Shadowing Practice: Practice Speaking & Reading Out Loud With This English Shadowing Exercise - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hey, what's up Stefanie the English coach here from englishfulltime.com Today I have a really fun exercise for you to help you improve your English. We are going to do shadowing. This is something that I wrote, it's actually an email that I sent my email subscribers uh I don't know like a week ago I'll show it to you but it's a story it's a personal story about something that I went through. Something really embarrassing actually and here's what we're gonna do. I'm going to read it for you and then you can actually go check a link in the description and download the story so you can follow along and I'm going to include another link where you can listen to just the audio because right now we're gonna have the story audio mixed in with my YouTube video and if you just want to analyze this story then and just the audio which I highly recommend you can go download that but what we're doing here is a shadowing exercise. We're gonna help you practice your speaking, your pronunciation, reading out loud, but the best way I believe to do this is to first listen to somebody read something right, and then analyze the way that they read it. Listen, listen, listen, listen again, listen a lot, really get your ears adjusted to all of the different sounds and how the words link together, and then practice reading yourself and when you practice you want to try to match the way that the person read whatever they read. If you're doing the shadowing exercise the way it should be done you want to match the intonation, you want to match the rhythm, you want your reading to sound as close to my reading as possible. Now this is an exercise that my students have done so many times in all of my online courses and it's so cool because sometimes they literally sound exactly like me by the time they finish doing the exercise and some students have even trained themselves to do this by being blindfolded which I thought that was a really incredible way of learning how to imitate somebody right they would blindfold themselves so that they weren't actually looking at the words but they were just listening really focusing on hearing everything accurately and when the students did that oh my goodness like the way they were able to read and recite whatever it was that we were studying they sounded exactly like me. So, anyways I thought this would be really fun it's kind of personal, it's different, we haven't tried something like this on my channel yet, so I guess just listen to the story first and then you can download everything and get to work, okay? So here we go. Remember this is an email that I sent that now I'm using here as content for us to study so it starts off like this. Did I ever tell you my super embarrassing ballet story? It happened when I was in 12th grade. First of all I don't know if you know this but ballet is super difficult. Professionals make it look easy but it takes years and years of training to get good. I guess I didn't know that when I was 17 years old though, because I thought I could totally skip ballet one and jump to a ballet 2 class despite never having taken a single dance class in my life. In my mind the idea of taking ballet one with a bunch of children was boring and beneath me. I wanted something "difficult". I wanted a challenge. So I asked the teacher if I could skip ballet one and join the ballet 2 class. Actually I insisted.
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She, being the professional that she was, graciously obliged. "Come to class on Monday with the ballet 2 student, Stefanie," she said. "You can give it a shot and we'll go from there." I was so excited. But then Monday came and I will never forget the humiliation of trying to keep up with an advanced class that I was totally unprepared for. The music was too fast, my feet were too stiff, and my muscles were too weak. At that point I didn't need the teacher or anyone else to tell me what was so readily apparent. I clearly was not ready for ballet 2 and it was naive of me to ever think I could skip the fundamentals. I still cringe to this day when I remember that story but I learned something I will never forget, and that's this. It doesn't matter how much of a hard-working overachiever you are, if you want to master a skill you cannot skip the fundamentals.
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Mastering the basics gives you a solid foundation on which you can build. And then as you learn practice and train diligently advancing becomes natural and inevitable. Every expert was once a beginner. Every skilled craftsman was once an apprentice. Every great artist was once a novice.
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And yet... I often see so many English students wanting to practice fast connected speech in English when they still haven't mastered their vowel sounds in English, or the TH or the R.
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That's unwise and impractical, because poor pronunciation strung together quickly in a sentence will simply result in spoken English that is difficult to decipher or simply unintelligible.
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So here's my advice: take the time you need to completely master every sound of the English language according to the accent you aim to master. Once you achieve this, your English will shine with clarity and your eyes will beam with confidence. If you would like me to help you with this go here to see what I have for you. Wishing you all the success in the world, Stefanie.
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This was an email actually that I wrote to promote one of our courses. This is my Amazing American Accent Sound Bank course where I go in depth into every single sound of my American accent so if you're still struggling with sounds in English and you want to improve your pronunciation, this course would be great for you but anyways back to the email.
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This is the email. I hope you enjoyed this story I hope you enjoyed hearing about my embarrassing ballet experience that was actually a really crazy experience because I really did think that I was such a hard worker and I would be able to do it you know so I begged and asked that teacher can I please skip the ballet one class go to ballet 2 like I wanted something hard I wanted something difficult and she was so nice and so just like okay and sometimes it takes going through an experience to learn, like you won't always learn just if somebody tells you the truth sometimes you actually have to go through an experience to learn yourself and that's exactly what happened to me when I did the ballet 2 class. I was like whoa I do not belong here like and it also gave me so much respect for people who do ballet and dance and all kinds of things that I had never done before like people that are good at something they make it look easy but that doesn't mean that it is easy and that also doesn't mean that they didn't put hours and hours, and hours and years and years of hard work and effort, blood, sweat and tears into what they have done, right? When you see somebody make something look easy that is how you know they are really good at it okay so anyways here's what you can do again go to the link in the description download this this document so you can read it so you can study the vocabulary and then I'm also going to attach a file where you can listen an audio file where you can listen to the story and then I want you to practice listening and reading out loud yourself and if you want you can come back to this video to the part where I read out loud here and you can slow it down you can use the features inside YouTube the settings or you can add an extension to your browser that will allow you to slow down the story so you can really hear how I'm connecting those words but this is an exercise in just listening okay you have to listen you have to do the work I'm not going to break every little last thing down. I've taught a lot about connected speech in my other videos so now it's time for you to to get analytical and really try this on your own. Let me know how it goes in the comments. Let me know if you enjoy this exercise. I really hope you do, yeah hopefully you enjoy the material that we're working with too because it's about me and it's kind of personal but anyways that's not the point. The point is just listening and shadowing and imitating and just trying to have some fun here with your English, okay? So that's it oh I will also leave a link to the Amazing American Accent Sound Bank course in the description in case anybody wants to check that out and of course if you have any questions about it or anything you can always email me or just hit me up in the comments. I will talk to you later. Take care, bye.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze video bevat 8 zinnen en 1597 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 8:52. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 180 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 86% 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 minder gangbare woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
- ballet /bælˈeɪ/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — ballet. A classical form of dance.
- skip /skɪp/ (werkwoord) — huppelen. To move by hopping on alternate feet.
- shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — schaduw. A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
- accent /ækˈsɛnt/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — accent, klemtoon. A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to…
- connect /kəˈnɛkt/ (werkwoord) — verbinden. To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
- pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — uitspraak. The formal or informal way in which a word is made to sound when spoken.
- skill /skɪl/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — bekwaamheid, vaardigheid. A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.
- fundamental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/ (bijvoeglijk naamwoord) — fundamenteel. Related to a foundation, base, or basis; serving as a foundation.
- analyze /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/ (werkwoord) — analyseren. To subject to analysis.
- extension /ɪkˈstɛnʃən/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — uitbreiding, extensie. The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.
- muscle /ˈmʌs.əl/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — spier. A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement.
- ear /ˈɪə̯/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — oor. The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
- worker /ˈwɝ.kɚ/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — arbeider, arbeidster. One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
- string /stɹɪŋ/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — draad, koord. A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
- belong /bɪˈlɒŋ/ (werkwoord) — thuishoren, horen. To have its proper place.
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
- slow down (werkwoord) — afremmen. To decelerate.
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 31 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, we're, didn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: beneath /bɪˈniːθ/, rhythm /ˈɹɪð.əm/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, extension /ɪkˈstɛnʃən/, shine /ʃaɪn/, humiliation /hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, fundamental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/, inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/, accurately /ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt.li/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/
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 ballet, skip, shadow.
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | have done · haven't mastered |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | should be done |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | people who do |
| Werkwoord + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — werkwoorden die door de -ing-vorm worden gevolgd | practice reading · enjoyed hearing |
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.