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6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Neil.
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And I'm Beth.
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When I was a boy,
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I wanted to be a fireman when I grew up.
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How about you, Beth?
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Did you have any childhood dreams?
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I wanted to be an astronaut and fly to the moon.
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When we're young, most of us have big dreams and plans for the future.
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Unfortunately, as we grow up,
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these childhood dreams often get lost in the adult world of jobs,
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money, families and careers – but not for everyone.
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Daisy from New Zealand and Herman from Argentina are two people who decided to follow their childhood dreams.
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They wanted the world to become a utopia – a perfect,
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ideal society where everyone is happy and gets along with each other.
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In this programme, we'll be hearing how Daisy and Herman made their dreams come true,
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not by changing the world, but by changing themselves.
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And as usual, we'll be learning some new vocabulary too.
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But before that, I have a question for you, Beth.
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Following your dreams can be tough,
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but not following them can leave you regretting all the things you wanted to do but didn't.
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In 2012,
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Australian nurse Bronnie Ware wrote her best-selling book The Top 5
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Regrets of the Dying after interviewing terminally ill patients about their life regrets.
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So, what do you think their top regret was?
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Was it a I wish I hadn't worked so hard,
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b I wish I had followed my dreams,
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or c I wish I'd made more money?
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Well, I'll guess it's b they wish they had followed their dreams.
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OK Beth, I'll reveal the correct answer at the end of the programme.
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The first dreamer we're going to meet lives in Riverside,
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a peace-loving community in New Zealand where everyone shares everything.
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Riverside members work for the community's businesses,
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including a farm, a hotel and a cafe.
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All the money they earn is collected and shared between everyone equally.
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Daisy, who was born in East Germany, joined Riverside in 2004.
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Here she explains her belief in sharing to BBC World Service programme The Documentary.
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What I think I always believed in is
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that the sharing of resources can provide a group of people with quite a great advantage.
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But it doesn't matter how many hours you work or what work you do.
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Everyone is getting the same amount.
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And that is something that many people outside of Riverside really struggle with
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and where they are often getting this communism label attached to us.
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Because it seems so outlandish for people.
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Riverside isn't a communist community.
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In fact, people with many different political views live there.
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But Daisy says that local people struggle with the idea that everything is shared.
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If you struggle with an idea,
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you find it difficult to accept or think about it.
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Daisy also says some local people call Riverside outlandish, strange and unusual.
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Our second group of dreamers are a family, the Zaps.
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In 2000, childhood sweethearts Herman and Candelaria Zap bought a vintage car
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and set off from Argentina to travel around the world with less than three and a half thousand dollars in their pockets.
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22 years and three children later,
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they have visited over a hundred countries,
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meeting with countless people and experiences on the way.
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Here, Herman Zapp explains to BBC World Service's The Documentary how following his dream has changed him for the better.
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I am so happy with Herman that is now now that I know now,
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not the one who wanted to conquer the world,
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but the one who was conquered by the world.
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I learned so much from people.
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It's amazing how the more you meet people,
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the more you know stories,
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how much more humble you become because you notice that you are a beautiful,
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tiny piece of sand, but a very important piece of sand like everyone is, right?
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After many years travelling, meeting new people and hearing their stories,
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Herman is more humble, not proud or arrogant.
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He no longer wants to conquer the world to control it by force.
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Rather, he has been conquered by his experiences.
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Hermann compares himself to a beautiful but tiny piece of sand
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and uses the phrase a grain of sand to describe things which are insignificant in themselves,
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but at the same time are an important part of the whole.
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Daisy and Herman are rare examples of dreamers who followed their dream and found a happy life lived without regret.
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Which reminds me of your question, Neil.
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Yes, I asked about Bronnie Ware's book,
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The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying.
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What do you think the number one regret was, Beth?
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I guessed it was B, not following your dreams.
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Which was the right answer!
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Not having the courage to follow your dreams was listed as the top life regret.
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At least we have people like Daisy and Herman to remind us dreams can come true.
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OK, let's recap the vocabulary from this programme,
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starting with Utopia, a perfect world where everyone is happy.
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If you struggle with an idea,
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you find it difficult to accept.
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The adjective outlandish means strange and unusual.
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To conquer something means to control it by force.
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Someone who is humble is not proud or arrogant.
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And finally, the phrase a grain of sand describes something which is both insignificant yet somehow important.
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Once again, our six minutes are up.
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Bye for now.
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Goodbye.

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BBC Learning Englishの「6 Minute English」は、私たちの人生における最も深く個人的な問いの一つ、すなわち「あなたは夢を追いかけていますか？」というテーマを探求します。このレッスンでは、幼い頃の夢を追いかけ、後悔のない人生を送ることを決めた二人の人物、ニュージーランドのデイジーとアルゼンチンのヘルマンの感動的な物語を通じて、自己変革の力について学びます。

ホストのニールとベスは、多くの人が人生の終わりに「夢を追いかけなかったこと」を最も後悔しているという衝撃的な事実を提示し、視聴者に自身の生き方を問いかけます。デイジーが実践するシェアリングコミュニティの哲学や、ヘルマンが世界旅行を通じて得た謙虚さの重要性など、多様な価値観に触れることができます。

この動画は、英語スピーキング練習に最適なだけでなく、新しい語彙や表現を習得し、より深い議論のトピックに慣れる絶好の機会を提供します。特に、過去の願望や後悔を表現する仮定法過去完了の文法パターンや、抽象的な概念（ユートピア、謙虚さ、人生の目的など）について英語で意見を述べる文脈を練習できます。これらのスキルは、英語の流暢さ向上はもちろん、IELTS対策にも繋がるでしょう。

重要な語彙とフレーズ

  • follow your dreams (夢を追いかける、夢を実現する)

    例文：Many people regret not following their dreams. (多くの人が夢を追いかけなかったことを後悔している。)

  • utopia (ユートピア、理想郷、完璧な社会)

    例文：They wanted the world to become a utopia where everyone is happy. (彼らは皆が幸せなユートピアのような世界になることを望んだ。)

  • struggle with an idea (ある考えを受け入れるのに苦労する、抵抗がある)

    例文：Local people struggle with the idea that everything is shared. (地元の人々は、すべてが共有されるという考えに抵抗を感じている。)

  • outlandish (奇妙な、とっぴな、異様な)

    例文：Some local people called Riverside outlandish. (地元の人々の中には、リバーサイドのことを奇妙だと言う人もいた。)

  • humble (謙虚な、控えめな)

    例文：After many years travelling, Herman is more humble. (長年の旅行を経て、ヘルマンはより謙虚になった。)

  • a grain of sand (砂粒、取るに足らない存在、しかし全体の一部として重要)

    例文：You are a beautiful, tiny piece of sand, but a very important piece of sand. (あなたは美しい小さな砂粒ですが、非常に重要な砂粒です。)

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  • トピックの難易度とIELTS対策

    「夢」「後悔」「理想の社会」「謙虚さ」といったトピックは、IELTS対策のスピーキングやライティングセクションで問われるような抽象的で深い内容を含んでいます。シャドーイングの際には、ただ音を真似るだけでなく、各単語やフレーズが持つ意味や、話者が伝えようとしている感情を意識して発話しましょう。これにより、内容を理解しながら話すという、より実践的な英語スピーキング練習が可能になります。特に、ヘルマンが自身の経験について語る部分は、自己紹介や意見陳述の良いモデルとなります。

  • 具体的な練習方法

    最初は動画を一時停止しながら、短文ごとに丁寧にシャドーイングを始めてみてください。慣れてきたら、動画を止めずに追いかける練習をします。特に「struggle with an idea」や「outlandish」、「humble」といった新しい語彙は、何度も発音して自分のものにしましょう。感情を込めて話すことで、より自然で表現豊かな英語を習得できます。

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。

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