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Deep inside a laboratory, something impossible was born.
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For the first time, a dinosaur took its first breath.
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This dinosaur wasn't discovered, it was built.
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Created from genetic material and brought back into existence.
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The experiment was supposed to answer one question.
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Could extinct animals be brought back?
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But creating the animal was only the beginning.
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The animal grew, faster than anyone expected.
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And with every stage, the experiment became harder to control.
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At first, everything looked under control.
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But the scientists began noticing something.
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The animal wasn't simply growing, it was learning.
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To contain what they had created, they built something enormous.
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a private island reserve designed to keep dinosaurs inside.
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The reserve grew quickly.
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Massive fences surrounded the forest.
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Observation towers rose above the trees.
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The fences were reinforced.
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Electric systems were added.
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Every enclosure was designed around one idea.
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Containment.
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Inside, the animals were given something they had never experienced in captivity.
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space, food, and a world large enough to explore.
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But one section required something different.
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Predators.
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Animals that could not simply be trusted behind a single fence.
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After years of construction, the reserve was finally ready.
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Every fence was tested.
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Every enclosure was inspected.
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Every system was monitored.
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Then, the doors opened.
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Visitors arrived
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and for the first time people could see dinosaurs with their
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own eyes they traveled deeper into the reserve not knowing what was waiting beyond the trees
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and then they saw them a herd of giant herbivorous dinosaurs moving through the forest.
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The visitors were amazed.
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For the public, Jurassic Park had solved the impossible.
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Begsington this comment.
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Demtus attetitinment.
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Juggernt's moment.
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But inside the research department, scientists were collecting data.
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They studied movement, feeding, social behavior, and stress.
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Then something unexpected appeared in the reports.
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The animals were not behaving exactly as predicted.
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One herbivore repeatedly approached the same section of its enclosure.
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The pattern continued.
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For days, the animal returned to the same location.
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Researchers initially assumed it was normal.
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Then a predator began doing something similar.
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It approached the fence, moved along it, and stopped at a particular point.
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The researchers realized what was happening.
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The dinosaurs were learning.
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they weren't simply living inside the park they were observing it
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and learning where the boundaries were then the island was hit
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by a powerful tropical storm heavy rain flooded roads wind damaged
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trees then lightning struck an electrical station the park switched to emergency power Most systems continued operating,
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but one section experienced a longer outage.
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The predator enclosure lost camera coverage.
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The security team assumed the animal was still inside.
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Several minutes later, the camera system came back online.
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The security team expected to see the predator inside its enclosure.
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But the enclosure was empty.
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The animal was gone.
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No one knew when it had disappeared
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Security teams searched the enclosure
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They checked the fences
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They checked the gates Nothing appeared damaged The secondary gate was
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still locked The outer fence was intact There was no obvious escape route At least,
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not one the team could see Then they found something Fresh footprints outside the fence.
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The tracks led away from the enclosure.
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The predator had escaped.
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How it got out was still unknown.
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But one thing was certain.
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It was no longer inside the park.
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The park immediately entered lockdown.
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Visitors were moved into secure buildings.
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Vehicles stopped operating.
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The search began.
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Helicopters began searching the forest.
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But finding a large predator inside dense jungle was surprisingly difficult.
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Trees blocked the aerial view.
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Heavy rain destroyed footprints.
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And the animal could remain hidden for hours.
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It didn't need to attack anyone.
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It only needed to stay away from humans.
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This is the same challenge wildlife experts face when dangerous animals escape modern facilities.
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Finding them is often harder than containing them.
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Then, late that night, a roadside camera captured movement.
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The image was poor.
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Rain covered the lens.
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But something enormous walked across the road.
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The control room froze, the dinosaur had reached the park's transportation network, and now it could move almost anywhere on the island.
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The escaped predator was frightening.
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But ecologists were worried about something much bigger.
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The ecosystem.
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A modern island already has its own food chain.
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Plants support insects, support birds and reptiles, herbivores consume vegetation, and predators control populations.
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A herd of enormous herbivores could consume enormous amounts of vegetation.
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That could change plant communities.
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Those changes could affect insects, then birds, then small mammals, then predators.
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One introduced species could affect many others.
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And predators create another problem.
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They don't understand property boundaries.
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A wild animal doesn't know where the park ends.
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It follows food, water, shelter, and territory.
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And if the dinosaurs reproduce, the situation becomes even harder to control, because the population would no longer depend on the animals humans originally created.
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The clue was small, but it changed everything.
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Researchers began monitoring the island more carefully.
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Researchers began monitoring the island from helicopters and satellites.
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They searched for movement, new tracks, and unexplained changes in animal activity.
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Then they discovered something nobody expected.
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The animals weren't simply wandering, they were reproducing.
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There were nests.
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Not one.
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Not two.
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Dozens.
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Young dinosaurs were appearing in places where they had never been intentionally introduced.
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The population was reproducing.
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The original population was no longer completely controlled by humans.
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The next generation belonged to the ecosystem.
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Scientists began calculating how quickly volation could increase.
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The results were concerning.
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But the growing population created another problem.
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Control was becoming more expensive.
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More animals meant more monitoring, more security, more resources.
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The infrastructure required constant maintenance.
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Fences had to be repaired, roads had to be cleared, security systems had to remain operational.
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And every year, the cost increased.
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Eventually, the question was no longer how to expand the park.
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It was whether the park could continue at all.
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The answer was becoming clear.
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The park closed.
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Visitors stopped coming.
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Staff began leaving the island.
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What had once been the world's greatest attraction became an abandoned facility.
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Years passed.
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Then decades.
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Without regular maintenance, the island slowly began reclaiming what humans had built.
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Nature did what it always does.
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It filled the empty spaces.
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Vegetation returned, wildlife spread, and the dinosaurs remained.
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Years later, a research team returned to the island.
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They expected to find a few surviving animals, but what they found was something much larger.
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They hadn't found a few surviving animals, they had found an entire ecosystem.
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Herds crossed the old roads, predators followed them, and nests covered hidden areas.
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Then the team reached the old visitor center.
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The building was almost completely covered by vegetation.
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Inside, they found something unexpected.
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One camera was still functioning.
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The screen flickered.
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Then, a live image appeared.
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The camera was pointing toward the coastline.
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A dinosaur walked into view.
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Then another.
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Then dozens.
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The animals moved slowly toward the water.
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There were no enclosures anymore.
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The experiment no longer belonged to humans, it belonged to nature.
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That would be when the real experiment began.

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このB2レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「What If Jurassic Park Was Real? THEY ESCAPED」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:animal, predator, dinosaur, began, inside。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が159文、単語が1172語あります。 音声の長さは9:59です。 話す速さは1分あたり約117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81%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
predator 名詞/ˈpɹɛd.ə.tɚ/天敵
dinosaur 名詞/ˈdaɪnəsoɹ/恐竜
enclosure 名詞/ɛnˈkloʊʒəɹ/別紙
visitor 名詞/ˈvɪzɪtɚ/訪問者, 客人
vegetation 名詞/ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən/草木, 植生
researcher 名詞/ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/研究員, 研究者
herbivore 名詞/ˈ(h)ɜːɹbɪvɔːɹ/草食動物
ecosystem 名詞/ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/生態系
footprint 名詞/ˈfʊtpɹɪnt/足跡
insect 名詞/ˈɪn.sɛkt/昆虫
consume 動詞/kənˈsum/消費する, 消耗する
nest 名詞/nɛst/巣, ネスト
helicopter 名詞/ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/ヘリコプター, ヘリ
boundary 名詞/ˈbaʊndɹi/境界, 境
ecologist 名詞/iːˈkɒləd͡ʒɪst/環境学者

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語意味
come back 動詞戻る, 帰る
get out 動詞出て行く

注意したい発音

話し手はwasn't, weren't, didn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を8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: enclosure /ɛnˈkloʊʒəɹ/, vegetation /ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən/, intentionally /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/, attraction /əˈtɹækʃn̩/, observation /ˌɑbzɚˈveɪʃn̩/
  • 長い単語(アクセントの位置に注意): vegetation /ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən/, ecosystem /ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/, helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/, ecologist /iːˈkɒləd͡ʒɪst/, herbivorous /(h)ɜːɹˈbɪvəɹəs/

日本語話者が苦手な音:

  • /r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: enclosure /ɛnˈkloʊʒəɹ/, helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/, reclaim /ɹɪˈkleɪm/, reptile /ˈɹɛp.taɪl/, aerial /ˈɛəɹiəl/
  • /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: visitor /ˈvɪzɪtɚ/, vegetation /ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən/, herbivore /ˈ(h)ɜːɹbɪvɔːɹ/, herbivorous /(h)ɜːɹˈbɪvəɹəs/, captivity /kæpˈtɪvɪti/
  • /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: footprint /ˈfʊtpɹɪnt/, flicker /ˈflɪkɚ/, frighten /ˈfɹaɪ.tən/, reinforce /ˌɹiː.ɪnˈfɔːs/, freeze /ˈfɹiːz/

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  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。predator, dinosaur, enclosureなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

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