シャドーイング練習: To Scale: THE SOLAR SYSTEM - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

If you look up an image of the Earth and Moon, you're gonna get a picture where they're quite close together.

Something like that.

But in reality, the Earth and Moon are about,

About that far apart, that is the Earth and the Moon to scale.

Taking the same concept but for the solar system, every single picture of the solar system that we ever encounter is not to scale.

If you put the orbits to scale on a piece of paper, the planets become microscopic and you won't be able to see them.

There is literally not an image that adequately shows you what it actually looks like from out there.

The only way to see a scale model of the solar system is to build one.

Welcome to Black Rock Desert.

This is Alex.

I'm Wiley.

He's going to be behind the camera.

I'm going to be probably making a lot of mistakes on camera.

We have 36 hours to measure the distances, trace out the orbits, and set up a time -lapse shot from up on top of a nearby mountain.

To create a scale model with an earth only as big as this marble,

you need seven miles of empty space so that's why we're here why did you guys come I don't have a job

at this scale the Sun is a meter and a half so about about that big around

So we are driving right now to Mercury, and we've arrived.

Venus is the same size as Earth.

I have the world in my pocket somewhere. And Earth.

And this is Mars, got a couple of robots rolling around on that one.

Once the time lapse is ready, we'll drive each orbit with a light.

Hopefully you'll be able to tell just how big they really are.

Onward to the outer planets,

Jupiter, Saturn,

that tiny light out there is our sun just over a mile away.

The sun is way, way out there now. So this is it.

This is the edge of the solar system.

So right now it's about 7 a .m.

We just woke up right before the sun's about to rise.

We are on Earth's orbit.

Wiley is over there holding our sun.

Cue the dramatic sunrise music.

So if we've made our model correctly,

your perspective from where Earth is on the model will match your perspective from standing on the real Earth.

So if you look back at the sun, you will see that the model sun and the real sun are the exact same size.

And that's how you can tell that the proportions are correct.

There are 24 people in the entire history of the human species,

billions of people who have actually seen the full circle of the Earth with their own eyes.

Following the breakfast, the astronauts went to the soup room where they donned their spacesuits.

This is man's attempt to get to the moon.

Zero.

We have liftoff.

Liftoff at 751.

In Earth orbit, the horizon is just slightly curved.

When you head on out to the moon, that horizon slowly curves around and upon itself, and all of a sudden, you're looking at something that is very strange, but it is very, very familiar.

Oh, my God, look at that picture over there.

Wow, that's pretty.

You can put your thumb up, and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb.

everything that you have ever known, all behind your thumb.

Not any bigger than that, way up there.

It's really beautiful.

You can cry.

That's what I really wanted to try and capture.

We are on a marble, floating in the middle of nothing.

When you sort of come face to face with that, it's staggering.

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

この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が57文、単語が626語あります。音声の長さは6:36です。話す速さはゆっくりで、1分あたり約95語です。一つ一つの音をまねる余裕があります。単語の88%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

動画に出てくる覚えておきたい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語	発音	意味
orbit 名詞	/ˈɔɹ.bɪt/	軌道
thumb 名詞	/ˈθʌm/	親指
curve 名詞	/kɚv/	曲線
horizon 名詞	/həˈɹaɪ.zən/	地平線, 水平線
marble 名詞	/ˈmɑɹ.bəl/	大理石, マーブル
pocket 名詞	/ˈpɑ.kɪt/	ポケット, 懐中
capture 動詞	/ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/	捕獲する
dramatic 形容詞	/dɹəˈmætɪk/	劇的, ドラマティック
sudden 形容詞	/ˈsʌd.ən/	突然の
arrive 動詞	/əˈɹaɪv/	着く, 到着する
encounter 動詞	/ɪnˈkaʊntɚ/	出会う, 遭遇する
robot 名詞	/ˈɹoʊ.bɑt/	ロボット, 人造人間
trace 名詞	/tɹeɪs/	跡, 痕跡
soup 名詞	/sup/	汁, スープ
proportion 名詞	/pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/	割合, 比例

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	発音	意味
look up 動詞	/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/	見上げる
wake up 動詞	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	目覚める, 目を覚ます

注意したい発音

話し手はI'm, we've, you'reなど、短縮形や弱形を13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。

「sh」と「zh」の音: capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, proportion /pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/

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。orbit, thumb, curveなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

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	we've arrived · we've made · have actually seen
「will」の未来表現 will + 動詞 — その場の決定、約束、予測	won't be · we'll drive · you'll be
「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 get · He's going to be · I'm going to be
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	are driving · you're looking

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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