シャドーイング練習: Why Does Time Feel Faster As We Get Older?｜全英Talk：长大之后，时间越过越快？如何应对时间贫困？ - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Do you feel time moves faster when you get older?
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I actually do feel that.
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When I'm writing a journal, I unconsciously write down the year 2016.
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I was like, oh my god, why is my memory still stuck there?
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And every year when I have my birthday, I feel like I was a teenager not that long ago.
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And my memories from my childhood and teenage years seem to be more vivid.
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Now I'm more than 30 years old, I feel like time moves even faster.
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Why does this happen?
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One reason is that our perception of time changes as we get older.
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When we are 10 years old, one year is just 10% of the life we've already lived.
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And when you are 31 years old, like me, one year is just 3% of your life so far.
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And another factor is that as you get older, your life becomes more stable and repetitive.
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You enter the job market, you stay in the same position for several years, you get along with the same co-workers or friends, and you do the similar things over and over again.
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So there's nothing new in your life.
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But when you were a teenager, there are so many firsts.
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You probably remember your first trip, your first day at a new school, your first birthday party, your first kiss,
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and the first time experiences tend to leave more memories than the repetitive ones.
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There have also been several moments in my life where I felt time really stopped.
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I think that is related to the overloads of information and emotions.
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You know, when you are experiencing very strong emotions like fear, nervousness, excitement, or happiness, time tends to slow down.
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I still remember one experience I didn't expect it to happen at all.
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I was in a very serious car accident.
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I still remember the moment when I was sitting in a car and two trucks hit my car from the back.
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and I remember how the windows were shattered.
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So that also reminded me that when you go through extremely emotional and traumatic events,
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your brain automatically flashes back to them vividly.
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Anyway, our time perception and memories are related to the strengths of emotions that we experience at particular moments.
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I'm not asking you to do anything extreme, but I'm saying that maybe sometimes you can bring some novelty into your life, Maybe take a new project,
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find a new job, meet new people, and try new foods or try a new kind of coffee.
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These little changes may make you feel like your life is not just one repetitive routine.
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But it doesn't matter how many new experiences we create for ourselves, how exciting our life is, how wonderful the world is.
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We all face the same dilemma.
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We don't feel we have enough time for life.
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This problem is often described as time poverty.
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While modern society contributes to the problem, I think it has more to do with the nature of being human.
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No matter where you live, where you come from, and how much money you have, we have to face the brutal fact, which is our life is finite.
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I always remember a good point from the book, 4,000 Weeks.
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As human beings, we are given the gift of creativity, imagination, and all kinds of capabilities.
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But we also seem to have infinite ambitions, and our ambitions seem to always exceed the limits of time we we have omers.
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So there's always a fundamental contradiction between our physical limits and our imagination.
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And as intelligent creatures, we have to endure the pain of time limits.
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So this reminded me of ancient Chinese wisdom.
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爱无生之事,互相长江之无穷
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It translates into we grieve over the brevity of our own lives while looking at the endless flow of the Yangtze River.
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And the modern society makes this contradiction even stronger as it offers
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so many opportunities and so many new things for us to try.
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There's so many books I want to read, so many hobbies I want to develop, so many songs I want to sing, and so many new things I want to learn,
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but there's simply not enough time for all of them.
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Even now, I am very lucky to have a flexible job as an entrepreneur and content creator.
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I still constantly feel that I don't have enough time for everything I want to do in my life.
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You know, brainstorming, researching, writing books, creating videos, and creating courses, all of these things take a large amount of time.
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If I spend more time on a productive work, I have less time for my personal hobbies like drawing, singing, playing the piano, etc. We have to admit
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that time is one of few things that is fundamentally limited for every one of us.
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I don't think the ultimate solution is to become more productive.
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You will find that even if you are super productive, you will always have more tasks to complete.
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You will always have more ambitious desires and things you want to do, and you still end up with a full to-do list.
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So you can always maximize your productivity, but you will always hit a ceiling.
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So we have to ask ourselves a more fundamental question.
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How do we spend our limited time on earth on the things that really matter?
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So sometimes we don't need addition, we need subtraction.
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There's research suggesting that having two to five hours of discretionary time every day is associated with higher well-being.
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If you are too busy, you will feel stressed out, anxious.
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If you have too much free time, you will feel you lack a sense of purpose and you feel unmotivated.
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So maybe give yourself some space in your day.
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Give yourself two hours to do the things that are unrelated to your work.
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Take a walk, walk your dog, draw, sing, meditate, anything you like.
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We don't have eternal life, we are human beings.
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Maybe we have to learn to accept the limits and work within them.
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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 Does Time Feel Faster As We Get Older?｜全英Talk：长大之后，时间越过越快？如何应对时间贫困？」を教材にしています。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が67文、単語が1009語あります。 音声の長さは6:05です。 話す速さは1分あたり約166語で、日常会話に近い自然なペースです。 単語の86%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
emotion 名詞/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/感情, 心緒
contradiction 名詞/ˌkɑːntɹəˈdɪkʃən/反論, 反駁
ambition 名詞/æmˈbɪʃ.ən/野望, 野心
hobby 名詞/ˈhɑ.bi/趣味
teenager 名詞/ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/ティーネージャー, ティーンエイジャー
perception 名詞/pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/知覚
brainstorming 名詞ブレインストーミング, ブレーンストーミング
excite 動詞/ɪkˈsaɪt/興奮させる
meditate 動詞/ˈmɛ.dɪˌteɪt/瞑想する
subtraction 名詞/səbˈtɹækʃən/引き算, 減法
maximize 動詞/ˈmæksəmaɪz/最大化する
novelty 名詞/ˈnɑvəlti/珍しさ, 斬新さ
dilemma 名詞/daɪˈlɛmə/ジレンマ
vivid 形容詞/ˈvɪvɪd/鮮烈, 鮮明
finite 形容詞/ˈfaɪ.naɪt/限られた, 有限な

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語意味
slow down 動詞遅らせる
write down 動詞書き留める, 記す

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。

  • Do you feel time moves faster when you get older?
  • We don't feel we have enough time for life.
  • We don't have eternal life, we are human beings.

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 you are super productive, you will always · If you are too busy, you will feel
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 related · were shattered · are related
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we've already lived · have also been

注意したい発音

話し手はdon't, I'm, didn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を12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。

  • 「sh」と「zh」の音: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, contradiction /ˌkɑːntɹəˈdɪkʃən/, ambition /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/, perception /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/, discretionary /dɪsˈkɹɛʃəˌnɛɹi/
  • 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: repetitive /ɹɪˈpɛtɪtɪv/, contradiction /ˌkɑːntɹəˈdɪkʃən/, discretionary /dɪsˈkɹɛʃəˌnɛɹi/, unconsciously /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəsli/, entrepreneur /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/

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。emotion, contradiction, ambition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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