シャドーイング練習: How to write every single day (even if you have no ideas) - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Hi.

Today I'm going to teach you how to write.

Write like a human being.

In today's day and age, people are getting dumber and dumber, and I think it's really important that we all know how to write, how to put our thoughts on paper, how to think clearly, and if you're someone who goes to write

and then can't produce anything or you feel like your ideas are bad, this video is for you.

I, myself, am a writer.

I am the author of the self -published Dopamine Hole and the soon -to -be -released How to Run Away from Home.

Today is really just about the basic writing process.

I write everything by hand.

I do this every single day, and everything that I create is downstream of a basic writing practice.

So that's what we're going to teach today through three basic drills.

I don't care if you're just getting started.

If you've been writing for years and just feel a little bit stuck, I'm going to help you out here.

So I think a lot of people have the experience of going to journal

or going to write and then immediately having no ideas, or they think their ideas are bad, or they just start something and it just isn't coming out the way they want it to, so they stop.

How many people say, I'm going to start journaling, and they make it a day or a week, and then they just kind of stop.

It's very common.

And so I think people need a process.

When you go to start working out in the gym, you don't do so with zero plan.

You learn some very basic drills, some exercises, a simple workout program you can follow without thinking too much.

And that's what allows you to stay consistent because you go in and you don't have to think about what to do.

So let's just jump right in.

I want you to get for yourself a journal and a pen, something you can write with and on.

Highly recommend that you do this by hand.

You can do it on your computer.

You can even voice note it if you can't write, but I highly recommend you do this by hand.

This is part of the human skill that we're cultivating.

Handwriting is like what makes you a human being, and that's what's going to help us stand out amongst the robots which are coming.

So get yourself a journal and a pen.

The first drill that we're going to talk about here is called observation, and observation is the basic skill involved in writing.

Here's a situation for you.

Let's say you're on your way to work.

Maybe you're late.

Maybe you're on the train, and you have a moment to write.

You're going to use this moment for a little creative practice.

I think that's great.

This observation drill involves taking out your journal, getting your pen, and then making a very simple list of things that you observe in the physical world.

The reason I love this drill is because it doesn't require you to think.

It doesn't require you to interpret too much.

All you do is you use your eyes and your ears

and your nose and all of your other senses to just write down what is going on in the physical world.

And you prove to yourself that you can observe things.

You can write them down.

There is a man seated next to me.

He smells like he's wearing too much cologne.

The train has stopped for five minutes now.

What I'll encourage you to do with this drill is not include any emotions.

Don't write about how you're feeling.

Don't try to impose feelings on the experience.

Just map the experience.

Just write out a list of things that are occurring and that have happened.

Requires no thought or interpretation.

But what's interesting about this is that it is a creative exercise in that you don't include everything in that list.

Notice what your attention immediately gravitates towards.

You might not write down every single thing that's happening.

That would be impossible.

But you will include the things that stand out to you.

And that tells you a little something.

So that's the observation drill.

You can just start with that.

You can do that anytime.

Highly recommend for when you're feeling overwhelmed and you can't sort through your thoughts.

It can be a really daunting task to try to figure out, oh, what am I feeling right now, especially when things are going on in your personal life, when there's just all kinds of stuff going on, don't worry about it.

Ground yourself.

And you can do that with pen and paper by just writing down things.

The wall is white.

The sky outside is gray.

Simple stuff, not complex prose.

Now you'll notice some very famous writers like Chekhov, like Hemingway, like many others, write very simple sentences that are just these basic observations about the world.

But readers love that because that paints a picture that we can access.

Okay, it's not about writing the most complicated, ornate, beautiful prose.

It's about making accurate observations and painting a little impressionistic portrait of your experience in that moment.

If you do this once a day, you're going to improve as a writer.

You're going to improve your own observation muscle within you, and you will build your confidence

because you will have filled at least one page with a list of observations that occurred in the physical world.

Great.

That's drill number one.

Drill number two is reaction or continuation.

I like reaction.

We'll call it that.

This is just taking it a step further.

So you're going to start again.

Let's say you're still on the train.

You're still late for work.

You're going to write down one sentence.

Okay.

I am late to work.

And then what you're going to do is just react to it.

Okay.

You're going to try to continue that stream of thought for the entire page or two pages, whatever comes out of you.

And the trick is to just not stop writing.

This is really good for when you're feeling overwhelmed, but you can tell there's a lot of energy in you

that needs to come out okay you want to be very

kind of aggressive with the page in this drill you're just

going to keep writing things down keep writing things down connect

one thought to the next the train is moving faster

and i'm worried about what's going to happen when i get into work

and what my boss is going to say to me

and you don't have to sort through it doesn't have to

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be clean in a perfect world it's just one long run -on sentence again nothing you're going to publish

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This is for you.

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This is a private writing practice that's going to build your muscle, your creative muscle.

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And then over time, that turns into something.

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That's what turns into potentially writing a short story or multiple collections of short stories.

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Holy glaze.

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So just react to it.

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Okay.

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This is a lesson that comes from one of my favorite writers, George Saunders, who in a recent podcast with Rick Rubin referred to writing

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and creativity as just one long process of reaction you put something down

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and then you react to it and you do

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that a bunch of times and the more times

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that you do it the more complex

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or the more vivid a piece becomes right the more intentionality

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that goes into it but that's a little bit in the weeds we're not worried about

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that yet all you're worried about is you're not worried

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but all you're thinking about is one observation

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and then a reaction to it reaction reaction reaction you see

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how this is different from the first drill the first drill

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is more like a list okay just a bunch like 20

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individual uh things you notice reaction is taking it a step

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further where then you can you link them together i am

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i am you can use emotions at this part i am

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nervous i am afraid of what's going to happen blah blah blah blah blah

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and you just get the thoughts out okay notice with both

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of these drills you are not thinking you are not trying

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to make something beautiful you are not thinking about how you're going to post this

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or what people are going to think about it

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because it is purely for you okay the same way that

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if you start going to the gym you're not going to post every single workout.

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You're going to build your foundation.

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You're going to do it for you.

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And over time, you might build a movement practice or a physique that you feel inclined to share with the world, but that's not at all required.

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And that's not the kind of benefit we're talking about.

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This is writing for mental health, not writing for becoming famous on the internet.

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But they go hand in hand.

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Okay.

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And then the last drill that we'll cover for right now is narrative.

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So after you built an observation practice and then a reaction practice, now you can start playing around with narratives.

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So this is really good when you're trying to sort through a recent experience that you don't quite understand.

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It can be really helpful to create distance from an emotional experience.

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And so what you might do is write in the third person.

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John was late to work today.

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He got to the train five minutes later than he normally did because he failed to get up with his first alarm.

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He still went through his 20 push -ups that he did first thing in the morning,

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but then his water kettle was broken and his tea was not made on time.

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And you just kind of write this out and you just do it really sloppy, right?

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And you're just making these little observations with a little distance.

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Now, what separates narrative from other forms of writing like poetry, in my view, is that narrative constitutes a fundamental change.

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There's some kind of change that has to happen.

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And that can be really helpful when you're trying to write through your own experiences, because it allows you to, you automatically start noticing the change that you went through.

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Maybe by being late to work, you reached a point of serenity or a point of inner peace where you were like, yeah, I'm not really, I'm not going to worry too much about it.

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Or maybe you didn't get to a point of inner peace and the whole story is just a constant escalation towards turmoil.

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All of these are really sometimes fun practices to relate to your own experience.

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But they build on each other.

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So you start with observation.

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Can you just observe the physical things in the world around you without any interpretation or imposing feelings on it?

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Can you then continue that?

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Can you react to each observation, right?

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And create this kind of linear stream of thoughts.

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And then lastly, narrative.

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Can you synthesize a fundamental change?

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Can you notice that fundamental change within yourself?

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Okay.

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What I would do if I were you

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and I wanted to start writing is I would just start with the observation and just start doing that.

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The beautiful thing about journaling and writing is

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that you get better over time if you just do it if you do this practice 20 times,

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your body, your brain, your spirit will learn to crave the practice because it will associate it with a feeling of release,

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which is ultimately what you need when you're feeling overwhelmed or stressed or anxious or directionless.

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You need release.

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You need somewhere to pour the energy.

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Otherwise, it just accumulates within you and makes you feel really anxious.

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That's what writing can offer you.

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And that's what I'm going to recommend you start with.

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Building this skill is how you fortify your mind in the age of brain rod, in the age of addictive entertainment and algorithms that want to exploit you and sell you for advertising dollars.

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This is part of the resistance.

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It's an act of creative resistance, and this is maybe the war of our time.

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I talk about this stuff all the time, but understand how these small little practices can very, very meaningfully contribute to the development of yourself and then potentially the species.

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This is what we need to be doing right now.

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Observe the physical world around you.

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Then react to each of your thoughts, creating a stream of thought.

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And then lastly, create some narrative.

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And often you don't have to invent this.

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It presents itself.

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That was the other point on observation.

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If you just observe accurately, you notice that there is narrative all around you.

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There are interesting things all around you.

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You just have to observe it.

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Train your human skill of observation and you'll realize you're a much better writer than you initially thought.

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Train it.

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Practice it.

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You have the skill.

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Or you will have the skill.

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You have the ability to do this.

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I promise you.

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If you have any questions, let me know.

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But I think that's all for today.

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I hope this is helpful.

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Boom.

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Peace.

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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 write every single day」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, writing, observation, drill, practice。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が200文、単語が2254語あります。音声の長さは10:04です。話す速さは速く、1分あたり約224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。

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
observation 名詞	/ˌɑbzɚˈveɪʃn̩/	観察
drill 名詞	/dɹɪl/	ドリル
narrative 名詞	/ˈnæɹ.ə.tɪv/	物語
skill 名詞	/skɪl/	腕, 技
observe 動詞	/əbˈzɜːv/	守る, 従う
muscle 名詞	/ˈmʌs.əl/	筋肉, 筋
helpful 形容詞	/ˈhɛlp.fl̩/	役に立つ, 有用
fundamental 形容詞	/ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/	基本的な
occur 動詞	/əˈkɜː/	起こる, 起る
interpretation 名詞	/ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/	通訳
emotion 名詞	/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/	感情, 心緒
anxious 形容詞	/ˈæŋkʃəs/	心配した
workout 名詞	/ˈwɝk.aʊ̯t/	運動, トレーニング
prose 名詞	/ˈpɹoʊz/	散文
lastly 副詞	/ˈlæstli/	最後に

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
come out 動詞	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	出る
take out 動詞		取り出す

繰り返し練習したい文

動画に出てくる短く完結した文です。日常会話でそのまま使えます。

Today I'm going to teach you how to write.
I don't care if you're just getting started.
Can you then continue that?
Can you synthesize a fundamental change?
Can you notice that fundamental change within yourself?

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	has stopped · have happened
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 · was broken
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える	someone who goes · robots which are

注意したい発音

話し手はyou're, don't, I'mなど、短縮形や弱形を67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: algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, synthesize /ˈsɪnθəsaɪz/
「sh」と「zh」の音: observation /ˌɑbzɚˈveɪʃn̩/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, interpretation /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: fundamental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, interpretation /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/

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: drill /dɹɪl/, alarm /əˈlɑɹm/, relate /ɹɪˈleɪt/, linear /ˈlɪn.i.əɹ/, purely /ˈpjʊɹli/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: observation /ˌɑbzɚˈveɪʃn̩/, narrative /ˈnæɹ.ə.tɪv/, observe /əbˈzɜːv/, aggressive /əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/, involve /ɪnˈvɑlv/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: helpful /ˈhɛlp.fl̩/, fundamental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/, refer /ɹɪˈfɜː/, fortify /ˈfɔɹtəˌfaɪ/

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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。observation, drill, narrative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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この動画の文法

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シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由