シャドーイング練習: How to Become Extraordinary (or Not) - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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If you're like me, you're probably binge watching your 81st video right now.
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Hey, I can't blame you.
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I do the same shit.
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But you know, it's funny watching YouTube all the time or being on social media all the the time,
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you're always exposed to the most extraordinary parts of human experience.
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For instance, I can get on YouTube or Instagram
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and I can instantly see a guy pick up a thousand pounds off the floor
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and he's got arms like the size of my toilet bowl.
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Or I can see an eight-year-old who's better at piano than I am at anything, really.
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You see this encouragement of the extraordinary all over pop culture.
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You see it in talk shows, you see it in inspirational figures, you see it in commercials, and you especially see it in the self-help industry.
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One of the biggest things that's sold to you in the self-help industry is
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that we all have this special extraordinary thing inside us, and it's just waiting to get out.
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All you need to know is the secret to get it out of you.
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That unless you're doing something incredible with your life, then it's somehow wasted.
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I think this is bullshit.
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In fact, I think the problem isn't so much us, we've lost track of what normal, good human experience is actually like.
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First of all, most of us are going to be ordinary at the vast majority of things that we do.
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Second of all, even if you are able to lift a thousand pounds off the ground or whatever,
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doesn't necessarily make you a good father or a good friend or or even a good person.
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These extraordinary things that we're exposed to while being super cool
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and entertaining aren't necessarily the most important metrics to be gauging our lives on.
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So this is a bell curve and
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if you wanted to graph most human skills and activities
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and put all the people who are the very best on the right
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and all the people who are very worst on the left, what you end up getting is a nice bell shape.
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The vast majority of people are in the middle somewhere, and as you get out to either extreme, there are fewer and fewer people at those extremities.
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When we see something like, I don't know, Michael Jordan slam dunking, he's in the 99.9th percentile.
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He's one of the best human beings that has ever lived.
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He's on this part of the bell curve.
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He's so far on this end of the bell curve that you can't even see what's over there.
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He doesn't even show up on the graph.
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And then you take somebody like, I don't know, this guy, he's so much worse than everybody.
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He's on the other end of the bell curve.
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What all this great technology and media has done to us is that we are constantly exposed to the extremes, to the tail ends of the bell curve,
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while we go outside and our day-to-day life is in the fat, boring middle.
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But Mark, if I'm not extraordinary, what do I do with my life?
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And it's like, well, who says you need to be extraordinary to have a valuable and meaningful life?
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In fact, I would argue that some of the most important things in life are not extraordinary at all.
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Things like raising a kid well, things like taking care of your health, being an honest and good person to your friends and family.
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These are not extraordinary things.
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In fact, they are the most ordinary things.
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And I think they're ordinary things for a reason, because they're the most important.
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And there's a paradox to this as well.
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If you want to do one of those extraordinary things, the way you do it is by doing the ordinary extremely well for a long time.
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For instance, that dude who lifts a thousand pounds, I mean, he's probably been hitting the gym three hours a day for the last 25 years.
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There's nothing extraordinary about going into the gym and lifting slightly more weight than you did last time.
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When you compound that over the course of decades, you end up with an extraordinary result.
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But if you go into it looking for the extraordinary result, you're going to create false expectations and you're just going to feel like shit about yourself.
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And so there's this contrast.
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Our actual lived experience is, I'm just like everybody fucking else.
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But our expectation is, is I should be jumping out of planes in a wingsuit and fucking landing on Mount Everest.
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It's one of those things that while the intention is very good, I think it causes more suffering than it resolves.
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So I say fuck being extraordinary.
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Let's bring back the ordinary.
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Let's bring back being average.
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Because if we're being honest, we're all pretty average most of the time.
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And that's okay.
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このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント
このB2レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「How to Become Extraordinary」を教材にしています。 繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：extraordinary, bell, curve, ordinary, exposed。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が58文、単語が831語あります。 音声の長さは4:45です。 話す速さは1分あたり約175語で、日常会話に近い自然なペースです。 単語の86%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。
この動画の重要語彙
動画の中で特に難しい単語12語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。
| 単語 | 発音 | 意味 |
|---|---|---|
| curve 名詞 | /kɚv/ | 曲線 |
| expose 動詞 | /ɪkˈspoʊz/ | 晒す, 暴く |
| expectation 名詞 | /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/ | 期待, 予想 |
| graph 名詞 | /ɡɹæf/ | グラフ, 図表 |
| extremity 名詞 | /ɪkˈstɹɛməti/ | 果て, 末端 |
| paradox 名詞 | /ˈpæ.ɹəˌdɒks/ | 矛盾, パラドックス |
| encouragement 名詞 | [ɪnˈkʌɹɪd͡ʒmənt] | 激励 |
| bore 動詞 | /boɹ/ | いらいらさせる |
| slam 動詞 | /ˈslæm/ | ばたんと閉める |
| meaningful 形容詞 | /ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/ | 有意義な |
| resolve 動詞 | /ɹɪˈzɑlv/ | 解く, 分解する |
| compound 名詞 | /ˈkɑmpaʊnd/ | 化合物 |
動画に出てくる句動詞
| 単語 | 意味 |
|---|---|
| get out 動詞 | 出て行く |
| pick up 動詞 | 拾う, 拾い上げる |
繰り返し練習したい文
動画に出てくる短く完結した文です。日常会話でそのまま使えます。
- Hey, I can't blame you.
- Let's bring back the ordinary.
- Let's bring back being average.
この動画の文法
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 |
|---|---|
| 現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している | we've lost · has ever lived · has done |
| 関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える | people who are |
注意したい発音
話し手はyou're, we're, can'tなど、短縮形や弱形を22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。
- 「sh」と「zh」の音: expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, inspirational /ˌɪnspəˈɹeɪʃənəl/
- 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, extremity /ɪkˈstɹɛməti/, inspirational /ˌɪnspəˈɹeɪʃənəl/, encouragement [ɪnˈkʌɹɪd͡ʒmənt]
この動画での練習方法
- まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
- 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。
- 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。curve, expose, expectationなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。
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。