シャドーイング練習: 全英｜为什么很多美国女孩不想结婚？Why aren't people getting married anymore? - YouTubeで英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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What do American girls really think about marriage?
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What do American girls really think about marriage?
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To be honest, from my experience,
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I would say that most of us don't want to get married at all.
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But that's not to say that there aren't a lot of people here who still want to get married,
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and of course, everyone has their own opinions about marriage.
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But overall, I think the trend is that most Americans are not getting married,
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or they're getting married much later in life.
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First, I think it's really important to understand
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that our dating culture is really different
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and most people here will date purely out of love
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and we don't really consider too much about our partner's financial status
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or their job or how much property they have and no,
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there is no Tylee in America.
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Usually after you're married, you'll go buy a house together and and combine your incomes to pay it off together.
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So when we're dating, we basically just think it's important to find someone with similar values and similar life goals,
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but mostly we want someone that we can fall in love with
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and someone who brings joy and happiness to our day-to-day life.
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Because if we're gonna spend the rest of our life with one person,
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it better be someone that we truly want to see every day.
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So why don't American girls want to get married?
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There are two main reasons,
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and the first one is that it's super hard to find a really good guy here.
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A lot of American guys don't do any household chores.
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They're not really good at taking care of the kids and they can be extremely selfish.
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So for girls after they get married they're expected to keep doing their full-time jobs
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and take care of the house and do all of the child care.
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So I can tell you from experience of watching my mom do this,
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it can get really really exhausting.
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In Chinese, there's the phrase 中男情女,
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and I think a lot of people think that America isn't this way,
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but in most places, I would say it really is,
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and girls are expected to do a lot more than boys.
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For example, I have three brothers,
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and I'm the only daughter,
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so I was expected to do a lot more than them and before I was even 10 years old,
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I could cook, clean, do the dishes,
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mow the yard, take care of the house,
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and take care of my younger brothers.
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Literally anything needed to be done around the house,
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I could do it and I was expected to do it.
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But even to this day,
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I don't even think that some of my brothers know how to do the laundry.
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So there are a lot of things in American culture that are are really unfair for women and in turn,
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it's kind of given us this negative impression of marriage.
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And this leads us to the second reason that American girls don't really want to get married anymore,
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which is because these days most girls can live a very full and happy life being totally independent.
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More and more women are getting a better education,
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which leads them to higher paying jobs and being able to fully support themselves.
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In the past, girls were expected to get married and have kids
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and just live as a housewife and
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if you didn't do this it was basically socially unacceptable and you could be ostracized from society.
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But now I would say most of the girls that I know are living perfectly happy lives,
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being totally independent, and they have a good group of friends
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and family who support them while they go study or work to support themselves.
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Getting married is definitely not the main focus of their entire life.
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I think it's super important
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that girls are able to have this choice to choose what they want their future to be
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and while it may be the case that most Americans don't really want to get married,
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there are still plenty of Americans who do get married.
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Especially if you go to some smaller towns in America where the cost of living is much lower
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and people can have a more relaxed lifestyle,
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you'll be able to see more and more people getting married
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and having kids because they don't need to work so much
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or they can rely on one person's income if they have a really good job.
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So in these situations there are some women who are housewives and there's no real negative connotation to this word
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unless you say it like she's just a housewife.
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Then it can come off as really judgmental.
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Most Americans don't really judge when someone says they're a housewife
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or a stay-at-home mom or something like that
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because we know how hard it is to take care of the whole house and to raise kids basically on your own.
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Some people might feel jealous
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or they might feel like those women aren't living up to their full potential by just being a housewife,
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but those judgmental people are really just a minority.
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So even though a lot of American girls are choosing not to get married recently,
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I would say that deep down,
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a lot of us still do want to get married.
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It's just really hard to find the right person.
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I think marriage should be pretty simple and easy and really romantic as long as we have that right person.
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But without that person, I think it just makes life way more difficult for a lot of women.
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Anyway, I hope this video helped you understand more about American culture
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and let me know in the comments if you share any similar thoughts
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or feelings or if you have any questions feel free to ask and I'll see you guys next time.
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Bye!
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このビデオで話す練習をする理由は何ですか？
このビデオでは、アメリカの女の子たちが結婚に対して持っている考え方や、現在の恋愛文化について詳しく話されています。話題が結婚と家庭に関連しているため、感情や経験を交えながら表現されています。これにより、実生活での会話や意見交換を反映したスピーキングの練習ができます。また、相手の気持ちや価値観を理解するための重要なスキルを養うことも可能です。YouTubeで英語学習を行う際、このような日常的な会話を模倣することで、実践的なスピーキング能力を強化できます。
文法＆表現の文脈
ビデオには、以下の重要な文法構造や表現が含まれています：
- 「I think it's really important to understand that...」 - 意見を述べる際に使われる便利なフレーズです。自分の意見をしっかりと表現する際に役立ちます。
- 「A lot of American guys don't do any household chores.」 - 一般的な事実を述べるときの構造です。
- 「It's super hard to find a really good guy here.」 - 難しさを表すための表現で、スピーキングでの感情的な強調に適しています。
- 「...can live a very full and happy life being totally independent.」 - 状態を表す「being」を使用した表現方法で、自立した生活の重要性を強調しています。
これらの表現を、shadow speechのテクニックを用いて繰り返すことで、自分の話し方を改善する効果が期待できます。
一般的な発音の落とし穴
このビデオで注意が必要な発音は以下のとおりです：
- 「marriage」 - 声に出すときに、特に「r」と「i」の発音に注意が必要です。
- 「expect」 - 「x」の部分をはっきりと発音することがキーです。
- 「selfish」 - 「s」と「f」の音を明確に分けることで、伝わりやすくなります。
特定の言葉を繰り返し練習することで、発音力を向上させることができます。shadowing siteを活用して、ネイティブの発音に近づける練習をすることが重要です。
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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。