シャドーイング練習: Effortless English Rule 2 Don't Study Grammar Rules! - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Hi, this is AJ and it's time for secret or rule number two for excellent English speaking.
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Now this one I think is going to be your favorite.
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I think this is going to be your favorite secret because most of our subscribers,
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most of our students tell us this is the one they love, that they loved hearing this, that it set them free.
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So what is it?
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What is secret number two?
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Secret number two is this.
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Never again study grammar rules.
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Woohoo!
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You're finished with grammar.
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No more.
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Never study grammar rules.
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Now, I know this may be a big surprise.
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This is a surprise for a lot of people.
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For a lot of our students, lot of our subscribers, a lot of our members, when they first hear this rule,
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they're shocked, they're surprised, and they think, well, is that true?
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Could that be possible?
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Maybe you're feeling a little unsure about this particular secret or rule.
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Well, that's natural.
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The reason it seems shocking or surprising is that all your life that you have been learning English,
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your teachers have been telling you, study grammar, study grammar, study grammar.
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Grammar is the secret.
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Grammar is the secret to English.
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Grammar, grammar, grammar, grammar.
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I don't know exactly when you started studying English.
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Maybe in elementary school when you were young.
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in middle school or high school when you were a bit older.
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Maybe later than that.
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But I'm sure that in school, your teachers told you grammar was the key.
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Grammar was super important.
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You had to study all these grammar rules.
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You had to know the past and the past perfect
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and the present and the present perfect and the present progressive and the future perfect progressive.
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You had to know what all of that stuff was and how to do all of the changes to the verbs.
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And you had to know possessives, of course.
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And then there were all the prepositions.
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Endless grammar.
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You had to memorize all of these rules.
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And probably most of your English classes were focused on these grammar rules.
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And then taking tests about these grammar rules.
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It doesn't work.
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Stop doing it.
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You're finished.
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In our system, no grammar rules study.
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Now, some people, when they hear this, they think, no, no, no, that's not right.
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And they don't, they don't believe me.
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So, I have only one question for you.
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You have been learning these grammar rules for years and years and years.
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My simple question is did it work?
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Can you now speak English easily, quickly, and automatically?
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Is your grammar correct when you speak or do you still make mistakes with simple grammar like the past tense.
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I mean, if you're a fantastic, amazing English speaker, probably you don't need to watch this video.
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But I'm guessing if you're watching this, it means you're not a great English speaker.
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You do not have excellent English speaking.
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And yet you know so much grammar.
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I guarantee you know more grammar than I do.
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Because I don't think about this stuff when I speak English.
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I just use it automatically.
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I don't need to think about the past tense or the present perfect or anything else.
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It just comes out correctly, usually.
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I make mistakes sometimes, like everyone, but normally it just comes out.
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When you speak your own language, do you think about grammar rules?
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Of course not.
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See, here's the problem with grammar rules.
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They cause you to think about English.
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So you are always analyzing it.
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Meaning you're always thinking about it all the time.
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Now for writing, that's okay.
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I mean even when I write in English, sometimes I might stop for a minute and think, oh wait wait, what's the grammar for that?
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usually but sometimes maybe.
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Why can I do that?
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Why can you do that?
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Well because of course with writing you have plenty of time.
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There's no there's no pressure.
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There's no speed.
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You can write very very very slowly.
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And then you can go and you can write the same thing again.
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And then you can show it to somebody and say is this correct?
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And they can say oh no you know change this.
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And then you can write it again.
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All of that is possible with writing.
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So, you know, if you want to study grammar rules for writing, you know, okay.
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But here's the problem.
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For speaking, there is no time.
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If I walk up to you and I say, hey, how's it going?
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What did you do yesterday?
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You have no time to be thinking about grammar.
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Which tense is it and what do I say?
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There's no time.
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You need to answer immediately, instantly, automatically.
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And when you speak, that grammar needs to be correct automatically.
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You can't be thinking about it.
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You can't be trying to remember some grammar rule.
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No. If you are thinking about grammar rules, it causes you to speak slowly.
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It causes you to hesitate and stop a lot.
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And when you're listening to people, if you're thinking about grammar, you're not really hearing them very well.
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It causes huge problems.
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You have to stop studying grammar.
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No more.
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See, native speakers, meaning people who grow up learning English, we never study grammar.
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I never studied grammar until high school.
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When I was about 16 years old, we started studying some grammar, but it was just for writing.
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It was just for academic writing.
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for school kind of papers.
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That's all.
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But by then, I already used correct spoken grammar perfectly.
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So how did I learn grammar as a child?
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How does it happen?
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Every American child learns to speak with good English grammar.
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Most at least do.
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How do they do it if they don't study grammar rules?
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Well, we talked about it in secret number one.
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First of all, they're learning it from phrases, natural phrases.
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And there's a few other ways that they're learning grammar, which we'll talk about in some of our future secrets or rules.
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But the point is, they are not studying grammar rules.
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They do not get themselves confused with grammar rules.
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If you're thinking about grammar rules, you're going to be confused.
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It's going to hurt your speaking ability.
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So you must stop now and never do it again.
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In fact, here's what I want you to do.
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Go grab all your grammar books, English grammar books, and put them on top of each other and then burn them.
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Get a fire, put some gasoline on there and wha- and let the fire come up.
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And if you want, you can dance around it, woohoo, and celebrate and smile and jump around because Because you are free of English grammar no more.
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With our system, you will never study another grammar rule again.
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I promise you.
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And that should make you happy because I know that grammar rules cause a lot of pain, a lot of boredom, a lot of frustration.
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Nobody likes them.
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So just forget it.
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So this is good news.
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Today, secret number two, rule number two is great news.
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Throw away your grammar books, burn them, have a party, celebrate, because you will never study grammar rules again.
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And that is secret number two.
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I'll see you again tomorrow for a very important secret.
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It's also very simple, but very powerful.
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Have a great day.

このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

このB1レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「Effortless English Rule 2 Don't Study Grammar Rules!」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:grammar, rule, English, secret, study。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が135文、単語が1240語あります。 音声の長さは8:41です。 話す速さは1分あたり約143語で安定しており、シャドーイングしやすいペースです。 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

動画の中で特に難しい単語13語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語発音意味
grammar 名詞/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/文法
tense 名詞/tɛns/時制
subscriber 名詞/səbˈskɹaɪbɚ/購読者, 加入者
phrase 名詞/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/句, 語句
boredom 名詞/ˈbɔɹ.dəm/退屈
memorize 動詞/ˈmɛm.əˌɹaɪ̯z/記憶する, 覚える
preposition 名詞/ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/前置詞
verb 名詞/vɝb/動詞
hesitate 動詞/ˈhɛz.ə.teɪt/ためらう, 躊躇する
analyze 動詞/ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/分析する
gasoline 名詞/ˈɡæs.ə.liːn/ガソリン, 揮発油
frustration 名詞/fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/挫折
endless 形容詞/ˈɛndlɪs/無限の, 果てしない

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語発音意味
come out 動詞/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/出る
come up 動詞上がる, 登る
grow up 動詞成長する, 大人に成る
throw away 動詞棄てる, 捨てる

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。

  • My simple question is did it work?
  • Why can I do that?
  • Why can you do that?
  • What did you do yesterday?
  • Which tense is it and what do I say?

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
現在完了進行形 have/has been + -ing — 以前に始まり今も続いている動作have been learning · have been telling
動詞 + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — 後ろに-ing形が続く動詞loved hearing · started studying · stop studying
「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 be · might stop
比較級 -er than / more … than — 二つのものを比べるlater than · more grammar than

注意したい発音

話し手はyou're, don't, they'reなど、短縮形や弱形を30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。

  • 「sh」と「zh」の音: preposition /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/, frustration /fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/

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。grammar, tense, subscriber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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