シャドーイング練習: 27.Talking about hobbies - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Hello and welcome to Real Easy English, the podcast where we have everyday conversations in easy English.
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I'm Georgie.
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And I'm Neil.
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Hi Neil, how are things?
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I'm very well, thank you Georgie.
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And how about you?
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How's your week going?
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My week's going really well, thank you.
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And I'm excited because later I have choir practice.
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Ah, choir practice.
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That means you sing with other people.
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It does.
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Well, that's good because we're talking all about hobbies.
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And those are the activities that we do after work or college or at the weekends.
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So Neil, I go to choir.
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Do you have any hobbies?
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Yes, I also have a musical hobby.
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I like to play guitar.
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Nice.
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How often do you play the guitar?
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It depends.
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Sometimes I play for a long time and often.
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Usually if I've heard a song I like, I want to learn how to play it.
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And then sometimes I don't play it at all for a while, for weeks.
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Okay.
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So you go through phases, I suppose.
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Yeah.
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And how about your choir?
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Tell me more about that.
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Well, so I go to choir practice weekly, every Monday, and at the moment we're practicing for a Christmas concert.
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We did just do a concert, which was really fun, and we've got another one, another one coming.
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Right, OK.
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And do you really enjoy the singing?
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How does it make you feel?
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I love the singing because I put my phone in my bag
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and I just sing with my friends
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and we have a really nice group of people that do choir so I really enjoy it.
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So Neil, you like playing the guitar but maybe there's a new hobby you'd like to try?
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Yeah, so I've been playing guitar for many years but I don't have any training and I can't read music.
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So I thought that maybe I should learn piano and learn properly.
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Oh, that would be good.
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Then you can play the piano with my choir.
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OK.
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When do I start?
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Next Monday.
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So do you have any hobbies that aren't musical?
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Yes.
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I like doing some exercise.
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So I like running and I like doing yoga.
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At the moment, I'm not running regularly.
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I'm running probably monthly, so once a month, which is not very good.
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I'd like to run more.
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Yeah, I also run, but I struggle to do it regularly.
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I think if you do it twice or three times a week, it's easy to keep going.
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But once you stop, you stop for a long time.
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I completely agree.
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It's difficult to stick to a routine with running, I find.
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It's very easy to lose your routine.
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So Georgie, you go to choir regularly, but you don't run regularly.
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What's this word, regularly?
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Well, regularly means that you do something often as part of a regular routine.
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So, for example, I regularly get a coffee when I come to work.
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So I get a coffee most times I come to work.
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But I don't regularly buy lunch.
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I usually bring my own lunch from home.
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Saves money.
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Neil, what about unusual hobbies?
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Do you have any unusual hobbies?
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I suppose I do.
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I quite like making sauerkraut.
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OK, sauerkraut.
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What is sauerkraut?
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It's a kind of food.
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You get some cabbage and you slice it thinly and you add some salt.
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you crush it and you leave it and after a while it changes into something new, which is very good for your stomach.
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OK, so why do you like making sauerkraut, Neil?
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It's very relaxing and it takes a while for it to be right.
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And I think in today's world we do lots of things that happen very quickly.
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So it's kind of old-fashioned but satisfying.
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OK, makes sense.
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I wouldn't do it, but I'm glad you have found something you love.
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Well, let's recap the language we learned during the conversation.
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We heard weekly, which means every week.
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Yes, and monthly, every month.
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We heard regularly, often.
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We also heard the word choir, a group of people who sing together.
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Yes.
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Bye.

この動画が話す練習に最適な理由

日常会話の中で趣味について話す場面は非常に多いため、この動画の会話は実践的な学習素材となります。ジョージーとニールの会話は自然でリラックスしており、「趣味は何ですか?」「どれくらいやりますか?」といった基本的な質問から、「新しい趣味を始めたい」といった発展的な内容まで含まれています。また、単語やフレーズが簡単でありながら、自然な発音やイントネーションが聞き取りやすいので、shadow speech(シャドーイング)の練習に最適です。

自然な会話のポイントを分解してみよう

会話の中には、自然な英語表現のポイントがいくつか隠れています。まず、「It depends.」というフレーズは、「場合による」という意味でよく使われます。ニールがギターの練習頻度について答える際に使っていますが、これは曖昧な答えをスムーズに伝えるのに便利です。次に、「I go through phases.」は「段階的に変わる」という意味で、趣味の続け方が一定でないことを表現しています。このような慣用句を使うと、会話がより自然に聞こえます。もう一つは、「I put my phone in my bag」という文で、「携帯をバッグに入れる」という単純な行動を表しながら、趣味を楽しむ際のリラックスした雰囲気を伝えています。これらの表現は、日常生活でよく使われるものなので、覚えておくと役立ちます。

shadow speakで実践的に練習しよう

この動画を使ってshadow speakの練習をするには、以下のようなルーティンを試してみてください。まず、動画を1文ずつ再生し、その直後に同じ速さ、同じイントネーションで繰り返します。このとき、発音を正確に真似ることが重要です。英語の発音を良くするためには、口の形や息の使い方にも注意してください。次に、数文ずつまとめて再生し、それを一気に繰り返します。これで会話の流れを感じることができます。最後に、自分で録音してみて、原音と比べてどこが違うのかを確認しましょう。この練習を続けると、自然な会話ができるようになります。shadowspeakやshadowspeaksという言葉で検索すると、他の練習方法も見つかるかもしれません。

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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