シャドーイング練習: Lukas Graham - 7 Years (Lyrics) - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

Once I

was seven years old My mama told me go Make yourself some friends

or you'll be lonely Once I was seven years old It was a big,

big world, but we thought we were bigger Pushing each other to the limits, we were learning quicker By eleven,

smoking herb and drinking burning liquor Never rich, so we were out to make that steady bigger Once I was eleven years old,

my daddy told me Go get yourself a wife or you'd be lonely Once I was eleven years old

I always had that dream like my daddy before me So I started writing songs, I started writing stories Something about

that glory just always seemed to bore me Cause only those

I really love will never really know me Once I was twenty years old,

my story got told Before the morning sun when life was lonely Once I was twenty years old

I only see my goals,

I don't believe in failure Cause I know the smallest voices, they can make it major I got my boys with me,

at least those in favor And if we don't need before I leave, I hope I'll see you later Once I was twenty years old,

my story got told I was writing about everything I saw before me Once I was twenty years old

Soon we'll be thirty years old Our songs have been sold We've traveled around the world

and we're still roaming Soon we'll be thirty years old

I'm still learning about life My woman brought children for me

So I can sing them all my songs

And I can tell them stories Most of my boys are with me Some are still out seeking glory

And some I had to leave behind My brother, I'm still savvy Soon I'll be sixty years old My daddy got sixty-one Remember life

and then your life becomes a better one

I made a man so happy

when I wrote a letter once I hope my children come

and visit once

or twice a month Soon I'll be sixty years old Will I think the world is cold

or will I have a lot of children who can bore me Soon I'll be sixty years old

Soon I'll be sixty years old Will I think the world is cold?

Or will I have a lot of children who can hold me?

Soon I'll be sixty years old

Once I was seven years old

Mama told me go Make yourself some friends or you'll be lonely Once I was seven years old

Once I was seven years old I love you, you are the only one

Thank you.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Lukas Graham - 7 Years”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: sixty, seven, lonely, twenty, eleven. This video has 33 sentences and 449 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:20. The speaker talks slowly, about 104 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 13 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
sixty noun	/ˈsɪksti/	A commercial lasting 60 seconds.
lonely adjective	/ˈloʊnli/	Unhappy due to feeling isolated from contact with other people.
daddy noun	/ˈdædi/	Also used as a term of address: a father; one's father.
eleven noun	/əˈlɛv.ən/	A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc.
thirty noun	/ˈθɝti/	A commercial lasting 30 seconds.
glory noun	/ˈɡlɔːɹi/	Great beauty and splendor.
mama noun	/ˈmɑmə/	Synonym of mother (“a female parent”).
steady adjective	/ˈstɪdi/	Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm.
liquor noun	/ˈlɪk.ɚ/	A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both).
herb noun	/hɜːb/	A plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season.
litter noun	/ˈlɪt.ɚ/	Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.
savvy adjective	/ˈsæv.i/	Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
roam verb	/ɹoʊm/	To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
leave behind verb	To abandon.

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	children who can
過去進行形 was/were + -ing — 過去のある時点で進行中だった動作	were learning · was writing
「will」の未来表現 will + 動詞 — その場の決定、約束、予測	you'll be · will never really know · I'll see
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 still roaming · I'm still learning

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 17 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'll, don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like sixty, lonely, daddy.

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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