シャドーイング練習: English Listening Practice | Build a Relationship with English | B1-B2 - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Hello.
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Let's practice intermediate listening.
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Listen first, then shadow along.
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Welcome back to my Slow English Podcast.
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If you want more of a challenge, then speed this video up to 1.25 or 1.5.
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Today, I want to talk about a book that I've been reading about nature,
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gratitude, and the way that we see the world.
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And I think the relationship that we have with languages is pretty similar.
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Sometimes we see English as another course,
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another subscription, another thing we need to buy to become fluent in English.
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But language isn't a product.
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It's a relationship.
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And I think the moment we start treating English as a relationship,
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a relationship with people, with stories like mine,
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with culture, with yourself, The moment we start treating language like a relationship, everything changes.
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So today, while you practice your listening with me or shadowing,
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whichever one you prefer, I also want you to think about the relationship you have with the world around you.
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So this book really changed my perspective.
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It changed the way I see the world.
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It changed how I treat the world.
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And I want to share it with you.
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So, when something is given to us,
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we, to a certain degree, feel responsible for it.
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We feel a relationship with it.
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We take better care of it.
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if it's given to us.
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Different from when we buy something.
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I don't think we cherish things as much when we buy them ourselves.
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Once something becomes a commodity,
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something we can buy, we stop feeling any responsibility,
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gratitude, or relationship toward it.
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Like when you buy a pair of socks, you will definitely wear them.
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You will definitely appreciate them for what they are,
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socks that keep your feet warm.
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But now, let's say your grandma knits a pair of socks for you.
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She gives them to you for your birthday.
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You'll probably take much better care of those socks, right?
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Maybe even wear them when you go to see your grandma to show your appreciation.
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You show responsibility, gratitude, and you have a relationship with them.
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If you lose the pair of socks that you bought for yourself,
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I don't think I would lose any sleep over it.
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But if I lost my grandma's handmade socks that she made thinking of me for my birthday,
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of course I'm going to feel sad.
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But like I said, I wouldn't lose any sleep over the ones that I bought.
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I think this is a really interesting way to look at the world,
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to look at the food we eat, for example, the beaches we lay on,
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the forests we walk through.
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They are all gifts.
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Can you imagine feeling like you received a gift every day?
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Every time you eat?
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Every time you see the beautiful trees outside?
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Every time you lay on the grass or on the sand at the beach,
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can you imagine how happy you would be all the time in the book?
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she mentions the gift economy where you can't just pay for something.
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You can't pay your grape tree to grow grapes.
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you can plant its seed water it
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and take care of your grape tree
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and how will it repay you by giving you sweet
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juicy grapes in the spring you can't pay to enjoy laying on the beach You can enjoy the beauty of it.
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You can pick up after yourself.
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You can leave the beach looking cleaner than it did when you arrived.
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And the same thing goes for our forests,
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our parks, our lakes, our oceans, our trees, our animals.
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We are all nature.
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That's the point of this book.
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to help you understand that by not taking care of nature,
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it's like not taking care of yourself.
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When we look at the world as a gift,
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it changes the way we treat the world,
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how we respect it and feel gratitude towards it every day.
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And I believe that when you do,
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you'll see more gifts pouring into your life day by day.
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Try it out and see.
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I also think that learning English is similar.
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When you force yourself to study,
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you lose the joy in it when you build a relationship with language through conversations,
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music, podcasts, books, friends, stories like these,
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and moments from real life.
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Then you'll see real change, real progress.
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Just think about how amazing it feels to receive a gift,
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to be thought of, to be loved by someone.
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I have a list of my favorite gifts that I remember to this day.
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flowers from my grandma, letters from my sister,
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drawings from my brother, a stuffed animal from my cousin,
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and a video from my best friend.
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What's the most thoughtful gift you've ever received.
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Now, think of the feeling you had when you received it.
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It's pretty special, right?
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Now, imagine feeling that every day when you're walking outside
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and looking at all the gifts that you've been given today just try
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and think of one
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that you have right now with you for me it's my orange juice it's in the effort
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that it took me and the person making my juice it's in the bowl of oats
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that I can't show you anymore because I already finished it.
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But it's in the time and patience it took me to get just the right consistency that I like.
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It's in the delicate slices of banana I cut.
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It's in the honey that I had to patiently wait to drizzle all over my oats.
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The patience that was actually eternal at that moment because I was so hungry,
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But I took the time anyway, and it's in the way that I'm sharing this with you right now.
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Nothing is a waste when it's appreciated.
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I would also like to mention that it's not completely our fault that we don't see life as a gift.
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How could we when all we see is the food stacked up on shelves in the grocery store?
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That's probably costing us more than it should,
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therefore stressing us out more than it is helping us or making us feel grateful.
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we only see the private beaches
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that charge us stupid amounts just to lay on the sand
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and swim in the ocean something that was already there they didn't build that create that
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it was already there.
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Why should we have to pay for it?
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Because when we have to pay for something,
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I feel like we think our debt is paid.
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We owe nothing else and we can just do as we please,
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whatever we want, leaving our trash and therefore hurting the animals
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that rely on us just as much as we rely on them,
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contaminating our oceans and forgetting the relationship that we have with nature.
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All respect is lost, but there is hope.
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I believe in hope, and I believe that nature is very forgiving.
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Nature doesn't hold a grudge.
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If we start now, We could bring so much love into the world
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if we give without the expectation of receiving anything in return
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and create a relationship with the world.
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The same with language.
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Real progress happens when we start asking ourselves,
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how can I create a relationship with this language?
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because relationships grow through consistency,
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care, attention, and presence, just like nature.
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Guys, I could say so much more, but I think I'm going to leave it there for now.
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I hope you learned something new today while you were studying English with me.
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If you want to read this book with me, you're still on time.
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It's called Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
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I'm only on the first chapter, so if you start reading now,
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you'll probably catch up with me because it takes me an eternity to finish a book.
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If you liked this video, be sure to like it because if we get to 10,000 likes,
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I'll do a part two.
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Also subscribe for more English practice with me.
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Never stop growing, guys.
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It's truly never too late to start giving,
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to start spreading your love to the people and world around you.
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Let's take care of the world as we would take care of our grandma's handmade socks.
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See you next week.
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Bye.
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文脈と背景
この動画では、英語のリスニング練習を通じて、言語との関係を築くことの重要性について考察しています。スピーカーは、自然や感謝の気持ちといったテーマを扱った本を読み、その内容を通じて、英語が単なる習得すべきスキルではなく、深い関係性を持つものであると強調します。言語を物のように扱うのではなく、心の中で大切にするべきだというメッセージが伝わります。英語スピーキング練習や英語シャドーイングを行う際には、この新しい視点が役に立つでしょう。
日常コミュニケーションのためのトップ5フレーズ
- 毎日が贈り物のように感じること。
- 英語は他のコースやサブスクリプションではない。
- 言語は物ではなく、関係性である。
- 感謝の気持ちを持つことで関係が深まる。
- 自分が大切にするものは、責任を持って扱う。
段階的シャドーイングガイド
英語のリスニングとシャドーイングを効果的に行うためには、以下のステップに従うことをお勧めします。これにより、リスニング力を高めながら自然な発音やリズムを身につけることができます。
- 動画を一度聞いてみる。イントネーションやリズムを感じながら耳を傾けてください。
- シャドーイングを始める。言葉を聞いたら、すぐに同じ言葉を声に出してみます。この時、shadow speechを意識し、自分の口から音を出すことに集中します。
- 速度を調整する。理解が進むにつれて、動画のスピードを1.25倍や1.5倍に設定して、徐々に難易度を上げていきましょう。
- 反復して練習する。何度も繰り返すことで、発音や文の構造が自然に身につきます。
- 自分の感情や考えを英語で表現する。言語との関係性を大切にし、日常の中で英語を使う機会を増やしていきましょう。
こうした練習を通じて、YouTubeで英語学習をする際に、より一層の効果を期待できます。英語スピーキング練習や英語シャドーイングを通じて、自信を持って英語を話せるようになりましょう。
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。