シャドーイング練習: Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard? | Jon Jandai | TEDxDoiSuthep - YouTubeで英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Transcriber: Jelena Vukovic Reviewer: Ivana Korom There is one phrase that I have always wanted to say to everyone in my life.
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Transcriber: Jelena Vukovic Reviewer: Ivana Korom There is one phrase that I have always wanted to say to everyone in my life.
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That phrase is "Life is easy." It's so easy and fun.
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I never thought like that before.
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When I was in Bangkok, I felt like life is very hard, very complicated.
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I was born in a poor village on the Northeastern of Thailand And when I was a kid, everything was fun and easy, but when the TV came, many people came to the village, they said, "You are poor, you need to chase success in your life.
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You need to go to Bangkok to pursue success in your life." So I felt bad, I felt poor.
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So I needed to go to Bangkok.
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When I went to Bangkok, it was not very fun.
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You need to learn, study a lot and work very hard, and then you can get success.
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I worked very hard, eight hours per day at least, but all I could eat was just a bowl of noodles per meal, or some Tama dish of fried rice or something like that.
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And where I stayed was very bad, a small room where a lot of people slept.
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It was very hot.
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I started to question a lot.
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When I work hard, why is my life so hard?
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It must be something wrong, because I produce a lot of things, but I cannot get enough.
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And I tried to learn, I tried to study.
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I tried to study in the university.
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It's very hard to learn in university, because it's very boring.
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(Laughter) And when I looked at subjects in the university, in every faculty, most of them had destructive knowledge.
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There's no productive knowledge in university for me.
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If you learn to be an architect or engineer, that means you ruin more.
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The more these people work, the mountain will be destroyed more.
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And a good land in Chao Praya Basin will be covered with concrete more and more.
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We destroy more.
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If we go to agriculture faculty or something like that, that means we learn how to poison, to poison the land, the water, and learn to destroy everything.
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I feel like everything we do is so complicated, so hard.
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We just make everything hard.
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Life was so hard and I felt disappointed.
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I started to think about, why did I have to be in Bangkok?
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I thought about when I was a kid, nobody worked eight hours per day, everybody worked two hours, two months a year, planting rice one month and harvesting the rice another month.
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The rest is free time, ten months of free time.
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That's why people have so many festivals in Thailand, every month they have festival.
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(Laughter) Because they have so much free time.
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And then in the daytime, everyone even takes a nap.
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Even now in Laos, go to Laos if you can, people take a nap after lunch.
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And after they wake up, they just gossip, how's your son-in-law, how's your wife, daughter-in-law.
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People have a lot of time, but because they have a lot of time, they have time to be with themselves.
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And when they have time to be with themselves, they have time to understand themselves.
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When they understand themselves, they can see what they want in their life.
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So, many people see that they want happiness, they want love, they want to enjoy their life.
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So, people see a lot of beauty in their life, so they express that beauty in many ways.
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Some people by carving the handle of their knife, very beautiful, they weave the baskets very nicely.
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But, now, nobody does that.
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Nobody can do something like that.
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People use plastic everywhere.
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So, I feel like it's something wrong in there, I cannot live this way I'm living.
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So, I decided to quit University, and went back home.
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When I went back home, I started to live like I remember, like when I was a kid.
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I started to work two months a year.
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I got four tons of rice.
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And the whole family, six people, we eat less than half a ton per year.
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So we can sell some rice.
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I took two ponds, two fish ponds.
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We have fish to eat all year round.
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And I started a small garden.
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Less than half an acre.
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And I spend 15 minutes per day to take care of the garden.
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I have more than 30 varieties of vegetables in the garden.
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So, six people cannot eat all of it.
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We have a surplus to sell in the market.
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We can make some income, too.
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So, I feel like, it's easy, why did I have to be in Bangkok for seven years, working hard and then not have enough to eat, but here, only two months a year and 15 minutes per day I can feed six people.
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That's easy. And before I thought that stupid people like me who never got a good grade at school, cannot have a house.
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Because people who are cleverer than me, who are number one in the class every year, they get a good job, but they need to work more than 30 years to have a house.
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But me, who cannot finish university, how could I have a house?
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Hopeless for people who have low education, like me.
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But, then I started to do earthly building, it's so easy.
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I spend two hours per day, from 5 o'clock in the morning, until 7 o'clock in the morning, two hours per day.
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And in three months, I got a house.
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And another friend who's the most clever in the class, he spent three months to build his house, too.
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But, he had to be in debt. He had to pay for his debt for 30 years.
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So, compared to him, I have 29 years and 10 months of free time.
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(Laughter) So, I feel that life is so easy.
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I never thought I could build a house as easy as that.
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And I keep building a house every year, at least one house every year.
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Now, I have no money, but I have many houses.
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(Laughter) My problem is in which house I will sleep tonight.
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(Laughter) So, a house is not a problem, anybody can build a house.
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The kids, 13 years old, at the school, they make bricks together, they make a house.
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After one month, they have a library.
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The kids can make a house, a very old nun can build a hut for herself.
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Many people can build a house.
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So, it's easy.
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If you don't believe me, try it.
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If somebody wants to have a house.
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And then, the next thing is clothing.
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I felt like I'm poor, like I'm not handsome.
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I tried to dress like somebody else, like a movie star.
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To make myself look good, look better.
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I spent one month to save money to buy a pair of jeans.
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When I wore them, I turned left, I turned right, looked in the mirror.
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Every time I look, I am the same person.
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The most expensive pants cannot change my life.
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I felt like I'm so crazy, why did I have to buy them?
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Spend one month to have a pair of pants.
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It doesn't change me.
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I started to think more about that.
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Why do we need to follow fashion?
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Because, when we follow fashion, we never catch up with it, because we follow it.
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So, don't follow it, just stay here.
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(Laughter) Use what you have.
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So, after that, until now, 20 years, I have never bought any clothes.
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All the clothes I have are leftovers from people.
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When people come to visit me, and when they leave, they leave a lot of clothes there.
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So, I have tons of clothes now.
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(Laughter) And when people see me wear very old clothes, they give me more clothes.
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(Laughter) So, my problem is, I need to give clothes to people very often.
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(Laughter) So, it's so easy.
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And when I stopped buying clothes, I felt like, it's not only clothes, it's about something else in my life, What I learned is that when I buy something, and I think about, I buy it because I like it, or I buy it because I need it.
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So, if I buy it because I like it, that means I'm wrong.
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So, I feel more free when I think like this.
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And the last thing is, when I get sick, what will I do?
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I really worried in the beginning, because then I had no money.
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But, I started to contemplate more.
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Normally, sickness is a normal thing, it's not a bad thing.
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Sickness is something to remind us that we did something wrong in our lives, that's why we got sick.
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So, when I get sick, I need to stop and come back to myself.
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And think about it, what I did was wrong.
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So, I learned how to use water to heal myself, how to use earth to heal myself, I learned how to use basic knowledge to heal myself.
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So, now that I rely on myself in these four things, I feel like life is very easy, I feel something like freedom, I feel free.
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I feel like I don't worry about anything much, I have less fear, I can do whatever I want in my life.
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Before, I had a lot of fear, I could not do anything.
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But, now I feel very free, like I'm a unique person on this Earth, nobody like me, I don't need to make myself like anybody else.
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I'm the number one.
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So, things like this make it easy, very light.
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And, after that, I started to think about that when I was in Bangkok, I felt very dark in my life.
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I started to think that many people maybe thought like me at the time.
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So, we started a place called "Pun Pun" in Chiang Mai.
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The main aim is just saving seed.
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To collect seed, because seed is food, food is life.
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If there is no seed, no life.
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No seed, no freedom.
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No seed, no happiness.
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Because your life depends on somebody else.
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Because you have no food.
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So, it's very important to save seed.
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That's why we focus on saving seed.
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That's the main thing in Pun Pun.
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And the second thing is it is the learning center.
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We want to have a center for ourselves to learn, learn how to make life easy.
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Because we were taught to make life complicated and hard all the time.
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How can we make it easy? It's easy, but we don't know how to make it easy anymore.
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Because we always make it complicated and now, we start to learn, and learn to be together.
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Because, we were taught to disconnect ourselves from everything else, to be independent, so we can rely on the money only.
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We don't need to rely on each other.
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But now, to be happy, we need to come back, to connect to ourselves again, to connect to other people, to connect our mind and body together again.
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So, we can be happy. Life is easy.
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And from beginning until now, what I learned is the four basic needs: food, house, clothes and medicine must be cheap and easy for everybody, that's the civilization.
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But, if you make these four things hard and very hard for many people to get, that's uncivilized.
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So, now when we look at everywhere around us, everything is so hard to get.
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I feel like now is the most uncivilized era of humans on this Earth.
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We have so many people who finish university, have so many universities on the Earth, have so many clever people on this Earth.
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But, life is harder and harder.
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We make it hard for whom?
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We work hard for whom right now?
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I feel like it's wrong, it's not normal.
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So, I just want to come back to normal.
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To be a normal person, to be equal to animals.
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The birds make a nest in one or two days.
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The rats dig a hole in one night.
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But, the clever humans like us spend 30 years to have a house, and many people can't believe that they can have a house in this life.
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So, that's wrong.
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Why do we destroy our spirit, why do we destroy our ability that much?
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So, I feel that it's enough for me, to live in the normal way, in the abnormal way.
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So, now I try to be normal.
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But, people look at me as the abnormal one.
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(Laughter) A crazy person.
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But, I don't care, because it's not my fault.
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It's their fault, they think like that.
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So, my life is easy and light now.
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That's enough for me.
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People can think whatever they want.
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I cannot manage anything outside myself.
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What I can do is change my mind, manage my mind.
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Now, my mind is light and easy, that's enough.
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If anybody wants to have a choice, you can have a choice.
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The choice to be easy or to be hard, it depends on you.
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Thank you. (Applause)
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TEDxDoiSuthepでのJon Jandai氏による講演「Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard?」は、人生のシンプルさと複雑さについて深く考えさせられる内容です。彼は、都会での「成功」を追い求める生活がいかに困難で不満足なものであったか、そして故郷での素朴な生活がいかに豊かで満たされたものであったかを対比させながら語ります。
この動画は、英語スピーキング練習において非常に実践的です。Jon Jandai氏の個人的な経験談は、物語を語るスキル、意見を述べるスキル、そして複雑な概念をシンプルな言葉で表現するスキルを向上させるのに役立ちます。
- 語彙トピック: 「成功」、「貧困」、「労働」、「教育」、「幸福」、「自由な時間」、「自己理解」といった、日常生活から哲学的なテーマまで幅広い語彙を学ぶことができます。
- 文法パターン: 過去の経験を語るための過去形、現在の状況と過去の状況を比較する表現、感情や意見を表明するための動詞や助動詞が豊富に使われています。
- スピーキングの文脈: 個人の価値観や社会に対する批判的な視点を英語で表現する練習になります。IELTS対策のスピーキングテストで、個人的な経験や社会問題について意見を求められた際にも応用できる表現が学べます。
重要な語彙とフレーズ
- "Life is easy." (人生は簡単だ) – 講演の核心となるメッセージ。困難な状況に直面しても、見方を変えればシンプルになるという考え方です。
- "chase success" / "pursue success" (成功を追い求める / 成功を追求する) – 現代社会において広く共有されている「成功」の概念とその追求を表すフレーズ。
- "destructive knowledge" (破壊的な知識) – 既存の環境や社会を破壊につながるような知識や学問を指します。
- "productive knowledge" (生産的な知識) – ポジティブな価値を生み出し、建設的な結果をもたらす知識を指します。
- "ten months of free time" (10ヶ月もの自由な時間) – 都会での過酷な労働生活と対比される、故郷での豊かな時間の表現。
- "have time to be with themselves" (自分自身と向き合う時間を持つ) – 自由な時間があることで、内省や自己理解が深まることを示唆するフレーズ。
- "understand themselves" (自分自身を理解する) – 自己の願望や幸福の形を見つけるための重要なステップ。
この動画の練習のコツ
Jon Jandai氏の講演は、シャドーイングの素材として非常に優れています。彼の話す英語はクリアで、話速も比較的落ち着いているため、初心者から上級者まで幅広い学習者にとって取り組みやすいでしょう。
- 話速: 彼は感情を込めてゆっくりと、そして時に強調しながら話します。彼のペースに合わせて、単語の一つ一つを丁寧に発音し、リズム感を掴む練習をしましょう。特に、自身の信念や経験を語る部分では、感情の起伏を意識して真似てみてください。
- アクセント: Jon Jandai氏の英語には、タイ独特のアクセントが感じられますが、非常に聞き取りやすいです。国際的な環境で英語を話す機会のある方は、このような多様なアクセントに慣れる良い機会にもなります。完璧な「標準的な」発音を目指すだけでなく、明瞭さを保ちながら自分らしさを表現する発音練習にも繋がります。
- トピックの難易度: 個人の経験に基づいた哲学的なテーマですが、具体的なエピソードが豊富に含まれているため、話の展開を追いやすいです。この動画をシャドーイングすることで、英語の流暢さを高めながら、自身の考えを整理し、英語で表現する力を養うことができます。特に、意見を述べる際にどのようなフレーズや語彙が効果的か、実践的に学ぶことができます。
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。