シャドーイング練習: Why are weddings so damn expensive? - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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<<Phone ringing"Hello?" I'm, uh, planning a wedding for next spring." "a quick quote for a venue for a family gathering" "between 120 and 130 guests." "for 125 people" "we're aiming for April 16th" "the 16th" "That's going to be a $15,000 food and beverage minimum" "The food and beverage minimum is $17,000." This 2000 dollar difference is what's known as the "wedding mark-up" where some venders charge a higher price for weddings than for other similar parties so why are weddings so expensive?
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The wedding website "The Knot"surveyed thousands of its members and found that the average cost of their weddings was thirty-one thousand dollars last year that's not including honeymoon wedding dresses average at thirteen hundred dollars and catering comes in its $68 dollars per person. And those numbers are a lot higher if you live in places like New York Chicago DC or San Francisco the wedding industry is kinda weird and it's an industry that I have quite a bit of experience in my way Isabel and I run a wedding videography business in Washington DC and here's my take on my way to so expensive There's this economic concept called asymmetric information. With most things you buy you have a pretty good gauge in what you're getting for what you pay for.
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you pretty sure that an 8 dollar avocado is way too much because you've bought avocados before. Familiarity with a market produces balanced information between buyers and sellers and so they can settle on a fair price This is like economics 101.
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but most people shopping for wedding stuff and very little if any experience with what they're buying.
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cake, dress, napkins, catering, venues, flowers.
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This is something you just don't buy very often so you have a very good gauge on what should be paying.
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This is made a lot harder by the fact that we wedding vendors have a hard time posting our prices. You usually have to reach out and inquire to get any sort of pricing information.
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Imagine if you had asked for pricing for every item in the grocery store. Shopping would be a lot harder. When I first was starting my business I read on a blogs about marketing to prospective clients.
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And overwhelming message that I kept reading is "steer away from talking about price" Blogger: "we've put together a free report that shows you how to answer "price question" with those email leads in a way that steers them away from price quickly so you can get them on the phone or to a meeting where you can book them!" And then there's Pinterest. Planning: "Pinterest can be really useful I think using it as a starting point" It's an amazing tool for wedding inspiration or if you have an experience wedding planner by your side, but usually doesn't help with the price question.
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"...and you see all these like amazing dresses and you can click on it to like get more information.
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you're going to get a lot more pictures , but you're not gonna find any pricing information. And of course there's always the option to "repin" it if you'd liked. If you are like a normal person with a budget like you're setting yourself up to be let down. Another thing that makes wedding so expensive is the once in a lifetime mentality.
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The classic line for brides shopping for a wedding dress is: Designer: "It's the dress of your life , and if there's ever one picture will have of you, it's the one in your wedding dress wedding dress." That's wedding dress designer and artist talking on Planet Money. I'm as guilty as anyone at this: Here's were very first ads. it's all about that once in a lifetime feel.
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It's just really hard not to splurge when you put so much weight into one day.
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So, it's easy to look at this and think there's no doubt that wedding vendors are ripping off their clients.
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But there's another side to the story that i think is important to mention.
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Planner: "Corporate flowers for example all there's probably going to be direction but maybe there's a little bit more flexibility where as a bride had dreamt up a certain flowers and she in want to talk to the florist multiple times about the bouquet and the ribbon treatment and the fact that her grandmother's broaches gonna be on that Bouquet.
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It's a lot of time and energy spent on those flowers and that's gonna be reflected in the price." The upshot of this is that the emotional weight of weddings usually means more work for vendors, and thus higher prices. And the most demanding clients are the ones that set the prices for everyone. So the best thing you can do to avoid being swindled is to demand the price range before hearing a sales pitch.
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we vendors might hate it but it's the fair thing to do.
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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「Why are weddings so damn expensive?」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：wedding, price, dress, dollar, vendors。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が18文、単語が820語あります。 音声の長さは4:30です。 話す速さは速く、1分あたり約182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 |
|---|---|---|
| vendor 名詞 | /ˈvɛn.dɚ/ | 売り手, 販売者 |
| avocado 名詞 | /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/ | アボカド, 鰐梨 |
| bouquet 名詞 | /buːˈkeɪ/ | 花束, ブーケ |
| catering 名詞 | /ˈkeɪ.tɚ.ɪŋ/ | ケータリング |
| beverage 名詞 | /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/ | 飲料, ドリンク |
| steer 動詞 | /stɪɹ/ | 操縦する, 舵を取る |
| bride 名詞 | /bɹaɪd/ | 花嫁, 新婦 |
| asymmetric 形容詞 | /ˌeɪ.səˈmɛt.ɹɪk/ | 非対称的 |
| florist 名詞 | /ˈflɒɹɪst/ | 花屋 |
| inquire 動詞 | /ɪnˈkwaɪɹ/ | 問い合わせる, 尋ねる |
| napkin 名詞 | /ˈnæpˌkɪn/ | ナプキン |
| overwhelm 動詞 | /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/ | 圧倒する |
| swindle 動詞 | /ˈswɪndəl/ | 騙す, 欺く |
| honeymoon 名詞 | /ˈhʌn.iˌmuːn/ | 蜜月, ハネムーン |
| mentality 名詞 | /mɛnˈtæləti/ | 心理, メンタリティー |
動画に出てくる句動詞
| 単語 | 意味 |
|---|---|
| let down 動詞 | 失望させる |
| rip off 動詞 | ぼったくる, 法外な額を請求する |
この動画の文法
話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。
| 文型 | 動画での表現 |
|---|---|
| 条件文 if + 節, will/would + 動詞 — 条件とその結果 | if there's ever one picture will have |
| 受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる | is made · be let · be reflected |
| 現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している | you've bought · we've put |
注意したい発音
話し手はyou're, gonna, I'mなど、短縮形や弱形を17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）: avocado /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, asymmetric /ˌeɪ.səˈmɛt.ɹɪk/, mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/, flexibility /ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/
日本語話者が苦手な音：
- /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: vendor /ˈvɛn.dɚ/, avocado /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, beverage /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, prospective /pɹəˈspɛktɪv/
- /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: florist /ˈflɒɹɪst/, flexibility /ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/
- 子音の連続 — 間に母音を入れない: planner /ˈplænɚ/, steer /stɪɹ/, bride /bɹaɪd/, broach /bɹoʊt͡ʃ/, florist /ˈflɒɹɪst/
この動画での練習方法
- 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。
- 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。
- 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。vendor, avocado, bouquet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。