シャドーイング練習: Tom Hiddleston about compassion. - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

レッスンを作成中...
1
Compassion actually comes from two Latin words.
2
I studied Latin at university, don't ask me why.
3
The first word is the word for suffering which is 'patior' a P -A -T -I -O -R, and it's pyphysipal passus, which means suffering.
4
And the con part, obviously, for anyone who knows any Spanish or Italian, is with.
5
compassion means suffering with so to have compassion for someone is to suffer with them.
6
what they're suffering with.
7
whether that's pain or grief, Oh.. addiction or Poverty or uh.. illness or even happiness.
8
You can have compassion for someone's happiness, I suppose.
9
Compassion makes me think, of kindness Compassion makes me think of forgiveness, of... of empathy.
10
Yes, those are the things.
11
Compassion, is kindness forgiveness and empathy lack of judgment.
12
care.
13
Concern.
14
and Weirdly, I have this picture of a woman smiling.
15
I don't know, that's the first thing that comes into my head.
16
Compassion is about understanding.
17
Thank you.
18
Um...
19
Compassion is without ego.
20
Um...
21
Thank you if that's possible for actors.
22
I don't know.
23
As an actor, I to have compassion as an actor.
24
is to have compassion for the characters that I play.
25
That's what it means to me.
26
and and that whatever they're going through, Whatever there.. predicaments.
27
and I have to suffer with them Um...
28
I have to understand and I have to and not judge it.
29
I have to be...
30
forgiving of it.
31
whether it's a circumstance or their true nature, To have compassion for another human being is
32
To have compassion for a character is no different from having compassion for another human being.
33
If you're playing a character to have compassion for them is um...
34
is to play them honestly.
35
And so I suppose suffering with them is to suffer There.
36
arrogance.
37
or their misogyny. or their insanity.
38
I think that's why for example, Iago is as compelling as Ronio.
39
Because within all of us, there is the capacity to be anyone or anything.
40
And that's the place where compassion comes from, is that understanding that I could be like that.
41
if circumstances have been different.
42
There is an Iago and a Romeo within all of us, there is that lover and there is that sociopath.
43
And so to play Romeo you have to have compassion for his predicament.
44
He's not allowed to marry Juliet and yes, that's really infuriating.
45
to the point of and rebellion and then his you know, the predicament of Act 5 where they're, you know, in the coffin together.
46
and and to have compassion for Iago is to understand he He's sad.
47
He's damaged, he's hurt, he's hurt by all the people in the play that he feels hurt by. And, um...
48
And that extends to every script I read to look for um you know,
49
to look for the possibility of who that person is in me.
50
and that's compassion.
51
Yeah.
52
That's it.

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「Tom Hiddleston about compassion」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:compassion, suffering, Iago, predicament, suffer。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が52文、単語が484語あります。 音声の長さは3:58です。 話す速さは1分あたり約122語で安定しており、シャドーイングしやすいペースです。 英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は78%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。

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
compassion 名詞/kəmˈpæʃ.ən/同情
predicament 名詞/pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt/窮地
circumstance 名詞/ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/状況, 事情
empathy 名詞/ˈɛmpəθi/共感
forgiveness 名詞/fɚˈɡɪvnəs/容赦
kindness 名詞/ˈkaɪnd.nəs/親切, 優しさ
compel 動詞/kəmˈpɛl/強いる
misogyny 名詞/mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/女嫌い, ミソジニー
sociopath 名詞/ˈsəʊ.si.ə(ʊ)ˌpæθ/ソシオパス, 反社会性パーソナリティ障害
arrogance 名詞/ˈæɹ.ə.ɡəns/高慢, 傲慢
insanity 名詞/ɪnˈsænɪti/精神異常, 狂気
coffin 名詞/ˈkɔfɪn/棺, 棺桶
rebellion 名詞/ɹɪˈbɛl.i.ən/反乱, 謀叛
grief 名詞/ɡɹiːf/悲しみ, 悲哀
addiction 名詞/əˈdɪkˌʃən/嗜癖

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 can have compassion for someone's happiness, I suppose.
  • Thank you if that's possible for actors.
  • That's what it means to me.

注意したい発音

話し手はdon't, they're, you'reなど、短縮形や弱形を7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: empathy /ˈɛmpəθi/, sociopath /ˈsəʊ.si.ə(ʊ)ˌpæθ/
  • 「sh」と「zh」の音: compassion /kəmˈpæʃ.ən/, addiction /əˈdɪkˌʃən/
  • 長い単語(アクセントの位置に注意): predicament /pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt/, misogyny /mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/, sociopath /ˈsəʊ.si.ə(ʊ)ˌpæθ/, insanity /ɪnˈsænɪti/, rebellion /ɹɪˈbɛl.i.ən/

日本語話者が苦手な音:

  • /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: forgiveness /fɚˈɡɪvnəs/, infuriate /ɪnˈfjʊəɹieɪt/, coffin /ˈkɔfɪn/, grief /ɡɹiːf/
  • 子音の連続 — 間に母音を入れない: predicament /pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt/, circumstance /ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/, kindness /ˈkaɪnd.nəs/, infuriate /ɪnˈfjʊəɹieɪt/, arrogance /ˈæɹ.ə.ɡəns/

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. 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。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。compassion, predicament, circumstance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。

シャドーイングのやり方: ステップ別の完全ガイドを読む →