शैडोइंग अभ्यास: Why Are Things Cute? - वीडियो के साथ अंग्रेजी बोलना सीखें
पाठ बनाया जा रहा है...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. And The Pet Collective offers 24-hour coverage of puppies and kittens. It's really cute.
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But what is cute, scientifically? I mean, why do we like soft, cuddly things and why do cute things have a unique effect on us?
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Well, the word cute is a shortening of acute, which originally meant "keen," "shrewd," "perceptive." About 180 years ago, the word cute began to be used as slang for a girl, who was pretty.
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And after that, it accrued a new meaning and was used to describe cuddly, delicate, quaint, precious, youthful traits. Konrad Lorenz studies cuteness in living things and put together a great specific list of what we consider cute.
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Small body size with a disproportionately large head, large eyes and round and soft body features. But why exactly did these characteristics elicit an "ooooohhh" response from us humans? Well, Lorenz pointed that you could find all of those characteristics in the human baby, which makes sense.
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If merely looking at our offspring makes us instinctively feel protective and nurturing, well, that's great for all of us. A fun consequence of this is that our experience of cuteness can be triggered by things that aren't human babies.
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For instance, shells, bunnies, owls and even a hammer.
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A hammer, how can that be? Take a look at this interactive tool from the Exploratorium. A hammer is boring.
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But if we apply Lorenz's traits and make it really round and really squat, it goes from a utilitarian tool to a cute little tiny hammer. Oh, he's just a little hammer, don't hurt him.
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It is a hammer that has become cute, because we gave it qualities that we see in our own offspring.
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As Daniel Dennett puts it, "if human babies looked like this, instead of that, we would find this cute." And whenever we saw something that looked like it, we would wanna cuddle and snuggle with it.
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Alright, so we have a pretty good idea about the how and what of cute.
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But where is cute? Well, researchers have shown cute baby pictures to subjects while using functional MRI to track activity in the brain.
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And sure enough, the cuter the baby in the picture, the more activation found right here - the nucleus accumbens. A pleasure centre.
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When activated, the nucleus accumbens releases dopamine.
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It's all part of our internal reward system. It's the same part of the brain targeted by cocaine and meth. Cuteness is such a powerful force on the brain in fact that it can affect our behaviours - what we like, what we buy.
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And so it's no coincidence that the creators of cartoon characters, like Mickey Mouse or Pikachu, have drawn them more and more cute over time.
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The Japanese concept of Kawaii is a great example of this and it's one that's fun to quantify.
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If you're an adult, how many of your own heads, stacked on top of each other, do you think it would take to equal your height?
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The answer for most of us is around 7.5. But illustrations of people that are meant to make them look heroic or noble tend to make the person around 8 to 8.5 heads high.
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Cute goes the other way. Manga characters tend to only be about 5.5 to 6.5 heads tall.
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Back to babies.
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There are many other psychological factors at work that cause us to want to instinctively take care of our young. And to be sure, some of them are decidedly not cute. For instance, poopy diapers.
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Researchers have found that mothers, when exposed to soiled diapers, tend to consider the smell coming from their own child's diaper to be the least terrible, despite not knowing which diaper belonged to which kid. When something retains juvenile traits all the way through adulthood, it is called neoteny. And we love it, especially in animals that we keep as pets. Of course, us humans have selectively bred all kinds of animals to make each generation more and more useful to us.
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But the dog may be the animal that've spent the most time designing, making each generation better at hunting or better at staying cuter for longer.
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Dogs like this have been designed by us to look, grow and behave in ways that we want.
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Not that dissimilar from how we would design, say, a DVD player and its features.
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So whether it's staying cute forever or just being a really great hunting companion, the modern dog, more than any other animal, could be considered not so much a consequence of nature as much as it is a piece of human technology. As Science Friday puts it, "the dog is man's best friend because it may be man's best invention." So go pet a cute dog today.
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And as always, thanks for watching.
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इस पाठ के बारे में
इस वीडियो में, हम समझेंगे कि "क्यूट" (cute) का क्या अर्थ है और यह हमें क्यों आकर्षित करता है। आप जानेंगे कि वैज्ञानिक रूप से क्यूटनेस की पहचान कैसे की जाती है और यह हमारे मनोविज्ञान पर कैसे प्रभाव डालती है। इस ज्ञान का उपयोग करके, आप अपने अंग्रेजी बोलने और उच्चारण में सुधार कर सकते हैं। इस अभ्यास के दौरान, आप विभिन्न भावनाओं को व्यक्त करने और संवाद में लचीलापन विकसित करने का प्रयास करेंगे।
मुख्य शब्दावली और वाक्यांश
- क्यूट (Cute): जिसे देखकर हमें प्रसन्नता या सहानुभूति होती है।
- युवावस्था (Juvenile): युवाओं से संबंधित जो लक्षण क्यूटनेस को बढ़ाते हैं।
- प्राकृतिक चयन (Natural Selection): उस प्रक्रिया का उल्लेख करता है जिसके द्वारा मनुष्य ने जानवरों को अपने जरूरतों के अनुसार विकसित किया।
- ह्यूमन बेबी (Human Baby): छोटे बच्चों में क्यूटनेस के विशेष लक्षणों का उदाहरण।
- डोपामाइन (Dopamine): मस्तिष्क का वह रसायन जो खुशी और स्वास्थ्य से संबंधित है।
- नीरोगी (Neoteny): जब किसी जानवर में युवा विशेषताएँ बची रहती हैं।
- पशु मित्र (Animal Companion): ऐसे जानवर जो मनुष्यों के साथी होते हैं।
- सामाजिक व्यवहार (Social Behavior): वो तरीके जिनसे लोग और जानवर एक-दूसरे के साथ संवाद करते हैं।
अभ्यास के सुझाव
इस वीडियो से अंग्रेजी बोलने का अभ्यास करते समय, आप अंग्रेजी शैडोइंग तकनीक का उपयोग कर सकते हैं। वीडियो की गति को ध्यान में रखते हुए, पहले इसे ध्यान से सुनें। फिर, उसी गति में बोलने का प्रयास करें और शब्दों के उच्चारण पर ध्यान दें। शैडो स्पीच में, विशेष रूप से भावनाओं को सही तरीके से व्यक्त करने के लिए, वीडियो में दिखाए गए शब्दों और विषयों को दोहराएं।
यह महत्वपूर्ण है कि आप क्यूटनेस से संबंधित विषयों में अपने विचार व्यक्त करने की कोशिश करें। इससे न केवल आपकी अंग्रेजी उच्चारण में सुधार होगा, बल्कि आपकी संवाद क्षमता भी बढ़ेगी। इस प्रकार, आप shadowspeak का अभ्यास करते हुए अपने सामान्य संवाद में विविधता ला सकेंगे।
वीडियो के बाद, अपने मित्रों के साथ चर्चा करने का प्रयास करें कि क्या चीजें आपको क्यूट लगती हैं और क्यों। यह आपके अंग्रेजी बोलने का अभ्यास करने का एक मजेदार तरीका है!
इस वीडियो का व्याकरण
वक्ता जिन संरचनाओं का सबसे अधिक प्रयोग करता है, वीडियो के असली शब्दों के साथ:
| संरचना | वीडियो में |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — बीता हुआ काम जिसका असर अभी भी है | has become · have shown · have drawn |
| Passive voice be + past participle — ज़ोर इस पर कि क्या होता है, न कि कौन करता है | can be triggered · are meant · is called |
शैडोइंग तकनीक क्या है?
शैडोइंग (Shadowing) एक विज्ञान-समर्थित भाषा सीखने की तकनीक है जो मूल रूप से पेशेवर दुभाषिया प्रशिक्षण के लिए विकसित की गई थी। विधि सरल लेकिन शक्तिशाली है: आप मूल अंग्रेज़ी ऑडियो सुनते हैं और तुरंत इसे ज़ोर से दोहराते हैं — जैसे वक्ता की छाया 1-2 सेकंड की देरी से। शोध से पता चलता है कि यह उच्चारण सटीकता, स्वर, लय, जुड़ी हुई ध्वनियाँ, सुनने की समझ और बोलने की प्रवाहशीलता में काफ़ी सुधार करता है।