シャドーイング練習: start before you’re ready - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

sometimes I feel a little stuck like there's too many options

and if I choose the wrong one well my life might just fall apart

and I find that I distract myself

so I don't even have to make a choice my mornings

look the same every day wake up at 7 do a little bit of exercise make a yummy breakfast, eat an apple, and then my favorite part, having a cup of coffee.

After that, I like to go for a walk where I can think of new ideas.

And that's when it happens.

Every time.

I start to question everything.

Am I making the right decision?

Do I really know what I'm doing?

How will all of this come together?

And my mind starts to race.

But it wasn't always like this.

For a while, I didn't have to make any choices.

They were made for me.

Andrew, can you take the trash out?

Yeah.

It's not that I didn't know what I was going to do, it's that others made all of my choices.

All I had to do was listen.

Until one day I realized I wanted to do something different.

I picked up a camera for the first time in 2018.

I had a fascination with images, mainly images that convey an emotion.

I quickly realized that I didn't know how to take photos, but I went for it.

I would go out every day and just try to capture a photo that meant something to me.

I tried so hard for years to get big jobs and take my photography to the next level, but it never happened.

Honestly, I wanted to give up.

I felt like I had made the wrong choice in this pursuit, but with Every Day That Passed, I continued showing up.

And five years after I picked up a camera for the first time, I was asked to shoot for Grammy award -winning artist Dea.

I felt like I wasn't ready for this opportunity,

mainly because I always viewed my work and my skill still as a beginner.

I had never worked on a set before

so to be thrusted into the lion's den I felt I was out of my depths.

But just as I did every day leading up to it I tried to capture a photo that would convey an emotion.

There was something so surprising about realizing how far I had come simply by showing up every day

and trying to learn something new with each day.

Looking back I realized that the fears and doubts that you have when starting something new don't always go away, and sometimes they morph into new fears,

but being able to ignore them and press forward, you realize they hold no weight.

And that takes us to our next endeavor, which didn't go so well.

I've always wanted to create some sort of brand, and after a few years of doing photography, my friend Meredith and I decided to create a brand to bring creatives together.

It was called Made by Saturday.

The goal was simple, create a brand

that would bring not only our friends together

but also creatives we had never done anything like this before

so we weren't sure how to start there was a strange

piece in not having any expectations of what it could be our main goal bring people together

and that's exactly what we did we designed shirts and sweaters

and hosted our first pop -up and it went perfectly musicians baristas

and a lot of our friends came we also sold out of everything

that we designed from there me and meredith were eager to get back to the drawing board.

And that is where it all changed.

You see, after our first pop -up, I had put an unrealistic expectation on myself.

The feeling of being successful had polluted my thinking.

I didn't want to be viewed anymore as a failure, which led me to play it safe.

I found myself disagreeing with Mare on her ideas.

I didn't want to do anything that was a maybe.

It had to be perfect.

I found that in the beginning stages of doing anything new, you'll be bad and you need to be okay with that

because that allows you the freedom to explore

and try new things the lack of embracing

that ultimately led to the end of made by saturday

and experiencing all of that is what allowed me to follow through with endeavor number three

youtube something that i always wanted to do yet at the same time it seemed like an impossible dream.

I was already editing for a YouTuber and I knew how to make videos, but anytime I clicked record to film myself, it seemed like I didn't know what I was doing.

There's a harsh reality in starting new things.

First, it's exciting.

And then that excitement wears off really fast.

You go through a process of uncertainty and fear.

And it's easy to connect your identity with what you're doing.

To everyone else, it was a cute little hobby.

But to me, it was something more.

It was something that I had to see through.

I had grown tired of starting new things and never finishing them.

I knew that this time, it would have to be different.

I'd have to give a new level of focus.

And that is where Brick comes in.

Brick is a physical device that temporarily removes distracting apps. But how?

First, you choose the apps you want to block and then you brick your phone.

This is different than the time limit feature on your phone because you can't just add more time.

With brick if the physical device isn't with you you can't open the app

which means I can use my phone more as a tool and less of a distraction.

So what are you waiting for?

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and thank you brick for sponsoring this video.

Ultimately the pursuit of these three things have told me

that you can't just wait around and keep wondering if you're making the right choice.

A mentor of mine used to tell me, instead of hoping you're doing the right thing, make it the right thing.

There was something so simple about that.

I don't think any great inventor or artist started out with 100 % confidence in their idea.

And even as they pursued it, they probably encountered a lot of discouragement.

I found that within all three of these pursuits, I had to deal with comparison in the early stages.

I compare my day 1 to someone's day 1000 and I don't think that's very fair.

I also found that I can't hold myself to expectations I can't control.

For example, how people receive my art or my videos.

I can only control the quality.

So if there's a hundred people like it or a hundred thousand people, it doesn't change the quality or the importance of the thing I did.

So maybe using the fact you don't know how it'll all

work out as a reason not to do it maybe it's

the very reason you should do it i wanted to to film this part

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because this is the reality of the process like you're making something

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and you don't think it's great

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but you just got to keep moving forward i guess

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and i feel like we can watch videos like this and get really

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inspired and like oh i'm just gonna go do it

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and it negates the reality of the emotions that you actually feel

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when you embark on

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that thing i i took footage of uh me writing i kid you not i'm literally writing this right now

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and i just i like i just was like is this

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is this even good like what i don't even know

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and i feel like the script so far in the video is good

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but now that i'm halfway through

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or whatever i'm just like what yeah i essentially the the intro to my video like you start

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and then all of a sudden you hit something

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and then in your mind you're just like dude i don't even know

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if this is good and yeah it's just really it was really hard

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i feel like i put a lot of pressure on myself to make this video perfect

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because my last one did so well

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and i didn't want to feel like i was taking a

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step back i wanted to feel like i was progressing

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and the whole time

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while making it is just like no the the voices in

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my head of like no this isn't a good idea this

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is dumb this is bad I realized I wanted to talk about

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that because you again you can watch a video like this

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and just be inspired to go do something but that doesn't mean

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that those voices won't be there having the understanding of like I'm gonna go through these like ebbs

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and flows but if I can just remain consistent through it the final product will be

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so worth it

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so i'm i'm like halfway through the video i don't feel

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great about the video to be honest i'm just gonna keep making it

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and hopefully by the time you're watching this part you'll have seen the whole thing

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and think dang that was a good video

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and i'm glad he stuck with it

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so i said this in my last video as well

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that for everyone

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that watches this video only about 20 percent of people will make it to this part um

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and if you are a part of

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that 20 leave a comment letting me know

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that you're a part of the 20 but also what is

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that what are those questions and those fears

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that keep coming up every time you think about something you want to pursue

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and maybe i don't know someone can read the comment

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and they've gone through that thing they can they can tell you like hey it's

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that none of that is true and you can make it through

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but yeah i don't know guys um hopefully by the time

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I'm done this the video will be I'm just rambling I hope this video was good anyway love you guys

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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

この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が146文、単語が1736語あります。音声の長さは9:38です。話す速さは速く、1分あたり約180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84%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
brick 名詞	/ˈbɹɪk/	煉瓦
emotion 名詞	/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/	感情, 心緒
pursuit 名詞	/pɝˈsut/	追求
expectation 名詞	/ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/	期待, 予想
photography 名詞	/fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fi/	写真撮影, 写真術
capture 動詞	/ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/	捕獲する
pursue 動詞	/pɚˈsu/	追跡する
halfway 副詞	/ˌhæfˈweɪ/	途中で, 中間で
convey 動詞	/kənˈveɪ/	運ぶ, 運搬する
distract 動詞	/dɪˈstɹækt/	気をそらす
endeavor 名詞	/ɛnˈdɛv.ɚ/	努力, 事業
ignore 動詞	/ɪɡˈnɔː/	無視する, 忽略する
compare 動詞	/kəmˈpɛɚ/	比べる, 比較する
skill 名詞	/skɪl/	腕, 技
trash 名詞	/tɹæʃ/	ごみ

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	意味
pick up 動詞	拾う, 拾い上げる
show up 動詞	現れる
come up 動詞	上がる, 登る
get off 動詞	降りる
give up 動詞	降服する
go away 動詞	去る, 出る
go out 動詞	出る
look back 動詞	振り返る

注意したい発音

話し手はI'm, don't, didn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を60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: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, trash /tɹæʃ/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, photography /fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fi/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, temporarily /ˌtɛmpəˈɹɛɹəli/, uncertainty /ʌnˈsɜːtənti/

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。brick, emotion, pursuitなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

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	were made · was asked · be thrusted
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	I've always wanted · have told · have seen

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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