ฝึกพูดภาษาอังกฤษด้วยเทคนิค Shadowing จากวิดีโอ: Do Penguins Control the Weather?

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It sure would be nice to control the weather.
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You could guarantee you'd always have a sunny day for a picnic
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or call down some rain if your garden's looking a little dry, but we humans cannot do that because we are not penguins.
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Whether Antarctica gets nice sunny days or overcast skies might have a lot to do with its best dressed residents.
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Here is how penguins, and I am not joking, might control the weather.
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Penguin colonies in Antarctica can get pretty darn big.
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Many have tens or even hundreds of thousands of breeding pairs, and with a lot of penguins comes a lot of penguin poop.
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All of that poop gives off a gas called ammonia.
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You might know it as an ingredient in plant fertilizer, or things you can use to clean your bathroom, or pee.
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In fact, seabird poop is such a rich source of ammonia that back in the 19th century,
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people were mining entire islands for buildups of bird poop to bolster their crops.
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Not exactly a glamorous job.
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But in places like Antarctica, where no one's going in and messing with penguin droppings, the ammonia gets into the atmosphere.
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There, it can link up with other chemicals in the air and help form the earliest seeds of clouds.
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Clouds are mostly made of droplets of liquid water.
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In order for clouds to form, the gaseous water vapor in the atmosphere needs something to condense onto in order to become those droplets.
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That something could be a bit of dust or some soot from a fire, but it could also come from natural chemical reactions that occur in the atmosphere.
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Sometimes when different gases get together, they can link up and form a tiny solid or liquid particle.
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At first, those little particles aren't big enough to start forming clouds on their own, but over time, they can grow into bigger particles.
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They don't even have to get all that big.
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Once the particles get to be a few dozen nanometers in diameter, they become cloud condensation nuclei.
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Those are particles big enough for water vapor to start condensing on them.
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Just for context, the particles only need to be about a thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair.
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Why do we always use width of a human hair as the comparison?
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Folks, there's gotta be something else.
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In Antarctica, many of the particles
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that go on to become cloud condensation nuclei are thought to start as clusters containing sulfuric acid and ammonia.
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They can also contain chemicals called amines, which are related to ammonia among others.
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The sulfuric acid mainly comes from microorganisms in the ocean.
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Phytoplankton emits something called dimethyl sulfide, which reacts to become sulfuric acid.
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And the ammonia comes in large part from penguin poop.
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Normally there would be other compounds in the atmosphere forming these tiny starter particles too.
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They might be things like decaying plant matter or industrial emissions.
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But there really isn't much of that in Antarctica.
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It is the world's largest desert after all.
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So ammonia from penguin guano or penguin poop ends up playing a big role in cloud formation.
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Now we've known about this for a while.
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So, studies have linked this particle formation to ammonia from penguin colonies since 1998,
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and more recent research has presented an idea for exactly how those particles form.
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But as it turns out, these poop-based specks could impact cloud cover over much of Antarctica, and maybe help keep the entire continent cool.
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But before we talk about why, all science needs funding, so let's go to a quick break.
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Thanks to JUMP Statistical Discovery for supporting this SciShow video.
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You don't need to be an expert statistician to get started.
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It's designed for scientists, engineers, and curious learners alike.
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You can check out the free workshop at the link in the description. In a 2025 study,
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a team of researchers set up equipment to monitor ammonia levels at an Antarctic research station near two penguin colonies.
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They found that airborne ammonia concentrations were higher when the wind blew in from the direction of the penguin colonies,
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and they only saw new particles forming when the wind came from that direction too.
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Along with ammonia, the team also spotted a chemical called dimethylamine.
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Even a little bit of dimethylamine can help speed up the formation of those ammonia sulfuric acid particles.
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And good thing for the scientists there wasn't a lot, cause dimethylamine smells like rotting fish.
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Yummy!
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The scientists weren't able to confirm the source of the dimethylamine, but much like with the ammonia, they saw more dimethylamine when winds came from the direction of the penguins.
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That's not entirely surprising.
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Penguin guano can produce amines, so it makes sense that dimethylamine could have come from penguin poop just like ammonia.
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So lots of penguin poop means lots of these little particles that can contribute to cloud formation.
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That was true even after the penguins left the colony site on their annual migration.
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Ammonia levels stayed high for more than a month after the penguins took off, but not literally took off because they don't fly.
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A separate study from 2024 also suggests
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that ammonia levels in the air from penguin guano could spike
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when temperatures fluctuate above and below freezing over the course of the day.
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Ammonia itself doesn't last very long once it's in the atmosphere, but those particles it makes with sulfuric acid do.
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The particles could end up getting blown elsewhere on the continent, so penguin poop could affect cloud cover far from their homes.
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Extra cloud cover could help keep Antarctica cool in the face of climate disaster, but we need more research to figure out exactly how that will play out.
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Clouds reflect some of the light and heat from the sun back out into space, which could help keep temperatures low.
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On the other hand, clouds also lock in some of the heat
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that makes it through and prevent it from escaping the atmosphere.
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To make things even more complicated, climate disaster is already causing some penguin populations to shrink.
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Fewer penguins means less penguin poop, which could then mean fewer clouds.
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Even though we don't understand their effects yet, This is a strong argument for protecting penguin populations.
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They might protect a whole continent in turn.
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So it looks like to really understand and manage climate change in Antarctica,
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we'll need some help from these funny little guys in suits who like to tap dance and also surf.
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คำศัพท์และข้อสังเกตด้านการพูดสำหรับบทเรียนนี้

วิดีโอนี้มี 81 ประโยค และ 1193 คำ สำหรับฝึกพูดตาม ช่วงที่มีเสียงพูดยาว 6:56 ผู้พูดพูดด้วยความเร็วเป็นธรรมชาติ ประมาณ 172 คำต่อนาที ใกล้เคียงกับบทสนทนาในชีวิตประจำวัน มีเพียง 76% ของคำที่อยู่ใน 3,000 คำที่ใช้บ่อยที่สุดในภาษาอังกฤษ คำศัพท์จึงค่อนข้างยาก

คำศัพท์สำคัญในวิดีโอนี้

คำที่พบไม่บ่อย 15 คำจากวิดีโอ พร้อมคำอ่านและความหมาย:

  • penguin /ˈpɛŋ.ɡwɪn/ (คำนาม) — เพนกวิน. Any of several flightless sea birds, of the family Spheniscidae within the order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere, marked by their usual…
  • particle /ˈpɑɹtək(ə)l/ (คำนาม) — อนุภาค. A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
  • cloud /ˈklaʊ̯d/ (คำนาม) — เมฆ. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
  • poop /ˈpuːp/ (คำนาม) — อุจจาระ. Fecal matter; feces.
  • atmosphere /ˈætməsˌfɪɹ/ (คำนาม) — บรรยากาศ. The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
  • acid /ˈæsɪd/ (คำนาม) — กรด. A sour substance.
  • scientist /ˈsaɪəntəst/ (คำนาม) — นักวิทยาศาสตร์. One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research…
  • continent /ˈkɑntɪnənt/ (คำนาม) — ทวีป. One of the main contiguous landmasses, separated by water or geological features, on the surface of a planet, sometimes including its continental shelves and…
  • disaster /dɪˈzɑːs.təː/ (คำนาม) — ภัยพิบัติ. An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent…
  • liquid /ˈlɪk.wɪd/ (คำนาม) — ของเหลว. A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those…
  • workshop /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/ (คำนาม) — โรงงาน. A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.
  • sunny /ˈsʌni/ (คำคุณศัพท์) — แดดร้อน. Featuring a lot of sunshine.
  • width /ˈwɪtθ/ (คำนาม) — ความกว้าง. The state of being wide.
  • nucleus /ˈnuː.kli.əs/ (คำนาม) — นิวเคลียส. The core, central part of something, around which other elements are assembled.
  • vapor /ˈveɪpɚ/ (คำนาม) — ไอ, ไอน้ำ. Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.

กริยาวลีที่คุณจะได้ยิน

  • take off (คำกริยา) — ถอด. To remove.

การออกเสียงที่ควรระวัง

ผู้พูดใช้รูปย่อและรูปลดเสียง 15 ครั้ง เช่น don't, aren't, doesn't ให้พูดแบบสั้นตามที่ได้ยิน

  • เสียง “th”: width /ˈwɪtθ/, dimethyl /daɪˈmɛ.θəl/
  • เสียง “sh” และ “zh”: workshop /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/, concentration /ˌkɑn.sənˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/, migration /maɪˈɡɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, emission /ɪˈmɪʃ.ən/, condensation /ˌkɒn.dɛnˈseɪ.ʃən/
  • คำยาว — ลงเสียงหนักให้ถูกพยางค์: complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, concentration /ˌkɑn.sənˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/, diameter /daɪˈæmɪdɚ/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, visually /ˈvɪzju.əli/

วิธีฝึกกับวิดีโอนี้

  1. ฟังวิดีโอให้จบหนึ่งรอบโดยยังไม่ต้องพูด แล้วจดคำที่ยังไม่รู้จัก
  2. เริ่มที่ความเร็ว 0.75× พูดตามทีละประโยค แล้วกลับไปใช้ความเร็วปกติเมื่อเริ่มคล่อง
  3. อัดเสียงตัวเองแล้วเทียบกับต้นฉบับ โดยสังเกตคำอย่าง penguin, particle, cloud เป็นพิเศษ

ไวยากรณ์ในวิดีโอนี้

โครงสร้างที่ผู้พูดใช้บ่อยที่สุด พร้อมคำพูดจริงจากวิดีโอ:

โครงสร้างในวิดีโอ
Present perfect have/has + กริยาช่อง 3 — เหตุการณ์ในอดีตที่ยังเกี่ยวข้องกับปัจจุบันwe've known · have linked · has presented
Passive voice be + กริยาช่อง 3 — เน้นสิ่งที่เกิดขึ้น ไม่ใช่ผู้กระทำare thought · are related

เทคนิค Shadowing คืออะไร?

Shadowing เป็นเทคนิคการเรียนรู้ภาษาที่ได้รับการรับรองทางวิทยาศาสตร์ พัฒนาขึ้นสำหรับการฝึกนักแปลมืออาชีพ วิธีการนี้เรียบง่ายแต่ทรงพลัง: คุณฟังเสียงภาษาอังกฤษจากเจ้าของภาษาและพูดตามทันที — เหมือนเงาที่ตามผู้พูดด้วยช่วงเวลาห่าง 1-2 วินาที การวิจัยแสดงว่าเทคนิคนี้ปรับปรุงความแม่นยำในการออกเสียง ทำนองเสียง จังหวะ การเชื่อมเสียง การฟังเข้าใจ และความคล่องแคล่วในการพูดได้อย่างมีนัยสำคัญ

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