Shadowing-Übung: A Whale’s-Eye-View of the Ocean | Eric Stackpole | TED - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit YouTube

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During COVID, everyone was sequestered in their own corners of the world.
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During COVID, everyone was sequestered in their own corners of the world.
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I had the strange fortune of being sequestered here aboard the Ocean Explorer,
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one of the most advanced research vessels on the planet,
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filming a show for National Geographic.
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The ship was designed not just for research, but also for storytelling.
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My job was to travel the world and show people what exploration is like from the perspective of an engineer.
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When I tell people this,
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they usually have three questions.
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What was it like?
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What did you learn?
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And how did you get the job?
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I'll go backward.
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I wasn't always a great engineer.
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I wasn't even a good student.
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I spent more time tinkering than doing homework.
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But I love engineering, and that has led me on an incredible journey.
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With friends, I built low-cost underwater robots designed to democratize exploration,
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and that democratization drew the attention of the show's producers.
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You can watch the show to see what we discovered,
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but for me, the most powerful moments we're seeing things that no one had ever seen before,
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using the tools that we had built.
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In the Azores, we teamed up with Rui Pareto,
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renowned whale biologist who spent decades studying sperm whales.
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These giants can dive to over a mile deep to hunt,
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and we know very little about what they do when they're down there.
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So to find out, Rui had put together a very DIY tag.
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It used a taken-apart action camera.
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It had a light, there was a radio beacon,
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and it had suction cups designed to stick to the whale for a few hours
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and then pop up and float to the surface.
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It was very DIY, but even on an advanced research ship,
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building your own tools is often the way to get the information you need.
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It barely worked.
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We had to spend nights soldering and improvising to try to get it going.
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And at like 2 in the morning,
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we finally got it going.
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And while I overslept, Drew was already out on the boat.
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He placed the tag on a whale,
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and I remember him radioing back.
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The tag was on.
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Okay, a huge amount of suspense.
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Would it ever come back to the surface?
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Or would it flood with water?
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Would the battery die?
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Would the camera work?
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We had no idea.
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But it did come up.
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We found it.
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We took it back to the ship.
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And fingers were crossed.
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Finally, we opened it up.
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There was no water inside.
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Oh, my God.
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We pulled out the SD card,
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and like with bated breath,
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we put it in the computer and waited for the files to load.
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And oh my God, we had footage from the back of a sperm whale.
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Oh my God.
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Rui and I were losing it.
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The first thing we saw was the whale's head and back as she descended into the bottom.
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You could hear the water rushing by as she swam faster and faster into the deep particles rushed by the camera.
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And the water pressure was so immense from the speed that eventually the suction cup started to come loose.
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I thought that was going to bit.
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We were going to lose it.
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But one suction cup miraculously held on.
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And it caused the tag to rotate backward.
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And now we can see the sails massive fluke.
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These can be 16 feet across on some whales,
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driving her into the depths.
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And as it got deeper,
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we started hearing on the camera's microphone clicking.
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You guys hear that?
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That is echolocation.
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That is the sound of the sperm whale hunting by listening for echoes bouncing off of prey.
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I couldn't believe it.
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And it didn't seem like she caught anything that time,
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but as she came shallower in the light group rider,
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we were just, like, amazed at what we were seeing.
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It didn't seem like this was possible.
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And then we started hearing a different sound.
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It was a rapid series of clicks.
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That's called codas.
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This is the way sperm whales used to communicate with each other.
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So we were hearing her talking to another whale.
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We could not believe our ears and then we couldn't believe our eyes.
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Rui and I were losing it.
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The other whale came into the shot,
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and they were talking back and forth.
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They were swimming and bumping alongside each other.
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For minutes, we watched in disbelief as we watched this exchange of these two whales.
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Friends, family, lovers, we can never know for sure.
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But what we were witnessing was something no one had ever seen before.
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I remember seeing the bond that they had with my eyes and also feeling it with my heart.
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The footage we had seen was not just data.
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This was an experience of life.
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It was reminding me why exploration really matters.
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It's not just about understanding the world with our logical minds.
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I believe exploration has huge potential to allow us to experience things with emotion
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and feel the context of why we're here on Earth.
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We saw that they even dived together,
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and that is really something that moved me.
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That one last dive, seeing that maybe it's not even such a lonely place down there after all.
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We are all here together,
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and that is something extremely powerful.
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So we are living in an era now where our tools
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can give us amazing ability to understand in ways never before possible.
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The same advances that have put computers in our pockets
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and access to almost unlimited information on our screens can also allow us to explore in brand new ways.
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Our tools no longer limit what we can understand.
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It's more that our understanding is limited by curiosity.
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So the question isn't, what can we explore?
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So much is already within our reach.
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The real question is, what will we wonder about next?
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Thank you very much.
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Thank you.

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Warum das Sprechen mit diesem Video üben?

Das Video "A Whale’s-Eye-View of the Ocean" bietet eine faszinierende Perspektive auf die tiefen Gewässer und die Wunder der Meeresbiologie. Wenn du Englisch sprechen üben möchtest, ist dieser Vortrag eine großartige Gelegenheit, deine Kommunikationsfähigkeiten zu verbessern. Durch das Nachahmen (oder shadow speak) des Sprechers kannst du nicht nur deine Aussprache und deinen Wortschatz erweitern, sondern auch dein Hörverständnis schärfen. Die persönliche Erzählweise und die spannenden Entdeckungen halten die Aufmerksamkeit wach, was das Lernen unterhaltsam und effektiv macht.

Grammatik & Ausdrücke im Kontext

  • „I had the strange fortune of being sequestered“ - Diese Struktur zeigt, wie der Sprecher seine Erfahrungen beschreibt. Achte darauf, wie das Wort „fortune“ verwendet wird, um ein Gefühl von Glück hervorzuheben, selbst in schwierigen Zeiten.
  • „to find out“ - Ein häufiges Phrasal Verb, das bedeutet, etwas zu entdecken oder neue Informationen zu sammeln. Diese Ausdrucksweise ist in vielen Gesprächen nützlich, insbesondere wenn du über Forschungs- oder Entdeckungsprozesse sprichst.
  • „It didn’t seem like this was possible“ - Hier wird der Konjunktiv verwendet, um Zweifel oder Überraschung auszudrücken. Solche Formulierungen können dir helfen, in Diskussionen über unerwartete Ereignisse Nuancen hinzuzufügen.
  • „We had to spend nights soldering and improvising“ - Dieser Satz verwendet das Gerundium, um fortlaufende Handlungen zu beschreiben. Dies ist besonders nützlich, wenn du über Projekte oder deinen Lernprozess sprichst.

Häufige Aussprachefallen

Beim Englische Aussprache verbessern gibt es einige Wörter und Phrasen in diesem Video, die Schüler häufig falsch aussprechen:

  • „suction cups“ - Achte darauf, die Silben korrekt zu betonen: die erste Silbe „suc“ muss klar und betont ausgesprochen werden.
  • „echolocation“ - Ein langes, zusammengesetztes Wort, das schwierig auszusprechen ist. Übe jeden Teil des Wortes einzeln und kombiniere sie dann.
  • „democratize“ - Obwohl dieses Wort im Deutschen bekannt ist, ist die englische Aussprache für viele Lernende eine Herausforderung. Achte darauf, das „o“ klar auszusprechen. Dies ist eine häufige Herausforderungen für Deutschsprechende.

Durch die Anwendung dieser Techniken und das gezielte shadow speech, kannst du deine Fähigkeiten im Englischen erheblich steigern. Nutze das Video, um im Kontext zu lernen und das Sprechen zu üben!

Was ist die Shadowing-Technik?

Shadowing ist eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Sprachlerntechnik, die ursprünglich für die professionelle Dolmetscherausbildung entwickelt und durch den Polyglotten Dr. Alexander Arguelles populär gemacht wurde. Die Methode ist einfach aber wirkungsvoll: Du hörst englisches Audio von Muttersprachlern und wiederholst es sofort laut — wie ein Schatten, der dem Sprecher mit nur 1–2 Sekunden Verzögerung folgt. Anders als passives Hören oder Grammatikübungen zwingt Shadowing dein Gehirn und deine Mundmuskulatur, gleichzeitig echte Sprachmuster zu verarbeiten und zu reproduzieren. Studien zeigen, dass es Aussprachegenauigkeit, Intonation, Rhythmus, verbundene Sprache, Hörverständnis und Sprechflüssigkeit signifikant verbessert — was es zu einer der effektivsten Methoden für die IELTS Speaking-Vorbereitung und reale englische Kommunikation macht.

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