Практика Shadowing: Stop Shadowing: Try This Instead - Изучайте разговорный английский по видео
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When you speak English, do you sound slow, flat, robotic?
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Now, shadowing can help you with this,
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but today I'm going to show you something even better that'll make your English sound natural and flow smoothly.
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Let me show you.
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Hello, it's Keith from the Keith Speaking Academy, here to help you become a confident speaker of English.
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Welcome to the Fluency Lab series of videos.
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I'm gonna show you three videos looking at the three main aspects of spoken fluency.
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One, natural sound and rhythm in this video.
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Two, continuous speech.
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And three, retrieving language automatically.
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Today, we're starting with sound, how to improve your rhythm, stress, and intonation.
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We're gonna be using three drills today, humming, mumbling, and imitating.
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And then at the end,
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we'll put them all together with shadowing to make you or allow you to speak naturally and with a nice, smooth flow.
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And remember, as always, there's a lovely PDF
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You can download with lots of practice exercises so you can start practicing this method right now today. Are you ready?
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Then let's begin.
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Okay, let's begin with step one, humming.
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So, take a short audio text.
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Maybe something a bit like this.
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Hello again.
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How's it going?
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I'm so pleased that you're learning English.
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Good job.
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OK.
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Listen to a few seconds and then pause after each phrase and repeat the phrase humming.
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You can hum or you can dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee.
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Or you can da da da da da da da.
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Whichever you like.
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For example, let's do this together.
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Listen.
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Hello again.
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How's it going?
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I'm so pleased that you're learning English.
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Good job!
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Get it?
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So what you're doing here is picking up the melody of English, the musicality.
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Lovely word, musicality.
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And it's important you're just humming or dd-ing so that you're focusing a hundred percent energy on the sound,
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the rhythm, the stress, the intonation.
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There's no thinking about the meaning, the words, because that's a heavy cognitive load.
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You want a hundred percent focus on the musicality.
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Lovely word.
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And this is important because many learners will stress every word the same and it sounds flat.
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Maybe because your mother tongue stresses every word or every syllable.
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English doesn't.
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It has different word stress, sentence stress and rhythm or intonation.
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So this is really helping you focus on that.
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Let's move on to step two.
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Okay, step two is mumbling.
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To mumble, another lovely word.
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Musicality, mumble.
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Mumble is to speak not clearly.
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Now it's a bit like this.
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Hello there.
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How are you doing?
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We're going to come and see you.
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Yeah.
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I'll get you a cup of tea.
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You can almost make out the words, but what you hear is the group of sounds,
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the shape of the phrase, the musical shape shape.
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So here, again, we're getting closer to real English, but we're focusing on the sound, the stress, the intonation.
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But we're focusing on the shape of sounds, if that makes sense.
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Let's do this together with the same phrase.
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Listen to what I do and then you try as well.
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Okay, here we go.
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Hello again.
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Hello again.
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How's it going?
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How's it going?
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I'm so pleased that you're learning English.
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So pleased that you're learning English.
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Good job.
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Good job.
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So you're picking the shapes, you're getting contractions and certain sounds, but it's not clear English.
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And again, this is important because it's, there's no cognitive load.
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You're not thinking, not thinking about the words.
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You're just focusing on the sounds, the group of sounds.
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I know it can sound a bit silly, but that's okay.
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It's all part of the learning process.
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Why don't you try?
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Ready?
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Hello again.
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How's it going?
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I'm so pleased that you're learning English.
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Good job.
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Sometimes it can help to close your eyes as you're listening.
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Certainly do not read the sentence.
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Use your ears.
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Let's move on to the next step.
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Right, the third step is imitating, which is repeating exactly the same thing.
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So this is the next logical step to producing real English.
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You're focusing on the sounds, the rhythm, the stress, but you want to produce the exact words.
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Don't focus on the meaning yet, just focus on the sounds.
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It'll look something like this.
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Let's do it together.
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I'll play, you say it, then I'll say it.
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Hello again.
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Hello again.
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How's it going?
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How's it going?
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I'm so pleased that you're learning English.
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I'm so pleased that you're learning English.
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Good job.
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Good job.
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Right?
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So we're taking a logical progression from the sound, the DDD, to the mumbling, to the real words and repeating them.
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OK, a final step that is important, actually, is then to go and check you understand the meaning of the phrase.
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Because the intonation and the meaning are also connected.
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So you want to just check any words in a dictionary.
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Just make sure you understand what you're saying.
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And then the very final step is where we shadow.
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Now, the difference between imitating and shadowing, imitating, you're stopping and repeating.
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Shadowing, you're speaking at the same time as you listen.
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So you're a second behind the speaker, but you're speaking on top of them at the same time.
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we're putting all of these steps together, right?
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Humming, mumbling, imitating, and shadowing.
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Let me just show you how shadowing works.
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Hello again.
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Hello again.
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How's it going?
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How's it going?
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I'm so pleased that you're learning English.
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Good job.
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Good job.
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You see, we're speaking at the same time.
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The big difference with shadowing, of course, is you're not pausing.
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You're going straight through the whole text.
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Put all of these together and it's a killer combination.
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The humming, the mumbling, the imitating and the shadowing, all of that together, one after another with the same text.
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It's really going to have a big impact on your intonation,
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your rhythm, your stress and speaking smoothly and sounding more like a native speaker.
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So this method is much better than just shadowing alone.
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It's much better than reading aloud.
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All of this together is really going to help you with your fluency.
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It's just one aspect of fluency, right?
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In the next Fluency Lab video, we'll be looking at continuous speech, how you keep talking over a long period.
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Remember, the secret is in the practice.
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Don't just watch me.
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Download the PDF, have a look through it.
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In there, you'll find examples of audio you can listen to.
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I've broken it down how you can do it so you can be practicing again and again with different kinds of texts.
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The link is in the description below.
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By the way, if you want to have fun improving your fluency, get ready to join the Speaking Fluency Club.
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Coming soon, starting in September, you'll be able to join.
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It's aimed at upper intermediate and advanced level students, B2, C1.
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And it's a chance to join live lessons with me, speak to other students on the course,
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and build your fluency in a fun and engaging way.
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Keep your eyes open.
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It's coming in September this year, the Speaking Fluency Club.
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In the meantime, thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in the next video.
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All the best now.
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Bye-bye.
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Контекст: Как говорить по-английски естественно, а не роботски?
Многие из нас сталкиваются с проблемой: при разговоре на английском речь звучит медленно, равномерно и неестественно. Видео предлагает альтернативу традиционной технике shadow speech (теньевого повторения), которая поможет улучшить ритм, ударения и интонацию. Автор делится тренажерами, которые сосредотачивают внимание на "музыкальности" английского, а не на переводе слов.
5 полезных фраз для повседневной коммуникации
- "Hello again. How's it going?" – "Привет снова. Как дела?"
- "I'm so pleased that you're learning English." – "Я так рад, что ты учишь английский."
- "Good job!" – "Молодец!"
- "natural sound and rhythm" – "естественный звук и ритм"
- "continuous speech" – "непрерывная речь"
Пошаговый гид: Тренировки для естественной речи
Забудьте о механическом shadowspeak – попробуйте эти шаги:
1. Звучение (humming)
Выберите короткий аудиофрагмент (например, фразы из видео). Прослушайте, затем повторяйте его, завывая или произнося "да-да-да" без слов. Это помогает сосредоточиться на ритме и интонации, не отвлекаясь на смысл. Английский – язык с переменными ударениями, и этот тренажер учит вас "слушать" его музыку.
2. Промывание (mumbling)
Далее переходите к нечеткому произношению слов, сохраняя ритм. Это снижает когнитивную нагрузку и позволяет автоматизировать движения губ и языка. Совмещая с практикой разговорного английского, вы быстро научитесь говорить плавно.
Эти методы, дополненные традиционным shadowing, помогут улучшить произношение английского и сделать речь естественной. Не забывайте загружатьPDF с упражнениями – практика делает мастером!
Что такое техника Shadowing?
Shadowing — это научно обоснованная техника изучения языка, изначально разработанная для подготовки профессиональных переводчиков и популяризированная полиглотом доктором Александром Аргуэльесом. Метод прост, но эффективен: вы слушаете аудио на английском от носителей языка и немедленно повторяете вслух — как тень, следующая за говорящим с задержкой в 1–2 секунды. В отличие от пассивного прослушивания или грамматических упражнений, Shadowing заставляет мозг и мышцы рта одновременно обрабатывать и воспроизводить реальные речевые паттерны. Исследования показывают, что это значительно улучшает точность произношения, интонацию, ритм, связную речь, понимание на слух и беглость речи — что делает его одним из самых эффективных методов для подготовки к IELTS Speaking и реального общения на английском.