シャドーイング練習: How are singles meeting each other in 2026? - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Millions of singles are looking for love and many of them know the dating world can be daunting.
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So how are people meeting in 2026?
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Yes, here with some advice on finding that perfect match is April Davis.
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She's the founder of Luma Luxury Matchmaking and we really, we need you.
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We've been having a really interesting conversation.
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We're going to try to give people some stuff to walk away with here.
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How are people meeting each other in 2026?
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Well, the apps are always going to be the first thing that people will think of when they're looking to meet someone.
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But really the best way to meet someone is in real life.
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So getting out and doing things
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that you enjoy Maybe it's just going to the gym
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or signing up for some kind of social group Those are all great ways to meet somebody more organically
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and you know They're in you're gonna have a shared shared interest and have something to talk about Yeah, people still want that meet cute Can you explain what
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that is to people who don't know that they want to feel
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that connection that eye contact that you know
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that? interesting you know story line not just
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that they maybe met on an app they want
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that you know more organic type of experience and that
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that feeling of butterflies when you first meet somebody but
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that said people are still one in three married in 2025 met on an app
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so it is still right yeah very much a thing it's yes the apps are they're everywhere
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but people are feeling really burnt out by them they're they're sick of the fishing pictures fish pics yeah
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and they're they're sick of people not looking like how they're portraying themselves online or even how they portray themselves.
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Now people are chat fishing not just catfishing they're using AI to write the conversations.
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You've been writing their profile and all these apps are incorporating AI into their apps
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so they it will help people to sound better in order to get them that date.
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So Gen Z has sort of changed sort of the focus.
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Yeah, I think they're wanting to go out and have experiences and meet people more organically again.
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People are done with being, they're just over the whole, after the COVID lockdowns and everything, people are longing to get out and actually do something in real life.
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So that has become a thing.
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When you do that and maybe you find someone that you're interested in, tell us about some green flags to look out for.
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Well, I always think about how do they treat other people you know
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when you're with them
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and you know how do they treat the waitstaff how do
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they talk about other people how are they talking about their ex you know is are they is
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that ex the villain or
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and are they the you know the victim mentality kind of thing
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and you know those are things to keep definitely keep in
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mind you said pay attention to what they do after the date yeah
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and are they following up are they you know just ghosting you for some time
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and then just checking in or maybe they're texting you late at night
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when you know and you want to are they consistent?
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I've always wondered like what's the right amount of time where you don't seem like you're too needy, but at the same time, you're not too standoffish?
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Well, I think it really, it can depend on where your conversation.
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So after a first date, maybe it is, I think it's beneficial to maybe reach out the next day to someone and,
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but not just saying, oh, how's your day going?
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Like maybe adding some kind of value to their day.
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Hey, maybe you talked about something You could just send them some sort of photo or tidbit that you read about, you know, just adding some kind of value to their day Yeah, something memorable.
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What are some green flags that people overlook?
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Maybe don't give enough value.
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Yeah Well, I think it's it's important to keep in mind, you know, is this person Do they have other things in their life,
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you know, and how do you how do you have?
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How do you argue with them, right?
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Because a lot of people think that oh, well, we didn't have any arguments We've never argued before we've been dating for you know a year.
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We've never argued Well, it's actually that is a red flag
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if you've never been able to have an argument But
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if somebody can argue fair with you if you can have a good conversation and respectful
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Argument that is actually a great green flag You said yeah listening being genuinely curious about you
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and then following through on making plans of some other ones Okay, we got to get to the red flags because we need what what are you telling people to look out for these?
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Well, okay, so somebody that is just inconsistent, right?
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They're maybe hot and they're cold.
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They're not talking about making future plans with you
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and you know maybe they have their life and then your their time
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that they will maybe give to you on the side
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so that's not really a relationship that's more of a situationship
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and so that's not somebody
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that you know is going to be really able making space
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for you in their life um there's there's always like i said earlier the whole victim mentality those people
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that get stuck in this mindset of oh everybody's everyone's terrible there's no great people out there
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and blah blah blah and how do they approach life you want to try to figure
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that out and i think when people make blanket statements about oh all women are terrible
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or all men are terrible you know
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that kind of gives you a clue into their mentality yeah
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they're real judgy negative before we let you go we said
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no more fishing pictures please apparently there's too many out there what kinds of photos do well on dating apps.
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Well I think it's it's good to have those pictures
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that are like when you're with with your friends for one for example
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but you also don't want to get can be confusing right you want to we were saying earlier
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that you want to be the best looking person in the photo so you don't want anyone to overshine you.
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But I think that shows that you have a life you have interests you have friends
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and stuff but I we actually provide photos for our clients
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or we do photo shoots because we want to be able to show them in a good light and have great photos.
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How can people find you?
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Oh they can just go to our website at lumasearch.com and fill out the profile form.
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Great.
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Well, thanks for coming in.
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Well, thank you for having me.
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Really helpful advice.
このクリップのスピーキング目標
デートや恋愛に関する日常会話の流れを自然に理解し、実際の場面で使える表現を習得することが目標です。特に、「meet cute」のような俗语や、「green flags」といった比喩表現の使い方を覚えることで、ネイティブらしい会話力を向上させましょう。また、IELTS スピーキング対策にも役立つ、意見交換のリズムや論理的な話し方を練習できます。
フレーズバンク
- 「the dating world can be daunting」（デートの世界は怖いものです）
- 「meet someone more organically」（より自然に出会う）
- 「shared interest」（共通の興味）
- 「that feeling of butterflies」（胸がときめく感じ）
- 「burnt out by them」（飽きてしまう）
- 「follow up」（連絡を取り合う）
- 「adding some kind of value」（価値を与える）
弱点を直そう！
このビデオは、英語シャドーイング（shadow speech）の練習に最適です。会話のリズムやイントネーション、特に疑問文の調子や驚きの表現を真似ることで、発音の自然さが向上します。また、「chat fishing」のような新しい単語の発音や、「consistent」のような長い単語のアクセントを確認しながら、shadow speakの技術を磨きましょう。短いフレーズから始めて、徐々に長い文に挑戦することで、スピーキングの流れがスムーズになります。
毎日5分間、この会話をシャドーイングするだけで、日常会話の自信がつき、IELTS スピーキング対策にも役立つ実践的なスキルが身につきます。ぜひ試してみてください！
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。