シャドーイング練習: Philomena Cunk vs Prof. Brian Cox - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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To find out, I spoke to expert science man and former DREAM keyboardist, Dr Brian Cox.
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How will the world end?
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Well, the sun will run out of fuel in about 4 billion years or so, and actually before that, it will begin to swell up,
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expand, and so we think the Earth will get incinerated.
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Do you think we might be able to do something about it?
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Stop it being incinerated?
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Yeah, stop it being incinerated.
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Oh, the sun burning the Earth can't we put it out with a big hose or something?
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It's an inevitable consequence of the laws of nature.
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You're pleased with that, are you?
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You're happy with that.
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You can live with that.
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Well, there's nothing I can do.
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So this is the actual large hadron colander.
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So am I right in thinking that this might prove the existence of chakras within the human body?
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No. You're not interested in chakras?
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No. In the same way, I'm not interested in ghosts.
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But my Aunt Carol, she can sense chakras in someone's body.
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And she doesn't need any machines.
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Also, the Andromeda galaxy is going to hit us.
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The Andromeda galaxy?
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A whole galaxy is going to hit us.
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Yeah.
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On about the same time scale, actually.
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So as the sun runs out of fuel and expands and incinerates the Earth, a galaxy of 400 billion stars is going to collide with us.
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You're much gloomier than I expected, cos you're quite smiley.
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Well, yeah, well, it's quite a long time in the future.
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This could explode at any minute, couldn't it?
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No. How fast do the protons in this thing go?
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99.999999% the speed of light.
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Your sense of smell is faster, isn't it?
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No. Well, how come that when someone's frying bacon and you walk in the kitchen, you can smell it straight away before you've even seen it?
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Have you ever tried putting bacon in here?
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No. Yeah, you should try it.
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You might make quantum bacon.
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Would that make it more interesting?
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A little bit.
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Why would it be more interesting?
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Because what it's trying to do...
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I'm desperately...
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I'm trying to help you out here.
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I'm trying to, like, make it even slightly more interesting than it is.
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But what it did was it detected...
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a thing called a Higgs particle.
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Without the Higgs particle, you, me and everything else that we know of in the universe, none of those things would exist.
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Can the Higgs boson rewind time?
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No. Can it tell when an earthquake's going to go off?
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No. Can it make food spicier?
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It's just a particle.
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It's like saying, can an electron tell when an earthquake's going to go off? Can it?
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No. You said things can only get better.
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So why can we trust anything you ever say now?
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Yeah, it's a gross misunderstanding of the laws of nature.
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It's one of the most misleading and scientifically inaccurate pop songs that's ever been written.
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Catchy, though.
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Yeah, but it's just inaccurate.
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Scientifically inaccurate.
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Things get worse.
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So after the universe ends, there'll be nothing?
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Depends what you mean by after the universe ends.
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When it's exploded.
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Well, it's not going to explode.
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It's going to, we think...
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Melch.
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..carry on expanding.
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Right. And then...
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Forever.
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Well, that'll be fine, won't it?
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We need the space.
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What is quantum physics?
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Quantum physics is...
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So quantum mechanics is our best theory of how the world works.
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It describes everything that we've observed other than gravity.
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Do mirrors run on quantum physics?
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Run?
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Yeah. As in...?
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Well, according to quantum physics, mirrors shouldn't work, they're a miracle.
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That's not correct.
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You get to the point that it carries on doing that, then galaxies get ripped apart, and then solar systems get ripped apart, and then even planets get ripped apart,
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and even atoms get ripped apart.
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But so what?
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All the stars will die.
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Even all the black holes that are left, the final sort of end points of the most massive stars will evaporate away.
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Quantum theorionics proves there's infinite multiverses, like in Marvel films, doesn't it?
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That's one interpretation of the theory.
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How many infinite multiverses are there?
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If there were an infinite number of multiverses, then the number of multiverses would be infinite.
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See, I think there's two.
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Ours and the one in mirrors.
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So can we...could we fall down a black hole?
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Yeah, you could fall into one.
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Is that the same?
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Because I heard that you could be...
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If, you know, this is one way that the world could end, is that we're all just sucked off through a hole.
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It's, er...
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I mean, that must be terrible.
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Can you imagine what it would feel like to be sucked off through a hole?
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Yeah.
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Mirrors are windows into other universes, aren't they?
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No. My mate Paul says they run on quantum power,
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and that's why you can see into an alternative dimension in which everything's the same as our realm but backwards.
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What does Paul do?
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Well, he worked in a tennis ball factory where he had to catch the tennis balls, but he was fired from that, and now he's unemployed.
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Sorry, am I wasting your time?
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Any time?
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Yeah.

コンテキストと背景

このビデオでは、フィロメナ・カンクと科学者ブライアン・コックス教授の興味深いやり取りが展開されます。カンクは、宇宙の終焉やヒッグス粒子の役割についての複雑な話題を、ユーモアを交えながらブライアン教授に尋ねます。この対話を通じて、リスナーは科学的なコンセプトを分かりやすく学ぶことができます。特に、英語のリスニングと発音を強化するために、実際の対話を利用することが重要です。

日常会話のためのトップ5フレーズ

  • 「地球は燃え尽きるでしょう。」 - 自然の法則についての理解を表現する際に使えます。
  • 「それは避けられない結果です。」 - 物事の必然性について述べるのに便利です。
  • 「ヒッグス粒子がなければ、私たちの存在はありません。」 - 存在の根本的な意味を考える際に使えるフレーズです。
  • 「宇宙の終わりについての知識は豊富です。」 - 知識を強調する表現として役立ちます。
  • 「興味を引くために何か別の視点が必要です。」 - 議論を深めたい時に使える表現です。

ステップバイステップのシャドウイングガイド

このビデオの理解を深め、英語の発音を良くするためには、以下のステップを踏んでみましょう。YouTubeで英語学習を利用し、自分のペースで実践してください。

  1. ビデオを視聴する: まず、対話全体を通して視聴し、内容を把握しましょう。
  2. セクションごとに分ける: 短いクリップに分けて、各セクションを繰り返し聞いてみます。
  3. 発音に注意: 特に、ブライアン・コックス教授の発音とイントネーションを模倣してみてください。シャドウスピークを活用し、リズムと抑揚を練習します。
  4. リピート練習: 一文ごとにリピートし、自分の声を録音することで、発音の改善点を見つけましょう。
  5. 日常会話に活用: 学んだフレーズを使って、友人や家族と実際の会話シチュエーションで練習してみましょう。

これらの方法を使って、IELTS スピーキング対策にも役立てることができます。反復することで、自然な英語の会話能力を高めることができます。

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。