Shadowing Practice: Word Stress: Sentence Position -- American English Pronunciation - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Today I'm going to go over something I find quite interesting about American English,
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and that is how different the same word can sound depending on where it falls in a sentence.
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I've been noticing recently some of my students from certain countries have the tendency to accent the last word in the sentence.
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And in general, American English goes down in pitch throughout a sentence.
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So actually, the words at the end of a sentence should be lower in pitch,
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lower in volume, more unstressed than the same word would be if it came earlier in the sentence.
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Let's take, for example, the word home in the sentences, I'll be home by three.
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Last night I drove the car home.
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Let's hear the word home in the first sentence, I'll be home by three, repeat it on a loop a few times to get it into our ear.
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I'll be home by three.
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Home, home, home, home.
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And now in the second sentence, last night I drove the car home.
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Last night I drove the car home.
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Home, home, home, home.
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And now let's compare, switching back and forth.
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Home, home, home, home, home, home, home, home, home.
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Clearly they are at two different pitches, two different volumes.
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Here I'm using the software program Pratt to view both sentences and the loops of the word home.
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The first sentence, I'll be home by three.
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And the loop for the word home in
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that sentence, home, home, home you can see that the volume is greater compared to the word home in the second sentence.
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And down here we see the pitch.
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Both of these sentences have the downward trend, the second one ending with this little dot down here,
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as most statements in English do.
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The word home in the first sentence is here, quite high in pitch, the word home in the second sentence, here, quite low in pitch.
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This section up here is the M, sort of just a grumble in the voice.
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It sort of stops sounding like speech at this point, doesn't it?
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It's so low in pitch, so low in volume, so far down in the throat.
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Yet when you hear it in the context of the sentence, Last night I drove the car home.
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You do identify it as the word home.
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Let's listen one more time to the loop where we alternate the word home from the two sentences.
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Home, home, home, home, home, home, home.
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So keep this in mind when you're speaking, when you're practicing reading out loud.
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Make sure you're not stressing the last word of a sentence by bringing it up in pitch or making it louder.
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Because in English, it's actually the opposite.
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The words at the end of the sentence will be lower in pitch and also softer.
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The final word in the sentence can sometimes be very low and very soft.
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That's it, and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.
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Deze video bevat 38 zinnen en 496 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 3:03. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 163 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 87% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| pitch zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɪt͡ʃ/ | worp |
| loop zelfstandig naamwoord | /luːp/ | lus, strop |
| compare werkwoord | /kəmˈpɛɚ/ | vergelijken |
| throat zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈθɹoʊt/ | keel |
| depend werkwoord | /dɪˈpɛnd/ | afhangen |
| accent zelfstandig naamwoord | /ækˈsɛnt/ | accent, klemtoon |
| tendency zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtɛn.dən.si/ | neiging |
| grumble werkwoord | /ˈɡɹʌmbl̩/ | grommen, knorren |
| unstressed bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ʌnˈstɹɛst/ | onbeklemtoond |
| sentence zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsɛn.təns/ | veroordeling |
| soft bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /sɔft/ | zacht |
| loud bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈlaʊ̯d/ | luidruchtig, luidruchtige |
| context zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkɑn.tɛkst/ | context |
| opposite bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈɑ.pə.sɪt/ | tegenoverliggend |
| switch zelfstandig naamwoord | /swɪt͡ʃ/ | schakelaar |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 11 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'll, you're, I'm. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
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 pitch, loop, compare.
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.