シャドーイング練習: POLITICAL VOCABULARY 🇺🇸 Advanced Words & Phrases You Should Know - YouTubeで英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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This is a bipartisan video to help you build your vocabulary with some advanced political words and phrases.
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This is a bipartisan video to help you build your vocabulary with some advanced political words and phrases.
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And let's just start with that word right there, bipartisan.
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This means supported by or consisting of two political parties.
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And it really does have a positive connotation,
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so I thought we would start and should start with something positive.
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And there are some common collocations with this adjective,
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and these are words that are frequently used together.
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So you might hear somebody talk about bipartisan support or a bipartisan agreement,
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a bipartisan vote, or even a bipartisan committee.
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Speaker Kimball Hofstra has promised a bipartisan effort to amend the legislation and get it passed.
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Number one, we need to reform,
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but we can't do it without bipartisan support.
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The president will announce a major bipartisan agreement in the state of the union.
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Now, if you are someone who enjoys building your vocabulary on a variety of topics like politics and many others,
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then please subscribe to the channel, turn on notifications.
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That way I can become your teacher.
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My name is Wes.
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The channel is Interactive English.
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It's all about trying to help you reach your fluency goals.
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And if you subscribe, I'm not just going to treat you like any old other subscriber.
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I'm actually going to listen to you.
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I'm going to try to answer to you,
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and I will treat you as though you were one of my constituents.
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And that is the next word that I want to talk to you about.
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Constituent.
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This is basically a voter,
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or a person who can vote in a particular area of the country.
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And the opposite of a constituent,
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or I guess it would be the opposite, would be a representative.
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A representative represents voters or they represent their constituents.
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And sometimes you may hear these words used in the same sentence.
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So I could say the representatives in Washington will have to go home and answer to their constituents.
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You're asking us to abandon a man who's inspired millions of our constituents.
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Try to repair the damage done to my beloved family and my esteemed constituents.
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Then we have incumbent.
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This is a person who has or had a particular official position.
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So in the United States,
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which is where I'm from,
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there are really two people who are running for an elected government position,
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and that's a Democrat and a Republican.
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And typically one person is the new candidate and the other person is the incumbent.
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And in those situations, the incumbent definitely has the advantage.
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And when an incumbent retires,
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then there would just be two new candidates.
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But the incumbent is the person who is in office now.
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Breaking news out of North Carolina,
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Democratic incumbent Cam Bray getting a run for his money by newcomer Marty Huggins.
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The next word, it's a negative one, and that is demagogue.
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Now, you may use this word in other contexts outside of politics,
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but I think often it is used to talk about a politician.
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So this This is a person,
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especially a politician, who really gets support by exciting the emotions of ordinary people rather than by having good
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or morally right ideas.
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So this is how weird things are in the US because each side may accuse the other of being a demagogue.
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People on the left may accuse Trump of being a demagogue.
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People on the right may accuse Biden of being a demagogue.
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And this is just the time that we live in.
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Your leadership has raised the stakes of hate to a level
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where we can no longer separate the demagogue from the truly inspired.
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Then there's a word that is used a lot nowadays,
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and that is the adjective polarized.
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This word really just means divided,
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but specifically divided into two opposing groups.
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And you will certainly come across this adjective
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if you are listening to the news or reading a newspaper
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because people might talk about an issue that has become polarized or just saying that people nowadays are polarized.
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So look for it, listen for it,
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you will certainly come across this work.
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We're more polarized now than ever.
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That's understandable.
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We're in a tribal moment.
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We are frequently told that American politics are polarized.
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On the right, Republicans work together with other Republicans,
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and on the left, Democrats work with other Democrats.
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Then there's filibuster.
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This refers to a long speech in order to delay or prevent a law from being made or passed.
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And you can use this as a verb or a noun.
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So to filibuster something, I could say,
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I plan to filibuster the proposed legislation.
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Or as a noun, a filibuster,
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I started a filibuster to stop the proposed legislation.
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So in the US, this is just a legislative technique to stall or stop voting on something.
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And in order to give you a better idea as to how this word is used in context,
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I have some news headlines for you.
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State Senators filibuster ahead of legislative deadline.
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Filibuster returns to Nebraska legislature over bill targeting fentanyl crisis.
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Senator Jeff Merkley on how to fix the filibuster.
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Because, yeah, it's a little screwy.
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It's kind of broken.
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And here are some more examples because I love giving you a variety.
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Article 7, Section 3 allows for a citizen filibuster.
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If I stand here and refuse to yield my time,
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you are prohibited from voting on the bill.
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Let the filibustering begin.
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Next is impeach.
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This means to make a formal statement saying
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that a public official is guilty of a serious offense in connection with their job.
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And it's a word that,
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once again, is used more and more often in the United States.
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So you could use it as a verb,
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to impeach someone, or as a noun,
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impeachment, or even as an adjective, impeachable.
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Saying something is an impeachable offense.
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And I want you to keep in mind that impeachment is a political process.
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You're not really going to go to jail,
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but you may lose your job.
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So now for a little trivia.
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How many U.S presidents have been impeached?
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I'll tell you the answer is three.
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And you may be able to think of two of the three.
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Well, the first one is Trump,
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who was twice impeached, once in 2019 and again in 2021.
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Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998,
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and then Andrew Jackson was impeached in 1868.
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And of the presidents who were impeached,
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none of them were convicted.
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So I pretty much ran the place into the ground after two months and got impeached.
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I changed my vote.
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I vote to impeach.
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Me too.
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I still have loyalty to my party tongue.
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And where's their loyalty?
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They were going to impeach you.
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Then we have referendum.
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This is a vote in which all people in a country
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or area are asked to give their opinion about or decide an important political or social question.
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And this noun may be followed by the preposition on.
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So in the U.S., in some states,
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there may be a referendum on marijuana legalization,
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or a referendum on abortion,
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or a referendum on school boards.
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But this year, there are going to be a number of different referendums.
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You know, to some, a simple schoolhouse whiteboard.
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But to those in the know, a referendum on democracy.
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But ultimately, this was a referendum on the leadership of George W.
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Bush.
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The state of Nevada is trying to pass a referendum where state and local government employees cannot have mustaches.
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Then we have ballot, which is a pretty common word.
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You may be familiar with it already,
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but it has a couple of different meanings and there are some common collocations with this now.
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So the first meaning is just a system of secret voting and collocations.
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You could say that someone was elected by ballot
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or something was done by secret ballot or you could say that you're going to hold a ballot.
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It also refers to a piece of paper on which you write your vote.
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So I could say that the referendum is going to appear on the ballot
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or a collocation would be to cast your ballot.
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A very common noun, definitely one you should know.
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Americans are heading to the polls to cast their ballots for the next US president.
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All 48,000 voters and who each one of them voted for.
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I thought this was a secret ballot.
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Next is winner take all.
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And this is really about a competition in which the winner takes the entire prize.
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So it really means what it says.
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But you may be wondering,
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how does this word relate to politics?
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So, in the US, we have this screwy system called the Electoral College.
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And this is actually the way that we choose our president.
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It's not by the popular vote.
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The person has to win 270 Electoral College votes.
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That is the magic number.
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So, each state is given a number of electors based on the size of the state.
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And within the state, whoever wins the popular vote wins them all.
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And that's why we say winner take all.
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Because even if it's very close,
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if one person wins by one vote,
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they get all of the electors.
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Winner take all.
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It's screwy.
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To me, it doesn't make any sense.
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But this is the way it's done in just about every state.
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So, let me give you some more non-political examples using this phrase.
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Okay guys, one match, winner take all.
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One more time, winner take all.
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Last game coming up, winner take all, agreed?
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Think tank.
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This is the next phrase that I want to teach you
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because it refers to a group of experts that are gathered together by an organization,
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especially a government, in order to consider different problems and try to come up with ways to solve these problems.
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So you might hear someone say that a study or some research was done by a think tank.
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Now even though think tanks may consist of different experts,
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they're not really without bias
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because some think tanks have been created to support a progressive agenda while other think tanks support a conservative agenda.
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And here are some well-known think tanks.
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The Brookings Institution, the Heritage Foundation, Pew Research Center.
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Whenever you hear these names,
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you now know that they are think tanks.
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I think it's exciting.
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Springfield is the center of the political universe.
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I feel like a pundit in a think tank.
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Think tanky.
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I thought you would be a tremendous addition to this think tank.
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This woman, Simone Leclerc, is the president of a think tank called European Independence League.
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Then there's to lobby.
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This means to try to persuade a politician or the government
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or some official group that something should or should not be done or that some law should be changed.
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So someone may lobby someone else for something.
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And to give you a better idea as to how this verb is used in context,
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here are some more news headlines.
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Nebraska high school students lobby legislators on a new program with a focus on diverse perspectives.
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Spain set to lobby EU partners to recognize Palestinian state.
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And student leaders chancellor lobby in DC for increased financial aid and stable research funding.
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I should also tell you that this word is commonly used as a noun,
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a lobby, to refer to the group that tries to persuade politicians.
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So in this case, you have the gun lobby,
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the meat lobby, the telecom lobby.
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There are many different lobbies.
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Our president is prepared to lobby Congress to lift the NASA exclusion policy.
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Welcome to the grand opening of our whatchamacallit,
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which thanks to the lobbying of Lisa Simpson,
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we built instead of a new baseball stadium.
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And then we have poll.
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This is a study in which people are asked to share their opinions about a subject or person.
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And in an election year,
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this is a word that you're going to hear quite often.
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So you may hear statements like the polls show that Biden is ahead or the polls show that Trump is ahead.
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And I'm also using this as a noun, a poll.
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But you can use this as a verb as well.
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If I were to say,
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we polled a thousand people to ask their opinions on free speech.
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In my personal opinion, I think polls are really for reporting news and just capturing people's attention.
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I think in the U.S they've been somewhat inaccurate.
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But what I think is more interesting are the exit polls.
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This is the activity of asking people how they voted after they leave a polling station,
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which is where people vote,
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in order to discover what the results will likely be.
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Of course, these polls are more reliable because people have already voted,
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but it kind of helps you understand where people are at as far as what they think about certain topics and issues.
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But these are words that you will hear a lot.
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A poll or exit poll.
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Oh, don't worry about the polls.
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They're just a sampling goals change.
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Don't get ahead of yourself.
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We did a flash pull.
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68% of Punians now believe you're lying about where you were born.
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Well, the exit pulls are good.
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The West Coast exit pulls are looking bad.
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And now for a little review,
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because of course, I am going to lobby you to watch another video lesson.
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As my constituent, that is what I would recommend.
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And I suppose that if there were a study done by all think tanks.
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The research would show that watching interactive English just helps you reach your fluency goals.
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But in all seriousness, I would love it if you hit the like button.
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And you could think of it like a secret ballot.
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And later on, I will check the results.
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And really, it's going to be a referendum on my teaching abilities.
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So I'm not going to keep talking because then I'll just sound like I'm filibustering,
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which is not what I want.
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So I'm going to wrap things up,
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but I really would appreciate it if you hit that like button,
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if you enjoyed the lesson and learned something new.
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But as always, thank you so much for watching and I will see you next time.
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So long.
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このビデオでは、政治用語に関する高度な英語の語彙を学ぶことができます。スピーカーが紹介する用語は、政治の世界でよく使われる重要な言葉です。特に、二大政党制（bipartisan）や有権者（constituent）、現職（incumbent）など、政治に関連する多様な語彙が含まれています。これらの言葉は、英語を学ぶ方にとって、日常のコミュニケーションを豊かにする助けとなるでしょう。
日常会話のためのトップ5フレーズ
- 二大政党制（bipartisan）のサポート
- 有権者（constituent）との連携
- 現職（incumbent）の候補者
- 二大政党制の合意（bipartisan agreement）
- 政治家（demagogue）に関する議論
これらのフレーズは、政治に関する議論だけでなく、英語のスピーキング練習にも役立ちます。特に、英語の発音を良くするためにも有効です。これらの表現を使いこなすことで、日常会話の幅を広げることができるでしょう。
段階的シャドーイングガイド
このビデオを使った英語シャドーイングの方法は以下の通りです：
- ビデオを視聴する：最初に、内容を把握するためにビデオを一度通して見てみましょう。
- フレーズを繰り返す：スピーカーの発音を聞き、その後に自分でも繰り返してみましょう。shadowing siteを利用すると、発音の確認がしやすくなります。
- スローモーションで練習：難しい表現があった場合は、再生スピードを遅くしてシャドーイングを行いましょう。
- 録音して自分の声をチェックする：自分の発音を録音し、スピーカーの発音と比較してみることで、改善点を見つけることができます。
- 定期的に復習し、バリエーションを加える：習ったフレーズを使って独自の文を作り、英語スピーキング練習を継続しましょう。
このプロセスを取り入れることで、より効果的に英語スピーキングスキルを向上させることができます。継続的にシャドーイングを行うことで、自信を持って政治に関する会話に参加できるようになるでしょう。
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。