シャドーイング練習: How to Journal (Like a Philosopher) - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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So if you want to start journaling, it's actually pretty simple.
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There are basically three steps.
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First, just get a journal.
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Find one that you like.
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I like these Lloyd's term soft covers lately.
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Second, get a pen that you like to write with.
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I really like fountain pens, but you should just pick whatever works for you.
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And third, the step is to just write.
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Make a habit of it.
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Try to write every day if you can.
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And if you can't write every day, just write when you feel like it.
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It really is that simple.
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But every time I talk about journaling on this channel, I get one question I'm going to give you a guide to journaling.
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I'm going to tell you what to do when the words aren't flowing.
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And along the way, I am going to talk about journaling's relationship to self -improvement, which is one reason so many of us journal, and also the philosophy behind it all.
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If I'm struggling to write, I found that there is a reliable structure that I can follow that lets me write about a page's worth of content.
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First, I write a paragraph about something that happened that day, or if I'm journaling in the morning, something that happened the day before.
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I'm just writing about some event in my life, something that was notable.
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I'm being selective here.
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I'm not writing about everything that happened to me, and I am not aiming for this to be a comprehensive account of my entire day.
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So as an example, a few days ago, I was writing in my journal about something that happened at work.
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Basically, this event occurred.
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The details don't really matter for this video, but it was something that I found very stressful, but it turned out to be a misunderstanding on my part.
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and There was some stress for me until it was resolved.
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That was a notable enough event that I decided to write about it in my journal.
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So after I've written my factual account of the event in my life, I then try to write about something that I did well.
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This is something I can feel proud of.
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This is an achievement or a little bit of a success, a small victory,
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or even just an instance where I was able to reliably fall back on a habit that I've built up over time.
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to actually figure out what I would need to do to solve the problem.
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Now, because it turned out it was a misunderstanding, I didn't actually have to do much.
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But what I was proud of was
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that I broke the problem up into some smaller problems and started solving the most important ones.
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After I've written that paragraph, I write a paragraph about what did not go well.
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This is an opportunity for me to identify problem areas in my life, to identify places where I want to improve.
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These can over again.
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Or it could be bad habits that I've cultivated that I want to try and break.
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So I'm someone who's prone to anxiety.
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And when a problem arises, I tend to spiral for a little bit.
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I can usually then collect myself and solve the problem.
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But I always go through that anxiety spiral.
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And I want to stop doing that.
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So I try and identify times when I let my anxiety get the best of me.
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And then I try and think about how I can avoid that.
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What are the conditions that make
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to follow because one very effective technique for combating anxiety is figuring out where the anxious mind goes wrong
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and actually being able to reason with yourself
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so far i have written about an event i have written about something i'm proud of
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and something that i'm not proud of a success and a failure
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but after that there's still something else worth writing and
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that is when i try and zoom out
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and think about the bigger picture this part really isn't a paragraph it can
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pages on those days when I have a lot to think about.
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What I'm really trying to do is figure out what this event has in common with other events in my life.
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Or really, I am trying to fit this event into a larger narrative about my life.
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I am giving a sort of internal logic to my life story, and I am using my journal as an opportunity to do that.
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Let's talk a little bit more about this and the philosophy behind it.
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Many philosophers, just to name a few, Charles Taylor, Alistair McIntyre, Martin Heidegger, there are many others, but those are some notable names.
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They think of persons as primarily storytelling beings.
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So what makes us
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persons as opposed to mere animals is that we are able to construct and tell a narrative about ourselves.
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It's not as if we all have a formal narrative written down.
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Despite being someone who has consistently journaled for about a decade, it's not like I have written an autobiography of myself.
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And even those who write autobiographies don't write totally comprehensive accounts of their lives.
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But as we live our lives, we are thinking about how events relate to one another,
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We are looking for coherence and we are placing them in a more or less linear format.
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We're being selective.
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We think about some events more than others, but all the time as we live, we are constructing a narrative about ourselves.
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As we tell this story about ourselves and construct this narrative, really we are constructing who we are.
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What I think is interesting though, is that most of us don't take an active role in this construction.
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We do it out of habit and routine. to break the routine.
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It is designed actually to take a more intentional and active role in telling my life story to myself.
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If my life is a story.
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I want to be its author.
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but I also want to be a good author And that takes practice.
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Journaling is my practice.
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The idea is that I want to go beyond a fragmented account of my life.
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Julia Anis, who is an ethicist and a scholar of ancient philosophy who I really admire, calls this making sense of one's life as a whole.
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She discusses this at length in the first chapter of her book, The Morality of Happiness, a book that I highly recommend.
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Even if you're not an academic philosopher, it's pretty readable.
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According to Anis, ancient ethics begins with one simple question.
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Am I satisfied with my life as a whole, with the way that it has developed and the way that it promises to continue?
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For ancient philosophers like Aristotle, the central problem of ethics is happiness, or what they would call eudaimonia.
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We could also call that human flourishing.
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Achieving happiness is no easy task.
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It takes work, and a lot of that work is reflective work, reflecting on one's life as a whole.
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And that is exactly what a regular practice of journaling can provide.
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So if you have been struggling to get started with journaling, maybe give this format a shot.
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All you have to do is write about something that happened to your day, write about something you're proud of, something where you can improve, and then try to place it in the larger context of your life.
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Write that story about yourself.
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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 Journal」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：write, event, journaling, written, narrative。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が90文、単語が1252語あります。 音声の長さは6:44です。 話す速さは速く、1分あたり約186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82%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15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。
| 単語 | 発音 | 意味 |
|---|---|---|
| construct 動詞 | /ˈkɑn.stɹʌkt/ | 建設する, 建てる |
| paragraph 名詞 | /ˈpæɹəɡɹæf/ | 段落 |
| philosopher 名詞 | /fəˈlɑsəfɚ/ | 哲学者 |
| notable 形容詞 | /ˈnəʊtəbl̩/ | 顕著な |
| misunderstand 動詞 | /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/ | 勘違いする, 誤解する |
| autobiography 名詞 | /ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/ | 自伝, 自叙伝 |
| spiral 名詞 | /ˈspaɪɹəl/ | 渦巻, 渦巻線 |
| cultivate 動詞 | /ˈkʌltɪveɪt/ | 栽培する |
| reliably 副詞 | しっかり, 頼もしく | |
| flourish 動詞 | /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/ | 繁茂する, 繁栄する |
| fragment 名詞 | /ˈfɹæɡmənt/ | 断片, 破片 |
| factual 形容詞 | /ˈfæk.tʃ(u)əl/ | 事実上の |
| intentional 形容詞 | /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/ | 故意の, 意図的な |
| zoom 動詞 | /zuːm/ | 猛スピードで進む |
| fountain 名詞 | /ˈfaʊn.tɪn/ | 噴水 |
動画に出てくる句動詞
| 単語 | 発音 | 意味 |
|---|---|---|
| write down 動詞 | 書き留める, 記す | |
| zoom out 動詞 | /ˌzuːm ˈaʊt/ | ズームアウトする, 縮小する |
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 | I've written · I've built · I've cultivated |
| 関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える | improvement, which is · someone who has · those who write |
| 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 | was resolved · is designed |
注意したい発音
話し手はI'm, I've, don'tなど、短縮形や弱形を25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。
- 「th」の音: ethics /ˈɛθ.ɪks/, ethicist /ˈɛθɪsɪst/
- 「sh」と「zh」の音: flourish /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/
- 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: philosopher /fəˈlɑsəfɚ/, misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/, autobiography /ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/
日本語話者が苦手な音：
- /r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: spiral /ˈspaɪɹəl/, readable /ˈɹiː.də.bəl/, flourish /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/, reflective /ɹɪˈflɛktɪv/, stressful /ˈstɹɛsfəl/
- /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: selective /səˈlɛktɪv/, cultivate /ˈkʌltɪveɪt/, reflective /ɹɪˈflɛktɪv/, resolve /ɹɪˈzɑlv/
- /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: paragraph /ˈpæɹəɡɹæf/, philosopher /fəˈlɑsəfɚ/, autobiography /ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/, flourish /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/, fragment /ˈfɹæɡmənt/
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。construct, paragraph, philosopher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。