シャドーイング練習: How To Simplify Your Life - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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It's well understood by good parents that life should only ever get so exciting for a baby.
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After friends have come round and brought presents and made animated faces, after there's been some cake and some cuddles,
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after there have been a lot of bright lights and perhaps some songs too, enough is enough.
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The baby will start to look stern and then burst into tears and the wise parent knows that nothing is particularly wrong, though the baby may by now be wailing.
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It's just time for a nap.
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The brain needs to process, digest and divide up the welter of experiences that have been ingested and so the curtains are drawn,
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baby is laid down next to the soft toys and soon it's asleep and calm descends.
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Everyone knows that life is going to be a lot more manageable again in an hour.
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Sadly, we exercise no such caution with ourselves.
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We schedule a week in which we're going to see friends every night, in which we're going to do 12 meetings, three of them requiring a lot of preparation,
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where we'll make a quick overnight dash to another country on the Wednesday, where we'll watch three films, read 14 newspapers, change six pairs of sheets, have five heavy meals after 8pm and drink 30 cups of coffee
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and then we lament that our lives are not as calm as they might be
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and that we are close to mental collapse.
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We refuse to take seriously how much of our babyhood is left inside our adult selves
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and therefore how much care we have to take to keep things simple and very, very calm.
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What registers as anxiety is typically no freakish phenomenon.
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It is our minds logical, simple, enraged plea not to be continuously and exhaustingly overstimulated.
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These are some of the things we may need to do to simplify our lives.
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It is theoretically a privilege to have a lot of people to see and things to do.
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It is also, psychologically speaking, exhausting and ultimately therefore rather dangerous.
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The manner of expression is a little dated and brutal and one might want to quibble over for the exact timings, but this point from Friedrich Nietzsche remains acute.
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Today, as always, men fall into two groups, slaves and free men.
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Whoever does not have two -thirds of his day for himself is a slave, whatever else he may be, a statesman, a businessman, an official or a scholar.
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We need to recognise that what is physically possible for us to achieve in a day is not, for that matter, psychologically wise or plausible.
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It may well be feasible to nip over to a foreign capital
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or two in a day and run a company alongside managing a household.
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But nor should we be surprised if such routines ultimately contribute to a breakdown.
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Plenty of it, of course, at least seven hours.
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Or, if we can't manage it, we need at a minimum fully to recognise how much we are deprived, so that we won't aggravate our sorrows by searching for abstruse explanations for them.
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We don't necessarily have to get divorced, retrain in a completely different profession or move country.
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We may just need to get some more rest.
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What we're taking in when we check our phones is perhaps the single greatest contributor to our mental ill health.
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For most of history, it was inconceivable that there could ever be such a thing as too much news.
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Information from political circles or foreign countries was rare, prized and expensive.
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But since the middle of the 20th century, news has been commodified and in the process it has become a major, though still too little known, risk to our mental survival.
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Every minute of every day presents us with untold options for filling our minds with the mania, exploits, disasters, furies, reversals, triumphs,
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insanity and cataclysms of complete strangers all around our benighted planet.
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Always, news organisations speak of our need to know and the need to know right now.
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But what they have left out is our equally great and often even greater need not to know.
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Because we can't change anything, because the stories are too violent, dispiriting and sad, because our minds are fragile, because we have responsibilities closer to home,
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because we need to lead our own lives rather than be
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torn apart by stories of the lives of others who are ultimately as remote from
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and irrelevant to us as the inhabitants of the Egyptian court of King Sinaferu in late 2613 BC.
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Insomnia and anxiety are the mind's revenge for all the thoughts we refuse to have consciously during the day.
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In order to be able to find rest, we need to carve off chunks of time where we have
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nothing to do other than lie in bed with a pad and paper in order to think.
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We need to consider three topics in particular.
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Firstly, what's making me anxious?
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Secondly, what's caused me pain and how, and thirdly, what's exciting me.
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We need to sift through the chaotic contents of our minds.
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Every hour of living requires at least ten minutes of sifting.
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Of course, it might be pleasant to be extraordinary, famous and world -beating.
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But maybe it will be an even greater achievement to stay sane and kind.
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We might opt not to conquer the world in favour of living a longer and more serene life.
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We are not backing away from a challenge, we are simply shifting our sense of what the real challenge might be and, more importantly, where the real rewards may lie.
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A quiet life isn't necessarily one of resignation or flight.
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It may constitute a supremely wise recognition that the truly satisfying things are available away from the spotlight and the big cities,
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on modest salaries and as far as possible from the manic, sleepless competition to win the professional status race.
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As we're discovering, excitement can be fun for a time, but also it kills.
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Simplicity is true wisdom.
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We may need a lot more naps.
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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 Simplify Your Life」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：minds, lives, baby。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が61文、単語が1011語あります。 音声の長さは6:10です。 話す速さは1分あたり約164語で、日常会話に近い自然なペースです。 英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は80%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。

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15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語発音意味
anxiety 名詞/æŋˈzaɪ.əti/心配, 不安
refuse 動詞/ɹɪˈfjuːz/断る, 拒む
tear 動詞/tɛɹ/破る, 引き裂く
slave 名詞/sleɪv/奴隷
topic 名詞/ˈtɑpɪk/話題, テーマ
meal 名詞/ˈmiːl/食事, めし
recognition 名詞/ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/承認
violent 形容詞/ˈvaɪ.ə.lənt/激しい
alongside/əˌlɔŋˈsaɪd/に沿って
explanation 名詞/ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/説明
remote 形容詞/ɹəˈməʊt̞/遠い, 遠隔な
sheet 名詞/ʃit/枚, シート
disaster 名詞/dɪˈzɑːs.təː/災害, 天災
discover 動詞/dɪˈskʌvə/発見する, 見つける
equally 副詞/ˈiːkwəli/等しく, 平等に

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have come · have been · have been ingested
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have been ingested · is laid · is left

注意したい発音

話し手はwe're, can't, we'llなど、短縮形や弱形を11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: recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, sheet /ʃit/, organisation /ˈɔː.ɡə.naɪˌzeɪ.ʃən/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/
  • 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/

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: necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, salary /ˈsæləɹi/, privilege /ˈpɹɪv.(ɪ.)lɪd͡ʒ/, brutal /ˈbɹuːtəl/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/
  • /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: slave /sleɪv/, violent /ˈvaɪ.ə.lənt/, whoever /huˈɛvɚ/, discover /dɪˈskʌvə/, survival /sɚˈvaɪ.vəl/
  • /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: refuse /ɹɪˈfjuːz/, physically /ˈfɪz.ɪ.kli/, phenomenon /fəˈnɒm.ɪ.nən/, profession /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/, satisfy /ˈsætɪsfaɪ/

この動画での練習方法

  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。anxiety, refuse, tear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。

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