シャドーイング練習: Chapter 7 - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Chapter 7 My Angel of Music For a week, Raoul saw Christine every day.
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Some days, Christine was quiet and unhappy.
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Some days she laughed and sang.
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She never wanted to talk about the opera house, or her singing, or Raoul's love for her.
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Raoul was very afraid for her.
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Who or what was this strange teacher,
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this man's voice, her angel of music?
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Then, one day, there was no Christine.
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She was not at her home, not at the Opera House, not at their meeting places.
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Raoul looked everywhere and asked everybody, where was Christine Daae?
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But nobody knew.
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Two days before the Opera House opened again, a letter arrived for Raoul.
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It was from Christine.
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Meet me in an hour, at the top of the Opera House, on the tenth floor.
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The tenth floor of the Opera House was a dangerous place.
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There were hundreds of ropes going down to the stage below.
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It was a long, long way down.
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Raoul and Christine sat in a dark corner, and Raoul took Christine's hands.
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Her face was white and tired.
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Listen, Raoul, she said quietly.
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I'm going to tell you everything.
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But this is our last meeting.
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I can never see you again.
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No, Christine, Raoul cried.
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I love you.
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And we- Shh.
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Quietly.
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Perhaps he can hear us.
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He's everywhere in the opera house, Raoul. Who?
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What are you talking about, Christine?
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My angel of music, I couldn't meet you last Saturday because he came for me and took me away.
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I was in my dressing room in the opera house and suddenly he was there in front of me.
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I saw the voice for the first time.
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He wore black evening clothes and a mask over his face.
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He took me through many secret doors and passages, down, down under the Opera House.
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There is a lake down there, a big lake.
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The waters are black and cold.
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He took me across the lake in a boat to his house.
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He lives there, Raoul, in a house on the lake, under the opera house.
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Raoul stared at her.
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Was his beautiful Christine mad?
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Christine saw his face and said quickly, It's true, Raoul, it's true.
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And he, he is the phantom of the opera.
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But he's not a ghost.
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He's not an angel of music.
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He's a man.
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His name is Eric, and he loves me.
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He wants me to be his wife.
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No, Raul, listen.
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There is more.
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He told me all this in his house, in a beautiful room.
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He said that no woman could ever love him because of his face.
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He was so unhappy.
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Then he took off his mask, and I saw his face.
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She began to cry, and Raoul put his arms around her.
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Oh, Raoul, he has the most terrible face.
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It is so ugly.
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I wanted to scream and run away.
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But where could I run to?
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He has the face of a dead man, Raoul, but he is not dead.
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He has no nose, just two black holes in his yellow face. And his eyes.
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Sometimes they are black holes.
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Sometimes they have a terrible red light.
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She put her face in her hands for a second.
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Then she said, I stayed in his house for five days.
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He was very good to me, and I felt sorry for him, Raoul.
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He wants me to love him.
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And I told him.
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I told him.
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No, Christine, no. You're going to be my wife.
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Come away with me at once, today.
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You can't go back to him.
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But I must, Christine said quietly.
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He knows about you, Raoul.
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He knows about us.
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He says he's going to kill you.
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I must go back to him.
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Never, said Raoul.
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I love you, Christine.
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And I'm going to kill this Eric.
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Eric, Eric, Eric.
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Eric.
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The word whispered round the opera house.
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Raoul and Christine stared.
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What was that?
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Raoul said afraid. Was that his voice?
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Where did it come from?
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I'm afraid, Raoul, Christine whispered.
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I'm singing Margarita again on Saturday.
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What's going to happen?
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This, Raoul said.
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After the opera on Saturday night, you and I are going away together.
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Come on, let's go down now.
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I don't like it up here.
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They went carefully along a dark passage to some stairs, then suddenly stopped.
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There was a man in front of them.
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A tall man in a long, dark coat and a black hat.
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He turned and looked at them.
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No, not these stairs, he said.
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Go to the stairs at the front and go quickly.
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Christine turned and ran.
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Raoul ran after her.
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Who was that man?
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He asked.
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It's the Persian, Christine answered.
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But who is he?
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What's his name?
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Why did he tell us to go to the front stairs?
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Nobody knows his name.
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He's just the Persian.
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He's always in the opera house.
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I think he knows about Eric, but he never talks about him.
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Perhaps he saw Eric on those stairs and wanted to help us.
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Hand in hand, they ran quickly down the stairs, through passages, then more stairs and more passages.
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At one of the little back doors to the opera house, they stopped.
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On Saturday night, then, after the opera,
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Raoul said, I'm going to take you away and marry you.
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Christine looked up into his face.
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Yes, Raoul.
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Then they kissed.
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There by the door of the Opera House.
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Their first kiss.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです:Raoul, Christine, opera, Eric, stairs。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が125文、単語が918語あります。 音声の長さは10:10です。 話す速さはゆっくりで、1分あたり約90語です。一つ一つの音をまねる余裕があります。 単語の83%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。

この動画の重要語彙

動画の中で特に難しい単語12語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語発音意味
opera 名詞/ˈɒp.ə.ɹə/歌劇, オペラ
stairs 名詞/ˈstɛɹz/階段
passage 名詞/ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/一節
quietly 副詞/ˈkwaɪ.ɪt.li/静かに
stare 動詞/stɛɚ/見詰める, じろじろ見る
tenth 形容詞/tɛnθ/十番目
mask 名詞/mæsk/仮面, 覆面
litter 名詞/ˈlɪt.ɚ/ごみ
phantom 名詞/ˈfæntəm/幻
cloth 名詞/klɒθ/布
rope 名詞/ɹoʊp/ロープ, 綱
scream 動詞/skɹiːm/悲鳴を上げる, 喚く

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語意味
go away 動詞去る, 出る
go down 動詞降りる, 降下する
run away 動詞逃げる, 逃走する
take off 動詞脱ぐ

繰り返し練習したい文

動画に出てくる短く完結した文です。日常会話でそのまま使えます。

  • I'm going to tell you everything.
  • You're going to be my wife.
  • You can't go back to him.
  • Come on, let's go down now.
  • I don't like it up here.

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
「going to」の未来表現 be going to + 動詞 — 予定や、起こりそうだと分かることI'm going to tell · You're going to be · he's going to kill
現在進行形 am/is/are + -ing — 今まさに、または最近起きていることI'm singing · are going

注意したい発音

話し手はI'm, can't, couldn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を9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: tenth /tɛnθ/, cloth /klɒθ/

日本語話者が苦手な音:

  • 子音の連続 — 間に母音を入れない: stairs /ˈstɛɹz/, quietly /ˈkwaɪ.ɪt.li/, whisper /ˈ(h)wɪspɚ/, stare /stɛɚ/, tenth /tɛnθ/

この動画での練習方法

  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。opera, stairs, passage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。

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