シャドーイング練習: 10 Questions for Reese Witherspoon - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Reese Witherspoon is an Academy Award winning actress, a mother of two and a woman who has been romanced on screen by both Wilson brothers.
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Reese, welcome.
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Thank you.
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So you're the honorary chair of the Avon Foundation and one of its big issues is breast cancer.
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Is there something that we're not doing in the fight against breast cancer?
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There's so much that's being done.
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There's so much research and progress that has been made but as with anything that is you know a a global epidemic,
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I think it needs to be dealt with continually.
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And when you talk about every three minutes a woman is diagnosed worldwide,
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I think it's still a situation where we have to create research and funding is always necessary and education.
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Being an advocate and being in movies and also probably donating to causes, which do What do you find to be,
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for the celebrity, the most effective way of effecting change?
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Fundraising is of utmost importance, especially when you're talking about new technologies and new sciences and education.
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But, you know, it's wonderful to see my colleagues making movies about breast cancer, you know, and really showing the psychological parts of it
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that are so important for women to understand and families to sort of talk about.
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She said once that the, this is a quote, the battles we face in this business aren't financial, but they are moral.
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And I wonder how much those two things are intertwined, that the reason people suspend their morals is because there's so much money on the line.
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Well, I think certainly when you talk about any amount of money, I mean, there's morality involved.
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And I think every day you make choices that you have to live with for the rest of your life.
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And I think, you know, it's just like any other life situation.
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You just have to make choices that, you know, hopefully reflect your true character.
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And I hope to be doing that in the movie industry.
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Although it's always dangerous territory when you're talking about morals and character.
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It's really the sign of a fall to come, usually.
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You've made some incredibly successful movies and you've made some that were disappointing in the box office.
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Do you feel differently about that afterwards?
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Yeah, of course.
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When movies are disappointing, it's more than just the financial sort of disappointment.
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It's a real emotional experience because you've carried that with you
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and you put a lot of effort and energy into the movie and all of the people that you've worked with.
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But it makes It makes all the successes that much better.
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But yeah, I've had disastrous Saturday mornings where you're like, oh really?
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That movie is not going to do well, is it?
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So, you survive.
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Can you ever tell?
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Nope.
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I'm really bad at that.
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I can't ever prognosticate what people are going to like or not like.
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So I just try to go with what I would want to see and try to bear in mind, you know, people have very difficult lives.
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They want to go and enjoy themselves at the movies.
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it's easier to just go to a movie and not think for a while.
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Did you ever think Legally Blonde would take off as hugely as it did?
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No, I had no idea it was going to be so successful.
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I really loved that character.
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I loved Elle Wood so much.
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She was just really interesting, one of those sort of great innocents in the world, you know.

このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

このB2レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「10 Questions for Reese Witherspoon」を教材にしています。 繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです:movie, breast, moral, cancer, character。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が46文、単語が595語あります。 音声の長さは3:18です。 話す速さは速く、1分あたり約180語です。音のつながりや弱く発音される音が多くなります。 単語の87%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれるため、語彙は分かりやすいです。 全46文のうち7文が疑問文なので、疑問文のイントネーションや短い受け答えの練習に向いています。

この動画の重要語彙

動画の中で特に難しい単語12語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語発音意味
disappoint 動詞/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt/失望させる
diagnose 動詞/ˈdaɪ.əɡˌnoʊs/診断する
suspend 動詞/səsˈpɛnd/保留する
disastrous 形容詞/dɪˈzæs.tɹəs/忌まわしい
epidemic 名詞/ˌɛpɪˈdɛmɪk/疫, 疫病
fundraising 名詞/ˈfʌndˌɹeɪzɪŋ/募金, ファンドレイジング
utter 動詞/ˈʌtəɹ/発する, 述べる
morality 名詞/məˈɹælɪti/道徳
continually 副詞/kənˈtɪnjuəli/絶え間なく
colleague 名詞/ˈkɒliːɡ/同僚, 同業者
disappointment 名詞/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/失望
donate 動詞/ˈdoʊˌneɪt/寄付する, 寄贈する

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語意味
take off 動詞脱ぐ

繰り返し練習したい文

動画に出てくる短く完結した文です。日常会話でそのまま使えます。

  • Do you feel differently about that afterwards?
  • Can you ever tell?
  • I'm really bad at that.

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型動画での表現
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てるhas been romanced · being done · has been made
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係しているhas been romanced · has been made · You've made

注意したい発音

話し手はyou're, you've, aren'tなど、短縮形や弱形を13回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

  • 長い単語(アクセントの位置に注意): prognosticate /pɹɒɡˈnɒstɪkeɪt/, honorary /ˈɑn.əˌɹɛɹ.i/, epidemic /ˌɛpɪˈdɛmɪk/, morality /məˈɹælɪti/, continually /kənˈtɪnjuəli/

日本語話者が苦手な音:

  • 子音の連続 — 間に母音を入れない: disappoint /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt/, intertwine /ˌɪntəɹˈtwaɪn/, prognosticate /pɹɒɡˈnɒstɪkeɪt/, hugely /ˈhjuːd͡ʒli/, suspend /səsˈpɛnd/

この動画での練習方法

  1. まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
  2. まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。disappoint, diagnose, suspendなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

シャドーイングとは?英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング(Shadowing)は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的:ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影(shadow)」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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