Shadowing Practice: Lucy Cooke on: Bats - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I've got the bat.
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The bat has a bad rap.
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Why are people still down on bats?
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The thing about bats is that they're, because they are a little bit human-like in form,
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they've got forward-facing eyes and faces that, I mean, you wouldn't want to look like a bat, but they're not a million miles from a human face,
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and the way that the body is structured, And of course they've got these extraordinarily oversized hands that are webbed and that's actually their wings are.
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They actually swim through the air using these giant webbed hands.
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It's an amazing thing.
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But I think the thing is because they look a little bit like us
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and also unlike us all at the same time, it creeps us out.
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And I think there's a sort of creepiness to that, you know.
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So with bats they get an extraordinary bad rap people think that they carry disease,
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actually only 0.05% of bats carry rabies, you know it's a tiny amount, you're more likely to get bitten by a raccoon than get rabies quite frankly.
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People think they're going to fly in their hair.
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I mean bats echolocation system is incredibly effective.
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They're not gonna go anywhere near your hair.
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They don't want to get caught in your hair.
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They don't want to get caught in your hair.
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They're not interested.
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So they're not gonna bite you, they're not gonna bother you.
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They are in fact doing an incredible job for us because bats eat insects.
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So they eat mosquitoes, what's not to love about that?
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And then the other thing is that they are key pollinators.
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A lot of people don't know, a lot of the fruit-back species are pollinators.
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And the one plant, so some of these, you know, plants are very pollinator-specific, and so they can only be pollinated by one creature.
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So now the agave plant can only be pollinated by that.
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Now, do you know what's made out of agave?
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I believe it is a drink that many people enjoy.
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Yes, exactly.
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Without bats there'd be no tequila.
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Because the agave plant wouldn't be able to fertilise.
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So, you know, whether or not that's a good thing for humanity is up for debate.
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Well, next time you have a margarita toast to bats.
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Yeah, that's a great idea.
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Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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