シャドーイング練習: Stop Start in Love - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Let's try to understand one of the oddest, most painful, most widespread phenomena in love.
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It's going on right this moment between a couple, let's say he a dentist, she a nutritionist in Rio de Janeiro.
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Two teenagers are at it in Canberra, there's a pair involved in the rigmarole in downtown Dakar, another in Svalbard, another still in Winnipeg.
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If every time it happened a light went on, most of the earth would be a glow from space.
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We can refer to the phenomenon as push-pull or stop-start or sometimes distance management.
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The structure is identical and fairly predictable.
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Growing intimacy, then retreat.
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Altitude, then a drop.
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Two good days, then a fight.
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Five warm messages, then silence.
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A weekend away, then a call for time alone.
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It can seem like a horrible, but ultimately mysterious curse.
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It is, in fact, an almost logical phenomenon with a singular purpose – to protect one
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or both of the parties from a generally unconscious but violent fear that love might work out, that happiness might become real,
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that a true partnership could build, that vulnerability might be created and then, when the shield was lowered, when one had grown to depend on someone completely,
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that everything might go catastrophically wrong.
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The other party could change their mind, they might abscond, they could die.
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To prevent such worries, the mind of the stop-start lover looks around for ingenious solutions
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and finds one in a committedly dispiriting game.
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Older than chess, more harmful than poker, this game would have been played in ancient Egypt.
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The Aztecs were at it.
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The rules state that love can happen, but that it must never pick up velocity.
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There can be intimacy, but always within bounds.
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The exits must remain forever open.
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can't be too much security that would paradoxically generate an untenable impression of danger.
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In practice, the game requires a vigilant monitoring of every exchange and repeated quiet injections of disappointment.
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If last night was beautiful, this morning has to be moody.
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Tuesday was good, Wednesday must be awful.
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If the dialogue is getting very cosy, there has to be some disappearance.
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What cannot be allowed to occur was what almost certainly once occurred a very long time ago.
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An unprocessed, unexplored letdown, in which cosiness was achieved and then torn away.
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Mummy was the best mummy in the world, before the doctor said she wasn't well.
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Daddy was the sweetest, then Jill came on the scene.
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The holidays were nice, except for when the drinking began.
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Let's believe that someone interested in stop-start love isn't doing it on purpose.
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The lover who keeps needing to pause isn't aware, as they put down the phone and decides not to answer a message for four hours,
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that they are interrupting the flow of affection in the name of self-protection and along the way, devastating a fellow human being.
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The most potent players of this stop-start game have no real insight into their tactics.
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They just register an overwhelming need not to type anything back, not to be free tonight
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and not to say I love you too at the end of a call or evening in bed.
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What can we, the victims of stop-start, do?
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For a start, feel extremely sorry for ourselves in our misery.
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We don't need to compound our pain by making light of it, or indeed hoping it can ever easily end.
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It would be hard to explain all this to a group of six-year-olds.
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When you're older, you're going to form something called relationships.
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You'll meet a nice person, a special friend.
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Some days your special friend will call you and on others they'll just vanish.
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One might not want to make it to adulthood after a class like that.
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The sole effective weapon we have against stop-start game playing is knowledge.
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To describe the phenomenon accurately the moment it appears, to provide a succinct explanation as to why it might be doing so,
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to give the other party a few chances at reform, and then to walk away, because we know what we're up against,
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and we recognise that lonely calm truly is better than continually agitated togetherness.
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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C1レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「Stop Start in Love」を教材にしています。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が52文、単語が707語あります。 音声の長さは4:24です。 話す速さは1分あたり約160語で、日常会話に近い自然なペースです。 英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は81%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。

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
mummy 名詞/ˈmʌm.i/ミイラ, 木乃伊
intimacy 名詞/ˈɪn.tɪ.mə.si/親交, 親密さ
agitate 動詞/ˈæ.d͡ʒɪ.teɪt/煽る, 扇動する
devastate 動詞/ˈdɛv.ə.steɪt/破壊する
nutritionist 名詞/njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ənɪst/栄養士
overwhelm 動詞/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/圧倒する
vanish 動詞/ˈvænɪʃ/消える
adulthood 名詞成人であること
interrupt 動詞/ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/中断する, 邪魔する
vulnerability 名詞/ˌvʌln(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪti/脆弱性
moody 形容詞/ˈmuːdi/根暗
singular 形容詞/ˈsɪŋ.ɡjə.lɚ/唯一, 無二
disappearance 名詞/dɪsəˈpɪəɹəns/消失
predictable 形容詞/pɹəˈdɪktəbləl/先が見える, 予測できる
dentist 名詞/ˈdɛntɪst/歯医者, 歯科医

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

注意したい発音

話し手はisn't, you're, can'tなど、短縮形や弱形を10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: nutritionist /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ənɪst/, vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/, affection /əˈfɛk.ʃən/, unconscious /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/, injection /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/
  • 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: intimacy /ˈɪn.tɪ.mə.si/, nutritionist /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ənɪst/, paradoxically /ˌpɛɹəˈdɑksɪkli/, vulnerability /ˌvʌln(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪti/, disappearance /dɪsəˈpɪəɹəns/

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: paradoxically /ˌpɛɹəˈdɑksɪkli/, rigmarole /ˈɹɪɡməɹoʊl/, vulnerability /ˌvʌln(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪti/, predictable /pɹəˈdɪktəbləl/, harmful /ˈhɑɹmfl̩/
  • /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: devastate /ˈdɛv.ə.steɪt/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/, vigilant /ˈvɪd͡ʒɪlənt/, vulnerability /ˌvʌln(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪti/
  • /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: affection /əˈfɛk.ʃən/, harmful /ˈhɑɹmfl̩/

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. 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。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。mummy, intimacy, agitate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。

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