쉐도잉 연습: RE2 Unit 12B - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기
레슨 만드는 중...
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Track 24.
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Reading 12b.
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Dark Descent.
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It's August 2004.
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Caver Sergio Garcia Dils de la Vega kisses his girlfriend goodbye at the entrance of Krubera Cave.
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Krubera, in the western Caucasus Mountains, is the deepest known cave in the world.
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It will be weeks before he sees her again.
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A member of an international team of 56 cavers from seven countries, Garcia Dilsa's mission was to explore Krubera.
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The team also hoped to be the first to reach a depth of 2,000 meters, a feat compared to conquering the North and South Poles.
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One team member even described descending into Krubera as like climbing an inverted mountain,
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Like climbers making their way up that famous peak, the cavers descended slowly.
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They climbed down ropes through huge tunnels and crawled through tight passages known as squeezes.
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Bringing over five tons of equipment and other necessities with them, they established underground camps along the route.
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At each camp they stopped to rest, eat, sleep, and plan the next part of the journey.
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Some days they worked for up to 20 hours at a time,
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and each day they left miles of rope behind them to ease their return ascent
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and phone lines to communicate with people above.
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In the third week they reached 1,775 meters, the deepest point achieved by cavers so far.
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Here, progress was blocked by a sump, a passage filled with water.
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The cavers had only a few options.
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They could empty out all the water, dive through, or go around it.
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Jannati Samokin dove to the bottom but was disappointed.
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No chance to get through, he said.
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Searching for a way around the sump, Garcia Dills risked entering a cascade of near-freezing water.
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The water was so cold, I lost the feeling in my fingers, he said.
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He, too, was unsuccessful.
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Finally, the team found a way around the sump through a tight passage they called the way to the dream.
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At first, they were thrilled.
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However, it soon led to yet another sump at 1,840 meters.
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After a short test dive, Samokin emerged smiling.
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There was a promising passage, he reported.
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Sadly, it would have to wait.
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After nearly four weeks underground, with supplies running low, the team was out of time.
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They would have to return to the surface.
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Four weeks later, following the path opened by Garcia Dils' team,
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a team of Ukrainian cavers reached the sump at 1,840 meters relatively quickly.
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After much searching, they discovered a pit, an area of a cave that falls straight down, named Millennium Pit.
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It allowed them to pass the 2,000 meter depth pits
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and passages led them to 2080 meters a spot they named game over
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but the caving game is never over in 2009 jenady samokin
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returned to krubera this time he reached a depth of 2191 meters then In 2012,
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he broke his own record, diving to a point 6 meters deeper at a total depth of 2,197 meters.
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And so, the game goes on, with deeper and deeper caves calling out to be explored.
📺 같은 채널
✨ 추천 영상
이 레슨의 어휘와 말하기 포인트
이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 43개와 단어 496개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 4:19입니다. 화자는 분당 약 115단어의 일정한 속도로 말해서 섀도잉하기에 편한 속도입니다. 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속하는 단어가 74%뿐이라 어휘가 어려운 편입니다.
이 영상의 핵심 어휘
영상에 나오는 덜 흔한 단어 15개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.
- meter /ˈmitəɹ/ (명사) — 계량기. A device that measures things.
- cave /keɪv/ (명사) — 동굴, 굴. A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
- dive /daɪv/ (동사) — 잠수하다. To swim under water.
- underground /ˌʌn.dəɹˈɡɹaʊnd/ (형용사) — 땅속, 땅굴. Below the ground; below the surface of the Earth.
- explore /ɪkˈsploɹ/ (동사) — 탐험하다. To examine or investigate something systematically.
- climb /ˈklaɪ̯m/ (동사) — 오르다. To traverse a slope or contour, either upwards (ascending) or downwards (descending).
- rope /ɹoʊp/ (명사) — 밧줄, 로프. Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
- finger /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ (명사) — 손가락. A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb, and the corresponding part, irrespective of including a thumb, in many other…
- compare /kəmˈpɛɚ/ (동사) — 비교하다, 비유하다. To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things [“to compare X with Y”]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it…
- disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/ (형용사) — 실망하다. Defeated of expectations or hope; experiencing disappointment; let down.
- discover /dɪˈskʌvə/ (동사) — 발견하다. To find or learn something for the first time.
- entrance /ˈɛn.tɹəns/ (명사) — 입구. The action of entering, or going in.
- goodbye /ɡʊdˈbaɪ/ — 안녕히 가십시오, 안녕히 계십시오. Farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker, writer, or person addressed is departing.
- ton /tʌn/ (명사) — 톤. The short ton of 2000 pounds (about 907 kg), 20 hundredweights of 100 pounds avoirdupois each.
- pit /pɪt/ (명사) — 구멍, 구덩이. A hole in the ground.
주의할 발음
- 긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, necessity /nɪˈsɛsəti/
이 영상으로 연습하는 방법
- 먼저 말하지 않고 영상을 끝까지 듣고 모르는 단어를 적어 둡니다.
- 보통 속도로 한 문장씩 섀도잉하고, 화자의 리듬과 맞을 때까지 반복합니다.
- 자신의 목소리를 녹음해 원본과 비교하고, meter, cave, dive 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.
쉐도잉이란? 영어 실력을 빠르게 키우는 과학적 방법
쉐도잉(Shadowing)은 원래 전문 통역사 훈련을 위해 개발된 언어 학습 기법으로, 다언어 학자인 Dr. Alexander Arguelles에 의해 대중화된 방법입니다. 핵심 원리는 간단하지만 매우 강력합니다: 원어민의 영어를 들으면서 1~2초의 짧은 지연으로 즉시 소리 내어 따라 말하는 것——마치 '그림자(shadow)'처럼 화자를 따라가는 것입니다. 문법 공부나 수동적인 청취와 달리, 쉐도잉은 뇌와 입 근육이 동시에 실시간으로 영어를 처리하고 재현하도록 훈련합니다. 연구에 따르면 이 방법은 발음 정확도, 억양, 리듬, 연음, 청취력, 말하기 유창성을 크게 향상시킵니다. IELTS 스피킹 준비와 자연스러운 영어 소통을 원하는 분들에게 특히 효과적입니다.






























