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It was May of 2006, and I was traveling 8,600 miles from my home in Phoenix,
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Arizona, to Bangalore, India.
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I grew up in Maine.
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Traveling to India was something I had never thought was going to be in my future.
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But I was heading there to onboard a team of employees.
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It was important to me not only to know their skills, what they wanted out of the job,
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but about them, them as people, their culture.
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So with that in mind, I decided to take a trip to what they call City Market.
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Now, City Market in Bangalore, India can best be described as an assault on all of your senses.
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It's not a tourist destination.
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In fact, they kept looking at me incredulously when I said, I really want to go there.
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They're like, no. No, no, no, no, no. An assault on the senses.
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Sights I had never seen before.
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Bright-colored fruits and spices.
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Lots of people.
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Smells.
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Not all of them are great.
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There was a lot of livestock around.
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And did I mention it was May and really, really humid.
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So crowds of people, all these scents, all these smells, all of these noises that I had never experienced in my life.
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It was a little overwhelming, to be honest.
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I kind of stuck out like a sore thumb.
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So when I spied over in the corner of the market, this alcove, this concrete alcove, that not only offered some shade,
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but it also offered a beautiful visual.
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See, it was in this basement-like structure that the ladies were sitting there, stringing flowers together, making lays for the temple.
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These colors in these flowers was absolutely amazing.
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And the smell of the jasmine in the air was incredible.
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And they sat there and they delicately strung these together.
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And as I was walking by and looking at them, one woman caught my eye.
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You see, she caught my eye because she was probably older than my grandmother.
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And I thought, oh, my gosh, she's sitting on that hard concrete floor,
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little bent hands, stringing these flowers for rupees.
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She had no teeth.
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She had probably nothing.
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So I unzip my very fancy fanny pack, as American tourists do, and I pull out my rupees.
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She doesn't speak English, I don't speak Hindi, so the international sign for, hey, I want to buy your things, right?
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And she looks at me up and down and she goes, devastated.
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I'm so embarrassed that I'm backing away from her into my guide and I say, Danny, my guide, I did something to offend her.
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Can you please go make it right?
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So he walks over, he has a little conversation with her, and then he waves me over.
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And she gets up and she picks the most beautiful jasmine lei I've ever seen.
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And with her arthritic hands, she pins it in my hair.
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And again, unzip the fanny pack.
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And she, I said, I don't understand.
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Danny said, Belinda, you picked her.
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You honored her by wanting her flowers.
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Your debt is paid in full.
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That moment changed my life because I realized I had gotten it all wrong.
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I was a child of the 80s.
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I was climbing that corporate ladder.
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Next title, next promotion, corner office.
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I had it all wrong.
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I was defining my value by what I earned and not by who I was serving.
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When we put money before honor, we're only going to get so far.
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But when we truly serve from our hearts, the people who honor us with their time, their trust, their money, we will be abundantly rich.
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I have a journal from that time in India.
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When I open that journal, I see that lay preserved.
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Flowers are now brown and wilted, but they are my constant reminder of a woman who had nothing,
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yet was the wealthiest person I have ever met in my life.
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Made a lot of changes in my life after that.
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I left India a new woman, my heart full, my mind full, and actually my arms were full too.
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Because not only did I go home and quit my job, I went home with a dog I had adopted off the streets of Bangalore.
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And he was my reminder as well of what we can do in this world.
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So I would leave you with this.
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Service over sales, honor over hustle,
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and most importantly, people over profits.
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Thank you.
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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B2レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「My Life Lesson from a Trip to India」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：flowers, India, Bangalore, smell, honor。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が67文、単語が750語あります。 音声の長さは5:35です。 話す速さは1分あたり約134語で安定しており、シャドーイングしやすいペースです。 英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は80%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。
この動画の重要語彙
動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。
| 単語 | 発音 | 意味 |
|---|---|---|
| alcove 名詞 | /ˈæl.koʊv/ | 壁龕 |
| rupee 名詞 | /ɹuˈpi/ | ルピー |
| jasmine 名詞 | /ˈd͡ʒæzmɪn/ | 茉莉, ジャスミン |
| reminder 名詞 | /ɹɪˈmaɪndə(ɹ)/ | 備忘, 念押し |
| abundantly 副詞 | /əˈbʌn.dn̩t.li/ | 多量に |
| overwhelm 動詞 | /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/ | 圧倒する |
| humid 形容詞 | /ˈhjuːmɪd/ | 湿気の多い, 蒸し暑い |
| offend 動詞 | /əˈfɛnd/ | 気分を害する |
| scent 名詞 | /sɛnt/ | 香り, 匂い |
| livestock 名詞 | /ˈlaɪvstɑk/ | 家畜 |
| spice 名詞 | /spaɪs/ | 香辛料, スパイス |
| sore 形容詞 | /soɹ/ | 痛い, 痛ましい |
| thumb 名詞 | /ˈθʌm/ | 親指 |
| ladder 名詞 | /ˈlæd.ɚ/ | 梯子 |
| embarrassed 形容詞 | /ɪmˈbæɹ.əst/ | 恥ずかしい |
動画に出てくる句動詞
| 単語 | 意味 |
|---|---|
| get up 動詞 | 起きる |
| stick out 動詞 | 突き出る |
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 ever seen · have ever met |
| 受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる | be described · is paid |
| 関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える | people who honor · woman who had |
注意したい発音
話し手はdon't, I'm, doesn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を8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: arthritic /ɑː(ɹ)θˈɹɪtɪk/, thumb /ˈθʌm/, grandmother /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/
- 「sh」と「zh」の音: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, shade /ʃeɪd/
- 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: delicately /ˈdɛlɪkətli/, devastated /ˈdɛv.əˌsteɪ.təd/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/
日本語話者が苦手な音：
- /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: alcove /ˈæl.koʊv/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, devastated /ˈdɛv.əˌsteɪ.təd/, livestock /ˈlaɪvstɑk/, preserve /pɹəˈzɝv/
- 子音の連続 — 間に母音を入れない: abundantly /əˈbʌn.dn̩t.li/, arthritic /ɑː(ɹ)θˈɹɪtɪk/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, humid /ˈhjuːmɪd/, offend /əˈfɛnd/
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。alcove, rupee, jasmine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。