シャドーイング練習: ENGLISH SPEECH | ROWAN ATKINSON (Mr. Bean): Free Speech (English Subtitles) - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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My starting point when it comes to the consideration of any issue relating to free speech is my passionate belief that the second most precious thing in life is the right to express yourself freely.
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The most precious thing in life I think is food in your mouth and the third most precious is a roof over your head but a fixture in the Number 2 slot for me is free expression, just below the need to sustain life itself.
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That is because I have enjoyed free expression in this country all my professional life and expect to continue to do so, I personally highly unlikely to be arrested for whatever laws exist to contain free expression, because of the undoubtedly privileged position that is afforded to those of a high public profile.
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So, my concerns are less for myself and more for those more vulnerable because of their lower profile.
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Like the man arrested in Oxford for calling a police horse, gay.
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Or the teenager arrested for calling the Church of Scientology a cult.
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Or the café owner arrested for displaying passages from the bible on a TV screen.
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When I heard of some of these more ludicrous offences and charges, I remembered that I had been here before in a fictional context.
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I once did a show called Not the Nine O’Clock News, some years ago, and we did a sketch where Griff Rhys-Jones played Constable Savage, a manifestly racist police officer to whom I, as his station commander, is giving a dressing down for arresting a black man on a whole string of ridiculous, trumped up and ludicrous charges.
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The charges for which Constable Savage arrested Mr. Winston Kodogo of 55 Mercer Road were these: ‘Walking on the cracks in the pavement.’ ‘Walking in a loud shirt in a built-up area during the hours of darkness’ and one of my favourites ‘Walking around all over the place.’ He was also arrested for ‘Urinating in a public convenience’ and ‘Looking at me in a funny way’.
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Who would have thought that we would end up with a law that would allow life to imitate art so exactly.
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I read somewhere, a defender of the status quo claiming that the fact that the gay horse case was dropped after the arrested man refused to pay the fine and that the Scientology case was also dropped at some point during the court process was proof that the law working well, ignoring the fact that the only reason these cases were dropped was because of the publicity that they had attracted.
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The Police sensed that ridicule was just around the corner and withdrew their actions.
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But what about the thousands of other cases that did not enjoy the oxygen of publicity?
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That weren’t quite ludicrous enough to attract media attention?
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Even for those actions that were withdrawn, people were arrested, questioned, taken to court and then released.
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That isn’t a law working properly: that is censoriousness of the most intimidating kind, guaranteed to have, as Lord Dear says, a ‘chilling effect’ on free expression and free protest.
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Parliament’s Joint committee on Human Rights summarized, as you may know, this whole issue very well by saying ‘While arresting a protestor for using threatening or abusive speech may, depending on the circumstances, be a proportionate response, we do not think that language or behaviour that is merely insulting should ever be criminalized in this way.’ The clear problem with the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such.
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Criticism is easily construed as insult by certain parties.
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Ridicule is easily construed as insult.
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Sarcasm, unfavourable comparison, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy can be interpreted as insult.
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And because so many things can be interpreted as insult, it is hardly surprising that so many things have been, as the examples I talked about earlier show.
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Although the law under discussion has been on the statute book for over 25 years, it is indicative of a culture that has taken hold of the programmes of successive governments that, with the reasonable and well-intended ambition to contain obnoxious elements in society, has created a society of an extraordinarily authoritarian and controlling nature.
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It is what you might call The New Intolerance, a new but intense desire to gag uncomfortable voices of dissent.
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‘I am not intolerant’, say many people; say many softly spoken, highly educated, liberal-minded people: ‘I am only intolerant of intolerance’.
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And people tend to nod sagely and say ‘Oh, wise words, wise words’ and yet if you think about this supposedly inarguable statement for longer than five seconds, you realize that all it is advocating is the replacement of one kind of intolerance with another.
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Which to me doesn’t represent any kind of progress at all.
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Underlying prejudices, injustices or resentments are not addressed by arresting people: they are addressed by the issues being aired, argued and dealt with preferably outside the legal process.
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For me, the best way to increase society’s resistance to insulting or offensive speech is to allow a lot more of it.
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As with childhood diseases, you can better resist those germs to which you have been exposed.
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We need to build our immunity to taking offence, so that we can deal with the issues that perfectly justified criticism can raise.
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Our priority should be to deal with the message, not the messenger.
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As President Obama said in an address to the United Nations only a month or so ago: ‘Llaudable efforts to restrict speech can become a tool to silence critics or oppress minorities.
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The strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression, it is more speech.’ And that is the essence of my thesis, more speech.
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If we want a robust society, we need more robust dialogue and that must include the right to insult or to offend.
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And as, even if, as Lord Dear says, you know, the freedom to be inoffensive is no freedom at all.
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The repeal of this word in this clause will be only a small step, but it will, I hope, be a critical one in what should be a longer-term project to pause and slowly rewind a creeping culture of censoriousness.
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It is a small skirmish in the battle, in my opinion, to deal with what Sir Salman Rushdie refers to as the ‘outrage industry’ - self-appointed arbiters of the public good, encouraging media-stoked outrage, to which the police feel under terrible pressure to react.
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A newspaper rings up Scotland Yard: ‘Someone has said something slightly insulting on Twitter about someone who we think a national treasure.
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What are you going to do about it?’ And the police panic and they scrabble around and then grasp the most inappropriate lifeline of all, Section 5 of the Public Order Act, that thing where they can arrest anybody for saying anything that might be construed by anyone else as insulting.
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You know, they don’t seem to need a real victim, they need only to make the judgment that somebody could have been offended if they had heard or read what has been said.
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The most ludicrous degree of latitude.
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The storms that surround Twitter and Facebook comment have raised some fascinating issues about free speech, which we haven’t really yet come to terms with.
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Firstly, that we all have to take responsibility for what we say, which is quite a good lesson to learn.
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But secondly, we’ve learnt how appallingly prickly and intolerant society has become of even the mildest adverse comment.
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The law should not be aiding and abetting this new intolerance.
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Free speech can only suffer if the law prevents us from dealing with its consequences.
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I offer you my wholehearted support to the Reform Section 5 campaign.
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Thank very you.
この動画で話す練習をする理由は？
ローワン・アトキンソンが「自由な言論」というテーマについて語るこのビデオは、英語を学ぶ上で非常に価値があります。特に「英語スピーキング練習」や「IELTS スピーキング対策」に役立つ内容が含まれています。このスピーチでは、自己表現の重要性や社会における自由な言葉の価値について、鋭く且つ魅力的に語られています。
この動画を通して、視聴者は説得力のあるスピーチを行うための実用的なフレーズや構造を学ぶことができ、また自分の意見を自由に表現することの必要性について考えることができます。
文法と表現の文脈
ローワン・アトキンソンのスピーチには、以下のような重要な構造や表現が含まれています：
- 強調構文：「The most precious thing in life is...」このようなフレーズは、特定のアイデアや意見を強調する際に効果的です。
- 条件文：「if you think about this...」条件文は、自分の意見や仮定を述べるのに役立ちます。
- 比較表現：「...is better than...」比較することで意見を提示し、視聴者に共感を呼び起こします。
これらの表現を練習することで、あなたも自身のスピーチをより効果的にすることができるでしょう。特に、shadowspeak技術を活用することで、これらの構文を自然に使いこなすことが可能になります。
一般的な発音の罠
この動画ではいくつかの発音の難しい単語やアクセントが登場します。例えば：
- “intolerant”：この単語は、特に第二音節を強調することが重要です。
- “censorship”：「センソーシップ」というように、最後の音に注意を払いましょう。
- “ridicule”：この単語も特に注意が必要で、リズミカルに発音することが求められます。
発音を正確にするためには、動画を繰り返し見ることが効果的です。また、shadow speakの練習を通じて、リアルな英語のリズムを身につけることができます。YouTubeで英語学習を進める際には、ぜひ意識してみてください。
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