쉐도잉 연습: What I Learned on Monkey Island - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

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Monkey Island is, perhaps unsurprisingly,  home to thousands of monkeys.
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And when a major hurricane blew directly  across the island, the researchers who study those monkeys thought that they were  going to return to a scene of mass tragedy.
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But only two monkeys died during  the storm. It wasn’t until long after the skies cleared that  the bodies started piling up.
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Hi I’m David, and this is MinuteEarth.
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Long ago, I used to study those monkeys, but I hadn’t been back to Monkey Island since  Hurricane Maria tore through there in 2017.
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So a few months ago, when Kate and I were  invited to Puerto Rico for a conference, we took a side trip over to the island.  The place looked completely different.
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Most of the man-made structures were in ruins.
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This exposed hilltop used to be completely  covered with forest. Even the isthmus that used to connect the big isle and the  small isle was completely washed away.
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And despite all of this, somehow,  only two monkeys died. But then, in the years following the hurricane,  fifty more monkeys died than usual.
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Stressed-out monkeys with weakened  immune systems succumbed to diseases.
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Traumatized females gave birth to babies  who died soon after they were born.
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And with over half the trees on the island  gone, monkeys were suddenly way more exposed, leading to more heat-related illnesses and deaths.
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The monkeys weren't the only  primates affected by Hurricane Maria; the hurricane also pummeled mainland  Puerto Rico and the humans that live there.
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About 100 people are estimated to have  died as a direct result of the storm.
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But, as with the monkeys, lots  of deaths happened later on, too.
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The electrical grid got overwhelmed and hospitals  lost power, causing people to die from infections.
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Roads were blocked or destroyed, so  others couldn’t even get to hospitals in the first place, causing them to die  from things like emphysema and pneumonia.
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And insulin shipments couldn’t get  through, causing people to die of diabetes.
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Researchers think about three thousand more  people died as a result of these longer-term, indirect impacts of the storm; that's 30 times  more people than died during the storm itself.
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That ratio – which we can  call the "aftermath number", is remarkably similar to the one  for Monkey Island, which was 25.
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All hurricanes have these kinds of lingering  deaths – sometimes lots of them; for example, the average hurricane that makes landfall in  the US has an aftermath number of more than 200.
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And other disasters have aftermath deaths too.
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Major floods lead to heart attacks in overworked  farmers, who have to replant their soggy fields.
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Earthquakes often lead to disease outbreaks by breaking sewage pipes and  creating unsanitary conditions.
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Scientists are still trying to figure out what it is about a particular disaster that  determines its aftermath number.
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Disasters like earthquakes tend  to have lower aftermath numbers for the same total of deaths because more  of the deaths happen during the disaster.
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But the fact that aftermath deaths exist  at all –and that some disasters have so many of them– means we probably need  to pay just as much attention –or even more– to the lingering effects of a  disaster as to the disaster itself.
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And when you hear that a hurricane in  the US killed, say, 5 people, you should multiply that number in your head by around 200 to  understand the true death count of the hurricane.
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And that brings me back to  the monkeys of Monkey Island.
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, the monkeys started grooming one another more  often than they used to – like, way more often.
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For monkeys, grooming is a way of  building social ties and making friends, and the researchers think that, collectively,  the monkeys were grooming more as a way of lowering their stress levels – and,  inadvertently, their aftermath number.
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And even today, these monkeys still  groom each other more than they used to.
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That's the kind of aftermath  we should all be aiming for.
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Monkeys live in all sorts of cool places, and  I’ve gotten to go all over the world studying them. Of course, that also means I’ve spent  a ton of time in airports using public wifi.
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이 레슨의 어휘와 말하기 포인트

이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 40개와 단어 805개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 3:56입니다. 화자는 분당 약 205단어로 빠르게 말하므로 연음과 약하게 발음되는 소리가 많습니다. 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속하는 단어가 77%뿐이라 어휘가 어려운 편입니다.

이 영상의 핵심 어휘

영상에 나오는 익혀 둘 만한 단어 15개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.

단어발음뜻
monkey 명사/ˈmʌŋki/원숭이
hurricane 명사/ˈhʌɹɪkeɪn/허리케인, 폭풍
aftermath 명사/ˈæf.tɚˌmæθ/여파, 결과
disaster 명사/dɪˈzɑːs.təː/재난, 재앙
researcher 명사/ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/연구원, 연구자
earthquake 명사/ˈɝθkweɪk/지진
aisle 명사/aɪ̯l/통로
wash 동사/wɑʃ/씻다
guarantee 명사/ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/보증
illness 명사/ˈɪl.nəs/질병, 병
connect 동사/kəˈnɛkt/잇다, 연결하다
ratio 명사/ˈɹeɪ.ʃoʊ/비, 비율
privacy 명사/ˈpɹaɪ.və.si/사생활, 프라이버시
tear 동사/tɛɹ/찢다
flood 명사/flʌd/한물, 홍수

이 영상의 문법

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

문형영상 속 표현
“used to” used to + 동사 — 지금은 아닌 과거의 습관이나 상태used to study · used to be
수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점were invited · were born · are estimated
관계절 who / which + 절 — 사람이나 사물에 대한 추가 정보Island, which was · world, which means

주의할 발음

화자는 I'm, couldn't, I've 같은 축약형과 약화된 형태를 12번 사용합니다. 들리는 대로 짧게 발음하세요.

  • “th” 소리: aftermath /ˈæf.tɚˌmæθ/, earthquake /ˈɝθkweɪk/
  • “sh”와 “zh” 소리: wash /wɑʃ/, ratio /ˈɹeɪ.ʃoʊ/, infection /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/, shipment /ˈʃɪpmənt/, gibberish /ˈd͡ʒɪ.bə.ɹɪʃ/
  • 긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: electrical /ɪˈlɛktɹɪkəl/, remarkably /ɹɪˈmɑɹkəbli/, emphysema /ˌɛmfɪˈsimə/

이 영상으로 연습하는 방법

  1. 먼저 말하지 않고 영상을 끝까지 듣고 모르는 단어를 적어 둡니다.
  2. 0.75배속으로 한 문장씩 섀도잉을 시작하고, 익숙해지면 보통 속도로 돌아갑니다.
  3. 자신의 목소리를 녹음해 원본과 비교하고, monkey, hurricane, aftermath 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.

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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.

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