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6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Neil.
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And I'm Beth.
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What's up, Beth?
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You look a little sad.
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Well, recently I've been spending lots of time with my cat and houseplants, if you know what I mean.
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I'm feeling a bit lonely.
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It might help to know that you're not the only one feeling lonely.
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Loneliness has been called the modern epidemic.
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Although millions of us live together in towns and cities, more and more people report feeling lonely and unconnected to those they live close to.
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Loneliness can affect anyone.
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And while everyone's experience of loneliness is different, its effects can be serious.
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Research has shown that loneliness puts people at greater risk of many health issues, including dementia and heart disease.
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So how can loneliness be fixed?
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In this programme, we'll be hearing about one project in the Netherlands aiming to do just that.
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And as usual, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well.
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But first I have a question for you, Beth.
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Here in the UK, an organisation called The Campaign to End Loneliness has been offering advice and support since 2011.
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So according to the campaign, what proportion of British adults report feeling lonely at at least some of the time.
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Is it a 29% b 39% or c 49%?
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Erm, I would guess it's 39%.
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OK Beth, I'll reveal the answer later in the programme.
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Feeling lonely is not necessarily the same as being alone.
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Some people can happily spend lots of time on their own, while others may be surrounded by people but still feel disconnected.
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So what do we mean when we say we feel lonely?
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Here's Myra Anubi, presenter of BBC World Service programme People Fixing the World, explaining what loneliness means to her.
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It's that feeling when you crave people's company and you find it hard to connect, or maybe you just feel left out with no one to turn to.
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Now, feeling lonely isn't just uncomfortable.
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When it's experienced over time, it's been associated with health issues like a higher risk of having depression, dementia or even heart disease.
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When we're lonely, we crave people's company.
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We want their company a lot.
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We might also feel left out – unhappy because we're not included in what others are doing.
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And maybe we have no one to turn to – no one we can go to and ask for support and help.
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Someone who suffered all these feelings was Bep de Bruun.
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In 2013, Bep, aged 74, was found dead at her home in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
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Her death wasn't suspicious, but it shocked the whole country because it turned out she'd been dead for 10 years.
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Bepp had lost contact with her only child and kept to herself in her apartment.
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So when she died sometime in 2003, no one realised.
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Bepp's tragic story inspired a national campaign to combat loneliness, including one project called Omar's Soup, a kitchen bringing lonely elderly people together with school children and students to make soup.
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Omar means grandma in Dutch and the project encourages young people to spend time with their grandparents' generation.
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Here, Claire Bates, reporter for BBC World Service programme People Fixing the World, explains how the project got started.
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Well, it's run by two young guys called Max Cranendijk and Martin Canters.
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And now they were concerned their grandparents' generation were becoming isolated and lonely.
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And meanwhile, they had lots of student friends who had free time.
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So, they thought, why not try to bring these two generations together through making soup?
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Omar's Soup was started by Max and Martin, two local guys, or men.
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They wanted to involve their student friends because they had lots of free time.
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Time when they do not have to work or study and can do what they want.
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Max and Martin found the perfect way to help elderly people who felt lonely by bringing them together with students.
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If you bring someone together, you help people or groups to become friendly or to do something together, especially something they wouldn't usually do, like make soup.
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Omar's soup has been a big success and has spread to other cities across the Netherlands, including Rotterdam, the hometown of Beppe de Bruyne, making her tragic death the spark for something much more hopeful.
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I think it's time to reveal the answer to your question, Neil.
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Right, I asked you what proportion of British adults report feeling lonely at least some of the time?
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And I said it was 39 per cent.
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Which was the wrong answer, I'm afraid, Beth.
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Sadly, the correct answer is even higher – 49 per cent of adults, that's around 26 million people in the UK, making it even more important to reach out and connect with others.
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OK, it's time to recap the vocabulary we've learned in this programme, starting with the verb crave – to have a strong wish or desire for something.
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If you feel left out, you're unhappy because you've been excluded from something.
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To turn to someone means to go to someone and ask them for help or support.
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A guy is an informal way of saying a man.
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Free time, also called leisure time, is time when you do not have to work or study and can do what you want.
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And finally, the phrasal verb, to bring someone together, means to help people or groups become friendly or do something together, especially if they usually don't.
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Once again, our six minutes are up.
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But if you're feeling lonely, remember you're not alone.
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So reach out by joining us again next time here at 6 Minute English.
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Goodbye for now!
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Bye!
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Shadowing English
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コンテキストと背景
このビデオでは、BBC Learning Englishによる「6 Minute English」プログラムの一部を紹介しています。ネイルとベスが孤独感について話し合い、孤独が現代社会における大きな問題であることを強調しています。孤独は誰にでも影響を及ぼす可能性があり、社会でつながりを感じられない人々が多くいます。ベスは自身の孤独感を語り、特に高齢者が抱える孤独の問題に焦点を当てています。
日常コミュニケーションのためのトップ5フレーズ
- I'm feeling a bit lonely.（少し孤独を感じています。）
- Loneliness has been called the modern epidemic.（孤独は現代の疫病と呼ばれています。）
- I crave people's company.（人々のそばにいたいです。）
- We might feel left out.（私たちは疎外感を感じるかもしれません。）
- No one to turn to.（頼れる人がいない。）
ステップバイステップのシャドーイングガイド
このビデオの難易度を克服するための効果的な方法として、シャドーイングが推奨されます。英語シャドーイングはリスニングとスピーキングのスキルを同時に強化する優れた練習方法です。以下は具体的な手順です。
- ビデオ視聴：最初にビデオを通して視聴し、全体の内容を把握しましょう。
- フレーズの特定：上記の日常フレーズを聴き取り、自分の発音で繰り返す練習をします。
- セクションごとに練習：ビデオを数秒ごとに止めながら、ネイティブスピーカーの発音やイントネーションを真似てみましょう。
- 録音して確認：自分の声を録音し、ネイティブのスピーカーとの違いを比較します。これにより、改善点が明らかになります。
- シャドースピーキングを続ける：毎日少しずつ続けていくことで、自然な英語が話せるようになっていきます。
シャドースピーチは、英語学習において非常に効果的です。まずはこの「6 Minute English」のビデオを利用して、孤独感に関連する言語やフレーズを学びましょう。孤独を減らすために行動を起こすことが、あなたの言語スキルの向上にもつながります。
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。