シャドーイング練習: How To Know Yourself - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Bye you Bye you Many of us are wandering the earth,
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accomplished in many ways, capable of fulfillment at many points,
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but with a fundamental wound that stops us from becoming who we truly might be.
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We don't quite know who we Oh.
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It isn't, of course, that we can't remember the basics of our biographies.
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We're unsure around two things in particular: Firstly, we don't have a stable sense of what we're worth.
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And secondly, we don't have a secure hold on our own values, or judgements.
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Without knowing who we are, we tend to have particular trouble coping with either denigration or adulation.
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If other people decide that we are worthless or bad, there will be nothing inside us to prevent us from swallowing their verdicts in their entirety,
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however wrongheaded, extreme or unkind these might be.
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We'll be helpless before the court of public opinion.
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We'll always be asking other people what we deserve before seeking inside for an answer.
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Lacking an independent verdict, we also stand to be unnaturally hungry for external praise.
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The clapping of an audience will matter to us far more than would ever be wise.
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We'll be prey to rushing towards whatever idea or activity the crowd happens to love.
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We'll laugh at jokes that aren't funny, uncritically accept undeserving concepts that are in vogue,
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and neglect our truer talents for easy, popular wins.
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We'll trail public opinion slavishly, constantly checking the world's whims rather than consulting an inner barometer in order to know what we should want,
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feel and value.
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We need to be kind on ourselves.
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No one is born with an independent ability to know who they are.
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We learn to have an identity because, if we're blessed, in our early years, someone else takes the trouble to study us with immense fairness,
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attention and kindness, and then plays us back to us in a way that makes sense and that we can later emulate.
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years and use as a defence against the distorting verdicts from hurried or ill -intentioned others.
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Knowing who one is, is really the legacy of having been known properly by somebody else at the start.
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This early identity building tends to unfold with apparently innocuous but life -saving small steps.
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"That must really have hurt," a parent might say in response to an upset, thereby validating an infant's own feelings.
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Or "It's okay not to feel happy on your birthday," the parent might say at another point,
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delicately upholding an infant's less typical response to certain events.
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Ideally, the child isn't just known, he or she is also interpreted as likeable.
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A good parent offers generous interpretations.
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They're on the side of the child
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and are always ready to put the best possible gloss on moments of ill temper
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or of failure which forms the basis upon which resilient self -esteem can then later emerge.
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Now, that's the ideal, but it can, of course, go very wrong and often does.
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A parent may offer mirroring that is out of sync with the reality of the child.
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"Look, who's such a happy little boy or girl?" a parent might insist, when actually the opposite is clearly the case,
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thereby badly scrambling the child's ability to connect with their own emotions.
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Or the parent might only lend the child a very harsh, punitive way of interpreting itself,
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repeatedly suggesting that the child is ill -intentioned or no good.
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Or the parent may simply not show very much interest in the child, focusing themselves elsewhere.
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so that the child grows up with a feeling that not only is it not worth cherishing, but also because it hasn't been adequately seen and mirrored,
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that it doesn't even quite exist.
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a feeling of unreality is the direct consequence of emotional neglect.
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Realizing that we lack a stable identity is a sobering realization.
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But we can, with a fair wind, start to correct the problem at any point.
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We need to seek out the help of a wise and kindly other person perhaps a good psychotherapist, someone who can study us closely,
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mirror us properly, and then validate what they see Through their eyes, we can learn to study, perhaps for the first time,
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how we really feel, and take seriously what we actually want.
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We can, by being witnessed generously,
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more often learn to take our own sides and feel increasingly solid inside trusting ourselves more than we trust the crowd,
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feeling that we might be able to say no,
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not always swaying in the wind and feeling that we are in possession of some of the ultimate important truths about us.
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having come to know ourselves like this, we will be a little less hungry for praise, a little less worried by opposition,
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and a lot more original in our thinking.
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we will have learned the vital art of both knowing and befriending who we, really are.
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Our Know Yourself cards can help us to better understand the deepest, most elusive aspects of ourselves.
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Follow the link now to learn more.
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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C1レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「How To Know Yourself」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：parent, feeling, ourselves, learn, verdict。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が58文、単語が843語あります。 音声の長さは5:45です。 話す速さは1分あたり約146語で安定しており、シャドーイングしやすいペースです。 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 |
|---|---|---|
| verdict 名詞 | /ˈvɜː.dɪkt/ | 評決 |
| neglect 動詞 | /nɪˈɡlɛkt/ | 無視する, 忽略する |
| interpret 動詞 | /ɪnˈtɜː.pɹɪt/ | 解説する |
| thereby 副詞 | /ðɛɹˈbaɪ/ | それによって, そのために |
| barometer 名詞 | /bəˈɹɑ.mə.tɚ/ | 気圧計 |
| distort 動詞 | /dɪsˈtɔːt/ | 歪める, 曲げる |
| innocuous 形容詞 | /ɪˈnɑkjuəs/ | 無害な, 無毒な |
| likable 形容詞 | /ˈlaɪkəbl̩/ | 好かれる, 好まれる |
| unfold 動詞 | /ʌnˈfoʊld/ | 広げる |
| uphold 動詞 | /ˌʌpˈhəʊld/ | 掲げる |
| cherish 動詞 | /ˈt͡ʃɛɹɪʃ/ | 珍重する, 愛好する |
| clap 動詞 | /klæp/ | 手を叩く |
| sway 動詞 | /ˈsweɪ̯/ | 揺れる |
| wander 動詞 | /ˈwɑndɚ/ | ぶらつく, さ迷う |
| helpless 形容詞 | /ˈhɛlplɪs/ | 無力な |
動画に出てくる句動詞
| 単語 | 意味 |
|---|---|
| see through 動詞 | 見通す, 透視する |
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 born · been known · isn't just known |
| 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 hurt · hasn't been · have learned |
注意したい発音
話し手はwe'll, don't, we'reなど、短縮形や弱形を18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: thereby /ðɛɹˈbaɪ/, worthless /ˈwɜːθ.ləs/
- 「sh」と「zh」の音: adulation /ˌæd͡ʒəˈleɪʃən/, slavishly /ˈsleɪvɪʃli/, cherish /ˈt͡ʃɛɹɪʃ/, realization /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/
- 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: adulation /ˌæd͡ʒəˈleɪʃən/, barometer /bəˈɹɑ.mə.tɚ/, delicately /ˈdɛlɪkətli/, undeserving /ˌʌndɪˈzɝvɪŋ/, unnaturally /ʌnˈnæt͡ʃ(ə)ɹəli/
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: resilient /ɹɪˈzɪl.jənt/, scramble /ˈskɹæmbl̩/, unnaturally /ʌnˈnæt͡ʃ(ə)ɹəli/, realization /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
- /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: verdict /ˈvɜː.dɪkt/, validate /ˈvæl.ɪ.deɪt/, elusive /ɪˈl(j)u.sɪv/, punitive /ˈpju.nɪ.tɪv/, slavishly /ˈsleɪvɪʃli/
- /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: befriend /bəˈfɹɛnd/, fulfilment /fʊlˈfɪl.mənt/, unfold /ʌnˈfoʊld/, fairness /ˈfɛɚ.nəs/, biography /baɪˈɑɡɹəfi/
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。
- 通常の速度で一文ずつシャドーイングし、話し手のリズムに合うまで繰り返します。
- 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。verdict, neglect, interpret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。