シャドーイング練習: Snow White - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Snow White.
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A long time ago when the snowflakes fell like feathers a queen sat sewing at a window.
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She pricked her finger on a needle so that three drops of blood fell upon the snow.
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How pretty her red blood looked dazzling on the whiteness the Queen said ah me
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if only I had a child with skin as white as snow
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and lips as red as blood
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and hair as black as the ebony window in the spring
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she had a child who was just as she had imagined and everyone called her snow white.
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But alas, the good queen died and the king married a new queen whose heart was evil.
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This wicked queen had a magical mirror and when she stood and gazed into it,
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she asked, mirror mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all and
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when the mirror replied thou oh queen are the fairest of
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them all her vain heart rejoiced snow white grew more and more beautiful with every passing year.
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At last, the time came when the mirror said, Oh Queen, if truth be told,
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Snow White is fairest, now she is 16 years old.
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And the Queen almost smashed the mirror in her rage.
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The next morning she summoned a hunter and gave him orders.
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Take Snow White out and don't bother to bring back anything but her heart.
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The hunter led Snow White to the woods where, taking pity on her innocent heart, he told her to run and hide.
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She ran and ran, cutting herself on brambles.
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Meanwhile, the hunter returned to the queen with the heart of a deer.
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Snow White fled until she came upon a cottage in the middle of the woods.
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The door was open.
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She went inside and saw that the furniture was child -sized.
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She curled up on one of the seven little beds and fell asleep.
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The owners of the cottage were seven dwarfs who spent the day mining for gold in the heart of the mountain.
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When they came home that night, they lit their seven candles and saw
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that an uninvited visitor was sleeping in one of their seven beds oh my what a pretty child
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one of them exclaimed shh ordered another don't wake her up
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where shall i sleep asked a third she's taken my bed well said a fourth there are seven hours in the night,
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so every hour one of us must get out of bed and take a turn at sleeping in the chair.
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And they all agreed that that was only fair.
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When the sun rose, Snow White awoke.
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How frightened she was when she saw the seven dwarfs.
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But they were friendly and asked her name.
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Snow White, she replied The eldest dwarf said Well,
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Snow White, if you take care of our house, then you may live here
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And Snow White agreed with all her heart Every morning the seven dwarfs went out to the mountain
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And Snow White stayed at home to cook and keep the house
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meanwhile the queen asked her mirror who is the fairest of all
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and the mirror answered oh lady queen though fair ye be
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snow white is fairer far to see over the hills
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and far away She lives with seven dwarfs today Liar! screeched the queen in her rage
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But soon she realised
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that the hunter must have tricked her She decided to dress herself like an old peddler woman
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And in this disguise she visited the dwarf's cottage And knocked on the door crying Pretty things,
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very cheap, very cheap Snow White peeped from the window and said Good day, good woman.
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What are your wares?
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All sorts of pretty things, my dear.
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Thank you, said Snow White.
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Your scarves and laces are indeed pretty, but I will not buy any today.
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It is a pity, said the old woman.
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But never mind.
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I will give you this apple, and perhaps you shall remember me another time.
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The peddler woman took a bite out of the green side of the apple and handed the rest through the window.
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Snow White thanked the old woman and bit into the fruit.
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Little did she realise that the wicked queen had poisoned the rosy side of the apple, the part that Snow White now swallowed.
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That night, when the dwarfs came home, they found Snow White lying upon on the floor.
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No breath came from her lips.
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They sat round her and wept for three whole days.
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Then they made a coffin of shining glass, laid her in it, and placed her on top of the mountain.
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It happened that a prince, out hunting, came across the glass coffin.
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He was very much taken by the pale girl who lay so still inside it, and he thought she must be a statue left there by the ancients.
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He ordered his servants to pick up the unusual object and carry it home.
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In doing so, one of them stumbled and the glass box fell to the ground.
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It shook terribly and the piece of poisonous apple
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which had lodged in Snow White's throat came came out so that she opened her eyes alive once more.
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Snow White and the Prince were soon wed.
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They and the Seven Dwarfs lived long and happy lives
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while the wicked Queen went mad with envy for she could never be the fairest of them all.
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And that was the story of Snow White.
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Thank you.

この動画で英語スピーキング練習する理由

「Snow White」の動画は、物語形式の会話や叙述が豊富で、英語シャドーイングに最適な素材です。物語の展開に合わせて登場人物の感情や情景が描写されているため、単なる発音練習だけでなく、ニュアンスの伝え方やスピーチのリズムを養うことができます。日常生活で使われるような自然な語彙や文構造が多く、シャドーイングを繰り返すことで、スムーズな発話力が身につきます。

文脈の中の文法と表現

  • 「If only I had a child...」:願望を表す仮定法過去。「もし~できたら」という強い希望を表し、物語の中で女王の心情を鮮やかに伝えています。
  • 「She pricked her finger on a needle so that three drops of blood fell...」:「so that」による結果の従属節。原因と結果の関係を明確にし、物語の流れをスムーズにつなげています。
  • 「If you take care of our house, then you may live here」:条件文。「もし~すれば、~できる」という日常的な表現で、会話の中で頻繁に使われる構造です。

発音の注意点

この動画ではいくつかの発音の難しい単語やアクセントがあります。例えば、「ebony」(黒檀)は「エボニー」ではなく「エボニ」と発音し、「brambles」(ブランブル)は「ブランブルズ」ではなく「ブランブルズ」(末尾のsは軽く発音)です。また、「dwarf」(小人)の複数形「dwarfs」は「ドワーフス」ではなく「ドワーヴズ」と発音するのが正しいです。shadowing siteで練習する際は、これらの単語をゆっくり繰り返し、正しい発音を身につけましょう。

「shadowspeak」の技法を使うと、発音だけでなくリズムやイントネーションも自然に習得できます。動画を何度も聴き、自分の声を重ねることで、英語の発音のコツをつかむことができます。

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型動画での表現
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てるbe told · are indeed
最上級 the -est / the most … — グループの中で一番the fairest · The eldest
「will」の未来表現 will + 動詞 — その場の決定、約束、予測will not buy · will give

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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