シャドーイング練習: What We Get WRONG About Business | Simon Sinek - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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So in a finite game, baseball, the other players are competitors.
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The goal is actually to beat them, that your score is higher, and at the end of the game, you will be declared winner, right?
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In business, there's not really such thing, and so to view each other's competitors is kind of silly, because two companies can sell the same thing for about the same price,
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about the same quality, and both be wildly successful simultaneously.
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Instead of thinking of each other's competitors, because then all you do is focus on reacting to what they do, Instead, you want to find the players who are as good
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or better than you on one or many things and have respect for them because their strengths reveal to you your weaknesses.
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The point is you're not trying to beat them.
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You're trying to outdo yourself.
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I'll give you a real-life example that happened to me.
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I spoke at an education summit for Microsoft, and by sheer weird coincidence, a few months later, I spoke at an education summit for Apple.
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At the Microsoft Summit, most of the executives spent most of their presentations talking about how to beat Apple.
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That's actually the language they used.
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Whereas the Apple Summit, 100% of the executives spent 100% of their presentations talking about how to help teachers teach
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and how to help students learn.
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One was obsessed with their mission, the other one was obsessed with trying to beat their competition.
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After my talk at Microsoft, they gave me a gift.
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They gave me the new Zune when it was a thing.
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Some people remember what that was.
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This was Microsoft's response to the iPod MP3 player and Balmer's intention was to beat Apple and make the product better, and by the way, they did a great job.
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It was a good product.
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They gave me the newest Zune at the time.
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And it was great.
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I was finished with my talk at Apple and I was sharing a taxi with a senior executive.
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And I have this character flaw where I have to stir the pot like you telling me not to mention, don't hit the button.
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And I'm like, ugh.
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So I'm sitting in the back of this taxi just like, I've got to do it.
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And I turn to him and I say, you know, Microsoft gave me their new Zune.
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It is so much better than my iPod.
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And he looked at me and said, I have no doubt.
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And the conversation was over.
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Because companies playing with an infinite mindset understand that there's no such thing as a winner or a loser.
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There's no such thing as winning or losing.
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There's no such thing as beating or competition.
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You're either ahead or behind.
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And the goal is not to compete against your competitor.
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The goal is to compete against yourself.
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How do I outdo ourselves?
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How do we make our culture better this year than it was last year?
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How do we make our leaders better this year than they were last year?
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How do we make our marketing better this year than it was last year?
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Learn from your worthy rivals, those who are better than you.
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Have their strengths reveal to you where you have to improve.
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It's worth noting that a year or two after this conversation, Apple introduced the iPod, which rendered both the iPhone, which rendered both the iPod and the Zoom obsolete,
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because they weren't competing against to make a better iPod.
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They were competing against themselves.
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Thank you.

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「What We Get WRONG About Business」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:Apple, ipod, beat, competitor, summit。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が46文、単語が595語あります。 音声の長さは2:53です。 話す速さは速く、1分あたり約207語です。音のつながりや弱く発音される音が多くなります。 単語の84%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。

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
competitor 名詞/kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɚ/競争者
obsess 動詞/əbˈsɛs/取り付く
outdo 動詞/aʊtˈdu/凌ぐ, 打ち勝つ
taxi 名詞/ˈtæksi/タクシー, 辻自動車
flaw 名詞/flɔ/ひび
obsolete 形容詞/ˈɑbsəlit/廃れた
finite 形容詞/ˈfaɪ.naɪt/限られた, 有限な
mindset 名詞/ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/考え方, 心理
stir 動詞/stɝ/掻き混ぜる, 攪拌する
coincidence 名詞/kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/一致, 偶然
sheer 形容詞/ʃɪɚ/透明な
loser 名詞/luzɚ/敗者, 落とし主
declare 動詞/dɪˈklɛɚ/宣言する
infinite 形容詞/ˈɪnfɪnɪt/途方もない, 巨大な
simultaneously 副詞/ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/同時に, 一斉に

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。

  • The point is you're not trying to beat them.
  • You're trying to outdo yourself.
  • You're either ahead or behind.
  • How do I outdo ourselves?

注意したい発音

話し手はyou're, I'm, don'tなど、短縮形や弱形を9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。

  • 長い単語(アクセントの位置に注意): competitor /kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɚ/, coincidence /kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/, simultaneously /ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/

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: flaw /flɔ/, finite /ˈfaɪ.naɪt/, infinite /ˈɪnfɪnɪt/
  • 子音の連続 — 間に母音を入れない: flaw /flɔ/, wildly /ˈwaɪldli/, mindset /ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/, stir /stɝ/, coincidence /kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/

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. まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。competitor, obsess, outdo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。

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