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Welcome back to Mike's English Podcast.

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Here's something strange.

You get a raise at work, more money every single month, and somehow you still feel broke.

Sound familiar?

Today I want to talk about why that happens, and by the end of this episode,

you'll understand something about your own brain that most people never actually figure out.

I'll be honest with you this happened to me I got a raise a

while back more money coming in every month

and six months later I somehow had less in savings than before made no sense to me at the time

so let's break it down together and

while we do you'll pick up some really natural English expressions people use

when talking about money way beyond just I don't have enough so let's start with the basic idea.

Psychologists call this lifestyle inflation when your spending increases at the same speed as your income.

You earn more so you upgrade everything.

A bigger apartment, a nicer car, more expensive restaurants.

And here's the tricky part.

It happens so gradually you don't even notice it happening.

In a few minutes I'll tell you about a specific trick your brain plays on you

that makes this almost impossible to avoid without a plan.

It actually has a name, and once you hear it, you'll recognize it instantly in your own life.

One really useful phrase here is to live beyond your means.

It means spending more money than you actually earn.

For example, after his promotion, he started living beyond his means.

Quick tip, you'll hear beyond your means a lot in financial conversations.

You can also flip it around.

Living within your means means spending less than or equal to what you earn.

Keep both of those in your pocket.

Now, here's that trick I promised you.

It's called hedonic adaptation, a strange psychological name for a pretty simple idea.

Humans quickly get used to good things, and then those things just stop making them happy.

Think about it.

The first time you eat at a fancy restaurant, it feels amazing.

The tenth time, it just feels normal.

Your brain resets its idea of normal every single time your situation improves.

And that's exactly why more money doesn't automatically mean more happiness or more savings.

So when people say money can't buy happiness, this is actually part of why.

Not because money is bad, but because we adapt to it so fast that the happiness just quietly disappears.

Here's a useful expression for this.

The thrill wears off.

It means the excitement fades over time.

For example, the thrill of the new car wore off after just a few weeks.

Now, there's a social side to this too, and honestly, it's a bit uncomfortable to talk about.

It's called social comparison, comparing your lifestyle to the people around you.

This one is huge.

When your friends upgrade their lifestyle, you unconsciously feel pressure to match it, even if nobody says a single word about it directly.

And in a moment, I'll give you the exact phrase people use in English when they're trying to impress others with money.

It's more common than you'd think.

The phrase is, peeping up with the Joneses.

It means trying to match the lifestyle of your neighbors or friends, especially by spending money you don't really need to spend.

It actually comes from an old comic strip, but people still use it constantly today.

For example, they bought a bigger house just to keep up with the Joneses.

It's a great phrase, honestly, because it captures something everyone secretly understands.

So, if this happens to almost everyone naturally, is there actually a way to avoid it?

because I definitely wish someone had told me this a year before it happened to me.

There is a way, and it's simpler than you'd think.

Stick with me for one more minute, because this is honestly the most useful part of the whole episode.

The trick financial experts recommend is called paying yourself first.

Before you spend anything from your new income, you automatically move a percentage of it straight into savings as if it doesn't exist.

Your lifestyle simply adjusts to the income you see, not the income you actually have.

It's such a simple shift in thinking when you really sit with it.

You're not fighting your brain's natural behavior, you're just working around it.

You can't stop lifestyle inflation completely, and honestly, you probably shouldn't.

Enjoying more of your money is a...

Okay, let's do a quick scenario before we wrap up.

Imagine your salary just increased by 20%.

What would you actually do?

And more importantly, how would you say it in English?

Would you say, I'm going to treat myself, meaning buying something nice for yourself as a reward?

Or would you say, I'm going to pay myself first, meaning saving before spending anything?

Both are completely normal, natural English expressions, but now you understand exactly what's happening in your brain behind each choice.

Try it right now.

Say one sentence out loud describing what you would actually do with extra money using at least one expression from today's episode.

Thanks so much for listening today.

If this episode changed how you think, even a little, follow the podcast, and I'll see you in the next one.

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このB2レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「More Money, Same Problems — Here's Why」を教材にしています。繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：lifestyle, English, spending, phrase, expression。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が75文、単語が899語あります。音声の長さは6:20です。話す速さは1分あたり約142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86%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

動画の中で特に難しい単語14語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語	発音	意味
inflation 名詞	/ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/	インフレ, インフレーション
podcast 名詞	/ˈpɑdˌkæst/	ポッドキャスト
psychologist 名詞	/ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/	心理学者
fade 動詞	/feɪd/	薄れる
tenth 形容詞	/tɛnθ/	十番目
tricky 形容詞	/ˈtɹɪk.i/	狡猾な
adapt 動詞	/əˈdæpt/	適応する
secretly 副詞	/ˈsiː.kɹɪt.li/	ひそかに
adjust 動詞	/əˈd͡ʒʌst/	調整する
disappear 動詞	/dɪsəˈpɪɹ/	消える
quietly 副詞	/ˈkwaɪ.ɪt.li/	静かに
uncomfortable 形容詞	/ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/	心地よくない
scenario 名詞	/sɪˈnɛəɹioʊ/	脚本, 台本
wrap 動詞	/ɹæp/	包む, 包装する

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	意味
wear off 動詞	消える
pick up 動詞	拾う, 拾い上げる

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
比較級 -er than / more … than — 二つのものを比べる	more money than · more common than · simpler than
動詞 + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — 後ろに-ing形が続く動詞	started living · stop making
「will」の未来表現 will + 動詞 — その場の決定、約束、予測	you'll understand · I'll be · you'll pick
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	they're trying · You're not fighting

注意したい発音

話し手はI'll, you'll, don'tなど、短縮形や弱形を23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。

「th」の音: thrill /θɹɪl/, tenth /tɛnθ/
「sh」と「zh」の音: inflation /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/, unconsciously /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəsli/, adaptation /ˌæd.æpˈteɪ.ʃən/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: unconsciously /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəsli/, psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, adaptation /ˌæd.æpˈteɪ.ʃən/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/

日本語話者が苦手な音：

/r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: thrill /θɹɪl/, secretly /ˈsiː.kɹɪt.li/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: inflation /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/, fade /feɪd/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, flip /flɪp/
子音の連続 — 間に母音を入れない: thrill /θɹɪl/, inflation /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/, podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/, psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, tenth /tɛnθ/

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。inflation, podcast, psychologist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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