쉐도잉 연습: Why don't you remember being a baby? - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

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What's the earliest memory that you have?
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Well, I've got bad news, it's probably fake.
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According to neuroscientists, anyone who says they remember being a baby is probably lying, but they don't even know it.
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Psychologists did this experiment where they interviewed three -year -olds about real stuff.
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Zoo trips, first day of preschool, that kind of thing.
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Then they came back years later and asked those kids to recall those memories.
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By age 5, 6, or 7, they remembered 60 % or more of those early life events, But by age 8 or 9, they only remembered like 40%.
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Most of that early memory was gone, and it declines quickly from there.
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So you didn't forget being a baby when you were a baby.
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You forgot it in like second grade.
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Researchers from Yale put infant babies in an MRI, which is probably easier said than done.
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And they showed that a key memory area of the brain, called the hippocampus, well, it lights up when a baby locks in on, say, a photo that it's never seen before.
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So our memory is definitely running by about age 1.
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The memories get made, but something's happening to them after.
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Well, here's what we think's going on.
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During the first few years of life, that memory region of the brain is being flooded with new, growing neurons.
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This shuffles around the cells that were already there, rewiring the chain of neurons and basically breaking that old memory.
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There's research in mice that suggests that maybe those memories could still be hiding in there somewhere, they just can't be accessed test.
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See, when scientists zapped the original neurons with light in mice, some early memories came back.
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But we've never tested the same thing in humans, because it turns out to be pretty hard to recruit people to get fiber optic cables shoved in their brains.
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But why would a brain do this?
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When you're like one, you don't need to remember specific events as much as you
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need to figure out the rules for things like language or how the physical world works, so your brain focuses its energy on that.
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Still, nearly 40 % of people say that their first memory is from age 2 or younger.
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And somebody's probably going to be in the comments telling me that they definitely remember being born.
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But you probably don't.
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All this research suggests that those are almost certainly reconstructions that are pieced together from family stories and photos and later memories.
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So some version of you learned language, discovered what gravity was, and all those other things.
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But sadly, you can never meet that version of yourself.
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이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 30개와 단어 442개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 2:19입니다. 화자는 분당 약 190단어로 빠르게 말하므로 연음과 약하게 발음되는 소리가 많습니다. 단어의 88%가 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속해 어휘가 쉬운 편입니다.

이 영상의 핵심 어휘

영상에 나오는 덜 흔한 단어 11개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.

  • mouse /maʊs/ (명사) — 생쥐, 쥐. Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.
  • discover /dɪˈskʌvə/ (동사) — 발견하다. To find or learn something for the first time.
  • experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/ (명사) — 실험. A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of…
  • flood /flʌd/ (명사) — 한물, 홍수. An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
  • scientist /ˈsaɪəntəst/ (명사) — 과학자. One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research…
  • infant /ˈɪn.fənt/ (명사) — 유아, 젖먹이. A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.
  • researcher /ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/ (명사) — 연구원, 연구자. One who researches.
  • recruit /ɹɪˈkɹut/ (동사) — 모집하다. To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
  • psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/ (명사) — 심리학자. An expert in the field of psychology.
  • neuron /ˈn(j)ʊɹɑn/ (명사) — 신경 세포. A cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites. Neurons are connected by synapses.
  • shuffle /ˈʃʌfəl/ (동사) — 뒤섞다. To put in a random order.

영상에 나오는 구동사

  • come back (동사) — 돌아오다. To return to a place.

주의할 발음

화자는 don't, can't, didn't 같은 축약형과 약화된 형태를 8번 사용합니다. 들리는 대로 짧게 발음하세요.

  • “sh”와 “zh” 소리: reconstruction /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkʃən/, shove /ʃʌv/, shuffle /ˈʃʌfəl/
  • 긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, reconstruction /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkʃən/, psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, hippocampus /ˌhɪpə(ʊ)ˈkæm.pəs/

이 영상으로 연습하는 방법

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  2. 0.75배속으로 한 문장씩 섀도잉을 시작하고, 익숙해지면 보통 속도로 돌아갑니다.
  3. 자신의 목소리를 녹음해 원본과 비교하고, mouse, discover, experiment 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.

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

문형영상 속 표현
수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점being flooded · can't be accessed · being born
관계절 who / which + 절 — 사람이나 사물에 대한 추가 정보anyone who says · MRI, which is

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