シャドーイング練習: Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman Interview - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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This is going to shock people, isn't it, who think that they know they're Sherlock Holmes.
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You are very, very different.
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Thank you.
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you don't smoke for a star I don't smoke no but I think you know he is an obsessive he is
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exceptionally brilliant and charming
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and I think there's a vast amount for fans of the
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original kind of novel to enjoy the references from the two brilliant writers, Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat who originated the idea of modernizing him,
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have littered all three in fact episodes with detail which is directly transposed from the book.
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So, and the basic premise to set up the relationship, the house, some of the other characters,
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Mrs. Watson, Mrs. Watson, Mrs. Hudson, Mrs. Hudson. Who else? Who else? Who else?
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The Strahd.
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Yeah.
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So lots of them.
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We're going to have to see a very short clip of it so people get some idea of what we're talking about.
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It's a skull.
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Friend of mine.
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When I say friend.
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What do you think then, Dr. Watson?
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There's another bedroom upstairs if you've been needing two bedrooms.
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Of course we'll be needing to.
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oh don't worry there's all sorts around here mrs turner next door's got larry quips.
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Bye.
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Thank you.
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Sherlock, the mess you've made.
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Well as you can see it's quite funny and there is this running gag about two men sharing a house together.
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Yeah.
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Of course would not have occurred to Edwardians.
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Um, but has to be dealt with that.
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I suppose, yeah, I mean to be honest it never occurred to me until we were sort of in the making of it
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and people were referring to the fact that there's this, you know, people have written books about whether Holmes and Watson are gay and what their relationship is.
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So we sort of allude to that.
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Uh, And it's quite dark, I mean, it's got some good dark aspects to it.
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You are clearly, you've come back from the Afghanistan, as the original Watson had come back from the second Afghan war.
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Yes.
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But you've got post -traumatic stress syndrome, which certainly they didn't have in the 1880s.
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They'd know that wasn't invented then.
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And in the same way that the original books were all done, you know, were all written, so to speak, by Watson, it was all his diary entries and his version of the events of the cases. So,
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now my Watson has been advised by his therapist to write a blog in order to get his post -traumatic Yeah, yeah.
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-Stress us all out.
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So, um, so I write up the cases and
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so that's the way that we sort of are able to refer to them in the future.
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And when you're, um, doing your Sherlock Holmes, Benedict, I mean, presumably you'd read a fair amount of Arthur Conan Doyle to prepare for it.
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Yes, I did.
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And I did read some during as well and I think
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that was the safer thing to do rather than looking back to the brilliant Brett or Rathbone, um, or more recent Downey Jr. versions because,
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because what we are doing is obviously bringing it into the 21st century and whilst those are superlative
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portrayals of him and his Victorian guys, I needed to find something original as well as
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the source material
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and there's an awful lot of description about his his physical movement his his poise it
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and and and this rather sort of abstracted ethereal
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otherworldly quality to him which Cullen Doyle colours beautifully in the book
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so it's a great template for an actor to use to go back to every now and again.
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They're great stories to read.
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They are great stories but he's a slightly scary man as well isn't he?
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You say he's charming but there's something about him which is...
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puts your feeling on the sociopathic.
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He's slightly...
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There is something very dangerous in his obsession and he takes both Watson
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and him into a very dangerous realm of London where everything opens up into a war zone.
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It is a battle and that is part of the attraction they have to each other.
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I offer Watson a way back into life which is a little bit more interesting than his...
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Yeah.
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No military.
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I was very interested in your role in this morning
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because a lot of people still think of you really through the office, which is your great breakthrough.
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uh.. uh.. role
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and this is a very very this is this is a much graver darker kind of role i just wanted yeah
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which must be attractive yeah it is i mean i think you know every actor that we speak to or hear of, wants to play sort of dark occasionally or play villains or whatever,
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and even though Watson's obviously not a villain, he's, yeah, he's got a serious side to him.
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And I'm, you know, I mean, to be honest, I've been playing that sort of thing on and off anyway.
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It's just that this has kind of got thank God it's got a spotlight being shown on it.
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I gather it was it was an absolute nightmare to make however.
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It was a nightmare, it was cold.
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It was a lot of fun to make, but hard work and very cold.
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You got pneumonia didn't you?
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Yeah I did, I did.
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That proves, you know, it's a secondary infection, so it proves I was having too much time with the flu to really take care.
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And it just sort of snowballed from there, but it didn't stop us and we genuinely did have a very, very good time making it.
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There's a lot of Welsh crew and it was great fun to make it.
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There's a lot of buzz in the papers already about this.
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I get the sense it's going to be a great success, but which It's three relatively long episodes.
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Do you think there's going to be more?
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I hope so.
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I hope so.
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I really hope so.
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As you said, there are so many stories.
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This is the question of Jane Hunt and Ben Stevenson and the other grown -ups upstairs, but I really do hope so, and I hope audiences take to it this evening, and we'll see from there, really.

このビデオでスピーキングを練習する理由

このインタビューのビデオは、Benedict CumberbatchとMartin Freemanという二人の才能ある俳優が、人気のあるキャラクターであるシャーロック・ホームズとジョン・ワトソンについて語っています。このスピーキングコンテキストは、現代英語と古典文学の融合を示しており、彼らの対話は非常にリズミカルで魅力的です。英語スピーキング練習として、このビデオを利用することで、リアルな会話の流れや表現方法を学ぶことができます。また、シャドーイングを通じて、発音やイントネーションを改善する重要な機会を提供します。

文法と表現のコンテキスト

このビデオには、言語学習者にとって非常に有用な文法構造や表現が含まれています。以下はそのいくつかです:

  • 「When I say friend」: このフレーズは、会話における曖昧さやユーモアを伝えるのに役立ちます。
  • 「What do you think then, Dr. Watson?」: この表現は、相手の意見を求める形式的な問いかけであり、会話の流れを自然に進めることができます。
  • 「It's quite funny」: 笑いや軽妙な表現を用いることで、会話にリズムを生み出し、聞き手に親しみを感じさせます。

これらの文法構造を意識して使うことで、英語での表現力を高めることができるでしょう。

一般的な発音の罠

このビデオでは、いくつかの発音が特に難しい箇所があります。以下に挙げる言葉やフレーズに注意が必要です:

  • 「Sherlock」: この名前は、速い会話の中で十分に発音されないことがあります。正確に発音することで、キャラクターへの理解が深まります。
  • 「Watson」: 速いペースで名前を言うときに、母音が抜けがちなので、注意して練習しましょう。
  • 「post-traumatic stress syndrome」: このフレーズは長くて複雑なので、スローシャドーイングをすることでスムーズな発音を習得できます。

これらの難しい発音をマスターすることは、英語の発音を良くする上で非常に重要です。何度も繰り返し練習することで、発音の自信を高めましょう。また、英語スピーキング練習を通じて、ナチュラルな会話に引き込まれることができます。

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
現在完了進行形 have/has been + -ing — 以前に始まり今も続いている動作you've been needing · I've been playing
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 littered · you've made · have written
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be dealt · wasn't invented · has been advised
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加えるdetail which is · him which is · life which is

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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