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Practice Shadowing a Business Presentation in English
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- Hello and welcome to another shadowing practice video with me, Claire, a native speaker from the US. I'm also a trained opera singer, so I've studied the
- International Phonetic Alphabet or IPA. So, I've studied the correct pronunciation of sounds in multiple languages. In this video, we're going to
- practice shadowing with a professional business presentation. Even if English is not your native language, you may need to use English at work or even give
- presentations in English if you work for an international or US company. You want to be understood. So, even though you don't need to sound
- just like a native speaker, pronunciation and intonation are crucial. And of course, knowing some key phrases or common business English
- terms are also important to build confidence and overall fluency at work. So, I'll first read through the presentation at a natural pace. Then,
- we'll go through some of the key phrases and of course pronunciation tips. Finally, we'll shadow it together so you can sound more natural and confident at
- work. Let's go. English made easy with Claire.
- Good morning, everyone. Thanks for being here today. I want to walk you through our latest project and what the next steps are.
- As you know, our team has been working on optimizing the user experience on our website. Over the past month, we've run several
- tests and gathered valuable feedback from our customers. One key improvement is our new checkout process.
- We've reduced the number of steps from five to three, which has already increased conversions by 20%. Looking ahead, we're planning to roll
- out these updates globally by next quarter. That means we need to finalize testing and prepare our teams for the launch.
- If you have any questions, feel free to reach out, and I'd be happy to discuss this further. Thanks again for your time.
- All right. So, that was the initial read-through at a normal speaking pace. Let's go through it slowly together. So, we'll take the first section.
- Good morning, everyone. Thanks for being here today. Thanks for being here today. That whole phrase can really be
- connected. So, individually, we, of course, have the pronunciation of words like
- for, being, and today. But, in natural, quick speech, we, in American English, tend to close down
- some of the vowels or turn these vowels into the schwa sound. So, the schwa sound
- is the uh sound. Like in the word banana. There's two schwas in banana. And that
- happens in today. Today. Not too day, but today. Today. So, very rapid speech, those
- vowels get dropped or, you know, changed into this schwa sound. And for becomes for in rapid speech. Thanks fer Thanks for being here today.
- For the words that end in ing, we don't need to completely drop the g every time so that it's thanks for being here today.
- That might come with certain dialects. But what we want to do is connect the ing sounds to the next word like with this connected speech. Being here. Being
- here. Otherwise we have being here. And uh many native speakers don't speak like that. We don't have to
- separate each word. But have this really connected speech which often then modifies the vowels like fer today.
- Or we can elide sounds at the ends of words that squish on to the following word. So
- shadowing practice is really helpful for learning full phrases that you might use. And this is a really common one. Thanks for being here today.
- Because if you start a business presentation, that's a really polite way to start the meeting. Okay, let's keep
- going. I want to walk you through our latest project and what the next steps are. So again, I wanna
- That isn't just reserved for casual speech. You could be giving a business presentation and instead of saying want
- to, say wanna. And most native speakers speak like that all the time. I want to walk you through our latest
- project. So that's completely acceptable. Now walk you through Walk through is a phrasal verb, which means to explain
- something step-by-step. And this is a great one to know for business English. I want to walk you through our latest
- project. And what the next steps are. Okay, moving on. As you know, our team has been working on optimizing
- the user experience on our website. Now, really important, when you have a comma, you always want to pause.
- Don't just plow through the commas. As you know, our team has been work right, there's a
- It implies a pause there. As you know, and then further, and you'll notice that my intonation goes up a little bit when there's a
- phrase with a comma. And there's a little There's more phrases like this to come, and I'll point them out as well. As you know,
- our team has been working on optimizing the user experience on our website. So, every time you have a comma, you can imagine the intonation going up at the
- once you get to the end of the comma phrase, and then for the next phrase that ends in a period, the intonation goes back down. It happens again in the
- next sentence. Over the past month, pause, we've run several tests and gathered
- valuable feedback from our customers. Intonation goes down right before the period, and it goes up right before the comma. And this makes
- it really clear the structure of your sentence. So, even though we can't see what you're saying when you're giving a presentation,
- we understand the structure of the sentence because of your intonation. So, even if you don't pronounce all of the words exactly like me,
- intonation is really, really important for this, for being understood. Now, in the previous sentence, we had a word ending in ing with the same concept of
- eliding with the word after it. Our team has been working on working on. So, we don't need to drop the G completely, working on.
- But, we do elide the sounds. Just it's a little bit softer than working working on. That helps with giving it a flow as well. Our team has been working on. Our
- team has been working on. So, it all kind of flows together. Okay, next section. One key improvement is our new checkout process. I want to point
- out the word key here, which I I think I've used quite a lot in this video already. And key as an adjective means important or major. So, one important
- improvement is this, one key improvement. A word that we use a lot in business English. We've reduced the number of
- steps from five to three. Again, my intonation just went up because there was a comma, so there's more to come. I'm not done with my
- sentence. Which has already increased conversions by 20%. And then my intonation goes back down.
- Again, we have the linking of the words which is already. Which is already increased. And this happens a lot with the word has. If we
- are speaking in the present perfect, has increased, which is which is already, right? Which has So, because which ends with the ch sound, we
- can elide that with the beginning h of has. Which is and has the vowel modifies to is. It's more of a clipped
- vowel modification due to rapid speech, again. So, which is already increased conversions by 20%. It's kind of like when we have
- contractions anyway, like we've reduced. We don't always have to say we have reduced. We don't tend to write out these contractions that we would say in
- rapid speech, like which is increased, but we do speak like that. So, the same principle, we've reduced. That's all squished together with this
- contraction. There is an unwritten contraction for which is increased. Looking ahead, we're planning to roll out these updates
- globally by next quarter. Looking ahead, that is connected speech as well. Looking ahead, and we pause after the comma.
- We're planning to roll out these updates. Roll out means to introduce something new and is often used in a business context. That means we need to
- finalize testing and prepare our teams for the launch. So, again, in American English, a lot of the smaller words, the vowels are dropped or modified. We
- need to finalize. To finalize, prepare our teams. Often the word our can sound like are in rapid speech. Prepare our teams.
- That's also very connected. For the launch. So for instead of for. Again, those aren't really necessary for being understood, but that's for those
- of you who would like to work on the American accent. And the word here launch means the beginning of something. Usually a campaign or a product in the
- marketing world. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out and I'd be happy to discuss this further. Thanks again for your time.
- So we have the phrase feel free to feel free to, feel free to reach out, feel free to contact me, feel free to
- write me an email. And it's a casual way to say don't hesitate to do something. So if you wanted to be more formal, you
- could say don't hesitate to reach out, but feel free is a nice phrase to have. And right at the end, another great business
- phrase we have thanks for your time. And that's used to acknowledge people's time. And it's a polite business phrase to use at either the beginning or the
- end of a meeting or presentation. Okay, so a lot of what we covered in today's shadowing video was the concept of connected speech and maybe learning
- phrases not as individual words, but together in a phrase where you can connect the speech to sound a little more natural and fluent.
- We also talked about linking the ends of words with the beginning of the next word. Like we do this very often for words that end in ing.
- Or if the sounds are similar at the beginning at the end and the beginning of the next word like which and has, which is. And we also covered a few
- business phrases and phrasal verbs that are really useful to know, especially when speaking. So, now let's shadow the full presentation together. Try to match
- my rhythm and intonation and word stress as well as pronunciation as best you can. If you want, you can pause the video after each section or
- sentence and repeat after me. Or better yet, say the words with me at the same time and try and shadow
- how I say it. Or maybe both work well. First, repeat after me and then afterwards try and shadow with me. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for being
- here today. I want to walk you through our latest project and what the next steps are. As you know, our team has been working
- on optimizing the user experience on our website. Over the past month, we've run several tests and gathered valuable feedback
- from our customers. One key improvement is our new checkout process. We've reduced the number of steps from
- five to three, which has already increased conversions by 20%. Looking ahead, we're planning to roll out these updates
- globally by next quarter. That means we need to finalize testing and prepare our teams for the launch. If you have any questions, feel free to
- reach out and I'd be happy to discuss this further. Thanks again for your time. I hope this video was helpful and even if your goal
- is not to perfect the American accent or try and change your own accent, it's still really important to practice the correct stress of a word
- or the stressed word within a sentence or the intonation of that sentence so that the structure is clear. All of these things are really important for
- being understood. So, take what you want from the video and leave what you don't, but hopefully you learned something new and it was helpful. Of course, if you
- did think so, give it a like and subscribe to my channel if you want more videos like this. I have a playlist for shadowing videos and I'll be in your
- feeds with another video next week. So, bye for now.