シャドーイング練習: Life changes – A2 English Listening Test - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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I used to work such long hours that I didn't have any time to enjoy life.
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I was like a robot – get up, go to work, go back home, sleep.
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I had no personal life and I started to feel really miserable.
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I decided that I wanted to have more free time,
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so I told my boss that I was going through some personal issues and that I needed to work part-time.
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She agreed.
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Now I have time to do everything I want.
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I don't have as much money, but I'm much, much happier.
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Jasmine is three weeks old today.
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I remember a month or so ago thinking that I would go back to work within two or three months.
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Now I know that's not going to happen.
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I just can't imagine leaving her with someone else.
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I'll miss my colleagues, of course, but work will pay me an allowance for a year, so I've decided to take that.
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I worked as a singing teacher for ten years and I've had some really good success stories,
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But I felt that I had gone as far as I could go in that career and I wanted a change.
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I didn't just want to do a different job in music.
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I wanted to do something completely different.
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That's why I applied to do this engineering course.
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It's challenging definitely, but I really love it.
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For the last nine years, I've done the responsible thing.
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I got a well-paid job close to home so that my wife didn't have to work, and I could be home by half past four to spend time with the kids.
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It's worked, but I really began to hate work.
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Now the kids are older, so after some discussion, my wife agreed I could get a job I loved, even though I will be home much later and earn less.
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I started last week.
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It's great.
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My wife and I both had really good jobs, which we really enjoyed.
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But we rarely saw our kids, and they started to have difficulties at school.
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We began to think we were being selfish.
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Together, we were earning far more money than we needed.
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So we decided that I would give up work and teach the children myself at home.
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it's not easy but now we spend a lot more time together and it's good for all of us
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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
この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が31文、単語が400語あります。 音声の長さは2:41です。 話す速さは1分あたり約149語で安定しており、シャドーイングしやすいペースです。 単語の84%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。
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11語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。
| 単語 | 発音 | 意味 |
|---|---|---|
| earn 動詞 | /ɝn/ | 稼ぐ, 得る |
| rarely 副詞 | /ˈɹɛəɹli/ | 滅多に…ない, 稀に |
| difficulty 名詞 | /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/ | 難しさ |
| robot 名詞 | /ˈɹoʊ.bɑt/ | ロボット, 人造人間 |
| selfish 形容詞 | /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/ | 自分本位の, 勝手な |
| miserable 形容詞 | /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/ | 惨めな, 悲惨な |
| colleague 名詞 | /ˈkɒliːɡ/ | 同僚, 同業者 |
| allowance 名詞 | /əˈlaʊəns/ | 給与, こずかい |
| jasmine 名詞 | /ˈd͡ʒæzmɪn/ | 茉莉, ジャスミン |
| teach 動詞 | /ˈtiːt͡ʃ/ | 教える |
| sing 動詞 | /ˈsɪŋ/ | 歌う, 鳴く |
動画に出てくる句動詞
| 単語 | 意味 |
|---|---|
| get up 動詞 | 起きる |
| give up 動詞 | 降服する |
| go back 動詞 | 戻る, 帰る |
注意したい発音
話し手はdidn't, I've, can'tなど、短縮形や弱形を10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。
- 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/, engineer /ˌɛnd͡ʒɪˈnɪ(ə)ɹ/
この動画での練習方法
- 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。
- 通常の速度で一文ずつシャドーイングし、話し手のリズムに合うまで繰り返します。
- 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。earn, rarely, difficultyなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。
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 | I've decided · I've done |
| 過去進行形 was/were + -ing — 過去のある時点で進行中だった動作 | was going · were being · were earning |
| 「will」の未来表現 will + 動詞 — その場の決定、約束、予測 | I'll miss · will be |
| 義務：must / have to / need to 何かが必要であることを伝える | needed to work · have to work |
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。