シャドーイング練習: Benedict Cumberbatch reads Kurt Vonnegut's letter to the future - YouTubeで英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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It's been suggested that you might welcome words of wisdom from the past
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and that several of us in the 20th century should send you, son.
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Do you know this advice from Polonius in Shakespeare's Hamlet, this above all to thine own self be true?
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Or what about these instructions from St. John the Divine?
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Fear God and give glory to him for the hour of his judgment has come.
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The best advice from my own era for you or just about anybody, anytime I guess, is a prayer first used by alcoholics who hope to never take a drink again.
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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Our century hasn't been as free with words of wisdom as some others.
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I think because we were the first to get reliable information about the human situation.
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How many of us there were.
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How much food there was.
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Whether we could raise or gather.
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How fast we were reproducing.
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What made us sick.
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What made us die.
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how much damage we were doing to the air and water and topsoil on which most life forms depended.
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How violent and heartless nature can be and on and on.
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Who could wax wise with so much bad news pouring in?
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For me, the most paralyzing news was that nature was no conservationist.
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It needed no help from us in taking the planet apart and putting it back together some different way, not necessarily improving it from the viewpoint of living things.
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It set fire to forests with lightning bolts.
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It paved vast tracts of arable land with lava, which could no more support life than big city parking lots.
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It had in the past sent glaciers down from the North Pole to grind up major portions of Asia, Europe, and North America.
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Nor was there any reason to think that it would not do that again someday.
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At this very moment, it is turning African farms to deserts
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and can be expected to heave up tidal waves or shower down white-hot boulders from outer space at any time.
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It has not only exterminated exquisitely evolved species in a twinkling, but drained oceans and drowned continents as well.
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If people think nature is their friend, then they have no need of an enemy.
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Yes, and as you people a hundred years from now must know full well, and as your grandchildren will know even better, nature is ruthless
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when it comes to matching the quantity of life in any
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given place at any given time to the quantity of nourishment available.
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So what have you and nature done about overpopulation?
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Back here in 1988, we were seeing ourselves as a new sort of glacier,
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warm-blooded and clever, unstoppable, about to gobble up everything and then make love and then double in size again.
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Second thought, I'm not sure I could bear to hear what you
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and nature may have done about too many people for too small a food supply.
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And here is a crazy idea I'd like to try on you.
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Is it possible that we aimed rockets with hydrogen-bombed warheads at each other, all set to go, in order to take our minds off the deeper problem?
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How cruelly nature can be expected to treat us, nature being nature, and the by and by?
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Now that we can discuss the mess we are in with some precision, I hope you have stopped choosing abysmally ignorant optimists for positions of leadership.
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They were useful only so long as nobody had a clue as to what was really going on
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during the past 7 million years or so.
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In my time, they have been catastrophic.
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They have been as heads of sophisticated institutions with real work to do.
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The sort of leader we need now
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are not those who promise ultimate victory over nature through perseverance and living as we do right now,
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but those with the courage and intelligence to present to the world what appears to be nature's stern but reasonable surrender terms.
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One, reduce and stabilize your population.
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Two, stop poisoning the air, the water, and the topsoil.
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Three, stop preparing for war and start dealing with your real problems.
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4. Teach your kids and yourselves, while you're at it, how to inhabit a small planet without helping to kill it.
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5. Stop thinking that science can fix anything if you give it a trillion dollars.
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Stop thinking.
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Your grandchildren will be okay, no matter how wasteful or destructive you may be,
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since they can go to a nice new planet on a spaceship.
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That is really mean and stupid.
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And so on, or else.
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Am I too pessimistic about life a hundred years from now?
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Maybe I've spent too much time with scientists and not enough time with speech writers for politicians.
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For all I know, even bag ladies and bag gentlemen will have their own personal helicopters or rocket belts in AD 2088.
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Nobody will have to leave home to go to work or school, or even stop watching television.
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Everybody will sit around all day, punching the keys of computer terminals connected to everything there is,
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and sip orange drink through straws like astronauts.
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Cheers, Kurt Vonnegut.
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この動画は誰におすすめ?
英語学習者で、YouTubeで英語学習をしながらスピーキング力やリスニング力を磨きたい人、特にIELTS スピーキング対策をしている方に最適です。ベネディクト・カンバーバッチの落ち着いた発音と、クート・フォンネガットの深い思考が詰まった台詞は、シャドーイング(shadowspeak / shadow speak)の練習にぴったりです。中級以上のレベルで、複雑な文章構造や抽象的な内容を理解しながら発音を磨きたい方におすすめします。
覚えておきたいフレーズとイディオム
- wax wise:知的なことを話す。「wax」は「徐々になる」の意味で、「wise」と組み合わせて「知恵を語る」というニュアンス。
- in a twinkling:一瞬にして。「twinkle」(きらめき)から来て、非常に速いことを表します。
- gobble up:むさぼり食う。ここでは「すべてを奪い尽くす」という意味で使われています。
- abysmally ignorant:途方もなく無知な。「abysmal」(底なしの)と「ignorant」(無知な)が組み合わさり、非常に強い否定的な表現です。
発音のコツ:ベネディクト・カンバーバッチの腔調を真似る
彼の発音はリズミカルで、長い文章も途切れることなく流れるように話されます。英語シャドーイングをする際は、以下のポイントに注意してください。
- イントネーション:疑問文ではないのに上がる部分があり、感情を表現しています。例えば「If people think nature is their friend, then they have no need of an enemy.」の「friend」の後ろで軽く上がり、「enemy」で下がります。
- ポーズ:コンマやピリオドの前に短いポーズを入れ、意味の区切りをはっきりさせます。特に長い名詞句の後ろは、息継ぎとともにポーズを入れると自然に聞こえます。
- 子音の発音:「t」や「d」の音を強く発音せず、柔らかく処理することで、イギリス英語の風合いを出します。例えば「nature」の「t」はほとんど聞こえないほど柔らかくなります。
これらのポイントを押さえてシャドーイングを繰り返すと、発音だけでなくリズム感も向上し、IELTSのスピーキング試験でも高得点を狙えるようになります。
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。
