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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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这节 B2 级别的口语课以视频“Let's do karaoke - Shadowing practice”为素材。视频中反复出现的词有：singing, karaoke, brain, sing, Japanese。这段视频共有 61 个句子、904 个单词可供跟读。讲话部分时长为 6:52。说话人语速平稳，每分钟约 132 个词，很适合跟读。只有 80% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，词汇难度较高。

视频中的重点词汇

视频中最难的 15 个单词，附发音和释义：

单词	发音	释义
karaoke 名词	/ˈkæ.ɹiˌəʊ.ki/	卡拉OK, K歌
orchestra 名词	/ˈɔː.kɪs.tɹə/	樂團 /乐团, 樂隊 /乐队
musician 名词	/mjuˈzɪʃən/	音樂家 /音乐家
nerve 名词	/nɝv/	神經 /神经
invent 动词	/ɪnˈvɛnt/	發明 /发明
microphone 名词	/ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfəʊn/	麥克風 /麦克风, 話筒 /话筒
gentle 形容词	/ˈd͡ʒɛntl̩/	斯文
patent 名词	/ˈpeɪtənt/	專利 /专利
endorphin 名词	/ɛnˈdɔ(ɹ)fɪn/	腦內啡 /脑内啡, 安多芬
exhale 动词	/ˌɛksˈheɪ̯l/	呼出
lullaby 名词	/ˈlʌləbaɪ/	催眠曲, 搖籃曲 /摇篮曲
neuron 名词	/ˈn(j)ʊɹɑn/	神經細胞 /神经细胞, 神經元 /神经元
onward 副词	/ˈɒnwəd/	向前
soundproof 形容词		隔音
playlist 名词	/ˈpleɪˌlɪst/	播放列表, 歌單 /歌单

视频中出现的短语动词

单词	释义
sit down 动词	坐下, 坐

视频中的语法

说话人最常用的结构，并附上视频中的原话：

结构	视频中的用法
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的	was invented · could be rented · be released
现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事	have shown · have suffered
定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物	oke which is · people who have

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 14 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 I'm, don't, you're。请按听到的简短形式来说。

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

中文母语者容易读错的音：

/v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: vagus /ˈveɪ.ɡəs/, nerve /nɝv/, invent /ɪnˈvɛnt/, whichever /wɪt͡ʃˈɛvɚ/, activate /ˈæktɪˌveɪt/
词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: vagus /ˈveɪ.ɡəs/, nerve /nɝv/, invent /ɪnˈvɛnt/, distress /dɪˈstɹɛs/, patent /ˈpeɪtənt/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: relaxation /rᵻˌlækˈseɪ.ʃən/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, instrumental /ɪnstɹəˈmɛntəl/

如何用这段视频练习

先完整听一遍视频，不要开口，记下不认识的单词。
用正常速度逐句跟读，每句重复到你的节奏与说话人一致为止。
录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 karaoke, orchestra, musician 这类单词。

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。

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