シャドーイング練習: Stop Translating! How to Think in English and Speak Fluently - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Today we are going to talk about something many English learners ask me.
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How can I stop translating in my head?
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How can I start thinking in English?
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Hello everyone, welcome back.
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Maybe you understand English well.
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You know grammar, you know a lot of vocabulary.
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but when you try to speak everything feels slow
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and you translate every sentence from your language into English does
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that sound like you in this video I want to explain
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what thinking in English really means what academic research actually says about it
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and most importantly how you can train your brain to think
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in English step by step I will also share my own
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experience of learning a second language to fluency I will tell
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you what actually helped me what does What does thinking in English really mean?
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What it really means is this.
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Your brain can access English words and phrases quickly and automatically,
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without needing to search for them every time.
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It's about access.
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When you translate in your head, your brain does two jobs.
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First, you think of the idea in your own language.
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Then, you look for the English words.
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That extra step takes time.
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And that is why speaking feels slow and difficult.
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Thinking in English means reducing that effort.
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And this is exactly where research helps us understand what is happening.
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what the research actually shows.
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A recent study from 2024 looked specifically at what makes people fluent when they speak a second language.
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The study has a really long name.
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I'll put it here if you are interested in looking it up.
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The researchers focused on something called cognitive fluency.
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Let me explain.
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In simple terms, they studied how quickly the brain can recognize and retrieve or bring back words in a second language.
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Here's what they found.
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Some learners rely mainly on controlled
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processing that means their brain slows down to search for words
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and check choices the other learners show more automatic processing their brain recognizes words faster
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and retrieves them with less effort
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and the important result was this learners with more automatic word access spoke faster with fewer pauses
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obviously the study did not say these speakers were more intelligent or that they knew more grammar and vocabulary.
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No, it showed that their brains were simply better trained, trained, to access English quickly.
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So when we talk about thinking in English,
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we are really talking about how good your brain is at finding English words without stopping to calculate.
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Why translation slows you down.
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Translation is not bad.
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It is normal and at the beginning it is very useful.
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But if translation becomes your main speaking strategy, it creates problems.
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The research helps explain why this feels tiring.
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Controlled processing uses more mental energy.
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That's why your speech may be but slow, hesitant and unnatural.
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Fluency improves when the brain doesn't need to stop and check every step.
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When I learned my second language, French, I translated everything at first.
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Every sentence, every thought.
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I could speak but it felt really heavy and I was always behind in the conversation.
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What changed everything for me was repetition and exposure.
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How much time I spent listening to my second language.
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I started hearing the same phrases again and again.
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I stopped building sentences word by word.
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I started using ready-made patterns and slowly my brain adapted.
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Not because I tried to think in my second language, nothing was forced, but because I used it
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often
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and naturally how to train your brain to think in English
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now let's talk about practical advice you can actually use work
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on collocations your brain does not like isolated words lists of of words.
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I say this all the time.
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It likes predictable patterns.
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A collocation is a predictable combination of words.
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For example, we can say heavy rain, but not big rain, because it doesn't sound right.
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Heavy and rain go together.
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When you learn phrases, collocations like make a decision,
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heavy rain, take responsibility, your brain starts to anticipate the next word.
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This reduces effort and speeds up word retrieval.
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Exactly what the research shows fluent speakers do better.
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Below in the description and the comments,
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you can download a free PDF of 100 English collocations I have made for you.
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Learn them.
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Use shadowing.
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Shadowing means listening and repeating immediately out loud.
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No translation, no analysis, just reaction.
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This is one of the main techniques I used to become fluent in French.
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This trains your Make your brain to move from controlled processing to more automatic processing.
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This is exactly what we want to be able to think in English.
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Make sure you are speaking as much as you can, either with a partner or alone, every day if possible.
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Speaking, even with mistakes, forces your brain to find the words faster.
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And faster retrieval is what builds fluency and thinking in English.
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Use English stories for input.
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This is exactly why I post two story videos every month on this channel.
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You don't need to understand every word.
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In fact, understanding 60 or 70 percent is good.
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It pushes your brain to predict meaning.
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Use context and fill in the gaps.
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This is how your brain learns to connect ideas directly to English without translation.
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You need English input every day.
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Give yourself a realistic goal.
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Thinking in English is not a switch.
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It's a gradual change.
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Some days you will translate.
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Some days you won't.
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That's normal.
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The goal is not perfection.
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The goal is less effort and more flow.
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Try and keep that in mind.
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So thinking in English isn't a myth.
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I know because I think in my second language.
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Research shows that fluency grows when your brain becomes faster at accessing words.
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If you train that speed through repetition, patterns and real use, your brain adapts.
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And one day, you won't be thinking about English at all.
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You will just be speaking.
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I will leave you a link below to a PDF with 100 English collocations
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and also a link to a video I made about some of the things
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that I did to become fluent in my second language.
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If this video has helped you, make sure you subscribe so I can help you more this year.
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I'll see you in the next video.
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Take care.
コンテキストと背景
このビデオでは、英語を学ぶ多くの人々が抱える共通の悩みである「頭の中で翻訳することをやめ、英語で考える方法」について話しています。多くの学習者は文法や語彙を理解しているものの、実際に話す際には言葉が出てこなくなることがあります。このビデオでは、英語で考えることの本質や、それを実現するための具体的な方法論が解説されています。
日常コミュニケーションのためのトップ5フレーズ
- make a decision（決定する）
- heavy rain（大雨）
- take responsibility（責任を持つ）
- find the words faster（言葉を早く見つける）
- predict meaning（意味を予測する）
これらのフレーズは、特に日常会話でよく使われるため、覚えておくと便利です。「YouTubeで英語学習」の際には、これらのフレーズを実際に使ってみることが有効です。
ステップバイステップシャドーイングガイド
このビデオで学んだ内容を基に、効果的に英語をシャドーイングするための具体的な方法を紹介します。
- フレーズを認識する: 覚えたフレーズやコロケーションを見つけることから始めましょう。これにより、脳が次の言葉を予測しやすくなります。
- シャドーイングを実践: 自分の声でできるだけ早く繰り返すことが重要です。「英語シャドーイング」を行うことで、論理的な考えから直感的な思考に移行します。これは、言葉の習得にとって非常に効果的です。
- 毎日話す機会を持つ: パートナーと、または一人でもいいので、毎日試みてください。間違いを気にせず、続けることが流暢さを育む鍵です。
- ストーリーを利用する: 英語のストーリーを通じてインプットを増やしましょう。完全に理解する必要はなく、全体の60〜70%を把握できれば良いです。
これらのステップをしっかりと実践することで、「shadowspeaks」や「shadow speak」のような流暢な英会話を実現できるでしょう。シャドーイングサイトを利用して、自身のスピーキングスキルを高めましょう。
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。