シャドーイング練習: Why is it so Easy to be Thin in Japan? - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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If you've ever been to Japan, you may have noticed that it's really hard to find an obese Japanese person.

In the United States, it's quite a different story.

The rate of obesity among adults in America is on average around 30%, whereas the Japan obesity rate is only 3 .5%.

But what makes the weight of people in these two countries so different?

Why Japanese people?

At first, I was thinking about things like Japanese people drink a lot of green tea,

and they get a decent amount of fermented foods like kimchi or natto, which is great for the gut microbiome.

But in this video, I want to focus on a very simple yet key point about Japan.

The food environment is drastically different from the U .S.

As of 2017, there's over 243 ,000 fast food establishments in America.

There's only 6 ,169 establishments in Japan, meaning per person, there's about 15 times more fast food restaurants in America.

Then again, in Japan, fast food, fried food, chips, chocolate, candy, soda, and not -so -healthy things are still available wherever you go.

But there's a huge variety of equally convenient, reasonably healthy food.

Let's say I'm the average busy person in the States who would like to be healthy, but doesn't have time to cook at home.

What's for breakfast?

Most people's options are limited to things like a McGriddle with hash browns and coffee,

or maybe an egg and processed cheese sandwich with tater tots at Dunkin' Donuts, or some pancakes at Denny's if you have more time.

Surely some people will have healthier options than that, but I'm trying to think of what most people are going to have access to.

So what's a quick breakfast in Japan?

While there's more than 6 ,000 fast food establishments in Japan, there's also 5 ,000 rice bowl establishments.

The big ones are Yoshinoya, Sukiya, and Matsuya.

And for $4 at Sukiya, for breakfast you can get plain rice, miso soup with seaweed, an egg,

baked fish, and a small potato salad comes with it.

If I'm extra hungry, maybe I'll add some kimchi, fermented soybeans, and stewed beef for $4.

Or you can put together a reasonably healthy meal from a convenience store.

At a Japanese convenience store, I can get a rice ball, which is just rice, salmon, and salt, a small salad, or a package of sushi,

or a thing of fish with miso, or some soup.

I was pretty impressed with how little junk is in this.

It's basically just vegetables, pork, and fish broth.

And there's a bunch of foods like this.

Here's what I can get for under $10 USD.

Compare this to what's available in American convenience stores.

They're usually limited to fried foods sitting under heat lamps, or foods loaded with trans fats, sugar, preservatives, and unhealthy additives.

If you're lucky, you might be able to get a package of plain nuts with nothing added.

So the items in Japanese convenience stores are not top quality health foods, but they're not bad.

This is big because practically everyone has access to these places.

Convenience stores like these are everywhere.

Japan has about 55 ,000 convenience stores, meaning there's about 10 times more convenience stores per square kilometer better in Japan compared to America.

For most, these places are in walking distance.

I understand that of course there are healthy restaurants here

and there in America and you can make a really healthy meal with ingredients from the supermarket.

But when it comes to cheap, convenient and quick food, it's almost always quite unhealthy.

In Japan, for a quick lunch I can go to Burger King or right next door I can get some sushi.

I can get a hamburger and some popcorn at Vandalism Cafe,

or I can go next door to Matsuya and get a bowl of spicy tofu soup with a bit of beef,

green onion and cabbage, some pork, a soft boiled egg, some mustard spinach, rice, and there's free pickled ginger to go with it.

And of course, there are many healthier non -chain places that offer many different types of cuisine.

And this variety is important.

It's going to be much easier to stick to healthier options

if you aren't getting bored of having to eat the same things at the same places over and over.

Even if you're going out to drink with friends at dinner time, there's still a variety of good food choices.

The standard place to drink at is an izakaya.

At 10 ,000 establishments, there's almost twice as many izakayas as there are fast food places in Japan.

Replacing fast food for alcohol is not a good strategy, but let's see what the common izakaya chains have to offer in the way of food.

Let me point out one more time that there's of course much better quality food than what you get at convenience stores,

rice bowl chains, or izakayas, and this is not what most Japanese people eat on a daily basis.

I'm not really recommending these places either, most Japanese people wouldn't think of these places as healthy.

But This isn't about optimal health, I just mean to point out

that even someone who puts minimal effort into being healthy can get some reasonable quality meals out of these very convenient places.

By the way, what's everyone drinking with and between meals?

In America, more often than not, it's soda, considering a survey of 80 countries found

that America comes in at rank number 1 for soda consumption at 170 liters purchased per person in 2011.

7 -Eleven Japan came in at rank 56, at 32 liters per person.

In Japan, most places serve tea with your meal for free, and in general it's harder to purchase massive quantities of soda.

There's no comically large big gulps at 7 -Eleven, I haven't seen these packs of soda here,

and Japan has the smallest large cup size at McDonald's.

An American medium -sized drink is bigger than a Japanese large charge.

Another factor to thank for keeping people's soda intake low is again, variety.

What's interesting is despite

Japan drinking 5 times less soda than America, soda is available in vending machines everywhere in Japan.

There's 5 .52 million vending machines, meaning there's a vending machine for every 23 people in Japan.

That's the highest vending machine per capita on the planet.

So what's in these vending machines?

Why don't we take a look at this vending machine

I came across on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere in Hakone.

Among other things, they have black coffee, six different types of unsweetened tea, and water.

A typical American vending machine offers 13 varieties of drink, the only non -sweet one being water.

So, convenience and variety.

Simple, but it makes a difference.

It's easier to pick the healthy choices when they are just as easy and convenient as the unhealthier choices.

Now, this is by no means the full story on Japan and health, but I think these are two key factors.

I'll be doing another video on some of the many other things that contribute to health in Japan,

so if there's a particular point you want to hear discussed, leave a comment below.

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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

このスピーキングレッスンは、動画「Why is it so Easy to be Thin in Japan?」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：Japan, healthy, convenience, soda, Japanese。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が59文、単語が1188語あります。音声の長さは6:55です。話す速さは1分あたり約172語で、日常会話に近い自然なペースです。英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は80%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくる覚えておきたい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語	発音	意味
convenience 名詞	/kənˈvinjəns/	便宜, 便利
soda 名詞	/ˈsoʊdə/	ソーダ, 炭酸ナトリウム
meal 名詞	/ˈmiːl/	食事, めし
establishment 名詞	/ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/	設立, 設置
convenient 形容詞	/kənˈviː.niənt/	便利
soup 名詞	/sup/	汁, スープ
package 名詞	/ˈpæk.ɪd͡ʒ/	包み, パケット
compare 動詞	/kəmˈpɛɚ/	比べる, 比較する
plain 名詞	/pleɪn/	平地, 平野
salad 名詞	/ˈsæl.əd/	サラダ
fry 動詞	/fɹaɪ/	(油で)揚げる, 炒る
obesity 名詞	/ə(ʊ)ˈbiːsɪti/	肥満, 肥大
sushi 名詞	/ˈsuːʃi/	寿司, すし
hungry 形容詞	/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/	空腹な, 飢えた
nowhere 副詞	/ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/	どこにも, どこへも

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	意味
point out 動詞	指す, 指し示す

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
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える	natto, which is · ball, which is · someone who puts
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 ever been · haven't seen

注意したい発音

話し手はI'm, I'll, they're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。

「th」の音: unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/, broth /bɹɔθ/
「sh」と「zh」の音: establishment /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/, sushi /ˈsuːʃi/, translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, consumption /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: establishment /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/, reasonably /ˈɹiː.zən.ə.bli/, obesity /ə(ʊ)ˈbiːsɪti/, practically /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.k(ə.)li/, supermarket /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/

日本語話者が苦手な音：

/r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: reasonably /ˈɹiː.zən.ə.bli/, translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, practically /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.k(ə.)li/, kilometre /kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: convenience /kənˈvinjəns/, convenient /kənˈviː.niənt/, wherever /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/, eleven /əˈlɛv.ən/, vegetable /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: beef /bif/, fry /fɹaɪ/, ferment /fɚˈmɛnt/, café /ˌkæˈfeɪ/, tofu /ˈtoʊfu/

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。convenience, soda, mealなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

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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。

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