Shadowing Practice: 5 vocal exercises for a more powerful voice 😎 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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If I asked you how do you strengthen your biceps, do you know what exercise you need to do?
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You probably know, you need to do a bicep curl.
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But what if I asked you how do you strengthen your voice?
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It blows my mind that this is the most important instrument in our lives, yet we don't get taught how to strengthen it, not in primary school, not in high school,
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not in tertiary education, and not even in our professional careers.
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Let me share with you one of the most effective exercises to better strengthen your vocal cords, To give you a more powerful sounding voice the first step is you have to do a lip flutter
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which looks like this
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Do that for one entire breath
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and then repeat another two times therefore doing it a total
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of three times step two We're gonna break it up do the same thing, but do it in spurts
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Now what you do is you do the lip flutter again
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except you add sound try to maintain a constant pitch so you do it like this
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You must repeat that three times in total.
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Step four, you do a lip flutter, just one, except you're going from a low pitch to a high pitch.
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And step five, the final one, just lip flutter your favorite song.
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Record your voice and how you sound now on your phone and label it with today's date.
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Do this exercise every single day and in three months time, six months time, record yourself again, you have a completely new voice.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “5 vocal exercises for a more powerful voice 😎”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: flutter, strengthen, lip, voice, step. This video has 17 sentences and 266 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:30. The speaker talks at a natural 177 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 13 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
strengthen verb/ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θən/To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify.
pitch noun/pɪt͡ʃ/A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
label noun/ˈleɪ.bəl/A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
breathe verb/bɹiːð/To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
instrument noun/ˈɪnstɹəmənt/A device used to produce music.
vocal adjective/ˈvoʊ̯.kəl/Of, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech.
cord noun/ˈkoɹd/A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fibre (a rope, for example).
tertiary adjective/ˈtɜː.ʃi.ə.ɹiː/Of third rank or order; subsequent.
curl noun/kɜɹl/A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.
flutter verb/ˈflʌtɚ/To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
bicep noun/ˈbaɪsɛp/A biceps.
biceps noun/ˈbaɪ.sɛps/Any muscle having two heads.
spurt verb/spɜɹt/To cause to gush out suddenly or violently in a stream or jet.

Bu videodaki dil bilgisi

Konuşmacının en çok kullandığı yapılar, videodaki sözcüklerin aynısıyla:

YapıVideoda
En üstünlük the -est / the most … — bir grubun en üstü ya da en altıthe most important · the most effective
Zorunluluk: must / have to / need to bir şeyin gerekli olduğunu söylemekneed to do · have to do · must repeat
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — şu anda ya da bu sıralar olan bir şeyyou're going
“going to” ile gelecek be going to + fiil — bir plan ya da olacağı belli olan bir şeygonna break

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 4 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, gonna, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “th” sounds: strengthen /ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θən/, breathe /bɹiːð/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like strengthen, pitch, label.

Gölgeleme Tekniği Nedir?

Gölgeleme, başlangıçta profesyonel tercüman eğitimi için geliştirilen ve çok dilli Dr. Alexander Arguelles tarafından popüler hale getirilen, bilim destekli bir dil öğrenme tekniğidir. Yöntem basit ama güçlüdür: ana dili İngilizce olan bir sesi dinler ve hemen yüksek sesle tekrar edersiniz — konuşmacıyı 1-2 saniye gecikmeyle takip eden bir gölge gibi. Pasif dinleme veya dilbilgisi alıştırmalarının aksine, gölgeleme beyninizi ve ağız kaslarınızı gerçek konuşma kalıplarını eşzamanlı olarak işlemeye ve yeniden üretmeye zorlar. Araştırmalar, telaffuz doğruluğu, tonlama, ritim, bağlı konuşma, dinleme anlama ve konuşma akıcılığını önemli ölçüde geliştirdiğini göstermektedir — bu da onu IELTS Konuşma hazırlığı ve gerçek dünya İngilizce iletişimi için en etkili yöntemlerden biri yapar.

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