シャドーイング練習: What Makes a Great Commencement Address? - YouTubeで英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility,
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Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility,
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or so I thought, until I cast my mind back to my own graduation.
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The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher, Baroness Mary Warnock.
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Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one,
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because it turns out that I can't remember a single word she said.
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Life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you.
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How do I know this?
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I don't, but I'm making sound and that's the important thing.
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Sometimes I think that's the only thing that's important really, you know?
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It's just letting each other know we're here.
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Reminding each other that we're part of a larger self.
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Please stay connected.
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Please never lose eye contact.
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This may not be a lesson you want to hear from a person who creates media,
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but we are spending more time looking down at our devices than we are looking in each other's eyes.
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My mom was driving through this town of Ann Arbor.
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It was the mid-1960s.
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She was a newcomer to this town and to this country.
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Her car breaks down.
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Now let me paint you a picture.
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She is an immigrant from the other side of the world.
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He went to the closest phone booth,
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phone booth, and decided to randomly call someone,
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an Indian person whose name began in the A's.
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Someone answered the phone after the first ring.
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Now as it turns out the person she was trying to call wasn't home,
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but his roommate, her future husband, my father, was.
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Many of you here today are getting your diploma at this Ivy League school
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because you have committed yourself to a dream and worked hard to achieve it.
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And there is no greater cliche in a commencement address than follow your dream.
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Well, I'm here to tell you that whatever you think your dream is now,
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it will probably change.
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And that's okay.
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From 1998, while I was still at Penn,
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to early 2004, I spent each of those six years always thinking
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that I would get that big record deal within the next few months.
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I always thought my moment was just around the corner,
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but I was rejected by all the major labels.
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Some of them rejected me multiple times.
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But I did find a young producer from Chicago named Kanye West who believed in me.
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I found what I loved to do early in life.
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Waz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20.
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We worked hard, and in 10 years,
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Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees.
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We'd just released our finest creation,
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the Macintosh, a year earlier,
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and I'd just turned 30.
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And then I got fired.
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How can you get fired from a company you started?
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What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone.
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But something slowly began to dawn on me.
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I still loved what I did.
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And so I decided to start over.
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I didn't see it then,
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but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.
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It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
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During the next five years,
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I started a company named Next,
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another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.
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Pixar went on to create the world's first computer animated feature film,
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Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.
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In a remarkable turn of events,
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Apple bought Next, and I returned to Apple,
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and the technology we developed at Next is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance.
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,
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and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
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And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
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If you haven't found it yet,
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keep looking, and don't settle.
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I paid the rent in my early 20s by working at the African Research Department of Amnesty International's headquarters in London.
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I was reminded how incredibly fortunate I was to live in
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a country with a democratically elected government where legal representation and a public trial were the rights of everyone.
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Every day I saw more evidence about the evils humankind would inflict on their fellow humans to gain or maintain power.
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And yet I also learned more about human goodness at Amnesty International than I had ever known before.
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Amnesty mobilizes thousands of people who have never been tortured
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or imprisoned for their beliefs to act on behalf of those who have.
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The power of human empathy leading to collective action saves lives.
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Finally, graduates, our greatness has never,
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ever come from sitting back and feeling entitled to what we have.
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It's never come from folks who climb the ladder of success
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or who happen to be born near the top and then pull the ladder up after themselves.
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No, uh-uh.
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Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted.
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Folks who work hard for what they have then reach back and help others after them.
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While you may one day forget this moment, I never ever will.
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Blue.
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Love ya.
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このレッスンでは、著名な卒業式のスピーチから得られる貴重な英語のスピーキングスキルに焦点を当てます。特に、スピーチのコンセプトや感情、そしてメッセージを理解しながら、英語シャドーイングを実践します。このスピーチは、私たちが人々とのつながりを大切にし、自分自身の夢に向かって努力することの重要性について触れています。これを通じて、あなたは発音、リズム、イントネーションの感覚を高め、自然な英語を話す力を身につけることができるでしょう。
主要な語彙とフレーズ
- commencement address - 卒業式のスピーチ
- immigrant - 移民
- dream - 夢
- focus - 集中
- vision - ビジョン
- connection - つながり
- rejection - 拒絶
- achievement - 達成
練習のコツ
このビデオのスピーチは、リズミカルかつ感情的なトーンで進行します。英語スピーキング練習として、shadow speechやshadowspeakの手法を使いましょう。スピーチを流しながら、話者の声を真似してみることが重要です。最初はゆっくりとしたペースで繰り返し、その後、元のスピーチのスピードに合わせて練習します。特に注意するべき点は、話者と目が合っている時間を意識的に持つことです。これにより、リスニングスキルの向上と対人コミュニケーションの感覚を高めることができます。また、自分の声を録音してみて、発音やイントネーションを修正することも効果的です。このようにして、英語シャドーイングを通じて、スピーキング力を着実に向上させていきましょう。
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。