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It doesn't seem to make sense to suggest that there might be such a thing as good materialism.

After all, isn't materialism just plain bad, always?

It can seem as if we're faced with a stark choice.

Either you can be materialistic, and that means obsessed with money and possessions, shallow and selfish, or you can reject materialism,

be good and focus on more important matters of the spirit.

But in truth, most of us are, in our hearts, stuck somewhere between these two choices, which is pretty uncomfortable.

We're still enmeshed in the desire to possess, but we're encouraged to feel rather bad about it.

Yet, crucially, it's not actually materialism, the pure fact of buying things and getting excited by possessions, that's ever really the problem.

We're failing to make a clear distinction between good and bad versions of materialism.

Let's try to understand good materialism through a slightly unusual route – religion.

Because we see them as focused exclusively on spiritual things, it can be surprising to note how much use religions have made of material things.

They've spent a lot of time making and thinking about scrolls to hang in your house,

shrines, temples, monasteries, artworks, clothes, ceremonies.

However, they've cared about these things for one reason only

because they've wanted material things to serve the highest and noblest purpose – the development of our souls.

It's just that they've recognised that we are incarnate, sensory, bodily beings and that the way to get through to our souls has to be,

at least in part, through our bodies rather than merely through the intellect.

The importance of material things was for centuries at the core of Christianity

which proposed that Jesus was both the highest spiritual being and a flesh and blood person.

He was the spirit incarnate, holiness embodied.

In the Catholic mass, great significance is accorded to the bread and the wine, which are believed to be transubstantiations of Christ,

that is, material objects which simultaneously have a spiritual identity, just as Jesus himself combined the spiritual and the bodily while on earth.

This can all sound like a very weird and arcane point, entirely removed from the local shopping mall.

But exactly the same concept actually applies outside of religions.

Many good material possessions can be said to involve a kind of transubstantiation, whereby they are both practical and physical,

and also embody or allude to a positive personality or spirit.

Take this watch by the designer Dieter Rams.

To the outer eye, it's an ordinary timepiece, but at a psychological level, it's also a kind of transubstantiation.

It tells the time, but it also hints at a more psychological or even spiritual side, with ideals of purity, simplicity and harmony floating around it.

It tells us how long there is till lunch, but it's also trying to nudge us towards being a certain sort of person.

Or take this chair.

It, too, transubstantiates a set of important values straightforwardness, strength, honesty and elegance.

By getting closer to the chair we stand to become a little more like it, which is an important piece of inner evolution.

Material objects can therefore be said to play a positive psychological or spiritual role in our lives when higher,

more positive ideals are materialized in them, and so when buying and using them daily gives us a chance to get closer to our better selves.

When they're contained in physical things,

valuable psychological qualities that are otherwise often intermittent in our thoughts and conduct can become more stable and resilient.

This isn't to say that all consumerism just conveniently turns out to be great.

It depends on what a given material object stands for.

An object can transubstantiate the very worst sides of human nature, greed, callousness, the desire to triumph, as much as it can the best sides.

So, we must be careful not to decry or celebrate all material consumption just like that.

We have to ensure that the objects we invest in

and tire ourselves and the planet by making are those that lend most encouragement to our higher, better natures.

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このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

このスピーキングレッスンは、動画「Are we too Materialistic?」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：material, materialism, spiritual, object, psychological。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が43文、単語が686語あります。音声の長さは4:24です。話す速さは1分あたり約156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80%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
spiritual 形容詞	/ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/	精神的
possession 名詞	/pəˈzɛʃn̩/	憑依
ideal 形容詞	/aɪˈdi(ə)l/	理想的な, 理想な
bodily 形容詞	/ˈbɑdɪli/	身体的
practical 形容詞	/ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/	実践的な
stable 名詞	/ˈsteɪ.bəl/	馬小屋, 厩舎
encourage 動詞	/ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/	勇気付ける, 奨励する
temple 名詞	/ˈtɛm.pl̩/	神殿, 堂塔
unusual 形容詞	/ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/	珍しい
plain 名詞	/pleɪn/	平地, 平野
ceremony 名詞	/ˈsɛɹ.əˌmoʊ.ni/	儀式, 式典
designer 名詞	/dɪˈzaɪnɚ/	デザイナー, 設計士
ordinary 形容詞	/ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/	通常な, 普通な
merely 副詞	/ˈmɪəli/	単に, ばかり
consumption 名詞	/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/	消費

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	have made · They've spent · they've cared
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 accorded · can be said · be said
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える	choices, which is · wine, which are

注意したい発音

話し手はthey've, we're, isn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を12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: possession /pəˈzɛʃn̩/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, consumption /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/, flesh /flɛʃ/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: psychological /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, ceremony /ˈsɛɹ.əˌmoʊ.ni/, ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/, evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/

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: spiritual /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/, practical /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/, scroll /skɹoʊl/, materialism /məˈtɪɹiəlɪzəm/, crucially /ˈkɹuːʃəli/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, invest /ɪnˈvɛst/, involve /ɪnˈvɑlv/, exclusively /ɪkˈskluːsɪvli/, conveniently /kənˈvinjəntli/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: flesh /flɛʃ/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, significance /sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/, selfish /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/, triumph /ˈtɹaɪ̯əmf/

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。spiritual, possession, ideal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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