シャドーイング練習: The Death Of Bees Explained – Parasites, Poison and Humans - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Human society is extremely complex and fragile, built upon various pillars.
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One of them is the honey bee.
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One out of three meals eaten by humans is made possible by honey bees.
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They are so important that if all the honey bees were to die out, thousands of plants would follow, which could lead to millions of people starving in the following years.
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On top of that, honey bees have a huge economic impact.
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The dollar value of plants pollinated by them each year is around $265 billion.
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Food we take for granted would just stop existing without them, or there would be a massive decrease in productivity.
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Food including apples, onions, pumpkins, and also plants used for feeding livestock and thus extremely important for our milk and meat.
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Einstein is often quoted as having said, “If honey bees die out, humans will follow a few years later.” Actually, he probably didn’t say that, but there might be some truth in the statement.
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It’s unsettling, but honey bees have started to disappear.
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Millions of hives have died in the last few years.
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Beekeepers all over the world have seen an annual loss of 30–90% of their colonies.
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In the US alone, bees are steadily declining.
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>From 5 million hives in 1988 to 2.5 million today.
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Since 2006, a phenomenon called “colony collapse disorder” has affected honey bees in many countries.
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And we’re not entirely sure what’s causing it.
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All we know is that it’s pretty serious.
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Over the last few decades bees have seen an invasion of very dangerous foes.
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Parasites straight out of a horror movie, like Acarapis woodi, microscopic mites that infect the tracheae (that’s the breathing tubes) of bees.
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Here, they lay their eggs and feed from the fluids of their victims, weakening them considerably and spending their whole life inside the bees.
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Or Varroa destructor, a fitting name because they can only reproduce in honey bee hives and are one of the bees’ greatest enemies.
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The female mite enters a honey bee brood cell and lays eggs on the bee larva before it’s about to pupate and before the hive bees cover the cell with a wax capping.
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The eggs hatch and the young mites and their mother feed on the developing bee in the safety of the capped cell.
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The bee is not normally killed at this stage, just weakened, so it still has enough strength to chew its way through the wax capping and release itself from the cell.
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As it does, it releases the mother mite and her new offspring from the cell, and these are free to spread across the hive, starting the process over again in a cycle of about 10 days.
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Their numbers grow exponentially, and after a few months, this can lead to the collapse of the entire bee hive.
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Once outside of the cell, adult mites also suck the bodily fludis of bees and weaken them considerably.
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To make things worse, they also transmit viruses that harm the bees even more and can lead to birth defects like useless wings.
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But there are other threats too, such as viruses and fungi.
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Under normal circumstances, these phenomena should be manageable and are not enough to explain the horrendous amount of dying going on in bees.
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Over recent years new insecticides have been introduced that are deadly to bees.
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Neonicotinoids, a chemical family similar to nicotine, was approved in the early 1990s as an alternative to chemicals like DDT.
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They attack insects by harming their nervous systems.
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Today, they are the most widely used insecticides in the world.
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Globally, they saw sales of €1.5 billion in 2008, representing 24% of the global market for insecticides.
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In 2013, neonicotinoids were used in the US on about 95% of corn and canola crops, and also on the vast majority of fruit and vegetables, like apples, cherries, peaches, oranges, berries, leafy greens, tomatoes, potatoes, cereal grains, rice, nuts, grapes, and many more.
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Bees come into contact with the toxin while collecting pollen or via contaminated water, often bringing material into the hive, where it can accumulate and slowly kill the whole colony.
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The toxins harm bees in a variety of horrible ways.
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In high enough doses, it quickly leads to convulsions, paralysis, and death.
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But even in small doses, it can be fatal.
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It may lead to bees forgetting how to navigate the world, so bees fly into the wild, get lost, and die alone, separated from their hives.
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If this happens often enough, a hive can lose its ability to sustain itself.
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We know that neonicotinoids are harmful to bees and that we urgently need an alternative to it, but there are billions of dollars to be made in delaying this.
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Studies sponsored by the chemical industry magically appear to prove a much lower toxicity to bees, compared to those produced by independent scientists.
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There are even more factors contributing to the demise of bees, like too much genetic uniformity, crop monocultures, poor nutrition due to overcrowding, stress because of human activities, and other pesticides.
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Each of those factors on its own is a major problem for bees, but together, they probably account for colony collapse disorder.
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With parasites upping their game in recent decades, the honey bees are now fighting for survival.
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It would be a catastrophe if they lost this fight.
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This is a conundrum we have to solve if we want to continue living with a relative abundance and diversity of food.
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Humanity is deeply interconnected with Earth and the other lifeforms on it, even if we pretend that we’re not.
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We have to take better care of our surroundings, if not to preserve the beauty of nature, then at least to ensure our own survival.
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文脈と背景

この動画は、蜜蜂の危機的状況に関する深い理解を提供します。蜜蜂は私たちの食生活に多大な影響を与える重要な存在であり、一つの食事のうちの三分の一は蜜蜂による授粉によって成り立っています。蜜蜂が絶滅すると、植物の多くが影響を受け、最終的には人類にも深刻な結果をもたらす可能性があります。このような背景を理解することで、英語学習者は内容に対する興味を高めることができ、積極的に学ぶ姿勢を持つことができます。

日常コミュニケーションのための重要なフレーズ5選

  • 蜜蜂: "The honey bee is crucial for our food supply."
  • 生態系: "Their role in the ecosystem can't be overstated."
  • 経済的影響: "The economic value of bees is around $265 billion."
  • 絶滅の危機: "If bees disappear, we face a potential food crisis."
  • 農薬の影響: "Neonicotinoids are harmful to the bee population."

段階的シャドーイングガイド

この動画の内容は、英語の発音を良くするための素晴らしい素材です。以下のステップに従って、シャドースピーチを効果的に実行し、英語シャドーイングのスキルを向上させましょう。

  1. リスニング: 最初に動画を全体を聞いて、内容を理解しましょう。特に、トーンやアクセントに注意を払いましょう。
  2. フレーズを選ぶ: 上記で紹介したフレーズを繰り返し練習します。「蜜蜂」や「経済的影響」など、キーワードを意識して発音しましょう。
  3. 繰り返し練習: パートごとに繰り返し、聞いた内容をそのまま声に出してみます。言葉のリズムやイントネーションに注意を払いながら、shadowspeakで声に出すことが大切です。
  4. 録音とフィードバック: 自分の声を録音し、元の動画と比較しましょう。発音や流れるような話し方を改善するための手助けになります。

このプロセスを繰り返すことで、あなたの英語スピーキング能力は着実に向上するでしょう。日常会話で使えるフレーズを学び、shadow speakを積極的に活用して、より自然に英語を話せるようになりましょう。

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。