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okay I think that's the last of them let's go oh and did I mention this video is sponsored by Surfshark

the biggest question of my 20s undoubtedly is who am i as if that's a simple question

just three harmless little words strung together in a way

that will make you absolutely lose your mind

and the older i get the more i wonder whether i've been asking the wrong question

because whether you find an answer to it

or not you still are yet somewhere along the way i felt like without

that answer there also couldn't be a me instead there's just this tangled mess

that has yet to reach its final form which is also exactly where the story goes wrong

you see at some point i started treating my identity as something

that must be understood by others rather than myself something

that is straightforward and easily labeled and something that makes sense and so nowadays i exist in fragments

there are different versions of myself that exist around different people parts of me that I've curated enough to be understood,

that are still me, but also not, at least not fully.

And while many things can be true at once, when it comes to who I am, I have somehow exempted myself from that rule.

I think I've been treating my identity as though it's a niche, which might sound a little strange at first,

but for everything that I do or try, I ask myself the same question.

Is this it?

Is this my thing?

As if there's only one right answer, and that it's out there, somewhere.

Like we're playing hide and seek and I'll know the second I lay eyes upon it.

Except, I have laid eyes upon it countless times, it just didn't fit the description.

In truth, I could probably give you a pretty good answer to the question of who am I.

It would just take about 10 cardboard boxes, give or take, and quite a lot of unpacking.

Nothing makes you realize just how much stuff you have like moving, and in my case also, how many versions of myself exist.

I think for a long time I assumed that who I was

and what I did had to be one coherent picture and it couldn't contradict itself in any way.

For example, I consider myself to be a pretty outdoorsy person.

I love being outdoors.

I love hiking, camping, all that stuff.

But at the same time, I am a huge homebody.

I love being at home.

I love being comfortable and cozy and warm and dry

and I felt like those two things couldn't exist at the same time

because clearly if I'm such a homebody then I just don't meet the qualifications

or the requirements to be considered an outdoorsy person.

Which it sounds so silly to say out loud

but that's just kind of how my brain worked with so many different aspects of my life.

Just assuming that if there was any form of contradiction then clearly that just wasn't who I was.

It all just had to fit into this pre -designed box and then I would get frustrated if it didn't fit.

It's easy to start feeling like you need to have a thing that defines who you are,

some signal that will tell people what box to put you in because in many ways we're faced with it every day.

It's this endless stream of niches and aesthetics and categories

and types that's trying to figure out where you fit

while simultaneously making you believe that wherever it places you must be it.

There's this weird and unsettling feeling when someone thinks they know you better than you know yourself.

In a lot of ways that happens every time we go online,

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you need to find a niche is a phrase i've seen

or heard increasingly often presented to you as though it's the answer to all of your problems

it's the way to success the way to an audience, the way to be understood, or liked, or respected.

And apparently, in my case at least, it's also the way to find yourself.

You might be thinking, sure, but what does moving have to do with this?

Well, imagine I would move and only take one singular box with me, a single category of items it would all be nice

and on theme and coherent but it would be equally ridiculous

because being on theme has now also come at the cost

of literally every other belonging of mine every hobby every clothing

piece every book every slightly contradicting item would be discarded for the sake of clarity

and i think the same thing happens when you assume that you can only be one thing.

You discard every other part of you for the sake of fitting into some non -existent box.

It's really just abandonment, masked as self -discovery.

Because I don't think the answer to finding out who you are is to water yourself down enough

that there's only one option left.

And so as I was packing, and then unpacking, I realized that I've spent so much time trying to put a finger on who I am,

on finding the one thing that defines me,

when all of these different sides of me have happily been living under one roof for so many years.

And yeah, some are contradicting, some I haven't touched in months or years, some I've forgotten and found my way back to,

some I'll always cherish, and others I don't always love.

but there is room for all of them and more both in my house and in myself

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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

このスピーキングレッスンは、動画「stop trying to categorize yourself」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80文、単語が1142語あります。音声の長さは8:05です。話す速さは1分あたり約141語で安定しており、シャドーイングしやすいペースです。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
niche 名詞	/nɪt͡ʃ/	壁龕
sake 名詞	/ˈseɪ̯k/	-のために
collect 動詞	/ˈkɑlɪkt/	集める, 収集する
sponsor 名詞	/ˈspɒn.səː/	スポンサー
finger 名詞	/ˈfɪŋɡɚ/	指
clothing 名詞	/ˈkloʊðɪŋ/	服, 衣服
ridiculous 形容詞	/ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/	馬鹿らしい
discovery 名詞	/dɪˈskʌv.ɹi/	発見
label 名詞	/ˈleɪ.bəl/	荷札, 貼り札
aspect 名詞	/ˈæspɛkt/	様相
steal 動詞	/stiːl/	盗む
string 名詞	/stɹɪŋ/	紐
equally 副詞	/ˈiːkwəli/	等しく, 平等に
silly 形容詞	/ˈsɪl.i/	馬鹿げた, 他愛ない
belong 動詞	/bɪˈlɒŋ/	所属する, 属する

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	意味
find out 動詞	見出す, 調べる

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
現在完了進行形 have/has been + -ing — 以前に始まり今も続いている動作	i've been asking · I've been treating · have happily been living
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 sponsored · must be understood · be understood
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 curated · have laid · I've just had

注意したい発音

話し手はI've, couldn't, don'tなど、短縮形や弱形を22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: clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, aesthetics /ɛsˈθɛt.ɪks/
「sh」と「zh」の音: suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/, qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, cherish /ˈt͡ʃɛɹɪʃ/, contradiction /ˌkɑːntɹəˈdɪkʃən/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, simultaneously /ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/, unlimited /ʌnˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/, qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, undoubtedly /ʌnˈdaʊtɪdli/

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: ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, clarity /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/, scroll /skɹoʊl/, harmless /ˈhɑɹmləs/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: discovery /dɪˈskʌv.ɹi/, wherever /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: define /dɪˈfaɪn/, finger /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/, fewer /ˈfjuː.ɚ/, phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

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。
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。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。niche, sake, collect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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