Shadowing Practice: Intro to Linking: American English Pronunciation - Learn English Speaking with Video
Les maken...
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Today I simply want to introduce the concept of linking.
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I've had my blog for almost two years now and have yet to explicitly mention this in a video as a topic.
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It's high time.
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If everything else is pronounced correctly, stress, the particular sounds of a word, but words are not linked together,
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it will still sound pretty strange to native speakers.
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It will sound very choppy.
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Let's take, for example, the sentence, he told her to go to the park today.
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He told her to go to the park today.
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He told her to go to the park today.
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That last time I said it, I tried to put a tiny pause between each word.
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He told her to go to the park today.
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He told her to go to the park today.
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Can you tell the difference?
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It's an important first step to be able to hear the difference.
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To native speakers, this tiny gap between each word sounds very choppy.
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He told her to go to the park today.
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To me, that is very smooth.
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Can you hear that difference?
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My students sometimes tell me that when they pronounce words and sentences that way, that it feels very sloppy.
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Well, that's okay.
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If If your native language is really different from English, then when you pronounce English correctly, it might feel very strange in your mouth.
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Don't be shy about that.
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Linking is related to reduction or reducing sounds.
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What is reduction?
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As you may already know from other videos, words in English will either be stressed or unstressed.
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Unstressed words and syllables may be reduced.
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This means that a sound is either left out or changes.
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For example, the word can has the a vowel sound, but it might reduce.
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I can be there, can, can.
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There are The word can is actually pronounced with the schwa sound, cn.
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So that is what I mean by reduction.
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I say that linking and reduction are related, and that is because if you're reducing something,
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you're either leaving off a sound or substituting a quicker vowel in order to make that word very short.
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If you're making it very short, you don't want to make your phrase longer by adding gaps.
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So linking is the idea that you will take all the words of a sentence
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and you won't put any gaps in between for a smooth and fluid sound.
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For example, in the sentence, I can be there by three, Ike, Ike.
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You can hear how the kuh sound of the second word is attached to the first word, Ike, Ike.
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There is no break between those words.
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I can be there by three.
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So keep this in mind as you listen to native speakers and do your best to imitate it.
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There will be videos in the future that will cover specific concepts in linking and reduction to help you practice this.
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That's it and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze video bevat 43 zinnen en 497 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 3:19. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 150 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 85% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| pronounce werkwoord | /pɹəˈnaʊns/ | uitspreken, verklaren |
| gap zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɡæp/ | reet, spleet |
| smooth bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /smuːð/ | vlot |
| correctly bijwoord | /kəˈɹɛk(t).li/ | correct, juist |
| topic zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtɑpɪk/ | onderwerp, thema |
| introduce werkwoord | /ˌɪntɹəˈdus/ | introduceren, voorstellen |
| phrase zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | uitspraak |
| fluid zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈflu.ɪd/ | fluïdum, vloeistof |
| substitute zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsʌb.stɪ.tʃuːt/ | vervanger, plaatsvervanger |
| pause zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɔːz/ | pauze |
| explicitly bijwoord | uitdrukkelijk | |
| distress zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɪˈstɹɛs/ | druk, stress |
| attach werkwoord | /əˈtæt͡ʃ/ | vastmaken |
| sloppy bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈslɑ.pi/ | slordig |
| unstressed bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ʌnˈstɹɛst/ | onbeklemtoond |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 7 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, don't, I've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: reduction /ɹɪˈdʌk.ʃən/, schwa /ʃwɑ/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als pronounce, gap, smooth.
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.