シャドーイング練習: 5 Questions to Ask Yourself Every Evening - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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you Our minds are some of the busiest places in the known universe.
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It's estimated that under a deceptively calm exterior,
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some 70 ,000 separate thoughts hurry through consciousness from the moment we wake up to the time we slip into sleep.
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What many of these thoughts have in common is that we seldom do them any kind of justice.
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The result is a kind of sensory overload and an immense difficulty processing what we've actually been through.
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We don't have time to feel the anger we're beset by.
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We don't have the wherewithal to give room to the sadness that nags at us.
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We can't on too many occasions properly think our own thoughts or feel our own feelings.
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But these thoughts and feelings do need to be understood and will protest more or less actively when they're not.
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Anger that hasn't been given its due will emerge as irritability.
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grief that hasn't been honoured will metastise into aimlessness and despair.
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What we call 'mental illnesses' are usually the outcome of periods of our lives
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that we haven't had the strength or opportunity to understand or mourn.
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What can help our troubles is self -exploration.
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And that's why we've produced five questions
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that we suggest can be rehearsed every evening on a regular basis and will help to appease the sources of our troubles.
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First question.
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What am I really worried about?
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This question recognises something rather unusual about how we operate.
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We frequently don't stop to ask ourselves what we're truly worried about.
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This sounds odd.
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Surely, if we're worried, we would be expected to pause rather quickly and explore why.
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But our minds seem not to work in this supremely logical -sounding way.
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They feel anxious long before they're ever motivated to ask themselves why they might be so.
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they can carry on for months, even years, under the fog of diffuse concern,
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before setting themselves the challenge of zeroing in on what is really at stake.
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So the question bids us to stop running and to turn around and look at what might actually be ailing us.
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The use of the word really is strategic.
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We often use one worry to shield us from another.
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We worry about an upcoming interview to protect us from worrying about the state of our relationship.
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We worry about money in order not to worry about death.
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So, it can be helpful to keep a supplementary inquiry in mind: what worry might lie behind the worry
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that is currently obsessing me?
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Second question: What am I presently sad about?
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We can make a generalisation: we go around being far braver than is good for us.
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Because we need to get on with the practicalities of the day, we frequently push to the side all the slights,
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hurts, disappointments and griefs that flow through our river of consciousness.
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We choose not to notice how vulnerable we are for fear that we cannot afford our own sensitivity.
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But stoicism and strength carry their own dangers.
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With the help of this question, we should give time to noticing that despite our competent and strong exteriors,
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lots of smaller and larger things have managed to hurt us today, like every day.
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Perhaps someone didn't laugh when we told a joke, our partner has been a little distant of late,
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a friend didn't call, a senior figure at work was less than completely impressed.
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We don't need to mock ourselves.
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We aren't weaklings for being fragile.
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In fact, there is no clearer evidence of our maturity than our capacity to explore the ways in which we, like everyone else on the planet,
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are a sensitive and easily bruised as a child.
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Third question.
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Who has annoyed me? And how?
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We want to be polite, of course.
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We're attached to the norms of civilisation.
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It upsets us to think we might be upset.
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Nevertheless, here too, we need to have the courage of our actual sensitivity.
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No day goes by without someone annoying us in some rather fundamental way, usually without them in any way meaning to.
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Our spirits will be lighter if we can bring ourselves to spell out the injury.
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What happened?
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How did it make us feel?
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What might we tell ourselves to re -find equilibrium?
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If we were lucky, we used to do this sort of thing with a kindly parent when we returned home from school.
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Now, as careful guardians to ourselves, we can internalise the process and use our inner adult to soothe the always easily flustered,
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but also easily calmed, in a child.
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Fourth question.
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What does my body want?
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Much of what we feel but don't process has a habit of ending up in our bodies.
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That's why we develop backache, tense shoulders, knotted stomachs and fluttery hearts.
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In order to live more easily around our bodies, we should regularly drain them of the emotions that they have unfairly been burdened with.
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We should mentally scan our bodies from top to toe and ask ourselves what each organ might require.
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What do my shoulders want to tell me?
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What would my stomach want to say?
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What does my back need?
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What do my legs crave?
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The questions may sound strange, What is surprising is that we're likely to have some very concrete answers just waiting for us when we ask.
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Fifth question.
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What is still lovely?
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Despite so much that's difficult, every day brings us up against a range of things that still delight and enchant us.
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Often these elements are small: the light on the kitchen wall in the morning, a child holding its parent's hand at the bus stop, a fig we had at lunchtime.
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These might not sound like things we should bother to register.
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But, summoned up in their full richness and held in our attention for a few moments, they can help to fortify us against the voices of despair.
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We tend to assume that if something is lovely, it will strike our minds as being so, with full force, without us needing to do anything supplementary.
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The reality is stranger.
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We need to make a conscious effort to squeeze joy out of beneficial elements that might otherwise be forgotten without notice.
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Our lives have some lovely aspects to them.
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But we may, surprisingly, regularly and rather clumsily, have to make a list of them in order to realize that they exist.
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When Socrates, apparently the wisest man of antiquity, was asked to define our highest purpose as human beings,
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he offered a still legendary answer: to know ourselves.
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We should aspire to be people who never cease to try to make sense of themselves at the close of every day.
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We should devote ourselves constantly to trying to shrink the scale of the darkness within us, bringing what was once in shadow closer to the light of interpretation.
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so that we stand a chance of becoming slightly less frantic and rather more joyful, creative and calm creatures.

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このレッスンについて

このレッスンでは、毎晩自分自身に問いかける5つの質問を通じて、自分の思考や感情を理解し、表現力を高める練習をします。ストレスや不安だけでなく、喜びや悲しみについても意識を向けることで、英語のスピーキング能力が向上します。特に、自分の感情や考えを言葉にする練習ができるため、効果的なシャドーイングの一環として活用できます。このプロセスを通じて、より流暢に、そして自信を持って英語を使えるようになることを目指します。

重要な語彙とフレーズ

  • 心配する (worry):不安やストレスを感じること。
  • 悲しみ (sadness):失望や痛みを感じる感情。
  • 感情 (emotion):人間の内部で起こる感情的な反応。
  • 自己探求 (self-exploration):内面的な思考や感情を深く掘り下げること。
  • 脆弱さ (vulnerability):感情的に傷付きやすい状態。
  • 成熟 (maturity):精神的な成長や発展。
  • 不安の霧 (fog of worry):何か分からないが、漠然とした不安を感じること。
  • ストイックさ (stoicism):感情を抑え込む姿勢。

練習のヒント

この動画のスピードやトーンに合わせたシャドースピークの練習をする際は、以下のポイントに注意してください。

  • まずは動画を数回視聴し、内容を理解することが重要です。特に感情表現や質問のニュアンスを掴むことを意識しましょう。
  • 疑似的に話しかけられていると想像し、声に出して答えてみてください。例えば、「何について心配しているのか?」を自分の言葉で英語で答えてみます。
  • 自分自身の感情や経験を反映させながら、シャドースピーチを行うことで、よりパーソナルでインタラクティブな練習ができます。
  • 初めはスローな再生速度で練習し、慣れてきたら通常のスピードに戻しましょう。YouTubeで英語学習が進み、流暢に表現できるようになります。
  • 最後に、自分の声を録音し、後で聴き返すとともに、改善すべきポイントを見つけていきましょう。これにより、自信が向上し、自らの成長を実感することができます。

この動画の文法

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文型動画での表現
条件文 if + 節, will/would + 動詞 — 条件とその結果if we're worried, we would be · if something is lovely, it will strike
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we've actually been · hasn't been given · hasn't been honoured
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be understood · been given · been honoured

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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