シャドーイング練習: "We Had A Persian Empire" - Maz Jobrani (Brown & Friendly) - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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But one thing you realize when you travel around the world is that America is a great country.
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It is.
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It's a great country.
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This is a great country we live in, you guys.
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It really is.
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It really is.
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And you know, we're all citizens, you know.
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We're all citizens.
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I mean, some of us have green cards, some of us have green cards.
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It's alright.
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And some of us are illegal.
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That's fine.
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It's all inclusive, alright?
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We're not building any walls here.
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Lou Dobbs is not in the house.
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Don't worry about it.
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We're gonna keep you.
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But we all have stories, you know, we all, like a lot of immigrants, immigrants came to this country and I came to, I was six years old when I came to this country.
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I was six years old and when you first come to this country you try
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and blend in as much as you can.
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So I would do whatever it took to blend in.
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I would play baseball, I would eat apple pie, I would eat apple pie while playing baseball.
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Whatever it took.
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And things would be going great.
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I'd be at the playground playing with my friends, Sam, Brett, Jesse.
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Life is good.
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Sure, my name is Maz, but they don't know where that's from.
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They don't know, right?
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Everything's cool.
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Until my dad would come by to pick me up.
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And he would show up in his Mercedes-Benz, which is a standard Persian-issue car.
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And he would have the car filled with the entire family.
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For some reason, we can't go anywhere with two of us.
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There's got to be like 50 of us in the car.
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I don't know why.
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Anytime you see a car filled with people, it's either Middle Easterners or Mexicans.
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It's one of those two.
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Even for short-street, my dad would be like, okay, everybody in the car.
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We're going two blocks to pick up mods.
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Get grandmother in there.
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Get grandma, everybody.
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Get the rooster.
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Put the rooster in the car.
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Put the rooster.
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We can't leave the rooster at home alone.
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Rahim the rooster.
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Put him in the car.
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Put him in the car.
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And they would show up at the park, this car filled with people.
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I'd be like, oh my god.
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Why'd they bring the whole village? And I wouldn't look.
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I wouldn't look.
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My dad would get out of the car and he'd be reeking of cologne.
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Which we love to do.
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We don't like put on two sprays, we pour the whole bottle on ourselves.
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Which is why Middle Easterners, we would never make good burglars, we'd not be good burglars.
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Because the homeowner would smell us in the middle of the night.
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They'd be like, is that Armani?
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I smell Armani.
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I just came to rob one drug, one drug.
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I put on Armani in case, you never know, how are you?
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You good?
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Good to see you.
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I did not know you lived here.
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How are you?
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Can I take the rug please?
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I just want the rug.
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We never be good burglars!
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Because we pour that stuff on.
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So my dad would get out of the car, I'd be smelling for 50 yards out.
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I'd be like, oh my god, why'd he use the whole bottle?
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Still avoiding him.
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And then he would call for me with his thick Persian accent.
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He would call for me, Maziar!
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Time to go home!
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Let's go home!
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And I'd be like, oh my god, I don't know who that is, I think he's trying to kidnap me!
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That's Al-Qaeda in the car!
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And my father would be like, son, you should be Perad.
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You should be Perad, son, we are Persians, son, you should be Perad.
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We had an empire.
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We had an empire.
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Two thousand years ago, we had an empire.
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Right now it's being remodeled.
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Right now it's more like a duplex.
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It's a duplex.
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But one day, empire.
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I hope you watch my clips and enjoy it.
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And if you like the clips that you see here, then please tell your friends.
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And if you don't like the clips, then please keep it to yourself.
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Thank you.

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この動画で話す練習をする理由

アメリカの移民体験をユーモラスに語るこの動画は、英語スピーキング練習に最適です。日常的な会話のリズムや、くだけた表現、感情を込めた発音が自然に身につきます。特に、shadowing siteで「シャドーイング」をする際は、話者の流れに合わせて発声することで、即応力とアクセントの自然さが向上します。移民のストーリーは共感しやすいため、集中して練習できるのもメリットです。

文脈の中の文法と表現

  • 「We're all citizens, you know.」:「you know」は会話でよく使われるフィラーで、相手の理解を促すか、話を続ける間のつなぎになります。自然な会話をするために覚えておきましょう。
  • 「I would do whatever it took to blend in.」:「would」は過去の習慣や意志を表し、「whatever it took」は「何でもあり」という意味。目的を達成するための決意を表す表現で、日常会話やスピーチで使えます。
  • 「It's either Middle Easterners or Mexicans.」:「either...or...」は「どちらか...か...」という選択を表します。二つの選択肢を提示する際に便利で、否定文では「neither...nor...」を使います。

発音の注意点

この動画の中で、shadowspeaksやshadow speechの練習時に注意が必要な単語があります。「Mercedes-Benz」はドイツ語由来で、「メルセデス・ベンツ」と発音するのではなく、「メルセデスベンツ」とカタカナ語になりますが、原語のアクセントを意識して「メルセデス・ベンツ」と軽く区切ると自然です。「rooster」は「鶏」という意味で、「ルースター」と発音しますが、「r」の音を強くせず、滑らかに発声しましょう。また、「blend in」の「blend」は「ブレンド」ではなく「ブレン」と短く発音するのが一般的です。

これらのポイントを押さえて、英語シャドーイングを続けると、会話力が飛躍的に向上します。ぜひ動画を繰り返し視聴し、自分の言葉にしてみてください。

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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