シャドーイング練習: Have You Ever Compared Yourself To Others? - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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A lot people spend their whole lives always comparing themselves to other people without even knowing how much it negatively affects them.

When comparing yourself to someone who is inferior than you, you may feel content with who you are and lose the passion to grow to your full potential.

When comparing yourself to someone who is superior than you, it could just make you feel bad about yourself and focus only on how little you've progressed in comparison to them.

And this can be very discouraging altogether.

I mean if you look at someone else and work your own goals around theirs you're actually following someone else's path.

But that path is probably not the same path as yours and will not be the path you need to take in order for you to achieve your own dreams.

The thing is, everyone is different.

Diamonds are valuable because it doesn't pretend to be Topaz.

Topaz are valuable because it doesn't pretend to be Rubies.

Everything is beautiful in it's own way.

We are all valuable in our own way.

For example, if you're a fish but you compare your running skills to a tiger, you will undoubtedly be disappointed in your own value.

But actually, you can swim way better than a tiger can.

And that there is your value.

Therefore, what you should be focusing on is finding yourself.

Walking on your own path and competing with yourself.

Instead of looking at yourself and the things that you don't have, you should be focusing on the things that you do have and do well.

And even if being yourself doesn't always succeed, like maybe you'll fall, or maybe you'll fail, you should just think that whatever the outcome is, it's the best outcome you could have.

Now you're probably wondering something like: Hey I lost the race, hey I didn't do as well on my exams as my friends, hey I did terribly in the job interview, and then think how is that the best outcome I could have?

It's the best outcome because of the circumstances in that moment.

I'll give you an example, there was a runner who finished in 4th place because the night before she raced, she didn't sleep very well therefore not getting enough rest and not having enough energy to run as she did when she was training.

She was really sad and she blamed herself because she thought that she didn't do the best that she could because if she had had more rest, she would have done better.

But in reality, she's not able to turn back the time to when she didn't get enough rest.

Which means that ultimately, we cannot control everything and we cannot change anything even if it wasn't done as well as we had hoped.

It really was the best outcome considering the situation.

The voice in our head that's always telling us things like "had I known, I wouldn't have done it that way" or "if I hadn't done it like this, I wouldn't be in the position I am in now", they comes from our hope and expectations that want to fix our disappointments but in reality we aren't able to turn back the time to fix what's already happened.

And because we can't fix it, then we think that's it's our fault and we blame ourselves.

But no matter how much we blame ourselves, we can't change the past.

Therefore, the only thing that can release us from blaming ourselves is to understand that we are not the only cause for what happened.

The runner finished in 4th place not just because she was too excited to fall asleep.

But it was also because of several other reasons.

The 3 winners had trained 6 months longer than her and were more familiar with the trail.

Not only that, but actually there was another runner that didn't make it because of a major traffic jam.

There was traffic because there was construction.

There was construction to fix a broken telephone pole.

There was a broken telephone pole from the lightning and there was lightning from the storm.

Now you can see that had the storm not hit last night, our racer would've finished 5th place because the other runner would have made it to the race.

There are so many other reasons that this could have happened.

We are not the only ones to cause something to happen and we can never go back to change the past.

So if we remember that when we are disappointed in ourselves, we may learn to blame ourselves less, have a little bit more understanding and be able to accept the things that happen to us.

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この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が40文、単語が788語あります。音声の長さは4:01です。話す速さは速く、1分あたり約196語です。音のつながりや弱く発音される音が多くなります。単語の88%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれるため、語彙は分かりやすいです。

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくるやや難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

compare /kəmˈpɛɚ/ (動詞) — 比べる, 比較する. To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things [“to compare X with Y”]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it…
runner /ˈɹʌnɚ/ (名詞) — 走者, ランナー. A person who moves, on foot, at a fast pace, especially an athlete.
disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/ (形容詞) — 失望した. Defeated of expectations or hope; experiencing disappointment; let down.
telephone /ˈtɛləˌfoʊn/ (名詞) — 電話. A telecommunication device which converts data or sounds (usually speech) into electrical signals which are then transmitted to enable two or more people to…
tiger /ˈtaɪɡə/ (名詞) — 虎. Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
pole /pəʊl/ (名詞) — 極. Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
lightning /ˈlaɪt.nɪŋ/ (名詞) — 稲妻, 雷光. A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.
superior /sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/ (形容詞) — 偉い, 貴い. Higher in rank, status, or quality.
trail /tɹeɪl/ (名詞) — 跡, 痕跡. The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the…
passion /ˈpæʃən/ (名詞) — 激情. A true desire sustained or prolonged.
diamond /ˈdaɪ.ə.mənd/ (名詞) — ダイヤモンド, ダイヤ. A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron.
skill /skɪl/ (名詞) — 腕, 技. A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.
compete /kəmˈpiːt/ (動詞) — 争う, 競う. To be in battle or in a rivalry with another for the same thing, position, or reward; to contend.
asleep /əˈsliːp/ (形容詞) — 寝ている, 眠っている. In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting.
succeed /səkˈsiːd/ (動詞) — 継ぐ, 継承する. To follow something in sequence or time.

注意したい発音

話し手はdidn't, doesn't, you'reなど、短縮形や弱形を24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。

「th」の音: altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/, theirs /ðɛɚz/
「sh」と「zh」の音: passion /ˈpæʃən/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, superior /sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/, altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/, disappointment /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/

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まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
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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
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える	someone who is
最上級 the -est / the most … — グループの中で一番	the best
「should」による助言 should + 動詞 — したほうがよいことを伝える	should be · should just think
「might / may」による可能性 might/may + 動詞 — 起こりうるが確実ではないこと	may feel · may learn

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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