シャドーイング練習: A day in Trinidad - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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The next morning now at our hotel and we're going to go see what they have for breakfast here at the hotel.
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And then after that we'll go swimming in the pool, right?
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Yeah.
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He has a sore on his chin that came out here.
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Hopefully it gets better soon.
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A little sore.
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It's actually pretty big.
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It's like a boil.
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Alright, let's go.
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Let's go eat breakfast.
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He wants to walk around with his new shoes.
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And we came across these beautiful trees.
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full of air plants all these long things on here are air plants or orchids a bee nest oh yeah so beautiful man
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if i wasn't going i would be taking the start these
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are actually not part of the tree they're air plants they're like cactuses
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or orchids just like the one i found at home Look at the beans.
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Look at how pretty.
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And there's a whole street of the same plants with the same orchids on them.
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Look.
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The orchids are not...
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Oh, look, they give little fruit.
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These are all air plants or orchids, whatever.
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But look, they have little white fruits.
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They're like cactuses.
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And they have so many plants just growing along the trunk.
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See how cool that is?
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Here, climb up it real quick.
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You can climb up that tree.
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Yeah, wow.
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You can climb up that tree just like it would be at home in the jungle.
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I need to have one tree like this in my yard.
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I need to find out exactly how they did this.
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They have these things growing on the stems.
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It's so cool.
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Imagine a tree house up on there.
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We found somebody passed out over there laying down.
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Let's just get out of here.
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So I need to find myself a dress for the wedding.
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I saw some really nice dresses in there.
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He's hiding his hands. Can I help you?
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Can I please?
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Please hold your hand.
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We found a beautiful park on our walk in search of breakfast, but it's so pretty.
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Look at all these plants.
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This is what my yard.
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This is a Thelma-style park.
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I need this for my yard.
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I need it to be so beautiful.
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I thought you were supposed to throw coins in here.
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I didn't know it was a trash bin.
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Now I know where to bring our trash.
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Here we are at the statues.
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We got some dolphins and we got some indigenous people.
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And a bunch of trash.
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Someone threw trash in here.
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Thought you were supposed to throw coins in.
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It says, Soldados, los enemigos que tenéis al frente, los veréis desaparecer como las nubes cuando las bate el viento.
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Presidente de Bolivia, José Valdivia, Balivian. Who was that?
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I don't remember that president
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So we're here in front of the church house The church is over there And that's an old church
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Maybe instead of looking for breakfast We should go to church We found some coconuts
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And this little guy saw the coconuts
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And he was not going to pass by without us buying some Do you want one too?
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Do you want a coconut?
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Well, it's probably the most healthy thing there's around.
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He's opening it for us.
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He's going to put a straw in it.
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One more, huh?
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Yeah.
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Coconut.
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He never drank a coconut with a straw before. Can mommy have some?
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Very refreshing.
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Thank you very much.
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All right, we found a spot for breakfast.
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Everybody go in.
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Buen día.
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Let's go.
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Nice looking tables.
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Over here there's a double table.
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Let's go all the way over here.
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Sit yourselves down.
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There's our coffee.
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And there we have some empanadas.
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Take a bite, don't put your
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hand in it that's not the way
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he knows empanadas and guess what i got fried plantains masako cheese
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and meat this is the meal i made sometimes in my videos look at
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that and an egg even a fried egg i didn't usually put an egg
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but look dried plantains even when i'm on the trip and some coffee and there's the boys shakes
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yummy and now we're all stuffed we couldn't quite finish the food
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but breakfast isn't breakfast without a little bit of milk right
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to remind us of home we found We found the cherry tree here.
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We're going to pick a few for the children.
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You want one?
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Look, just like back at home, there's fruits growing here.
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You want one?
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Cherries.
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Look at the cherries.
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Look at that.
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Similar to something.
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Are they yummy?
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You want more?
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This is just like back at home.
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Make our experience just like we were back at home, eating plantains and picking wild fruits.

このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

このB1レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「A day in Trinidad」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:breakfast, plants, tree, orchids, coconut。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が104文、単語が793語あります。 音声の長さは5:30です。 話す速さは1分あたり約144語で安定しており、シャドーイングしやすいペースです。 単語の82%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。

この動画の重要語彙

動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語発音意味
orchid 名詞/ˈɔɹ.kɪd/蘭, 蘭の花
coconut 名詞/ˈkəʊ.kə.nʌt/ココナッツ, 椰子の実
plantain 名詞/ˈplæn.tɪn/車前草
cherry 名詞/ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/チェリー, 桜ん坊
climb 動詞/ˈklaɪ̯m/登る
cactus 名詞/ˈkæktəs/仙人掌, サボテン
yummy 形容詞/ˈjʌm.i/美味しい, おいしい
fry 動詞/fɹaɪ/(油で)揚げる, 炒る
straw 名詞/stɹɔ/藁, ワラ
sore 形容詞/soɹ/痛い, 痛ましい
coin 名詞/ˈkoɪ̯n/硬貨, 玉
commodore 名詞/ˈkɑ.mə.dɔɹ/代将
refresh 動詞/ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/爽やかにする
dolphin 名詞/ˈdɑlf.ɪn/海豚, イルカ
boil 動詞/bɔɪ(ə)l/沸かす, 沸騰させる

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語発音意味
come out 動詞/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/出る
find out 動詞見出す, 調べる

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。

  • Let's just get out of here.
  • Can I help you?
  • I didn't know it was a trash bin.
  • Do you want a coconut?
  • He's opening it for us.

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
「going to」の未来表現 be going to + 動詞 — 予定や、起こりそうだと分かることwe're going to go · He's going to put · We're going to pick
義務:must / have to / need to 何かが必要であることを伝えるneed to have · need to find

注意したい発音

話し手はwe're, they're, didn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を16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。

  • 「sh」と「zh」の音: refresh /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/, shoe /ˈʃu/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/
  • 長い単語(アクセントの位置に注意): empanada /ɛmpəˈnɑːdə/, indigenous /ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒənəs/

日本語話者が苦手な音:

  • /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: fry /fɹaɪ/, refresh /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/, dolphin /ˈdɑlf.ɪn/
  • 子音の連続 — 間に母音を入れない: plantain /ˈplæn.tɪn/, climb /ˈklaɪ̯m/, fry /fɹaɪ/, straw /stɹɔ/, yourselves /jəˈsɛlvz/

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. 通常の速度で一文ずつシャドーイングし、話し手のリズムに合うまで繰り返します。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。orchid, coconut, plantain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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