シャドーイング練習: The smart way to name your content - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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If you're putting out a piece of content, one of the ways you can massively expand the reach with about one minute of work is simply this.
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Keyword search your idea, find the parent topic or parent phrase, and then rename it.
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That's it.
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That's how you can take an idea for a blog post, a calculator that you put out, a web app, a product,
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and massively expand the reach to a broader audience without really changing the idea at all.
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So I'm actually going to show you how I implemented this on a recent thing.
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I had an idea for making a financial escape velocity calculator for myself, and I'm going to put it out to people so they can use it on swipe file.
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Here's the problem.
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No one in history has typed in the words financial escape velocity calculator.
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So how do I make this calculator and adapt it for a broader term?
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So I've actually put this into Ahrefs, did some keyword research and realized that a phrase like, when can I retire off of my money
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or retirement interest calculator has a reach of literally a thousand times more than financial escape velocity calculator.
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And so if I make that product towards one of those larger topics, I could potentially bring in way more people in this case,
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over a thousand times more people potentially by just a simple one minute of keyword research.
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And you could do this across all of your content, all of your ideas and reach a much broader audience.
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Let me show you the actual details on how to do it.
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I'm building out a thing called the financial escape velocity calculator.
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Now, I don't know if people actually say this term financial escape velocity.
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It basically says like, you know, if you have $10 million at a 3% interest rate, your annual income is this, your monthly income is that, and it changes based on what you put in here, right?
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Now, I don't know if people are actually searching this term.
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I've never heard anyone really say it.
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So I'm going to check it in Ahrefs.
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So do search financial velocity calculator.
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really not finding anything.
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And this is a bad, bad thing.
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So I have to research some better terms.
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And basically I went to ChatGPT, looked up a couple things, I found passive income calculator.
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Okay, let's try that.
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So look at this, 43% keyword difficulty, but search volume 150.
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So meaning there's not a ton of people searching this, but it's really, really hard to rank.
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One cool thing I like about AAHRFs, it also gives me other things that people are searching for.
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So this is just not enough volume for me to like really put something out.
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I need to go after a bigger term.
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Look at this, interest calculator, 154,000 searches a month, a little bit harder, but then like compound interest calculator, interest rate calculator.
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So these are some of the more larger terms that I can go for.
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The other thing I could do is look up plain English words.
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So how much interest will I earn?
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So I don't have to find exactly what people are looking up.
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Google will kind of do that.
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But look at this.
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So this one also a little bit hard, but much larger search volume and much larger traffic volume than some of those others.
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So right away, I know I'm not going to call this the financial escape velocity calculator.
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It sounds like this actually wouldn't go many places.
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Instead, I would rather change this to how much interest will I earn and can I retire?
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So that would be the way that I would use keyword research to go about and make something.
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So before I'm going to actually put something out,
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if I want to increase the chances of it being successful on Google and returning SEO traffic every single year,
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then I would first use Ahrefs to figure out the angle to attack it before I put out the content.

この動画で身につける英語スピーキングのポイント

この動画を通じて、実用的な英語表現と自然な発音リズム、さらにキーワードを活かしたコミュニケーション戦略を学べます。特にビジネスやコンテンツ作成に関する場面で、相手の理解を深めるための表現方法が身につきます。

聞き取りに注意すべき発音のポイント

動画の中では、連結発音や弱読みが多く見られます。例えば「financial escape velocity」では「financial」の「l」と「escape」の「e」が滑らかに連結され、「interest rate calculator」では「rate」の「t」が弱くなっています。これらの発音パターンを捉えることで、リスニング力と発音の自然さが向上します。

ネイティブのように話すコツ

ネイティブスピーカーのリズムとストレスを真似るには、英語シャドーイングが効果的です。動画を再生しながら、1秒遅れで繰り返し話すことで、発音のタイミングやアクセントの位置を覚えられます。特に「how much interest will I earn」のような疑問文では、「interest」と「earn」にストレスを置き、上昇調になることに注意しましょう。
また、IELTS スピーキング対策や日常会話でも、キーワードを使った明確な表現が重要です。動画で説明されているように、相手が検索しやすい言葉を選ぶことで、コミュニケーションの効率が上がります。
シャドーイングの練習には、shadowing siteやshadow speech、shadowspeaksなどのリソースを利用すると、効果的に練習できます。毎日10分程度の練習で、自然な英語表現が身につきます。

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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