シャドーイング練習: How To Effectively Leverage Skip Level 1 1s - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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One thing that happens pretty frequently at these tech companies, especially big tech companies, is a skip level one -on -one, which basically means you don't talk to your direct manager, you talk to their manager.
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So you know, someone who's kind of two steps removed.
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So I'm curious, in these skip level one -on -ones, what have you seen as the most effective way to take advantage of that time with this skip level?
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From the perspective of the engineer, I think one of the best uses at the time is
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that you can take it as an opportunity to try to understand the broader strategy of the company
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or the broader strategy of the organization that you're a part of.
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One question that you can try asking at your skip level to try to get
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that is to just ask them what their priorities are, right?
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Ask them like, hey, what are the top three things
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that you're working on as the skip level and person who's responsible for this organization?
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What are the things that you think are going really well for the organization?
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What are the things that are keeping you up because you think that they're not going very well for the organization?
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And I think
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that all of it is meant to help engineers build a better understanding of the strategy around the product
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and the business that they're a part of.
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And so hopefully when it comes time to you making technical choices in your job as an engineer, you'll have a better frame of reference for making those tradeoffs.
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Totally.
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And actually, I think it goes back also to this idea about a nose for impact, right?
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If your skip level manager says, hey, here are my top three or four priorities, and you can't draw a line from the stuff that you're working on to one of those three things, you're probably not working on the right thing.
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So yeah, I'm also curious about how, is there an opportunity or a place in a skip level one -on -one to basically provide a status update and say,
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hey, here are the challenges that I'm facing on my team, or maybe with my own manager, is that appropriate ever in a skip level?
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So I would say there's two things that maybe are a little counterintuitive, but I really encourage with skip level one -on -ones.
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And one is be candid.
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There's no need for you to try to impress your skip level.
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There's honestly not much value in that. If anything, I think the best way to for both people to get
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good value out of the time is for you to give a really honest view
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because one reality for skip level one -on -ones is
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that they operate oftentimes at an altitude where they have blind
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spots you know there are some things about their organization
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that they just don't see because they're not in the day -to -day work right
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and so you as the engineer
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if you're able to you know give concrete examples of interesting things
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that they should be aware of i think that's something
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that they would really value and then the second part of this
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that i would say is um you know be willing to challenge their ideas uh i i can tell you
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that in the skip level conversations
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that i've had where i was a skip level um those
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were actually always the most interesting conversations to me uh when
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when my ideas were challenged and and the reason I say that is because,
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you know, I care a lot about the whole team being bought into what we're doing, right?
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And if I say something that an engineer that I really respect calls BS on, I think there's a pretty good chance that,
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you know, at face value, there are other engineers on the team that would call BS on it as well, right?
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And so like, as the skip level, I want diagnose that.
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I want to get to the root cause of why there's disagreement.
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Maybe it's that I didn't explain my point of view or the company's point of view well enough in a particular situation, but I could also be wrong.
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I think getting a different perspective, an honest perspective, especially from an engineer that I really trust, that's some of the most valuable time that I can spend.
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Totally.
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And I feel like the other aspect is that, you know, the skip level managers probably happen infrequently, but they're not happening on a weekly or bi -weekly basis.
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They might happen once a month or once every quarter.
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And so I imagine that that's super valuable, not only for you as a skip level, but also as an ISEE to get that broader perspective.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I think so.
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You know, it's because it's a relatively rare perspective that you get, you know, it's, there are ways in which I think
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that time can be used in a way that's really effective
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and and it really all just comes down to being forthcoming with each other about what you see
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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
このスピーキングレッスンは、動画「How To Effectively Leverage Skip Level 1 1s」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：skip, engineer, perspective, organization, manager。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が56文、単語が866語あります。 音声の長さは4:37です。 話す速さは速く、1分あたり約187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。 全56文のうち9文が疑問文なので、疑問文のイントネーションや短い受け答えの練習に向いています。
この動画の重要語彙
動画に出てくる覚えておきたい単語8語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。
| 単語 | 発音 | 意味 |
|---|---|---|
| skip 動詞 | /skɪp/ | はね回る |
| curious 形容詞 | /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/ | 好奇心の強い, 知りたがる |
| priority 名詞 | /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/ | 優先, 優先権 |
| encourage 動詞 | /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ | 勇気付ける, 奨励する |
| concrete 形容詞 | /ˌkɑnˈkɹit/ | 実際の, 具体的 |
| aspect 名詞 | /ˈæspɛkt/ | 様相 |
| forthcoming 形容詞 | /fɔɹθˈkʌmɪŋ/ | 来たる, 今度の |
| diagnose 動詞 | /ˈdaɪ.əɡˌnoʊs/ | 診断する |
動画に出てくる句動詞
| 単語 | 意味 |
|---|---|
| go back 動詞 | 戻る, 帰る |
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 |
|---|---|
| 受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる | is meant · were challenged · being bought |
| 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 | have you seen · i've had |
注意したい発音
話し手はyou're, they're, I'mなど、短縮形や弱形を19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。
- 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, disagreement /dɪsəˈɡɹiːmənt/, counterintuitive /ˌkaʊntəɹɪnˈtuɪtɪv/, infrequently /ɪnˈfɹiːkwənt.li/
日本語話者が苦手な音：
- /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: forthcoming /fɔɹθˈkʌmɪŋ/, infrequently /ɪnˈfɹiːkwənt.li/, oftentimes /ˈɔf.ənˌtaɪmz/
- 子音の連続 — 間に母音を入れない: skip /skɪp/, curious /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/, priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, concrete /ˌkɑnˈkɹit/, aspect /ˈæspɛkt/
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。skip, curious, priority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。