Shadowing Practice: What I Learned on Monkey Island - Learn English Speaking with Video
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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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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze video bevat 40 zinnen en 805 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 3:56. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 205 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. Slechts 77% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| monkey zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmʌŋki/ | aap, apin |
| hurricane zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈhʌɹɪkeɪn/ | orkaan |
| aftermath zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈæf.tɚˌmæθ/ | nasleep |
| disaster zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɪˈzɑːs.təː/ | ramp, onheil |
| researcher zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/ | onderzoeker |
| earthquake zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɝθkweɪk/ | aardbeving, aardschok |
| expose werkwoord | /ɪkˈspoʊz/ | zichtbaar maken, blootleggen |
| aisle zelfstandig naamwoord | /aɪ̯l/ | zijbeuk, vleugel |
| wash werkwoord | /wɑʃ/ | wassen, spoelen |
| guarantee zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/ | garantie |
| illness zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɪl.nəs/ | ziekte, aandoening |
| connect werkwoord | /kəˈnɛkt/ | verbinden |
| privacy zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpɹaɪ.və.si/ | afzondering, privacy |
| tear werkwoord | /tɛɹ/ | scheuren |
| flood zelfstandig naamwoord | /flʌd/ | overstroming, vloed |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| figure out werkwoord | uitvogelen, er achter komen |
| pile up werkwoord | stapelen |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + werkwoord — een vroegere gewoonte of toestand die niet meer klopt | used to study · used to be |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | were invited · were born · are estimated |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | Island, which was · world, which means |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 12 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, couldn't, I've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: aftermath /ˈæf.tɚˌmæθ/, earthquake /ˈɝθkweɪk/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: wash /wɑʃ/, ratio /ˈɹeɪ.ʃoʊ/, infection /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/, shipment /ˈʃɪpmənt/, gibberish /ˈd͡ʒɪ.bə.ɹɪʃ/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: electrical /ɪˈlɛktɹɪkəl/, remarkably /ɹɪˈmɑɹkəbli/, emphysema /ˌɛmfɪˈsimə/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als monkey, hurricane, aftermath.
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.