シャドーイング練習: How To Go From Average To Fortune - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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How to go from average to fortune.
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There's five simple steps.
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You might like to make a note of them.
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Here's the first one.
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Get serious.
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You don't have to be grim, but you must be serious.
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I know a guy that's got a half a dozen jokes keeping him from becoming wealthy.
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He's not known as rich.
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He's known as a joker, which I guess is okay if that's the kind of life you want to live.
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But it really isn't the best way to live.
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To go from average to fortune, you must get serious.
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And you must get serious about two very important things.
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Number one is setting your goals and where you want to go.
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Designing the next five, the next ten years is so vitally important.
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Then you have to get serious about another important subject.
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And that important subject is called personal development.
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Personal development is striving hard to become the kind of person that you want to be.
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Ten years from now, you will surely become someone.
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The big question is, who?

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “How To Go From Average To Fortune”. This video has 19 sentences and 179 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:54. The speaker talks fast, about 199 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 90% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 10 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
fortune noun/ˈfɔːtjuːn/Destiny, especially favorable.
wealthy adjective/ˈwɛl.θi/Possessing financial wealth; rich.
joker noun/ˈd͡ʒoʊkɚ/A person who makes jokes.
strive verb/ˈstɹaɪv/To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
grim adjective/ɡɹɪm/Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
vitally adverb/ˈvaɪ.tə.li/In a manner that imparts vitality
joke noun/ˈd͡ʒoʊ̯k/An amusing story.
surely adverb/ˈʃʊɹli/Without fail.
subject noun/ˈsʌb.d͡ʒɛkt/The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the…
rich adjective/ˈɹɪt͡ʃ/Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.

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 called
「might / may」による可能性 might/may + 動詞 — 起こりうるが確実ではないことmight like
最上級 the -est / the most … — グループの中で一番the best
義務:must / have to / need to 何かが必要であることを伝えるhave to be · must get · have to get

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like fortune, wealthy, joker.

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。

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