Repeat-After-Me + Shadowing Practice! — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hello English learners. My name is
2. 0:02Claire, a native speaker from the US and
3. 0:04an English teacher. And you keep asking
4. 0:07for it, so here it is. More shadowing
5. 0:11practice. Shadowing is a really useful
6. 0:14tool for working on your pronunciation
7. 0:18and sounding more natural in English.
8. 0:21Essentially, it is repeating after
9. 0:24native speakers or someone you want to
10. 0:29sound like in terms of your inflection
11. 0:32and rhythm of your English speaking. And
12. 0:35by doing so, you create good habits for
13. 0:40your own English speaking. So whether
14. 0:43that is pronunciation,
15. 0:45tone, inflection, rhythm, any or all of
16. 0:49those things that you want to improve
17. 0:51upon in your own speaking shadowing
18. 0:54practice is really going to help you
19. 0:57achieve that and sound more natural. So
20. 1:01as I said, I'm a native speaker and I
21. 1:04have kind of a standard American Midwest
22. 1:08accent. So obviously I will be doing the
23. 1:12American English pronunciation of
24. 1:14things. So if you're interested in that
25. 1:17then welcome to today's shadowing
26. 1:20practice. Let's jump right in.
27. 1:23[Music]
28. 1:28>> So first I'm going to give you plenty of
29. 1:30time to repeat after me after each
30. 1:34phrase that I will say in this short
31. 1:37story. And then I will invite you to
32. 1:41shadow a section of the story after me.
33. 1:45At the end of the video, we will say the
34. 1:48entire story all together. So again, you
35. 1:51will have the opportunity to shadow, but
36. 1:53this time the entire story. If you're
37. 1:57wondering what's the difference between
38. 1:58repeating after you and shadowing, well,
39. 2:02repeating after me is what it sounds
40. 2:05like. I say it and then you repeat on
41. 2:08your own. Shadowing is you saying it
42. 2:12with me. So once you've had a chance to
43. 2:15say it on your own, repeating it after
44. 2:17me, then you'll try saying it with me.
45. 2:21So you've had time to practice it first
46. 2:25and then again with me at the same time
47. 2:29to match my tone, inflection, rhythm,
48. 2:32pronunciation,
49. 2:34all that. So it just reinforces all of
50. 2:37those things to help you sound more
51. 2:38natural. Okay. So first repeat after me.
52. 2:43Yesterday morning.
53. 2:46Yesterday morning
54. 2:50I was running late for work.
55. 2:55I was running late for work.
56. 3:02I grabbed my bag.
57. 3:05I grabbed my bag.
58. 3:10Lock the door.
59. 3:13Lock the door.
60. 3:16And rush to the station.
61. 3:21And rush to the station.
62. 3:24Before we shadow this section, say it
63. 3:27all together, I want to point out the
64. 3:30different pronunciations of the ending y
65. 3:33d that we have here. We have three verbs
66. 3:36with the ending ed d. Grabbed, locked,
67. 3:41and rushed. Now, there are three
68. 3:44different pronunciations of the ed
69. 3:47ending, but here we have two of them.
70. 3:50The third pronunciation comes later in
71. 3:52the story, so don't worry, I will point
72. 3:54that out to you. But between these three
73. 3:56verbs, we either pronounce the ed ending
74. 3:59as a d
75. 4:02or a t.
76. 4:04Grabbed.
77. 4:06Grabbed. That's the d ending.
78. 4:10And locked.
79. 4:13Locked. That one has the t ending. Can
80. 4:17you guess which one rushed has?
81. 4:22Rushed.
82. 4:24Say it yourself. Rushed. Is it D or T?
83. 4:29Can you hear?
84. 4:31If you said T, you're correct. Now, in
85. 4:34very rapid speech, you may not be able
86. 4:38to tell the difference between the D and
87. 4:41the T. And that's okay as long as you
88. 4:44know which one it is. So, let's take the
89. 4:49D ending in grabbed because you know
90. 4:52you're saying a D. You have the
91. 4:54intention of saying the D and you're
92. 4:57thinking D when you speak, but you don't
93. 5:00need to over pronounce this. You don't
94. 5:03need to say I grabbed my bag. I grabbed
95. 5:07my bag. No one speaks like that, right?
96. 5:10I grabbed my bag. I grabbed my bag. You
97. 5:15may even not even hear the D when I
98. 5:17speak. I grab my bag. It's so subtle
99. 5:21that it could just sound like I grab my
100. 5:25bag to you. But we need to at least
101. 5:28think of the D and have the intention of
102. 5:31pronouncing this D sound so that it
103. 5:34doesn't sound like we're speaking in the
104. 5:37present tense. I grab my bag. We need to
105. 5:41be in the past tense, of course, because
106. 5:43this story takes place in the past. So,
107. 5:46we do need to have the intention of
108. 5:49pronouncing the D sound. So, as long as
109. 5:52you're thinking that as you speak
110. 5:55quickly, then it will come across as
111. 5:59grabbed. Grabbed. It's so fast, but I'm
112. 6:04not over pronouncing. Grabbed. Now the t
113. 6:09sound for the ed ending. Locked the
114. 6:12door. Locked the door. Again, think t.
115. 6:18Make sure you know it's not locked.
116. 6:21Locked, right? That's incorrect. But
117. 6:24locked. And then as long as you have the
118. 6:26intention of the t sound, it will come
119. 6:30across. Locked. And rush to the station.
120. 6:35Again, think T because we know it has
121. 6:38the T ending. Rush to the station.
122. 6:42Rush to the station.
123. 6:45It may still even just sound like rush
124. 6:48to the station to you, but I am saying
125. 6:53rushed. And it will come across that I'm
126. 6:57speaking in the past tense because at
127. 6:59least my intention is to have this t
128. 7:02ending. Now, that might be a little bit
129. 7:04of a different way to be thinking of
130. 7:06pronunciation than you're used to. You
131. 7:09know, it would be easy for me to say
132. 7:12every time pronounce the D and the T
133. 7:14clearly, grabbed, locked, rushed. But if
134. 7:19you really want to work on this native
135. 7:22speaker sounding accent or you really
136. 7:25want to sound natural, of course, this
137. 7:27is a great way to be able to think of
138. 7:30those pronunciations. Okay, now we can
139. 7:33shadow this whole section together. So,
140. 7:35say it with me. Yesterday morning, I was
141. 7:39running late for work. I grabbed my bag,
142. 7:44locked the door, and rushed to the
143. 7:46station.
144. 7:49When I got there,
145. 7:53when I got there,
146. 7:57I saw the train doors were about to
147. 7:59close.
148. 8:04I saw the train doors were about to
149. 8:07close.
150. 8:11I sprinted toward them.
151. 8:16I sprinted toward them,
152. 8:20but the doors shut right in front of me.
153. 8:26But the doors shut right in front of me.
154. 8:30Okay, before we shadow, couple
155. 8:32pronunciation things to point out. The S
156. 8:35sound at the end of the word close
157. 8:38should be a Z, a voiced sound Z and not
158. 8:44S, right? So S is unvoiced. I can't hum
159. 8:50on it. For example,
160. 8:54but the voiced sound I can.
161. 9:00Right? You can hear I could hum on that
162. 9:02sound. That's what makes it voiced. So
163. 9:04this one has a voiced ending. Close.
164. 9:08Close.
165. 9:10But of course, very quickly, we would
166. 9:13just say, I saw the train doors were
167. 9:16about to close. Close.
168. 9:20Close. And here we have another ed
169. 9:23ending. So this is the third
170. 9:25pronunciation of ed.
171. 9:27sprinted.
172. 9:29Sprinted. So, this ending is not a d or
173. 9:34a t sound. It is ed.
174. 9:38You could think of it like a short i
175. 9:41sound plus a d or the schwa sound plus
176. 9:45d. Sprinted.
177. 9:48Sprinted. I sprinted toward them.
178. 9:52Another tricky word that a lot of people
179. 9:54have questions about in English
180. 9:56pronunciation is the word toward. Now,
181. 9:59in American English, most people
182. 10:01pronounce this as one syllable. Toward.
183. 10:05It's almost like that first o doesn't
184. 10:08exist. Toward. It's like a tw
185. 10:13sound at the beginning. Toward. Now,
186. 10:16some people might pronounce it toward.
187. 10:20That is a little bit more British
188. 10:21English. So if you've heard that before,
189. 10:24toward that would be that pronunciation.
190. 10:28If you did pronounce this word as toward
191. 10:31in American English, it wouldn't be that
192. 10:34strange. But if you are aiming for an
193. 10:37American English pronunciation
194. 10:40toward toward and the final phrase in
195. 10:45front of me, instead of pronouncing each
196. 10:48word in front of me individually
197. 10:52in rapid speech, we would squish these
198. 10:56sounds together so that it's in front of
199. 10:59me. In front of me,
200. 11:02in front of me. So you kind of drop the
201. 11:07T at the end of front and you don't
202. 11:10pronounce the VV sound at the end of of
203. 11:15but drop that as well. In front of me.
204. 11:20In front of me. Okay, let's shadow this
205. 11:23whole section together.
206. 11:27When I got there, I saw the train doors
207. 11:30were about to close. I sprinted toward
208. 11:33them.
209. 11:34But the doors shut right in front of me.
210. 11:38I thought
211. 11:41I thought.
212. 11:43Great. Now I got to wait another 10
213. 11:46minutes.
214. 11:51Great. Now I got to wait another 10
215. 11:54minutes.
216. 11:58Let's repeat the word thought together
217. 12:01one more time because that's a tricky
218. 12:03one for pronunciation.
219. 12:06Thought.
220. 12:07Thought. We have the unvoiced F at the
221. 12:12beginning which you can think of as
222. 12:14blowing air between your teeth with your
223. 12:16tongue.
224. 12:18And if you've seen some of my other
225. 12:20shadowing videos, I have pointed out
226. 12:23before that at the if you see a T at the
227. 12:26end of a word in American English, we
228. 12:28often
229. 12:30stop that T or we drop the sound. So
230. 12:33it's thought. Got to becomes gota gota
231. 12:40similar to when we squish together in
232. 12:44front of we have gota. So again that
233. 12:48stop t sound because we have the t at
234. 12:52the end of got um but it's a stop t. So
235. 12:56it kind of sounds like a d when we say
236. 12:58it quickly. Gotta gotta also wait
237. 13:02another the t also becomes a stop t and
238. 13:06kind of elides with the next word
239. 13:09because it starts with a vowel. So it
240. 13:11again it sounds like a d or it has this
241. 13:14stopped t sound. Wait another.
242. 13:20Wait another.
243. 13:22Okay, let's shadow this sentence
244. 13:24together.
245. 13:26I thought great. Now I got to wait
246. 13:29another 10 minutes.
247. 13:32That's when I realized
248. 13:36That's when I realized
249. 13:40I'd left my phone at home anyway.
250. 13:45I'd left my phone at home anyway.
251. 13:52I guess missing that train.
252. 13:57I guess missing that train
253. 14:03wasn't such a bad thing after all.
254. 14:09Wasn't such a bad thing after all.
255. 14:15The silver lining.
256. 14:20The silver lining
257. 14:25was that I had time to go back home.
258. 14:30Was that I had time to go back home.
259. 14:37Grab my phone.
260. 14:42Grab my phone.
261. 14:45and let my boss know I'd be late.
262. 14:52And let my boss know I'd be late.
263. 15:00Realized
264. 15:02that one has which ending?
265. 15:06If you said D, you're correct. Realized.
266. 15:11And in rapid speech realized realized
267. 15:15and in the last sentence we have a kind
268. 15:18of list separated by commas. So I'll
269. 15:21just point out the inflection here.
270. 15:24Whenever we have a list like this before
271. 15:28each comma the inflection stays raised
272. 15:32and you lower your inflection
273. 15:36only at the end of the sentence. And
274. 15:39this makes it really clear that you are
275. 15:41listing things. So here, listen to me
276. 15:46say the whole sentence and listen to my
277. 15:49inflection.
278. 15:51The silver lining was that I had time to
279. 15:55go back home,
280. 15:57grab my phone,
281. 15:59and let my boss know I'd be late. So, we
282. 16:04had before the comma, go back home.
283. 16:08Inflection went up. Grab my phone. The
284. 16:12inflection went up again.
285. 16:15And let my boss know I'd be late. I'd be
286. 16:20late goes down in inflection. So, if
287. 16:25you're ever listing something separated
288. 16:27by commas, remember this inflection rule
289. 16:32because it will make it really clear
290. 16:35that you are listing something. So,
291. 16:38that's why mastering inflection like
292. 16:41this in overall sentences. So, not just
293. 16:44the inflection or the stress of
294. 16:48individual words in English, but the
295. 16:52overall stress and inflection throughout
296. 16:54in a sentence is even more important
297. 16:58than
298. 17:00getting the accent correct. So even if
299. 17:04your goal is not to sound exactly like
300. 17:07me or a native speaker, you can keep
301. 17:10whatever accent you have when you speak
302. 17:13in English, but you want to be
303. 17:16understood, right? You want to be able
304. 17:18to communicate. So getting the
305. 17:20inflection and the stress both in
306. 17:23individual words and in an entire
307. 17:26sentence is so important for your
308. 17:30overall English speaking and learning
309. 17:34and communication so that others can
310. 17:37understand you. Okay, back to shadowing.
311. 17:40Let's say this whole section together.
312. 17:44That's when I realized I'd left my phone
313. 17:46at home anyway.
314. 17:49I guess missing that train wasn't such a
315. 17:52bad thing after all.
316. 17:54The silver lining was that I had time to
317. 17:58go back home, grab my phone,
318. 18:02and let my boss know I'd be late. Okay,
319. 18:06awesome work so far. Let's say the whole
320. 18:09thing together. So, I'm going to read
321. 18:11through the entire story and you are
322. 18:13going to shadow me.
323. 18:16Yesterday morning, I was running late
324. 18:19for work. I grabbed my bag, locked the
325. 18:22door, and rushed to the station.
326. 18:26When I got there, I saw the train doors
327. 18:29were about to close.
328. 18:32I sprinted toward them, but the doors
329. 18:35shut right in front of me.
330. 18:38I thought, great, now I got to wait
331. 18:41another 10 minutes.
332. 18:44That's when I realized I'd left my phone
333. 18:47at home anyway.
334. 18:49I guess missing that train wasn't such a
335. 18:52bad thing after all. The silver lining
336. 18:56was that I had time to go back home,
337. 19:00grab my phone, and let my boss know I'd
338. 19:03be late. Guys, thank you so much for
339. 19:06sticking around to the end of this
340. 19:08video. I hope you found this shadowing
341. 19:10practice useful. I will continue to put
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349. 19:34word or group of words that you struggle
350. 19:39with in terms of pronunciation or when
351. 19:42you are speaking very quickly or maybe
352. 19:45it's an inflection or a tone or maybe
353. 19:50you want me to add more idioms or
354. 19:54phrasal verbs in a shadowing practice. I
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