シャドーイング練習: Practice: Letting the Feeling Come Closer - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Come and join me for a few minutes in a practice that I call Looking Under the Hood of Your Suffering.
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It's probably gentler than you expect.
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I'm not going to ask you to fix anything, or to feel better, or to make any feeling go away.
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Settle in, in any way that you feel comfortable.
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You don't need to close your eyes unless you'd like to.
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Take one breath and let it out.
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and let the day just set itself down for a moment.
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There's nowhere else you need to be right now.
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Now bring to mind one feeling that you've been keeping at a distance.
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something you've been a little too busy or a little too stoic to actually let yourself feel.
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You don't have to name it perfectly.
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Just let the feeling come a bit closer and give it some room.
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See if you can find where it lives in the body.
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Sometimes a feeling that we've been holding off shows up as a tightness in the chest,
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a heaviness behind the eyes, a knot in the stomach, a tension in the jaw.
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you're not trying to change it or push it away, you're just getting curious about it.
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Where is it?
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And what does it actually feel like?
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Stay with it a little longer than feels natural.
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Notice whether the feeling holds steady or shifts as you watch it.
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Whether it grows or softens or moves,
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you don't have to do anything to it, you're simply keeping it company.
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And notice, if you can, that you are still here.
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The feeling is here, and so are you, and there's room for both.
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this feeling is not a flaw or a failure to be calm it's part of being alive
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and you are strong enough to hold it
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now slowly let your attention widen back to the room around you
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The next time you catch yourself walling a feeling off,
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telling yourself, I'm fine, it's nothing, you might look under the hood instead
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and let the feeling come a little closer just Just for a moment to see what it has to tell you.
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And when you're ready, return gently to the rest of your day.

このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が31文、単語が369語あります。 音声の長さは4:45です。 話す速さはゆっくりで、1分あたり約78語です。一つ一つの音をまねる余裕があります。 単語の89%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれるため、語彙は分かりやすいです。

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくるやや難しい単語12語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

  • curious /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/ (形容詞) — 好奇心の強い, 知りたがる. Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.
  • stomach /ˈstʌmək/ (名詞) — 胃, 胃袋. An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
  • nowhere /ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/ (副詞) — どこにも, どこへも. In no place.
  • settle /ˈsɛtəl/ (動詞) — 解決する. To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
  • steady /ˈstɪdi/ (形容詞) — 着実, 安定した. Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm.
  • breathe /bɹiːð/ (動詞) — 呼吸する, 息をする. To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
  • tension /ˈtɛnʃən/ (名詞) — 緊張, 不安. The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other.
  • gentle /ˈd͡ʒɛntl̩/ (形容詞) — 優しい. Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
  • gently /ˈd͡ʒɛntli/ (副詞) — そっと. Without strong force or quickness: softly, lightly.
  • knot /nɑt/ (名詞) — 結び目. A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its…
  • flaw /flɔ/ (名詞) — ひび. A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
  • widen /ˈwaɪdn̩/ (動詞) — 広がる, 広まる. To become wide or wider.

動画に出てくる句動詞

  • go away (動詞) — 去る, 出る. To depart or leave a place.
  • show up (動詞) — 現れる. To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically.

注意したい発音

話し手はyou're, don't, I'mなど、短縮形や弱形を13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。

この動画での練習方法

  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。curious, stomach, nowhere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。

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