シャドーイング練習: NYU's 2020/2021 Commencement Student Speaker Amy Dong - YouTubeで英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Please welcome Amy Gung, who received the Bachelor of Science from the Leonard N.
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Please welcome Amy Gung, who received the Bachelor of Science from the Leonard N.
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Stern School of Business in 2020,
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and who will now address her fellow alumni.
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Hello class of 2020!
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And class of 2021, we're glad you're here too.
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To all of us, I lift an imaginary toast goblet to say congratulations on officially graduating again.
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My name's Amy, but if you don't know who I am, that's totally cool.
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I got dinner a month ago with a few study abroad friends from 2017
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and our conversation literally started with someone pointing at me and saying,
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oh my god, I totally forgot you existed.
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We all laughed and then we admitted to each other just how far and long ago everything NYU felt.
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Things like study abroad, exams, even each other.
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Today, with all of us gathered here at Yankee Stadium,
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of course we're reminded about everything NYU again.
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Today, we all chose to consciously hit pause on our now adult lives to take a look back.
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And because this isn't a normal commencement,
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and because these past two years haven't been normal years,
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I'm sure I'm the first one who's told you that,
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I'll forego the usual let's go change the world speech
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and instead ask us all to spend the next few minutes on the past.
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If I asked you to recall one memory at NYU that'll last you for a lifetime,
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I'm sure you'd have one.
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In fact, not just one,
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but dozens and hundreds that made you want to come back here and celebrate today.
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I know that I've been thinking about this particular moment for a long time now,
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because for me, to be standing here is nothing short of a miracle.
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In 2017, after my fall semester in Prague,
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I was diagnosed with an eating disorder and told I was lucky to be alive.
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I was extremely underweight, had a shrunken heart,
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and was this close to having a heart attack in my life.
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I was pulled out of NYU in the spring and I spent it at home alone,
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recovering my weight and more importantly, my sense of self.
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What did it mean to be alive?
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To live a life truly worth living?
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And when I returned, I felt acutely aware that I was lucky to be able to do the smallest things.
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like walk in the city,
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see a friend, even go to class.
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I knew I had been granted a second chance at life,
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so damn it, I was gonna make it worthwhile.
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And then, thank you.
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And then COVID hit and we all went home again and we all graduated remotely in front of our computer screens.
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And then it wasn't just me,
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but all of us who had to think about or rethink what we really wanted out of life.
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In my case, I moved to Taiwan.
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I went to go teach English under a Fulbright scholarship.
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And everything was really good for a couple of months.
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And then last April, I almost lost my life for the second time in a freak train accident.
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Two of my friends, including my roommate at the time,
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were not as lucky.
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Now I'm telling this story not to evoke pity or to make you sad, I promise.
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I'm telling it because I bet every single one of us sitting here
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or standing here has experienced loss or grief or sacrifice in some way over the last few years.
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And in spite of it all,
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we are here today with our friends and family and we are very much alive.
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And if that isn't the definition of resilience,
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I don't know what is.
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And though we've lost much, we've also gained much.
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We've gained perspective.
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We've gained patience for our others and also for ourselves.
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And we've gained a collective sense of how precious life really is.
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Near-death experience or not, we've all had to grapple with the meaning of life these past few years.
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And at the wise old age of 23,
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I think I found the answer.
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For me, the meaning of life is twofold.
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One, it's about enjoying the passage of time.
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It's about looking forward, yes,
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but it's also about looking back like we are today
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and just appreciate every single beautiful moment
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that we've been able to collect in this short amount of time we call one life.
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And the second part is recognizing just how short life can be if nothing else COVID taught us this.
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So class of 2020, if there's just one thing you take away from this speech today,
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it's that you matter.
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Your life matters.
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Your time
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matters and
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because our time here as a family as a human group
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we owe it to ourselves to take advantage of every single moment thank you and congratulations again
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Thank you.
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このレッスンでは、NYUの2020/2021卒業式のスピーチからのインスピレーションを得ながら、英語のスピーキング練習を行います。卒業生のエイミー・ドンのスピーチは、彼女の人生の経験と成長を反映したもので、聴き手にとっても共感を呼ぶ内容です。このビデオを通じて、IELTS スピーキング対策や、英語の発音を良くするための効果的なシャドーイングテクニックを学ぶことができます。
重要な語彙とフレーズ
- congratulations - おめでとう
- memory - 思い出
- lucky - 幸運
- miracle - 奇跡
- second chance - セカンドチャンス
- life worth living - 生きる価値のある人生
- study abroad - 留学
- graduates remotely - リモートで卒業する
練習のコツ
このビデオのスピーチは、感情的で個人的な体験を共有する形で行われていますので、英語シャドーイングの練習に非常に適しています。エイミーのスピーチのスピードは比較的遅く、明瞭です。以下のポイントに注意しながら練習してみましょう。
- まず、スピーチを通して聞き取り、内容を理解してください。
- 次に、エイミーの言葉を繰り返しながら、shadowspeakを行いましょう。彼女の声のトーンやリズムを真似て、正確に発音することを意識します。
- フレーズごとに区切って練習し、少しずつ速さを上げてみてください。視聴者に感情が伝わるよう、声の強弱にも注意を払いましょう。
- 繰り返し練習することで、自然な発音が身につき、YouTubeで英語学習がより効果的になるでしょう。
このシャドーイングテクニックを活用して、あなたの英語スピーキングスキルを磨いていきましょう！
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。