シャドーイング練習: Ronald Reagan Jokes about Communism - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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I have a new hobby.
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I am collecting stories that I can actually prove are told among the Russian people.
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They make them up themselves, they tell them between themselves, reveals they've got a great sense of humor, and they've also got a little cynical attitude about things in their country.
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The story was an American and a Russian arguing about their two countries, and the American said, look, in my country I can walk into the Oval Office, I can pound the President's desk and say,
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Mr. President, I don't like the way you're running our country.
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And the Russians said, I can do that.
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The Americans said, you can?
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He says, yes, I can go into the Kremlin, to the General Secretary's office, pound his desk and say, Mr. General Secretary, I don't like the way President Reagan's running his country.
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I didn't tell this one to Gorbachev.
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you know there's a 10 year delay delay in the soviet union of delivery of an automobile
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and you go through a quite a process when you're ready to buy
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and then you put up the money in advance this man he laid down his money
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and then the fellow he was in
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that was in charge said to him okay come back in 10 years
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and get your car and he said morning or afternoon And the fellow behind the counter said,
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Well, ten years from now, what difference does it make?
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And he said, well, the plumber's coming in the morning.
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Less than one family out of seven in the Soviet Union owns an automobile.
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Most of the automobiles are driven by the bureaucrats.
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So an order went out one day to the police that anyone caught speeding.
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Anyone, no matter who, gets a ticket.
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Well, Gorbachev came out of his country home, his dacha.
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He was late getting to the Kremlin.
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There was his limousine and driver waiting.
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He told the driver to get in the back seat he'd drive, and down the road he went.
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They passed two motorcycle cops.
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One took out after him.
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And pretty soon he's back with his buddy, and his buddy says, Well, did you give him a ticket?
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And he said, No. Well, he said, Why not?
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Oh, he said, Too important.
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Well, he said, we're told to give anybody a ticket, no matter who it is.
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Oh, he said, no, no, this one was, I could, well, he said, who was it?
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He said, I couldn't recognize him, but his driver was Gorbachev.
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One of the heads of state
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that I met with on this visit told me the story about the two fellows in the Soviet Union
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that were walking down the street, and one of them says, have we really achieved full communism?
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Is this it?
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Is this now full communism?
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And the other one said, oh, hell no, things are going to get a lot worse.

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この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が39文、単語が488語あります。 音声の長さは2:45です。 話す速さは1分あたり約177語で、日常会話に近い自然なペースです。 単語の87%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

動画に出てくる覚えておきたい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語発音意味
automobile 名詞/ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/自動車, 乗用車
desk 名詞/dɛsk/机
buddy/ˈbʌdi/仲間, 相棒
delay 名詞/dɪˈleɪ̯/遅れ, 遅延
communism 名詞/ˈkɒmjᵿnɪz(ə)m/共産主義, コミュニズム
argue 動詞/ˈɑɹ.ɡju/議論する, 論ずる
reveal 動詞/ɹɪˈviːl/現す, 表す
collect 動詞/ˈkɑlɪkt/集める, 収集する
cop 名詞/kɑp/おまわりさん, 察
motorcycle 名詞/ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/オートバイ, バイク
hobby 名詞/ˈhɑ.bi/趣味
humour 名詞/ˈhjuːmɚ/ユーモア, 諧謔
cynical 形容詞/ˈsɪnɪkəl/皮肉な
bureaucrat 名詞/ˈbjʊɹəkɹæt/官僚
dacha 名詞/ˈdɑ.t͡ʃə/ダーチャ

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語意味
go out 動詞出る
take out 動詞取り出す

注意したい発音

話し手はdon't, they've, you'reなど、短縮形や弱形を10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。

  • 長い単語(アクセントの位置に注意): automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/, motorcycle /ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/

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  2. まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。automobile, desk, buddy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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