シャドーイング練習: I hate being performative - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

I hate being performative.

I hate it when I can just feel this angst inside myself

when I'm trying to either seek someone's approval or I'm trying to just fit in.

Now, I think there's different levels.

There's different levels of being performative or performance.

And one is sort of, maybe all of them are sort of out of this sense of insecurity.

But some of them, I guess, are worse than others.

Some of them, someone is completely fake Someone could be, I don't know, maybe their whole life is a liar Just what they say and how they act is disingenuine

Versus someone who is trying to fit in, but they don't quite know how And I guess that's where I am Not right now,

but I have been in the latter

Trying to either fit in with a group Or just feel like I am not a complete outsider

and I guess especially in school high school I felt

so much anxiety and maybe I wasn't performative

but I was just very very aware too aware too conscious

to the point where I guess I wasn't really doing a whole lot from the outside

but from the inside I felt like I wasn't me I wasn't acting like myself

and it was performance without any actual outside performance

but just constant monitoring of myself which is in some sense performance

or maybe just really bad anxiety

but nonetheless I don't feel this way anymore at least not nearly as much as

when I was in school maybe sometimes in some way I feel this way

but um it's definitely gotten a lot better But I think it's weird because,

especially with social media, but even maybe just in a place like school, you know, who is being real, who is just performing?

And you wonder, well, who am I in relation to all this?

Am I performing?

Or is everyone just kind of hiding something, hiding how they really feel about their life?

I don't know.

Are people just kind of ignorant or are people just very good at performance?

I don't know but I feel like in some way our whole life is just an act.

We're all just trying to make people think we are someone

that we don't really feel like or that we hope to be

but we don't necessarily feel like we are

and we're just doing things to convince everyone but

if everyone's doing this then what's the point maybe we can all just drop the act

and just start being more real with each other maybe we can stop trying to focus

so much on being this person who is thought highly of instead just not care so much.

I don't know.

To many, it probably isn't that easy.

Maybe even to me.

I mean, just recording this video, maybe this is a performance.

I don't know.

But here's what I'll say.

To me, I do not trust the person who is always agreeable, nor do I trust the person who is always disagreeable.

I think especially on social media,

there is sort of this idea that if you're someone who's super duper relatable or super duper just like repulsive or disagreeable,

then you'll be popular.

And I wonder, well, how much of it is just trying to be agreeable or trying to be disagreeable just for,

you know, the views, the likes or the follows or whatever versus what do you actually think?

Because that's what I want to know.

I don't want to know what you think that is politically correct.

I don't know what you want to think that you think other people will approve of.

I just want to know what you think.

And it's difficult in society, at least in Western society.

Maybe this is probably just a whole world thing, but not wanting to be perceived in a certain way as negative based off of either how you act

or what you think or your opinions.

And it's maybe in some context, maybe in some context, you could say maybe it's a good thing.

But I think overall, overall, probably in 99% of situations,

it's bad because everyone kind of just keeps what they really think on the inside.

and instead they just perform.

And I don't think it helps anyone.

I don't think it helps society.

I don't think it helps people grow.

I don't think it helps people get along better either.

I think really it's just performance, like I've been saying so many times.

But yeah, I don't want to be performative.

It's like the thing about social media, posting on here, It's like, what's going to happen to me if I get famous?

Or if people start, you know, commenting more, saying things, whatever, whether it's good or bad, what's going to happen?

Will I turn into someone who I'm not actually?

Will I just start performing and just lose myself?

I hope not.

But maybe it's also a test of character. And that's the thing.

Like you see people like when they get famous, some people say, oh, that guy really changed.

They changed or they weren't the same way they are.

But I wonder in what way?

In what way did they change?

Did they change in a better way or a worse way?

It's usually a worse way when people talk about it that way. But why?

Is it fame?

Is it money?

Is it power?

I wonder.

I really do.

But I guess here's my declaration or proclamation.

I'll say it out loud here.

I declare that I will not let it destroy me or ruin me or strip out the things that are genuine.

Because in some way, the more popular or famous you get, the more you have to lose.

and it's like people care more about how they are perceived versus just in some sense their dignity

their dignity their dignity of what they stand on what they believe in And I don't like that, you know?

It's unfortunate.

And I guess I don't want to become that way.

So we'll have to see.

We'll have to see what happens to me, to my life.

In one way, I guess success would be a great thing.

But in another way, it's a test.

It's a test to see who will I become Will I just become another performer Or will I somehow remain me

I think fame changes everyone To some extent

But it shouldn't change you In a super negative way In some sense it should

I don't know Amplify the good things about you I mean, I guess that's what I would hope it would do, but maybe that's just like wishful thinking.

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That's probably not what happens most of the time.

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But yeah, that's what I'm thinking.

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I don't want to be performative.

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I just want to be me.

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この動画が話す練習に最適な理由

日常的な英語表現と深い思考が混ざったこの動画は、英語シャドーイングやshadowspeakの練習にぴったりです。話者の自然な口調や抑揚、曖昧な表現（例えば「I don't know」「maybe」）がリアルな会話の雰囲気を再現していて、IELTS スピーキング対策にも役立ちます。特に「performative」のような抽象的な単語の使い方や、自己反省的な内容は、英語での思考力と表現力を鍛えるのに最適です。

自然な表現を分解してみよう

「I hate it when I can just feel this angst inside myself」：「angst」（不安）という単語が感情を具体的に表し、「inside myself」で内面の状態を強調しています。日本語では「心の中にこの不安を感じる時が嫌い」となりますが、英語では「it」を使った構文が自然です。
「To me, I do not trust the person who is always agreeable」：「agreeable」（迎合的な）という単語がネイティブスピーカーのよく使う表現で、「always」を添えることで「いつも迎合的な人」というニュアンスが強まります。否定文の構造も自然で、英語の発音を良くする練習に最適です。
「Maybe even to me. I mean, just recording this video, maybe this is a performance」：「I mean」で話題を補足し、「maybe」で曖昧さを残す表現は、日常会話でよく見られます。このようなつなぎ言葉を使うことで、話が流れるようになります。

簡単な練習ルーティン

shadow speakの基本は「聞いて、真似して、録音して比較する」です。まず動画を10秒ほど再生し、その後すぐに同じ速度と抑揚で繰り返しましょう。特に「I don't know」「maybe」のような軽い表現は、発音をゆっくりと真似ることで自然な口調になります。録音した自分の声と動画を比較して、抑揚やポーズの違いを確認しましょう。1日10分、この練習を続けると、英語の発音を良くするだけでなく、会話のリズムも身につきます。

少しずつ慣れてきたら、30秒ぐらいの部分をまとめて練習してみてください。ネイティブスピーカーの思考過程を追いながら話すことで、英語での表現力が飛躍的に向上しますよ！

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
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える	someone who is · myself which is · person who is
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 thought · be perceived · are perceived

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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