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Welcome to Spotlight Advanced.
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I'm Andrew Devis.
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And I'm Megan Nolet.
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Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting.
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It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live.
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St. Patrick's Day is one of the biggest celebrations of the year in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The day honors St. Patrick.
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He helped bring
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Christianity to Ireland.
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Many people who are not
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Irish still have parties.
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They play loud music and drink alcohol.
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For a few hours, they forget the worries of their everyday lives.
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People are not paying attention to much else happening around them.
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They assume everything is fine and can wait until morning.
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But one night following
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St Patrick's Day, everything was not fine.
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People did not know that some things would be gone in the morning.
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They had no idea that 13 famous works of art worth hundreds of millions of dollars would be missing.
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Today's Spotlight looks at a robbery.
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A robbery is when someone takes something that does not belong to them.
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This robbery took place on March 18, 1990, in Boston, Massachusetts.
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St. Patrick's Day has just ended.
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It was 12 .30 in the morning.
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A few people leaving a party walked home near the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in downtown Boston.
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They passed a car that was sitting 100 feet from the side door to the museum.
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Two men wearing police uniforms sat in the car.
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The people kept walking without saying anything to the men.
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The two men in police clothing did not get out of their car for another 50 minutes.
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At 1 .20 in the morning, the two men in police clothing walked to the museum's side door.
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They flipped a switch to speak to the security guards sitting inside the museum.
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Two security guards were on duty that night.
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The two men told the guards that someone had reported a problem at the museum.
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They needed to come in to investigate.
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One of the guards, Richard Abath, saw on his security television screen that the men outside were wearing police uniforms.
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Abath had not heard there was a problem at the museum, but he let the men in.
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The policemen entered a waiting area.
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Abeth still had to let them into the main museum.
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The men said Abeth looked like a criminal for whom they had been looking.
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They demanded Abeth let them in.
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When Abeth did, the men caught Abeth and the other security guard and handcuffed them.
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Handcuffs are metal restraint devices designed to hold a person's wrists together.
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One of the men wearing police clothing said, This is a robbery.
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The two robbers, or thieves, were just acting like policemen.
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They put the security guards in the museum's basement, the floor below ground level.
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They tied fabric around the guards' heads and eyes.
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The thieves handcuffed the guards to a pipe.
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The thieves told the guards that if they did not tell the police about them later, they would send them money in a year.
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It was now 1 .35 in the morning.
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The Boston Police Department did not know that two thieves were inside the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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The thieves walked to the Dutch Room on the second floor.
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This room held many great works of art by Dutch artists.
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The thieves destroyed the alarm that sounded when someone got too close to a painting.
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The thieves took two paintings off the wall.
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They cut the glass around the paintings.
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The paintings were Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee and A Lady and Gentleman in Black,
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both by the painter Rembrandt.
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Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee is Rembrandt's only seascape painting.
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The thieves used knives to cut the paintings out of their frames.
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They took other famous works of art from the Dutch Room, including the Concert by Vermeer.
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The concert is one of only 34 paintings Vermeer completed.
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He is considered a master.
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The concert is worth $250 million.
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It is the world's most valuable stolen object.
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The thieves moved to a room called the Short Gallery.
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They stole six things, including five pieces by the French artist Degas.
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The final painting stolen was Chez Tortoni by the French artist Monet.
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It hung in the blue room.
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The thieves then visited the guards in the basement and asked if they were okay.
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The thieves left the outer wooden frame for Chey Tortonie at the security director's workstation.
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They carried the stolen artwork through the museum's side door to their car.
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The thieves left at 2 .45 in the morning.
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They stole 13 works of art valued at over 500 million dollars.
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The thieves spent 81 minutes in the museum.
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It is considered the biggest museum robbery in history.
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A few hours later, other museum security guards arrived for their shift.
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They could not find anyone to let them in.
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They called the security director, who came to the museum with his keys.
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When they went inside and did not find
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Abbott and the other guard, the director called the police.
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Boston Police Department officers came and searched inside the building.
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They found Abbott and his co -worker blindfolded and handcuffed in the basement.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, took control of the case.
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They questioned Abath and his co -workers many times.
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The FBI talked to the people who walked by the two thieves sitting in their car before the robbery.
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The FBI made images of the thieves' faces based on what the witnesses remembered.
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Investigators searched the museum for fingerprints and other evidence that could identify the thieves.
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They found none.
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They questioned members of local gangs connected to a criminal organization called the Boston Mafia.
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But no one told the FBI anything about the Gardner Museum robbery.
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For many years, the FBI suspected a bath had been involved in the robbery.
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Several strange things happened involving a bath.
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The Gardner Museum's rules for workers clearly stated that security guards were not to let anyone in without official permission, including police.
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Abath said he did not know about that rule.
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That was why he let the two thieves in who were wearing police clothing.
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On the night of the robbery, before the thieves arrived, Abath walked through the museum, making sure everything was okay.
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This was part of his job.
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Twice, Abath walked through a room room called the Blue Room.
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The museum used motion sensors in each room.
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The FBI later reviewed the records for the motion sensors
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that showed no one entered the Blue Room during the 81 minutes of the robbery.
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The final painting that was stolen was named Chey Tortonie from the Blue Room.
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If the thieves did not enter the Blue Room, who took Chey Torton?
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Only one person had been in the Blue Room that night.
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Abbath.
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Also, while walking through the museum, Abbath opened and closed the side door to the museum.
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Abbath said he had done this to make sure the door was working correctly.
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But investigators considered two other possibilities.
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One was that Abath opened the side door to signal to the thieves sitting in their car
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that it was time to enter the museum.
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The other was that Abath opened the door to take the painting Shaito Tony out to the two thieves in their car.
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Finally, the FBI questioned how nicely the two thieves had treated Abath and his fellow guard.
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It seemed strange to the FBI that the thieves were so concerned with the guards' well -being, unless they were working with Abbott.
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Abath denied any involvement in the robbery.
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For years he remained a suspect and was questioned again many times,
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but Abath promised he was not working with the thieves and did not know them.
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Abath said, The investigators wanted to know if I had taken the painting, Shea Tortoni, and hid it somewhere.
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I told them.
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As I have said a hundred times before and since, I had nothing to do with the robbers or the robbery.
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Abbott spent the rest of his life in Vermont with his wife.
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They lived in a small home.
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Abbott worked as a teacher's assistant.
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If he had been involved in the robbery, Abbott's life didn't show any signs of wealth from selling the stolen artwork.
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It has been more than 35 years since the robbery at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, but the FBI still has not arrested anyone.
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None of the 13 stolen works of art have been found or returned.
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Many questions remain unanswered.
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Who were the thieves?
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Why did they take the paintings?
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Where is the artwork now?
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Why did the thieves leave the frame for Shait or Tony on the security director's workstation?
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Why did they steal some pieces but not take other valuable paintings?
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The Gardner Museum has offered a $10 million prize for information leading to the recovery of the stolen artwork.
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Until then, the museum still believes in the power of art to change people's lives and better the world.
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The Gardner Museum proudly displays its remaining artwork, alongside empty frames where the stolen paintings were once hung.
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The empty frames will not be taken down until the paintings are returned.
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Who are some of your favourite painters?
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Why do you think the robbers who stole the paintings from the Gardner Museum have never been caught?
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Do you think anyone will ever find the missing paintings?
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You can leave a comment on our website at www .spotlightenglish .com.
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You can also get
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Spotlight episodes delivered directly to your Android or Apple device through our free official
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Spotlight English app.
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The writer of this episode was Peter Anderson.
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The producer was Michio Ozaki.
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The voices you heard were from the United Kingdom and the United States.
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All quotes were adapted for this episode and voiced by Spotlight.
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No AI or artificial intelligence was used in this episode.
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Spotlight episodes are written, voiced, and produced by real people for real people,
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no matter where in the world they live.
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This episode is called Stealing Rembrandt.
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We hope you can join us again for the next Spotlight episode.
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Goodbye!

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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
thief 名詞/ˈθiːf/泥棒, 盗賊
robbery 名詞/ˈɹɑbəɹi/強盗
steal 動詞/stiːl/盗む
artwork 名詞/ˈɑɹtˌwɝk/芸術作品, アートワーク
clothing 名詞/ˈkloʊðɪŋ/服, 衣服
worker 名詞/ˈwɝ.kɚ/労働者, 勤労者
basement 名詞/ˈbeɪsmənt/地下室
investigator 名詞/ɪnˈvɛs.tɪˌɡeɪ̯.təː/捜査員
bath 名詞/bɑːθ/湯船, 風呂
arrive 動詞/əˈɹaɪv/着く, 到着する
uniform 名詞/ˈjunɪˌfɔɹm/制服, ユニフォーム
painter 名詞/ˈpeɪntɚ/画家, 絵描き
sensor 名詞/ˈsɛn.sɚ/センサー, センサ
alongside/əˌlɔŋˈsaɪd/に沿って
producer 名詞/pɹəˈdjuːsə/生産者, 製作者

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is considered · had been involved · was stolen
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has just ended · have said · has been
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加えるpeople who are · people who walked

注意したい発音

話し手はI'm, didn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を3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。

  • 「th」の音: thief /ˈθiːf/, clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, bath /bɑːθ/
  • 「sh」と「zh」の音: celebration /ˌsɛl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, workstation /ˈwɝkˌsteɪʃən/
  • 長い単語(アクセントの位置に注意): investigator /ɪnˈvɛs.tɪˌɡeɪ̯.təː/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, celebration /ˌsɛl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.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: celebration /ˌsɛl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən/, alarm /əˈlɑɹm/, correctly /kəˈɹɛk(t).li/, proudly /ˈpɹaʊdli/
  • /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: investigator /ɪnˈvɛs.tɪˌɡeɪ̯.təː/, arrive /əˈɹaɪv/, everyday /ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, involvement /ɪnˈvɑlv.mənt/
  • /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: thief /ˈθiːf/, uniform /ˈjunɪˌfɔɹm/, knife /ˈnaɪ̯f/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, flip /flɪp/

この動画での練習方法

  1. 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。
  2. 通常の速度で一文ずつシャドーイングし、話し手のリズムに合うまで繰り返します。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。thief, robbery, stealなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

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