シャドーイング練習: Lucy Cooke on: Bats - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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I've got the bat.
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The bat has a bad rap.
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Why are people still down on bats?
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The thing about bats is that they're, because they are a little bit human-like in form,
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they've got forward-facing eyes and faces that, I mean, you wouldn't want to look like a bat, but they're not a million miles from a human face,
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and the way that the body is structured, And of course they've got these extraordinarily oversized hands that are webbed and that's actually their wings are.
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They actually swim through the air using these giant webbed hands.
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It's an amazing thing.
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But I think the thing is because they look a little bit like us
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and also unlike us all at the same time, it creeps us out.
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And I think there's a sort of creepiness to that, you know.
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So with bats they get an extraordinary bad rap people think that they carry disease,
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actually only 0.05% of bats carry rabies, you know it's a tiny amount, you're more likely to get bitten by a raccoon than get rabies quite frankly.
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People think they're going to fly in their hair.
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I mean bats echolocation system is incredibly effective.
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They're not gonna go anywhere near your hair.
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They don't want to get caught in your hair.
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They don't want to get caught in your hair.
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They're not interested.
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So they're not gonna bite you, they're not gonna bother you.
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They are in fact doing an incredible job for us because bats eat insects.
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So they eat mosquitoes, what's not to love about that?
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And then the other thing is that they are key pollinators.
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A lot of people don't know, a lot of the fruit-back species are pollinators.
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And the one plant, so some of these, you know, plants are very pollinator-specific, and so they can only be pollinated by one creature.
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So now the agave plant can only be pollinated by that.
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Now, do you know what's made out of agave?
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I believe it is a drink that many people enjoy.
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Yes, exactly.
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Without bats there'd be no tequila.
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Because the agave plant wouldn't be able to fertilise.
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So, you know, whether or not that's a good thing for humanity is up for debate.
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Well, next time you have a margarita toast to bats.
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Yeah, that's a great idea.
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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34文、単語が393語あります。 音声の長さは2:17です。 話す速さは1分あたり約172語で、日常会話に近い自然なペースです。 単語の82%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15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語発音意味
bite 動詞/baɪt/噛む
extraordinary 形容詞/ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/並外れた, 非凡な
humanity 名詞/hjuˈmænɪti/人類
swim 動詞/swɪm/泳ぐ
frankly 副詞/fɹæŋkli/正直に
toast 名詞/toʊst/トースト
creep 動詞/kɹiːp/這う, 伝う
insect 名詞/ˈɪn.sɛkt/昆虫
mosquito 名詞/məsˈki.toʊ/蚊, カ
agave 名詞/əˈɡɑː.vi/龍舌蘭
rabies 名詞/ˈɹeɪ.biːz/狂犬病
echolocation 名詞/ˌɛkoʊloʊˈkeɪʃən/反響定位, 音波探知
margarita 名詞/ˌmɑɹ.ɡəˈɹi.tə/マルガリータ
raccoon 名詞/ɹæˈkun/アライグマ, 洗熊
tequila 名詞/ˌtəˈkiː.lə/テキーラ

注意したい発音

話し手はthey're, don't, gonnaなど、短縮形や弱形を20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）: incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/, pollinator /ˈpɒlɪˌneɪtə(ɹ)/, echolocation /ˌɛkoʊloʊˈkeɪʃən/

この動画での練習方法

  1. 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。
  2. まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。bite, extraordinary, humanityなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

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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