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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus is a large painting from the 1560s that hangs in Belgium's largest museum, the Musée des Beaux -Arts,

and is held to be a meticulous copy of an original work now lost by the Flemish artist

Peter Bruegel the Elder.

The painting shows a superficially bucolic scene.

Ships are taking sail, a shepherd is tending to his flock, distant cities look prosperous and ordered.

But in the bottom right -hand corner of the canvas, a tragedy is unfolding, all but unheeded.

Reckless Icarus, the legendary figure from classical mythology, is in the final stages of one of the ancient world's most famous aeronautical disasters.

Together with his father Daedalus, the young man had made himself a pair of wings glued together with wax.

Daedalus had warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, in case its heat were to melt the structure,

but the impetuous boy soared too high anyway and, in the painting, has just tumbled down into the waves to his death.

Icarus' end is deliberately not the central focus of the painting.

The eye is drawn instead to the glittering cities and smart ships in the distance.

As if to emphasise the point, the ploughman at the centre of the painting references a popular proverb, no plough stops for the dying man.

This neglect of Icarus' tragedy is at one level terrifying and sad.

We read into it how little the world cares about our own pains.

And yet, from another perspective, this neglect is deeply gratifying and importantly redemptive.

It is one of the central sources of our unhappiness

that we spend so much of our lives fearing for our reputations

and wondering what others will think of us when we fail, as we inevitably will at points.

The slightest change in our image in the eyes of others can obsess us.

We lie awake at night wondering how we could cope without the approval of people we don't even like very much.

We surrender our freedom to the verdicts of strangers.

But the painter's stroke of consoling genius is here to show us how, when we really mess up,

almost no one will be looking or caring very much.

The farmer is too busy ploughing, the shepherd is too taken up with thinking about the weather, someone else is overwhelmingly intent on fishing.

Our tragedies don't occupy society the way we fear they will.

A few people might notice for a moment, then swiftly move on to the next thing.

We are at the centre of the galaxy, only in our own tortured minds.

The world is still filled with humans who haven't heard of us and never will.

Those who might be angry or disappointed with you now will have forgotten all about you soon enough.

Your disgrace will, in time, be subsumed within the larger amnesia of a consolingly indifferent world.

It isn't just Icarus who is being swallowed up and obscured by the waves, some of the same obscurity awaits our greatest errors and embarrassments.

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このスピーキングレッスンは、動画「A Reason Not to Worry What Others Think」を教材にしています。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が32文、単語が513語あります。音声の長さは3:11です。話す速さは1分あたり約161語で、日常会話に近い自然なペースです。英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は77%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくる覚えておきたい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語	発音	意味
tragedy 名詞	/ˈtɹæd͡ʒ.ɪ.di/	悲劇
shepherd 名詞	/ˈʃɛpəɹd/	羊飼い, 牧人
neglect 動詞	/nɪˈɡlɛkt/	無視する, 忽略する
reputation 名詞	/ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/	評判, 名声
deeply 副詞	/ˈdi(ː)pli/	深く
disappointed 形容詞	/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/	失望した
disaster 名詞	/dɪˈzɑːs.təː/	災害, 天災
landscape 名詞	/ˈlan(d)skeɪp/	景色, ランドスケープ
genius 名詞	/ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/	天才
galaxy 名詞	/ˈɡæl.ək.si/	銀河, 銀河系
stranger 名詞	/ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒɚ/	知らない人, 見ず知らず
legendary 形容詞	/ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənˌdɛɹ.i/	伝説上の
slight 形容詞	/slaɪt/	僅な, 些細な
farmer 名詞	/ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/	農夫, 農家
torture 名詞	/ˈtoɹt͡ʃɚ/	拷問

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
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	is held · is drawn · is still filled
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 just tumbled · haven't heard

注意したい発音

話し手はdon't, haven't, isn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を4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: shepherd /ˈʃɛpəɹd/, reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, amnesia /ˌæmˈniʒə/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, legendary /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənˌdɛɹ.i/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, deliberately /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/

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: legendary /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənˌdɛɹ.i/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, deliberately /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/, reckless /ˈɹɛkləs/, glitter /ˈɡlɪtəɹ/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: verdict /ˈvɜː.dɪkt/, canvas /ˈkæn.vəs/, inevitably /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbli/, overwhelmingly /ˌəʊ.vəˈwɛl.mɪŋ.lɪ/, proverb /ˈpɹɑˌvɝb/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: farmer /ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/, flock /flɑk/, swiftly /ˈswɪftli/, gratify /ˈɡrætɪfaɪ/, indifferent /ɪnˈdɪf.ɹənt/

この動画での練習方法

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。
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。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。tragedy, shepherd, neglect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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