シャドーイング練習: Business Partner B2 Unit 1.1.1 - YouTubeで英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Different businesses have different styles.
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Different businesses have different styles.
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We talk about the culture of a company,
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and this might mean its dress code or the way in which its staff communicate with their managers.
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Gravity Payments is a credit card processing company based in Seattle.
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It organizes the authorizations of fund transfers for credit card transactions.
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Its clients are retailers who accept card payments for purchases,
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and it aims to cut the cost of processing card payments.
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Gravity Payments, this is Corinne.
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Gravity Payments has grown quickly,
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from a small startup to a profitable mid-size operation.
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Company culture changed for the hundred employees of Gravity Payments when their boss,
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Dan Price, announced the company's minimum salary would go up to $70,000 a year.
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Effective immediately, we're going to put a scaled policy into place
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and we're going to have a minimum $70,000 pay rate for everyone that works here.
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And he cut his own salary from $1 million a year to $70,000.
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Curious if anyone has any questions.
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Let me see if I can find that for you.
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Corrine Ward in customer support used to have a long commute.
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Now she can afford to live close enough to walk to work.
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I'm able to afford, you know,
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the cost of living in Seattle, which is incredible.
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Gravity Payments, this is Alyssa.
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Alyssa O'Neill used to make $21,000 a year before coming to Gravity Payments.
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Now she makes almost $60,000 a year as a customer support representative.
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She's paid off her car loan,
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credit card debt, and moved into a better home.
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It's something I never could have imagined.
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Following the announcement, Dan Price was praised as America's best boss,
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and the company received a flood of job applications and new client inquiries.
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But there were negative effects as well.
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Gravity lost a few of its most senior staff.
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They felt their skills and experience were not recognized in the new more equal pay structure.
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Over time, however, Gravity reported a 75% increase in revenue and 67% increase in new clients.
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Harvard Business School researched the changes at Gravity Payments.
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Some of their success might be attributed to increased productivity on the part of the workers now who,
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you know, feel respected and understand that they're going to have a hard time finding another job that pays so well.
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But it also has generated a lot of publicity and that has been good in terms of pulling in business.
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Tom Osborne is a client of Gravity Payments.
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To me, if they're running their business in a way that their staff feel better about being part of the company,
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work harder with their customers,
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to me as a vendor, that's a good thing.
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And another good thing seems to be happening at Gravity's headquarters.
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The staff are up to something.
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We had tried to think of a way that we could thank Dan for what he's done for us.
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Customer support representative Alyssa O'Neill got the ball rolling.
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We have one more gift for you.
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All right.
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It's outside, though.
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Alyssa convinced the other employees to contribute hundreds of dollars each.
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They bought Dan a Tesla car worth $90,000.
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Are you kidding me?
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No. It happened.
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It was like it was meant to be.
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Oh my gosh!
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I'm really surprised by his reaction.
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Thank you.
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In the short term, Dan Price's strategy seems to have been a success,
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particularly in creating a new culture at Gravity Payments.
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And only time will tell if it's going to be a long-term success or whether other companies will take the same approach.
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文法と表現の文脈での分析
- 過去形の使用: 動画内では、過去の経験を述べる際に時制が適切に使われています。例えば、「Alyssa O'Neill used to make $21,000 a year」という表現は、過去の状態を明確に示しています。
- 条件文: 「If they're running their business in a way that their staff feel better about being part of the company」というフレーズは、条件を述べるスタイルがビジネスの考察において重要な役割を果たしています。
- 直接話法: 「Let me see if I can find that for you.」のような口語的な表現は、カジュアルな会話の一部として強調され、実際のコミュニケーションにおける重要な要素です。
これらの文法構造をshadow speakやshadowspeaksの練習に活かすことで、更に自然なスピーキングが可能になります。
一般的な発音の罠
動画中には、特に難しい発音やアクセントが含まれています。たとえば、「Gravity Payments」というファーム名では、"Gravity"の「グラビティ」の発音や、"Payments"の音の連結が難しい場合があります。また、"Seattle" のような地名も、特に日本語話者にとっては発音しにくい言葉です。
これらの単語を練習する際に、IELTS スピーキング対策としての訓練を取り入れることをお勧めします。発音を繰り返し練習することで、スムーズな会話を実現できるでしょう。
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。