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You know, we're in kind of a tough situation right now
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because there are millions of people out there that feel like something in their life is missing.
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There's a void in people's souls.
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And this is becoming more and more common with every single day that passes.
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And I think it's even more prevalent with our youth.
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Anyone from millennial and above, they feel this.
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I feel this.
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As a matter of fact, let me know in the comments below if you too feel this.
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But it's very, very prevalent today.
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And it's something that people can't quite put their finger on.
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it's something we can't quite explain, but it's very intuitive.
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For me personally, there's not a single day
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that goes by where I don't feel like I was born a century or two too late.
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And I feel like the time period around the 1700s
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and 1800s probably resonates with me the most because people lived with intention back then.
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Everything that everyone did was very purpose-driven and it was that way because it had to be.
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That was just the lifestyle.
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People were farming, they were gardening, They were doing things to produce and provide for their tribe
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and for their families And it was a sense of being productive, but it was productive for a purpose Today we're productive.
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As a matter of fact, I would say that we're maxing out production But in my view, we're doing it for the wrong reasons
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because now we're productive for Someone else we're literally fulfilling Someone else's dream the jobs
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that we show up at and the careers that we put under our belts We do that for other people
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We do it for the greater good, for the economy and for the industry.
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But we're not really doing it for ourselves.
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We're not doing it for the people around us that mean something to us.
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And when I think about this void that I myself have, I believe that void for me is a longing.
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It's a longing for a past that we can't access anymore.
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It's a time period that's completely gone.
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Because the things I long for, the void that I'm trying to fill, it's nature.
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It's that lifestyle, you know, doing stuff that is productive, doing stuff for tribe and that is purpose driven and just living a life with intention.
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And I find myself trying to establish that life around myself as much as I possibly can.
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And the closer I get to that, the better I feel, the more intentional my life feels, the more purpose I have, the more fulfilled I am.
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And for me, I think the drive for self-reliance and living a life with intention stems from my background.
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because my background is Cherokee.
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It's Native American.
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And I know that my ancestors, they live that way.
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And this brings up a very interesting point
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that I truly believe explains exactly why so many of us are feeling this way.
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And it all comes down to a scientific breakthrough that a 10 year So if you're not familiar with this experiment, there's a 10-year-old boy named Joe Nagai.
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And he ran an experiment on swallowtail butterflies, trying to determine whether or not memory could be passed down not only through metamorphosis,
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but whether or not it could be passed down generationally to the offspring.
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And to do this, he took a caterpillar, he placed it on his arm and he shocked it.
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Every time that he shocked it, he exposed it to lavender.
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And after doing that several times a day, several days in a row,
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eventually what happened is the caterpillar began to associate lavender with a negative experience.
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And after repeating that process for several days in a row, he eventually put the caterpillar into a tube.
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And at the end of the tube there was a Y.
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One direction of the Y led to lavender and the other direction led to an area that did not have lavender.
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And every single time after training this caterpillar to associate lavender with a negative experience it went in the direction
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that did not have the lavender.
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He then waited until the caterpillar morphed and turned into a butterfly
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and then he repeated that experiment and every single time the butterfly went to the area that did not have the lavender.
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And after that He waited until the butterfly had offspring, and then he ran this same scenario on the butterfly's offspring.
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He didn't shock them, but he put them into the tube, and he monitored to see which direction they would go.
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And every single time, the butterfly's offspring would not go anywhere near the lavender.
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So what did he prove here?
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He proved that memory is genetic.
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And I think it's safe to assume that if memory is passed down through generations of caterpillars, it's probably passed down through us.
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It's probably passed down through pretty much every other species out there.
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And when you look around at nature, this becomes pretty clear.
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Because there are a lot of things that nature does that simply don't make any sense.
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Because there's nobody sitting down teaching nature to do these things.
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Nature just inherently knows what to do.
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And I truly believe that we do too.
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But we've forgotten that.
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We do everything in our power to separate ourselves from nature.
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But we're not separate from it.
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We're very much a part of it.
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As a matter of fact, we are nature.
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Nature is us.
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And when you understand that, you also begin to understand that everything that nature does, we do too.
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So to me, it makes total sense that genetic memory is something that our ancestors probably passed down to us.
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We just never realized it.
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And now that this experiment has been done and the information is coming out, it really allows us to connect the dots.
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And I think it does a great job at explaining what's happening.
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The reason why people feel like they have a void in their soul and like they're lacking something
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Could it not be because there's a genetic memory tied to something that we no longer have access to?
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Could it not be because our world has changed so much?
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Because when you think about our species and where we've been versus where we are now, we're in uncharted territory.
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Our entire existence, thousands of years that we've been here, was spent living life a certain way.
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It was spent living life more simply.
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We lived in a much more natural way.
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And it ties back to this idea that we lived a life full of intention.
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The things we did were meant for purpose.
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Every move that we made had a reason behind it.
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But now, that's not the case.
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We went from being outdoors to being stuck in cubicles and boxes.
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We went from being surrounded by a loyal tribe and family to now not being surrounded by any of that stuff.
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We're now surrounded by a false perception of tribe and community and family.
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I mean, look around at society.
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How many strong, structured families are there still in existence?
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It's very few.
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We feel like we're surrounded by loyal people, friends that we can count on and trust, but in reality, most of our interactions are done through social media.
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It's done through the internet.
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We live in these sprawling apartment complexes in these large cities surrounded by all these people that don't know us, that don't care about us.
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And we know deep down, we can feel it in our gut, that there's nobody out there we can trust anymore.
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The timeline that we once existed in, the one where all of these genetic memories were made, it's not there anymore.
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And we can no longer associate these memories with anything tangible because it doesn't exist.
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And I think this is especially true for our younger generations.
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And it's probably why they feel this so much more because they live in a world where this is what they know.
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They don't even have a reference point when it comes to living that kind of lifestyle.
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Those of us that grew up before technology, At least we remember what it was like, but for the younger generations, they have no idea.
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And I think that's why it's so confusing for them because they feel this emptiness.
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They feel this void.
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They know something's missing, but there's no way they could ever possibly understand what it is
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because they have no association on what that life was like.
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That genetic memory that's been burned into their DNA, they can't possibly pinpoint it because it's something they've never even experienced.
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So maybe the genetic memory explains everything.
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Maybe that's the reason so many of us feel like we're missing something.
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Maybe it's because we're programmed with data that we can't associate with the world around us because that world doesn't exist anymore.
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Maybe the information and the knowledge that's been passed down
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is something we can't even use anymore because things have changed that much.
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And to me this is very profound because if you think about our entire existence as being a football field and
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every single blade of grass on that football field being our past
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and now our future
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and our current present moment is one single blade of grass in the far corner near the goalpost
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That's where we are today All of those genetic memories were
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made out there at a time where things made sense
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and now we've been pulled from that that massive sprawling past
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and that history
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and we've been forced down into this single blade of grass
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this very tiny microscopic piece of existence where we are today
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so to me it makes sense that we could be mourning a past
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that we've never experienced simply
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because it was programmed in there from our ancestors without them knowing it
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but it was likely programmed in there because back then
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that was the stuff that was important those are the things that mattered so now beginning to know and understand that, where do we go from here?
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Is there anything that we can do to fill this void?
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Or are we just stuck in this situation?
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I think this is a massive silver lining because
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when you think about the experiences it would take to form a genetic memory, those experiences would have to be quite profound.
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And they could be positive or negative.
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For the caterpillar, the experience of lavender meant being shocked.
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That's a profound experience.
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In other cases, a genetic memory could be formed from simply doing something you love, surrounding yourself with people you love, because those moments, they matter.
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And those are things that you remember.
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So maybe filling that void and that emptiness that
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so many of us are experiencing is as simple as creating new genetic memories, doing things that are worth remembering, memories that you would be proud to pass on.
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Because I think today in our modern world, we do a lot of stuff that's not really worthy of passing on.
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People surround themselves with things that aren't worth remembering instead of experiencing things that are.
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Maybe a life of intention isn't about doing more.
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Maybe it's not about trying to prove ourselves to people that don't care about us.
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Maybe it's not about trying to optimize every aspect of our lives
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and adopt all of these efficiencies and all this technology and surround ourselves with all this materialistic stuff.
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Maybe it's about doing less.
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Maybe it's about tapping into something that we feel like we no longer have access to.
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And maybe that something is the very thing
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that our ancestors programmed us with
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because they knew throughout thousands of years of their existence that that was the stuff that mattered.
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And I don't think that necessarily means reverting completely back to the way our ancestors used to live, but maybe it's just about finding that balance.
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Maybe it simply means allowing ourselves to feel and tapping into something real, something that's been there all along calling to us, begging us to remember it.
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このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント
このB2レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「Something is missing from life today, and people everywhere are realizing that…」を教材にしています。 繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：genetic, lavender, memory, nature, void。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が151文、単語が2049語あります。 音声の長さは10:56です。 話す速さは速く、1分あたり約187語です。音のつながりや弱く発音される音が多くなります。 単語の86%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。
この動画の重要語彙
動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。
| 単語 | 発音 | 意味 |
|---|---|---|
| lavender 名詞 | /ˈlæv.ən.dɚ/ | ラベンダー |
| surround 動詞 | /səˈɹaʊnd/ | 囲む, 取り巻く |
| caterpillar 名詞 | /ˈkætɚˌpɪlɚ/ | 毛虫, 芋虫 |
| ancestor 名詞 | /ˈæn.sɛs.tɚ/ | 先祖, 祖先 |
| offspring 名詞 | /ˈɔfspɹɪŋ/ | 胤, 子孫 |
| butterfly 名詞 | /ˈbʌ.tə(ɹ).flaɪ/ | 胡蝶, 蝶々 |
| blade 名詞 | /bleɪd/ | 刃, ブレード |
| emptiness 名詞 | 空虚, 空 | |
| prevalent 形容詞 | /ˈpɹɛvələnt/ | 繁栄する |
| fulfill 動詞 | /fʊlˈfɪl/ | 遂行する, 実施する |
| loyal 形容詞 | /ˈlɔɪəl/ | 忠実な, 忠誠な |
| cubicle 名詞 | /ˈkjuːbɪkəl/ | 個室 |
| goalpost 名詞 | /ˈɡoʊlpoʊst/ | ゴールポスト |
| metamorphosis 名詞 | /ˌmɛtəˈmɔːfəsɪs/ | 変態, 変形 |
| swallowtail 名詞 | /ˈswɒl.əʊˌteɪl/ | 燕尾 |
動画に出てくる句動詞
| 単語 | 発音 | 意味 |
|---|---|---|
| bring up 動詞 | 育てる | |
| come out 動詞 | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | 出る |
| grow up 動詞 | 成長する, 大人に成る | |
| sit down 動詞 | 座る, 腰掛ける |
繰り返し練習したい文
動画に出てくる短く完結した文です。日常会話でそのまま使えます。
- We're very much a part of it.
- Could it not be because our world has changed so much?
- Is there anything that we can do to fill this void?
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 |
|---|---|
| 現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している | we've forgotten · has been done · has changed |
| 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 | was born · could be passed · is passed |
注意したい発音
話し手はwe're, don't, can'tなど、短縮形や弱形を43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。
- 「sh」と「zh」の音: intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, perception /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/
- 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: caterpillar /ˈkætɚˌpɪlɚ/, materialistic /məˌtɪəɹ.i.əˈlɪs.tɪk/, metamorphosis /ˌmɛtəˈmɔːfəsɪs/, microscopic /ˌmaɪ.kɹəˈskɑ.pɪk/, millennial /mɪˈlɛn.ɪ.əl/
日本語話者が苦手な音：
- /r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: butterfly /ˈbʌ.tə(ɹ).flaɪ/, sprawl /spɹɔːl/, prevalent /ˈpɹɛvələnt/, materialistic /məˌtɪəɹ.i.əˈlɪs.tɪk/, inherently /ɪnˈhɛɹəntli/
- /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: lavender /ˈlæv.ən.dɚ/, void /vɔɪd/, prevalent /ˈpɹɛvələnt/, revert /ɹɪˈvɝt/, intuitive /ɪnˈtjuːɪtɪv/
- /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: offspring /ˈɔfspɹɪŋ/, butterfly /ˈbʌ.tə(ɹ).flaɪ/, profound /pɹəˈfaʊnd/, fulfill /fʊlˈfɪl/, metamorphosis /ˌmɛtəˈmɔːfəsɪs/
この動画での練習方法
- 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。
- 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。
- 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。lavender, surround, caterpillar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。