シャドーイング練習: "I Got Rich When I Understood This" | Jeff Bezos - YouTubeで英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people,
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I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people,
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and I had a brilliant boss I much admired.
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I went to my boss and told him I was going to start a company selling books on the internet.
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He took me on a long walk in Central Park,
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listened carefully to me, and finally said,
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That sounds like a really good idea,
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but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn't already have a good job.
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You can have a job,
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or you can have a career,
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or you can have a calling.
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And if you can somehow figure out how to have a calling,
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you have hit the jackpot,
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because that's the big deal.
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I met Jeff Bezos 25 years ago,
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and he told me, Dave,
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I want you to invest in my company.
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What are you doing?
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a bookstore in my garage.
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Okay, I'm going to put it online.
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People buy online and I'm going to ship out of my garage.
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But if you invest in me,
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Dave, someday I'm going to be the richest man in the world.
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I'll do over $100 billion.
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First of all, there's no such thing as $100 billion 25 years ago.
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Statistically, there's no such thing.
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Countries didn't have our national debt wasn't $100 billion.
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And this dude's telling me,
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at 26 years old,
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that he's going to be the richest man in the world because he has a garage and the internet? That was his truth.
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No, but he did not know it, and neither did I.
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But the difference between him and I is I was laughing,
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scoffing, and jesting at him,
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and he was already applauding himself,
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going, at the right way,
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at the perfect time, I'm going to make as much as I can as quickly,
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and I'm sitting there going,
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there's no way this is going to be a big business.
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Do something you're very passionate about.
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And don't try to chase what is kind of the hot passion of the day.
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Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice.
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But ultimately, I decided I had to give it a shot.
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I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing.
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And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.
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After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion,
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and I'm proud of that choice.
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As a young boy, I had been a garage inventor.
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I'd invented an automatic gate-closer out of cement-filled tires,
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a solar cooker that didn't work very well out of an umbrella in aluminum foil,
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baking pan alarms to entrap my siblings.
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I'd always wanted to be an inventor and she wanted me to follow my passion.
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There's a military phrase that I especially love and it says,
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slow is smooth and smooth is fast.
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And I have seen that in every endeavor I've ever been in.
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That's the kind of thing that really allows you to make progress.
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You know, you get certain gifts in life and you to take advantage of those.
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But you, I guess my advice on adversity and success would be to be proud not of your gifts,
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but of your hard work and your choices.
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So you know, you may be,
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the kinds of gifts you get,
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you know, you might be really good at math,
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might be really easy for you.
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That's a kind of gift.
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But practicing that math and taking it to the next step
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that could be very challenging and hard and take a lot of sweat.
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That's a choice.
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You can't really be proud of your gifts because they were given to you.
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You can be grateful for them and thankful for them,
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but your choices, you choose to work hard,
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you choose to do hard things.
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Those are choices that you can be proud of.
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You can choose.
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We all get to choose our life stories and it's the choices that define us,
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not our gifts.
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Everybody in this room has many gifts.
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I have many gifts.
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You can never be proud of your gifts because they're gifts.
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They were given to you.
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You might be tall or you might be really good at math,
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or you might be extremely beautiful or handsome,
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or you know, there are many gifts,
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and you can only be proud really of your choices,
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because those are the things that you are acting on.
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And one of the most important choices that each of us has,
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and you know this just as well as I do,
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is you can choose a life of ease and comfort,
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or you can choose a life of service and adventure.
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And when you're 80, which one of those things do you think you're going to be more proud of?
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You're going to be more proud of having chosen a life of service and adventure.
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There's never been a better time to be alive.
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I mean, it's just incredible the amount of inspiration
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that the world generates for me and I think for a lot of people.
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It's just insane the amount of change and invention and opportunity.
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Your life, the life you author from scratch on your own, begins.
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How will you use your gifts?
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What choices will you make?
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Will inertia be your guide or will you follow your passions?
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Will you follow dogma or will you be original?
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Will you choose a life of ease or a life of service and adventure?
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Will you wilt under criticism or will you follow your convictions?
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Will you bluff it out when you're wrong or will you apologize?
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Will you guard your heart against rejection or will you act when you fall in love?
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Will you play it safe or will you be a little bit swashbuckling?
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When it's tough, will you give up or will you be relentless?
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Will you be a cynic or will you be a builder?
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Will you be clever at the expense of others?
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Or will you be kind?
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Every time you figure out some way of providing tools and services that empower other people to deploy their creativity,
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you're really on to something.
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You know, you're very lucky if you have a career.
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A lot of people end up with a job.
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If you don't love your work,
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you're never going to be great at it.
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Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Galileo,
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Newton, all the curious from the ages would have wanted I wanted to be alive,
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most of all, right now.
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As a civilization, we will have so many gifts,
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just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.
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How will you use these gifts?
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And will you take pride in your gifts or pride in your choices?
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このレッスンでは、成功するための情熱の重要性や、リスクを取ることの意義について学びます。特に、英語で自分の意見や経験を表現する際に役立つフレーズや語彙を取り入れ、実践的なスピーキング能力を向上させることが目標です。また、音声を反復することで、英語の発音を良くするコツも紹介します。
重要な語彙とフレーズ
- キャリア (career) - 職業や仕事の経歴
- 情熱 (passion) - 強い興味や愛情
- リスク (risk) - 危険を冒すこと
- 投資 (invest) - 経済的なリソースを使うこと
- 発明者 (inventor) - 新しいものを考え出す人
- オンライン (online) - インターネットを通じて
- ガレージ (garage) - 家の車庫や小さな工房
- 成功 (success) - 目標を達成すること
練習のコツ
この動画のスピードやトーンに合わせたシャドーイングを行うことが重要です。まずは、動画をリスニングして全体の内容を把握しましょう。その後、小さなセクションに分けて、同じフレーズを何度も繰り返します。英語スピーキング練習の際には、声に出して読み上げることで、自分の発音を意識しましょう。また、気に入ったフレーズを自分なりにアレンジして使うことで、より個性的な表現力を身に付けることができます。特に、英語シャドーイングのテクニックを利用して、動画の内容を繰り返すことで、IELTS スピーキング対策にもつながります。
リズムやイントネーションにも注意して、ネイティブの話し方を模倣することが、英語の発音を良くする秘訣です。自信が持てるまで練習を続け、自然な会話ができるように頑張りましょう！
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。