シャドーイング練習: Times I Plagiarized - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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I almost lost a thousand-dollar scholarship because of plagiarism.
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Let's talk about that.
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Plagiarism.
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Adverb. The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
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Just the word plagiarism sounds like a crime.
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Racism, sexism, and plagiarism.
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I'm not here to talk about people who repost my comics, JPEG'd, cut my name off, and have the audacity to put their own watermark on, nah nah nah NAH, not that kind of plagiarism.
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I'm gonna tell you about all the times that I plagiarized, in school.
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And, OK, just off topic, I wanna address something publicly.
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I don't go looking through other people's comics and go: "Oh, this comic's funny! I'm gonna redraw it and pass it off as my own!" No, I'm not about that life.
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But some of my comics have been very similar to other people's comics.
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I read a lot of comics, so it's possible I saw them and then repressed them in my memory and drew them again, or it's possible that it's all a coincidence and me and someone else just came up with the same idea, it happens all the time with other cartoonists, not just me.
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Again, I don't purposely take comic ideas and try and pass them off as my own.
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Whenever people point out that my comic is a lot like someone else's, I get really sad.
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So you guys should check out these other cartoonists, they're really good.
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Anyway, I just wanted to say that at the beginning of the video, because I'm gonna be telling you about times that I actually DID plagiarize.
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But that was just in school, OK?
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I keep plagiarism off the Internet.
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Isn't that right, Matthew?
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I cheated a bit in school.
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An occasional glance at my partner's desk, maybe jot down that important equation on my hand, nothing TOO big.
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I had a Math Class where we went to Lunch in the middle of the class, and whenever we had tests, the teacher wouldn't split the test into two parts.
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Dff-- Do you expect us NOT to exchange notes?
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The first time that I got caught cheating was in 9th grade.
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And if you stalk me and watch my old videos, you know that I went to a preparatory school my freshman year.
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And in preparatory school, the amount of work they gave you as kids was just STUPID!
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So cut me some slack.
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In one class, we had to write an essay about something historical? or something?
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And I chose to write about the Berlin Wall.
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Specifically about people who escaped ACROSS the Berlin Wall.
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Now I chose this topic because... I don't know if you know this, but there's a National Geographic documentary about this exact topic.
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So I didn't copy and paste anything into my essay, per say.
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It's just I told the exact same stories in the exact same order as the documentary, and, OK, I might wrote some things down word for word.
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But at least I didn't plagiarize it from Wikipedia, OK?
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So I didn't copy and paste anything...
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...until I had to write the conclusion of the essay.
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And I found this article talking about it, and the article said some things that would've been PERFECT in my essays, sooooooooooo.....
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Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V.
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I turned it in, I didn't think too much of it, but then when I got it BACK, the conclusion paragraph had been highlighted, and a "see me" was written next to it.
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So I had gotten in trouble for plagiarizing the conclusion.
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Just the conclusion...
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Nothing. Else.
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To be honest, I'd kinda forgotten that I copied and pasted the conclusion.
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I thought he knew that I basically turned in the script of a documentary.
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The teacher who we'll call "Mr. Batman" He took me outside of the classroom, he told me that it was bad that I plagiarized, and he called my parents, that freaking snitch.
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My parents got mad at me too.
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He gave me a chance to rewrite the essay, and I remember just being so traumatised and stressed out that night.
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I kept thinking: "What if he finds the documentary and sees that I practically plagiarized the whole essay?" I ended up rewriting not only the conclusion, but the whole freaking essay.
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I turned in the new essay, and I don't think he ever found out that I copied the whole thing.
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Except, I did just admit it. And he watches my videos.
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Seriously, in April he emailed me and asked if I was the same James that was in his class.
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He's the only teacher to ever reach out to me.
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And even after all those years, I still didn't tell him that I plagiarized the whole thing.
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So... ...hi Mr. Batman.
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Uhh, you can't change my grade now, can you?
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But that was a good experience for me to have.
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It taught me a valuable lesson.
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Because I didn't plagiarize a single essay for the rest of High School.
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But then Community College rolled around.
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I did Community College for a bit, because I couldn't afford university on a Subway payroll.
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I took honors and A.P. classes in High School, I was a relatively good student.
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Except I didn't take any of the A.P. tests.
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So when I went to Community College, I had to take classes that were a step BELOW the classes I took in High School.
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What a GREAT way to spend my time!
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Senior Year of English, we were writing essays and analyzing poetry.
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Freshman Year of College, we were writing movie reviews.
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And the teacher didn't even like me, she thought I was a slacker because I was never paying attention.
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I didn't take Community College seriously, but it was so easy, I was still getting amazing grades.
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On the third semester of Community College, I took a Public Speaking class.
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Now I might be an introvert, but I don't have a problem with Public Speaking.
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That's part of my job now!
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I took the class because I thought it would be an easy A, and I needed a communications credit for my major, I wanted to be a Math teacher, and you may not have noticed, but they publicly speak ALL the time.
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So I take the class, I'm like the best person in the class, right.
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And for the final we had to give a persuasive speech in front of everyone.
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Oh, and by the way, I didn't learn like, ANY tricks to help with Public Speaking.
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The whole class was literally just us giving speeches to each other over and over.
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So three semesters of doing easy classes and wasting my time, my apathy meters were just off the charts.
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I didn't wanna work too hard, so I chose to do my speech on why we should get rid of the penny.
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And, I don't know if you know this, but there's this YouTube video made by CGP Grey, that makes great arguments on why we Americans should get rid of the penny.
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AGAIN, I didn't copy and paste anything per say, it's just the speech I gave had the exact same arguments in the exact same order as CGP Grey.
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OK, it was pretty much a one for one recreation of his whole video.
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I'm sorry! I thought we were getting graded on Public Speaking, not writing original speeches!
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The teacher caught me, I guess she's a fan of CGP Grey.
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And gave me a 0 on the final.
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So I ended up getting a D in the class!
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And that was the worst grade I got in Community College.
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Part of me was like: Pfft!
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What-what-whatever.
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I don't- I don't care...
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This next semester though, I wanted to go to a REAL college.
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And still trying to be economical, I found that it was actually cheaper for me to an out of state school, than to go in state.
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At this school, they gave scholarships to out of state students who had high enough GPAs and enough credits.
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It would've saved me THOUSANDS of dollars.
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And I had family living in this state, so that was another reason why I wanted to go to that school.
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But here's the thing.
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Even with that D, I still had a high enough GPA to get the scholarship, but since I failed, it didn't count as a credit.
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So I ended up being ONE credit short for what was required.
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PLAGIARIZING WAS GOING TO COST ME THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS!
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My options were either: Stay home and do a 1 credit semester of Community College, or beg the university to give me my scholarship anyway.
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During Christmas, my family visited the state the school was in.
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So me and my dad got the chance to go to the school, and basically talk our way into getting the scholarship.
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We talked to five different people, now THAT'S Public Speaking.
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I had to use my persuasive talking skills that I would've learned!
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And all of them were telling us: "There's nothing we can do." But we were talking to one lady, she was telling us the same thing about not being able to do anything.
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She looked at my transcript.
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She said: "Oh, you failed Public Speaking." She looked at it for a bit, she'd type something on her computer, she printed out a piece of paper and handed it to me saying: "It's OK, I'm not good at Public Speaking either." SHI-- SHE THOUGHT I WAS BAD AT PUBLIC SPEAKING!
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She thought I failed 'cause I was insecure or something, and not 'cause I did something WRONG.
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Oh, uhh... ...yeah! I'm just terrible at speaking to the public...
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So really, there WAS something you could do.
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I got the scholarship, because a lady wearing eye shadow took pity on me.
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But I only ended up staying a semester and a half at that school, because my YouTube kicked off.
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And now I'm doing that full-time.
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But I'm still thankful I got the scholarship!
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I hope my Public Speaking teacher could see where I am now.
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I speak in front of MILLIONS of people for my JOB.
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I mean, I can't see them, and I'm just reading everything off a script, in my closet.
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And I didn't get punished for plagiarism!
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I didn't learn my lesson.
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And I didn't learn anything in your class.
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このクリップのスピーキング目標
このビデオは、日常的な会話での自然な語調と話し言葉のリズムを磨くのに最適です。特に、自分の経験を話すときの語順や強調の仕方が鍵となります。「shadowspeak」や「shadow speak」の練習にもぴったりで、YouTubeで英語学習をする際に、リアルな会話の流れを体得できます。
フレーズバンク
- cut me some slack：ちょっと許してくれ
- per say：厳密に言えば
- see me：私に会いに来て
- freaking snitch：クソ密告者
- traumatised and stressed out：トラウマになり、ストレスがたまる
これらのフレーズは、カジュアルな会話でよく使われる表現です。「英語シャドーイング」の練習に使えば、自然な発音とリズムを身につけることができます。
弱点を直そう
このビデオでは、弱音（weak form）とリンキング（linking）の問題に焦点を当てます。例えば、「I don't know if you know this」では「if you」が「if you」ではなく「ifju」のようにつながり、「a lot of」は「alota」と発音されます。これらの細かな発音の違いが、「英語の発音を良くする」秘訣です。シャドーイングを繰り返し練習して、 native speakerのような流れを感じてみましょう。
YouTubeで英語学習をする際は、このようなリアルな会話の中から発音のポイントを見つけることが大切です。「shadowspeak」のテクニックを使って、自分の弱点を見つけて直していきましょう。
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 | have been · would've been · would've saved |
| 関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える | people who repost · people who escaped · teacher who we |
| 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 | had been highlighted · was required |
| 過去進行形 was/were + -ing — 過去のある時点で進行中だった動作 | were writing · was never paying · was still getting |
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。