シャドーイング練習: Central Cee answers fan questions on Love, Social Media & Being a Gemini | Dazed Autumn 24 - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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I hate this stuff, you know.
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How are you feeling right now?
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Mmm...
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Mmm...
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I'm feeling alright.
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One of your fans, Alice Wood, asks, What is your family like?
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I'm grateful for my family.
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Just like every other family, there's drama and whatnot, but I can imagine family members, like...
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fooling out a lot more over, like...
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superficial stuff, like, when it comes to...
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somebody in the family getting rich and famous, and it, but.. they've never really.. they don't ask me for nothing.
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What does your family think of your career?
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Everyone's like, known that I've tried to do this and like, flop, like for many years.
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So like, now when the tables turn, everyone's got an extra bit of pride.
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Do they get worried about your level of fame?
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At first, my nama was like, make sure you're good and that, you know, make sure you're good.
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She knows now, like, I don't know.
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I don't think music would ever be my mental downfall.
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What would be your mental downfall?
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What would it be?
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Maybe, yeah.
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I can't, I don't know.
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No, God forbid anything then.
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No, I can't have a mental downfall, but it wouldn't be music though.
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What's your favourite childhood memory?
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I don't know what you think about my childhood.
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That's, that's, sorry, that question kind of free off course.
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I never, I don't ever think of my childhood like that.
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I was just chilling, isn't it?
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I think growing up, like, when I was younger, I used to be mad.
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I used to be careless to the point where it probably didn't help.
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I didn't even think about the fact that I might have not been accepted.
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It's only until I got a bit older, I said, hold on, I was moving a bit mad.
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Salma Dumaio asks, what inspired you to make music?
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Not having much, like, I just, I remember how, like, it's like, I come from deprivation.
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My music is like, I know there's times, and I don't know, some people might overlook me and think that I don't make music too tough.
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That's like really sentimental or have much substance, but there is though and
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when i when i first ever tried to rap i was
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so young but obviously i never knew anything about business
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or how to like record a song or anything it was just straight for like
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venting and feeling sorry for myself what do you enjoy doing outside of music Anyone that meets me,
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it's a popular-ass question.
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I never know what to say, because I don't play games.
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I don't watch TV.
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I don't drink.
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I don't smoke.
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I don't go out.
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I don't actually know what I do.
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I'm just on my phone.
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My screen time is too high.
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I'm just scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.
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That's it.
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It's six hours 50 on Instagram, six hours 46 on WhatsApp.
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But if I'm on WhatsApp, I'm definitely not on there chatting shit.
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And then five hours on TikTok.
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Izaya Owens asks, what do you think the effect of social media has been on your growth as a rapper?
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Everything.
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For me, everything.
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I've exploited social media to the most heights that anyone could do, I believe, innit?
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Yeah, just using all of these platforms in the right way, in different ways.
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Like, my character on TikTok is a little bit different to the character I may show on Instagram, and it's different to what I show on Spotify.
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The social media, like, the whole internet, to me, is a bit of a jolting.
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It's not...
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It's not serious to me, so...
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I just, I think it's funny, innit?
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They can take social media away.
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Tomorrow, God forbid, I find a way again.
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I find a way.
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How do you cope with difficult emotions?
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I just block out.
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I don't know.
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I'm a bit emotionless.
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Maybe this bit might have to...
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I'm just going to say it and then after you can cut it out if you have to.
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In my role, for example, if I didn't want to do this
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and I thought I was going to come and make a bad impression and be rude and deal with some difficult emotions, I just wouldn't come.
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I like to think I'm kind of a disciplined person.
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I'll go six months.
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I don't even think about music.
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I just listen to, like, my own pop music in my headphones or whatever I'm listening to, no rap music.
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I don't know, I see a lot of people that go studio every day, trying to do things, and me, I can go months without going studio.
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I don't want to go studio.
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I just need to be outside, try to live a life.
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Touch cross, innit?
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Russia asks, if you could choose a favourite book that really inspires you, what would it be?
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I don't know, I only really ever read, like, I never read Diary of the Wimpy Kid.
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I never read no intellectual books like that.
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I think I listen a lot, innit?
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Even if I just have a small conversation with somebody, I can take a word away subconsciously.
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Because I speak to quite a lot of people and that.
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I'm just learning things from them all the time.
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Just my vocabulary just broadens.
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I analysed your astrological chart.
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You have a lot of Gemini placements.
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They're in your sun, Mercury, Mars and Midheaven.
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You believe this though?
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I don't have personal beliefs.
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But do you believe in it?
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The attributes to Gemini does actually relate to me,
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but I just feel like maybe they're smart and the way they write it just makes it relate to anyone but.
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Sina Khan asks, do you believe in manifestations?
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I've manifested some serious women.
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I don't know, no, like, on a professional level, I don't like,
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I don't like the word or like the idea that people have when they think of like manifesting, they don't really back up with anything else.
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Like you have to hard, you have to put in hard work.
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Who supports you outside of your family?
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My dog as well maybe a little bit.
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No, because you know my dog, it's a cane cursor, isn't it?
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So, like, if they can feel if you're sad or if you're happy, whatever.
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I love misunderstood animals, you know, like rats.
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I kind of hate rats.
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I'm shook of them, but I do feel sorry for them, though. And pigeons.
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What are you looking for in a partner?
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It's like someone that's real.
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It's just the same what I need, like, from anyone, isn't it?
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Which is just honesty.
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It's very simple, really.
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Sometimes I think I need just certain, like, real-life energy.
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Then sometimes I think I just need someone to actually just pack my bag and cook breakfast.
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And what are your love languages?
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Nah, I never had any, you know.
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Up until now, I was starting to learn it a bit.
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Am I even learning?
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I was just buying shit.
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But that's just being lazy, isn't it?
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How about words of affirmation?
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Do you give any compliments?
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Physical touch?
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Yeah, well, I don't mind a bit of physical touch.
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What does the word love mean to you?
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I have been in love, I guess, innit?
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I don't know what the word means, innit?
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I've told people I love them, and I do love them, and even I told them and them I love them, I love them.
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I've got love, bare love, but I don't know what the concept of love that you're referring to, like romantic love.
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Figure it out one day, innit?
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To be continued, it's TBC.
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Byron Albudjar asks, What's the biggest misconception about you?
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Right now, they probably think that, like, that I'm a cheating guy.
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Like a bad.. like a womaniser guy.
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It's not really the case.
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You've mentioned women a few times today. In a loving way.
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Yeah, more like a lover boy than, like, than what they see in me as right now.
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Where do you see yourself in ten years?
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I should have some kids by then.
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Just looking after my youths, like, growing my food, eating the food.
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Just living life like, I just want, like, one compound and just not really have to go nowhere too tough.
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Living a simple life somewhere.
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Kiara Fisher asks, what's the purpose of life?
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It's got to be reproducing, innit?
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It's got to be, though, innit?
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What else is there to do?
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No, I think to have kids, have a good family and that, I think the purpose of life is.
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It's a simple question. Are you happy?
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I'm happy.
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Yeah, could be worse than it.

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このビデオは、英語での自然な会話を体験し、英語スピーキング練習に役立つ良い材料です。特に、ミュージシャンがファンの質問に対してリラックスした形で答える様子は、カジュアルなコミュニケーションのパターンを学ぶのに最適です。また、彼の人生経験や感情を表現することで、より感情的な言葉の使い方を学ぶことができます。英語の表現力を高めたい方にとって、この内容は貴重な練習材料となるでしょう。

文法とコンテキストにおける表現

  • 「I don't know.」 - 知らないことを伝えるシンプルで効果的な表現です。会話の中で率直さを示し、相手と親しみやすい雰囲気を作ります。
  • 「I used to...」 - 過去の習慣や状況を表す際の便利な表現です。過去形を使うことで、自分の成長や変化を伝えることができます。
  • 「It probably didn't help.」 - 可能性を示す「probably」を使ったこの表現は、予測や意見を述べる際に役立ちます。
  • 「make sure you're good」 - 「make sure」というフレーズは、何かを確認する際によく使われます。相手の状況を気にかける表現として親密さを強調します。

共通の発音の落とし穴

このビデオでは、いくつかの発音のトラップが存在します。特に、単語「family」や「music」を発音する際に、母音が曖昧になりがちです。また、「mental downfall」のように、連結して発音する部分があり、これを練習することで英語の発音を良くすることができます。音の流れを意識することで、より自然な会話に近づけるでしょう。これらの表現を英語シャドーイングを通じて繰り返し練習することで、流暢さが増すだけでなく、元の話し手の感情やトーンも理解できるようになります。IELTS スピーキング対策としても効果的です。

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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。