シャドーイング練習: The fear of being average - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Life is good.
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Our entire lives, we've been taught that we needed to be exceptional.
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That average was something we needed to escape.
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That if we didn't do something remarkable with our lives, we failed.
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But no one ever stopped to define what average actually meant.
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A stable job, a partner, a house, two kids.
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Because if that's average, why were we ever taught to fear it?
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The truth is, none of those ever the problem.
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Everything you've been told about being average has been a lie.
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Average was never about the life you live, it was always about something much deeper than that.
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Thank you.
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Anthony Bourdain knew what an average life really was, and why we're so afraid of it.
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Before becoming a famous author and TV show personality, Bourdain spent two decades working in professional kitchens.
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He graduated in 1978 from the Culinary Institute of America, and in his early career,
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Bourdain worked as a line cook and sous chef at restaurants across New York and all the while,
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he carried a different dream to be a writer He wrote his first book, Bone and Throat, which received lackluster reviews and his second book,
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Gone Bamboo, also shared the same fate.
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Both books sold poorly and his writing career became stagnant.
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You see, Bourdain was 42.
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he was beginning to accept that the dream he once had wasn't for him.
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So He turned his focus back to cooking.
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He worked his way up to executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles, a respected French restaurant in Manhattan.
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From an outside perspective, Bourdain made it.
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He had a great job, stability, and all the money he needed to live a comfortable life.
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A life many people would be grateful for.
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So why not just stop there?
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Why not lean into the life he fought so hard to build?
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And that's exactly what most people do.
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As time passes, they get set in their ways.
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They convinced themselves that the life they built is enough they find a job that pays the bills.
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It's not perfect.
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but it's fine.
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A partner they love deeply.
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Someone to come home to.
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They move into a place that feels just big enough, buy furniture they'll keep for years, and fall into routines that make life easier.
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Nothing is wrong.
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And that's the danger.
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you you Thank you.
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This is where most people misunderstand what an average life actually is.
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Because you can wake up every morning, go to work, come home, build a family, live quietly, and still live a deeply fulfilled life.
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Millions of people dream of exactly that, but it feels like this generation is convinced that stability isn't enough.
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Social media brainwashed us into believing that we should chase unrealistic perceptions of money and materialism, and that if we didn't have this checklist of things done before a certain age,
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you're falling behind.
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But an extraordinary life isn't defined by starting a $100 million business or becoming an athlete or a celebrity,
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about a 9 to 5, or a house, or a routine, it was always about your mentality.
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A stable life isn't the problem.
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The problem is never challenging yourself within it.
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Because somewhere along the way, comfort quietly replaces courage.
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You stop trying new things.
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Stop doing things you're bad at.
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You only ever choose the options you know will work out.
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And over time, you days start to feel the same.
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They turn into weeks and weeks into years.
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And one day you wake up and realize something terrifying.
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You never took a single real risk.
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Never once stepped outside the routine.
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Never once asked more of yourself.
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That's what being average actually is.
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Anthony Bourdain knew this.
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He knew that coasting through life doesn't end in failure.
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It ends in something far more dangerous.
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A life where you're satisfied, but not fulfilled.
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And Bourdain knew that if he stayed there long enough, he wouldn't just lose the dream, he'd lose the courage to ever try again.
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The only way forward was to take the risk.
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But before he could do that, He had to confront the one thing that stops people from ever doing so.
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Your ego.
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Ego follows you everywhere.
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It shapes your decisions, quietly disguising itself as excuses like, "I'm being realistic." And humans are inherently egotistical.
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We want things to go our way.
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We want to avoid looking foolish or unprepared, and that's why most people never try anything They don't pick up the hobby, never speak up at work, or talk to the stranger across the street,
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because a rejection or failure feels humiliating.
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It's easier to protect the image you have of yourself than to risk watching it break.
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I didn't have time, Something came up
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or maybe later those excuses feel safer than saying I tried and I wasn't good enough
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so most people choose the first they protect their identity in the present even if when it costs them their future.
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And the tragedy is that ego doesn't stop you from failing.
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It stops you from ever finding out who you could have been.
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And this is where Bourdain did something most people never do.
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You see, he had already failed.
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Twice.
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He had every reason to stop trying.
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He could have came up with a million excuses,
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but he realized he had grown to become the very type for reading this.
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Although it was only ever meant to be for the line cooks that he worked with, he did attempt to publish his work.
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His mom was the one who helped them submit it to the New Yorker, one of the biggest magazine companies at the time, a place you don't submit to unless you're certain you belong.
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Bourdain, wasn't certain, but certainty was the one thing he had already decided to reject.
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So, he sent it, and after just a few days, You got a call.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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In classic storytelling, there's a moment in every protagonist's journey where they must overcome something called the ego death.
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Often temporary loss of one's sense of self or personal identity.
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This is usually in the form of some sort of humiliation, sacrifice, or failure.
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Regardless, they must overcome this ego death to reach resolution.
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And we are the protagonists of our own lives.
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You have to lose your ego.
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The version of yourself that needs certainty, that needs to look competent.
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That's the price of a meaningful life.
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A small death of your identity.
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Bourdain didn't know if the call would change his life.
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He only knew that staying safe would quietly erase it.
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And as soon as Bourdain did this, well, the rest is history.
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Expanding on his article, he went on to write Kitchen Confidential, an unflinching look at the food service industry that became a number one New York Times bestseller.
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The book's success propelled him onto television, becoming the host of No Reservations and Parts Unknown, on which he travelled the world sampling different foods and engaging with different cultures.
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Everything he became traced back to one decision: choosing uncertainty over hoping to inspire at least one person to do the same.
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To embrace the unknown.
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To try and fail.
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To be wrong.
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Bourdain never stopped living like this.
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He was always chasing new experiences, new cultures, finding new ways to escape comfort.
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One of his quotes that always stuck with me was, "Go somewhere you've never been.
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It doesn't always have to be about travel, buying a new coffee shop.
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Anything that brings you out of your comfort zone.
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Because ego is what creates the comfort zone.
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And the comfort zone is where dreams go to die.
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So instead of risking discomfort now, ego offers you a trade.
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Stay comfortable today and we'll deal with the consequences later.
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And those consequences don't show up immediately.
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They hear one day and can't unhear.
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If only I tried.
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It's regret.
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Because what if Bourdain had never sent that article?
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What if he had given up after his first two books flopped?
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he would end up with the same fate millions of people settle for.
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an average life.
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One filled. with regret.
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And the only way to live a life without regret is to escape the comfort zone.
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But here's where most people mess up.
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They think escaping the comfort zone means blowing up their life.
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It's not.
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It doesn't mean quitting your job to start a business or leaving everything behind and moving across the world.
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That's not what Bourdain did either.
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When he sent that essay to the New Yorker, he kept his job.
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Even when they offered him a contract to write his book, his risk was small.
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Picked up writing again.
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Even when he was comfortable being a chef, submitting an essay to a place he wasn't sure he belonged.
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Those aren't dramatic leaps.
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They're what I call small ego deaths.
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And this is how you you truly create an extraordinary life.
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Bourdain once said, "I am eager to believe
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that I'm completely wrong about everything." And that one sentence perfectly explains his entire life.
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Because if you're wrong, you're willing to embarrass yourself.
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You're willing to try.
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You're willing to embrace discomfort.
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So try something new.
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Pick up a new skill.
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Talk to a stranger.
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Try a new restaurant.
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Share your work before it's perfect.
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Go somewhere unfamiliar without a plan.
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And this is how you need to live every day.
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In the present.
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Because this moment is all we have.
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paradox, because we fear an average life so much, but only in hindsight, because we fear discomfort in the present more.
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So it was never about a 9 to 5, or a routine, or even comfort.
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Those were not the enemies.
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It was always about letting those things control you.
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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B2レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「The fear of being average」を教材にしています。 繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：Bourdain, average, ego, comfort。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が156文、単語が1634語あります。 音声の長さは11:35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83%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 |
|---|---|---|
| quietly 副詞 | /ˈkwaɪ.ɪt.li/ | 静かに |
| discomfort 名詞 | /dɪsˈkʌmfɚt/ | 不快, 不安 |
| certainty 名詞 | /ˈsɝtn̩ti/ | 確信 |
| fulfill 動詞 | /fʊlˈfɪl/ | 遂行する, 実施する |
| consequence 名詞 | /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/ | 結果 |
| embrace 動詞 | /ɛmˈbɹes/ | 抱擁する, 抱く |
| bestseller 名詞 | ベストセラー | |
| brainwash 名詞 | /ˈbɹeɪnwɒʃ/ | 洗脳 |
| checklist 名詞 | /ˈt͡ʃɛklɪst/ | チェックリスト |
| embarrass 動詞 | /ɪmˈbæɹəs/ | 困らせる |
| hindsight 名詞 | /ˈhaɪn(d)saɪt/ | 後知恵 |
| humiliate 動詞 | /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt/ | 辱める, 屈辱を与える |
| materialism 名詞 | /məˈtɪɹiəlɪzəm/ | 唯物論, 唯物主義 |
| misunderstand 動詞 | /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/ | 勘違いする, 誤解する |
| unrealistic 形容詞 | 非現実的 |
動画に出てくる句動詞
| 単語 | 発音 | 意味 |
|---|---|---|
| pick up 動詞 | 拾う, 拾い上げる | |
| wake up 動詞 | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | 目覚める, 目を覚ます |
| blow up 動詞 | 爆破する, 爆発する | |
| come up 動詞 | 上がる, 登る | |
| fall behind 動詞 | 遅れる | |
| find out 動詞 | 見出す, 調べる | |
| give up 動詞 | 降服する | |
| show up 動詞 | 現れる |
繰り返し練習したい文
動画に出てくる短く完結した文です。日常会話でそのまま使えます。
- Because if that's average, why were we ever taught to fear it?
- Stop doing things you're bad at.
- A life where you're satisfied, but not fulfilled.
- They're what I call small ego deaths.
- Because if you're wrong, you're willing to embarrass yourself.
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 | we've been taught · you've been told · isn't defined |
| 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 | we've been taught · you've been told · you've never been |
注意したい発音
話し手はyou're, didn't, doesn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を39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: brainwash /ˈbɹeɪnwɒʃ/, humiliation /hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/, foolish /ˈfuː.lɪʃ/, rejection /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, exceptional /ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/
- 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: egotistical /ˌi.ɡoʊˈtɪs.tɪk.(ə)l/, humiliate /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt/, materialism /məˈtɪɹiəlɪzəm/, misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/, humiliation /hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/
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: materialism /məˈtɪɹiəlɪzəm/, propel /pɹəˈpɛl/, inherently /ɪnˈhɛɹəntli/, unfamiliar /ˌʌnfəˈmɪli.ə(ɹ)/, poorly /ˈpʊɹ.li/
- /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: discomfort /dɪsˈkʌmfɚt/, fulfill /fʊlˈfɪl/, terrify /ˈtɛɹɪfaɪ/, flop /flɑp/, unfamiliar /ˌʌnfəˈmɪli.ə(ɹ)/
- 子音の連続 — 間に母音を入れない: quietly /ˈkwaɪ.ɪt.li/, consequence /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/, embrace /ɛmˈbɹes/, brainwash /ˈbɹeɪnwɒʃ/, checklist /ˈt͡ʃɛklɪst/
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。quietly, discomfort, certainty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。