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Hi everyone, welcome to another Shadowing Practice Session.
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I'm Claire, an English teacher and native speaker from the U.S.
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The purpose of these videos is to practice your pronunciation
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and overall fluency of the English language with a focus on the American pronunciation.
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For this session, I'm going to read an email or could be a voicemail that one coworker might send to another.
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So within the text, you'll hear common idioms or terms of phrases
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that are really frequently used in the context of an American workplace.
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So if you live or work in the US, this video is not only going to be really helpful to work on your pronunciation
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and accent so that you are easily understood, but you will also learn some idioms and phrases
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that are very common in the workplace and in everyday life in the States.
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If you like the format of this video, I have a shadowing practice series, which I will link here.
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So go and check those out.
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And if you haven't already, please subscribe to my channel and like this video, share it with a friend who's also learning English.
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It's the best way to support what I do here.
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If you want to support me in a slightly bigger way,
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All right, let's begin our shadowing practice for today.
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So first, I'm just going to read through this voicemail or text, and then afterwards, I'll go over some specifics for pronunciation,
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as well as go over some of these idioms and phrases
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that I use so that you can feel comfortable and confident using them yourself.
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Okay, so I'm going be reading the text over here on my computer and follow along as I read.
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Hey Alex, it's Claire.
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Just wanted to check in real quick about the report.
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We're in good shape, but if anything's still up in the air, let me know and I'll take a look before we send it off.
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I just got off a call with Brian and he flagged a couple of last minute tweaks.
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Nothing major, but I'll loop you in on his email so you've got it.
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And just a heads up, I'm going to be out of the office tomorrow.
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If anything urgent comes up, shoot me a message and I'll do my best to get back to you.
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Otherwise, I'll hit the ground running first thing Monday.
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All right, I won't keep you.
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Just wanted to give you a quick update.
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Talk soon.
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All right, now let's go back to the beginning of our voicemail
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and I'm going to point out some places where I want you to pay attention to my pronunciation in my accent.
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So we have, hey Alex, it's Claire.
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It's Claire.
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Okay?
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It doesn't have to be overly pronounced T-S.
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It's Claire.
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But just whatever your name is, just sort of smooth it together with it.
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It's Claire.
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It's Claire.
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It's Claire.
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Okay.
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Just wanted to check in about the report.
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Again, I mentioned in previous shadowing video,
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when we have the T at the end or in the middle of a word in the American accent, we often do not pronounce them.
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Just wanted.
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Not just wanted, right?
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Get rid of the T's.
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Just wanted.
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Just wanted.
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Okay, repeat the whole phrase with me.
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Just wanted to check in real quick about the report.
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Did you notice any other T's that I didn't pronounce? About.
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Report.
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not about
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and report drop the t's about report just wanted
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to check in about the report okay moving on we're in good shape
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but if anything's still up in the air let me know and I'll take a look before we send it off.
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Okay, here instead of let me know, we can squish them all together.
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Let me know.
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Let me know.
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That's a great one to have because in the workplace, you're going to tell people to let you know something all the time.
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Let's say that one together.
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The whole sentence.
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We're in good shape, but if anything's still up in the air, let me know and I'll take a look before we send it off.
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Send it off, not send it off, right?
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That's when we individually learn the pronunciation of words.
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That's how we'll learn it.
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But in these shadowing practices, we can take them in chunks, in a phrase.
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Send it off.
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Send it off.
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I just got off a call with Brian and he flagged a couple of last minute tweaks.
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So again, we have the T dropped in just,
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I just got off, but also the T at the end of got is more of a D sound, got off, got off.
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And usually if we have a vowel followed by the T,
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you have this kind of D sound.
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I just got off.
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So instead of dropping it completely, it's softer.
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I just got off a call with Brian and he flagged a couple of last minute tweaks.
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A couple of.
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Say that three words together as a phrase.
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A couple of.
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A couple of.
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Sometimes you might not even hear that sound at the end of of just a couple of,
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a couple of, a couple of last minute tweaks.
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Nothing major, but I'll loop you in on his email, so you've got it.
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Say that one with me.
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Nothing major, but I'll loop you in on his email, so you've got it.
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And just a heads up, I'm going to be out of the office tomorrow.
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Okay, here we have a lot of squished together words.
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I'm gonna be.
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Not I'm going to be.
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Not overly pronounced, but I'm gonna be.
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I'm gonna be.
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Out of the office.
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Out of the office.
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Out of the office.
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Squish out of together to make out of.
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Out of the office.
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Okay, let's say the whole thing together.
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And just a heads up, I'm gonna be out of the office tomorrow.
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If anything urgent comes up, shoot me a message and I'll do my best to get back to you.
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If anything urgent comes up, shoot me a message and I'll do my best to get back to you.
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Otherwise, I'll hit the ground running first thing Monday.
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first thing the s t does not have to be very
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well pronounced first thing right we can kind of squish all
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of those sounds together first thing first thing it's basically the
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drop the t rule drop the T at the at the on the end of first
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and thing make sure that's unvoiced thing that one's a tricky one
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if you don't have this sound in your native language okay
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last phrase all right I won't keep you just wanted to
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give you a quick update talk soon all right I won't won't drop the T keep you
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So just wanted to give you a quick update.
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Talk soon.
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Okay, so now let's go over some of these phrases that native speakers use super often that I used in this voicemail.
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First, we have check in real quick.
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It's a casual way to say you want to briefly follow up something.
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To check in just means to see how things are going.
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And this phrase, real quick, implies you're not going to take up a lot of this person's time.
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It's pretty polite to add that so that you maintain a casual tone.
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And it just means that you want to quickly follow up.
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To be in good shape.
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In this context, talking about a report at work to say we're in good shape, it means everything's going well or it's nearly complete.
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Up in the air, it means something is undecided or uncertain.
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To take a look means to review or check something.
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A very casual way to say you'll review Yeah, I'll take a look.
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To get off a call with someone.
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In the voicemail I say, I just got off a call with Brian.
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And it means I recently finished a phone conversation with Brian.
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To flag a couple of tweaks.
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It means to point out a few changes.
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Imagine when you're fiddling with, you know, a screw or something mechanical and it makes the tweak,
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tweak sound as you're kind of making last minute adjustments.
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We can use the same word in a workplace context.
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To tweak a report, tweak a project means to make small changes to it it.
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To loop someone in on an email, for example, I said in the voicemail, I'll loop you in on his email.
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And it means I'll include you in the email or I'll update you.
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Just a heads up.
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It's a casual way to warn someone about something or give someone some information they'll need.
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To hit the ground running.
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It means to start working efficiently straight away.
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So in the voicemail, I said, I'll hit the ground running first thing on Monday.
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And that means because I'm out of the office tomorrow on Monday, I'll work really hard.
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I'll hit the ground running.
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And the final phrase I have is, I won't keep you.
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This is a really polite way to wrap up a conversation or end a conversation.
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If you're leaving a voicemail, at the end, you might say, all right, I won't keep you.
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Talk soon.
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And it just is a polite way to say, that's all I have to say.
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I'll let you go now.
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I'm ending the conversation.
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All right, guys, I hope today's shadowing practice was useful to improve your pronunciation
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and overall understanding of some of these common phrases in American English.
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If you want to practice saying the entire voicemail again with me,
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go back to the part in the video where I just read through it straight through without stopping
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and see if you can say it along with me.
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Shadowing practice works best when you can actually say it with me rather than just repeating it.
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But if you do prefer the method to repeat after me, again, go back to when I read through the voicemail without stopping,
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and you can pause the video after every phrase.
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So both approaches work fine.
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I really hope you enjoyed this video.
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Thank you so much for watching and sticking to the end.
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Let me know in the comments how it went for you, and I'll see you in the next one.
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Bye for now.
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背景與上下文
在本次影片中，講者是來自美國的英語教師克萊爾 (Claire)。她通過錄制影片來幫助英語學習者提高發音和流利度，特別是關注美式發音。影片的內容是關於一個同事之間的交流，通過一封電子郵件或語音郵件的形式展示。學習者可以在這裡接觸到美國職場常用的習語和表達方式，使他們在工作和日常生活中更加得心應手。無論你是在美國工作還是生活，這段影片都將幫助你更好地理解和使用英語。
日常溝通的五個常用短語
- check in - 核實、詢問進展。通常用來看看某個專案的最新狀態。
- up in the air - 不確定、懸而未決的狀態。
- take a look - 檢視、檢查某件事。
- loop you in - 把某人加入討論，告知相關資訊。
- hit the ground running - 迅速開始，馬上投入工作。
上述短語在職場中頻繁使用，掌握這些短語將使你的溝通更加自然流暢，提升你的shadow speech能力，進而提升你的提高英語發音技巧。
逐步影子練習指南
要有效地進行本影片的影子練習，可以按照以下步驟進行:
- 初學階段: 首次觀看影片時，儘量不要分心，專注聽講者的發音和語調。
- 跟讀階段: 看完一遍後，開始模仿克萊爾的發音。在每句話後暫停，重複她的內容，嘗試模仿她的語調和節奏。
- 糾正發音: 注意影片中提到的發音技巧，比如某些“T”的音可以省略，逐步糾正自己的發音。
- 習語學習: 在影子練習的同時，專注於學習新的習語並在日常生活中加以運用。
- 多加練習: 參與多次影子練習，直到你對內容熟悉為止，進而可以流利地與他人交流。你也可以在影片下方找到更多的影子練習系列，幫助你繼續進步。
通過這些步驟，你將能夠提升自己的英語口語能力，增強看YouTube學英語的效率，併為你的雅思口語練習打下堅實基礎。
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 | are easily understood · is undecided |
| 最高階 the -est / the most … — 一組中最高或最低的 | the best · my best |
| 用 “might / may” 表可能 might/may + 動詞 — 有可能但不確定的事 | might send · might not even hear · might say |
| 動詞 + -ing enjoy、keep、stop… + -ing — 後接 -ing 形式的動詞 | start working · practice saying |
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。