シャドーイング練習: This 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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This feels like an obvious thing to say, but tanks are expensive, both to buy and to fuel.
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If you want to train someone to drive one, it'd be great if they could learn the basics on a simulator first.
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So in the 1970s, the Swiss Army had the idea to design and build tank simulators.
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But this was well before computer-generated images, they couldn't create a virtual world.
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So instead, they built a wonderful example of 70s analog technology.
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The view screen in that box is connected to a real camera and a real miniature landscape through there.
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In the past, thousands and thousands of tank drivers trained on machines like that.
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There's now only one simulator left in the world, and it's in the Swiss Military Museum about an hour north of Zurich.
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And tourists can try it.
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There existed in the past 12 simulators for different type of tanks.
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It's very accurate for teaching the basics and teaching where to go with the hand and with the feet.
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Put that over your head, and then, because in a normal tank it's too loud with the motor noises, we have a special microphone that goes around exactly the throat mic.
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So this goes on like...
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Yes.
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Oh, that is...
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Okay, that's interesting.
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Yep, okay.
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That's it.
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Okay.
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Looks good.
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Let's let's drive a tank.
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Yeah, I wish you a good drive.
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Thank you.
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Wow, okay.
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All right, so...
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So I'm gonna start the hydraulics.
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Yep.
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Oh boy, okay.
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Okay.
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Haha.
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Sounds good.
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Now you can start the main motor.
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Starting the main motor.
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Very well, sounds good.
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Fucking brake is off.
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Okay.
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Should probably be on the right hand side of the road I guess.
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Umm, you can drive in the middle.
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I'm in a tank.
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It's a tank.
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What am I gonna do?
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Alright.
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Yeah, sure.
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You can go into fourth gear.
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Fourth gear.
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Oh!
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Okay, I'm gonna sit a little bit more forward so I don't hit the back of my head when that happens.
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That's the only one of the Type 68 tank that's remaining and we managed to get it running here.
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It took roughly about one and a half, two years.
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We had to really go into it from ground up.
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It was very difficult, not for everything, but mostly for the electrical and electronic parts,
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because it's all tech, it's not like you can go to any supermarket and buy it.
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Fifth gear?
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Fifth gear.
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I need to sit forward.
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This feels very fast now, all of a sudden.
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There is something about the analog miniature model.
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Like not only close up to make sure, but when the trees are in the distance, this is really convincing.
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There is a memory function on the computer module which on base of this X and Y axis says you're here,
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you're on gravel, you're on snow, you're on normal earth, you're on road and something like that.
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If you're driving 2, 3, the feet where the camera sits on just moves up
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and it's like you're having a panoramic ride right above our model with a helicopter.
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Okay, we can go ahead.
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Oh, I am good.
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Yeah, I've definitely...
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No worries, left gear.
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Right, right, right, right.
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Fifth gear, fifth gear.
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Fifth gear, fifth gear.
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Was that being right from the camera?
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The foot where you're driving on, like it's kind of a metal slide.
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If that moves a tiny bit, for instance, if there's some contact with it and it moves, for instance, I need to go up to go over that.
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It will notice that and signalize the cabin that you're moving over something.
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The camera is original, the foot is original, the whole model is original, everything except for the computer part is original.
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But it was too old and you don't find parts easily for that, so we have to rebuild it on Raspberry Pi.
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You can go into fourth gear again if you're comfortable.
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Yeah.
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Every time!
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We should say, of course, this is a bit of fun for tourists now, but this was a serious training game.
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Like, if you actually have to drive around a tank in wartime, it's a very, very different experience to this.
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It is really dangerous what you do.
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Here is a game.
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It's like a game.
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This job is not a game.
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Thank you very much.
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You're welcome.
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How do I get out of here?

この動画が英語スピーキング練習に最適な理由

この動画は、日常的な会話と専門的な説明が混ざり合った自然な英語を提供し、shadow speak(シャドースピーキング)の練習に最適です。話者同士のやり取りには「Oh boy!」「Wow. Okay.」などのリアルな反応があり、発音やイントネーションの練習に役立ちます。また、「throat mic」「hydraulics」などの専門用語も含まれているため、語彙力向上にもつながります。

自然な英語表現を分解してみる

  • 「This feels like an obvious thing to say, but: tanks are expensive...」:「~とは明白なことだが」という柔らかい前置きが、話し手の丁寧さを表しています。日常会話ではこのように「obvious」を使って意見を述べることで、相手に親しみやすさを与えます。
  • 「It took roughly about one and a half, two years.」:「roughly about」で「およそ」という意味を強調し、曖昧さを許容する表現です。英語では正確な数字よりも「おおよそ」の表現を使うことが多く、これにより会話が自然になります。
  • 「Not for everything, but mostly for the electrical and electronic parts...」:「Not for everything, but...」で「すべてではないが」という逆説を表し、話の重点を「electrical and electronic parts」に移しています。このような構文を使うことで、会話が流れやすくなります。

shadow speakで英語の発音を良くする練習法

まず、動画を10秒ほど再生して止め、その直後に同じ速さ・イントネーションで繰り返します。これを「shadow speech」といい、発音やリズムを身につける効果的な方法です。特に「throat mic」「hydraulics」などの難しい単語は、何度も繰り返して口に馴染ませましょう。次に、自分の声を録音して動画の音声と比較し、イントネーションの違いや発音の誤りを確認します。この練習を毎日10分続けることで、自然な英語表現が身につきます。

この動画を使ったshadow speak練習は、英語スピーキングのスキルを向上させるだけでなく、専門用語の理解も深めることができます。ぜひ試してみてください。

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
「should」による助言 should + 動詞 — したほうがよいことを伝えるShould probably be · should say
義務:must / have to / need to 何かが必要であることを伝えるhad to really · need to sit · need to go
現在進行形 am/is/are + -ing — 今まさに、または最近起きていることyou're driving · you're having · you're moving
「going to」の未来表現 be going to + 動詞 — 予定や、起こりそうだと分かることgonna start · gonna do · gonna sit

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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