英語の歌で発音マスターしよう

第8話

英語の歌で発音マスターしよう

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu-DWUngjhk

英語の発音はただでマスター出来ます。1960年代のフォークソングに音声が良質な上、伴奏も静かなものが多く、発音を鍛えるのに最適です。その一例が下記の歌です。この歌を毎日聴いて英語の音を練習したものです。コツは「弱い」声でつぶやくようにして歌うことです。口の形は忘れて、聞こえたとおりに歌います。学校英語では教えないような点に気がつきます（大学の英語音声学授業では教えますが）。以下にいくつか着目点をまとめました。

１）同じ音でも出す箇所によって変わる

babe: 最初のbと後のbの音はかなり違います。最初のほうは、はっきりba、あとのほうは息なしのbeです。

２）複数の単語をつなげて一語のように発音してもよい

sit and wonder why, babe

３）語尾の子音はしっかりと発音

I’ll be gone

４）Rの音をだすには上唇が浮く感じ

It’s all right　

５）主語のI は口が開くというか顎が下がる感じ

I’m on the dark side

6）”th”の音は理屈じゃなくてこの音を真似るのみ

So I just say fare thee well

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Peter, Paul and Mary - Don't think twice, it's alright
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu-DWUngjhk&list=RDXu-DWUngjhk&start_radio=1

Well it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
Ifin' you don't know by now
An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It'll never do some how
When your rooster crows at the break a dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm trav'lin' on
But don't think twice, it's all right

And it ain't no use in a-turnin' on your light, babe
The light I never knowed
An' it ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
I'm on the dark side of the road
But I wish there was somethin' you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
We never did too much talkin' anyway
But don't think twice, it's all right

No it ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
Like you never done before
And it ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
I can't hear ya any more
I'm a-thinkin' and a-wond'rin' wallkin' way down the road
I once loved a woman, a child I am told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
But don't think twice, it's all right

So long honey babe
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
Goodbye is too good a word, babe
So I just say fare thee well
I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right