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Friendship should be one of the high points of existence, and yet it's also the most routinely disappointing thing we have to deal with.

Too often you're at supper at someone's house, there's an impressive spread and the hosts have evidently gone to a lot of trouble.

But the conversation is meandering and devoid of any real interest.

It flits from an overlong description of the failings of the

in-flight service on a particular airline to a strangely heated discussion about the tax code.

The intentions of the hosts are hugely touching, but as so often, we go home wondering what on earth the whole performance was really about.

The key to the problem of friendship is to be found in an odd-sounding place, a lack of a sense of purpose.

Our attempts at friendship tend to go adrift

because we collectively resist the task of developing a clear picture of what friendship might really be for.

The The problem is that we're unfairly uncomfortable with the idea of friendship having any declared purpose,

because we associate purpose with the least attractive and most cynical of motives.

Yet purpose doesn't have to ruin friendship, and in fact, the more we define what a friendship might be for,

the more we can focus in on what we should be doing with every person in our lives, or indeed, the more we can helpfully conclude that we shouldn't be with them at all.

There are at least four things we might be trying to do with the people we know.

Firstly, networking.

It's an unfairly maligned idea.

We're small, fragile creatures in a vast world.

Our individual capacities are entirely insufficient to realise the demands of our imaginations.

So of course we need collaborators, accomplices who can align their abilities and energies with ours.

This idea of friendship was given a lot of space in classical literature.

Like the Argonauts, the legendary ancient Greek tale

which traced how a heroic captain called Jason networked in order

to assemble a band of friends to sail on the Argo in search of the Golden Fleece.

Later, the same idea emerged

when Jesus networked to put together a band of twelve disciples with whom he could spread one

or two world-changing ideas about forgiveness and compassion.

Rather than diminish our own efforts as we hand out our business cards,

such prestigious examples can show how elevated and ambitious networking friendships could ideally be.

Secondly, reassurance.

The human condition is full of terror.

We're always on the verge of disgrace, danger and disappointment.

And yet, such are the rules of polite conduct

that we're permanently in danger of imagining that we are the only ones to be as crazy as we know we are.

We badly need friends because with the people we know only superficially, There are few confessions of sexual compulsion or of regret, rage and confusion.

These superficial acquaintances refuse to admit that they too are going slightly out of their minds.

Yet the reassuring true friend gives us access to a very necessary and accurate sense of their own humiliations and follies,

insights with which we can begin to judge ourselves and our sad and compulsive lives slightly more compassionately.

Thirdly, fun.

Despite talk of hedonism and immediate gratification, life gives us constant lessons in the need to be serious.

We have to guard our dignity, avoid looking like a fool and pass as a mature adult.

The pressure can become onerous and in the end even dangerous.

That's why we constantly need access to people we can trust enough to be silly with them.

They might most of the time be training to be a neurosurgeon or advising middle-sized companies about their tax liabilities.

But when we're together, we can be therapeutically daft.

We can put on accents, shared lewd fantasies or doodle on the newspaper, adding a huge nose and a missing front tooth to the president,

or giving the fashion model distended ears and masses of curly hair.

The fun friend solves the problem of shame around important but unprestigious sides of ourselves.

Fourthly, clarifying our minds.

To a surprising degree, it's very hard to think on our own.

The mind is skittish and squeamish.

As a result, many Many issues lie confused within us.

We feel angry but are not sure why.

Something is wrong with our job but we can't pin it down.

The thinking friend holds us to the task.

They ask gentle but probing questions which act as a mirror that assists us with the task of knowing ourselves.

One side effect of getting a bit more precise about what we're trying to do with our social lives is

that we're likely to conclude that in many cases we're spending time with people for no truly identifiable good reason.

These proto-friends share none of our professional ambitions or interests, they aren't reassuring and may indeed be secretly really very excited by the possibility of our failure,

We can't be cathartically silly around them

and they aren't in the least bit interested in furthering our or their path to self-knowledge.

They are, like so many of the people in our social lives,

simply in our orbit as a result of some unhappy accident that we've been too sentimental to correct.

We should dare to be a little ruthless in this area.

Culling acquaintances isn't a sign that we've lost belief in friendship.

It's evidence that we're starting to get clearer and therefore more demanding about what a friendship could really be.

In the best way, the price of knowing what friendship is for may be a few more evenings at home in our own company.

Thank 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C1レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「The Purpose of Friendship」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：friendship, purpose, lives。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が67文、単語が957語あります。音声の長さは5:58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79%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
acquaintance 名詞	/ʌˈkweɪn.təns/	知り合い
conclude 動詞	/kənˈkluːd/	終える, 締め括る
accomplice 名詞	/əˈkɑm.pləs/	共犯者, 共犯
collaborator 名詞	/kəˈlæbəɹeɪtɚ/	合作者, 協力者
disciple 名詞	/dɪˈsaɪ.pəl/	弟子, 門徒
doodle 名詞	/ˈdud(ə)l/	落書き
hedonism 名詞	/ˈhiːdənɪzəm/	快楽主義
thirdly 副詞	/ˈθɚdli/	第三に
sentimental 形容詞	/ˌsɛntiˈmɛntl̩/	感傷的, センチメンタル
humiliation 名詞	/hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/	恥, 恥辱
cynical 形容詞	/ˈsɪnɪkəl/	皮肉な
curly 形容詞	/ˈkɝli/	巻き毛の
assemble 動詞	/əˈsɛm.bəl/	集める, 組み立てる
ruthless 形容詞	/ˈɹuːθləs/	無情な, 残酷な
disappoint 動詞	/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt/	失望させる

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	意味
hand out 動詞	配る, 配布する

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 · we've lost
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	be found · was given

注意したい発音

話し手はwe're, aren't, can'tなど、短縮形や弱形を19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: fourthly /ˈfɔːɹθ.li/, therapeutically /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk.li/, thirdly /ˈθɚdli/, ruthless /ˈɹuːθləs/, tooth /tuθ/
「sh」と「zh」の音: reassure /ˌɹi.əˈʃʊɹ/, compulsion /kəmˈpʌlʃən/, diminish /dɪˈmɪnɪʃ/, gratification /ˌɡɹætɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, skittish /ˈskɪtɪʃ/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: collaborator /kəˈlæbəɹeɪtɚ/, gratification /ˌɡɹætɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, hedonism /ˈhiːdənɪzəm/, prototypical /ˌpɹoʊtəˈtɪpɪkəl/, therapeutically /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk.li/

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: collaborator /kəˈlæbəɹeɪtɚ/, fourthly /ˈfɔːɹθ.li/, prototypical /ˌpɹoʊtəˈtɪpɪkəl/, therapeutically /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk.li/, ruthless /ˈɹuːθləs/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: compulsive /kəmˈpʌlsɪv/, devoid /dɪˈvɔɪd/, elevate /ˈɛləveɪt/, evidently /ˈɛvɪdəntli/, verge /vɜːd͡ʒ/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: adrift /əˈdɹɪft/, fourthly /ˈfɔːɹθ.li/, gratification /ˌɡɹætɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, helpfully /ˈhɛlp.fəl.i/, superficial /ˌsupɚˈfɪʃəl/

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。
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。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。acquaintance, conclude, accomplice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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