シャドーイング練習: Birthday Girl | Max Amini | Stand-up Comedy - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Okay, I'll try.
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Go.
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Su-en.
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Su-en.
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C-O.
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Yeah?
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Su-en.
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Not bad, yeah?
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No, not bad.
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Not bad.
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Did you move to US to go to school or you're a spy?
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You're the cutest, most beautiful spy I've ever seen.
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Student?
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No, I'm working in an international organization.
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International organization?
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Wow.
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Sounds like a Chinese job.
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Nobody can organize everything international.
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Did you just make that up?
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So what is that?
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Like what do you internationally organize?
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I have co-workers from different countries.
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You have co-workers from different countries.
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You sound like a spy, I swear to God.
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We all walk together to destroy America.
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Who's the girl next to you?
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Is she your friend?
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Oh, you got a black friend?
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This is really international right now.
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Friend, what's your name?
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Lisa.
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Oh, thank God, Lisa.
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Tell something to change your name to Susan.
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So you guys are friends, and you're friends through the international organizing?
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No?
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You just made friends where?
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Living in a same building.
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You live in the same building?
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Okay, Lisa.
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Have you done a background check on her?
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So Lisa is your American friend, right?
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Yeah?
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African.
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Oh, you're African.
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You're not even American.
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What country in Africa?
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Namibia.
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Libya?
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Namibia.
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Namibia.
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I know exactly, Nabibia right next to Uzbekistan by Ukraine.
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Nabibia.
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And have you guys learned from each other's culture?
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Very similar.
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Very similar.
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Oh, African and Chinese.
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Very similar.
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Can I see you twerk?
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I just want to see the similarity.
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Lisa, do you have any fortune cookie in your pocket? From Africa!
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Bella, thank you for coming by yourself.
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That makes me very happy.
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That's so nice.
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What do you do?
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Are you a dancer?
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That bag is not for...
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Really?
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Radiology?
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In the radiology center?
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You strip?
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That's so fun!
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Can I come there and take a picture?
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I would love for you to do my x-ray.
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You'll find something amazing. And are you single?
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I'm actually a recent widow.
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You're actually, you're a recent widow.
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Aww.
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Give her a big round of applause for coming out and laugh.
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Yes!
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Wow!
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Oh, my love.
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You're so sweet.
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I feel really guilty about the stripper joke I made about you.
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I take it back.
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Oh, Bella.
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You're very sweet.
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I love you.
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I really love you and I wish you such an amazing rest of your life.
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Yeah?
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Because you never know what's gonna happen.
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And I want you to live every moment to the fullest.
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You made my night.
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And the fact that somebody is going through such a hard time and they come to watch comedy.
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It's very special.
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You're so young.
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You're so beautiful.
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You should go out there and meet people and find love
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and live life every day knowing that it's not a long journey.
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We're all going to go to the same place as your husband
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and where my dad is and everybody else who's lost a loved one.
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They know life is fast.
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So let's live it today because that's going to make them happy.
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Yeah?
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Any other widows in the audience?
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I have a huge widow following.
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What is the word for a man who loses his wife?
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If a woman is a widow, what is a man?
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A widower?
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A man who loses his wife is a widower?
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I didn't know that.
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You know why?
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Because men never complain when their wife dies.
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Is it somebody's birthday?
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Ah, it's your birthday.
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So what did you think is gonna happen?
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You put the crown and we're all gonna be like, Oh my God!
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Your birthday girl is here!
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Okay, fine.
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Give her a big round of applause for her birthday.
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Is it the four of you came out together?
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Your four friends besties?
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So let's figure this out.
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Yeah, let's give the birthday girl some love.
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Sweetheart, what's your name?
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Nicole.
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And where are you guys from?
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California.
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What the fuck are you doing in there?
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What nice friends.
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You guys are such beautiful friends.
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You like her so much that you're like, we put this ridiculous crowd
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on our head in front of 1,500 people
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and we sit there like okay let him pick on us and make us feel stupid as we are.
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Nicole what do you do?
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You do beauty stuff?
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Botox and fitness?
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You do that or you receive that?
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Both?
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You put some on?
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So right now you're having a good time because I can't tell.
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Okay, good.
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I need you.
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I need you to hold. Do that.
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How wonderful.
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It's your birthday.
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You know, you're such a darling.
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For your birthday, I'll do something very special.
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I'll pretend I'm a candle.
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Everybody got the joke where Cal State Floor is in.
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She's Googling it.
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What's going on?
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Is it Halloween?
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Why is it going to be a candle?
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Your white girl got it real too fast.
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Callie got it so fast that, guys, this is amazing.
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You came with a card in your head.
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Are you the daughter of the lady that gave me the card last time?
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Oh, you're sweet.
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Where's your mom?
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She's in Iran.
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She's in Iran right now.
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She got captured?
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Can you help out the situation?
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Oh, your mother is so sweet.
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Her mom came to my show last year.
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She gave me a card, and I read the card, and I opened the card.
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I didn't read the card, because when I opened the card, I realized she put her number, and she gave me her address.
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Now my stepdaughter showed up tonight.
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Good to see you, my love.
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Now there's another letter.
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And this is from your mom, too?
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This is from both of you?
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Thank you, from international organization.
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Thank you.
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Oh my god, the book!
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Jerry Maxwell.
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Oh my god.
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Tell your mom I love her so much I've licked her letter, okay?
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Mommy!
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They're such a beautiful family, yeah?
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Make sure you come every year and bring your card.
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Okay, I'll put it here and she's my whole world.
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Oh, I'm gonna cry.
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I'm a very emotional person.
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People don't believe me.
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But I'm gonna take this home, I swear to God, I'll take it before I go to bed, I'm gonna read it, okay?
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She has a message for me?
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In this, in this, or is it separate?
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Oh, so you give me the card and there's a message verbally.
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What is the message?
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She doesn't like you.
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She told me that she doesn't like me.
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She loves.
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That she loves me.
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I was just going to read the card.
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Now I'm going to have to read it and masturbate.
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Tell mom I said that, would you?
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Tell her that.
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Sincerely.
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Nicole, I take the candle off the table.
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I'm sorry.
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I only got one shot in this situation.
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I have to give it to mom here.

このビデオでスピーキングを練習する理由は？

このビデオは、英語を話す能力を向上させるための絶好の機会を提供します。スタンドアップコメディの形式は、よりカジュアルな会話を模倣しており、実生活の状況で使われる表現や言い回しが豊富です。スピーキングの練習をすることで、リスニング力も自然と向上します。また、YouTubeで英語学習を行う際にこのようなコンテンツを使用することで、楽しみながら英語スキルを磨くことができます。コメディの流れに合わせて英語のフレーズを繰り返すことで、英語の発音を良くする効果も期待できます。

文法と表現の文脈

ビデオ内で使用されているいくつかの重要な文法構造や表現を分析しましょう：

  • Did you move to the US to go to school or you're a spy? - 質問形式を使って、相手に直接聞く方法を示しています。
  • This is really international right now. - 現在進行形を用いて、状況のリアルタイムでの説明をしています。
  • Sounds like a Chinese job. - 比喩表現により、話の流れを面白くする工夫がされています。
  • You have co-workers from different countries. - 所有格と前置詞を用いた文構造は、グローバルな関係を強調しています。

これらの表現をshadow speechとして練習することで、より自然な流れで英語を話す技術を向上させることができます。

よくある発音のトラップ

このビデオでは、発音において注意が必要なトリッキーな単語やアクセントがあります。特に、「Namibia」や「Libya」といった国名は、英語話者でも間違いやすいポイントです。イントネーションやアクセントを正しく捉えるためにも、英語シャドーイングを活用するのが良いでしょう。繰り返し聞いて模倣することで、発音が改善され、リズム感も養われます。英語を学ぶ上で、発音の正確さがスピーキングの質を大きく左右するため、ぜひこの方法を取り入れてみてください。

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。