シャドーイング練習: This Is How You Become More Articulate - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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You once said the most dangerous person is one who is articulate.
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What would you recommend to a one who wants to learn to speak in a more articulate manner?
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Well, articulate is an interesting word, eh?
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Because if your joints are articulated, and that means you can do things with them because they're articulated, right?
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They're not one solid, vague mass.
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They're differentiated.
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And someone who's graceful is articulated.
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And compelling because they're articulated.
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And speech is a form of articulation in that manner because the act of speech itself is extremely complicated.
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It's a very complicated motor activity, right?
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It's a very complicated action to dance with your tongue, let's say.
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And it is definitely the case
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that there is no more exceptional form of the capacity to be dangerous than to be articulate.
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And one of the things that really shocks me, part of the reason that my son and I and our co-workers developed this essay app,
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is that young men in particular are never taught this.
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It's like, well, why learn to, why be literate?
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well do you want to be
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do you want to be competent and dangerous or do you want to be vague and useless
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because those are your options
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and I don't care what your job is it doesn't matter what you end up doing if you're a plumber
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great respect for plumbers by the way
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and you're articulate you can negotiate with your clients you can
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introduce your co-workers you can make a case for your employees
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you can advertise your services you can think through your problems you're firing on all cylinders
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our whole culture is based on the idea of the supremacy of the word
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our whole culture is based on the idea
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that it is the word itself that extracts habitable order from chaos and possibility
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and the reason our culture is predicated on that is because it's a deep truth,
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and to the degree that our culture actually embodies that, it works.
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So, it's a great thing to be articulate.
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And it would be so lovely
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if our educators were wise enough to communicate this appropriately to young men who are striving forward,
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and to let them know in no uncertain terms that if they want to make themselves into forces to be contended with,
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that there's no surer route to that than an exceptional poetic literacy.
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Now, it's not like young people don't have an intuition of this.
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There are reasons they admire rap musicians,
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for example, who are often extraordinarily articulate in their performance and their capacity for spontaneous poetic utterance.
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And certainly, the greatest people I've met, including great warriors, you might say,
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are great in no small part because they're articulate.
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I know a former special services, special operations soldier, Jocko Willink.
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Some of you might know about Jocko.
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He's got a pretty decent online following, and you know, he's about four feet wide and about three feet thick, and he's one tough son of a bitch.
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I'll tell you, you don't want to mess with him, and he knows perfectly well and is very
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capable of articulating the fact
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that his success as a eminent warrior is in no small part dependent on his ability to communicate.
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Because he could communicate well, he could listen to the men who were under his command.
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Because he was articulate, he could explain to his superiors the situation on the ground.
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because he was articulate, he could make a case that the men under his command who were deserving would be promoted.
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Because he could think in an articulate manner, he could plan strategically and not lose battles.
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Okay, so that's the case for being articulate.
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And what's the alternative?
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You want to be inarticulate?
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You want to say ah and like and mmm and pause and stumble and be unable to formulate a strategy,
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be unable to elucidate a vision,
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be unable to compel and convince other people to entice them with your articulated vision of what might be?
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You want the opposite of that?
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That's, why would you want that?
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You would choose awkwardness over grace?
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That's, it's preposterous.
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It's beyond foolish.
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And I cannot understand for the life of me why this case isn't made in a compelling manner, particularly to young men.
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And I know it's not being articulated to young men because they're dropping out of the educational realm in droves. And it's unbelievably sad.
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So, how do you become articulate?
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Well, by paying attention to what you say, that's a good start and what do I mean by that?
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I mean pay attention to what you say.
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So you can think of this as an analogy.
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So imagine that you're trying to walk across a swamp and the swamp is murky, but you know there's a path.
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You know there's a path of stone under the water, but it twists and moves.
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And if you stay on the path, you won't drown.
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The crocodiles in the swamp won't devour you.
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And as you walk forward, you can feel with your next step where the stone might be.
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And then you feel it solid.
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Then you take that step, and then you do the same thing with your foot again.
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You search, and you find out what's solid, and you step on it and you move forward in that manner.
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That's what you do with your words.
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It's the same thing.
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You feel and you feel.
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Is this the right word?
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Is the fact that I'm uttering it putting me together and making me intact and stronger,
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or is it tearing me apart and making me dissolute and weak?
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And you can learn to do that.
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I learned this in part from reading Carl Rogers,
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who's a great clinician, and Rogers believed that the integration of language
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and action was a necessary precondition for operation as an effective clinician.
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That you had to align what you said with who you were.
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And that one of the things that your clients would be evaluating you for was that capability.
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And you might say that someone with that capability manifests themselves as genuine and trustworthy.
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and more than that I would say also as compelling and interesting
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although that can be gamed but the entire combination
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that emerges out of the domain of articulate communication can't
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be gamed it's not easily you feel your way I noticed 40 years ago
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when I started thinking these things through that much of what I said actually made me feel weak.
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I didn't know why exactly, but sometimes some of the things I said didn't have that effect.
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They weren't accompanied by a sense of shame, let's say.
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They weren't accompanied with a sense of vulnerability.
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They were solid.
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And at the beginning, that was probably only about 5% of what I said.
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The rest of it was instrumental.
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You know, it was language I was using to get my way in the manner
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that Tammy described when she introduced me tonight There was an arrogance in my use of language
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that had to do with the desire to attain proximal victories, right?
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To appear smart, let's say, to win an argument, something like
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that A very different idea than merely feeling my way along to see what word was appropriate for what moment
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But you can learn to do that
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and you can listen to yourself and you can stop humming
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and hawing and using like and you know and fillers
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and you can take the time necessary to craft your words carefully
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and you can practice merely saying what you believe to be true
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and you can read and you can read great writers and you can write
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and you can write about what you think about the problems that obsess you
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and you can become articulate as a consequence and there'll be nothing about that that isn't the adventure of your life.
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And so it's a moral endeavor in some real sense.
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To become articulate is to become the master of your own tongue and to become properly articulate is to
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is to make the Word divine and to treat it in that manner
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and to decide whether or not you believe that it is the case
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that the divine Word creates the order that's habitable and good.
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And if you do believe that, well, if you don't believe that, then what do you believe?
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And if you do believe that, well, go all in.
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See what happens.
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see what happens
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if you become
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articulate I'll
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give you one more small example Tammy touched on this in the introduction too she said she'd learned to pause.
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You can pause.
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It's a prayerful pause in some sense.
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When you're in a discussion with someone, you can ask yourself, they might present you with a question or a conundrum or a proposition,
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and instead of responding with what you know to be right, so to speak, you could just ask yourself, what do I actually think about that?
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But it has to be a real question.
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It has to be the kind of question that you pose to someone you didn't know.
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It has to be a question predicated on the idea that you might not know who you are.
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And that you could ask.
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And so someone will present you with a question, you think, okay.
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What do I think about that?
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But you have to want to know the answer, and then the answer will make itself known.
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Because that's how thought works, and then you can just communicate that answer.
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and if you do that you'll be interesting right away
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you'll be interesting to the person that you're talking to and
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if they do that to you they'll be interesting too
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and then if you both do that you'll have an interesting conversation
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and if you have an interesting conversation you'll both grow as a consequence
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and that's actually the pathway to growth and you just wait,
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you can wait you can open yourself up to the possibility that what needs to be said will make itself manifest
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if that's what you are striving for, if that's what you're asking for.
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And then you can merely communicate that.
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You have to abandon instrumentality to do that.
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So one of the reasons Joe Rogan is so successful, by the way, is that that's what Joe does.
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He just asks questions.
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He isn't trying to get something from his guests.
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He's not trying to become more famous.
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he doesn't need any more money, there's no instrumental utilization of language in his discourse.
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He's just a humble lunkhead, you know, in the most profound sense, who would like to know more than he knows,
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and who asks all the stupid questions he can think up.
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And it turns out that he's actually very, very smart, and very well educated now, after talking to hundreds and hundreds of people and listening.
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And so the stupid questions he asks aren't stupid, and they're questions that are shared by virtually everyone who's listening.
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And he takes his listeners along on this process of exploratory endeavor, and it's the pathway to success.
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And the same thing can be true of your life.
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The pathway to success is much...
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It's a...
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If you're guided by the spirit of honest inquiry
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and every word you say is reflective of what you believe to be the truth, then the pathway that you walk on is a golden pathway to success.
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And I know that, I know that to be true.
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このC1レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「This Is How You Become More Articulate」を教材にしています。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が161文、単語が1940語あります。 音声の長さは14:20です。 話す速さは1分あたり約135語で安定しており、シャドーイングしやすいペースです。 単語の85%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。
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 |
|---|---|---|
| compel 動詞 | /kəmˈpɛl/ | 強いる |
| pause 名詞 | /pɔːz/ | 休止, 中断 |
| swamp 名詞 | /ˈswɑmp/ | 沼地, 湿地 |
| plumber 名詞 | /ˈplʌm.əɹ/ | 配管工, 鉛管工 |
| predicate 名詞 | /ˈpɹɛd.ɪ.kɪt/ | 述語 |
| endeavor 名詞 | /ɛnˈdɛv.ɚ/ | 努力, 事業 |
| manifest 名詞 | /ˈmæn.ɪ.fɛst/ | 積荷目録 |
| strive 動詞 | /ˈstɹaɪv/ | 努力する, 闘う |
| accompany 動詞 | /əˈkʌm.pə.ni/ | 付き合う, 付き添う |
| vague 形容詞 | /veɪɡ/ | 曖昧, 漠然とした |
| instrumental 形容詞 | /ɪnstɹəˈmɛntəl/ | インストゥルメンタル |
| exceptional 形容詞 | /ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/ | 特殊な, 特異な |
| consequence 名詞 | /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/ | 結果 |
| capability 名詞 | /ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/ | 能力 |
| articulation 名詞 | /ɑɹˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/ | 関節 |
動画に出てくる句動詞
| 単語 | 意味 |
|---|---|
| find out 動詞 | 見出す, 調べる |
繰り返し練習したい文
動画に出てくる短く完結した文です。日常会話でそのまま使えます。
- You want to be inarticulate?
- You want the opposite of that?
- That's, why would you want that?
- You would choose awkwardness over grace?
- What do I think about that?
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 |
|---|---|
| 条件文 if + 節, will/would + 動詞 — 条件とその結果 | if you do that you'll be · if they do that to you they'll be · if you both do that you'll have |
| 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 | are articulated · is articulated · are never taught |
| 関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える | one who is · one who wants · men who are |
注意したい発音
話し手はyou're, they're, don'tなど、短縮形や弱形を44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: pathway /ˈpæθˌweɪ/, trustworthy /ˈtɹʌst.wɜː.ði/
- 「sh」と「zh」の音: clinician /klɪˈnɪʃən/, exceptional /ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/, articulation /ɑɹˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, precondition /ˈpɹiːkənˌdɪʃən/, intuition /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/
- 長い単語(アクセントの位置に注意): articulate /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/, habitable /ˈhæbɪtəbəl/, accompany /əˈkʌm.pə.ni/, instrumental /ɪnstɹəˈmɛntəl/, exceptional /ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/
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: articulate /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/, plumber /ˈplʌm.əɹ/, instrumental /ɪnstɹəˈmɛntəl/, articulation /ɑɹˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, crocodile /ˈkɹɑkədaɪl/
- /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: endeavor /ɛnˈdɛv.ɚ/, strive /ˈstɹaɪv/, vague /veɪɡ/, devour /dɪˈvaʊɚ/, reflective /ɹɪˈflɛktɪv/
- /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: manifest /ˈmæn.ɪ.fɛst/, filler /ˈfɪlɚ/, formulate /ˈfɔː(ɹ)mjʊleɪt/, graceful /ˈɡɹeɪsfʊl/, prayerful /ˈpɹɛːfʊl/
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。
- 通常の速度で一文ずつシャドーイングし、話し手のリズムに合うまで繰り返します。
- 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。compel, pause, swampなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。
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