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Hey there, I'm Emma from mmmEnglish.

Now lots of you have told me that you understand me

or you understand other native speakers when you're listening here on YouTube but the second you open your mouth,

they just don't come out the way that you want them to.

Your accent feels heavy, your rhythm feels off,

you know the words but you just don't feel like yourself when you say them.

Do you ever feel like this?

Do you get frustrated when the English that you know up here, it doesn't come out the way that you want it to when you speak in English?

Well in this video, I want to share a specific technique

that will help you to work on how you sound and these are skills that you can practise any time.

Even if you don't have anyone to speak with, You can use this technique to practice on your own,

to build your speaking skills alone.

Years ago, I started creating a series of practice videos that I called the imitation technique.

Now you might have practiced with some of these before but this is my own specific sequence that trains your ears

and your mouth to shadow me, to copy my pronunciation, my rhythm,

my tone, my natural facial expressions that are going to help you to communicate really clearly when you speak in English.

Now I've linked the whole playlist there or there so if you want to practice,

try some of these lessons out you can but they are about helping you to elevate

your pronunciation training beyond just focusing on specific sounds

or specific sound combinations and learning how words truly sound when they're spoken naturally,

how words link together, how they change when they're spoken at natural pace.

I've made so many of these videos but one thing that I haven't done

is explained why this method is so good for your speaking practice, why you should be doing it daily,

why it helps you to speak clearly and more naturally,

how it helps you to soften your accent and so that's what I'm here to do today.

The imitation technique is step-by-step.

It's designed so that each section builds on the previous one.

Lots of people jump straight into shadowing a movie

or a TV show while they're watching it but if you just switch on the telly and just start shadowing people,

it can be really frustrating trying to keep up, right?

You can get tongue-tied really easily, you can lose the meaning or the context

and it all starts to feel a little bit pointless like why am I doing this and so you switch it off.

The imitation technique builds gradually one step on top of the other and this is really important.

Step one is just about listening and reading the words on screen so you're getting comfortable with the topic,

you're recognising any new vocabulary and also the tone of the speaker's voice.

In step two, you get to repeat after me,

line by line with a pause where you can practise and this helps to break everything down into chunks.

During this part of the practise, you can slow the speed of the video down so it can be a bit slower as you practise.

You can repeat step two again and again

until you feel comfortable with what you need to say and only then do you start to shadow me.

Once you know the context, once you've practised some of the unfamiliar words, you've said them out loud.

When you're shadowing someone, you're speaking at the same time as them, right?

You're listening and speaking almost at the same time.

So now instead of focusing on how to pronounce these words really quickly and jump from thing to thing,

you're focusing on the natural rhythm and the flow.

So the progression through these three steps is really important to help build your skill set as you go

and also the repetition is helpful for retaining new vocabulary or retaining sounds, muscle movements, all of those things.

Oh this is so important.

Shadowing trains your mouth with your ears, not your eyes.

You probably learned English by reading first, right?

You saw the words written on the page and then you began sounding them out maybe in your head, maybe trying to make the sounds yourself.

Now by now, you know that there's a big problem with this because English is not phonetic.

The letters that you see on the page are not always pronounced in the same way, are they?

But when you shadow a native speaker, you're not going to guess, you're going to hear exactly how the word sounds.

Plus, you're going to hear lots of natural reductions and contractions as they speak.

This helps you to understand fast-talking native speakers,

it helps you to recognise the sounds for how they truly sound when they're spoken.

So with your ears in charge, you're going to train your mouth muscles to produce those sounds as naturally as possible as you speak.

Natural pronunciation is about much more than just sounds and shadowing helps you to practice natural rhythm,

pace and pause, even facial expressions And these aspects of your spoken English are just as important as producing the correct sound.

English isn't just sound, it's stress, it's melody, it's rhythm, it's where you pause and where you don't

and so shadowing helps you to train all of those things in real time.

Imagine it like singing your favourite song.

You can't just read the lyrics and then know how to sing it, right? you have to feel where the beat falls,

where the emotion is and shadowing helps you to do all of this.

Another really great thing about shadowing is that you can't think about anything else while you're doing it.

You can't stop to think about grammar or worry if you're getting every sound perfect,

you just have to flow and that flow is what helps you to sound natural,

to build that natural fluency and this isn't just my opinion.

There is a lot of research that supports this technique.

Although I didn't realise it when I created my very first imitation lesson,

I was just trying to create a practical lesson for English learners to help them speak English clearly

and confidently but it turns out shadowing has been studied since the 1990s

and the research consistently finds that it does improve how clear you sound,

how natural your accent is and it helps support your overall fluency.

It works really nicely with your memory too.

Each time you're shadowing, you're also activating the part of your brain

that holds on to and rehearses sound so you're not just practicing speaking,

you're training your brain to process English faster too and this does wonders for your ability to understand native speakers,

fast-talking native speakers.

There's so much to love about this technique.

For me, this is the best part about the imitation technique.

It is a tiny habit that you can actually stick to.

10 minutes, 15 minutes every day or every other day.

That is so manageable, isn't it?

It's so doable.

Everyone can find just 10 minutes a day to practise speaking and building fluency into their spoken English.

And it's an excellent way to get your speaking practice in

if you happen to be a shy or a nervous speaker

or maybe you're not yet comfortable speaking in English with other people.

Think about this as a safe training space where you can

get your speaking practice done without the stress of being judged

or without having to think about words and grammar as you're trying to produce language yourself.

So this can be a great stepping stone to get you to real genuine conversation practice and when you do get there,

when you do feel like you're ready for a new challenge and you want to speak with other people,

bring your speaking skills to a community like Hey Lady where you get to have lots of spontaneous speaking practice

about lots of different topics with different people.

You really get to challenge yourself in that dynamic environment.

The link to check out Hey Lady is down in the description if you're interested, you are most welcome to come and check it out.

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I am on a mission to help you build this regular speaking habit.

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I want you to be showing up and doing this consistently.

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So tell me, what topics would you like to practice shadowing me about?

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Tell me what you want to be able to speak clearly about

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or what context you want to be speaking in and I can help to create an imitation lesson to help you practice.

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And if you want to jump in and start practicing with me right now, check out this one.

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It's a great place to start.

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Thank you.

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英語スピーキング練習の課題と解決法

多くの英語学習者が抱える課題は、リスニングでは理解できても、実際に話すとアクセントが重く、リズムがずれ、思い通りに言葉が出てこないことです。このような悩みを解決するため、動画で英語学習をする際に効果的な「shadow speak」テクニックが紹介されています。これは一人でも練習でき、発音や流れを自然に身につける方法です。

日常会話に使える5つのフレーズ

「they just don't come out the way that you want them to」（思い通りに言葉が出てこない）
「your rhythm feels off」（リズムがずれている）
「build your speaking skills alone」（一人でスピーキングスキルを磨く）
「link together」（つながる）
「natural pace」（自然なスピード）

ステップバイステップの英語シャドーイングガイド

シャドーイングは単にテレビを見ながら真似るのではなく、段階的に進めることが重要です。

ステップ1: 聴きながら読む

動画の内容や新しい語彙、話者のトーンに慣れます。テキストを見ながら何度も聴き、全体的な流れを把握します。

ステップ2: 一行ずつリピート

ポーズを挟んで話者の後に続けて言います。難しい場合は動画のスピードを落とし、何度も繰り返して発音やリズムを覚えます。

ステップ3: シャドーイング（同時に話す）

話者とほぼ同時に発声し、自然なリズムと流れに焦点を当てます。これにより、耳と口の連携が鍛えられ、「shadow speech」のスキルが向上します。

この方法を毎日続けることで、アクセントが柔らかくなり、自然な英語を話すことができるようになります。動画で英語学習をする際は、このテクニックを活用してみてください。

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	have told · I've linked · I've made
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 explained · are not always pronounced · has been studied

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 →

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