シャドーイング練習: Work-life balance — Jeff Bezos - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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how do you go about establishing that work -life balance
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that everybody you know talks about
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and thinks about you've got yeah I mean you live a big life right
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and how do you how do you I get this question
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a lot I get it I teach senior executive kind of leadership classes at Amazon for our most senior execs
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and I also teach or not teach but I also speak to interns
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so kind of all across the spectrum
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and I get this question about work -life balance all the time from from both ends of the spectrum
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and the my view is I don't even like the phrase is work -life balance.
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I think it's misleading.
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I like the phrase work -life harmony because I know that if I am energized at work,
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happy at work, feeling like I'm adding value, part of a team, whatever energizes you, that makes me better at home.
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It makes me a better husband, a better father, and likewise, if I'm happy at home,
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it makes me a better employee, a better boss, all the things.
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It's not about, it's not primarily about, there may be crunch periods where it's about the number of hours in the week, but that's not the real thing.
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Usually, it's about, do you have energy?
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And is your work depriving you of energy, or is your work generating energy for you.
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And you know, there are people, everybody in this room knows people who fall into these two camps.
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You're in a meeting and the person comes in the room.
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Some people come into the meeting and they add energy to the meeting.
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Other people come into the meeting and the whole meeting just deflates.
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And those people just, they drain energy from the meeting.
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And you have to decide which of those kinds of people you're going to be.
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Are you going to add energy?
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And the same thing at home and the same thing at home
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and it's so it's a wheel it's a cycle it's a flywheel it's a circle it's not a balance
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because a balance that's why that metaphor is so dangerous
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because it implies there's a strict trade -off
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and you could be out of work have all the time for your family in the world
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but really depressed and demoralized about your work situation
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and your family wouldn't want to be anywhere near you they would wish you would take a vacation from them
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and so it's not about the number of hours not primarily I suppose
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if you went crazy with you know a hundred hours a week
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or something yeah that maybe maybe there are limits
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and they probably I've never had a problem and I think it's
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because both sides of my life give me energy
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and that's what I would recommend that's what I do recommend to interns and execs
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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
この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が37文、単語が486語あります。 音声の長さは2:47です。 話す速さは1分あたり約174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
動画に出てくる覚えておきたい単語10語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。
| 単語 | 発音 | 意味 |
|---|---|---|
| phrase 名詞 | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | 句, 語句 |
| spectrum 名詞 | /ˈspɛktɹəm/ | スペクトル, 分光 |
| intern 名詞 | /ˈɪntɝn/ | 実習生, インターン |
| vacation 名詞 | /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ | 休暇, 休み |
| generate 動詞 | /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/ | 生む, 生み出す |
| harmony 名詞 | /ˈhɑ̟ɹ.mə.ni/ | 調和 |
| likewise 副詞 | /ˈlaɪkˌwaɪz/ | 同様に |
| imply 動詞 | /ɪmˈplaɪ/ | ほのめかす |
| metaphor 名詞 | /ˈmɛt.ə.fɚ/ | 比喩, 隠喩 |
| flywheel 名詞 | フライホイール, 弾み車 |
注意したい発音
話し手はI'm, you're, don'tなど、短縮形や弱形を8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: establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
- 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: primarily /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/, demoralize /dɪˈmɒɹəlaɪz/
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。phrase, spectrum, intern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。