シャドーイング練習: watch this when everything feels heavy... - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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If every time someone asks you a question, you try to say the right answer, your entire life is a test.
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And when did you have the most anxiety in grammar school and high school?
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No question.
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On test day.
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So your entire life become this test.
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I ain't trying to say the right answer.
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I am just doing what I feel.
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My mama said trying is failing.
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There is no ifs, woulds, coulds, shoulds.
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It just is.
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And we just are.
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I sparked that first dream up.
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I gained two viewers, or was it one?
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It was the one and two viewers.
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I had that one viewer, and that viewer made me keep going.
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And each day and each day and more, week two, I gained, I started averaging four viewers.
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Week three, eight viewers.
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Week four, 20 viewers.
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So on and so on and so on.
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So then my sophomore year, I just kind of, I kind of gave up on school.
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Right.
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I kind of gave up on school.
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I kind of gave up on everything that I had to my old life and just put everything onto my stream.
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I streamed every day.
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I didn't care about nothing else but YouTube streaming.
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I was 16 and college was coming up.
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Like, I wanted to do so much.
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I deleted my Instagram so I wouldn't see any skating.
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No one ever brought it up, so I never even had the chance to think about it.
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and so I call him Philip and I tell him like hey I think I want to go back to skating
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what was the point where you started to feel that it wasn't right like one morning I woke up I had to go training this is when he'd stopped playing me and I was in a bad place and I remember just looking in the mirror I mean it sounds dramatic but I was literally staring in the mirror
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And I was asking if I could retire now.
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At 24, you know, doing the thing I love.
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For me, that was heartbreaking.
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To even have had that thought at 24 to want to retire, that hurt me a lot.
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That was another thing that I had to carry I See it as this you need to squeeze Every ounce of potential God has given you to be the best you can be
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Now a lot of people's go they go they work hard they squeeze it just like I am you know I'm saying the squeeze in the squeeze in the squeeze it and they get to right there right it's right there That's 50% that's 50% you squeeze your potential at the bottom
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amazing you do better than you was 50% ago you're doing better you look you said I'm doing good it's not the other right but in your
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mind in your heart you know there is so much more to get like so it double that you know
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I'm saying double that I push 70% you see how it gets harder now with the bottle it gets harder just piece out the potential but you've gotten further than 50 now you got 70
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listen to me let me land okay right here is where people start getting comfortable
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and we get comfortable what happens it goes back out now doesn't go back out to fully but it
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goes back out because you get comfortable get lazy right like I do I do that all the time you know saying I'm not talking about right now I'm talking about all the life we all do at some point right so you go to 70% and And you see how it starts getting harder to squeeze out the potential at your body?
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It's like you're working harder, like it's getting harder, you're getting tired, all this stuff.
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It's getting harder.
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Because I don't want to do this and then be all comfortable and do this again.
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I don't want to do this.
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I want to squeeze.
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100.
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All of a sudden, you land at 100.
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And when you land at 100, the bottle, all of a sudden, you get a new bottle.
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and you get potential and you get better and better and better and better at it.
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When it gets hard, it's gonna get hard.
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It's definitely gonna get hard.
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And it's gonna be a point where nothing's growing.
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It might be a point where you have no viewers.
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You know,
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I started off with so when so when you get to that point that wall like that wall breaker it happens that everybody every creator out there who
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wants to do this you know you just got to push through that try something new and keep going you know you got to find a new lane so I started off with zero heroes one viewer and but I kept going be yourself like don't try to become me try to become a better me you know Like,
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don't try to chase on what I did.
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Do something.
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Like, become better than me.
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Don't become like me.
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Become better than me.
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Hey, I started with nothing.
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I started with a PlayStation 4.
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And I'm pretty sure any kid out there has a PlayStation or any console in their room.
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So I didn't have nothing.
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So you can start off from anywhere.
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Seriously.
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Like, you don't need the best of the best of equipment.
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I promise you.
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I got 50 million subs now.
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I'm knowing all over the world and I wouldn't if you actually it's five years ago even three years ago I'd be like hell no so but I Mean obviously I grow.
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I'm like I'm still growing now, you know I'm only 20 now, so it's more that I even got to learn from what I know now But I would have never thought that I even got this far, you know, but
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things happen it's something that you got to fall in love with and you got to put your all into it You got to be very determined because there's millions of other creators.
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Yeah, they're trying to do the same thing so so if the thought of you doing it for 10 years before anyone potentially watching you which is a a real scenario
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for a lot of people um you know makes you want to vomit and scares you away then it's probably not for you but if you hear that you go well i love doing it
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and this is what i'm deeply passionate about and in my case when i was 11 i was like i'm gonna become a youtuber or i'm gonna die trying those are the only two outcomes
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um you kind of need that level of stubbornness because to make content that people watch it has to be better than what's out there and it's gonna It's going to take you many years to develop those skills.
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So you have people around you who push you, who make you better, who are also obsessed, and you're making content that you deeply enjoy making,
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you're fine with doing for a very long time without anyone watching you at least have the guard rails to achieve success in my opinion my words to like a
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young dude going through it gonna take his life and especially if you look up to me like listen to a couple of my songs you know i don't even act like sound like none of that i ain't no thought about killing myself like you know today is just today tomorrow is always ahead
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So I just go for that.
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My message to the youth is to be strong no matter what you're going through.
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So if you need help, seek help.
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Whether if you want professional help, seek help and surround yourself with people that'll help you, that'll listen to you, that's your best interest.
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Whatever you want to do in life, find something that you don't mind doing for the rest of your life.
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Find something that you like.
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And even if it seems like it's impossible, it's very, very possible.
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So don't get nervous.
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If you have a big goal, just chip away at it until you get to where you need to be.
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You know, when you a thinker, I'm the same way.
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You look for answers that you know you can't, like you're not going to be able to get.
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You know what I'm saying?
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It kind of drives you crazy.
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because you feel like you should have these answers, but you don't.
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So you just try to think your way into a solution, but you can't find the answer.
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So, like, I think that's what life is about.
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Truly finding yourself and then closing your eyes and dying in your sleep.
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Finding yourself and finding other things, but finding yourself is one of the things, though.
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For sure.
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Thank you.

なぜこの動画でスピーキングを練習するのか？

この動画を使った英語スピーキング練習は、スピーキングの文脈を理解し、自信を持って話す力を高めるために非常に有益です。動画の中で話されている内容は、日常的な体験や感情に基づいており、視聴者に共感を呼び起こします。このようなリアルな会話を模倣することで、実用的な英語表現を身につけることができ、特にIELTS スピーキング対策として効果的です。また、自分自身のペースで発音を確認しながら練習できるため、自然なリズムを身につけることができます。

文法と文脈での表現

スピーキング練習には、文法的な構造と表現方法を意識することが重要です。この動画では以下のような表現が使われています：

  • "I ain't trying to say the right answer." – 文法的には非標準的ですが、会話での自然な表現方法を示します。また、自分の気持ちを優先することの重要性を強調しています。
  • "I just kind of gave up on school." – このフレーズは、英語のカジュアルな会話でよく使われる表現です。「kind of」を使うことで、講話者の感情や状態をさりげなく表現しています。
  • "You need to squeeze every ounce of potential." – これは比喩的な表現であり、自己成長や目標達成に向けた努力を促すメッセージとして使われています。

これらの表現を繰り返し練習することで、自分の言葉として使えるようになり、より流暢な英語スピーキングが可能になります。

一般的な発音の罠

動画中にはいくつかの発音の難しい単語やフレーズがあります。注意すべき点は以下の通りです：

  • "retire" – 「リタイア」という言葉の発音は、特に日本人にとって難しい場合があります。母音の発音を意識して練習しましょう。
  • "squeeze" – この単語は、口の形をしっかりと調整しないと正しく発音できません。「スキーズ」と発音することを心がけてください。
  • "comfortable" – 発音が難しい単語であり、特に中間の「t」の音が抜けることが多いです。「カムフタボゥ」と聞こえるようになるまで練習しましょう。

これらの発音練習をshadow speakやshadowspeak形式で行うことで、正しい音を体得しやすくなります。より自然な英語スピーキングへとつながるでしょう。

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。