シャドーイング練習: Emma Watson - One Young World 2016 - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Reza Zaini Reviewer Thank you.
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Two years ago, I launched a campaign called HeForShe at the UN in New York.
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I was very nervous before that speech.
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The nerves were followed by a tremendous high immediately afterwards and a crashing low a few days after that.
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My best hopes and my worst fears were confirmed all at once.
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I had opened Pandora's box to a standing ovation
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and almost simultaneously a level of critique I had never experienced in my life
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and the beginning of what would become a series of threats.
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The last two years have been a baptism of fire,
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to say the least, where I learnt just how little I know and also how much.
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It was my scary first step as an activist, a word I never imagined that I would use to describe myself.
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So, reading the applications of activists who applied here for One Young World Scholarships was surprising to me.
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Here I was reading the stories of people from nearly 200 different countries from around the world with experiences
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that I couldn't even imagine.
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I mean, I really just, they were so out of this world to me.
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And yet, their notes looked like my notes.
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The same themes emerged over and over and over again.
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There was so much overlap with the things that I had been thinking about and that I had been struggling with.
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Because the truth is, it had never been about being an activist.
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It was about the choice to make myself visible.
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and the choices that you made to do that too.
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Apart from the significant progress the world has made in the cause for equality, the best thing about the last two years has been this.
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Finding people from such disparate experiences and communities that I found that I have something in common with.
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This is a community of artists, spiritual teachers, dreamers, thinkers, doers,
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who work together and support each other.
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For the first time in my life, I found my sisterhood, a brotherhood, however you want to describe it.
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I found my tribe.
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My hope for you while you're here is that you will find some of your tribe too.
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I really needed mine.
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Bobby Kennedy, when he was senator for New York,
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said, Each time a man or woman stands up for an ideal Or acts to improve the lots of others
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Or strikes out against injustice
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He sends forth a tiny ripple of hope
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And crossing each other from a million different centres of energy
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Those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest wall of oppression and resistance.
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That's what we are doing.
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We, the entire spectrum of the feminist movement,
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are building an unstoppable current for which we need ripples of hope from every age,
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race, ability, walk of life from every human experience.
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I feel gender equality is as important as any of the other goals that we are here to discuss.
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And actually, if anything, it is even more important because it intersects with every single other issue that we face.
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We all have feminine and masculine energies within us.
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And both forces need to be lifted up, respected.
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They need to work together in order to make the world go round.
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Each of you are here at One Young World because you do something important.
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And it is so exciting to see you all come together in one room, because One Young World isn't about saying what I,
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each of us individually, can do, but what we can do.
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Working together, supporting, and listening to each other.
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It's in that spirit
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that I am delighted to introduce nine activists who were the first recipients of a One Young World scholarship
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that I am very honoured to have in my name.
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They are working to secure real progress towards a gender equal world
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and I hope that their stories will inspire you as much as they have inspired me.
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In a moment, I'm going to ask them to come onto the stage, but before I do, I want to offer a few statements of my own
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that I have struggled with and continue to struggle with on a daily basis, but that I have found inspiring.
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I want to ask you to take a moment, you can keep your eyes closed or keep them open,
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and ask yourself if these have any truth for you in them.
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I am willing to be seen.
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I am willing to speak up.
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I am I am willing to keep going.
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I am willing to listen to what others have to say.
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I am willing to go forward even when I feel alone.
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I am willing to go to bed each night at peace with myself.
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I am willing to be my biggest, bestest, most powerful self.
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These seven statements scare the absolute shit out of me.
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But I know that they are at the crux of it all.
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At the end of the day, and when all is said and done,
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I know that these are the ways that I want to have lived my life.
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I know each one of you probably will have encountered one of these statements in the last 48 hours, and if you have, thank you for being here.
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I appreciate it.
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It's truly an honor to be here with you all.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

エマ・ワトソンのスピーチから学ぶリアルな英語表現

YouTubeで英語学習をするなら、有名人のスピーチは最適です。このビデオでは、エマ・ワトソンがOne Young World 2016で行ったスピーチを通じて、「活動家」としての葛藤や希望、共感について語っています。緊張しながらも自分を見せること、共に闘う仲間を見つけること、小さな波紋が大きな力になること…。日常的な会話だけでなく、深い思いを伝える表現も学べる貴重な場面です。

覚えておきたい便利なフレーズ&コロケーション

  • a baptism of fire:厳しい試練、火の洗礼。「過去2年は火の洗礼だった」という使い方で、大きな困難を経験したことを表します。
  • send forth a tiny ripple of hope:小さな希望の波紋を送り出す。ボビー・ケネディの名言から、一人の行動が大きな変化をもたらすことを比喩的に表します。
  • intersect with:交差する、関連する。「ジェンダー平等は他の課題と交差する」というように、問題同士の関連性を示します。
  • be at the crux of it all:すべての核心にある。「これらの声明が核心だ」という使い方で、最も重要な点を強調します。

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さっそくshadow speakの練習をしましょう!ビデオを1.25倍速で再生し、エマ・ワトソンの発音とイントネーションを真似てください。特に「I am willing to...」から始まる7つの声明部分に注目し、自分の声で自然に言えるように繰り返し練習してみてください。この練習は英語スピーキング練習に最適で、口の筋肉を慣らすだけでなく、自信もつきます。shadowing siteを使っても良いですが、まずはYouTubeで直接試してみましょう。小さな一歩が大きな進歩につながります!

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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 · has made · have inspired
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てるwere followed · were confirmed · be lifted

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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。

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