シャドーイング練習: Friends | Phoebe and Evolution (6) - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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What, you don't, uh, you don't believe in evolution?
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Nah, not really.
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You don't believe in evolution?
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I don't know, it's just, you know, monkeys, Darwin, you know, it's a nice story, I just think it's a little too easy.
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Too easy?
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Too...
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The process of every living thing on this planet evolving over millions of years from single-celled organisms is too easy?
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Yeah, I just don't buy it.
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Oh, excuse me.
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Evolution is not for you to buy, Phoebe.
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Evolution is scientific fact.
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Like, like, like the air we breathe.
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Like gravity.
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Oh, okay.
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Don't get me started on gravity.
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You, uh, you don't believe in gravity?
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Well, it's not so much that, you know, like, I don't believe in it, you know, it's just...
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I don't know, lately I get the feeling that I'm not so much being pulled down as I am being pushed.
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How can you not believe in evolution?
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I don't know, just don't.
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Look at this funky shirt!
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Thieves, I've studied evolution my entire adult life, okay?
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And I can tell you, we have collected fossils from all over the world that actually show the evolution of different species, okay?
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I mean, you can literally see them evolving through time.
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Really?
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You can actually see it?
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You bet.
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In the U.S., China, Africa, all over.
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See, I didn't know that.
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Well, there you go.
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Huh.
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So now, the real question is, who put those fossils there and why?
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Hey.
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Okay, Pheebs.
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See how I'm making these little toys move?
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Opposable thumbs.
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Without evolution, how do you explain opposable thumbs?
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Maybe the overlords needed them to steer their spacecrafts.
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Please tell me you're joking.
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Look, can't we just say that you believe in something and I don't?
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No, no, no, Phoebes, we can't.
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Why not?
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What is this obsessive need you have to make everybody agree with you?
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No, what's that all about?
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You know what?
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I think maybe it's time you put Ross under the microscope.
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Uh-oh, it's scary scientist man.
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Okay, Phoebe, this is it.
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In this briefcase, I carry actual scientific facts.
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A briefcase of facts, if you will.
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Some of these fossils are over 200 million years old.
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Okay, look, before you even start, I'm not denying evolution, okay?
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I'm just saying that it's one of the possibilities.
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It's the only possibility, Phoebe.
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Okay.
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Ross, could you just open your mind like this much?
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Okay?
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Now, wasn't there a time when the brightest minds in the world believed that the Earth was flat?
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And up until like, what, 50 years ago, you all thought the atom was the smallest thing until you split it open
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and this like whole mess of crap came out.
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Now, are you telling me that you are so unbelievably arrogant
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that you can't admit that there's a teeny tiny possibility that you could be wrong about this?
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There might be a teeny tiny possibility.
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I can't believe you caved.
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What?
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You just abandoned your whole belief system.
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I mean, before I didn't agree with you, but at least I respected you.
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How are you going to go into work tomorrow? tomorrow?
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How are you going to face the other science guys?
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How are you going to face yourself?
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Oh! That was fun.
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So who's hungry?

このクリップで鍛えるスピーキングの目標

この会話は、意見の衝突を自然に話す能力を鍛えるのに最適です。「進化論を信じない」「科学的事実だ」など、対立する考えを述べながらも会話を続けるテクニックや、疑問を投げかけるリズムを身につけることができます。シャドーイングをすることで、口語的な表現の流れを感覚的に理解し、フルエンシーを向上させるマイルストーンとなります。

フレーズバンク:使い回せる表現

  • 「I don't buy it」(信じられない/納得できない)
  • 「Don't get me started on...」(...の話を始めないでくれ)
  • 「You bet」(もちろん/間違いない)
  • 「put [someone] under the microscope」([誰か]を徹底的に調べる)
  • 「a briefcase of facts」(事実だらけのブリーフケース)

これらのフレーズは日常会話でよく使われるため、シャドーイングサイトで繰り返し練習すると、すぐに実践で使えるようになります。

弱点を克服する:発音とリズムのポイント

このビデオの会話は速いリズムと口語的な省略表現が特徴です。例えば「Nah, not really」「it's a nice story」など、単語間のつながり(リンキング)や弱い発音(弱読)が重要です。シャドースピークの練習で、Rossの熱弁とPhoebeのからかうような口調の違いを聞き分け、自分の発音に反映させましょう。特に「evolution」「scientific」などの長い単語のアクセント位置に注意してください。

英語シャドーイングのコツは、「聞いてすぐに真似る」ことです。このクリップを使って、自然な会話の流れを体得し、「shadow speech」の技術を磨きましょう。少しずつ繰り返すことで、発音もリズムも自然になり、会話がスムーズになるはずです!

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型動画での表現
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I've studied · have collected
最上級 the -est / the most … — グループの中で一番the brightest · the smallest
現在進行形 am/is/are + -ing — 今まさに、または最近起きていることam being · I'm making · you're joking

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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