シャドーイング練習: Our World Is Naturally Strange - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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The process of the Neural Sublime is defamiliarizing everything.
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Nothing is familiar anymore.
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Everything is unfamiliar, is weird and strange and wonderful.
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That is opening up this consciousness and kind of giving it an expansiveness that you don't normally have.
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In the scattered world, how do you make yourself more present and more alive in the moment?
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The exercises I give you in the chapter are kind of making you aware of what I call pure consciousness.
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Okay.
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And so you're sleepwalking because
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your brain is operating on automatic and you have no control over it and you're not aware of it
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So the process of experiencing the NeuroSublime
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is a process of self -awakening and seeing
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that as it happens in the moment and seeing how your brain is tricking you into this.
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So, In the chapter, I give you these exercises. And I'm saying.
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That consciousness, think of consciousness in this metaphor.
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It is pure.
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It is like that sky I mentioned, the blue sky.
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It has no limits, no boundaries, no north, south, east or west.
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It goes on forever, right?
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It's pure.
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And you don't have it anymore.
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Your consciousness is now very constricted.
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It's not like that infinite blue sky.
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It's cloudy.
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It's murky.
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It's full of all this crap, all this dirt.
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Okay?
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We're trying to purify it.
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We're trying to go back to that pure consciousness.
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I give you exercises on trying to perceive the world around you.
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First of all, without all of those filters.
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So for instance, You take a walk, but it could happen in your room.
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You don't have to take a walk here.
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But when you look at things, Drop the words for them.
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Try and spend an hour We are not looking at things as they are
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is symbolized through these abstract words that you have, and to actually look things as they are in their own strangeness.
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So, The world for you has become too familiar visually, sensually, thinking -wise.
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The process of the NeuroSublime is defamiliarizing everything.
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Nothing is familiar anymore.
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Everything is strange.
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A child, a baby?
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That strange little mass of 12 pounds of flesh crying all the time.
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What a strange little creature that is.
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A snail crawling on the ground.
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The snail has these antennas, a very strange world snails are very strange clouds in the sky
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are not just these things that you never think of, they're weird.
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Imagine there's no other planet in the universe that is going to have clouds like we have.
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because we have an atmosphere, because we have certain conditions.
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You know, there'll be clouds, but they won't be like ours.
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How strange they are.
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Everything is unfamiliar, is weird and strange and wonderful.
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That is opening up this consciousness and kind of kind of giving it an expansiveness that you don't normally have.
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And then as I said with childhood, making everything have this kind of emotional quality where it's not just concepts and intellectual things,
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but everything strikes you in your body.
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And physically it's opening yourself up physically to the world itself and expanding your, your, your, your, your, your, your senses.
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Okay, so on and on and on your thinking.
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I'm trying to open up your thinking process so
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that you don't have these same narrow thoughts over and over and over again.
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And you go through exercises, where you scramble your normal thinking patterns and you think the opposite.
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of what you normally do.
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So what you think is ugly,
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and dirty and disgusting i want you to imagine that it's beautiful and wonderful and everything that's beautiful you know,
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like something airbrushed image of something is actually repulsive and ugly.
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I want you to alter your patterns of thinking on and on and on.
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Mess with your own brain.
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play with your brain, play with your consciousness.
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It's like clay that you can mold and create your own brain for itself.
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It is the most exciting adventure you can ever go on if you learn to go through this process.

このビデオで話す練習をする理由は？

このビデオ「私たちの世界は自然に奇妙です」には、私たちの意識を拡張し、普段とは異なる視点で世界を見るための深い洞察が含まれています。英語を学ぶ際には、単に文法や語彙を習得するだけでなく、実際に思考を深め、感情を表現することが重要です。このビデオを使用することで、言葉を超えて周囲の物事に対する驚きや不思議さを感じることができ、より豊かなコミュニケーション能力を養うことができます。YouTubeで英語学習をする際には、こうした深いテーマについて話すことで、自分の意見や感情を表現する能力を向上させることができます。

文法と表現の文脈

このビデオでは、以下のような重要な文法構造や表現が使われています：

  • 「everything is unfamiliar」: これは状態動詞の基本形を用いた表現で、物事の変化を伝えています。英語では状態動詞が日常の状況を表す際によく使われます。
  • 「you’re sleepwalking」: ここでは比喩表現が使われており、無意識的に過ごしている状態を示しています。比喩を使うことで、感情や状況をより力強く伝えることができます。
  • 「purify it」: 目的語を明確に示す動詞の使い方です。このように動詞の後に目的語を続けることで、より具体的な行動を示すことができます。
  • 「everything is strange and wonderful」: 形容詞を用いて物事の特質を詳述する表現です。形容詞を使うことで、リスナーに強いイメージを与えることができます。

一般的な発音のトラップ

このビデオには、以下のような発音のトラップがあります：

  • 「NeuroSublime」: この言葉は珍しいため、初めて聞くと発音が難しいです。正しく発音するためには、音節を分けて練習することが重要です。
  • 「wonderful」: 「wonder」の部分で、母音の持続が必要です。正確な発音を聞いて模倣することが重要です。
  • 「consciousness」: この単語は音が多く、流れるように発音することが難しいです。特に「-sci-」の部分を意識して音のつながりを練習しましょう。

これらの発音や表現を意識しながら、英語のリスニングとスピーキングのスキルを高めていきましょう。IELTSスピーキング対策にも非常に役立つ内容です！

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。