シャドーイング練習: becoming smart is easy, actually - YouTubeで英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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So you want to become smart.
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So you want to become smart.
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In most of the world,
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you're told that it takes 12 years of school,
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plus 4 years of college,
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plus 6 years of graduate school to become smart.
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But what you actually become is homeless.
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That's not even a joke.
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But on the bright side,
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when you make a Reddit post about how you can't get a job,
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you can do it in perfect English.
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If you haven't guessed by the title,
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becoming smart is actually very easy.
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Even if you think your genetics make you dumb,
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If you compare yourself to every other animal, you're actually pretty overpowered.
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When people like you and me say we want to get smarter,
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it means a bunch of things.
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We want to learn useful skills,
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ideally skills that make money.
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We want to be good at solving problems, hopefully for money.
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We want to get better greeds and learn difficult subjects to make more money,
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and also to flex on people.
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And lastly, we want to sound smart in conversation,
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just enough so people respect you,
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but not too much to the point where people think you're a nerd.
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The problem is, most advice on the internet is so vague and philosophical that even if it works,
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the only people who could actually follow it are Oprah and Socrates.
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And if you instead look for specific advice that you can actually try right now,
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this is what you get.
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Eat blueberries cause they're brain food.
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Drink black coffee.
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Exercise.
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Sleep more.
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Take IQ tests.
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Listen to classical music.
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These things sound good, but at some point you have to,
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you know, actually learn stuff.
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Besides, even in the past,
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there have been some geniuses who've spent the whole day sitting at a desk,
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getting two to four hours of sleep a day.
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So what can you actually do to get smarter?
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That's not just the same six brain hacks from a Facebook post copied
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and pasted from a WikiHow article inspired by a quote spray-painted on a New York subway wall.
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The main thing you need to do is read.
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What kind of reading?
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It depends.
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Fiction is good for learning to read faster,
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and it gives you better vocabulary.
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Also, if you read a lot of dialogue,
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it makes you feel like you have friends.
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But most people go straight for non-fiction,
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which indeed is the key to being able to casually drop interesting knowledge in conversations.
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For example, just by reading this book,
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you can come off to anyone in conversation as someone who knows history.
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The key is to not be obnoxious about it.
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Crazy how he evolved from chimpanzees, right?
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Well, actually, evolution is non-linear and several human-like species inhabited Earth simultaneously,
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none of which could even be remotely considered as chimpanzees.
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While this is considered polite by the standards of a YouTube comment section,
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in real life, saying a well actually before proving someone wrong will make you instantly unlikable.
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Change the well to an easy, and now we're talking.
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Let's redo that conversation.
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Crazy how we evolved from chimpanzees, right?
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It is crazy, right?
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You know, I was reading the other day and apparently humans and chimpanzees I always thought we evolved from them,
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but I guess we just evolved side by side.
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You can be smart while also being humble and also sounding like you touch grass.
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The key is to teach people what you know without making them sound dumb.
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This way, people will actually learn from you,
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which will make them see you as smart and respectable.
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Now, how do you find these books?
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It's actually really easy.
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You don't have to read the same five books everyone tells you to read.
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Just think of a topic you want to learn about.
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Like cleaning.
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Now Google books about cleaning.
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Here's one that looks good.
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Usually, these books cost money.
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But if your finger slips,
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you might accidentally end up on this website.
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And you might accidentally search for the title of the book.
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And by chance, click on the first link.
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And oh no, accidentally downloaded a file.
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and opened it with the appropriate ebook viewer?
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Well now that you have the book,
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you'll also find that not only can you pick out interesting tidbits to use in conversations,
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but you can also learn many useful skills.
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There are 10 things you should know before you learn a skill.
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1. Unless you practice the skill,
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your brain will think it's useless and forget it.
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2. You only have to know 20% of the knowledge to master 80% of the skill.
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So I guess we could just move on.
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This is called the learning curve.
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It's a graph of how good you get at a skill over time.
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As you can see, just by practicing a little bit,
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you can make a lot of progress in the beginning.
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But you have to practice.
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No one ever learned how to tie a tie by watching how to tie a tie.
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You only learned how to tie a tie by watching how to tie a tie while tying a tie.
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The same applies to reading.
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Books only make you smart if you give your brain a reason to remember the stuff in the book.
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So once you read the chapter on cleaning a bedroom,
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go ahead and clean a bedroom.
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Doesn't even have to be your bedroom.
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Just clean one.
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and now you'll never forget it.
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But let's just imagine that's something that you can't practice right now.
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Like imagine you're reading a book about cars
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and then you see this diagram of how to jumpstart a dead car with a good car.
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Ideally, you'll read about it and then go practice it.
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But not everyone has two cars lying around to practice on.
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But you can still practice it by just imagining.
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Imagine the moment where you'll need to know how to jumpstart a car.
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Put yourself in the situation.
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Find a video and pretend that's your car.
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By imagining the whole process from start to finish,
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you just convinced your brain that you used all that information and now you'll remember it.
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Meanwhile, the person who just looked at the diagram
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and tried to memorize it still won't know what to do if they ever had to jumpstart a car.
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This is how you get smart.
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Use everything you learn and if you can't,
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imagine yourself in the moment where it'll be useful.
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This is basically how the entire school system works.
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You learn a piece of information,
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and because it'll be like 15 years before you actually use it,
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your teacher creates an imaginary situation where that information is useful.
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That is, a test.
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An exam that has questions on that exact piece of information,
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and if you get it wrong, you fail.
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Or in South Korea, you get prison time.
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Just kidding, that's only if you cheat.
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This is usually enough to make your brain at least attempt to remember the information.
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The only problem is, once the test is over,
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your brain says it's not useful anymore, and you forget it.
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Some people think repetition, or spaced repetition,
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or studying in intervals, or mind mapping will help them get better grades and learn faster.
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But in reality, doing practice questions will give you the most results,
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because they simulate the actual situation in which you'll need to use what you learned.
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If you don't have any practice questions,
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make your own, and convince yourself that the stakes are high.
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Like, pretend that you're hanging off a cliff by one arm,
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and someone's there to pull you up,
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but only if you can name all the parts of a human cell.
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Learning information and making it seem useful to your brain is all you need to get smart,
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and this is why textbooks are the S-tier format for becoming smart as fast as possible.
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There's no fluff, no hand-holding,
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no distractions, just pure information and a bunch of practice questions,
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and if you can't solve them,
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you have to flip all the way to page XXXVVIII in the appendix to get help.
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Textbooks aren't for the casual learner,
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because it's not as fun as watching a YouTube video on the topic and forgetting it all an hour later.
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But if you're ever up to the challenge,
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there is a website you might accidentally end up on where you could accidentally download free textbooks on any subject you want.
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But before you do that,
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- 「want to ～」 - 目標や希望を表現する際に使います。この文法は、自己表現の基本です。
- 「so you can ～」 - 理由を示す際に役立ちます。目的を明確にすることで、話の流れがスムーズになります。
- 「even if ～」 - 反対の状況を考慮する際に便利なフレーズです。「もし～であっても」という意味で、柔軟な思考を促します。
- 「not just ～ but also ～」 - 複数のポイントを強調するために使用します。情報を整理し、聴衆に伝える力を高めます。
よくある発音の罠
動画内にはいくつか巧妙な発音の罠があります。英語のスピーキングを練習する際に注意が必要です：
- 「actually」 - 日本語の「アクチュアリー」とは異なり、発音が難しい言葉です。「アクシャリー」と発音するのが一般的です。
- 「genetics」 - この単語は「遺伝学」を意味しますが、破裂音に注意が必要です。特に「ジェネティクス」というように、母音の音をはっきりさせましょう。
- 「respect」 - この言葉の一部の学習者は「リスペクト」と強調することが多いですが、自然な発音は「リスペクト」であり、強く発音しすぎないようにしましょう。
これらの表現や発音を理解し、能動的に練習することが、shadow speechやshadowspeakの技術を向上させるカギとなります。YouTubeで英語学習を通じて、効果的なスピーキングスキルを養いましょう。
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