Shadowing Practice: Speak More Clearly: 4 Speech Therapy Exercises for Articulation! - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Do you mumble?
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Want to improve your articulation?
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Do you have dysarthria caused by a stroke or other neurologic disease?
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This video is to help you speak more clearly now.
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We're going to do 4 speech exercises to practice speaking more clearly.
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Talking is an automatic process and speaking more clearly initially involves turning this into a voluntary process.
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How? By over-enunciating and slowing your rate of speech.
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First let's talk about over-enunciating or over-articulating.
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Dysarthria tends to impact consonants the most. So focusing on crisp and exaggerated consonant production will help your speech clarity.
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For example, if I'm saying the word "talk" over-articulating the "t" and the "k" sound are going to help the clarity of that word. Talk.
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It might feel a little funny at first to practice speaking this way but you get used to your oral motor movements becoming bigger and more precise.
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Practicing precise and accurate articulations requires you to slow down.
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Try taking a deep breath before you start speaking and using pauses in natural places like the ends of phrases, sentences and between thoughts.
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Especially if you've had a stroke or other neurologic disease your articulators like your tongue and your lips may need some extra time to reach their targets than prior to the neurologic incident.
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So while we do these next exercises keep in mind to over-articulate and go slow.
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Exercise 1. Let's do diadochokinetic tasks.
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Speech therapists often use this as an assessment tool, but it can also be used as an exercise for speech coordination.
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We're going to repeat or alternate some syllabic speech sounds.
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Go slowly enough so that you can maintain the same rate and clarity.
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And you can gradually speed up as long as your clarity does not change.
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The first syllable we'll do is "puh".
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Take a deep breath breath and say "puh" 10 times. Puh puh puh puh puh puh puh puh puh puh.
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Now "tuh" Tuh tuh tuh tuh tuh tuh tuh tuh tuh tuh "kuh" Kuh kuh kuh kuh kuh kuh kuh kuh kuh kuh And now we'll put two of those together. "Puh-tuh" If you can't keep up with my rate just go as slow as you need to to keep that crisp production at an even rate.
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Puh-tuh puh-tuh puh-tuh puh-tuh puh-tuh puh-tuh puh-tuh puh-tuh puh-tuh puh-tuh All right, now we'll put all three together for "puh-tuh-kuh." Deep breath.
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Puh-tuh-kuh puh-tuh-kuh puh-tuh-kuh puh-tuh-kuh puh-tuh-kuh puh-tuh-kuh puh-tuh-kuh puh-tuh-kuh puh-tuh-kuh puh-tuh-kuh.
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That's challenging. I ran out of breath at the end.
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Just for fun let's do it one more time with the word "patty cake".
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Deep breath.
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Patty cake patty cake patty cake patty cake patty cake patty cake patty cake patty cake patty cake patty cake. Nice job.
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Exercise 2. We're going to say some multisyllabic words. I'll say the word then you repeat it.
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If this feels easy you can try putting these words into a sentence, like, I live in California.
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It's true I really do.
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Exercise 3. Tongue twisters are a great way to practice your articulatory coordination and clarity. Your goal is not speed, it's accuracy and clarity.
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So go slow enough so that your articulation is crisp.
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I used to use this tongue twister as a kid. Pretty sure my dad taught me it.
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Here we go: Exercise 4 is your homework.
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Take the strategies practiced today and apply them to reading out loud.
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You can read a book, a social media post, the newspaper but read it aloud practicing over-articulation slowed speech and using pauses in natural places while reading.
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It might take some time to implement the speech strategies during spontaneous conversation and you'll need consistent practice to help these strategies become more natural and generalize to your spontaneous conversation.
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To track your progress record yourself telling a story or reading out loud and then repeat that recording in a month after you practice on a daily basis.
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Let me know how these exercises worked for you and be kind to yourself!
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “Speak More Clearly: 4 Speech Therapy Exercises for Articulation!”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: puh, tuh, kuh, patty, cake. Deze video bevat 41 zinnen en 701 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 7:14. De spreker praat langzaam, ongeveer 97 woorden per minuut, zodat je tijd hebt om elke klank na te doen. Slechts 71% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 14 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| clarity zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/ | helderheid, klaarheid |
| neurological bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /nɝəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/ | neurologisch |
| articulate werkwoord | /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/ | uitleggen |
| consonant zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkɑn.sə.nənt/ | medeklinker, consonant |
| dysarthria zelfstandig naamwoord | dysartrie | |
| enunciate werkwoord | /ɪˈnʌnsiˌeɪt/ | articuleren |
| spontaneous bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/ | spontaan |
| pause zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɔːz/ | pauze |
| exaggerate werkwoord | /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/ | overdrijven |
| mumble werkwoord | /ˈmʌmbəl/ | mompelen |
| syllabic bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /sɪˈlæb.ɪk/ | syllabisch |
| syllable zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsɪl.ə.bəl/ | lettergreep, syllabe |
| therapist zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/ | therapeut, therapeute |
| voluntary bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈvɑ.lənˌt(ɛ)ɹi/ | vrijwillig |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| slow down werkwoord | afremmen |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- Want to improve your articulation?
- Do you have dysarthria caused by a stroke or other neurologic disease?
- First let's talk about over-enunciating or over-articulating.
- The first syllable we'll do is "puh".
- We're going to say some multisyllabic words.
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 11 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals we'll, we're, can't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: articulation /ɑɹˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, coordination /kəʊˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: articulation /ɑɹˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, neurological /nɝəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/, articulate /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/, enunciate /ɪˈnʌnsiˌeɪt/, spontaneous /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: pause /pɔːz/, generalize /ˈd͡ʒɛn.(ə.)ɹə.laɪz/, aloud /əˈlaʊd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: patty /ˈpæti/, clarity /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/, exaggerate /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/, syllabic /sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als clarity, neurological, articulate.
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.