シャドーイング練習: Robert De Niro on Acting - Michael Parkinson Interview [1981] - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Alec Guinness once said on the show
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that I asked him what he had to do before he got into a character
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and he said he had to get the walk right.
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Right.
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But you actually, you research them, don't you?
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You go and live like them before you do the part.
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Well, what he says is very true for me too because some actors work cerebrally, some work physically.
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I like to work physically a lot of times it helps me feel like, I mean clothes, putting on certain clothes can give you a feeling of another character,
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which it does to actual people who are characters.
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It helps them identify with the role that they want to play in life, be a businessman or whatever they want to, you know.
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And one thing can give it to you.
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A walk can give it to you.
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Just that one walk, you can play that one thing through a whole play or a movie and it can do it.
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So I agree with that, you know.
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The point I was going to make, of course, was that...
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I do the other two.
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Yeah, I mean, the way when you did Taxi Driver, for instance, I mean, you went and actually worked as a cabbie, didn't you?
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Yeah.
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Did anybody ever recognize you then?
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Only once or twice.
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Once I had an actor who wanted me to take him to the airport and he recognized me.
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So the whole thing was blown because I couldn't, you know, all we could do was talk about acting.
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And I didn't want him to pay me.
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But he insisted on paying me.
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I said, okay, pay me.
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No tip, though.
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And the other time I just, some people got out of the cab and I looked at his eyes.
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You know, you have a plaque with your name on it.
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I turned that around so nobody could see the name, which a lot of cabbies do anyway.
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And I looked him in the eye and the guy recognized me right away and just said, you were in Godfather II, he recognized me from that. And that was it.
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Otherwise, people don't even look at you, they don't know.
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You know, it's like a waiter in a restaurant.
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They don't, you know, you don't exist in a way.
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That was kind of...
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And in New York, New York as well, you actually learned how to play the instrument, the sax, didn't you?
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Although, I mean, you needn't have done because you could have mimed it because the music wasn't yours, was it?
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No, it wasn't mine.
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It was done by George Yeo, except that I wanted to learn the fingering, which I did.
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And I learned how to play everything in the movie.
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It wasn't, the whole point was not to learn how to play the sax to be,
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you know, I could never play it as well as he did or the way Jake fights and so on.
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But the movies are an illusion and the whole point is to be able to recreate this without looking like a fool.
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I didn't want to look like I didn't know what I was doing because when I look at a movie, I see, you know, somebody with the fingering, for example, they're all out of, you know, they're all on step, out of sync.
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Playing a jazz musician.
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And I want to throw it away.
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The point is to learn to throw it away the way a person who actually does know it, they don't over-emphasize it.
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It's like an actor who overacts because they don't really know the situation and don't have the confidence to just be, you know, be straight.
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Robert, you're at the top of the tree now.
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You've got a very strongly tip for a second Academy Award.
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Yet I do know for a certain fact that you don't like the thing about the, the traditional trappings of being a film star, do you?
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In some ways, yeah.
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You don't like them?
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Well, only that...
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as far as the.. being recognized in certain situations, you like a certain amount of privacy.
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And, no, but I enjoy it, don't get me wrong.
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I mean, certain things are drag, but that's part of it.
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I have no complaints whatsoever.
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What about your next project?
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What are you going to do?
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That's called The King of Comedy, and I'm doing it with Jerry Lewis, and Marty Scorsese is going to direct it.
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It's about a guy who kidnaps someone like yourself.
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A chat show host.
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Yeah, to get on the show and do his act, which turns out to be very good.
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You've not been doing any research while we've been sitting here, have you?
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No. No, you haven't?
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No. All right.
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But all success with that, all success too with Raging Bull.
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As I say, I do hope it gets a wider audience because it is a magnificent movie.
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It's not what you call family entertainment of its kind.
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I think it's one of the best movies I've ever seen.
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Robert De Niro.
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Thank you.
この動画で身につける英語スピーキングのスキル
ロバート・デ・ニーロとマイケル・パーキンソンの会話は、日常的な会話のリズムや自然な語順の使い方を学ぶのに最適です。特に、質問に対する応答の流れや、具体的なエピソードを挿入しながら話すテクニックは、IELTS スピーキング対策にも役立ちます。また、「演技について語る」という特定のトピックでの語彙力も増やせます。
聞き取りに注意すべき発音のポイント
このビデオでは連結発音や弱めの発音が多く見られます。例えば、「didn't you」は「ディディュー」ではなく「ディンチュー」のように連結され、「want to」は「ワンナ」と弱められます。また、「I mean」の「mean」は軽く発音され、文の流れをスムーズにしています。これらの音のつながりを聞き分けることで、英語の発音を良くすることができます。
ネイティブのように話すコツ
デ・ニーロの話し方の特徴は、リズムとストレスの使い方です。彼は重要な単語（例えば「physically」「research」）を強調し、その他の単語は軽く流します。これを真似るには、shadowspeak（シャドーイング）の練習が効果的です。動画を再生しながら、1秒遅れで同じリズムとストレスで話してみましょう。また、「the whole point was...」のようなフレーズを使って話をまとめる方法も、英語スピーキング練習のポイントです。自然な会話の流れを作るために、これらのテクニックをマスターしましょう。
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。