跟读练习: Shadowing is AMAZING!! 🌟 | Learn My British Accent 🇬🇧| ADVANCED 🤓 - 通过视频学习英语口语

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Welcome back, or welcome, to English with Catherine.
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Today we've got a lovely technique -based video.
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Kind of a skill that you can practice and get better and better at.
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And that is shadowing.
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I've just been calling it copying, but shadowing is so much more romantic.
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Sounds a lot more beautiful.
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You're going to shadow me and you're going to learn my accent.
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Lucky you.
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Shall we just get to it?
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I think so.
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Let's get started.
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Shadowing is so good for sounding natural.
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If you want to sound a little bit more authentic when you're speaking in English, a little bit more, I guess, native, shadowing is great because you're kind of copying the nuances,
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the little details in an accent and in pronunciation, which is, as we all know, quite difficult to master.
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When you're shadowing, what you want to do is try to speak at the same time as me, not after not before because that's impossible, at the same time.
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And by the way, you could do this every day as part of your English practice.
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Find a person that you like the sound of and who has the accent that you want
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Listen to them every day on YouTube!
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That's the beauty of the online world.
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You can usually always find what you're looking for, no matter how weird or wonderful that is.
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The focus is not on grammar, it's not on vocabulary.
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Try not to get distracted by some grammar that you don't know or a word that you've never seen.
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Focus on intonation and all of the features I'm going to tell you about.
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When you're having conversation with someone, they ask you questions.
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Have you ever been to Italy?
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Have you ever seen the Eiffel Tower, for example?
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Have you ever tried caviar.
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And that's when stories come up, right?
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You might want to tell a story as part of your answer.
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The story that I'm going to tell today is about when Tom and I went to Cornwall.
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We had the most amazing time and we tried wild garlic.
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So if anyone ever asks me, "Have you ever been to Cornwall?" or "Have you ever tried wild garlic?" This would be my response: Are you ready?
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In May, a couple of years back, Tom and I went down to Cornwall for a little getaway.
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In May, a couple of years back, Tom and I went down to Cornwall for a little getaway.
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The features.
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I've used a schwa.
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Obviously I've used a schwa.
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I'm always using schwa.
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The modern RP accent is full of them.
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I've used a schwa in 'ay' so I'm not saying 'ay', I'm saying 'uh'.
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By the way, the sound of the schwa is 'uh' in case you didn't know.
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I've used one in
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"to" so I've said "tuh" instead of "too" and I've used one in 'for' so I've said 'fuh' instead of 'for'.
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There's also one in the middle of 'getaway'.
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I'm not saying 'getaway' or 'getaway', I'm saying 'geta'.
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getaway Get away.
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Again, try not to worry about the vocabulary, just focus on the pronunciation.
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Intonation.
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I have stressed the word Cornwall in this sentence, because Cornwall is the most important word in the sentence, to deliver the meaning to the listener.
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If I didn't stress Cornwall, it might not be as clear and might not be such an efficient way of communicating that.
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I'm going to say it again now and I want you to try
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and copy me and say it at the same time as me, which is called shadowing.
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In May, a couple of years back, Tom and I went down to Cornwall for a little getaway.
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In May, a couple of years back, Tom and I went down to Cornwall for a little getaway.
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In May, a couple of years back, Tom and I went down to Cornwall for a little getaway.
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I'm sure you sound so good.
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We stayed in a little cottage which had a babbling brook running through the garden.
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It also had an old English country kitchen with an aga.
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It was amazing.
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A feature of this part of the story in terms of pronunciation is blunding.
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It's formally known as catenation, which is something I actually only learnt the other day.
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Catenation! or blending is what we do when a word ends with a consonant
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and then the next word starts with a vowel.
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As you probably know, vowels are A, E, I, O, U.
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We have catenation between 'stayed' and 'in' because 'stayed' ends with a consonant, 'd', and the next word starts with a vowel.
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So we can blend them together instead of having a break.
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This creates a smooth flow when you're speaking.
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We stayed in.
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We stayed in.
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Din.
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Stayed in.
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It also happens between 'had' and 'ay'.
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We're not saying 'had -ay', we're saying 'had -a'.
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Harder An A is a schwa So it's easier to do that, okay?
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So it's 'ha -ja', 'uh' is your schwa sound.
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It's happening throughout this piece of the story, honestly.
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There's so many examples.
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Old English.
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Old English.
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We're blending D to E there.
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Not Old English.
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Not like a robot.
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It's smooth like hot chocolate.
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Old English.
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Shadow me when I say it again.
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We stayed in a little cottage which had a babbling brook running through the garden.
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It also had an old English country kitchen with an aga.
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We stayed in a little cottage which had a babbling brook running through the garden.
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It also had an old English country kitchen with an aga.
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Here's the next part.
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On one of the nights of our stay, we foraged for wild garlic in the surrounding fields.
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because there was an abundance of it.
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Later that day, we made a pasta dish using the wild garlic.
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I hadn't known Tom for very long, so it was a great opportunity for conversation.
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Contractions.
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Guys, we use so many of them.
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If you want to sound more natural, definitely try to use contractions.
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We've got one here with "hadn't" Hadn't.
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We're not saying 'had not'.
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We're saying "hadn't".
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Another point on intonation.
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It's so important guys to know which words to stress.
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As I always say, try to stress the words that give the most meaning.
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Try to imagine the sentence without those words.
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It wouldn't make sense, right?
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The meaning would not be delivered to the listener.
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In this text, I'm stressing wild garlic because it's the star of the story, okay?
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It's what I'm mainly talking about here.
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I'm also stressing the word abundance.
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because it's a word that exaggerates.
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We often stress exaggerating words.
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It just gives drama and sparkle to the story.
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I want you to shadow me now.
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Good luck.
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On one of the nights of our stay, we foraged for wild garlic in the surrounding fields.
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because there was an abundance of it.
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Later that day, we made a pasta dish using the wild garlic.
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I hadn't known Tom for very long, so it was a great opportunity for conversation.
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one more time.
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On one of the nights of our stay, we foraged for wild garlic in the surrounding fields.
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because there was an abundance of it.
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Later that day, we made a pasta dish using the wild garlic.
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I hadn't known Tom for very long, so it was a great opportunity for conversation.
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What you can do now, everyone, is rewind and just listen again.
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Just keep shadowing me until you feel that you've got the essence of how I sound
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Of course you don't want to sound exactly like me.
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You have to inject your own personality into that.
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Your own charm and your own sparkle.
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Because how you speak is what makes you unique.
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I hope you enjoyed that, I definitely did.
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Storytelling is so important when you're having conversations.
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How to tell a story.
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It's really for advanced level students who reach a point where they're communicating quite regularly with people who are asking them questions, and they want to tell a good story.
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Good luck with all your shadowing everyone.
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I'm sure you sound so so beautiful.
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I'm gonna see you really soon, I'm gonna see you next Saturday.
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Have the loveliest most amazing weekend.
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Bye!

为什么要使用这个视频练习说话?

在学习英语的过程中,英语影子跟读(shadowing)是一种极其有效的练习方法。通过模仿发音和语调,学习者能够提升自然流利度,听起来更加标准和地道。尤其是当您希望掌握某种特定口音或语音特点时,使用此视频练习将非常有帮助。视频中,讲者的语音表达清晰,并且包含丰富的口音细节,使得您可以很好地shadow speech,从而增强您对英语语调和语气的理解。此外,通过每天进行这样的训练,您可以逐渐掌握越来越复杂的句子结构。

语法与表达在语境中的应用

在视频中,讲者使用了几种非常实用的表达方式,以下是一些关键结构:

  • Have you ever...? - 这种疑问句形式非常常见,用于引入关于经历的讨论。例如,“Have you ever been to Italy?”
  • In May, a couple of years back... - 这种时间状语可以帮助听者快速了解事情的发生时间,增强叙述的连贯性。
  • Are you ready? - 这个简单的疑问句在对话中非常有效,可以引导对方的注意力。
  • That’s when... - 用于自然过渡到叙述的下一个部分,有助于故事的展开。

通过学习这些结构,您可以在实际对话中流畅运用,提升自己的多样性,尤其是在使用shadowspeak的过程中。

常见发音陷阱

在模仿过程中,您可能会遇到某些发音难点:

  • schwa音 - 讲者提到的“schwa”发音(如在“to”音中发“tuh”而不是“too”)往往在英语中很微妙,练习时要注意。
  • getaway - 在这个词中,讲者用轻音发为“geta”,而不是传统音节中的“get-away”。
  • 重音 - 在句子中,强调诸如“Cornwall”等关键词有助于增强句子的传达效果,值得特别留意。

通过关注这些发音陷阱,能帮助您在使用shadowing site练习时,避免常见错误,让您的发音更为准确。

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
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you've never seen · I've said · have stressed
定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物pronunciation, which is · catenation, which is · students who reach
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么,而不是谁做的is called · would not be delivered

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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