跟读练习: Why Americans Love Iced Coffee - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Between 2016 and 2023, consumer spending on cold coffee, which includes iced coffee, cold brew and frozen coffee drinks, more than doubled in the U.S.
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Hot coffee, on the other hand, grew about 20%.
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Lots of ice is clean.
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We want it super, super cold.
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You know, I see an iced coffee being made on social media and they're shaking their ice around.
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I'm like, well, maybe I want an iced coffee now.
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Like, it truly works.
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You can see that iced coffee really is at the forefront of advertising for chains like Dunkin.
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The company told CNBC that since 2019, it's grown its iced drinks by 50%, and they now represent two-thirds of its total beverage sales.
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It can be 10 degrees and slowly falling, and there will be people who will be clutching their cold brew coffees as they walk to work.
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And that was not the case until relatively recently.
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So why do Americans love putting this traditionally hot beverage over ice?
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And will cold brew and iced coffee eventually take over?
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Americans spent nearly $88 billion on out-of-home coffee purchases in 2023 about 20% of that was on cold coffee,
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but tracking at home cold coffee consumption can be hard.
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A lot of people are taking standard ground coffee, putting it in, you know, a pitcher or something and letting it brew overnight and making cold brew.
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And how on earth do you track that?
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And the answer is you can't.
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Sales at coffee house chains can help paint a clearer picture.
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Starbucks controls about 25% of the U.S coffee and snack shop market.
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The way it usually works in the U.S is that coffee trends start with a coffee shop, and above all, at the big chains like Starbucks.
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So the way to look at it is when did they really start pushing the cold beverages?
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That's about when cold beers are reaching those restaurant menus, and then that shapes what good coffee is thought to be like in the lines of consumers, which then in turn shapes things like their at-home consumption patterns.
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From 2013 to 2021, Starbucks U.S cold beverage sales grew from less than 40% to 75% of all drinks sold.
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It's important to note that this includes non-coffee drinks as well.
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For Dutch Bros, a West Coast-based coffee chain, cold drinks account for about 90% of its beverage sales.
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About half of that is cold coffee.
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The rise of caffeinated alternatives, like energy drinks, may help explain the appeal of iced coffee as well.
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Americans love soft drinks in general, so are the view of helping make coffee in a soft drink.
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In the U.S., ready-to-drink coffee is almost always drank cold, and consumption is up over 40% between 2019 and 2023.
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That is much higher than the global growth rate, even without Japan, who accounts for about half of the total market and disproportionately skews the data.
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When you look at the big chains, they shape consumer taste, but they also reflect consumer taste.
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And so I think there's a little bit of both happening there, right?
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Where consumers clearly are asking more for cold beverages.
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That's driven largely by Gen Z, by millennials.
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The skew is pretty clear that the younger consumers prefer cold coffees,
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iced, cold brew, etc. The divide between iced versus hot coffee drinkers is largely generational.
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Americans aged 18 to 24 are the largest consumers of cold coffee.
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A survey found that about half of respondents had it within the past day.
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The second largest cold coffee drinking cohort was respondents aged 25 to 39.
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And there was a big drop off then in Gen X and boomers.
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They'll drink cold coffees, they'll drink some cases cold brews or iced coffee, but it's really more like a summertime thing that's hot.
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Whereas the millennials, especially Gen Z, really broke free of that seasonality.
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And that's the key difference is that they view it as an anytime beverage rather than a seasonal thing.
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As a Gen Z coffee drinker myself, I almost always opt for an iced coffee.
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And for me personally, it's because it lasts longer than a hot coffee.
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If I'm at the office, I want something that I can sit at my desk and sip on for a few hours.
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I think there's definitely less exploration.
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There is less cravings for variety with those older generations.
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Since coffee has such an established background as this hot beverage,
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I think it's kind of hard to break that mindset with a generation that for so much of their lifetime, it has just been that hot beverage.
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A 2023 Mintel report found that 26% of U.S teens consume cold coffee, while about 18% consume hot.
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One reason behind its popularity amongst younger generations is because it's an easier entry to coffee.
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It's highly customizable and you can add lots of flavors
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and toppings that that help divert from the natural bitter taste of coffee.
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Increasingly, that younger consumer that is not just asking for a very plain cup of hot coffee, right?
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They want a coffee-based beverage that has something more to it.
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And I think that's reflected in that marketing and promotions.
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Thank you.
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Have a nice day.
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The clear plastic cups that cold coffee typically comes in lends itself very well to the age of social media.
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These new drinks are a Starbucks wicked collaboration.
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So you can see that the foam on top is actually green and as you swirl it around, it mixes into the drink.
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There's some like sparkles on top.
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All of these colors and aesthetics simply wouldn't be possible if it were a hot drink.
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Even though many younger Americans view cold coffee as an all year round beverage, companies like Starbucks have seen a clear dip in the winter months.
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One of the reasons Europe hasn't fully adopted cold coffee is because of, I think, the climate, and they're still largely driven by hot coffee,
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and, you know, especially in Northern Europe.
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Americans as coffee drinkers are much more experimental, right?
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They don't have a very strong coffee culture.
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They find a place like Brazil, Turkey, Italy.
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There's that long historical tradition, a sense of here's how we make coffee.
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Traditionally, Americans are much more into trying new things.
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In terms of the trends right now spreading around the world, things like cold brew, like nitro, they're coming from the United States.
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Many coffee makers like Nespresso and Keurig are jumping on the iced coffee bandwagon too.
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Nespresso released a ready-to-drink canned beverage for the first time this summer.
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And Keurig is now selling a coffee machine that brews hot and then flash chills it to make iced coffee.
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Still, cold brew and iced coffee have some ways to go before catching up to their hot counterpart.
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Hot coffee is still by far the most popular way Americans consume coffee.
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A big part of our growth expectation is just that more
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and more restaurants and food service operators are going to add this to the menu
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and so our expectations are very bullish for growth of the cold coffee category over the next five years
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誰適合這支影片？
這支探討「美國人為何愛喝冰咖啡」的影片，適合具備基礎英語聽力、想提升口語表達與文化理解的學習者。無論是準備托福雅思的考生，還是想透過YouTube學英語的自學者，都能從中學習生活化話題的論述邏輯，同時積累商業、社會趨勢相關詞彙。
值得借鑑的詞彙與短語
- clutch：緊握（影片中描述下雪天仍手持冷萃咖啡的場景）
- skew：影響（指日本市場對全球數據的影響）
- entry to：入門（年輕人接觸咖啡的「輕易入門途徑」）
- break free of seasonality：擺脫季節性（Z世代將冰咖啡視為全年飲品）
如何練好發音？
影片中講者的美式發音清晰自然，適合透過shadowspeak（影子跟讀法）練習。重點關注以下幾點：
連讀與弱讀
例如「cold brew coffees」中，「cold brew」可連讀為/koʊldbruː/；「a lot of」中的「of」弱讀為/əv/。跟讀時注意語流的順暢，避免逐字頓挫。
重音節奏
描述數據時，如「grew from less than 40% to 75%」，重音落在「grew」「less than」「75%」上，突出變化。透過模仿重音位置，可提升口語的說服力。
語氣變化
講者在解釋年輕人偏好時，語氣較親切（如「I almost always opt for...」），可模仿其輕鬆的語調，讓表達更自然。
學習貼士：結合文化理解
影片揭示了美國冰咖啡流行的世代差異，這類文化背景知識能幫助學習者在交流中更貼近實際場景。練習時，可一邊跟讀（shadow speak）一邊思考：「為何Z世代更愛冰咖啡？」，將語言學習與文化洞察相結合，提升英語應用能力。想提高英語發音，不妨反覆跟讀影片中「customizable」「bitter taste」等詞，注意元音的發音飽滿度。
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 | has just been · have seen |
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | being made · is thought |
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。