シャドーイング練習: Speak English Fearlessly with this One Question - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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What if coffee made you sleepy?
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What if trees could order a pizza?
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What if a dog became your boss?
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Most English learners can answer the question, how are you?
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But these questions, these force you to think.
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And that's why they are so powerful.
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Today, I will show you why the question, what if, is the most powerful speaking exercise I've ever found.
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Most people train memory, but they don't train to speak spontaneously.
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For example, many people learn long vocabulary lists, boring grammar drills, or passive learning with flashcards.
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These things, they are useful, but in a real conversation, it happens spontaneously.
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it's unpredictable.
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You never know what's coming next.
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Imagine your brain is a creativity machine.
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All machines need fuel to move smoothly.
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The fuel for your brain is one question.
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What if?
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Some of the greatest discoveries that humanity has ever made came from this simple yet powerful question.
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Steve Jobs asked what if a phone had no buttons?
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That question became the iPhone.
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The Wright brothers asked what if humans could fly?
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That question helped create the aeroplane.
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Not every what if question changes the world, but it does make your brain create something new,
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and that's what great English speakers do.
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So, let's play.
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What if we could learn some brand new words in this environment?
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I'm going to look for them and then ask a what-if question to stimulate my speaking.
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This is the coffee shop that we are at and this is the sign.
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It's called Every Half, which is the name of the place and that is their logo.
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It's pretty cool.
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This is the entrance to the coffee shop and we call this a door frame.
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Just like the frame that goes around a painting.
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Next to the doorframe we have bricks but what do you call the material in between the bricks?
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That stuff is called mortar.
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Now what if I built a house with bricks and mortar?
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Well the house would probably fall down after two weeks because I'm not qualified to build a house.
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I am qualified to teach English though.
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This is a pond and in the middle of the pond is a wooden bridge.
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I'm stepping on the bridge and next to me we have lotus leaves.
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These leaves are sticking out of the pond and the sticks are called stems.
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Now what if this bridge collapsed?
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Well I would fall in the pond and my phone would get wet,
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I would get wet but I might cool off because it is very hot and sweaty in Vietnam.
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Shit.
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Oh, this grass is just like the grass that we have back in England.
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It's very short and pleasant to sit on.
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Obviously I'm sat on the grass, you know that, But I bet you didn't know what the name is for an individual piece of grass.
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It's the same as for the edge of a knife.
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It's called a blade.
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We have a blade of grass or a blade on a knife.
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Now what if this blade of grass were as sharp as a as a knife.
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Well, this grass would hurt my ass.
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Let's get out of here.
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This is a beautiful bonsai tree and it's in a very large pot.
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This rough stuff is called the bark, which is the outer area of a tree.
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It's like the skin of a tree.
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In the bonsai tree pot There is soil and that's where the tree grows out from.
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You can see the roots.
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They are exposed Which means they are above the soil and visible.
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I can see them Normally roots are beneath the soil
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Another thing in the soil is this little sprout and A sprout is the beginning shoot of a plant
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Sprout as a verb also means to begin growing.
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Now, what if you watered a sprout every single day?
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Well, it would grow into something much bigger. Did you notice something?
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When I was asking those what if questions, I didn't know what I was going to say.
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you probably didn't know what I was going to say either.
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That's why it's so powerful, this exercise.
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It's spontaneous speaking, just like what happens in a regular real-life conversation.
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And that's actually the idea behind Sprout, too.
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On Sprout, you can talk with J.I., who asks you questions and keeps the conversation going.
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You have to speak spontaneously, just like you do in a real conversation.
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It's actually the closest thing that I've found to practicing real-life English without needing another person.
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Anyway, let's continue.
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One what-if question is fun, but when you start asking a chain of what-if questions, every answer becomes the next question.
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Your brain really starts working.
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And you can play this alone, or if you have a lovely partner or a friend, you can play this with them.
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So today Chang and I are going to play the What If Chain game.
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The rule is simple, every answer must create the next question.
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So Chang, We're at a coffee shop.
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What if coffee made people sleepy?
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Then all the coffee shops would become nap shops.
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What if all the coffee shops became nap shops?
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If all the coffee shops became nap shops then the menus would be pillows.
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What if the menus were pillows?
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then I would feel very comfortable ordering food
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okay what if you felt comfortable ordering food if I felt comfortable ordering food I would order
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10 pizzas and be fine about it that's so you yeah that's very me so as you can see
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Chang and I had no idea where that conversation would go we just asked the questions and answered
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the first thing that came to our heads.
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Just like in a real conversation, just like in real life.
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So why does this practice work so well?
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In school, most English practice trains your memory.
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Vocabulary, grammar, phrases, it is useful.
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But when you bring that to a real life conversation,
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you might still struggle to speak because you haven't trained that spontaneous speaking element and you might still translate in your head.
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So what Chang and I were just doing by playing the What If Chain game, we were having this spontaneous conversation.
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Everything was improvised, it was happening in the moment, on the spot.
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The goal with this is to get comfortable asking questions and creating answers.
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There's no right or wrong answer.
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And confidence in English comes from knowing you can always keep the conversation moving.
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Now, before we continue, I want to show you something you might not know about pronunciation.
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We've been saying the words what if a lot in this video,
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but British people don't always pronounce them the same.
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If you want to speak like the Queen of England, you would enunciate your T and you would connect the two words together.
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For example, what if, what if, what if.
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If you don't want to speak like the queen and you want to speak like a regular Brit, a regular British person, then you drop the T.
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For example, what if, what if, what if.
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You can choose whichever one you want, whichever one you feel comfortable using.
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Now there's one There's one more word I want you to notice and pay attention to.
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And that word is would.
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Notice that when I say this word, wuh, would, my lips are very tight and pushed forward.
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Almost as if I'm trying to kiss you. Would, would, would.
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What would you do if I kissed you?
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Mosquito.
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Now let's practice putting those two things together.
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The what if and the would.
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What if I got bitten by a mosquito?
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Well then I would be itchy.
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Asking what if goes beyond English.
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It's a question that helps us generate ideas, solve problems, and see possibilities that we might otherwise miss.
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What If encourages us to look beyond what's in front of us and imagine what could be.
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I started writing about seven years ago, and to this day, the What If question is still my favourite.
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Why?
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I would say that it opens my mind to possibilities.
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It makes me think in ways that I would not normally think.
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I enjoy the novelty and the creativity of this question.
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So, my challenge for you guys is to write one what-if question in your notebook every morning.
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Then, you will answer that question for one minute.
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Spend a minute just exploring spontaneous speech.
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It doesn't matter if you can't give the perfect answer.
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That's not what being fluent in English is about.
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But communicating and being comfortable with communicating is what English is about.
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And that develops your confidence.
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And you do that every day.
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You build that tiny habit.
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It grows.
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So what if I did one thing differently today?
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What would that be?
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Maybe I would go to a cafe.
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I've never been before.
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Maybe I would talk to a stranger with a smile.
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Maybe I would do some exercise. Who knows?
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What if?
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We used it to learn new vocabulary, create conversations, and practice speaking spontaneously.
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And we discovered that there doesn't need to be the perfect answer.
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The goal is simply to keep the conversation moving.
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So, before you leave, I have a challenge for you guys.
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Comment a what-if question down below, and then answer somebody else's what-if question.
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Let's see if we can create the world's biggest what-if chain.
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If you'd like to keep practicing spontaneous speaking, you can continue the conversation with J.I on Sprout.
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The link is in the description.
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And remember, what if learning English was easier than you think?
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文脈と背景
この動画では、英語を流暢に話すための革新的なアプローチが紹介されています。「What if?」という質問を用いて、英語を学ぶ過程で創造力を引き出し、自信を持って話す力を発展させる方法が説明されています。多くの英語学習者は、日常会話において「How are you?」のような定番の質問には答えられるものの、創造的な思考を必要とする質問には挑戦しない傾向があります。このセクションでは、スピーキングスキルを向上させるための具体的な方法について詳しく述べます。
日常コミュニケーションのためのトップ5フレーズ
- 「What if coffee made you sleepy?」（もしコーヒーがあなたを眠くさせるとしたら？）
- 「What if humans could fly?」（もし人間が飛べるとしたら？）
- 「What if I built a house with bricks and mortar?」（もし私がレンガとモルタルで家を作ったら？）
- 「What if this bridge collapsed?」（もしこの橋が崩れたら？）
- 「What if this blade of grass were as sharp as a knife?」（もしこの草の刃がナイフのように鋭かったら？）
これらのフレーズは、英会話の練習や創造的な思考を促進するために非常に効果的です。日常生活の中でこのような質問を思いつくことで、英語の発音を良くすることができます。
ステップバイステップシャドーイングガイド
この動画の内容を効果的にマスターするためのシャドーイング（shadow speech）手法を以下に示します。
- 動画を視聴: まず、動画を一度通して視聴し、内容を理解しましょう。
- フレーズをリストアップ: トップ5フレーズを耳に残るようにリストに書き出します。
- 再生の一時停止: 各フレーズを聞いたら一時停止し、声に出して繰り返します。できれば、自分がその場にいるように声のトーンやイントネーションを模倣しましょう。
- シャドーイング: 動画を再生しながら、声を重ねることを試みます。このシャドーイングのプロセスが、英語シャドーイングのスキルを向上させます。
- 自己評価: 自分の発音を録音して聞き返し、改善点を見つけ出します。これを繰り返すことで、スピーキング能力が飛躍的に向上します。
このプロセスを通じて、英語を恐れずに話す力を磨きましょう。YouTubeで英語学習を行うことで、より多くのリソースにアクセスでき、さまざまな表現方法を学ぶことができます。自身の成長を感じながら、英語のスピーキングスキルをブラッシュアップしていきましょう。
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。