쉐도잉 연습: American English Intonation | IELTS Topic: Describe an occasion when you lost something - 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'd like to look at the pitch and accent changes in this short text about leaving my sunglasses on a bench.
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Let's take a look.
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It's funny.
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The first thing that comes to mind, it's funny.
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So here, it's, just like how it's de-stressed with the consonants and vowels, it's also de-stressed in terms of pitch.
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It's funny.
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It's funny.
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It's funny.
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The first thing that comes to mind.
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So funny, that last syllable in funny has a tiny, tiny rise.
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It's a low rise.
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It's funny.
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The first thing that comes to mind isn't something very expensive.
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Isn't something very expensive.
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So isn't and expensive are the key stress points for this section here.
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Isn't something very expensive, but I just happen to have a very strong memory about it.
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A very strong memory about it.
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So we go up, very strong memory.
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Memory is the key word here.
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I happen to have a very strong memory about it.
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Very strong, rises up.
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We start kind of low with happen to have a very strong memory.
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So from that low point into memory, we rise, rise, rise, fall.
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A very strong memory about it.
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And then about it, we're continuing the sentence, just a few more words, so we're going really kind of far down and relaxed with our tone here.
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memory about it.
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I was waiting for a bus once.
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I was waiting for a bus once.
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Waiting.
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Bus.
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Once.
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So the function words here, for a, I was, those are reduced.
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They're reduced in terms of pitch, spoken in a lower tone of voice.
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I was waiting for a bus once, and I left some sunglasses on the bench.
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And I left some sunglasses on the bench.
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The point of my story here is sunglasses.
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And I mean, where were the sunglasses?
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They were on the bench.
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So all that important information is stressed with my tone of voice.
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I left some sunglasses on the bench.
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Once I was in the bus and driving away, once I was in the bus and driving away, I'm telling the beginning of a sentence here, it's maybe a longer sentence,
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so I'm going up with my voice.
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Was in the bus and driving away, I saw them out the window and knew they were gone forever.
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I saw them out the window and knew they were gone forever.
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So listen to that kind of rolling rhythm.
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I saw them out the window and knew they were gone forever.
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It's not perfectly even, it's not a poem or a song, but there's still a rhythm to the speech by de-stressing the function words and stressing the important words.
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I saw them out the window and knew they were gone forever.
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It's been almost 15 years since then.
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FIFTEEN YEARS!
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I'm kind of going up with an even high tone of voice.
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FIFTEEN YEARS!
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To emphasize that it's been a long time.
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It's been almost 15 years since then, and I still, and I still, still is the stress point,
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that's the most important part of this part of the sentence.
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I still try to take better care of my sunglasses.
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So take better care, take better care of my sunglasses, care of my sunglasses.
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I'm stressing care, but I can't go too far down because it's not the end of the sentence.
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I can't say, I still try to take better care of my sunglasses, right?
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We can't end the sentence early.
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Care of my sunglasses, care of my sunglasses.
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Sunglasses is another stressed point in the sentence, of my gets reduced, sunglasses.
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And sunglasses is a very nice way to end a sentence, because the stress of the word is on the first syllable.
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And then at the end of the sentence, we naturally reduce the pitch of the last few syllables, so it sounds very natural.
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And I still try to take better care of my sunglasses.
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It's funny, the first thing that comes to mind isn't something very expensive, but I just happen to have a very strong memory about it.
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I was waiting for a bus once, and I left some sunglasses on the bench.
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I was in the bus and driving away, I saw them out the window and knew they were gone forever.
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It's been almost 15 years since then, and I still try to take better care of my sunglasses.
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문법 및 표현 분석
- “It’s funny.” - 말을 시작할 때 강조할 부분을 자연스럽게 전달하는 방법을 보여주는 표현입니다. 이 표현은 듣는 사람이 공감할 수 있게 만듭니다.
- “I happen to have a very strong memory about it.” - 이 문장은 우연한 상황을 설명하며, 강세를 주는 구조가 특징입니다. ‘very strong memory’가 중요한 정보로 강조됩니다.
- “I left some sunglasses on the bench.” - 중요한 사실을 전달할 때의 강세를 잘 보여주는 문장입니다. 여기서 ‘sunglasses’와 ‘bench’가 강조되어 상황을 명확하게 합니다.
- “I saw them out the window and knew they were gone forever.” - 이 문장은 과거를 회상하며 감정을 잘 전달하는 구조입니다. 리듬감 있는 말투를 통해 이야기에 몰입할 수 있게 합니다.
자주 있는 발음의 함정
비디오에서 알렉스는 특정 단어에 강세를 주며 말합니다. 특히 “sunglasses”와 “bench” 같은 단어는 발음할 때 주의가 필요합니다. 이러한 단어들은 억양과 리듬을 조절하면서 발음해야 명확하게 전달됩니다. 또한, shadowspeaks 기법을 통해 이러한 발음을 반복 연습하면 더욱 자연스럽게 익힐 수 있습니다. 비디오를 시청하며 각 단어의 발음과 억양을 따라 해보세요. 질감 있는 억양과 발음 연습은 당신의 shadow speech 능력을 더욱 강화할 것입니다.
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