シャドーイング練習: The piano man Chapter 2 - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Chapter 2 The Man With No Name Where am I?
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All these lights.
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So many people.
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White coats.
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Talking.
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Talking.
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I don't want to hear them.
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I don't understand their words.
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I must find Lida.
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I must help her.
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How can I find her?
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I cannot live without her.
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My Lida, my songbird.
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The hospital day starts very early.
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At seven o'clock, the nurses took the man downstairs for his scan.
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By nine o'clock, he was back in bed on the ward, and a different doctor came to see him.
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Well, good news, young man, the doctor said.
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Your head injury is not very bad.
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You're going to be fine.
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How are you feeling now?
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The man did not answer.
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He sat up in bed and looked at the doctor and then at the nurse.
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Then he turned his face away and stared out of the window.
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Hmm, said the doctor.
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He took out a pen and slowly moved it from side to side in front of the man's face.
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The man's eyes did not move.
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Shock, said the doctor.
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Shock can do this to the brain sometimes, and then it can forget how to speak.
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He turned to the nurse.
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Is he saying anything to you?
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No, not a word, the nurse said.
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Is he eating and drinking all right?
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Yes, no problems there, said the nurse.
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Well, call me when the police arrive.
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Somebody's coming at midday to ask questions.
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Why? said the nurse.
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The poor man is ill.
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He's a man with no name, no papers, nothing.
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Where did he come from?
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The police want to know.
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When the policeman arrived, the nurse took him to her patient.
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Please be gentle, she said.
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He has a head injury, and we think he's still in shock after his accident.
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Good afternoon, sir, the policeman said to the man in the bed.
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I need to ask you some questions, please.
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What's your name and where are you from?
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The policeman held his pen, ready to write down the answers.
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But there were no answers.
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He tried again.
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Why were you on the beach yesterday?
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Why were your clothes wet?
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Did you fall off a boat?
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No answer.
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The man closed his eyes and turned his face to the wall.
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How did you hurt your head?
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Did somebody hit you?
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No answer.
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The policeman spoke more loudly.
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Come on now, what's your name?
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The nurse and the doctor then arrived.
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What are you doing? said the nurse.
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There's no need to shout.
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He can hear very well.
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But he's not answering my questions, the policeman said.
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Who he is?
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Where does he come from?
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We don't know, said the doctor.
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Can't the questions wait for a day or two?
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Let him rest now.
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They moved away from the patient's bed.
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I need a name, the policeman said.
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I can put a name through the police computer.
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Where does he come from?
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Is he an illegal immigrant?
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he fall off a boat full of illegal immigrants?
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We need to know these things.
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Without a name, I can't do anything.
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Is he even English?
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Was there nothing in the pockets of his clothes?
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Where are his clothes? said the doctor.
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I can find them, I think, the nurse said.
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She went away and came back a few minutes later with the man's clothes.
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They were white with salt from the seawater.
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There was nothing in the pockets, no papers, nothing with a name on.
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What about the labels in the clothes?
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The policeman said.
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They can sometimes tell you something.
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The nurse found a label in the back of the shirt.
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Look, she said.
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That's not English, the doctor said.
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Can you read it, nurse?
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No, the nurse said.
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It looks like some Eastern European language.
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Russian, perhaps?
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Maybe, the policeman said.
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So perhaps your patient isn't English.
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He can't answer the questions because he doesn't understand them.
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Hmm, said the doctor.
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I think he's not answering because he can't speak, in any language.
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Something happened to him.
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We don't know what, but it was bad.
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I can bring a police interpreter tomorrow, said the policeman.
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He can try a few languages on him.
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And now I must go and ask a lot of questions about boats and ships near here yesterday.
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Perhaps he fell off a boat and somebody is looking for him.
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The policeman left, but there was no rest yet for the man from the sea.
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It was a busy hospital, with accidents coming in all the time.
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We can't keep him in this ward tonight, the doctor said.
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We need the bed.
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Take him over to the psychiatric unit.
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They can give him a bed for a few nights.
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Perhaps they can help him with speaking.
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Ask for nurse Avril O'Brien.
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She's very good with patients like these.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

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YouTubeで英語学習をしている中級レベルの学習者に最適です。特に英語スピーキング練習やIELTS スピーキング対策を目指す人にぴったりです。物語の展開に合わせて登場人物の心情が表れる会話が多く、シャドーイングによる発音やイントネーションの練習にも最適です。

覚えておきたい単語とイディオム

  • scan:医療用語で「スキャン」。文中では頭の検査を指します。
  • ward:病院の「病棟」。「back in bed on the ward」は「病棟のベッドに戻る」という意味です。
  • shock:「ショック」。文中では脳に影響を与える心理的・身体的なショックを指します。
  • man with no name:「名前のない男」。身分が不明な人物を表すフレーズで、物語の神秘的な雰囲気を醸し出しています。

発音を上達させるコツ

英語の発音を良くするためには、文中の弱読みとイントネーションに注目しましょう。例えば、「the doctor said」の「the」は弱く発音され、「said」の語尾は軽くなります。また、医者の台詞「Well, good news, young man」では、「Well」と「good news」が強調され、イントネーションが上がります。シャドーイングをする際は、これらのニュアンスを再現することで、自然な発音に近づけます。さらに、登場人物の沈黙や不安が表れるシーンでは、発声のリズムが遅くなることにも注意して練習しましょう。

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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