シャドーイング練習: Benedict Cumberbatch reads a beautiful love letter - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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My darling George, you said that things seemed clearer when they were written down.
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Well, herewith a very boring letter, in which I will try and put down everything,
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so that you may read and reread it in horror at your folly in getting involved with me.
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deep breath.
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To begin with, I love you with the depth and passion that I have felt for no one else in this life.
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And if it astonishes you, it astonishes me as well.
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Not, I hasten to say, because you are not worth loving, far from it.
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It's just that first of all, I swore I would not get involved with another woman.
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Secondly, I have never had such a feeling before, and it's almost frightening.
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Thirdly, I would never have thought it possible
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that another human being could occupy my waking and sleeping thoughts to the exclusion of almost everything else.
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Fourthly, I never thought that even if one was in love,
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one could get so completely besotted with another person so that a minute away from them felt like a thousand years.
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Fifthly, I never hoped aspired, dreamed that one could find everything one wanted in one person.
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I was not such an idiot as to believe this was possible.
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Yet in you, I have found everything I want.
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You are beautiful, giving, gentle, idiotically and deliciously feminine, sexy,
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wonderfully intelligent and wonderfully silly as well.
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I want nothing else in this life than to be with you, to listen and watch you, your beautiful voice, your beauty,
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to argue with you, to laugh with you, to show you things and share things with you, to explore your magnificent mind,
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to explore your wonderful body, and to help you, protect you, serve you, and bash you on the head when I think you're wrong.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, I consider that I am the only man outside mythology to have found the crock of gold at the rainbow's end.
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Now let me tell you something.
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I have seen a thousand sunsets and sunrises, on land where it floods forests and mountains with honey-colored light,
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at sea where it rises
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and sets like a blood orange in a multicolored nest of cloud slipping in and out of the vast ocean.
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I have seen a thousand moons, harvest moons like gold coins, Winter moons as white as ice chips,
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new moons like baby swan's feathers.
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I have seen seas as smooth as if painted, colored like shot silk, or blue as a kingfisher,
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or transparent as glass, all black and crumpled with foam, moving ponderously and murderously.
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I have felt winds straight from the South Pole, bleak and wailing like a lost child.
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Winds as tender and warm as a lover's breath.
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Winds that carried the astringent smell of salts and the death of seaweeds.
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Winds that carried the moist, rich smell of a forest floor, the smell of a million flowers.
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Fierce winds that churned and moved the sea like yeast, or winds that made the waters lap at the shore's edge like a kitten.
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I've known silence, The cold, earthy silence at the bottom of a newly dug well.
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The implacable stony silence of a deep cave.
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The hot, drugged midday silence when everything is hypnotized and stilled into silence by the eye of the sun.
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The silence when great music ends.
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I have heard summer cicadas cry so that the sound seems stitched into your bones.
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I have heard tree frogs in an orchestration as complicated as Bach singing in a forest lit by a million emerald fireflies.
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I've heard the keys calling over great glaciers that groaned to themselves
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like old people as they inched their way to the sea.
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I've heard the hoarse street vendor cries of the mating fur seals as they sang to their sleek golden wives.
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The crisp staccato astonishment of the rattlesnake.
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the cobweb squeak of the bat and the belling roar of red deer knee-deep in purple heather.
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I've heard wolves baying at a winter's moon, red howler monkeys making the forest vibrate with their roaring cries.
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I have heard the squeak, purr and grunt of a hundred multicolored reef fish.
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I've seen hummingbirds flashing like opals round a tree of scarlet blooms, humming like a top.
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I've seen flying fish skittering like quicksilver across the blue waves, drawing silver lines on the surface with their tails.
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I've seen spoonbills flying home to roost like a scarlet banner across the sky.
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I've seen whales, black as tar, cushioned on a cornflower blue sea,
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creating a Versailles of fountain with their breath.
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I've watched butterflies emerge and sit trembling while the sun irons their wings smooth.
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I've watched tigers, like flames, mating in the long grass.
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I've been dive-bombed by an angry raven, black and glossy as the devil's hoof.
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I've lain in water warm as milk, soft as silk, while around me played a host of dolphins.
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I have met a thousand animals and seen a thousand wonderful things,
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but all this I did without you.
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This was my loss.
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All this I want to do with you.
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This will be my gain.
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All this I would gladly have forgone for the sake of one minute of your company, for your laugh, your voice,
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your eyes, hair, lips, body and above all for your sweet ever surprising mind,
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which is an enriching quarry in which it is my privilege to to delve.
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Yours ever, Gerry.
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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
この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が67文、単語が923語あります。 音声の長さは6:58です。 話す速さは1分あたり約132語で安定しており、シャドーイングしやすいペースです。 英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は70%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 |
|---|---|---|
| silence 名詞 | /ˈsaɪ̯ləns/ | 静けさ, 静寂 |
| breathe 動詞 | /bɹiːð/ | 呼吸する, 息をする |
| smooth 形容詞 | /smuːð/ | スムース |
| explore 動詞 | /ɪkˈsploɹ/ | 探検する |
| silk 名詞 | /sɪlk/ | 絹, 絹糸 |
| roar 動詞 | /ˈɹoɹ/ | 怒鳴る |
| scarlet 名詞 | /ˈskɑɹlɪt/ | 緋色 |
| vast 形容詞 | /væst/ | 広大な, 莫大な |
| bone 名詞 | /boʊn/ | 骨 |
| complicated 形容詞 | /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/ | 複雑な |
| argue 動詞 | /ˈɑɹ.ɡju/ | 議論する, 論ずる |
| cloud 名詞 | /ˈklaʊ̯d/ | 雲, 雲霞 |
| passion 名詞 | /ˈpæʃən/ | 激情 |
| horror 名詞 | /ˈhɒɹ.ə/ | 恐怖, 恐れ |
| flower 名詞 | /ˈfloʊɚ/ | 花 |
動画に出てくる句動詞
| 単語 | 意味 |
|---|---|
| write down 動詞 | 書き留める, 記す |
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 |
|---|---|
| 現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している | have felt · have never had · have thought |
| 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 | were written · is hypnotized |
注意したい発音
話し手はI've, you'reなど、短縮形や弱形を13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。
- 「th」の音: breathe /bɹiːð/, smooth /smuːð/, heather /ˈhɛðɚ/, feather /ˈfɛðə/, mythology /mɪˈθɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
- 「sh」と「zh」の音: flash /flæʃ/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, bash /bæʃ/, exclusion /ɪksˈkluːʒən/, cushion /ˈkʊʃən/
- 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/, magnificent /mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/, mythology /mɪˈθɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, multicolored /ˈmʌltɪˌkʌlɚd/
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。
- 通常の速度で一文ずつシャドーイングし、話し手のリズムに合うまで繰り返します。
- 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。silence, breathe, smooth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。