シャドーイング練習: AC/DC Drummer Chris Slade Believes in One God for all Religions - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Hello this is Chris Slade, drummer from ACDC and you're watching Bending Reality TV.
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So what's been your experience of life from the perspective of being a rock drummer?
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You know I've traveled a lot and especially on buses
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and things and planes and I've been doing this for about 45 years
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and the great thing with that is that you can read.
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So I used to read all sorts of esoteric books.
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I started off with martial arts in the mid 60s And that philosophy from the martial arts took me into meditation.
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I used to meditate on the road.
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I was also a vegetarian.
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I'm not anymore, but I was right through the 70s.
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And that meditation, anything that was Zen meditation,
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anything that was a mystery appealed to me.
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I did lots of martial arts such as Karate, Aikido, Jodo, Iaido which is sword drawing.
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I did Kyudo for about 12 years which is Japanese archery.
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And in the last few years I've done Tai Chi,
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which is a really fantastic, complete system.
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I was just talking about it to one of my friends who's thinking I've started it
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and I couldn't recommend that more highly.
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Tai Chi or Qi Gong is a wonderful practice.
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And that brings with it a different perspective to the rock world, if you like.
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Anything cosmic seems to be the huge mystery.
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And for many years I didn't know why I was doing it, but I was also interested on a very,
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very layman level in quantum physics.
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And I had no idea why I like quantum physics and spirituality.
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I just.. and today, these days, they're just coming together like that.
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quantum physics and spirituality, especially say Kabbalah said, that's where I met Michael by the way,
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was at the Kabbalah Center in Los Angeles.
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I've investigated many, many pathways.
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Kabbalah said 5,000 years ago, and it was written down, that there are 10 dimensions to reality.
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And I think it was five years ago that quantum physics agreed with that.
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So then I went, bingo!
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Now I know why I've been interested in quantum physics.
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The first book I read on quantum physics was The Dancing Wu Li Masters.
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Gary Zukov, I think, was the writer.
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And that explained it beautifully.
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So those sort of books I've been reading all my life.
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The first thing I saw, I'll never forget, was in Liverpool when I was about 18 or 19 is my guess.
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And it was late at night and I looked in the book and this word, this book was turned the wrong way around and I looked at this word and I thought, What is that word?
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And the word was Zen.
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And it was a book written by Christmas Humphreys, a British judge actually, who was head of the Buddhist society.
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And that word just absolutely fascinated me.
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What Zen?
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It doesn't even make sense.
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What is it?
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And that was my first taste of thinking.
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You can almost say I was attracted to that book because of past lives or something. Who knows?
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But in those days Zen was not a very popular subject.
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Nobody knew what Zen was back then.
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Mid 60s, you know, no way.
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I was brought up as a Christian in the Church of England.
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I would call myself more of a Buddhist today.
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And I think it doesn't matter what religion we should all get on anyway there is one God it's
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that God it doesn't matter whether you're Jewish or Afghani that
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that God is there and we can see it as we look into the universe I think.
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I went to Afghanistan actually and I looked up at the sky,
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this was about three years ago and I couldn't believe what I saw.
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I've sailed a little bit and I've seen the sky
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and sea on the mountain top was just unbelievable there wasn't
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a point between the stars it was like an ocean of
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stars unbelievable I've never seen anything like it not even in the movies
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so I'm sort of waffling on a little bit here
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but the Zen thing led me into meditation as I said I used to meditate twice a day.
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I've done a lot of self work.

この動画が話す練習に最適な理由

AC/DCのドラマー、クリス・スレイドのインタビューは、自然な英語表現を学ぶのに最適な素材です。日常的な会話のリズムや、ネイティブスピーカーが使う「くだけた表現」が満載で、シャドーイング（shadowing）の練習にぴったりです。特に、自身の経験を語る部分は発音の抑揚がはっきりしており、「shadowspeaks」「shadow speak」「shadow speech」などの技法を使って繰り返し練習することで、流暢さが向上します。

自然な表現を分解してみよう

  • 「I used to read all sorts of esoteric books.」：「used to」で過去の習慣を表し、「all sorts of」は「さまざまな」というくだけた表現。ネイティブはこのように単語を組み合わせて自然に話します。
  • 「I'm not anymore, but I was right through the 70s.」：「anymore」で「今は…ない」、「right through」で「ずっと」というニュアンス。短い文でも情報量が多く、会話の効率性がわかります。
  • 「Tai Chi or Qi Gong is a wonderful practice.」：「wonderful practice」で「素晴らしい習慣」という表現。「practice」は動名詞ではなく名詞として使われ、日常会話でよく見られる使い方です。

効果的なシャドーイング練習法

「英語シャドーイング」の基本は「聞いてすぐに繰り返す」ことです。この動画を使ったルーティンは以下の通りです。
1. 10秒ほどの短い部分を選び、ゆっくり聞きながら発音と抑揚を覚える。
2. 同じ部分を「shadow speak」の技法で、1秒遅れで繰り返し発声する。
3. 自分の声を録音し、ネイティブの発音と比較して、リズムやアクセントの違いを確認する。
これを毎日10分続けると、自然な英語の流れが身につきます。「shadowspeak」の技法を使うと、特に発音の精度が上がります。

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。