シャドーイング練習: Tame Impala - Afterthought (Official Audio) - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が28文、単語が274語あります。 音声の長さは3:41です。 話す速さはゆっくりで、1分あたり約74語です。一つ一つの音をまねる余裕があります。 英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は78%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくるやや難しい単語13語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

• laughter /ˈlæftɚ/ (名詞) — 笑い声, 笑い. The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
• slave /sleɪv/ (名詞) — 奴隷. A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition…
• parade /pəˈrɑd/ (名詞) — パレード, 行進. Synonym of military parade: A show of troops, an assembly of troops as a show of force, to receive orders, or especially for inspection at set times.
• cheek /t͡ʃiːk/ (名詞) — 頬, ほっぺた. The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.
• fade /feɪd/ (動詞) — 薄れる. To hit the ball with the shot called a fade.
• doom /duːm/ (名詞) — 運命. Destiny, especially terrible.
• betray /bɪˈtɹeɪ/ (動詞) — 裏切る, 反逆する. To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly.
• emotional /ɪˈmoʊʃənəl/ (形容詞) — 感情的. Of or relating to the emotions.
• debate /dɪˈbeɪt/ (名詞) — 議論, 討論. An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.
• loud /ˈlaʊ̯d/ (形容詞) — 煩い, 姦しい. Of great intensity.
• tree /tɹiː/ (名詞) — 木, 樹木. A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
• safety /ˈseɪfti/ (名詞) — 安全, 安全性. The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.
• foot /fʊt/ (名詞) — 足. A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.

注意したい発音

話し手はI'm, don't, we'reなど、短縮形や弱形を18回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

この動画での練習方法

1. まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
2. 通常の速度で一文ずつシャドーイングし、話し手のリズムに合うまで繰り返します。
3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。laughter, slave, paradeなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。