シャドーイング練習: Why being bored is a good thing - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Boredom.
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A state of being that's gotten a pretty bad rap over the years.
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But as I'm continuously trying to navigate this super connected world we're now living in, the constant consumption of media has not only left me feeling pretty drained,
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but the more I think that being bored isn't such a bad thing.
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In fact, from a creative standpoint, it might actually be a really good thing.
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Just hear me out.
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I feel like we live in a very overstimulated world.
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And lately it feels like a little much.
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Changes to Instagram, a growing trend in the US.
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We're always being bombarded with information.
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From social media platforms, keeping up with the trends, what should we make and who should we watch.
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It's all here to keep us busy and scrolling.
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Jumping from one device to another and often not taking breaks for extended periods of time.
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to be entertained could turn into a life that's distracted.
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I sense that most people have encountered this at some point or another but lately just everything has been feeling like noise.
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Everything online is starting to look like a copy of one another
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and as someone who's caught between trying to make sense of it
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while also barely keeping up with the pace of the world, it can get a little...
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overwhelming.
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and I think it's affecting my creativity.
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you A while in my search for an antidote, there was one idea I became increasingly curious about.
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It started when I read Austin Kleon's book, "Steal Like an Artist." In the book, he says, "Take time to be bored.
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Creative people need time to just sit around
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and do nothing." I want to see what happens when I embrace this idea of boredom over the next couple of days.
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If there is any difference at all in the creativity, in my ideas.
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Did I need a detox?
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Did I not?
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Did I hate it?
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Was it useless?
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Just for an hour or two each day, how hard can that be?
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So it's day one and I went a good, I was doing good.
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I was doing good for the first two minutes, and then I just reached for my phone.
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out of habit.
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I'm literally purposely doing this experiment.
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The habit of just like picking up and checking our phones when we're literally doing nothing.
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crazy.
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So yeah, if that's a any indication how things are going.
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You see, an interesting thing happens when you're in a less stimulated state.
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Our minds are able to wander, to get creative with problem -solving, and let one storm in ideas find the space to plant roots and grow.
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Just like when we get our best ideas in the shower, or think of new characters for our book on our commute, our body goes on autopilot,
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and our minds go somewhere else.
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Being bored literally has to be laying around doing nothing.
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I think that it counts as washing the dishes and folding your laundry, going for a walk, normal mundane everyday things,
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just without reaching for your phone to help pass the time.
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It's interesting that boredom is not typically something that's pursued, but many of the world's problems are because there is just too much of everything.
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content.
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at least in the beginning.
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Okay, so I have been really enjoying this experiment so far.
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It's only been three days, but I feel like there is
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something about needing to fill the silence and also being alone with your thoughts it's almost It can be uncomfortable.
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It has just been really nice to not be living from screen to screen all the time
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and instead feeling like I'm living in the real world.
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It's also been really nice to just have the space to think, just allowing you to have that designated time.
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I know that sounds so weird because creativity is such an organic thing, but we live in such a busy world.
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Our schedules are often filled up from like hour to hour.
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This is also feeling a lot like a dopamine detox.
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Mainly because I'm doing this like every single day.
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Now that I'm doing this experiment, I'm realizing like how much it actually plays into my daily life.
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I think that the more society becomes obsessed with productivity, the more we need to search for small pockets of time to be bored.
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But it's not just about doing nothing, but I find it's more so choosing to be observant of the world around you every now and then.
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Being left to my thoughts without media and posts telling me how to feel.
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every time I need to fill the silence.
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but instead embracing it.
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Sometimes it feels like boredom can be one of the most undesirable states you can be in.
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We go so much out of our way to occupy our time with other work or projects, and maybe there are some things we can learn from it.
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Alright, so I've been doing this for about a week now.
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It got easier as the days went on.
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I started to embrace it more.
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It's been really interesting to see new ideas and also old ideas.
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Just ponderings that randomly have come up one
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or two hours every afternoon may not seem like a lot
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but I think that there's a real compound effect there to just be intentional with
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that time to embrace this boredom and this mundaneness and see what comes up from that.
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We often already have everything we need to think up new ideas or find inspiration around us.
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But I think it's a matter of really creating the time to facilitate that.
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Not too much and not too little of it, but just enough that when we do to our creative work we feel ready to.
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So this isn't really a solution or a groundbreaking discovery, but perhaps an alternate perspective on nurturing our creativity.
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As Steve Jobs once said, boredom allows one to indulge in curiosity, and out of curiosity comes everything.
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I've been on hold on baby with you.
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このレッスンについて
このレッスンでは、「退屈は悪いことではない」というテーマのビデオを使って、英語のシャドーイングやスピーキングの練習をします。ネイティブスピーカーの自然な発音やリズム、日常的な表現を学びながら、IELTS スピーキング対策にも役立つ思考力や表現力を養いましょう。退屈についての考え方を変えるような内容で、リラックスしながら英語を楽しめます。
重要な語彙とフレーズ
- boredom：退屈（たいくつ）
- overstimulated：過度に刺激された（かどくにしげきされた）
- detox：解毒（げどく）（ここでは「情報過多からの解放」の意味）
- wander：さまよう（ここでは「思考が広がる」の意味）
- mundane：平凡な（へいぼんな）
練習のコツ
このビデオのスピードは中程度で、口語的な表現が多いので、シャドーイングに最適です。まずはビデオを聞きながら、発音のアクセントやイントネーションに注意してください。特に「I feel like...」「Just hear me out」などのフレーズは、自然な会話でよく使われるので、繰り返し練習して発音を良くしましょう。
シャドーイングの際は、少し遅れて追って話す「shadow speech」の方法が効果的です。最初は1文ずつ止めながら練習し、慣れてきたら2-3文単位で続けてみてください。また、ビデオの中で話者が感情を込めて話している部分（例えば「crazy」と言うときの抑揚）を真似ることで、スピーキングの自然さが増します。
退屈な時間を過ごすことの重要性についての議論は、IELTS スピーキングのトピックとしても出てくる可能性があります。このビデオの内容を理解し、自分の言葉でまとめる練習をすることで、論理的な話し方も身につきます。ぜひ「shadowspeaks」のような方法を使って、楽しく英語を上達させましょう。
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 |
|---|---|
| 現在完了進行形 have/has been + -ing — 以前に始まり今も続いている動作 | has been feeling · I've been doing |
| 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 | has not only left · have encountered · have been |
| 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 | being bombarded · be entertained · are often filled |
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。