シャドーイング練習: Gabor Maté – Authenticity vs. Attachment - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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When a child is born, a child has two needs.
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The first need is for attachment.
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And attachment is contact, connection, love.
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Without that, the human child does not survive.
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Any mammalian child or even an avian child doesn't survive.
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So that as soon as you get past the level of reptiles, the reptile is hatched, the mother is long gone by then,
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and the reptile infant either lives or dies dies but there's no attachment to a parenting figure.
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As soon as you get to the level of birds now, the baby bird has to have an attachment with the parents, the parents have to be attached to the baby.
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Otherwise the infant simply does not survive.
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Mammalians even more so and most so the human because we're the least developed, the least mature, with the least developed brains
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and the most dependent for the longest period of time of any creature in the universe.
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So our attachment needs are enormous, and they remain important throughout lifetime because we have to have attachments to foreign societies, social groups without which we don't survive.
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So attachment is a huge need.
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We have to connect, belong, be loved by and love.
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That's just a basic human need.
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But we have another need as well, which is for authenticity.
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Authenticity is the capacity, as I said earlier, to know what we feel, to be in touch with our bodies,
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and to be able to express who we are and manifest who we are in our activities and in our relationships.
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Now why is that?
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Well, think of a human being in evolutionary period who's not in touch with their body and their gut feelings.
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How long do they survive out there in the wild?
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So authenticity is another huge survival need.
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Great.
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So far so good.
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but what happens to a child where the attachment need is not compatible with the need for authenticity?
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In other words, if I'm authentic, my parents will reject me.
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If I feel what I feel and express what I feel and insist on my own truth,
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my parents can't handle it and parents convey those messages unconsciously all the time not
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because they mean to not because they don't leave love the child not
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because they're not trying to do their best but
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because they themselves are suppressed or traumatized or hurt or stressed
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so I convey that message many times to my children believe me without without any conscious desire to do so.
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In fact, it was the very opposite of what I wished to convey.
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But that they're not acceptable the way they are, with their emotions the way they are, that's the message my kids got when they were small.
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And most children get that in our society.
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Now what does a child do with that?
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Well, if I give up my attachment for the sake of authenticity, I lose my relationships on which my life depends.
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Therefore, there's no question.
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What becomes suppressed is our authenticity, our emotions.
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And then we become 25 and 30 or 35, 40, and we don't know who we are.
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And somebody asks us, what do you feel?
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You say, I have no idea.
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And how many times we've all had the experience of having an inkling of a strong gut feeling, but we're ignoring it, we're ignoring it and we get into trouble.
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Well, that tells us what happened.
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What happened was
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that at some point we found out it was too costly
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for our attachment relationships to be in touch with our gut feelings.
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So then it becomes not our first nature, but our second nature to suppress our feelings, to lose touch with ourselves and to suppress our gut feelings.
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And then we pay the cost later on in the form of addictions, mental illness, or any range of physical illnesses.
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But it all began with this tragic conflict that children should never be confronted with, but are all the time,
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between authenticity on the one hand and attachment on the other.
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And even as adults, so many people are suffering because They want to be themselves, but they're afraid to be because they know or at least they fear
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that if they're themselves they're going to lose important attachment relationships in their life.

このクリップのスピーキング目標

このビデオは、自然な英語のリズムと論理的な語順を身につけるのに最適です。"attachment"や"authenticity"などの抽象的な単語を使った議論を追いながら、shadow speak(シャドーイング)の練習で口頭での表現力を向上させることができます。特に、長い文をスムーズに発音し、感情を込めて話す能力を鍛えることが目標です。

フレーズバンク

  • "the capacity to know what we feel"(自分の気持ちを知る能力)
  • "convey those messages unconsciously"(無意識にそのメッセージを伝える)
  • "suppress our emotions"(感情を抑える)
  • "pay the cost later on"(後で代償を払う)
  • "tragic conflict"(悲劇的な葛藤)

これらのフレーズは、議論や自己表現の場面で頻繁に使える実用的な表現です。shadow speechの練習時に繰り返し口に出して、自然に使えるようにしましょう。

弱点を直そう

このビデオの発音練習では、特に英語の発音を良くするために重要な点があります。"mammalian"や"reptile"などの難しい単語の発音や、"so that as soon as you get past..."のような長い文のリズムがポイントです。shadowspeaksの技法を使い、ネイティブスピーカーの発音に合わせて声を出してみましょう。また、"what happens to a child where..."のような疑問文のイントネーションも注意して練習します。
シャドーイングサイトを利用して、繰り返し練習することで、これらの弱点を克服できます。少しずつでも大丈夫です。毎日5分間、集中してshadowingを続けると、発音とリズムが大きく進歩しますよ!

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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