シャドーイング練習: fear - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Fear helps you stay alive, but I feel like in today's age, it feels much more like a burden than a function of survival.
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Sure, the world can be a scary place sometimes, like when you actually see a bear, but I just don't see bears that much.
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And I think fear is just a little more annoying than it is helpful in most parts of my life.
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The first thing I think of when I think of fear is flying.
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Fun fact about me, I used to not be afraid of flying at all.
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And actually, I thought it was a lot of fun.
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But now, unfortunately, flying is so much more of a hassle than it used to be.
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One of the more recent times I was flying, the pilot came over the intercom and said, "Hello passengers, we are coming close to our destination." "Uh,
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and we are going down." "And as we are going down to our destination, I ask everyone to fasten their seatbelts and return their seats to their upright position for landing." Um,
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can we work on our phrasing a little?
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Or provide context?
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When inside of a giant metal tube in the sky, I thought for a moment that I was actually gonna die.
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I can't totally describe the feeling of doom that I felt in that moment, but I can kind of make a facial expression that represents it.
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It was like that, but on the inside.
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I used to think it would be cool to have flight as a superpower, but with fear of flying, it would just be terrible.
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Wheeeee!
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*cough
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cough cough cough cough cough *
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cough cough cough cough cough *
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cough cough cough cough cough *
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cough cough cough cough cough *
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*cough
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cough cough cough cough cough *
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be really cool to see everything with no obstructed view.
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But the closer I got to the glass boxes, the more my brain cranked up my fear.
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There's never been a mechanical failure.
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It's gonna be fine.
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Yeah, but what if it's not fine?
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What if it breaks for the first time when you stand on it?
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There's always a first time for everything.
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But it's maintained regularly.
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And look at all the other people doing it.
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They're okay.
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Yeah, but what if when you get on a bug flies into a bird's mouth and it chokes, which causes it to hit a plane, which makes the plane crash and the plane hits a screw on the glass box.
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And then, but the plane actually recovery supplies away so everybody's happy about that.
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But the screw spins until it comes out and unbravelled the whole glass box and you fall?
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Hmm.
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No, yeah, that's a good point.
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So when it was my turn to go into the glass box, I decided to not.
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The building is well maintained and has never had a mechanical failure, and I could have had a cool experience, but I was just too freaked out.
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However, even if fear is sometimes annoying, I stand by my wariness of mechanical failures.
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Things happen.
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If there really are infinite realities inside of infinite universes, then that means somewhere out there, there's an Andy that met a terrible fate.
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place and enjoy the view without my brain screaming code red all the time.
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Again, I prove my point.
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Fire can be useful for a lot of things, like roasting marshmallows, pyrotechnics, and whenever you want lions to hop through a ring of fire.
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So, despite all of these joys that fire brings us, I am also afraid of fire.
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But only big fire.
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I'm not, like, screaming at candles and stuff.
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It's specifically scary when it's out of control.
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I've seen videos of people driving through or even next to forest fires, which awakens a deep and primal fear.
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And I'm not even in the situation.
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I can't imagine the courage firefighters must have to fight forest fires.
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There's a lot of Fs in that sentence.
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Did you know the size of a loose fire doubles every 60 seconds?
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You gonna put that out?
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Yeah, yeah, are you...
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Shuck.
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Show an example.
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I can't remember where I heard that fact, but it's very scary!
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Fire is incredible.
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It can feed you, it can protect you, but if you're not careful with it, fire can totally and completely destroy everything you've ever known or loved.
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Hey, hey, I said pass the marshmallows?
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Oh yeah, sorry.
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Here you go!
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Darkness.
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It's the idea of the unknown.
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Anything could be right out in front of your face and you wouldn't know!
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at a nearby movie theater.
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When the movie finished up and everybody left, my plan was just to walk home.
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Eventually, I get to my neighborhood and I see a dark figure in the distance and there's no light.
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I start to get a little nervous because I don't know what or who that is.
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At this point, my mind is starting to sound the alarms again.
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A murderer?
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A bear?
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An eldritch creature of the night?
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Whatever it is.
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Adrenaline.
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As the shape gets closer, it starts to look more and more humanoid.
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Then, I see it's a person and they're running
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and I think it's pretty fast
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and I think it's running directly at me I am in
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danger there is no reason anyone should be running at night
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at anyone I am not fighting nor flighting I'm just standing there baked in fear they get closer
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and closer and once they were close enough hello hey I They were just on a nighttime jog.
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The funny thing about darkness is, it messes with your sight.
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When your brain doesn't get all the information it needs, it'll just do you the favor of filling in the gaps itself.
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So my brain just assumed it was getting attacked, it was just an hallucination stemming from my fear.
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Cool.
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That is the thing that freaks me out about darkness.
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It's unknown.
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And that scares me.
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Anyway, those are my top fears.
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Thanks for watching.
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Ah!

このレッスンについて

このレッスンでは、YouTubeで英語学習をする際に役立つ「fear(恐怖)」にまつわる日常的な会話を通じて、スピーキングとリスニングのスキルを磨きます。ビデオでは、恐怖が生存本能から負担になる現代の状況や、飛行機やガラスボックスでの恐怖体験が具体的に語られています。自然な発音やイントネーション、日常的なフレーズの使い方を学びながら、シャドーイングの練習にも最適です。

重要な語彙とフレーズ

  • burden:負担。「fear feels much more like a burden」で「恐怖は負担のように感じる」
  • hassle:面倒くさいこと。「flying is so much more of a hassle」で「飛行機はとても面倒くさい」
  • doom:破滅、絶望。「the feeling of doom」で「絶望的な感覚」
  • obstructed view:遮られた景色。「no obstructed view」で「遮られない景色」
  • wariness:警戒心。「my wariness of mechanical failures」で「機械故障に対する警戒心」

練習のヒント

このビデオのスピードは自然な会話レベルで、語尾のイントネーションが感情を表しています。shadow speech(シャドースピーチ)の練習では、まずはビデオを1文ずつ止めながら、同じ速さとイントネーションで繰り返しましょう。特に「Uh, and we are going down. *BOOM*」のような緊張感のある部分は、声のトーンを上げることで恐怖の感情を表現できます。shadowspeaksの技法を使うと、自然な発音を身につけることができます。また、「What if it breaks for the first time when you stand on it?」のような疑問文のリズムを捉えることで、会話の流れを理解しやすくなります。英語シャドーイングの練習を続けることで、リスニングとスピーキングのスキルが同時に向上します。

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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