Name: このステップ・バイ・ステップのレッスンを使って、英語をフルに話しましょう (Speak English FLUENTLY Using This STEP-by-STEP Lesson!)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:57:40.000Z
Duration: 17 min 59 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

過去進行形

Every month I teach a live class to the  students in my Academy,

And as I was teaching last night, I just  have this moment where I thought,

it's really about the basics and the foundation.

So in today's video, I'm going to go over two things that came up in my live class

working with a student who was struggling,

and we're going to talk about how you can  apply that to yourself,

to your own language learning to help you speak English with more ease.

The first student I worked with was Alice.

And she said that there had been  something early on in my Academy

that she didn't really understand, she didn't feel comfortable doing it so she moved on.

And I realized what she was talking about was breaking up a word or sentence into its rhythm.

but by not really understanding what we mean by rhythmic contrasts in American English,

and just moving on, she was never going to be able to really capture that quality of American English.

In that course, I have a little video where I talk about why you need to break something down.

And I tell the story of when I was trying to learn how to do a double under jump rope move at the gym.

This is when you jump rope but each time you jump, you do two rotations of the rope.

That was me failing and trying to do this thing.

I was putting in an incredible amount of  effort and working too hard.

The way I got to start to get the right feeling and rhythm, and touch in my body,

was when I started jumping rope without the rope.

Now, i've been having my students speak English without words for years,

so it was exciting to discover success in a  similar situation.

In the next few lessons, you're going to focus on speaking English without words.

So I have these exercises and you'll see them on my youtube channel too

where we talk about the stress of a word, let's take the word 'probably' for example.

It's a three-syllable word with first syllable stress.

So instead of practicing probably, and trying to think about which syllable is stressed,

and which are unstressed, and then also all of those sounds, which I know are tricky,

So instead of practicing 'probably', I have my students practice:

Really long, up-down shape, and then two little dots.

So these are all things, anything that's spoken in English,

we can break down to just the rhythm on any syllable.

I've chosen D and AH, or the schwa for unstressed, da-da, da-da, da-da-da.

But when a student comes along whose native language is not stressed timed, but as syllable timed,

like Chinese, where every syllable is the same length, it can be really hard to think in this way.

So i'll have students that will come to me and they'll say, let's take the word 'happy' for example, happy.

the intonation is higher, the pitch is higher, but the length is too much the same.

So the last syllable isn't EE but it's EE.

And so getting students to focus on this and to shorten up those unstressed syllables is really important,

because it brings in this very natural American character.

So when I learned that Alice was not comfortable with da-da, da-da, da-da-da-da,

and these rhythms, but moved on, I stopped her.

I said you need to go back and work on this foundation for about a week.

All right, when it's a two syllable word we only have two options, we have da-da, like Chinese,

So I would just - let me just hear you say da-da, Chinese, let me just hear you say those two things.

- Second stressed. Like the word Chinese.

- Right, and now make the first one even shorter.

- Right, and now connect them, right now you're doing da da, and the length is right,

- Right, and now you can go do all the two syllable words that are like that.

Too often we rush to get on to the next thing, and as adults, we put...

We put a lot of pressure on ourselves as we learn, I think, to learn quickly, to achieve it, to be done with it.

And when we're doing something with our  body, that's brand-new,

that's not something that we're learning  with our head, and that takes time.

So right now, we're going to practice some rhythmic patterns together, how comfortable are they?

Of course, you can watch it and understand, but can you do it with your own body?

Now, you'll hear the exact same thing, you  do it with me out loud.

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