쉐도잉 연습: Is Anything Real? - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

레슨 만드는 중...
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Hey, Vsauce, Michael here.
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Where are your fingers?
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Seriously, it's a pretty easy question.
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You should be able to answer it.
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But how do you know?
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How does anyone know anything?
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You might say, well, I know where my fingers are.
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I'm looking right at them.
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Or, I can touch them.
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I can feel them.
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They're right here.
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And that's good.
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Your senses are a great way to learn things.
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In fact, we have way more than the usual five senses we do talk about.
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For instance, your kinesthetic sense, proprioception.
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This is what the police evaluate during a field sobriety test.
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It allows you to tell where your fingers and arms
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and head and legs and your body is all in relation to each other without having to look or touch other things.
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We have way more than five senses.
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We have at least twice as many and then some.
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But they're not perfect.
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There are optical illusions, audio illusions, Temperature, sensation illusions, even tactile illusions.
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Can you turn your tongue upside down?
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If so, perfect.
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Try this.
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Run your finger along the outer edge of the tip of your upside down tongue.
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Your tongue will be able to feel your finger but in the wrong place.
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Our brains never needed to develop an understanding of upside down tongue touch.
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So when you touch the right side of your tongue, when it's flipped over to your left side, you perceive a sensation on the opposite side where your tongue usually is,
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but isn't when it's upside down.
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It's pretty freaky and cool and a little humbling because it shows the limits of the accuracy of our senses.
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The only tools we have to get what's out there in here.
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The philosophy of knowledge, the study of knowing, is called epistemology.
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Plato famously said that the things we know are things that are true, that we believe, and that we have justification for believing.
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Those justifications might be irrational or they might be rational, they might be based on proof,
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but don't get too confident because proven is not a synonym for true.
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Luckily, there are things that we can know without needing proof, without needing to even leave the house, things that we can know as true by reason alone.
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These are things that we know a priori.
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An example would be the statement, all bachelors are unmarried.
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I don't have to go survey every bachelor on earth to know that that is true.
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All bachelors are unmarried because that's how we define the word bachelor.
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Of course, you have to know what the words bachelor and unmarried mean in the first place.
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Oh, you do?
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Okay, perfect, that's great.
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But how do you know?
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This time I mean functionally.
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How do you know?
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Where is knowledge biologically in the brain?
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What are memories made out of?
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We are a long way from being able to answer that question completely, But research has shown that memories don't exist in the brain in single locations.
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Instead, what we call a memory is likely made up of
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many different complex relationships all over the brain between lots of brain cells, neurons.
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A major cellular mechanism thought to underlie the formation of memories is long-term potentiation or LTP.
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When one neuron stimulates another neuron repeatedly,
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that signal can be enhanced over time wiring them more strongly together and that connection can last a long time,
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even an entire lifetime.
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A collection of different brain cells,
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neurons that fire together in a particular order over and over again frequently and repeatedly can achieve long-term potentiation,
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becoming more sensitive to each other and more ready to fire in the exact same way later on in the future.
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They're a physical thing in your brain firing together more easily because you strengthened that pattern of firing.
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You memorized.
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This branching forest of firing friends looks messy, but look closer.
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It could be the memory of your first kiss, a living souvenir of the event.
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If I were to go into your brain and cut out those cells, could I make you forget your first kiss?
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Or could I make you forget where your fingers are?
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Only if I cut out a lot of your brain.
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Because memories aren't just stored in one relationship, they're stored all over the brain.
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The events leading up to your first kiss are stored in one network, the way it felt or the way it smelled in different networks,
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all added up together, making what you call the memory of your first kiss.
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How many memories can you fit inside your head?
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What is the storage capacity of the human brain?
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The best we can do is a rough estimate, but given the number of neurons in the brain involved with memory
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and the number of different connections a single neuron can make,
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Paul Rebber at Northwestern University estimated that we can store the digital equivalent of about 2.5 petabytes of information.
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That's the equivalent of recording a TV channel continuously for 300 years.
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That's a lot of information.
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That is a lot of information about skills you can do and facts and people you've met, things in the real world.
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The world is real, right?
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How do you know?
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It's a difficult question, but it's not rocket science.
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Instead, it is asking whether or not rocket scientists even exist in the first place.
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The theory that the Sun moved around the Earth worked great.
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It predicted that the Sun would rise every morning and it did.
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It wasn't until later that we realized what we thought was true might not be.
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So do we or will we ever know true reality?
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Or are we stuck in a world where the best we can do is be approximately true,
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discovering more and more useful theories every day but never actually reaching true objective actual reality.
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Can science or reason ever prove convincingly that your friends and YouTube videos and your fingers actually exist beyond your mind?
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That you don't just live in the matrix?
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No. Your mind is all that you have.
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Even if you use instruments like a telescope or particle accelerators,
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the final stop for all of that information is ultimately you.
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You are alone in your own brain, which technically makes it impossible to prove that anything else exists.
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It's called the egocentric predicament.
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Everything you know about the world out there depends on and is created inside your brain.
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This mattered so much to Charles Sanders Pierce that he drew a line between reality, the way the universe truly is,
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and what he called the Phaneron, the world as filtered through our senses and bodies, the only information we can get.
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If you want to speak with certainty, you live in, that is you react to and remember and experience your Phaneron, not reality.
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The belief that only you exist and everything else,
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food, the universe, your friends are all figments of your mind is called solipsism.
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There is no way to convince a solipsist that the outside world is real.
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And there is no way to convince someone who doubts
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that the universe wasn't created just three seconds ago along with all of our memories.
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It's a frightening realization that we don't always know how to deal with.
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There's even the Matrix defense.
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In 2002, Tonda Lynn Ansley shot and killed her landlady.
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She argued that she believed she was in the Matrix, that her crimes weren't real.
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By using the Matrix defense,
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she was found not guilty by reason of insanity because the opposite view is just way more healthy and common.
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It's called realism.
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Realism is the belief that the outside world exists independently of your own Phaneron.
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Rocks and stars and Thora Birch would continue to exist even if you weren't around to experience them.
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But you cannot know realism is true.
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All you can do is believe.
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Martin Gardner, a great source for math magic tricks,
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explained that he is not a solipsist because realism is just way more convenient and healthy and it works.
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As to whether it bothered him that he could never know realism was true,
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he wrote, If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the Phaneron, my answer is, how should I know?
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I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries.
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I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as
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my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph.
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Humble stuff.
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What strikes me is the cat.
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Cats do not understand keyboards, but they know that keyboards are a fun place to be.
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It's a great way to get the attention of a human.
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They're warm and exciting, surrounded by noises and flashing lights.
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Plus, cats love to get their scent on whatever they can, a mark of their existence.
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We aren't that much different, except instead of keyboards, we have the mysteries of the universe.
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We will never be able to understand all of them.
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We won't be able to ever answer every single question, but walking around in those questions, exploring them, is fun.
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It feels good.
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And as always, thanks for watching.
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Do you want more unanswered questions?
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Well, you're in luck.
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Today, nine other amazing channels on YouTube have made videos about questions we still haven't fully answered.
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AllTimeTens has organized them
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and to watch them all click the annotation at the end of this video
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or the link at the top of the description.
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Enjoy.

이 레슨의 어휘와 말하기 포인트

이 C1 수준 말하기 레슨은 영상 “Is Anything Real?”을(를) 바탕으로 합니다. 가장 자주 반복되는 단어는 다음과 같습니다: brain, finger, exist, neuron, tongue. 이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 139개와 단어 1598개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 11:17입니다. 화자는 분당 약 142단어의 일정한 속도로 말해서 섀도잉하기에 편한 속도입니다. 단어의 84%가 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속합니다. 나머지는 연습 전에 미리 확인해 두세요.

이 영상의 핵심 어휘

영상에서 가장 어려운 단어 15개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.

단어발음뜻
neuron 명사/ˈn(j)ʊɹɑn/신경 세포
bachelor 명사/ˈbæt͡ʃ.ə.lə(ɹ)/학사
illusion 명사/ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/환상
justification 명사/ˌd͡ʒʌstɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/정당화
sensation 명사/sɛnˈseɪʃən/감각
annotation 명사/ˌæn.əˈteɪ.ʃən/주해
dismay 동사/dɪsˈmeɪ/놀라다, 경악하다
egocentric 형용사/ˌiːɡəʊˈsɛntɹɪk/자기중심적인
epistemology 명사/ɪˌpɪstəˈmɑləd͡ʒi/인식론
frighten 동사/ˈfɹaɪ.tən/겁먹게 만들다
memorize 동사/ˈmɛm.əˌɹaɪ̯z/기억하다, 암기하다
petabyte 명사/ˈpɛtəbaɪt/페타바이트
proprioception 명사/ˌpɹoʊ.pɹi.oʊˈsɛp.ʃən/심부감각
souvenir 명사/ˈsu.vəˌnɪɹ/기념품, 선물
synonym 명사/ˈsɪn.əˌnɪm/같은말, 비슷한말

따라 말해 볼 만한 문장

영상에 나오는 짧고 완결된 문장으로, 일상 대화에서 그대로 쓸 수 있습니다:

  • Where are your fingers?
  • Can you turn your tongue upside down?
  • How many memories can you fit inside your head?
  • That you don't just live in the matrix?
  • Do you want more unanswered questions?

이 영상의 문법

화자가 가장 많이 쓰는 문형을 영상 속 실제 표현과 함께 정리했습니다.

문형영상 속 표현
수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점is called · might be based · are unmarried
현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때has shown · you've met · have made

주의할 발음

화자는 don't, they're, aren't 같은 축약형과 약화된 형태를 22번 사용합니다. 들리는 대로 짧게 발음하세요.

  • “th” 소리: kinesthetic /ˌkɪnɪsˈθɛtɪk/, strengthen /ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θən/
  • “sh”와 “zh” 소리: illusion /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/, potentiation /pəʊˌten.ʃiːˈeɪ.ʃən/, justification /ˌd͡ʒʌstɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, sensation /sɛnˈseɪʃən/, annotation /ˌæn.əˈteɪ.ʃən/
  • 긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: realism /ˈɹi.əlɪzəm/, potentiation /pəʊˌten.ʃiːˈeɪ.ʃən/, justification /ˌd͡ʒʌstɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, accelerator /əkˈsɛl.əˌɹeɪ.tɚ/, annotation /ˌæn.əˈteɪ.ʃən/

한국어 화자가 어려워하는 소리:

  • /f/ — ㅍ(/p/)으로 바꾸지 말고 윗니를 아랫입술에 대기: justification /ˌd͡ʒʌstɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, figment /ˈfɪɡ.mənt/, freaky /ˈfɹiː.ki/, frighten /ˈfɹaɪ.tən/, paragraph /ˈpæɹəɡɹæf/
  • /v/ — ㅂ(/b/)과 구별하기: convincingly /kənˈvɪn.sɪŋ.li/, souvenir /ˈsu.vəˌnɪɹ/, perceive /pɚˈsiv/, evaluate /ɪˈvaljʊeɪt/
  • /z/ — ㅈ이 아니라 성대를 울리는 /s/: realism /ˈɹi.əlɪzəm/, memorize /ˈmɛm.əˌɹaɪ̯z/, solipsism /ˈsɒlɪpsɪzəm/, realization /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, organize /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/

이 영상으로 연습하는 방법

  1. 먼저 말하지 않고 영상을 끝까지 듣고 모르는 단어를 적어 둡니다.
  2. 보통 속도로 한 문장씩 섀도잉하고, 화자의 리듬과 맞을 때까지 반복합니다.
  3. 자신의 목소리를 녹음해 원본과 비교하고, neuron, bachelor, illusion 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.

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