シャドーイング練習: 3.alking about friends - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Hello.
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Welcome to Real Easy English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Georgie.
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And I'm Neil.
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We're here to help you improve your English with a real conversation in Easy English.
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If you want to read along, you can find a text version of this podcast at bbclearningenglish.com.
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Right, let's start the show.
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How are you today, Neil?
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I'm very well, thank you, Georgie.
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What are we talking about in this episode?
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Today is all about friends.
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We'll talk a bit about our friends and why they are important.
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Great, let's get started.
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So, Neil, do you have a lot of friends?
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Yes, I do have quite a few friends.
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How about you?
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Yes, I also have quite a lot of friends.
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I've lived in different places,
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so I have made friends in lots of different areas and times of my life.
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So, Georgie, you said that you have lived in lots of places and I know you have lived in Spain.
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So, do you have lots of friends in Spain?
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Yes, I have a few friends in Spain but now that I live in London, it's quite difficult to stay in touch with them.
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But, actually, one of them is coming to visit this weekend.
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Ah, so you try to keep in touch with some of your friends.
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That means to keep contact with them, to make sure that you stay friends by speaking to them.
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Yes, exactly.
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And if you have a lot of friends, it can be difficult to stay in touch with so many.
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What do you like to do with your friends, Neil?
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Well, I like to talk to them mainly.
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So I like to meet them maybe in a pub
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or a restaurant or we go to a sports match sometimes and we talk there and have a good time.
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That sounds nice.
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How about you?
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Yes, I'm the same.
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During the week I think a nice plan is to go out for dinner with friends.
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At the weekends, I like going for a walk or getting a coffee with friends.
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You can do both of those at the same time.
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Yeah, that's right.
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Sometimes I meet friends, we get a coffee to take away and then go for a walk around the park.
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And are you happy about the number of friends you have or would you like to have more or fewer?
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I always like making new friends.
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If you start a new hobby or you move to a different place, there are always more people and new people to meet.
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I like making friends.
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What about you?
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Yes, but I like to see my old friends and if I make new friends, I know it's something that happen slowly and that's OK.
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Now, we have used this word friends a lot, but there are other words for friends too, aren't there?
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Yes.
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One is mate.
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I use mate a lot.
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We also use pal.
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So, sometimes I refer to my friends that are girls as gal pals.
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Gal pals.
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That's a nice expression.
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So Neil, why are friends important to you?
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Ah, yes.
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Good question.
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Friends are important, I think, because you can be yourself with your friends.
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You don't have to pretend if they're good friends because they know you as you are.
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And that's not the same everywhere that you go in life.
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Yep, that's true.
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Let's recap the language we learned during the conversation.
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We learned mates and pals, which are other words for friends.
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We heard keep in touch with, which means see or speak to someone regularly.
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We also say stay in touch.
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And a few, which means more than two, but not many.
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So I have a few friends in Spain, but not many.
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Thanks for listening to Real Easy English.
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Visit our website for more activities and courses to help you with your English – bbclearningenglish.com Next time,
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we'll talk about holidays and places we would like to go.
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See you then.
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Goodbye.
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Bye.

この動画がスピーキング練習に最適な理由

友達について話す日常会話は、誰でも関わりのあるテーマです。この動画のダイアログは自然なスピードで進み、実生活でよく使うフレーズがたくさん含まれているので、英語スピーキング練習に最適です。特に「stay in touch」「take away」などのフレーズは、覚えておくとすぐに使える実用的な表現です。

自然な会話のコツを分解してみる

①「I've lived in different places, so I have made friends in lots of different areas and times of my life.」
「I've lived」と現在完了形を使うことで、過去の経験が現在に影響していることを表しています。「made friends」は「友達を作る」という自然な表現で、「make」の使い方がポイントです。
②「it's quite difficult to stay in touch with them.」
「it's + 形容詞 + to do」の構文は英語でよく使われ、「~するのは~です」という意味です。「stay in touch with」は「~と連絡を取り続ける」というフレーズで、友達との関係を表す時に便利です。
③「we get a coffee to take away and then go for a walk around the park.」
「take away」は「持ち帰り」という意味で、カフェでよく使われる表現です。「go for a walk」は「散歩する」という簡単なフレーズですが、「around the park」を加えることで具体的な場所がわかり、会話が生き生きします。

効果的な練習方法:シャドーイングループ

英語シャドーイング(shadow speak)は、聞いた内容をすぐに繰り返す練習で、発音やリズムを身につけるのに効果的です。この動画を使った練習方法は次の通りです。
1. 動画を10秒ほど再生して止める。
2. 聞いた内容をそのまま口に出して繰り返す(shadow speech)。
3. 自分の声を録音し、原音と比べて発音やリズムの違いを確認する。
4. 同じ部分を3回ほど繰り返し、自然な発声ができるようにする。
この方法を続けると、日常会話の流れが慣れ、英語スピーキング練習が楽しくなります。

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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