シャドーイング練習: The US-Canada border splits this road down the middle - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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I'm not allowed to cross this road because this is the town of Stansted, Canada.
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On the other side of the street is Derby Line, USA.
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And the border between the two countries runs right down this, Rue Canussa.
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For the local residents, that can be inconvenient.
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I lived here all my life, so 63 years.
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Today you cannot cross over the line and visit your neighbors like years ago.
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If you want to cross, you have to report that custom.
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You know, I used to cross every day.
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And now I probably cross once a week because I come down to the post office over here.
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To go through the border, basically they ask you a passport, they go inside, I guess they look at if you have a record or not, they look at your registration of your car,
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about a couple of minutes and you're going through.
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I'm a dual citizen, so I'm American and Canadian, so it's easier.
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This is a place where the idea of a border as a solid, easy to understand line gets a little bit fuzzy.
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The road doesn't run at exactly the same angle as the border, not precisely.
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The official line is that this is Canada and that's the USA, but both countries' maps show the road as being entirely in the US just here and entirely in Canada up there.
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The houses are definitely in separate countries, but the road?
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It's not quite as clear.
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And in practice, if I was driving, I'd be okay.
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Even on that side of the road, I am considered to be still in Canada, as long as I don't stop and walk up to an American house.
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It's fair to say that there's a little bit of leniency here
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if you're just nudging the border by a few centimeters or if you're on that side a couple of inches. But
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while I was setting up my camera here the police turned
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up lights flashing to move along those bikers you saw earlier
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who were admiring the view from the other side of the road.
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It all seemed in good spirits but they had crossed the border.
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Well the library is part on the Canadian side part on the American side but But you stay on the Canadian side, you stay on the sidewalk, and you go through the front door and it's permitted.
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On Canooset Street, there's a sidewalk on the Canadian side.
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So back years ago, it was tolerated that people on the American side could cross over and walk on the sidewalk.
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So basically, it's a little dangerous to walk on the side of the road.
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And now today, well, it's not tolerated no more.
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I think the rules hasn't changed much, but they're more enforced.
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When you cross, they ask you more questions than they used to, you know, years ago.
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Before, you went through the border and you knew most of the custom officers
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and they used to wave to you, you know?
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In 1783, this section of the Canada-US border was set at the 45th parallel, a line of latitude.
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Slightly inaccurate measurements were accepted by both countries.
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So it was locked in.
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But as for this specific road, there are local stories about drunk surveyors and pranks, but no one really knows.
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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B2レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「The US-Canada border splits this road down the middle」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：border, road, cross, Canada, Canadian。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が39文、単語が556語あります。 音声の長さは2:48です。 話す速さは速く、1分あたり約199語です。音のつながりや弱く発音される音が多くなります。 単語の87%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれるため、語彙は分かりやすいです。

この動画の重要語彙

動画の中で特に難しい単語9語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語発音意味
sidewalk 名詞/ˈsaɪdwɔk/歩道, 舗道
tolerate 動詞/ˈtɑ.lə.ɹeɪt/黙認する
inconvenient 形容詞/ˌɪn.kənˈviːni.ənt/面倒な, 不便な
surveyor 名詞/sɚˈveɪ̯.ɚ/測量家
latitude 名詞/ˈlætɪtud/緯度, ラチチュード
prank 名詞/pɹæŋk/悪戯, 悪ふざけ
admire 動詞/ədˈmaɪɹ/感心する
passport 名詞/ˈpæspɔɹt/パスポート, 旅券
measurement 名詞/ˈmɛʒ.ə.mənt/測定

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
「used to」 used to + 動詞 — 今はもう違う過去の習慣や状態used to cross · used to wave
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was tolerated · was set · were accepted

注意したい発音

話し手はI'm, you're, doesn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を11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。

  • 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: inconvenient /ˌɪn.kənˈviːni.ənt/, leniency /ˈliːni.ən(t)si/, inaccurate /ɪnˈæk.jə.ɹɪt/

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: tolerate /ˈtɑ.lə.ɹeɪt/, precisely /pɹɪˈsaɪs.li/
  • /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: inconvenient /ˌɪn.kənˈviːni.ənt/, surveyor /sɚˈveɪ̯.ɚ/
  • /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: fuzzy /ˈfʌzi/, enforce /ɪnˈfoɹs/

この動画での練習方法

  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。sidewalk, tolerate, inconvenient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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