シャドーイング練習: A Method To x100 Your Productivity | Robin Sharma - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Hi, it's Robin Sharma, author of The Leader Who Had No Title, founder of the Titan Academy, and welcome to this mastery session.
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This mastery session is all about a method to times 100, to increase by a factor of 100 your productivity.
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And we live in a world right now where productivity, and in particular what I call exponential productivity, has never been so important.
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Here's a brain tattoo for you to consider.
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An addiction to distraction will be the death of your creative production.
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Here's another brain tattoo for you to consider.
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We live in a world where focus is more valuable than even your intelligence.
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I mean, if you watch most performers today, you watch most people in business today, you watch most people in your community today,
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and they are walking while checking their social feeds.
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You know, they are addicted to the entertainment of video games.
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They are spending the best hours of their days watching dancing cats on YouTube.
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I mean, it is incredible right now how consumed people are with their tiny white screens.
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And yet if you look at the A players, if you look at many of the most creative and productive people on the planet,
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they are doing and working in such vastly different ways.
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Because if you want to achieve the results only 5% achieve, you've got to think and produce and behave like only 5% of the people on the planet.
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And the best people on the planet in terms of creativity and productivity are not spending their finest hours addicted to distraction.
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They are doing work that matters.
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They're not doing fake work, they're doing real work.
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And so in this mastery session, I want to walk you through a number of protocols
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that will really help you multiply your productivity in the finest of ways.
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And I'm going to get right into the first one, which is the 90-91 rule.
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Now, I've become pretty well known for this.
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I've taught it to a lot of people who attend my annual event,
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the Titan Summit, and they've used this one tool alone to create vast amounts of productivity that have scaled their businesses,
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scaled their impact on the world and created world-class lifestyles.
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So I really invite you to pay even more attention to the 99.1 rule.
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And what's that all about?
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It's pretty simple, like any great rule.
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For the next 90 days,
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spend the first 90 minutes of your workday on your single most important opportunity to move the needle in your industry.
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And I'll repeat that again with great respect because it's so important, I believe, to your productivity.
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The 90-91 rule is simply for the next 90 days,
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spend the first 90 minutes of your work day on your single most game-changing opportunity.
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Because what happens?
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A lot of us get to work and we spend our best hours on our least important activities.
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We get to work and we start checking our social feed.
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We get to work and we check our text.
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We get to work and we chit-chat at the water cooler about the latest TV show that we watched last night.
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And research has shown that the morning hours are when you have the most focus, when you have the most energy, and when you have the most willpower.
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And so you want to use that first 90 minutes.
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You know, that is game time.
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That's show time.
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The second piece of technology to create exponential productivity is what I call tight bubbles of total focus.
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Your environment is so important.
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And if you look at B performers or C producers, they really don't pay a lot of attention to their environment.
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And so they get very distracted.
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There's lots of noises.
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Their phones are going off.
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Maybe there's news in the background.
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Maybe there's messy environments all around them.
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Maybe there's toxic people.
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What I'm suggesting to you as the second piece of technology to really 100 times your productivity is this.
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install environments of tight bubbles of total focus.
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The way I run my work life on certain days, I am very hard to reach.
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And I challenge you with great love and respect, be very hard to reach during key times of your week.
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I mean I see a lot of people and it's not judging them, it's just observing them.
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Every time their phone rings, they check it or they have you know these loud notifications
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so they're constantly being distracted and we know what the research says.
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The research says we spend 2.1 hours a day in distraction.
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We spend, and it takes 21 minutes to refocus your focus after you've been distracted.
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So if you are being distracted by notifications, checking your phone, checking your Twitter feed, checking your Facebook feed, looking on Instagram, checking all the different platforms,
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that is going to destroy your focus.
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So the second piece technologies create these tight bubbles of total focus
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and the way I do it is I have certain days
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that I label as creative days
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and on those creative days I actually go device free
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and on those days I'm very hard to find
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and on those days I'm in total solitude
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and on those days I go to certain places I call
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them my Menlo labs just like Edison had his Menlo lab
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and these places are very minimalist and there's no one there and that's where I do my best work.
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So install these tight bubbles of total focus and create these Menlo labs where you're completely distraction free.
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And then you will find your brain will drop from the
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beta state into the alpha state where you will do your best work and get your best ideas.
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The next piece of technology that will help you create exponential productivity in your work life
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so you truly impact the world around you is choose your peer group really really well.
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There's a lot of excellent science coming out
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and a lot of excellent research coming out
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that says the number one way to improve your behavior is to surround yourself with a peer group
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or social circle of people who are also playing at the level you want to be playing at.
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So if you want to be a high performer in terms of your productivity, populate your life with high performers.
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Now here's the science behind it.
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In the brain we have something called the mirror neuron system of the brain
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and it dates back to thousands of years ago when we were living on the Savannah.
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And this mirror neuron system allowed us to model the behavior of the dominant people in the tribe.
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So if someone figured out a tool or figured out fire or a better way to survive,
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subconsciously, this system in the brain allowed us to model the behavior.
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And I think this is pretty fascinating information.
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Now here we are in the modern world and what happens?
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Subconsciously, we are modeling the behavior of the people we spend most of our time with.
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And so if you are around victims, you will start behaving like a victim.
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If you are around people who are mediocre performers, you will subconsciously start behaving like them.
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If you're around people who gossip, who are not A players, who do not produce very much, you will subconsciously, because of the mirror neuron system in the brain,
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start performing like them.
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Why else is it important to surround yourself with a peer set or social orbit of A players?
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Emotional contagion.
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And that's a scientific phenomenon that simply says we pick up on the emotions of the people that are around us.
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And so if you are around a social circle of people who are inspired, people who want to do great work, people who want to be ultra productive, people who want to be innovative,
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people who are relentlessly optimizing their work, their thinking, their creativity, just being around them will allow you to adopt their energy and their ways of being.
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And then the final technology for you to create exponential productivity is what I call learned minimalism.
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So you know minimalism is often considered as a design philosophy, right?
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It's like very stark, very sparse, sometimes industrial, lots of white, not a lot of things.
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You know, like you go into a boutique hotel and it's designed by Philippe Starck, the great French designer, and it's very minimalist.
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What I'm encouraging you to do with great love and respect is to be ultra productive, adopt the mindset of learned minimalism.
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Now, I've worked with a lot of the most creative and productive people on the planet.
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I've worked with billionaires and CEOs.
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I've worked with true titans.
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Here's one thing I've observed in them.
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They understand that the secret to genius is not complexity, it's simplicity.
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If you look at a Picasso of any industry, if you look at a great artist, they didn't fill their work days and their personal lives with a lot of things.
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They filled them with a few things.
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I guess what I'm suggesting to you is one of the
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secrets to iconic productivity is be monomaniacally focused at being world-class at just a few things.
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And if you look at any great artist, any great entrepreneur, any great business builder, any great author, any great humanitarian,
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they were monomaniacally focused on one thing.
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They were minimalists.
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And so what I wanna leave you with is this.
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Maybe this year, rather than having 50 projects that you want to achieve at the highest level, maybe pick three.
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This year, rather than having 1,000 Facebook friends, maybe go deep and develop three really great relationships.
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This year, or maybe the next few months, rather than trying to read 20 audiobooks, 50 ebooks, go to five courses,
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why not focus on one course and one audiobook?
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And why not study one great autobiography?
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Maybe it's Isaacson's autobiography of Steve Jobs.
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Maybe it's Nelson Mandela's autobiography.
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I'm going through the autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. right now, which actually wasn't written by him, but it's called the autobiography of Martin Luther King junior I
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am encouraging you to really adopt this thinking protocol of becoming
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a minimalist even your home fill it with just a few
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things right even your work life just a few projects even your clients just the highest leverage clients
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and especially your days focus focus focus on just those few priorities
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that when you roll up your sleeves and go deep in them and invest what I call the trinity of your assets,
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your focus, your energy, and your willpower on those few things, they will allow you to birth art into the world,
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which will allow the world to call you world class.
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Hi, it's Robin.
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I invite you to subscribe to this podcast and definitely go over to robinsharma.com for more information, tools and resources on mastery,
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elite performance and living a world-class life.

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「A Method To x100 Your Productivity」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:productivity, focus, brain。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が135文、単語が1835語あります。 音声の長さは11:29です。 話す速さは1分あたり約160語で、日常会話に近い自然なペースです。 単語の84%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
productivity 名詞/ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/生産性
autobiography 名詞/ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/自伝, 自叙伝
performer 名詞/pɚˈfɔɹmɚ/パフォーマー
exponential 形容詞/ˌɛk.spəˈnɛn.t͡ʃəl/指数的, 指数関数
distract 動詞/dɪˈstɹækt/気をそらす
distraction 名詞/dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/逆上
bubble 名詞/ˈbʌbəl/泡
neuron 名詞/ˈn(j)ʊɹɑn/神経細胞
behave 動詞/bɪˈheɪv/振る舞う, 行動する
peer 名詞/pɪɹ/同輩
adopt 動詞/əˈdɑpt/養子にする
audiobook 名詞/ˈɔdi.oʊbʊk/オーディオブック
willpower 名詞/ˈwɪlˌpaʊɚ/意志力, 気力
addict 名詞/ˈæd.ɪkt/中毒者
surround 動詞/səˈɹaʊnd/囲む, 取り巻く

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語発音意味
come out 動詞/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/出る

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。

  • Here's a brain tattoo for you to consider.
  • Here's another brain tattoo for you to consider.
  • I've worked with true titans.
  • Here's one thing I've observed in them.

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
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 never been · I've become · I've taught
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are addicted · being distracted · you've been distracted
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加えるone, which is · people who attend · people who are

注意したい発音

話し手はI'm, I've, they'reなど、短縮形や弱形を26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: distraction /dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, addiction /əˈdɪkˌʃən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/
  • 長い単語(アクセントの位置に注意): productivity /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/, autobiography /ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/, exponential /ˌɛk.spəˈnɛn.t͡ʃəl/, minimalist /ˈmɪn.ə.məl.ɪst/, minimalism /ˈmɪn.ə.məl.ɪz.əm/

日本語話者が苦手な音:

  • /r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: protocol /ˈpɹoʊtəˌkɑl/, relentlessly /ɹɪˈlɛntləsli/, builder /ˈbɪl.dəɹ/, leverage /ˈlɛv.(ə.)ɹɪd͡ʒ/
  • /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: productivity /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/, behave /bɪˈheɪv/, creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/, observe /əbˈzɜːv/, vastly /ˈvæstli/
  • /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: autobiography /ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/, performer /pɚˈfɔɹmɚ/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, fascinate /ˈfæsɪneɪt/, phenomenon /fəˈnɒm.ɪ.nən/

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。productivity, autobiography, performer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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