쉐도잉 연습: Component Focus #4 - “How Do I Control My Soft Palate?” - Voice Breakdown - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기
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Hi everyone, my name is Brendan Hodek and I am an instructor here at New York Speech Coaching in New York City.
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Welcome to another one of our component focus videos.
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Our component focus videos are different than our typical voice breakdown videos.
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We will not be teaching a specific voice today.
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In order to imitate any voice, you simply need to figure out six components.
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But many of you have mentioned how certain components give you a bit of a hard time.
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So we thought it would be best to make videos that specifically focus on one component, giving you some exercises to gain more control over that component.
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Today's episode will be focused on the soft palate.
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The soft palate is that mushy feeling place at the back of your mouth.
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Let's get familiar with the soft palate and all of the other landmarks in the mouth.
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Begin by touching the tip of your tongue to the top front teeth like this.
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Then, we are going to slide the tongue backwards slowly, always maintaining contact with the top of the mouth.
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The first things you feel, as we said, are the front teeth.
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Slide that tongue back a little more and you will feel a bumpy area known as the alveolar ridge.
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If you're not sure where that is, it's that place where you burn your mouth on pizza.
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Keep that tongue touching the top of the mouth and slide it back a little more.
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You will feel the tongue all of a sudden go drastically upward, touching something that is very hard.
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We call that the hard palette.
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Then if you keep sliding the tongue backward, you will eventually feel it turn all mushy.
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That is your soft palate.
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If you look in your mouth, you can see your soft palate.
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The uvula, or the punching bag in the back of the throat, hangs down from our soft palate.
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The soft palate can rise and lower.
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When it does, it acts as a trap door, controlling whether air and sound are directed through the nose or the mouth.
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Sending sound into the nose will give the voice a brighter quality
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while sending it into the mouth will give it a darker and more rounded quality.
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This component can be difficult to control.
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We have heard lots of feedback that it is hard to get a sensation of the palate moving.
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We have some exercises today to help you with that.
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This exercise we call "In and Out".
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There are four steps to this exercise.
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For all four steps, keep your jaw relaxedly open.
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Do not let your mouth close.
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Step one, with your jaw relaxedly open, breathe in through your mouth and out through your mouth.
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Ah.
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Ah.
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I Step two, with your jaw relaxedly open, breathe in through your nose and out through your nose.
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- - Thank you.
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Thank you.
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- Thank you.
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Step three, again with your jaw relaxedly open, breathe in through your nose, but then out through your mouth.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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And finally, step four, with your jaw still relaxedly open, breathe in through your mouth and out through your nose.
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Ah.
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- Thank you.
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Ah.
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Yeah.
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After this, you can repeat this process, but on the exhale, make sound.
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Hmm...
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Thank you.
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Haaaaaa Hmm...
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These are all of the different combinations of the ways you can breathe.
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But the big question is, How in the world are you doing that?
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How did you control which way the air or sound went?
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You did this by manipulating the soft palate and the back of the tongue you just didn't even notice.
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Do the exercise again, but this time while looking into a mirror.
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You will see when breathing through the mouth how the soft palate naturally goes upward and the back of the tongue lowers.
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This blocks air or sound from going into the nose.
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Then, as you breathe through the nose, you will see how the soft palate lowers and touches the back of the tongue,
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forming a blockade, so that air or sound cannot go through the mouth, but is forced to go into the nose.
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Practice this exercise and start to become mindful of what muscles you feel activating as you do this.
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Your entire life you have done this passively, but as you focus you'll be able to get a sense of the muscles that are at work.
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Exercise number two is the "ung -ah".
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Our last exercise taught you how to manipulate the soft palate, but it pretty much only told you how to put it all the way up or all the way down.
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For many of our voices, you have heard me give you percentages of nasal resonance, lowered soft palate versus oral resonance raised soft palate.
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We need to learn how to gradually move between complete nasal
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and oral resonance so that we can fine tune this and create the brightness or darkness we are looking for.
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Bring in the "NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN Start out on the NG sound.
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Let's be clear that NG is not N or G, but is its own sound, NG or Mm -hmm.
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You made this sound before when you were exhaling through the nose and making sound.
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If you can't find it, simply say the word sing and hold out the last sound.
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Sing!
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Make sure the front tip of your tongue is downward and not upward, but that the back of your tongue is upward, touching the soft palate.
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Mmm.
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Mmm.
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Then try to very slowly transition from the /ŋ / sound to the /ɑ / sound.
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If you do it too quickly, you will hear the tongue and soft palate moving away from each other, causing a little click pop or abrupt transition.
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Ngaa...
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Nga.
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Mmm...ga...
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That popping sound is your indicator that you are not going gradually enough.
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The goal is to be able to go back and forth between ㄴ and ㄴ without hearing any abrupt transitions.
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*Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Notice the change in sound quality over the course of the exercise.
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The only change physically is the coordination of the soft palate and the back of the tongue.
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Exercise number three we call "Speaking Through the Nose".
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As a matter of habit, we tend to make our sounds with a certain amount of nasal resonance.
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There are three sounds in English that have their sound 100 % in the nose.
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These are the M, Mm.
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n, n, and ng sounds.
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But for the rest of our sounds, we send them primarily through the mouth with some nasal resonance at times.
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Thus, it can be tricky to add some nasal resonance to specific sounds while doing one of our voices.
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The best way to do this is to first learn how to speak entirely through the nose, not allowing any sound to go through the mouth.
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That sounds like this.
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To do this, you will need to first hold out an NG sound.
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Aaaaaaaaaa Then see if you can articulate while keeping the back of the tongue and the soft palate fixed.
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You'll find that on some sounds you will want to raise the palate and drop the tongue a bit, but try not to.
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Exercise number four: Voice imitation for a raised palate.
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To speak with a raised palate, there are certain voices we can imitate to help us.
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Speaking like your nose is clogged, Bob.
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Man, I'm sick.
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"Mom, my nose is stuffed !" will give you a mouth -only sound.
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If you think about when you are sick, your nose is full of junk.
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Therefore, sound cannot resonate in the nasal cavity.
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Also, doing a stereotypical opera voice can help to raise the palate.
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One more exercise.
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Exercise number five we call plosive buildup.
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There are a few sounds in the English language that we call plosives.
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These are B T.
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the "K" and "G".
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In order to make these sounds, air pressure needs to build up and then explode.
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In order to get that air pressure to build up, however, the soft palate has to raise up all the way.
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If that soft palate did not raise up, sound or air could escape through the nose, and we wouldn't be able to make these sounds.
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Huh.
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What?
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Huh?
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Therefore, one great way to feel the palate raising is to build up air pressure like you're going to do a plosive.
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Let's use the sound "b" for example.
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And as you build up that air pressure beforehand, you'll actually feel your palate go up.
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Ooh.
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Buh! or Bah!
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If you don't release the explosion, you'll feel the palette raise up and then drop back down.
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Mm.
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Mm -hmm.
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Hopefully these exercises have given you better control over lowering and raising the soft palate.
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Use a mirror often to see if you can see the palette moving.
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Raising your eyebrows
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or doing a gasp like you are scared will help to cause the palette to move
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and you'll be able to see this in your reflection.
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Be sure to focus and be as mindful as possible to gain better awareness of
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when the muscles activate to move the soft palate.
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Over time, you will be very aware and have complete control.
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Be sure to check out future episodes of Voice Breakdown, the show where we teach you how to imitate some of the most iconic voices.
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See you next time.
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이 비디오로 말하기 연습을 하는 이유는?
영어 말하기 능력을 향상시키기 위해서는 다양한 발음 요소들에 대한 이해가 필수적입니다. 이 비디오에서는 부드러운 입천장(soft palate)의 움직임을 제어하는 방법에 대해 배울 수 있습니다. 부드러운 입천장은 목소리의 음색을 조절하는 중요한 역할을 합니다. 이 비디오를 통해 부드러운 입천장을 제어하는 연습을 하며 목소리를 더 밝고 또는 어둡게 만들어낼 수 있는 방법을 배울 수 있습니다. 이러한 기술은 유튜브 영어 공부를 통한 영어 쉐도잉에서도 큰 도움이 될 것입니다.
문맥 속 문법 및 표현
비디오에서 사용된 몇 가지 주요 문장 구조를 살펴보겠습니다:
- “We call that the hard palate.” - 여기서 'call'은 특정 명칭이나 용어를 사용하여 정의하는 데 쓰입니다.
- “Keep that tongue touching the top of the mouth.” - 'keep'는 어떤 상태를 지속시키는 의미로 자주 사용됩니다.
- “This component can be difficult to control.” - 'can be'는 가능성을 표현할 때 유용합니다, 상황에 대한 평가를 할 수 있습니다.
- “We have some exercises today to help you with that.” - 'have'는 가지고 있다는 의미로, 특정 행위를 하는 것을 제안할 때 자주 사용됩니다.
이러한 문구들은 일상 대화에서 자주 사용되므로 연습 시 암기해 두는 것이 좋습니다.
일반적인 발음 함정
비디오에서 발음할 때 주의해야 할 트릭한 표현과 억양에 대해 설명하겠습니다:
- “soft palate” - 부드러운 입천장의 발음은 다른 언어에서 발음할 때 쉽게 놓칠 수 있는 부분입니다.
- “uvula” - 이 단어는 한국어로는 ‘목젖’이라고 하는데, 비슷한 발음으로 인해 잘못 발음할 수 있습니다.
- “control” - 강세가 두 번째 음절에 있다는 것을 유의해야 합니다.
이 단어들을 정확히 발음하는 것이 중요하며, shadowspeaks 같은 방법을 통해 연습하면 더 나은 결과를 얻을 수 있습니다.
이 영상의 문법
화자가 가장 많이 쓰는 문형을 영상 속 실제 표현과 함께 정리했습니다.
| 문형 | 영상 속 표현 |
|---|---|
| 조건문 if + 절, will/would + 동사 — 조건과 그 결과 | If you don't release the explosion, you'll feel |
| 현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때 | have mentioned · have heard · have done |
| 수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점 | will be focused · are directed · is forced |
쉐도잉이란? 영어 실력을 빠르게 키우는 과학적 방법
쉐도잉(Shadowing)은 원래 전문 통역사 훈련을 위해 개발된 언어 학습 기법으로, 다언어 학자인 Dr. Alexander Arguelles에 의해 대중화된 방법입니다. 핵심 원리는 간단하지만 매우 강력합니다: 원어민의 영어를 들으면서 1~2초의 짧은 지연으로 즉시 소리 내어 따라 말하는 것——마치 '그림자(shadow)'처럼 화자를 따라가는 것입니다. 문법 공부나 수동적인 청취와 달리, 쉐도잉은 뇌와 입 근육이 동시에 실시간으로 영어를 처리하고 재현하도록 훈련합니다. 연구에 따르면 이 방법은 발음 정확도, 억양, 리듬, 연음, 청취력, 말하기 유창성을 크게 향상시킵니다. IELTS 스피킹 준비와 자연스러운 영어 소통을 원하는 분들에게 특히 효과적입니다.