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There are seven levels of manipulation, and most people can only spot the first two.
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Everything above that doesn't feel like manipulation at all.
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It feels like friendship.
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It feels like love.
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And sometimes, it feels like your own idea.
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That's what makes the higher levels so dangerous.
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By the time you notice them, they've usually been working on you for months.
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By the end of this video, you'll be able to recognize all seven,
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and you'll know the one question that protects you from every single one of them.
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Let's start with the easiest to see.
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Level 1.
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Flattery.
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You're so smart.
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I knew you'd understand.
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Honestly, you're the only one I can talk to about this.
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Someone as talented as you could do this in five minutes.
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This is Level 1.
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Manipulation through compliments.
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It's the oldest trick there is, and most people think they're immune to it.
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You hear an obviously fake compliment, you roll your eyes, and you move on.
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But a 2010 study found something uncomfortable.
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Researchers showed people flattering messages they knew were insincere, sales pitches that were clearly buttering them up.
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People dismissed the flattery consciously, but deeper, measured attitudes toward the flatterer still shifted in a positive direction,
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and that hidden effect lasted longer than the conscious rejection.
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In other words, you can see through flattery and still be moved by it.
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Flattery is level one because it's mostly harmless.
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Your guard goes down a little, and that's all.
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But a guard that goes down a little is exactly what
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Level 2 needs.
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Level 2 – The Favor Someone does something nice for you that you never asked for.
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They buy you a coffee, they help you move a box, they send you a small gift.
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And a few days later, they ask for something much bigger.
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In 1971, psychologist Dennis Regan ran a simple experiment.
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Participants were paired with a stranger who was secretly working for the researchers.
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During a break, the stranger left the room and came back with a bottle of Coke for the participant, without being asked.
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Later, the stranger asked the participant to buy raffle tickets.
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People who'd received the Coke bought about twice as many tickets as those who hadn't.
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And here's the part that matters.
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It barely mattered whether they actually liked the stranger.
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That's the power of reciprocity.
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A small, unrequested favor creates a feeling of debt.
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And that feeling of debt doesn't care whether the deal is fair.
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At level two, you're not being tricked.
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You're being made to feel like you owe something.
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And once you've paid a little, it gets easier to ask for more.
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Level three, the small yes.
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At level three, nobody asks you for the big thing.
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They ask for something tiny.
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Just a quick favor.
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Just this once.
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Just a small exception.
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In 1966, researchers Jonathan Friedman and Scott Frazier asked homeowners in California to put a large,
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ugly sign in their front yard that said, drive carefully.
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Most people refused.
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But a different group of homeowners had been asked, two weeks earlier, to put a tiny, almost invisible sign about safe driving in their window.
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Most of them agreed to that.
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And later, when they were asked about the big, ugly sign, a large majority said yes.
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Psychologists call it the foot -in -the -door technique.
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Once you've said yes to something small, you start to see yourself as the kind of person who says yes
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and saying no to the next step would feel like going against yourself
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this is where manipulation stops being about one moment
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and becomes about a direction every small yes moves the line a little further
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and you never notice the line moving because each single step looks so small
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and that's where the dangerous levels begin level four love bombing
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it starts like a dream someone new comes into your life and they're completely obsessed with you.
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Constant messages, big compliments, plans for the future after two weeks.
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You've never felt so seen.
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Then, suddenly, it changes.
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They go cold.
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They're distant.
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You don't know what you did wrong.
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And then, just as suddenly, the warmth comes back and the relief feels incredible.
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This is level four, and it's built on one of the most powerful forces in psychology.
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In the 1950s, psychologist B .F.
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Skinner studied how animals learn.
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He found that when a reward came every time, animals learned quickly but quit quickly once the reward stopped.
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When the reward came unpredictably, sometimes yes, sometimes no, the behavior became incredibly persistent.
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Unpredictable rewards are the same principle that keeps people pulling the lever on slot machines.
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At level 4, affection becomes the reward, and the manipulator controls when it arrives.
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You don't stay because things are good, you stay waiting for the good to come back.
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Once someone has that kind of hold over your emotions, the next step.. is to make sure nobody else can loosen it.
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Level 5.
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Isolation.
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It never starts with, don't see your friends.
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It starts with small comments.
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Your sister doesn't really get you like I do.
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I just feel like your friends are a bit jealous of us.
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Why do you need to go out when we have such a good time here?
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Slowly, your world gets smaller.
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You see your friends less.
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You stop telling your family what's going on because they'd only worry.
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And without anyone else around, there's no one to say, hey, that's not normal.
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That's why isolation is one of the clearest warning signs of what experts call coercive control,
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a pattern of behavior used to dominate another person over time.
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It's taken so seriously that in 2015, England and Wales made coercive control in relationships a criminal offense.
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At level five, the manipulator becomes your only mirror, and whoever controls the mirror can start to change what you see.
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Level six, gaslighting.
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That never happened.
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You're remembering it wrong.
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You're being way too sensitive.
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Everyone agrees with me, you know.
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The name comes from Gaslight, a 1938 play that became a famous 1944 film.
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In it, a husband secretly dims the gaslights in the house, and when his wife notices, he insists she's imagining it,
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until she starts to doubt her own mind.
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The word became so common that Merriam -Webster named gaslighting its word of the year in 2022.
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Here's why it works.
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Your memory is not a recording.
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In a famous 1974 study, psychologist Elizabeth Loftus showed people a film of a car crash.
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Afterwards, some were asked how fast the cars were going when they smashed into each other.
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Others were asked about the cars that hit each other.
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The smashed group gave higher speed estimates, and a week later, they were more likely to remember broken glass that was never in the film.
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One word changed what people remembered.
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Now imagine someone you trust doing that to you every day, for months.
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At level 6, you stop trusting your own mind.
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And once that happens, you'll believe almost anything the manipulator tells you, including the final lie.
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Level 7.
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You.
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The final level is the hardest to see, because there's no one else in the room.
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At level 7, the manipulation runs by itself.
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You defend the person who hurts you.
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You explain away the warning signs before your friends can point them out.
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You tell yourself it's not that bad, that everyone has problems, that it's probably your fault anyway.
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The manipulator doesn't need to do anything anymore.
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You've learned to do it for them.
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But level 7 isn't only about other people.
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It's also every time you tell yourself the story you want to hear.
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One more episode.
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I'll start on Monday.
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This time it'll be different.
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The physicist Richard Feynman once said it perfectly.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
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At level 7, you realize the most persuasive voice in your life has always been your own.
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And that means the defense was always going to have to start there, too.
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But here's the part most people miss.
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These levels don't always come in order.
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Some people go straight to level 4.
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Some stay at level 1 for years.
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And every one of us uses the lower levels sometimes, a little flattery, a favor when we want something.
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That doesn't make you a monster.
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What matters is whether someone is trying to work with you or work on you.
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So here's the one question that protects you from all seven levels.
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Next time someone asks you for something, pause and ask yourself, what happens if I say no?
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At level one, a no to someone flattering you gets you a shrug.
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At level 2, it reveals whether the favor was a gift or a trap.
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At level 3, it stops the line from moving.
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At level 4, watch whether the warmth suddenly disappears.
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At level 5, notice whether they make you feel guilty for having other people in your life.
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At level 6, notice whether a no is suddenly something you made up.
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And at level 7, ask yourself the same question.
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If someone you love wanted to leave this situation, what would you tell them?
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Healthy people can hear no. Manipulators can't.
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And if parts of this video felt a little too familiar, talk to someone you trust outside the relationship.
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That's the first step back to seeing clearly.
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Tell me in the comments which level you think is the most dangerous. And subscribe!
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Because next time, we're going inside the mind of someone who does all seven, and why the people around them almost never notice.

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動画に出てくる覚えておきたい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語発音意味
reward 名詞/ɹɪˈwɔɹd/見返り, 賞
psychologist 名詞/ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/心理学者
researcher 名詞/ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/研究員, 研究者
compliment 名詞/ˈkɑmpləmənt/お世辞
participant 名詞/pɑːɹˈtɪsəpənt/参加者, 関与者
trick 名詞/ˈtɹɪk/欺き, 企み
mirror 名詞/ˈmiɹɚ/鏡, 姿見
ugly 形容詞/ˈʌɡli/醜い, 見苦しい
principle 名詞/ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/原理, 原則
smash 動詞/smæʃ/打ち砕く
isolation 名詞/ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/隔離, 孤立
secretly 副詞/ˈsiː.kɹɪt.li/ひそかに
warmth 名詞/wɔɹmθ/暖かさ, 温かみ
defend 動詞/dɪˈfɪnd/守る, 防ぐ
technique 名詞/tɛkˈniːk/技術

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語意味
come back 動詞戻る, 帰る
go down 動詞降りる, 降下する
go out 動詞出る
see through 動詞見通す, 透視する

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  • Let's start with the easiest to see.
  • Your guard goes down a little, and that's all.
  • At level two, you're not being tricked.
  • You're being made to feel like you owe something.
  • You've never felt so seen.

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文型動画での表現
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be moved · were paired · being asked
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you've paid · you've said · You've never felt
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加えるthose who hadn · person who says · person who hurts

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話し手はyou're, doesn't, don'tなど、短縮形や弱形を35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: manipulation /məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/, smash /smæʃ/, isolation /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, exception /əkˈsɛpʃən/
  • 長い単語(アクセントの位置に注意): manipulation /məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/, psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, participant /pɑːɹˈtɪsəpənt/, isolation /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/

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  • /r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: principle /ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/, secretly /ˈsiː.kɹɪt.li/, carefully /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/, reveal /ɹɪˈviːl/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/
  • /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: sensitive /ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv/, reveal /ɹɪˈviːl/, whoever /huˈɛvɚ/, arrive /əˈɹaɪv/, invisible /ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/
  • /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: defend /dɪˈfɪnd/, carefully /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/, afterwards /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, refuse /ɹɪˈfjuːz/

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