シャドーイング練習: Stop Shadowing: Try This Instead - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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When you speak English, do you sound slow, flat, robotic?
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Now, shadowing can help you with this,
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but today I'm going to show you something even better that'll make your English sound natural and flow smoothly.
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Let me show you.
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Hello, it's Keith from the Keith Speaking Academy, here to help you become a confident speaker of English.
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Welcome to the Fluency Lab series of videos.
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I'm gonna show you three videos looking at the three main aspects of spoken fluency.
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One, natural sound and rhythm in this video.
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Two, continuous speech.
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And three, retrieving language automatically.
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Today, we're starting with sound, how to improve your rhythm, stress, and intonation.
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We're gonna be using three drills today, humming, mumbling, and imitating.
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And then at the end,
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we'll put them all together with shadowing to make you or allow you to speak naturally and with a nice, smooth flow.
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And remember, as always, there's a lovely PDF
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You can download with lots of practice exercises so you can start practicing this method right now today. Are you ready?
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Then let's begin.
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Okay, let's begin with step one, humming.
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So, take a short audio text.
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Maybe something a bit like this.
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Hello again.
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How's it going?
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I'm so pleased that you're learning English.
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Good job.
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OK.
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Listen to a few seconds and then pause after each phrase and repeat the phrase humming.
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You can hum or you can dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee.
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Or you can da da da da da da da.
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Whichever you like.
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For example, let's do this together.
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Listen.
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Hello again.
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How's it going?
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I'm so pleased that you're learning English.
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Good job!
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Get it?
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So what you're doing here is picking up the melody of English, the musicality.
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Lovely word, musicality.
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And it's important you're just humming or dd-ing so that you're focusing a hundred percent energy on the sound,
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the rhythm, the stress, the intonation.
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There's no thinking about the meaning, the words, because that's a heavy cognitive load.
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You want a hundred percent focus on the musicality.
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Lovely word.
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And this is important because many learners will stress every word the same and it sounds flat.
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Maybe because your mother tongue stresses every word or every syllable.
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English doesn't.
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It has different word stress, sentence stress and rhythm or intonation.
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So this is really helping you focus on that.
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Let's move on to step two.
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Okay, step two is mumbling.
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To mumble, another lovely word.
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Musicality, mumble.
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Mumble is to speak not clearly.
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Now it's a bit like this.
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Hello there.
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How are you doing?
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We're going to come and see you.
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Yeah.
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I'll get you a cup of tea.
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You can almost make out the words, but what you hear is the group of sounds,
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the shape of the phrase, the musical shape shape.
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So here, again, we're getting closer to real English, but we're focusing on the sound, the stress, the intonation.
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But we're focusing on the shape of sounds, if that makes sense.
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Let's do this together with the same phrase.
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Listen to what I do and then you try as well.
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Okay, here we go.
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Hello again.
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Hello again.
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How's it going?
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How's it going?
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I'm so pleased that you're learning English.
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So pleased that you're learning English.
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Good job.
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Good job.
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So you're picking the shapes, you're getting contractions and certain sounds, but it's not clear English.
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And again, this is important because it's, there's no cognitive load.
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You're not thinking, not thinking about the words.
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You're just focusing on the sounds, the group of sounds.
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I know it can sound a bit silly, but that's okay.
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It's all part of the learning process.
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Why don't you try?
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Ready?
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Hello again.
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How's it going?
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I'm so pleased that you're learning English.
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Good job.
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Sometimes it can help to close your eyes as you're listening.
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Certainly do not read the sentence.
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Use your ears.
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Let's move on to the next step.
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Right, the third step is imitating, which is repeating exactly the same thing.
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So this is the next logical step to producing real English.
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You're focusing on the sounds, the rhythm, the stress, but you want to produce the exact words.
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Don't focus on the meaning yet, just focus on the sounds.
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It'll look something like this.
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Let's do it together.
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I'll play, you say it, then I'll say it.
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Hello again.
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Hello again.
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How's it going?
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How's it going?
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I'm so pleased that you're learning English.
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I'm so pleased that you're learning English.
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Good job.
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Good job.
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Right?
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So we're taking a logical progression from the sound, the DDD, to the mumbling, to the real words and repeating them.
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OK, a final step that is important, actually, is then to go and check you understand the meaning of the phrase.
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Because the intonation and the meaning are also connected.
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So you want to just check any words in a dictionary.
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Just make sure you understand what you're saying.
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And then the very final step is where we shadow.
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Now, the difference between imitating and shadowing, imitating, you're stopping and repeating.
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Shadowing, you're speaking at the same time as you listen.
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So you're a second behind the speaker, but you're speaking on top of them at the same time.
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we're putting all of these steps together, right?
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Humming, mumbling, imitating, and shadowing.
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Let me just show you how shadowing works.
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Hello again.
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Hello again.
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How's it going?
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How's it going?
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I'm so pleased that you're learning English.
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Good job.
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Good job.
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You see, we're speaking at the same time.
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The big difference with shadowing, of course, is you're not pausing.
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You're going straight through the whole text.
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Put all of these together and it's a killer combination.
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The humming, the mumbling, the imitating and the shadowing, all of that together, one after another with the same text.
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It's really going to have a big impact on your intonation,
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your rhythm, your stress and speaking smoothly and sounding more like a native speaker.
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So this method is much better than just shadowing alone.
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It's much better than reading aloud.
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All of this together is really going to help you with your fluency.
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It's just one aspect of fluency, right?
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In the next Fluency Lab video, we'll be looking at continuous speech, how you keep talking over a long period.
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Remember, the secret is in the practice.
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Don't just watch me.
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Download the PDF, have a look through it.
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In there, you'll find examples of audio you can listen to.
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I've broken it down how you can do it so you can be practicing again and again with different kinds of texts.
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The link is in the description below.
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By the way, if you want to have fun improving your fluency, get ready to join the Speaking Fluency Club.
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Coming soon, starting in September, you'll be able to join.
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It's aimed at upper intermediate and advanced level students, B2, C1.
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And it's a chance to join live lessons with me, speak to other students on the course,
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and build your fluency in a fun and engaging way.
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Keep your eyes open.
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It's coming in September this year, the Speaking Fluency Club.
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In the meantime, thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in the next video.
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All the best now.
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Bye-bye.

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YouTubeで英語学習をしていて、「話すときにゆっくりしすぎて平板でロボットみたい」と感じている人にぴったりです。特に、shadow speak(シャドーイング)を試したけど、なかなか自然な流れが出ない人や、英語スピーキング練習でリズムやイントネーションの改善に苦戦している中級者向けです。「自然な発音を身につけたい」「スムーズに話せるようになりたい」という目標を持つ人に、新しい練習法を提案してくれます。

覚えておきたいフレーズとイディオム

  • musicality:「音楽性」のこと。英語の発音にはリズムやイントネーションの変化があり、まるで音楽のような要素があることを表します。
  • cognitive load:「認知的負荷」。言葉の意味や単語を考えることで、頭が疲れることを指します。
  • flat:「平板な」。発音に高低の変化がなく、退屈に聞こえる様子を表します。

正しいアクセントを身につける方法

英語の発音を良くするコツは「音楽性」に注目することです。動画では、「ハミング」「もやもや話す」「模倣」の3つのドリルを使ってリズム、ストレス、イントネーションを鍛えます。まずハミングから始めましょう。短い音声を聞き、フレーズごとに止めて「ん~」や「ダダダ」とハミングします。意味や単語を考えず、ただ音の流れに集中することで、英語の「メロディー」を感じ取れます。次に「もやもや話す」ステップでは、単語の形はある程度保ちながら、はっきりと発音せずに話します。これでリズムを優先して練習できます。最後に模倣してシャドーイングを組み合わせると、自然な流れが出てきます。英語は各単語や音節に同じストレスをかけないので、これらのドリルでその違いを体感できるでしょう。

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。

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