跟读练习: American English Intonation | Business English: A meeting at a tech company - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Hey, what's up?
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It's Alex.
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Let's look at the sentence intonation in this recent connected reading
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video about a tech meeting where somebody is discussing problems they solved.
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Let's take a look.
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I just wanted to update everyone.
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I Duh.
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So I and to get reduced a lot in terms of the tone of your voice.
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I just wanted to update everyone.
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I just wanted.. update everyone.
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I just wanted to update everyone about the website issues people were reporting.
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So website issues is important here, but if you say update and then there's issues, then of course you're updating people about the issues.
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So about is kind of a filler word.
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It's not really a function word, but it's pretty close and it gets reduced in the sentence.
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About the website issues, people were reporting.
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People were reporting.
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So we're going to go down with reporting.
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So from people were, We're going to go rise with our voices
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and go up to get ready to go down for reporting.
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People were reporting.
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But the website issue is people were reporting.
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We found the bug yesterday.
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We found the bug yesterday.
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Here we'll start again with we, a very low tone we.
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We found the bug yesterday.
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We found the bug yesterday.
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So found the bug is all kind of in a higher tone.
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Yesterday, we're beginning to get to a section of the sentence.
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Really, we've finished a section of the sentence when we say yesterday.
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We found the bug yesterday, and so we'll keep our tone rising to let the listener know that we've finished one section of the sentence, but we're still talking.
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We're not done.
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We found the bug yesterday and pushed out a fix early this morning, and pushed out a fix early this morning, and pushed out a fix early this morning.
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So pushed out is the verb here, a fix, pushed out a fix.
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So to keep the rhythm, we need a de-stressed part, so that's a.
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Pushed out a.. pushed out a fix.
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Pushed out a fix early this morning.
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And again, we're falling on morning, it's the end of the sentence, so we rise with the previous words to get ready for the fall.
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Pushed out a fix earlier this morning.
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It should have only affected...
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It should have only affected...
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It should have only affected...
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So those parts are high, we're introducing the new topic of the sentence.
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It should have only affected...
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It should have... Should have...
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And I'm keeping my tone high also to show that I'm not perfectly confident that it didn't affect lots of users, right?
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Maybe it affected a lot of users, but I'm keeping my tone high to say that I hope it didn't affect that many users.
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It should have only affected a handful of users, a handful of users, a handful of users.
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We're rising again because we're finishing another section of the sentence, another chunk.
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A handful of users running older browsers, running older browsers.
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A handful of users running older browsers.
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Again, down at the end of the sentence with browsers, and so we'll say a handful of users running older browsers.
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They'll rise and fall there for each section of the sentence.
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We'll keep an eye out.
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We'll keep an eye out for any new bug reports.
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We'll keep an eye out.
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We'll...
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And these are super low in the tone here.
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We'll keep an eye out for any...
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We'll keep an eye out for any new bug reports.
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For any new bug reports.
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Bug reports.
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Bug reports.
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So bug report is a noun phrase, right?
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It's bug report, bug report.
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And so the stress at the end of the sentence is on bug, bug report, bug reports.
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And then we just keep going down for the last few syllables of that phrase, bug reports, to finish out the sentence with a low tone like is required.
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We'll keep an eye out for any new bug reports.
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I just wanted to update everyone about the website issues people were reporting.
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We found the bug yesterday and pushed out a fix early this morning.
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It should have only affected a handful of users running older browsers.
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We'll keep an eye out for any new bug reports.
为什么要通过这个视频练习口语？
在现代商务环境中，尤其是在技术公司中，有效的沟通至关重要。这段关于技术会议的视频展示了一个团队成员如何更新同事们关于网站问题的状况。通过观看这个视频并实践口语，学习者不仅能听到真实的商务英语交流，还能模仿说话者的语调和语速，这对提高英语口语能力极为重要。使用英语影子跟读（shadowspeaks）的方法，可以帮助你更好地把握发音和语调，使你的表达更加自然和自信。
语法与表达在语境中的运用
在视频中，有几个关键的句子结构值得注意：
- “I just wanted to update everyone…” 这个句子使用了过去式“wanted”，表明说话者的意图。同时，“just”一词的使用使语气更加轻松，这种技巧在商务交流中非常有效。
- “We found the bug yesterday.” 在这里，过去时“found”非常清楚地传达了发生在过去的事件，这一点在更新信息时尤其重要。
- “It should have only affected…” 这个句型使用了“should have”结构，表达了对某个结果的期望和不确定性。这不仅显示了说话者的谨慎态度，也展示了英语中如何用语法表达不同的情感和态度。
常见发音陷阱
在视频中，有一些词汇和发音可能会对学习者造成困惑：
- “affected”：这个词在口语中常常会被省略部分音节，因此学习者需要注意语音的连贯和清晰。
- “bug”与“fix”：在快速交流中，这两个词可能会因为语速而失去清晰度。建议在shadowspeak（影子说话）练习时，特别关注这些词的发音。
- “a handful of users”：此短语中的“handful”可能在语调部分容易被低估，尤其是当说话者急于表达时，这时要注意将重音放在正确的音节上。
通过深入分析这些词汇和句型，学习者能更自信地使用英语，尤其是在商务会谈和技术交流中，运用模仿和跟读（shadow speech）技巧，将让你的口语能力大大提升。在这个过程中，结合适当的练习和反馈，你将能更流畅地适应商务环境的沟通需求。
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。