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Let's get Hi there, I'm Tony Grant and this is Learn English with Tony.

A weekly podcast to improve your listening skills and grow your English vocabulary.

Join me for a new episode every Friday where I'll give a short talk on a theme

and explore a few interesting words and phrases for you.

Okay everyone, the holidays are over now and it's back to work, or school, whichever stage of life you're in.

January's always a slightly tough time in the Northern Hemisphere, don't you think?

We come back from a nice break over the end of year holidays

and we land with a bump in the coldest month of the year.

But I hope you've all had a nice break anyway and are feeling refreshed and ready for another year.

One of the things I enjoyed over New Year was doing a bit of karaoke here in Tokyo.

Who doesn't love the chance to get behind the microphone and pretend to be a rock star for a couple of hours?

I have to admit that nobody needs to hear me trying to sing Wonderwall by Oasis, but I enjoy myself anyway.

If you're not familiar with karaoke, it was invented in Japan in the 1960s and early 70s.

The name comes from a combination of two words in Japanese,

kara meaning empty and oke which is short for orchestra.

So karaoke literally means empty orchestra, or singing without a live band.

The story goes that in Japan in the 60s, bars often had live musicians who would accompany customers singing popular songs.

When those musicians weren't available, bar owners started to use pre-recorded instrumental tracks instead.

Customers could still sing, but the orchestra was now empty, so to speak.

The person most often credited with inventing karaoke is a man called Daisuke Inoue, a musician from Kobe.

In 1971, he created a simple machine that played backing tracks on tape while customers sang into a microphone.

Inoue rented these machines out to bars and clubs and they became really popular.

But amazingly, he never patented his invention.

He never obtained a license or patent for his machines and

that allowed other people to copy his idea and create competing machines, and they all spread quickly across Japan.

By the late 1970s and 80s, karaoke boxes appeared.

These were small private soundproof rooms that could be rented by the hour,

which were absolutely perfect for small groups of friends to use, and that's what you can find today all over Japanese cities.

From the 1980s onwards, karaoke spread outside Japan, first through East and Southeast Asia,

and then eventually to Europe, America and beyond.

There are a few differences, of course.

Western karaoke is often about public performance, and you find yourself singing in front of a bar,

whereas Japanese karaoke is mostly private and in small groups.

And believe it or not, in 1999, Time magazine named Daisuke Inoue,

one of the most influential Asian people of the 20th century, acknowledging karaoke's massive global cultural impact.

But the benefits of karaoke might not only be cultural.

Studies have shown that singing might actually have a lot of health benefits too.

It's believed that singing directly activates the vagus nerve through our vocal cords and the muscles at the back of the throat.

The vagus nerve is a major part of the nervous system connecting your brain to your organs

and it plays a big role in rest and relaxation.

When you exhale or breathe out

while singing you stimulate the vagus nerve causing endorphins to be released

which can create pleasure and a sense of well-being and also reduce pain.

So singing really can reduce your stress levels

which is something I think the Japanese must have known since at least the early 1970s, given that there's a karaoke box on almost every street corner here.

I wouldn't be surprised if hearing singing has a similar effect on our stress levels too.

I don't mean hearing someone like me trying to sing Bohemian Rhapsody in karaoke of course.

I'm thinking of more gentle, calm types of singing.

After all, most mothers of newborn babies sing to their child, and the mother's singing seems to have a sort of calming effect on the baby.

That's where lullabies come from, gentle songs that we sing to children to send them to sleep.

One of the most striking benefits of singing though is its positive effect on the brains of people suffering from cognitive decline,

like elderly people with dementia.

Singing demands a lot from the brain because it requires attention and forces us to remember words and lyrics.

It's also believed that singing helps the brain to rewire itself, creating new pathways and networks of neurons.

And that's why it's being used by some researchers to help treat people who have suffered a brain stroke, to help them recover their speech.

Isn't the human brain amazing?

Anyway, regardless of all these benefits of singing, it's also just plain good fun, especially in a karaoke box with your mates.

So on that note, I think I'm going to sit down and plan my New Year's karaoke playlist.

Thank you for listening to Learn English with Tony.

If there's a topic you'd like me to talk about in a future episode,

just send an email to learnenglish.mobile at britishcouncil.org and remember, stay safe everyone.

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這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“Let's do karaoke - Shadowing practice”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：singing, karaoke, brain, sing, Japanese。這段影片共有 61 個句子、904 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 6:52。說話人語速平穩，每分鐘約 132 個詞，很適合跟讀。只有 80% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，詞彙難度較高。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
karaoke 名詞	/ˈkæ.ɹiˌəʊ.ki/	卡拉OK, K歌
orchestra 名詞	/ˈɔː.kɪs.tɹə/	樂團 /樂團, 樂隊 /樂隊
musician 名詞	/mjuˈzɪʃən/	音樂家 /音樂家
nerve 名詞	/nɝv/	神經 /神經
invent 動詞	/ɪnˈvɛnt/	發明 /發明
microphone 名詞	/ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfəʊn/	麥克風 /麥克風, 話筒 /話筒
gentle 形容詞	/ˈd͡ʒɛntl̩/	斯文
patent 名詞	/ˈpeɪtənt/	專利 /專利
endorphin 名詞	/ɛnˈdɔ(ɹ)fɪn/	腦內啡 /腦內啡, 安多芬
exhale 動詞	/ˌɛksˈheɪ̯l/	撥出
lullaby 名詞	/ˈlʌləbaɪ/	催眠曲, 搖籃曲 /搖籃曲
neuron 名詞	/ˈn(j)ʊɹɑn/	神經細胞 /神經細胞, 神經元 /神經元
onward 副詞	/ˈɒnwəd/	向前
soundproof 形容詞		隔音
playlist 名詞	/ˈpleɪˌlɪst/	播放列表, 歌單 /歌單

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	釋義
sit down 動詞	坐下, 坐

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	was invented · could be rented · be released
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	have shown · have suffered
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物	oke which is · people who have

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 14 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 I'm, don't, you're。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: musician /mjuˈzɪʃən/, refresh /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/, relaxation /rᵻˌlækˈseɪ.ʃən/, dementia /dɪˈmɛnʃə/, invention /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/
長單詞——注意重音位置: karaoke /ˈkæ.ɹiˌəʊ.ki/, amazingly /əˈmeɪzɪŋli/, accompany /əˈkʌm.pə.ni/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, instrumental /ɪnstɹəˈmɛntəl/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: vagus /ˈveɪ.ɡəs/, nerve /nɝv/, invent /ɪnˈvɛnt/, whichever /wɪt͡ʃˈɛvɚ/, activate /ˈæktɪˌveɪt/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: vagus /ˈveɪ.ɡəs/, nerve /nɝv/, invent /ɪnˈvɛnt/, distress /dɪˈstɹɛs/, patent /ˈpeɪtənt/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: relaxation /rᵻˌlækˈseɪ.ʃən/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, instrumental /ɪnstɹəˈmɛntəl/

如何用這段影片練習

先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
用正常速度逐句跟讀，每句重複到你的節奏與說話人一致為止。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 karaoke, orchestra, musician 這類單詞。

什麼是跟讀法？

跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。

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