シャドーイング練習: Why You Don't Understand Movies/TV in English - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

Have you ever been frustrated because you understand people speaking English like me on YouTube, but then you watch TV shows and movies and you don't understand anything?

Yeah, same.

In this video, I'm going to tell you why.

I'm going to tell you how to improve your English listening.

And I'm going to talk a little bit about my personal experience learning Spanish

and give you my tips for improving your language skills.

This is one of the most common comments that I get on my videos where I'm speaking English.

I understand you perfectly.

Why can't I understand other native speakers?

You really want to know?

Let's get into it.

As you probably already know, people talk fast.

Yes, native speakers.

We talk fast but it's more than that.

It's also the fact that we link words.

So a phrase like, what do you want to do actually sounds like, what do you want to do in real life and in movies and TV shows?

What do you want to do?

Instead of saying, I want something to eat, We say, I want something to eat.

Something, something.

Many times we don't even say something.

We say something.

I want something to eat.

I need something to eat.

Yeah, let me just get something to eat.

I've already made multiple videos talking about this.

In these videos, I gave many examples of how we link words in English.

You can find a lot of YouTube videos about this.

If you're curious, you can watch mine, but you can also do this yourself.

When you're consuming content in English, you're going to be paying attention to how people link words when they talk.

native speakers in TV shows and movies.

There are always new words and phrases that even us native speakers have to learn to keep up with the times, to keep up with the natural changes of language, and the new generations.

Then you have the whole topic of idioms, phrases that are not literal, which means they're even harder to understand, because you can't understand them literally.

And we use them all the time.

We're constantly using idioms.

So we're constantly speaking with even meant to be taken word for word, literally.

You have to understand the meanings of the idioms.

That is so hard.

You could spend a lifetime learning idioms in English.

Then we have a sense of humor.

We use a lot of sarcasm in American English.

So if sarcasm is not something that you easily understand, or it's something that's not as common in your culture,

for example, then it's going to be even harder to understand it.

We use a lot of sarcasm, especially in TV I used to watch shows like Family Guy.

Honestly, even as a native speaker from the United States, I did not understand most of the cultural references in those shows,

but I watched them anyways because I thought it was entertaining.

I understood the English from being a native speaker, but I didn't understand when they would talk about certain celebrities or people that I had no idea who they were.

Like they talked about movies that I had never seen.

You know, so if you're not a native speaker, if you're from a different country, then that's going to be even harder.

And on top of all that, we have different accents, especially in movies and TV shows,

which a lot of them take place in the past where accents were very different than now.

Or they take place in specific parts of the country where there are strong accents, maybe in the South.

And then, of course, you have accents and dialects from different countries, which, by the way, I don't recommend consuming content from multiple accents and dialects.

so many Hispanic countries in the Americas.

And I wanted to travel to multiple countries.

So I thought that I should have like a broader mix of influences.

But honestly, I don't recommend that for English.

The vast majority of native English speakers speak United States slash Canadian English.

If you just focused on that, it would make it a lot easier for you to improve your listening and just your English in general.

It would make it a lot easier than if you are trying British, English, and Australian.

If you specifically are going to live in England or Australia or have a lot of contact with people from there, then yeah, maybe you want to consume content from there.

But in general, I just recommend kind of focusing on one specific type.

Like even with my Spanish, I specifically focused on Spanish from the Americas.

So I didn't watch content from Spain because I didn't want certain things to confuse me or get in my head.

Like the vosotros thing, to narrow it down a little bit.

One for now and get that really strong, you know, learn that dialect very well,

and then it will be a lot easier and you will feel more confident to branch out to other dialects.

Another reason why it's hard to understand TV shows and movies is because they use a script, right?

So it's not off the cuff, spontaneous talking.

They don't have to think about what they're going to say while they're saying it.

I mean, they have to remember their lines.

They have remember the script, but they don't have to think about what it is that they're trying to express while they're talking.

Because normally this is all spontaneous.

This is just the thoughts that are in my mind right now.

So as I'm talking, I am thinking about what I want to express, what I want to say.

And this is what real life is.

So in real life, it tends to be a bit slower.

in movies and TV shows, you're not hearing that very much.

So it's not very realistic, honestly.

And people who write scripts are good writers.

Well, hopefully, we hope, right?

They are creative.

They like to use fun and interesting vocabulary.

They like to use a lot of humor.

In real life, we use the same phrases again and again and again.

We're not as creative.

We're not as funny.

always have a great comeback you know we don't always have a great response to everything

and why do you want to improve your english listening yeah it's nice to understand tv shows

and movies but you know that you can always watch tv shows

and movies with subtitles like you always did before

so the real reason usually that we want to improve our listening skills is

so that we can talk to people

and we can understand what they say to us and i'm telling you right now it's a heck of

conversation with you than it is to watch a movie, watch a TV show.

So maybe you need to search online conversation classes with native speakers

so you can experience if you understand when a native speaker is talking to you.

Please don't base your listening level off TV shows and movies.

They're way too hard and not realistic.

By the way, if you want a discount for conversation classes with native speakers,

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I will put my link in the comments so after you buy your first class.

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So check that out if you'd like to have classes or conversations with native speakers.

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In my own personal experience of learning Spanish, more than half of the content I consumed was YouTube videos.

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I got to a point where I understood most of what I heard in YouTube videos.

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So I was feeling like, oh, my listening ability is pretty good.

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You know, I used to watch or whatever kind of YouTube video.

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I even watched people from different countries and I still understood most of what they said.

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Then I started watching a very simple TV show.

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I can't remember the name and I even tried to search for it and I can't find it.

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But basically it was just a simple TV show comedy sitcom for families and you know children maybe.

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It was just about the everyday a lot, but I could also learn a lot.

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So I just started watching this show and I watched every single episode of the show.

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By the end of that, I was very confident with my Spanish.

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It helped me a lot.

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I used to practice shadowing.

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I used to practice a mix of active and passive listening when watching this show.

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And this is what I recommend for you guys too.

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Active listening is when you're treating the listening session like a study session.

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You're in study mode.

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above the button to press pause.

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You might have the subtitles on in the language you want to learn and you're just studying it.

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You're studying what they say and how they say it.

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And you're often pausing and going back and listening to what they said again and again.

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And you're also trying to imitate them.

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You're trying to copy what they said exactly how they said it.

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You also have your phone or your laptop open with either Google or ChatGPT.

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In any words and phrases that you don't understand, immediately asking Google or ChatGPT, what does this mean?

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And now we have AI, which is so fast at telling you exactly what all of these words or phrases mean.

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It can explain these things very easily to you.

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And now you don't have to search through the internet to find the answer.

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Now you can just type a sentence in ChatGPT or Google, and it will tell you exactly what that means.

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It's so easy now.

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It has never been easier to learn a language.

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And when you're doing the you're going to be analyzing every detail.

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You're going to be looking at how they link words, how what is written in the subtitles sounds differently when they say it fast.

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And you're going to try to imitate that.

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You're basically studying or analyzing the way that native speakers really talk and practicing talking like that yourself.

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So that is one part of the listening experience is the active listening.

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But it's also good to do passive listening, which is another where you're probably not even using the subtitles.

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You're just listening to what they're saying and you're accepting that you're not going to understand everything, but you're just trying to get the general idea of what they're saying.

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You're just trying to listen in a relaxed way and understand as much as possible without overanalyzing it.

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Just listening, observing, and seeing how well you understand what's going on in the show or the movie.

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among TV shows and movies, right?

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There's going to be simple and easier ones, and there's going to be really hard ones, ones that are even hard for native speakers.

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Just to give you an example with my Spanish, I watched every episode of this comedy family show that I am talking about that I can't remember the name.

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Every episode I was watching YouTube videos,

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I was feeling very confident with my Spanish. is a Mexican movie.

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But here's the thing.

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Spanish is not Spanish is not Spanish.

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Mexican Spanish is not Mexican.

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Spanish is not Mexican.

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Spanish is not English is not English.

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There are different kinds.

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So the movie had a couple Mexican guys who I think were speaking very like slang Mexican Spanish, a lot of profanity.

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And I had a hard time understanding them.

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I think if I watch this movie nowadays, I understand this movie fine.

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But back more in the beginning, like, a few like several years ago.

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I remember the first time I watched this, I had a hard time understanding.

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And then there was another character from Spain, couldn't understand her.

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She spoke a little bit more clearly, like a little less slang, but still it was like Spanish that I hadn't practiced a lot.

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So, you know, that was hard for me.

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And then there was the voice of a narrator who must have been speaking in a very formal way

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because I didn't understand him either.

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"Do I even know Spanish at all?

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Man, I thought I knew Spanish." Or when I first started dating a guy from Argentina and I had to ask him, "What is he saying?" all the time.

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It takes time.

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Okay?

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It takes time.

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It takes a lot of exposure.

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If you're learning English and you can understand my videos

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and you can understand me talking in English and you watch other native speakers on YouTube making videos like this, talking to the camera, and you can understand them, you're doing fantastic.

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You just got to relax.

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and keep going.

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We need to just accept that learning language is a lifelong process, and there are always going to be things that are hard to understand.

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There's always gonna be moments and people and situations and topics that are hard to understand.

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All right, guys, thanks for watching my video until the end.

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I could talk about this topic all day long, but that's the main stuff that I wanna talk about in this video.

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Love you guys, have a great day, and I'll see you in the next video.

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Bye bye.

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このビデオで話す練習をする理由は？

英語を学ぶ際、映画やテレビ番組の理解が難しいと感じることはよくあります。このビデオでは、スピーキングやリスニングのスキルを向上させるための実践的なアドバイスが提供されています。特に、有効な方法の一つが英語シャドーイングです。このオーディオを使って自分の声で繰り返すことで、発音やリズムをより自然に習得できます。

さらに、娯楽を通じて言語を学ぶことができ、リスニングの習慣をつけるのにも役立ちます。例えば、テレビ番組を見ながら、スクリプトを使って特定のセリフを繰り返すことは、shadow speechを用いた効果的な練習方法です。これにより、日常会話に必要な表現や語彙を吸収することが可能になります。

文法とコンテクストにおける表現

このビデオ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。以下のポイントが特に重要です：

結び付けの技術: ネイティブスピーカーは単語を結び付けて発音します。例えば、「what do you want to do」は実際には「whaddaya wanna do」と聞こえます。これを意識することでリスニングが向上します。
イディオム: 表面的な意味だけでは理解できないフレーズが多く使われます。イディオムを知っていると、会話をよりスムーズに理解できるようになります。
ユーモアとサーカスム: アメリカ英語ではサーカスムがよく使われます。これが理解できると、文化的な参照や風刺が含まれる会話も楽しめるようになります。

これらの構造を習得することで、IELTSスピーキング対策においても大いに役立つでしょう。

一般的な発音トラップ

英語を学んでいる際、特に注意が必要な発音のポイントがあります。以下に挙げるトラップは要注意です：

急速な発音: ネイティブスピーカーの会話は非常に早いです。聞き取れないことが多いので、場面に合った語彙を練習することが重要です。
方言: 映画やテレビ番組では、地域によって異なるアクセントが聞かれます。特に歴史的背景のある作品では、現代とは異なる発音が多いため、これに対応する練習が必要です。
新しい語彙: 常に変化する言語に追いつくためには、新しい単語やフレーズを学ぶことが求められます。こうした新語を積極的に取り入れることが重要です。

これらの要素に焦点を当て、shadowspeaks技術を使った練習を行うことで、リスニング能力を向上させることができるでしょう。

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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
「used to」 used to + 動詞 — 今はもう違う過去の習慣や状態	used to watch · used to practice
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える	literal, which means · people who write · listening, which is
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 you ever been frustrated · I've already made · has never been
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	been frustrated · be taken · is written

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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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