跟讀練習: Practice Shadowing a Business Presentation in English - 通過影片學習英語口語

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Hello and welcome to another shadowing practice video with me,

Claire, a native speaker from the US.

I'm also a trained opera singer,

so I've studied the International Phonetic Alphabet or IPA,

so I've studied the correct pronunciation of sounds in multiple languages.

In this video, So we're going to practice shadowing with a professional business presentation.

Even if English is not your native language,

you may need to use English at work

or even give presentations in English if you work for an international or US company.

You want to be understood.

So even though you don't need to sound just like a native speaker,

pronunciation and intonation are crucial.

And of course, knowing some key phrases

or common business English terms are also important to build confidence and overall fluency at work.

So I'll first read through the presentation at a natural pace.

Then we'll go through some of the key phrases and of course pronunciation tips.

Finally, we'll shadow it together so you can sound more natural and confident at work.

Let's go!

English made easy with Claire.

Good morning everyone!

Thanks for being here today.

I want to walk you through our latest project and what the next steps are.

As you know, our team has been working on optimizing the user experience on our website.

Over the past month, we've run several tests and gathered valuable feedback from our customers.

One key improvement is our new checkout process.

We've reduced the number of steps from 5 to 3,

which has already increased conversions by 20%.

Looking ahead, we're planning to roll out these updates globally by next quarter.

That means we need to finalize testing and prepare our teams for the launch.

If you have any questions,

feel free to reach out and I'd be happy to discuss this further.

Thanks again for your time.

Alright, so that was the initial read through at a normal speaking pace.

Let's go through it slowly together.

So we'll take the first section.

Good morning, everyone.

Thanks for being here today.

That whole phrase can really be connected.

So individually, we of course have the pronunciation of words like for, being, and today.

in natural quick speech, we in American English tend to close down some of the vowels

or turn these vowels into the schwa sound.

So the schwa sound is the uh sound,

like in the word banana.

There's two schwas in banana.

And that happens in today.

Today.

Not today, but today.

Today.

So very rapid speech.

Those vowels get dropped or,

you know, changed into this schwa sound.

And for becomes for in rapid speech.

Thanks for, thanks for being here today.

For the words that end in ing,

we don't need to completely drop the g every time so that it's thanks for being here today.

That might come with certain dialects,

but what we want to do is connect the ing sounds to the next word,

like with this connected speech, being here, being here.

Otherwise we have being here.

And many native speakers don't speak like that.

We don't have to separate each word,

but have this really connected speech,

which often then modifies the vowels like for today,

or you can elide sounds at the ends of words that squish on to the following word.

So shadowing practice is really helpful for learning full phrases that you might use.

And this is a really common one.

Thanks for being here today.

Because if you start a business presentation,

that's a really polite way to start the meeting.

Okay, let's keep going.

I want to walk you through our latest project and what the next steps are.

So again, I wanna, that isn't just reserved for casual speech.

You could be giving a business presentation and instead of saying want to, say wanna.

And most native speakers speak like that all the time.

I want to walk you through our latest project.

So that's completely acceptable.

Now, walk you through.

Walk through is a phrasal verb,

which means to explain something step by step.

And this is a great one to know for business English.

I want to walk you through our latest project and what the next steps are.

Okay, moving on.

As you know, our team has been working on optimizing the user experience on our website.

Now, really important when you have a comma,

you always want to pause.

Don't just plow through the commas.

As you know, our team has been working, right?

There's a, it implies a pause there.

As you know, and then further,

and you'll notice that my intonation goes up a little bit when there's a phrase with a comma.

And there's a little, there's more phrases like this to come and I'll point them out as well.

As you know, our team has been working on optimizing the user experience on our website.

So every time you have a comma,

you can imagine the intonation going up at the,

once you get to the end of the comma phrase,

and then for the next phrase that ends in a period,

the intonation goes back down.

It happens again in the next sentence.

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Over the past month, pause,

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we've run several tests and gathered valuable feedback from our customers.

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Intonation goes down right before the period and it goes up right before the comma.

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And this makes it really clear the structure of your sentence.

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So even though we can't see what you're saying when you're giving a presentation,

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we understand the structure of the sentence because of your intonation.

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So even if you don't pronounce all of the words exactly like me,

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intonation is really, really important for this, for being understood.

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Now in the previous sentence,

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we had a word ending in ing with the same concept of alighting with the word after it.

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Our team has been working on, working on.

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So we don't need to drop the G completely,

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working on, but we do allied the sounds.

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Just it's a little bit softer than working, working on.

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That helps with giving it a flow as well.

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Our team has been working on.

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Our team has been working on.

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So it all kind of flows together.

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Okay, next section.

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One key improvement is our new checkout process.

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I want to point out the word key here,

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which I think I've used quite a lot in this video already.

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And key as an adjective means important or major.

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So one important improvement is this one key improvement,

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a word that we use a lot in business English.

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We've reduced the number of steps from five to three.

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Again, my intonation just went up because there was a comma.

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So there's more to come.

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I'm not done with my sentence.

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Which has already increased conversions by 20%.

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And then my intonation goes back down.

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Again, we have the linking of the words,

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which is already, which is already increased.

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And this happens a lot with the word has.

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If we are speaking in the present perfect,

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has increased, which is, which is already, right?

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Which has.

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So because which ends with the ch sound,

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we can align that with the beginning h of has,

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which is, and has the vowel modifies to is.

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It's more of a clipped vowel modification due to rapid speech.

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Again, so which is already increased conversions by 20%.

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It's kind of like when we have contractions anyway, like we've reduced.

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We don't always have to say we have reduced.

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We don't tend to write out these contractions that we would say in rapid speech,

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like which is increased, but we do speak like that.

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So the same principle we've reduced,

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that's all squished together with this contraction.

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There is an unwritten contraction for which is increased.

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Looking ahead, we're planning to roll out these updates globally by next quarter.

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Looking ahead, that is connected speech as well looking ahead and we pause after the comma,

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we're planning to roll out these updates.

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Rollout means to introduce something new and is often used in a business context.

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That means we need to finalize testing and prepare our teams for the launch.

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So again, in American English,

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a lot of the smaller words,

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the vowels are dropped or modified.

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We need to finalize.

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To finalize, prepare our teams.

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Often the word our can sound like our in rapid speech.

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Prepare our teams.

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That's also very connected.

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For the launch.

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So for instead of for.

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Again, those aren't really necessary for being understood,

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but that's for those of you who would like to work on the American accent.

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And the word here, launch,

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means the beginning of something,

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usually a campaign or a product in the marketing world.

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If you have any questions,

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feel free to reach out and I'd be happy to discuss this further.

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Thanks again for your time.

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So we have the phrase,

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feel free to, feel free to,

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feel free to reach out,

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feel free to contact me,

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feel free to write me an email.

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And it's a casual way to say,

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don't hesitate to do something.

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So if you wanted to be more formal,

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you could say, don't hesitate to reach out,

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but feel free is a nice phrase to have.

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And right at the end,

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another great business phrase we have, thanks for your time.

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And that's used to acknowledge people's time.

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And it's a polite business phrase to use at either the beginning or the end of a meeting or presentation.

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Okay, so a lot of what we covered in today's shadowing video

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was the concept of connected speech and maybe learning phrases not as individual words,

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but together in a phrase where you can connect the speech to sound a little more natural and fluent.

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We also talked about linking the ends of words with the beginning of the next word.

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Like we do this very often for words that end in ing.

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Or if the sounds are similar at the beginning,

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at the end and the beginning of the next word,

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like which and has, which is.

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And we also covered a few business phrases and phrasal verbs that are really useful to know,

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especially when speaking.

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So now let's shadow the full presentation together.

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Try to match my rhythm and intonation and word stress as well as pronunciation as best you can.

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If you want, you can pause the video after each section or sentence and repeat after me.

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or better yet, say the words with me at the same time and try and shadow how I say it.

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Or maybe both work well.

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First, repeat after me and then afterwards,

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try and shadow with me.

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Good morning, everyone.

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Thanks for being here today.

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I want to walk you through our latest project and what the next steps are.

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As you know, our team has been working on optimizing the user experience on our website.

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Over the past month, we've run several tests and gathered valuable feedback from our customers.

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One key improvement is our new checkout process.

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We've reduced the number of steps from 5 to 3,

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which has already increased conversions by 20%.

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Looking ahead, we're planning to roll out these updates globally by next quarter.

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That means we need to finalize testing and prepare our teams for the launch.

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If you have any questions,

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feel free to reach out and I'd be happy to discuss this further.

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Thanks again for your time.

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I hope this video was helpful.

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And even if your goal is not to perfect the American accent or try and change your own accent,

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it's still really important to practice the correct stress of a word

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or the stressed word within a sentence or the intonation of that sentence so that the structure is clear.

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All of these things are really important for being understood.

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So take what you want from the video and leave what you don't,

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but hopefully you learned something new and it was helpful.

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Of course, if you did think so,

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give it a like and subscribe to my channel if you want more videos like this.

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I have a playlist for shadowing videos and I'll be in your feeds with another video next week.

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So bye for now.

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為什麼要通過這個影片練習口語？

在現代職場中，能流利地用英語進行工作演示是極其重要的。通過觀看這個影片，您不僅可以提高自己的英語口語能力，還能增強職場自信，尤其是在國際公司或者使用英語進行溝通的環境中。影片中介紹的商業演示場景將幫助您練習必要的表達方式和專業術語，確保您在與同事和客戶溝通時更加自然。在提高發音和語調的同時，您也能夠掌握一些關鍵短語，這將讓您在工作中更加遊刃有餘。看YouTube學英語，就是要讓學習變得輕鬆有趣，同時又能從中受益。

語法與表達的語境分析

在影片中，演講者使用了一些非常實用的英語表達方式，以下是幾個關鍵結構的分析：

感謝來賓的句子：“Thanks for being here today.” 這是一個表示感激的常用表達，適合在任何會議開始時使用。
專案更新的介紹：“I want to walk you through our latest project and what the next steps are.” 這句話不僅清楚地傳達了資訊，還能幫助您使用“walk you through”這一表達，來引導聽眾關注重點。
問題邀請：“If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.” 這裡的“feel free to”讓語氣更加友好和開放，鼓勵聽眾提問。

通過這些句型，您可以在職場中自信地表達自己的想法，提升與他人溝通的有效性。使用這些表達，不僅能幫助您進行英語影子跟讀(shadow speak)，還可以提升您的整體流利度。

常見發音陷阱

在影片中，有些詞彙和發音可能對學習者構成挑戰，例如：

“being”: 在快速語速下，這個詞的‘g’音往往會被弱化，使得發音更接近於“been”。
“today”: 快速說話時，‘o’音可能會變為泡音（schwa），更接近於“tə'deɪ”。
連讀現象：例如“Thanks for being here today”可以被連讀成“Thanks for bein' here t'day”，這在口語中很常見。

通過影子跟讀(shadowspeaks)的練習，您可以有效掌握這些發音技巧，從而在工作溝通時聽起來更加流利自然。讓我們一起努力，提升我們的英語表達能力吧！

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
現在完成進行時 have/has been + -ing — 以前開始、現在仍在繼續的動作	has been working
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	I've studied · we've run · We've reduced
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	be understood · be connected · isn't just reserved
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物	already, which is · increased, which is · like which is

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為什麼要通過這個影片練習口語？

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