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From a distance, it can all seem very silly.
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These people have gone to Lourdes, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, in the hope that the Virgin Mary might cure them of cancer and heart disease.
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These people have gone to Medjugorje in Bosnia Herzegovina to pray they might get a chance to talk to dead beloved relatives.
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And these people are praying at the Western Wailing Wall of the old Jewish Temple in Jeruselam and leaving all sort of notes for God to read in the cracks between the stones.
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No wonder some Atheists just think the whole of religion is ludicrous, and they aren't bothered about saying so very directly.
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But that's the wrong way to look at religion.
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What religion teaches us isn't about what's true, but about what many of us here on earth desperately want to be true, for some pretty understandable reasons.
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At one point in the bible, Jesus goes into the house of a man called Jarus, whose 12-year-old daughter has just died.
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Everyone is weeping and lamenting. But Jesus calmly says that she's not dead, she's just asleep.
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"Little girl, I say to you get up!" He says.
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We shouldn't laugh or dismiss the whole thing as nonsense.
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When your child is very sick, you may well end up believing in miracles.
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Because at the end of the day, under immense psychological pressures, you love your child more than you care about the laws of physics and biology.
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And when your loved ones do die, it can take a very robust mind indeed not to imagine, late at night when the sadness becomes overwhelming, that somehow your parent, or child, or friend, is somewhere still around and in a better place than they were.
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And that they might be able to see us as we go about our daily lives and forgive us and understand what we, perhaps, never found a way to say to them.
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And when you're in a complete mess, and all you want to do is cry in shame, you might well start to long for someone who could understand. Someone wise and forgiving, with kindly sympathetic eyes who wont judge and will be patient and kindly, like an ideal mother.
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Science may very rightly deny the existence of the Virgin Mary, let alone paradise and miracles.
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But these beliefs shouldn't just be interpreted as pieces of stupidity.
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They are signs of extreme emotional distress and desperation, which should rightly elicit in us understanding and sympathy.
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Religious beliefs are, of course, technically false.
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But they're coming from a very tender and vulnerable place, which needs our empathy.
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Of course Atheists are technically right. But there's no point getting maddened by the apparent irrationality of the religious.
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We have to understand it and appreciate the intensity of the longings that lead some of us to believe in fantasies against all odds.
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Because reality is just sometimes unbearably painful.
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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 Religious Beliefs Aren't Just Silly」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24文、単語が490語あります。 音声の長さは2:57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82%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 |
|---|---|---|
| technically 副詞 | /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/ | 厳密に |
| miracle 名詞 | /ˈmɪɹ.ə.kəl/ | 奇跡, 霊験 |
| foothill 名詞 | 前山, 山裾 | |
| overwhelm 動詞 | /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/ | 圧倒する |
| longing 名詞 | /ˈlɔːŋɪŋ/ | 憧れ, 切望 |
| madden 動詞 | /ˈmædən/ | 怒らせる |
| desperation 名詞 | /ˌdɛspəˈɹeɪʃən/ | 絶望 |
| empathy 名詞 | /ˈɛmpəθi/ | 共感 |
| understandable 形容詞 | 理解できる | |
| interpret 動詞 | /ɪnˈtɜː.pɹɪt/ | 解説する |
| dismiss 動詞 | /dɪsˈmɪs/ | 解雇する |
| sadness 名詞 | /ˈsædnəs/ | 悲しみ |
| immense 形容詞 | /ɪˈmɛns/ | 広大, 莫大 |
| desperately 副詞 | /ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹət.li/ | 必死になって |
| sympathy 名詞 | /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/ | 同情 |
動画に出てくる句動詞
| 単語 | 意味 |
|---|---|
| get up 動詞 | 起きる |
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 | have gone |
| 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 | aren't bothered · be interpreted |
注意したい発音
話し手はshouldn't, aren't, isn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を6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: empathy /ˈɛmpəθi/, sympathetic /ˌsɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/, sympathy /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/
- 「sh」と「zh」の音: irrationality /ɪˌɹæʃ.əˈnæl.ə.ti/, desperation /ˌdɛspəˈɹeɪʃən/
- 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, irrationality /ɪˌɹæʃ.əˈnæl.ə.ti/, desperation /ˌdɛspəˈɹeɪʃən/, stupidity /stuˈpɪdɪti/, sympathetic /ˌsɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/
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: rightly /ˈɹaɪtli/, miracle /ˈmɪɹ.ə.kəl/, irrationality /ɪˌɹæʃ.əˈnæl.ə.ti/, ludicrous /ˈluː.dɪ.kɹəs/, calmly /ˈkɑː(ɹ)m.li/
- /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, beloved /bɪˈlʌvd/
- 子音の連続 — 間に母音を入れない: kindly /ˈkaɪn(d)li/, lament /ləˈmɛnt/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, calmly /ˈkɑː(ɹ)m.li/, stupidity /stuˈpɪdɪti/
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。technically, miracle, foothill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。