シャドーイング練習: Leo's Bad Luck - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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- I just want to talk about the beard for a minute because it's quite something.
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And how long did it take you to grow it, first of all.
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- It was six months, and then I think I had it for an additional year after that.
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- Mm-hmm. And how did people treat you?
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- There's the shot of me.
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- No, that's-- no, that's not what it was during the movie, right?
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That's cleaned up. - No, that was it.
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- Oh, really? Well then it didn't look like that in the movie. It--it--maybe it's 'cause there was so much ice on it too 'cause it was always frozen. - That was actually wax.
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I had a fantastic makeup artist in this movie who did all the stuff from the bear mauling, and it was wax that she dribbled all over my face every day.
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It was about a four to five hour makeup job every day with all the scars.
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So again, it was just a joy, the whole experience.
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- But now see, you're growing it back again or something.
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Or are you just going to keep it at that level?
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A light stubble. I'm keeping it at a light stubble.
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- A light stubble? - Yeah.
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- Do you like wearing a beard?
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- I don't think I'll ever have a beard like that ever again.
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Unless it's for a role.
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But yeah, it's hard to maintain.
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It's just--stuff gets in there, you know.
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You're eating and then food falls in, and you're...
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- Right. And you have to shampoo it, right?
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- You have to shampoo it, yeah.
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- And do you put conditioner in it?
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- I did. I did put conditioner-- - 'Cause you'd want it to be soft.
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- You do want it to be soft. - Right.
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- Otherwise it gets like a Brillo pad.
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- And can you--yes. And who wants to feel that?
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- Who wants it? - And when you--when you have food in it, can you tell?
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- It's very visible, yeah. Very visible.
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- I mean, no, but if you don't have a mirror, sometimes do you feel like you've walked around and there's been food in your beard?
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- Well, if you have good enough friends, they notify you if you have mustard on your beard or something like that.
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- Right. - They let you know.
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- All right. Just checking.
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So you've always been like a daredevil, but you've done--I think I've talked to you about you swim with sharks, or you have.
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- Yeah. - And you've jumped out of an airplane. - Yeah.
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- On a regular basis, or-- - I only did that once.
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- Once. Will you do it again? - When you're-- when both parachutes don't open, you tend to not go repeat something like that, yeah.
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- What are you talking about? Well then, how'd you get down?
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- I had--I jumped out of the airplane, and then my first chute didn't open.
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They cut--it's tandem, so somebody's on your back.
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They cut that line.
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We've started freefalling towards Earth, and that's when you get the, you know, 8x10 glossies of your whole life flashing before your eyes.
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And then, the second one was tangled as well, and I saw my friends sort of popping off with their, you know, their parachutes, and I'm still plummeting towards planet Earth.
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And--and then that was tangled for about a good, I don't know, 20, 30 seconds, and then he untangled it, and then he told me, "Oh, you're probably gonna break your legs now because this-- we're going too fast." So it was one of the worst experiences of my life, and I'll never do it again. - And did you break your legs?
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- I did not break my legs. - Wow.
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So he's whispering in your ear--or yelling in your-- - He was screaming. - Screaming in your-- "Break your leg." - "You're gonna break your legs." - "What?
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I can't hear you." Wow, that's just horrible.
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So what's the scariest thing you've ever done?
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- I was on a plane to Russia, and the engine exploded.
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I was looking out the window and the entire engine just turned into a fireball.
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It was right after Sully had that incident happen to him where the geese flew into both engines.
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- Right. And he landed on the river.
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- Yeah. This happened in one of the engines, and I was the only person there that seemed to see this, but it was a flaming fireball, and it was all Russian passengers.
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And I kinda felt like I'd already died and gone to heaven 'cause no one said anything.
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And I was screaming at the top of my lungs saying, "What the hell is going on here?" And the people just kinda looked back at me and the stewardess came out and said, "We seem to have a slight problem here." And the Russian guy finally said, "What is the problem?" And he said, "Well, we-- we lost one of our engines." And he sa--he goes, "How many engines did we have?" He goes, "Well, we had two. Now we have one." And...
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he proceeded to say, "That is not--that is not good.
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That is not good." And we basically dumped fuel for 45 minutes, and did an emergency landing, and all our tires exploded and there was a hundred different ambulances there, and it was on CNN. That was another bummer.
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- Wow. Oh, my God.
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That's incredible.
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- I feel like I should write a book now.
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- Yeah, well no, I'm gonna write it.

この動画でスピーキングを練習する理由は?

「Leo's Bad Luck」という動画は、スピーキング練習に最適な素材です。会話の中では、実際の体験やユーモアを交えたやり取りが行われており、リアルな英語表現が豊富に含まれています。この動画を通じて、英語のスピーキング練習を行うことで、日常会話に役立つフレーズや表現を学ぶことができます。特に、感情や体験を表現する方法を身につけることができるため、IELTSスピーキング対策にも効果的です。また、この動画を視聴しながらリズムに合わせて話すことで、shadowspeaksのテクニックを実践し、より自然な発音を習得できます。

文法と文脈内の表現

この動画では、いくつかの重要な文法構造や表現が使われています。以下にその一部を紹介します。

  • 過去形の使用: 特に過去の経験について話す際に、過去形が頻繁に使用されています。例文を通じて、過去形の変化を学びましょう。
  • 条件文: 「もし〜なら」という条件を表す表現が多く使用されており、特に「Unless it's for a role」のように使われています。
  • 直接話法: 他人の言葉を直接引用することで、会話のリアリティを増しています。例えば、「You're gonna break your legs」といった表現です。

これらの文法構造を理解し、練習することで、英語スピーキング練習への理解が深まります。

一般的な発音の落とし穴

動画内には、注意すべき発音やアクセントがあります。特に以下の点に注意しましょう。

  • beard: この言葉は「ビアド」と発音され、特に「r」の音が強調されます。
  • shampoo:「シャンプー」ではなく「シャムプー」と聞こえることがあるため、注意が必要です。
  • freefall: この言葉は「フリーフォール」と発音され、特に「r」の音が明確でないと、誤解を招くことがあります。

これらの発音を繰り返し練習することで、shadow speechの技術を向上させ、自信を持って会話に臨むことができるでしょう。正しい発音を身につければ、shadowing siteでの練習もより効果的になります。

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you've walked · you've always been · you've jumped
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was always frozen · was tangled

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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