Shadowing Practice: 44 Audio Track - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Track 44 Good morning, everyone.
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In this opening part of the presentation, I'll cover the recent work that the biology department has been involved in based on animal intelligence.
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First, I'll give you a bit of basic background.
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In 2001, we focused on monkeys and their capability to either fashion crude tools or take advantage of naturally occurring ones.
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then in 2007 we turned our thoughts to higher level thinking
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and in particular numeracy we conducted a significant piece of research
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to find out whether birds are in fact able to count the findings amazed everyone
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and caused quite a stir around the world this helped to spur us on
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and allowed us to expand the department making it the world
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-class facility it is today however it's not without its drawbacks
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and there are several difficulties
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that are peculiar to this type of study firstly this type
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of research is generally prolonged as we have to spend extensive
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periods gaining the animal's trust in terms of resources it can
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also be very costly to run as we need to employ
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a large number of supplementary staff to assist us for the length of the study
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and finally there is the question of the physical facilities themselves.
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We often have to try to find more space just to simply house the animals, which can be quite an arduous chore.
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Which leads me to our present study and the one we are going to look at today.
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Our subject this time is elephants.
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We knew there was simply no way of accommodating them on campus, so I have been carrying out field work at the Bronx Zoo.

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Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?

Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.

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