シャドーイング練習: How I Learned to Speak With More CLARITY - 7 Tips for Clear, Concise Speech - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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For many years, I didn't feel that I spoke with a lot of clarity.
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I was jumping around from thought to thought without any kind of intelligent connection to what I was saying, without finishing my sentences properly.
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My communication was jumbled and just all over the place.
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This lack of clarity in my communication made it really hard for me to get my point across, to establish credibility at work,
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and to get other people to understand what I was saying.
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So I spent a lot of time thinking about this problem, reading, researching, trying different methods to see what worked,
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and I've narrowed it down to some specific things which I'm going to share with you in this video.
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I hope these tips will benefit you and will help you communicate
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and speak with a lot more clarity at work and also in your personal life.
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The very first thing I did was expand my vocabulary.
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So I found that I was struggling to find the right words to explain what I wanted to say.
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And I also found that I wasn't using a very high level or sophisticated level of English.
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Around that time, I would watch interviews of business people
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and I was in awe at how sophisticated they sounded when they spoke.
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They would use words that were so intelligent, so eloquent, so descriptive and I wanted to be able to speak like that as well.
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So what did I do?
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I expanded my vocabulary and I worked on this through reading and through listening.
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I researched words that I didn't understand.
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I took notes of the words that I didn't understand or that I rarely used.
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I used a small notebook to take notes of these words so I could add them into my communication.
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And over time, I would gradually use these words whenever I was in a conversation with someone
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and over time that would become a natural part of my vocabulary and a natural part of my communication as well.
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This is one way I have elevated my communication and this is a tip that is absolutely accessible to you as well.
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The second thing I did was remove unnecessary information in my communication.
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So I had a tendency to give people all of the information, every little detail, whether they needed to know that detail or not.
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I wouldn't just give them the most important points or the key takeaways.
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I gave them all the information I could possibly give them.
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What I realized after doing this for a while was that I was overloading people with too much information.
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I was getting them lost.
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I was getting them confused and I wasn't helping them remember exactly what they needed to remember.
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All of this extra information, these unimportant details that you tell people, they simply distract them from the main message.
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It also makes you sound confused
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because you are not clear on what the main point is
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and it makes your listener walk away from the conversation feeling confused as well you can detect
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if people are thinking that you're giving them just way too much information
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if they look confused if they have a confused look on their face
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or if they actually say to you can you get to the point
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or what is the point you're trying to make
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if you detect any of these things then you are giving
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that person too much information you need to reduce it down to the main points the key points
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that you want to tell them and in business this is particularly important because business people are busy.
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They have a million things to remember and a million things to do.
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They don't want to be confused or distracted or have time taken up by you telling them unimportant information.
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So get straight to the point and give people the most important information only.
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The third tip I have for you is to communicate one thought at a time.
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At the beginning of this video, I mentioned that I will jump from thought to thought without any kind of intelligent connection to what I was saying.
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Sometimes this was because I was excited and I had exciting things to share with the other person.
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Other times it was because I had many things to say.
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But either way, this was a big mistake in my communication style
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because it made it extremely hard for the other person to follow what I was saying.
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And for me to speak with clarity as well.
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I was putting too many thoughts out there at the same time.
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I started to pay attention to this bad communication habit.
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I became aware of it.
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So I started to detect it in my communication and in my conversations.
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And when I felt I was about to jump from one thought to another without finishing the first thought, I would pause.
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I would take a breath in and think about what I was going to say.
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And I would make a conscious effort to actually finish my previous thought in its entirety.
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This made it easier for the person I was with to understand what I was saying
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because I was actually finishing my thoughts and finishing my sentences properly.
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And it made me sound like I was speaking with a lot more clarity as well.
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My fourth tip is to keep the main point in mind.
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One of the reasons why I jumped from thought to thought
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and didn't sound like I was speaking with any kind of clarity at all was
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because I wasn't clear on what the main point I wanted to make was.
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Sometimes this happened during business meetings because I felt pressure to talk.
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I felt that I had to say something because I was in the meeting and others expected me to say something.
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So I would often start talking and just hope that while I was talking, I would discover what my main point was.
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But this isn't a very effective way to communicate, to simply operate on hope that you'll find out what your main point is.
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The only thing it will do is to cause you to communicate in a very jumbled way because you are constantly talking,
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talking, trying to find out what your main point is.
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The only way to overcome this is to identify your main point before you start talking.
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If you need other people to speak first
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so you can have time to think and then eventually identify what your main point is, then that is absolutely fine.
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Sometimes what other people say will help you get clarity on the point that you want to make,
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or at least it will give you time to plan out your main message.
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Tip five, use reading to improve your speaking.
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This tip is probably going to surprise you.
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You might ask yourself, well, how does reading help me improve my speaking?
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But honestly, this is the one that has probably made the biggest difference for me.
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You see, when you read, a number of things happen subconsciously that can help you speak better.
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You learn new vocabulary, you learn new sentence structures, you learn how to connect thoughts better together.
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And on a subconscious level, you draw in, you take in all of this information that you can later use when you communicate.
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Rather than reading quietly to yourself, I recommend that you read out loud.
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Obviously, reading quietly does have a certain amount of impact on your communication as well.
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But reading out loud is probably the one
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that is going to have the most impact
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and the most positive impact on your communication because it forces you to repeat words, to repeat sentences, to repeat phrases.
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And this act of repeating in and of itself helps to program your mind in a different way.
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It helps you to think and speak in that way, which in turn helps you to communicate with more clarity.
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Tip number six, use writing to improve your speaking.
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This is something that has helped me immensely in communicating with a lot more clarity
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because writing helps you gain clarity on your ideas.
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When you write down your ideas, you get time to organize your thoughts.
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This isn't the kind of opportunity that you get in spoken communication.
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You don't get this kind of time to organize your thoughts.
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And when you practice this skill through writing over time, you will eventually be able to do it in your spoken communication as well.
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Another way you can use writing to improve your speaking is to use the process of active recall.
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This is where you read a chapter of a book and once you have read that chapter, you summarize that chapter in your own words.
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You can use bullet points if you like, but what you are doing is you are summarizing what you've read in your own words.
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This helps you to remember what you've learned, to pull out the most important points and to write it in a way
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that is clear and concise
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which again over time will translate to your verbal communication as
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well helping you speak with more clarity i recommend you choose
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a smart book preferably a non-fiction book for this purpose one
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of the books i've done this with is called mindset by
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carol dweck i will put a link to it in the description below
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if you want to check it out tip seven practice with interviews
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or documentaries as well as developing your verbal communication through reading
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and through writing you can also do it through watching specifically watching interviews
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or documentaries you'll want to choose an interview with an eloquent
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speaker somebody whom you admire listen to their interview analyze it carefully What words do they use?
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What sentences do they use?
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How do they connect their thoughts?
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What intonation do they use?
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Do they use the pause?
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What body language or facial expressions or hand gestures do they use when they speak?
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Study and analyze their entire communication, both their verbal and their nonverbal communication, and write down what you notice.
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Practice by repeating
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what they say
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and then incorporate these elements into your own communication this is how you learn from the best
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and elevate yourself to become a clear confident communicator articulation is
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a very important part of speaking with a lot more clarity if
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that is something you want to learn about then you need
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to watch this video right here where i teach you how to be more articulate
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when you speak
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videos like this every week to help you with your leadership communication thank you
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so much for watching and i will see you in the next video
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このビデオでは、クリアで簡潔なスピーチを実現するための7つのヒントが紹介されています。スピーキングスキルの向上には、明瞭なコミュニケーションが不可欠です。多くの人が、自分の考えを伝えることが難しいと感じていますが、正しいテクニックを用いることでそれを克服できます。特にビジネスシーンでは、他者が理解しやすいようにポイントを絞ることが求められます。このビデオのヒントを活用し、コミュニケーションを向上させましょう。具体的には、英語シャドーイングを通じてスピーキング力を磨くことが効果的です。自分が話す内容を明確にすることで、効果的な伝達が可能になります。
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- 不必要な情報の削除: 伝えたいメッセージを簡潔にするためには、余計な情報を省くことが重要です。「私はすべての詳細を伝えたがる傾向がありました」というフレーズから、実行するべき行動がわかります。
- 一度に一つの考えを伝える: スピーカーは「考えを飛び越えず、一つずつ伝えること」を強調しています。この表現は、聴衆が混乱しないようにするための技術です。
- 語彙の拡張: スピーカーは、豊かな語彙を持つことでコミュニケーションが改善されると述べています。「知らない単語を調査し、ノートを取る」という具体的な行動が示されています。
一般的な発音の罠
発音において気を付けるべきポイントも存在します。特に、clarity（クリアリティ）やconcise（コンサイズ）などの言葉は、英語の発音を良くするために注意が必要です。これらの単語は、英語学習者にとって発音が難しい場合があります。発音の練習には、shadow speechや英語シャドーイングが非常に役立ちます。ビデオでのスピーカーの発音を真似てみることで、より滑らかなスピーチを目指すことができます。反復練習を通じて、自然な流暢さと自信を身につけましょう。
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。