쉐도잉 연습: American English Connected Reading ｜IELTS Speaking: Describe a trip you took by public transport - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

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Hey, what's up?
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It's Alex.
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Today I want to talk about a sample answer to the IELTS question Describe a trip you took by public transport.
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In this sample answer, we'll see a way to answer
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when you can't really think of anything in your own experience that answers the question.
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Let's have a look.
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To be honest, I almost never take public transport.
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to be honest to be we link those two sounds together not to be
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but to be honest to be honest I almost never almost
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never the T in almost disappears almost never take public transport the k sounds at the end of take
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and public disappear they turn into glottal stops take public transport.
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I almost never take public transport.
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We can also make the last T in transport into a glottal stop.
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I almost never take public transport.
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I have my own car, so I just drive wherever I need to go.
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So I.. we want to link those together.
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So I just.. so I just drive.
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Now, just drive just ends with t, and drive begins with d, so we link those together.
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I just drive.
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I just drive wherever I need to go.
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Same thing with need to, need to go, need to go.
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But recently I saw a report online about a British guy.
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But recently, the t in but turns into a glottal stop.
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I saw a report.
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I saw a report.
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Saw a.
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Those are two slightly different vowels.
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Saw.
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Saw a report.
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It almost sounds like I'm making the vowel in saw particularly long.
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Saw, saw, saw a report.
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I saw a report online.
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Report online.
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That T in report turns into a tap.
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Report on, report online.
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It links up with the A in online.
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About a British guy, about a, again we have another tap, about a British guy who challenged himself to see how far
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he could travel by city bus in 24 hours challenged himself the h in himself disappears
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to see to turns into to it gets very heavily reduced
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how far he could travel we make the h in he disappear
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and we link could travel how far he could travel by city bus it's not city it's city City.
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This is the American pronunciation.
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In the United Kingdom, it's city.
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But in the U.S., we weaken that to a little tap.
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City.
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City bus.
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He carefully planned everything out beforehand.
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Planned everything.
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We link those sounds together.
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And then the T in out turns into a glottal stop.
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everything out beforehand.
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Then he left at three in the morning to take the first bus out of London.
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Then he disappears.
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Left at three.
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The t in at turns into a glottal stop.
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Left at three.
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Three in the morning.
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Kind of link in the together and link it to three.
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Three in the.
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three in the morning to take to take turns into to
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take to take the first bus out of London here first bus turns into first bus the T completely disappears
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and of could turn into a we could also keep it as a small
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and weak of first bus out of London first bus out
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of London both are fine I don't know how many times he had to transfer, but he eventually made it all the way up to some city in the north.
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I don't know.
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We won't change this to don't know, I don't know.
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We'll say I don't know, don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
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I don't know how many times he had to transfer.
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He had to, he had to, we weaken had and to, he had to, he had to transfer.
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But he eventually, But he turns into buddy.
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That's another tap of the T.
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Eventually.
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He eventually.
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We add a yuh sound.
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He eventually made it all the way up to some city in the north.
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Made it all.
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Made it all.
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The d and t here get reduced.
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Made it all.
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Made it all the way up to some.
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Up to.
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Up to.
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Those consonants get kind of blended together.
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Up to.
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Up to.
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All the way up to some city in the north.
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In the connects together as well. In the. In the.
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Some city in the north without ever taking a long-distance bus.
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Without ever.
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Again, we tap that T.
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Without ever.
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Out ever.
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Without ever.
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Without ever taking a long-distance bus.
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I'd love to try a crazy travel challenge like that someday.
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I'd love.
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D-l.
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D-l.
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We link those sounds together.
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I'd love to.
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I'd love to try.
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To try turns into to try.
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I'd love to try a crazy travel challenge like that someday.
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Before the S, the T turns into a glottal stop.
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Like that.
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Like that someday.
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To be honest, I almost never take public transport.
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I have my own car, so I just drive wherever I need to go. But recently, I saw a report online about a British guy who challenged
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himself to see how far he could travel by city bus in 24 hours.
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He carefully planned everything out beforehand, then he left at 3 in the morning to take the first bus out of London.
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I don't know how many times he had to transfer, but he eventually made it all the way up to some city in the north without ever taking a long-distance bus.
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I'd love to try a crazy travel challenge like that someday.

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이 비디오는 IELTS 스피킹 질문인 "대중교통으로 떠난 여행에 대해 설명하라"라는 주제에 대한 샘플 답변을 제공합니다. 대중교통을 거의 이용하지 않는 경험을 바탕으로 하는 답변에서는, 언어의 유창함과 실제 상황에서 말하는 능력을 강화할 수 있는 기회를 제공합니다. 영어 회화 연습에 있어 이와 같은 구체적인 예시는 학생들이 단순한 어휘 습득을 넘어, 실제 대화 상황에서의 표현력 향상에 도움을 줄 것입니다. 비디오 속 유창한 발음을 따라하며 영어 쉐도잉을 통해 자신의 말하기 능력을 한층 발전시킬 수 있습니다.

문맥 속의 문법 및 표현

  • to be honest - 솔직히 말하자면
  • almost never - 거의 절대 ~하지 않는다
  • I just drive - 그냥 운전한다
  • need to go - 가야 한다
  • carefully planned out - 면밀히 계획했다

이 표현들은 영어 회화 연습 시 자주 사용되는 문장 구조입니다. 각 표현의 쓰임새를 이해하고 실제 대화에서 적용해보면, 스피킹 실력 향상에 큰 도움이 됩니다. 또한, 이러한 문법적 구조는 IELTS 스피킹 테스트에서 특히 중요하므로 미리 연습해두는 것이 좋습니다.

일반적인 발음 함정

비디오에서 일부 단어와 발음의 연결이 도전이 될 수 있습니다. 예를 들어:

  • almost - 발음할 때 T 소리가 거의 사라집니다. 'ol-mos'처럼 들리게 됩니다.
  • public transport - 두 단어를 이어 부를 때 'pub-lic trans-port'의 T 소리가 줄어드는 현상이 있습니다.
  • city - 미국식 발음에서는 T가 약해져서 'cidy'처럼 들릴 수 있습니다.

이러한 발음을 연습할 때, shadow speak 같은 기법들을 활용하면 더욱 효과적입니다. 실제 발음과 억양을 정확히 익히기 위해서는 반복적인 연습이 필요하며, 다양한 shadowing site에서 제공하는 자료를 활용하면 도움을 받을 수 있습니다.

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