シャドーイング練習: How Corporate Meetings ACTUALLY Go - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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So those are the 15 vague objectives for this meeting.
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You're still there, right, Carl?
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I'm here.
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Just checking email since no one can see me.
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Great.
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Just making sure.
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I'll now turn things over to Pam, our new project manager.
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She's going to present an exciting new strategy for managing all
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of our approvals for all of our creative assets here at Status Quo Week.
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Pam?
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I hear she's the George Lucas of creative workflow.
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I don't know what that means.
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As you can see here, all of our stakeholders have multiple ways they can share their vague overdue feedback to our creatives.
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Last summer, I interned for a company that had a single platform that made it easier to manage all of this.
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The great thing is there's no one simple way to send or receive feedback.
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So as creative director, I'll never know exactly where we are in the approvals process.
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Exactly.
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Hell yeah.
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And neither will I.
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It's perfectly inefficient.
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And an efficient is a core value here at SQI.
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Who knows the other three?
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Redundancy, ineffi- Yeah, I'll have a number three with a dyco.
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I'm not seeing an option to print out assets so I can mark them up with a pen and hand deliver.
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If you follow this line here, you'll see that that is an option.
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Have you guys heard of Zyflo?
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The last company I worked for saved so much time and money when we completely streamlined our- I hate to interrupt, Kim, but rules are rules.
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Thanks, Rena.
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By the way, your legal team is going to love how busy my process keeps you.
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Do you tell them?
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Well, since we'll have a hard time keeping up with what versions of what have been approved by whom, we'll make sure it's near impossible to keep our assets compliant with company requirements.
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That's great news.
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It's been way too long since the Billboard incident.
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And how are things going in here?
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Kevin, good to see you.
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It's Patrick.
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Uh-huh. And Paula?
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Arena.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Kim?
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It's Kim.
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But you can call me Kim.
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Thank you for having me.
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Clint is the Neil Patrick Harris of CEOs.
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What?
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Well, whoever you guys are, I just hope you're in here finding some old ways to keep things super inefficient.
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You know of us.
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Good, good.
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I am very rich.
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So, Pam, is this process going to give you too much to manage?
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Not yet.
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I'm hoping to increase my workload to 80 hours a week once this new system gets implemented.
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One thing you and other executives can do to help, if I may, is to take even longer to provide feedback.
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Maybe even forgot sometimes.
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Happy to.
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That way, the creative team will need to send me more emails asking for updates.
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More emails, plus more hours.
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Oh, and creatives.
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One thing you can do to help create more unnecessary work is to send files
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and formats that non-creatives for sure can't open.
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Like .ai files.
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What are those?
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Speaking of files, here's how I suggest we go about naming different versions.
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So the difference between final, final final, and for real final could be potentially confusing?
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Yes.
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Awesome.
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F*ing genius.
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With Zyflow, you wouldn't even have to worry about the wrong versions being sent to the wrong people at the wrong time.
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And ultimately, the approval process and the creative improved dramatically.
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And Pam, you could not only work normal hours, you could get your sanity back.
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Because you'd have confidence that all of the assets are in the right people's hands.
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Kim, as a project manager, it is my job to be overwhelmed, to be scattered, to be constantly needed by everyone involved.
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I'm not sure Status Quo Inc is the right company for you. May I?
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You're fired, Kim. So, I'm an intern.
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Remember, I don't actually work here, but sorry I tried to help.
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Hey Kim, give me a call.
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I'd love to see what you're doing on Friday.
文脈と背景
この動画では、企業内部の会議の進行やコミュニケーションの様子が描かれています。出席者は、あいまいな目標を持った会議の中で、さまざまなフィードバックを提供する方法を模索しています。特に、創造的な資産に関する承認プロセスの管理に焦点が当てられており、出席者たちは効率の悪さや冗長性について会話をしています。このような状況は、英語を学ぶ際のビジネスシーンに役立つ重要な文脈を提供します。
日常コミュニケーションのためのトップ5フレーズ
- メールをチェックしています。 (I'm just checking email.)
- 承認プロセスの現在の状況はわかりません。 (I'll never know exactly where we are in the approvals process.)
- 時間とお金を節約しました。 (Saved so much time and money.)
- どのバージョンが承認されたか分かりません。 (We’ll have a hard time keeping up with what versions have been approved.)
- お忙しい中、ありがとうございます。 (Thank you for having me.)
ステップバイステップシャドーイングガイド
この動画の難しさに取り組むには、以下のステップでシャドーイングを試みましょう。シャドースピーチやシャドースピークを意識することで、リスニングとスピーキング能力を向上させることができます。
- 動画を何度も視聴: まずは動画を通して見て、会話の内容を理解します。
- フレーズの把握: 上記のフレーズを何度も声に出して練習し、意味を知ります。
- シャドーイングの実践: 動画を再生し、ナレーターの後に続いて言葉を発声します。この時、単語の発音やイントネーションに注意します。
- リピート練習: 自分で録音して、発音と流暢さをチェックし、改善点に気付いてください。
- 実際の会話に応用: 学んだフレーズを用いて、友人や同僚との会話で積極的に使ってみます。
このように、YouTubeで英語学習を進めることにより、IELTSスピーキング対策としても非常に効果的です。動画を活用して、英語の実践的なスキルを向上させましょう。
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。