repeat after me and then you will say it
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with me at the same time matching my pronunciation and inflection.
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So that's a practice we call shadowing.
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If you aren't familiar with my other shadowing videos,
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I have a playlist here on my channel that I will link here.
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So go check that out if you found this practice useful.
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All right, let's get started.
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English made easy with Claire.
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So first, repeat after me.
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This year, this year, our first word here uses the voiced TH sound.
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So you will feel the vibrations.
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This, this year.
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My mother wanted to do something special for her birthday.
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Good.
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So here we have another voiced TH sound.
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Mother.
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Mother.
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So this one's a little bit faster because it's in the middle of the word,
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but you still should feel those vibrations.
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Mother.
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Um, mother.
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And then the second word with TH uses the unvoiced sound.
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And again, this one is quick because it comes in the middle of the word.
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Birthday.
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Birthday.
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No vibrations.
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Birth.
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Birthday.
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Okay, let's say that whole sentence again.
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Repeat after me.
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This year my mother wanted to do something special for her birthday.
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The first thing she said was...
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The first thing, thing, unvoiced,
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the first thing she said was,
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I don't want a big party.
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I don't want a big party.
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Instead, we drove through the countryside to a quiet little spa.
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Threw, through.
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That's an unvoiced TH sound.
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Instead, we drove through the countryside to a quiet little spa.
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Repeat again.
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Even though it was simple.
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Though, though.
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This word looks a lot like through,
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but it has the voiced TH sound.
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So we'll feel that here.
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Though.
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Though.
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Even though it was simple,
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it felt like the perfect getaway.
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It felt like the perfect getaway.
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In the afternoon, in the afternoon,
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we decided to sunbathe by the pool.
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So just after initially saying this word sunbathe,
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can you guess if it's voiced or unvoiced?
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Say it a couple times to yourself.
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This one is voiced.
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We can feel the vibration.
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Sunbathe.
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Sunbathe.
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And it might not be so obvious because it comes at the end of the word.
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We wouldn't generally in rapid speech really pronounce it slowly bathe, right?
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But this one is voiced.
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Sunbathe.
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Sunbathe.
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In the afternoon, we decided to sunbathe by the pool.
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Later on, she enjoyed a long, relaxing bath.
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So here, bath looks very similar to bathe,
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but they have different pronunciations.
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Bath uses the unvoiced TH.
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Bath.
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Bath.
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Later on, she enjoyed a long relaxing bath.
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At the end of the day,
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at the end of the day,
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my mother smiled and said, smiled.
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That's an often mispronounced word.
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Smiled.
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This was exactly what I needed.
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This was exactly what I needed.
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Repeat the whole sentence after me.
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At the end of the day,
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my mother smiled and said,
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this was exactly what I needed.
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Okay, now for our shadowing practice.
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So you are going to say the whole story with me at the same time.
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Repeat this part of the video as many times as you like until you feel comfortable,
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especially with the voiced and unvoiced TH sound.
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Here we go.
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This year, my mother wanted to do something special for her birthday.
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The first thing she said was,
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I don't want a big party.
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Instead, we drove through the countryside to a quiet little spa.
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Even though it was simple,
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it felt like the perfect getaway.
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In the afternoon, we decided to sunbathe by the pool.
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Later on, she enjoyed a long, relaxing bath.
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At the end of the day,
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my mother smiled and said,
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this was exactly what I needed.
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All right, so I hope that repeat after me
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and shadowing practice helped you a little bit better to understand the th sounds in English
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and the difference between the voiced and unvoiced.
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It's a really tricky sound if you don't have it in your native language,
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so don't be discouraged if you aren't getting it immediately after this video.
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Like I said, you can repeat this video as many times as you need
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and practice slowly trying the different sounds on your own.
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And over time, the more shadowing practice you do,
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the more comfortable and confident you will be in producing these sounds.
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Let me know in the comments if you have any other pronunciation requests for future videos like this.
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Of course, if you are a member of my YouTube channel,
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you get priority reply.
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So click the join button below to find out more about that.
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Give me a like and subscribe to my channel so that you don't miss out on my future shadowing practice videos.
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And I will see you in the next one.
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Bye.
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この動画で話す練習をする理由
英語の発音を改善するためには、実際に言葉を口に出して練習することが非常に重要です。この動画では、THの音を強調し、母音の振動を感じながら練習する方法を学びます。発音の精度を上げるだけでなく、語彙を広げる機会にもなります。特に、動画に登場するフレーズを繰り返し発音することで、shadow speak（シャドースピーク）の技術を磨くことができます。このような練習法は、英語の会話力を高める効果的な手段です。
文法と表現の文脈
この動画で使われているいくつかの重要な構造を分析してみましょう。
- this year - 「今年」という意味ですが、発音時にはTHの振動を感じる必要があります。
- my mother - 「私の母」という表現は、TH音が中間に来るため、注意が必要です。
- birthday - 「誕生日」という言葉は、無声のTH音を使用していますが、スピードに注意する必要があります。
これらの表現は、日常会話でよく使われるフレーズのため、覚えておくと便利です。動画を参考にして、正しい発音を身につけましょう。
一般的な発音の罠
英語を学ぶ際に、特に注意すべき単語やアクセントについて考えてみましょう。
- 母 (mother) - D音が含まれているため、際立たせることが困難です。
- 誕生日 (birthday) - 無声のTH音が早口で発音されるため、練習が必要です。
- それ以外のTHサウンド - ボイスがあるもの（like this）とないもの（like think）の違いを理解することが不可欠です。
これらの罠を避けるためには、英語シャドーイングの練習が効果的です。YouTubeで英語学習する際には、発音を意識して復唱することが重要です。
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。