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Hello.

Welcome to the intimacy vocabulary lesson.

Let's start from the beginning.

A woman writes, Dear Abby,

my husband James and I have been married only three years.

so they got married three years ago we are both in

our 20s in our 20s means they could be 21 years old

or 24 or 29 they are 20 something years old that's what in our 20s means.

If I say, I am in my 30s, then it's very general, right?

Maybe I'm 31, maybe I'm 39, maybe I'm 35.

I am 30 -something.

I am in my 30s.

They are in their 20s, in their 20s.

She says everything is really great,

so they have a good relationship, except our sex life.

So sex between them is not good.

Then she writes, as far as he is concerned,

as far as he is concerned means in his opinion right in his opinion

or it can also mean about him

so about him that's fine too

or in his opinion that's fine too as far as he

is concerned it means about him about her husband the husband thinks the sex life is fine.

The husband thinks their sex life is okay as far as he is concerned.

So about him, his opinion, it's fine.

But as far as she is concerned, meaning her opinion about her, It's not fine.

She says, I'm not satisfied, not happy.

She says, it may seem odd to hear the female wants to have sex more frequently.

Odd here means strange.

Odd means strange, strange.

It may seem strange.

Or another word is weird.

It may seem weird.

It may seem strange strange.

It may seem not normal.

Odd, odd, not normal or strange.

So it may seem odd to hear the female wants to have sex more frequently.

Frequently, here frequently means often, often, frequently.

She wants sex more often than him.

She wants sex more frequently than him.

And he is a young and healthy male.

Male means man, of course.

So he's young and healthy man but she wants sex more with him

so she says this may seem odd may seem strange

may seem odd

but that's the case in our relationship that's

the case the case the case here the case

means the situation the situation that's the situation

in our relationship that's the case in our relationship situation the case.

The case.

means situation.

That's the case in our relationship.

And second paragraph, she says Abby.

Abby is the woman she wants help from.

Abby answers these letters.

She gives advice.

So Abby is a name.

It's a woman's name.

She says, Abby, I work with the public.

Public means people, right?

All people, general people.

So if you work with the public, you work with people

so maybe in a store right people come to the store

many different people that's the public she works with the public

she's not in an office she works with the public

she sees customers she sees people at her job she says I work with the public

and I get frequent remarks frequent

remarks frequent means means many times many times frequent many times

or a lot happening a lot really many times is the meaning of frequent so many times she gets remarks

a remark is a comment a comment a remark just means something someone says it's a word

or a sentence a remark a remark

so she gets many remarks many times people say something to her

and she gets remarks about what a beautiful woman i

am ah they tell her she is beautiful many times people

tell her she is beautiful they say oh you are so beautiful

so this happens a lot so she says this makes it hard for me to believe

that I don't attract him at all who is him him is her husband

so she's saying I can't believe he doesn't want me right

he doesn't want me he doesn't think I'm beautiful I can't believe that But other people say I'm beautiful,

so my husband should think I'm beautiful also.

Okay, next sentence, she says, I have expressed many times.

Okay, expressed means said.

So she has said many times she has expressed many times expressed just means said

or to say so she has said many times she has expressed many times

that I wish we were more intimate so she said to her husband.

I wish we were more intimate.

Intimate means very close.

Emotionally, right?

It means close feelings such as love or romance.

Intimacy or intimate.

Here's the adjective intimate, close feelings.

Sometimes intimate means sex, means really romantic sex,

romantic sex intimate we are intimate means we are having romantic sex

so she said to her husband I want more romantic sex I want to be more

intimate okay she said i have even expressed it to him

i have even said it to him in more than one

letter she wrote him a letter about this problem she was

hoping to reach him to reach him to reach someone means they understand you.

It means to communicate so they understand you.

I want to reach him means I want to communicate and then he understands me.

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I want to reach her means I want her to understand me.

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Last paragraph, she says, I am at a total loss.

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At a total loss.

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At a total loss means I have no more ideas.

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It means I don't know what to do.

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I'm at a total loss.

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Means I don't know what to do, right?

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No more ideas.

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She's at a total loss about how to make him realize.

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Realize means understand.

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Realize, understand.

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How to make him realize how important this is to me

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so she wants her husband to understand that sex is very important for her

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but how how can she make him understand how can she reach him

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and then she asks Abby she's asking us and she's asking Abby is there something wrong with my body.

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I just don't know who to turn to for advice on this subject.

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To turn to, who to turn to means who to ask.

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To turn to someone means you ask for help.

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Say, I turned to my mother for help means I asked my mother for help.

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I turned to my friend for help means I asked my friend for help.

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She doesn't know who to ask for help.

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So she's writing this letter and finally she says please help me okay

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and she signs it she signs it this is not her real name

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but she signs it short on intimacy in ohio ohio is a state in the united states in america It's a state.

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It's in the middle of the country, Ohio.

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So she lives in Ohio.

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And she says she is short on intimacy.

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Intimacy, we already talked about.

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Short on, to be short on something, means you don't have enough of something.

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I am short on money.

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means I don't have enough money.

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I'm short on food means I don't have enough food.

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She is short on intimacy.

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She doesn't have enough intimacy.

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She doesn't have enough close romantic feelings or romantic sex with her husband.

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Okay, that is all.

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Please listen to this vocabulary.

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Lesson many times every day and then listen to the mini story.

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このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

このスピーキングレッスンは、動画「Effortless English - Intimacy - Vocabulary」を教材にしています。繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：sex, husband, remark, intimate, seem。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が137文、単語が1230語あります。音声の長さは14:33です。話す速さはゆっくりで、1分あたり約85語です。一つ一つの音をまねる余裕があります。単語の88%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれるため、語彙は分かりやすいです。

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくる覚えておきたい単語13語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語	発音	意味
remark 動詞	/ɹɪˈmɑɹk/	注目する
intimacy 名詞	/ˈɪn.tɪ.mə.si/	親交, 親密さ
romantic 形容詞	/ɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/	ロマンチックな
frequent 形容詞	/ˈfɹiː.kwənt/	頻繁な
litter 名詞	/ˈlɪt.ɚ/	ごみ
lesson 名詞	/ˈlɛs.ən/	授業, 学科
communicate 動詞	/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/	伝える
paragraph 名詞	/ˈpæɹəɡɹæf/	段落
vocabulary 名詞	/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/	語彙, 語彙力
romance 名詞	/roʊˈmæn(t)s/	恋愛, ロマンス
attract 動詞	/əˈtɹækt/	引きつける
satisfy 動詞	/ˈsætɪsfaɪ/	満たす
adjective 名詞	/ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/	形容動詞

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。

Let's start from the beginning.
She says, I'm not satisfied, not happy.
That's the case in our relationship.
It means I don't know what to do.
I'm at a total loss.

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
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している	have been · have expressed · has said
「might / may」による可能性 might/may + 動詞 — 起こりうるが確実ではないこと	may seem
比較級 -er than / more … than — 二つのものを比べる	more often than · more frequently than
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	she's saying · are having · she's asking

注意したい発音

話し手はI'm, don't, doesn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を24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。

長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: intimacy /ˈɪn.tɪ.mə.si/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/

日本語話者が苦手な音：

/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, adjective /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: frequent /ˈfɹiː.kwənt/, paragraph /ˈpæɹəɡɹæf/, satisfy /ˈsætɪsfaɪ/
子音の連続 — 間に母音を入れない: remark /ɹɪˈmɑɹk/, frequent /ˈfɹiː.kwənt/, romance /roʊˈmæn(t)s/, attract /əˈtɹækt/

この動画での練習方法

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。
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。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。remark, intimacy, romantic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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