シャドーイング練習: Why Your Voice Shakes When You Speak (And Exactly How to Stop It) - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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I want to tell you about the worst moment I have ever had while speaking in front of people.
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I was standing in front of a room, fully prepared.
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I knew my material, I had rehearsed and the moment I opened my mouth, my voice came out shaking.
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Not slightly, noticeably.
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And I could hear it.
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And because I could hear my own voice, I got more nervous.
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And because I got more nervous, it got worse.
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And I just stood there thinking, why is this happening to me?
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I know this stuff.
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Then why is my body betraying me?
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and if you have ever felt the same this video is for you
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and i promise you by the end of this you will understand exactly why it happens
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and you will have the tools to stop it welcome back
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to speak with power i'm captain ruta kumar singh i'm a former army officer
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and i'm your communication and presence coach
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and today we are going deep on to one of the most common fears i hear from the professionals
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and speakers i work with
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the shaking voice it doesn't matter
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if you're speaking in a boardroom presenting to a team speaking on the stage
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or just raising your hand in a meeting
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if your voice shakes it steals your credibility right in the moment you need it the most Come on, let's fix it today.
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Okay, now let me go back to that story I started with.
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Because I think understanding where this comes from is just as important as the fix.
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Early in my career as a Judd Advocate General's Branch Officer in the Indian Army, I was asked to present in front of a room of senior officers.
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people with experience, authority and titles.
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And I remember standing outside that room and telling myself, you have got this.
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all the self -talk which you do, You know this.
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Just go in and speak.
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And I genuinely believed that I was enough.
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I walked in, I was introduced, I stood up and the moment the attention of the room shifted to me, Every single eye on me,
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something happened in my body that I did not ask for and could not control.
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My heart started hammering.
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My throat went dry.
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And when I spoke, the first two sentences came out with this slight tremor.
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This wobble in your voice that I knew was there and that I was convinced everyone in that room could hear.
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So let's talk about why it happens.
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Because once you understand the why, the fix makes a lot more sense.
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So when you stand up to speak in front of people, your brain reads the situation as a threat.
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not a physical threat, you're not in danger as such.
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But your nervous system doesn't always know the difference between there's a line in front of you
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and there are 30 people staring at me, waiting for me to say something smart.
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The response is the same.
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Your body floods with adrenal.
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your heart rate goes up your breathing gets shallower.
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Blood moves away from your digestive system and toward your muscles
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because your body is getting ready to either fight or to run.
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And your voice, your voice is powered by your breath.
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It needs a steady controlled flow of air to come out smooth and consistent.
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But when you are in that nervous state, your breathing becomes shallow and unsteady.
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So the voice wobbles.
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It's not a weakness.
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It's not a character flaw.
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It's a completely involuntary physiological response.
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The people who seem completely calm when they speak publicly, they have either trained their nervous system to respond differently
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or they're not a person this is the version most people don't want to hear They're still nervous.
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They have just found out a way to work with it instead of against it.
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That's the whole game.
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So what is the solution for this?
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How do we fix it?
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Fix number one, and this is the most important one.
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Breathing.
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But not the way most people think about it.
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Most people try to remember to breathe while they are already speaking, which doesn't work.
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Because by the time the nervousness is already running
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and your conscious mind is too busy trying to remember what to say next.
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the breathing has to happen before you speak in
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that moment just before you open your mouth whether it is before you stand up
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or before you're introduced or even while someone else is still talking and you know you're about to contribute
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That is when you focus on your breathing.
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I'm going to tell you the exact technique.
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It's called box breathing.
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Some of you might have heard about it already, and it takes about 30 seconds.
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Breathe in for four counts.
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hold for four counts and then breathe out slowly for four counts one round.
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That's it.
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And repeat it.
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Do it once, maybe twice.
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What this does it, it activates your parasympathetic nervous system, the calm down system
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and starts pulling your heart rate back down before you have
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even said a word i do this before every single session
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i run every single presentation every live video i am on
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every video i record on youtube like this it looks like
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nothing from the outside i just look like i'm sitting quietly but on the inside i'm resetting my nervous system
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just in 30 seconds.
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But do it before you speak, not while you're already in it.
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Fix number two.
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Lower your voice intentionally.
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Here's what I mean when I say that lower your voice intentionally.
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See, when nervousness will hit, your vocal cords will tighten, physically tighten.
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And when your vocal cords are tight, your voice goes higher and thinner, which is exactly the register where shaking is most noticeable.
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So one of the fastest ways to reduce the wobble is to consciously bring your voice
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down in a pitch not fake law, not performing a deep voice that isn't yours,
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just consciously dropping your register slightly lower than where your nervous system is trying to push it.
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Think about it this way.
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When you're relaxed talking to a close friend or your family, your voice naturally sits at a comfortable mid to lower register.
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That's your real voice.
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That's the voice that comes from a relaxed throat.
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When you're nervous, it climbs up.
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Your job is to bring it back down.
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Practically, how do you do this?
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So before you speak, hmm, literally, hmm, quietly in the car, in the bathroom, outside the room,
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humming warms up your vocal cords and bring them back to
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relaxed position and it takes only 10 seconds and it works my little goes my little goes
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all right let's move to fix number three
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give the nervous energy somewhere to go because the energy
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that makes your voice shake doesn't disappear you can't just suppress it
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but you can redirect it
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so i had this client a senior manager excellent at her
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job incredibly knowledgeable who would freeze the moment she had to
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present to a leadership team her voice would shake she would lose her train of thought
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and afterwards she would be devastated because she knew she hadn't shown up as herself
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and when we worked together one of the first things i told her was Stop trying to be not nervous. Be nervous.
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That is losing a battle if you try not to be nervous.
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Instead, use that nervous energy somewhere.
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Let's redirect it.
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Here's what that looks like in practice.
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So before you speak, press your feet firmly onto the floor.
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Feel the ground under you that physical grounding actually helps your nervous system orient itself.
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You're literally angering your energy.
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Then use hand gestures where you speak.
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Controlled, intentional gesture.
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Because when your hands are moving purposefully, the nervous energy that was sitting at one place in your chest has somewhere to flow.
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It moves through your arms
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and out through your gestures instead of traveling up into your throat and coming out as a shake.
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You can also move around a bit if it's a big stage, let the energy flow and not be stuck at one place.
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She started doing this in practice.
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Feet grounded, gestures intentional, moving around and within two sessions she was presenting to
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that same leadership team and she came back and told me, I actually enjoyed this time.
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Same room, same people, completely different experience because she stopped fighting her nerve and started channeling it properly.
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So let's recap.
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Three things to do the next time your voice starts to shake.
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One, box breathing before you speak, not during.
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Four counts in.
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hold Four counts out, hold.
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30 seconds outside the room or before you start.
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2. Lower your voice intentionally.
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Hmm, before you go in, bring your real voice back.
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3. Ground your feet, use your hands, give the energy somewhere to go instead of fighting it stuck at one place.
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Try even one of these next time.
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That's all I'm asking.
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One.
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And then come back and tell me in the comments what happened.
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I genuinely want to know.
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If this helped you, subscribe to my channel because I'm on this channel every single day talking about communication,
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confidence, presence and the skills that actually change how the world experiences you.
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I'll see you tomorrow.
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Jai Hind.
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Namaste.
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- "I want to tell you about..." - 何かを伝えたい時のフレーズです。このような使い方によって、聞き手を引き込むことができます。
- "It doesn't matter if..." - 何が重要でないかを示す表現。このフレーズは、状況の多様性を強調するのに役立ちます。
- "My heart started hammering." - この表現は、感情の高まりを視覚的に描写します。話す上で、感情を表現する重要性を学びましょう。
- "Your breathing gets shallower." - 呼吸の状態についての言及です。ストレスがかかる状況では、意識して呼吸を整えることが必要です。
一般的な発音の罠
ビデオ内で注意が必要な発音のポイントは以下の通りです：
- 単語の強弱を意識することが大切です。特に「声が震える」という表現は、正確に発音することで、緊張した状況でも安定した印象を与えます。
- 発音する際の呼吸のコントロールが重要です。「smooth」や「consistent」などの単語は流れるように発音する練習が必要です。英語シャドーイングを通じて、これらの単語を効果的に練習しましょう。
- 発音の際のアセント（強弱）の位置を把握することで、自然な流れを作り出します。特に「control」や「threat」などの単語に注意を払って正確に発音しましょう。
このように、英語の発音を良くするためには、正しい文法や表現、そして発音の練習が不可欠です。英語学習者として、自信を持って話すための環境を整えるために、ぜひこのビデオを活用してください。IELTS スピーキング対策としても非常に効果的です。
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| 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 ever felt · have just found |
| 関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える | people who seem · thinner, which is |
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。