シャドーイング練習: Learn the language of secrets - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Hello and welcome to Real Easy English.
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In this podcast, we have real conversations in easy English to help you learn.
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I'm Beth.
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And I'm Georgie.
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Hi Georgie.
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Hello Beth.
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How is your week going?
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It's going well.
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It's quite a busy one, isn't it?
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It is.
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It's only Wednesday.
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Yeah.
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It feels like Friday.
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But today we're talking about secrets.
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Secrets.
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A secret is a piece of information that you don't tell other people.
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Beth, does that mean you're going to tell me all of your secrets?
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No. Not now.
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Maybe later.
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Ooh, okay.
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So Georgie, are you good at keeping secrets?
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No, I'm definitely not good at keeping secrets.
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I'm a bit of an open book, which means...
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the opposite of someone who is good at keeping secrets.
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You're very honest and share things, maybe too much.
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What about you?
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Okay.
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I I'm probably the same as you.
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I think I'm
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not good at keeping secrets but
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If it's a really important secret and I've been told "please don't tell anyone" then I won't tell anyone.
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Yes, so Beth, what is the biggest secret you've had to keep?
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Hmm.
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Ooh, um...
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I flew abroad. to surprise
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my boyfriend at the time his dad and we had to keep it a secret
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and we even called him in the morning on a video call and pretended we were at home and we were in a different country.
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Oh my gosh.
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So that was a Big secret.
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So it went well?
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Was he surprised?
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It did.
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He was very surprised.
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We were very pleased that we kept it a secret.
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We did well.
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Well done.
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Well done.
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I've had to keep a big secret
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Last year my friend told me that she was going to propose to her girlfriend
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but she told me I had to keep it a secret and it's really, it was really difficult because we have a group of friends
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and I really wanted to tell them but I couldn't and I managed to keep it a secret so
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I was very proud of myself.
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That's good, well done.
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That reminds me, I had a big secret too.
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My friend told me, don't tell anyone and don't tell your mum.
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And I told my mum by accident.
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Oh no, can you reveal the secret to us?
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Oh yeah, she was pregnant, but she's now had the baby.
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Okay.
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But she said, yeah, I'm pregnant, but it's really early.
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So please don't tell anyone.
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Don't even tell your mum.
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Okay.
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And then I spoke to my mum a few weeks later and said, "You don't know, she's pregnant !" And then I realised,
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oh no, I wasn't supposed to tell you.
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Oh, but that was kind of an accident.
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Oh, it was definitely an accident.
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Yeah.
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I felt really bad.
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Oh, well, now she's had the baby.
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It's all good.
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It's not a surprise anymore.
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Sorry.
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"Beth, do you think secrets are a good or a bad thing?" I think it really depends on the secret.
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There are good secrets.
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um like proposing or having a baby and then i guess a bad secret really is
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a lie
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if you have to lie then that's not good yeah i
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agree it's uh it's not yeah it's not good to lie um and i think that's
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a reason why I'm not very good at keeping secrets because I'm a really bad Liar.
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You can see it in my face if I'm holding in a secret.
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Yeah, I think sometimes you can look at someone's face and know what they're thinking.
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I'm definitely like that if I'm annoyed or angry or...
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something you can tell from my face.
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Well that's good because I'll always know that you're being honest and not keeping any secrets from me.
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Let's recap the vocabulary we heard during the conversation.
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We had a secret, which is a piece of information that you can't tell other people.
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And we also have the phrase keep a secret, which means to not share that piece of information.
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If someone is an open book, they don't have secrets and they're honest about their life.
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And if you lie, you say something that's not true.
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It's usually seen as negative, but sometimes you have to lie if you want to keep a secret.
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And we call someone who lies a lot a liar.
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And that's it for this episode of Real Easy English.
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We'll be back next week with another conversation in Easy English.
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Goodbye.
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Bye.
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you

文脈と背景

このポッドキャスト「Real Easy English」では、BethさんとGeorgieさんが、日常会話を通じて英語を学ぶ方法を紹介しています。彼らの会話は、理解しやすい簡単な英語で行われるため、英語学習者にとって非常に便利です。今回は「秘密」についての対話がテーマになっており、日常生活の中でのコミュニケーションを豊かにする内容が含まれています。

日常会話のためのトップ5フレーズ

  • “I’m a bit of an open book” - 自分をあまり隠さないことを意味します。
  • “Please don’t tell anyone” - 秘密を守ってほしい時に使います。
  • “That was a big secret” - 重要な秘密について話す時の表現です。
  • “He was very surprised” - 驚いたという感情を表すシンプルなフレーズです。
  • “I’m not good at keeping secrets” - 秘密を守るのが得意ではないことを示します。

ステップ・バイ・ステップ シャドーイングガイド

この動画の内容は、英語を学ぶ上で非常に役立ちます。シャドーイングを通じて話す練習をすることで、リスニング力とスピーキング力が向上します。以下のステップで進めましょう:

  1. 動画を視聴する:まず、動画の全体を見て内容を理解しましょう。
  2. リスニング:会話を何度も聞いて、発音やリズムに慣れます。特に“shadowspeak”に注目してみてください。
  3. シャドーイング:聞いた内容をそのまま繰り返します。英語シャドーイングの効果を実感できます。
  4. 文を分けて練習:難しい部分があれば、短いフレーズに分けて少しずつ繰り返します。
  5. 自分の声を録音:自分の喋りを録音して、発音や流暢さをチェックしましょう。

この方法で、英語スピーキング練習を効果的に行い、会話能力を向上させることができます。ぜひ、挑戦してみてください!

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book, which means · someone who is · secret, which is
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I've been told · you've learned
義務:must / have to / need to 何かが必要であることを伝えるhad to keep · have to lie
現在進行形 am/is/are + -ing — 今まさに、または最近起きていることwe're talking · I'm holding · they're thinking

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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