ฝึกพูดภาษาอังกฤษด้วยเทคนิค Shadowing จากวิดีโอ: Inside The Real Estate Rush Behind AI

กำลังสร้างบทเรียน...
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So we were up in the field and we were picking.
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It was just kind of bizarre that all of a sudden we just kept hearing a plane and we're like, there's something about that.
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They're going over the property just way too much.
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And sure enough, it did happen.
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They called and they said, we're interested in your property.
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Nice to meet you.
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It's nice to meet you.
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Bobby Thompson and Michelle Kennedy are sisters who live here in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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They say they've had multiple offers to purchase their farm from land prospectors who are looking to capitalize on the AI boom.
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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania is attracting companies like CoreWeave because of its reliable electrical grid,
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state-level incentives, and prime mid-Atlantic location that's close to multiple large cities.
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But the AI build-out is impacting communities across the country
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and sparking a national confrontation between technology companies and their investors on the one hand and residents on the other.
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There are over 4,700 data centers in the U.S., and that number is climbing rapidly.
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It's a similar story in Boise, Idaho, where demand for space has skyrocketed since Micron and Meta announced major new projects there.
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The growth has been tremendous here.
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Mike Adler is the founder and CEO of Adler Industrial, the largest industrial property developer in the Boise area.
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The company controls 1,000 acres and a billion dollars worth of real estate across Idaho.
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We started in this market with about 1.9 million square feet, and we've grown that to 4.6 million square feet.
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Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta's combined capital expenditure was over $167 billion in the second quarter of 2026,
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up 79% year over year as the tech giants poured billions into the AI build-out.
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Semiconductor manufacturer Micron plans to invest $250 billion in the US through 2035 as the AI boom increases demand for memory.
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The AI expansion is fueling a new kind of land rush.
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CNBC traveled to Pennsylvania
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and Idaho to see why land prospectors are racing in to buy up rural farmland in communities across the nation.
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That's the original owners, Pap and Emma, of the farm.
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They were our mother's parents.
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Michelle Kennedy and Bobby Thompson's family has lived on their farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania for decades.
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But lately they're seeing a lot of change.
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Explosion, housing, people moving in, warehouses.
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So the small town Mount Joy isn't what it once was.
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Corweave is building a data center less than 20 miles from their home.
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The company is investing $6 billion in the project.
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As AI infrastructure expands in their region, Kennedy and Thompson have received repeated offers to sell their farm.
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How many offers would you say you've gotten in the past year?
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I think within this last year between her and I, we probably had over 50 until we actually had to just tell them to stop.
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The sisters put an easement on their property to protect it from industrial development, but they can't stop the change that's happening all around them around them.
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It's designed to lock the land so it can only be used for farming.
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So it's preserving it.
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Will that give you peace of mind?
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For our own property.
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For our own property.
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You know, we just can't control what happens around us.
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Their neighbors have applied to rezone their property and build an industrial park with multiple buildings, internal roadways and facilities to accommodate hundreds of employees.
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Stella!
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Can you imagine if you had, you know, a thousand vehicles parked 24-7?
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They're not going to be comfortable.
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Cows don't produce milk if they're not in there relaxed and laid down.
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Let's go, ladies.
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What do you think this area will look like in five to ten years?
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My goodness, it's changed so much already in five years.
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I'm almost frightened to think about it.
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I mean, it's not going to be Little Mount Joy anymore.
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I mean, it isn't already.
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Behind me is one of two massive semiconductor fabrication plants that Micron is building in the Boise area.
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And about 10 to 15 miles that way, Meta is building an enormous data center.
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These projects are pumping in tens of billions of dollars into the Boise area economy, and they're pulling in an army of contractors.
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The projects are drawing in companies needed to power, cool, and construct them, all of whom need their own space.
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There was a lot of land that, to me, felt like it was in the middle of nowhere and it wasn't really developable.
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In 2018, Mike Adler acquired an alfalfa farm in the Boise area.
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Then he got a call from FedEx.
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They wanted to build on the land.
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A year and a half later, he got a call from Amazon.
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And then another call from Tesla.
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So all of a sudden, our property that I felt like it was in the middle of nowhere, I have three highly credit tenants.
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Adler is betting that the projects from Micron and Meta will continue to draw in businesses.
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62% of his company's current projects in the Boise Valley area are being built on spec, meaning that buildings are constructed before the tenant has even been secured.
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What's it like building on spec?
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Is that sounds a little risky?
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Spec is being done when we are out of space to lease to our existing customers, and we believe that there's other businesses in the market that need more space.
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And that's what you're seeing now?
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Yes.
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This is a 26,000 square foot space within an 88,000 square foot building that we just completed in the Boise airport area.
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We just leased it to a company that does warehousing, fulfillment and distribution for the construction industry.
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But anticipating demand comes with risks.
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Memory stocks like Micron historically cycle through boom and bust periods, which pose a risk to investors and businesses betting big on the AI build out.
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Sometimes supply gets beyond demand and at that point that's when we don't build more.
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We let those buildings lease up and then once they're leased, then we re-examine the market to determine if it makes sense to build more.
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This specific filter was made for a hyperscale data center.
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One of the businesses renting warehouse space from Mike Adler is
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Air Filter Superstore here in the Boise area led by Phil Dugan, who has seen demand for his products increase as the AI boom in the area has continued.
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Pre-2020, when COVID became a thing, we were under $10 million in revenue a year.
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Now that we have grown with the AI boom and all the other infrastructure and all our other sectors growing, we have more than tripled that.
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Just over the past couple of years, he's gone from renting 7,000 square feet of warehouse space to more than 30,000 square feet.
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The company invested about a million dollars in that expansion, and now they're preparing to grow even more.
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The next three to five years, we definitely foresee us doubling in size, at least.
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I was born and raised here, and this is something that I never expected to happen.
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But real estate prices in the area are skyrocketing.
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It's a lot more difficult to get space in town than it has been.
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The spaces now that we've been looking at in other locations to expand have definitely substantially almost doubled.
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seen in most cases over the last three years.
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I do have some concerns that growth is becoming too fast.
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To see this scale of development and especially in the time period this has happened, it's a little unprecedented.
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Harry Sawyer works for a commercial real estate firm in the Boise area.
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He says he's seen property values reach up to 15 times what they were before COVID.
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These farms have been in the family for generations.
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I expect over the next five years, seven years, a lot of this land that we're seeing right here will be developed into industrial.
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The land Mike Adler is developing is part of a much bigger national land rush.
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In the first half of 2026, investors spent nearly $6 billion buying land in the U.S that had been earmarked for future data centers.
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That's up 79% from a year earlier.
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Data center land deals made up roughly 27% of all spending on development sites in that period.
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demand is for the land that you could actually build on.
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For data center developers, the most valuable property is land with access to huge amounts of electricity.
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So-called powered land is being sold at a premium.
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In Northern Virginia and the Northeast, data center sites have exceeded $8 million an acre.
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An estimated 40,000 acres of powered land is needed worldwide to accommodate anticipated data center growth through 2030.
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But it's not stopping anyone with land thinking that they have found their new gold rush.
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Speculators are sometimes buying up land without knowing
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if they can get the permits and power access to actually build a data center there.
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The supply that's out there is land that first has to be entitled, infrastructure built, and bringing power,
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water, internet kind of to it.
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These utilities, electricity, natural gas,
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there is a huge backlog just in the practice of finding out if this particular site can serve what the client wants.
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if they can't receive the zoning and if they can't receive the infrastructure, they're going to have an illiquid asset for a while.
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In Pennsylvania, Governor Josh Shapiro has said that of the more than 100 data center proposals in the state, only five have the permits to actually begin operating.
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We have seen an unacceptable number of speculative proposals for data center development that is swamping our Commonwealth,
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many of them led by developers who have no regard for local communities.
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In August, Shapiro signed an executive order designed to prevent data centers' electric costs from being passed down onto residents, to limit water use and increase transparency with local communities.
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In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott has directed state regulators to require data centers to fully fund their electric infrastructure needs
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and stop passing those costs along to residents.
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U.S electricity consumption is projected to rise by nearly 2% a year through 2030, more than twice the rate of the past decade as the data center buildout continues.
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A shortage of available near-term power is limiting how quickly some land can be developed.
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It could take a year to really figure out how electricity is going to be distributed onto this site.
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The cost of new infrastructure isn't the millions and ultimately billions because you're affecting the grids.
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are at least subsidizing or sharing in the cost of the upgrades of infrastructure.
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So this is real.
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I think there will continue to be pushback.
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As state and federal officials debate over AI regulations, land investors and owners are grappling over decisions that will transform their communities.
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It's a farm, it'll stay a farm.
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And even if our children don't want it, it'll still be a farm.

คำศัพท์และข้อสังเกตด้านการพูดสำหรับบทเรียนนี้

บทเรียนฝึกพูดระดับ B2 นี้ใช้วิดีโอ “Inside The Real Estate Rush Behind AI” เป็นสื่อ คำที่ถูกพูดซ้ำบ่อยที่สุด: land, center, property, Boise, farm วิดีโอนี้มี 130 ประโยค และ 1822 คำ สำหรับฝึกพูดตาม ช่วงที่มีเสียงพูดยาว 10:52 ผู้พูดพูดด้วยความเร็วเป็นธรรมชาติ ประมาณ 168 คำต่อนาที ใกล้เคียงกับบทสนทนาในชีวิตประจำวัน 82% ของคำอยู่ใน 3,000 คำที่ใช้บ่อยที่สุดในภาษาอังกฤษ ส่วนที่เหลือควรดูไว้ก่อนเริ่มฝึก

คำศัพท์สำคัญในวิดีโอนี้

คำที่ยากที่สุด 13 คำในวิดีโอ พร้อมคำอ่านและความหมาย:

คำศัพท์คำอ่านความหมาย
investor คำนาม/ɪnˈvɛs.tə(ɹ)/ผู้ลงทุน
warehouse คำนาม/ˈwɛə(ɹ)haʊs/คลังสินค้า, โกดัง
acre คำนาม/ˈeɪ.kɚ/เอเคอร์
semiconductor คำนาม/ˌsɛmikənˈdʌktə/สารกึ่งตัวนำ
grid คำนาม/ɡɹɪd/ตาราง
swamp คำนาม/ˈswɑmp/บึง, หนอง
shortage คำนาม/ˈʃɔː(ɹ)tɪd͡ʒ/การขาดแคลน, ความขาดแคลน
risky คำคุณศัพท์/ˈɹɪski/เสี่ยง
incentive คำนาม/ɪnˈsɛntɪv/สิ่งจูงใจ
spark คำนาม/ˈspɑɹk/ประกาย, ลูกไฟ
contractor คำนาม/ˈkɒnˌtɹæk.tə(ɹ)/ผู้รับเหมา, ผู้รับเหมาก่อสร้าง
pour คำกริยา/poɹ/เท
cow คำนาม/kaʊ/วัว, โค

ประโยคที่ควรฝึกพูดซ้ำ

ประโยคสั้น ๆ ที่สมบูรณ์จากวิดีโอ ซึ่งนำไปใช้ในบทสนทนาประจำวันได้:

  • It's nice to meet you.
  • They were our mother's parents.
  • How many offers would you say you've gotten in the past year?
  • Will that give you peace of mind?
  • I'm almost frightened to think about it.

ไวยากรณ์ในวิดีโอนี้

โครงสร้างที่ผู้พูดใช้บ่อยที่สุด พร้อมคำพูดจริงจากวิดีโอ:

โครงสร้างในวิดีโอ
Present perfect have/has + กริยาช่อง 3 — เหตุการณ์ในอดีตที่ยังเกี่ยวข้องกับปัจจุบันhas skyrocketed · has been · we've grown
Passive voice be + กริยาช่อง 3 — เน้นสิ่งที่เกิดขึ้น ไม่ใช่ผู้กระทำbeing built · being done · was made

การออกเสียงที่ควรระวัง

ผู้พูดใช้รูปย่อและรูปลดเสียง 31 ครั้ง เช่น they're, can't, don't ให้พูดแบบสั้นตามที่ได้ยิน

  • เสียง “sh” และ “zh”: speculation /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, fabrication /fæbɹɪˈkeɪʃən/, confrontation /ˌkɑn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən/, shortage /ˈʃɔː(ɹ)tɪd͡ʒ/
  • คำยาว — ลงเสียงหนักให้ถูกพยางค์: speculation /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, developer /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/, semiconductor /ˌsɛmikənˈdʌktə/, anticipate /ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, accommodate /əˈkɑməˌdeɪt/

วิธีฝึกกับวิดีโอนี้

  1. ฟังวิดีโอให้จบหนึ่งรอบโดยยังไม่ต้องพูด แล้วจดคำที่ยังไม่รู้จัก
  2. เริ่มที่ความเร็ว 0.75× พูดตามทีละประโยค แล้วกลับไปใช้ความเร็วปกติเมื่อเริ่มคล่อง
  3. อัดเสียงตัวเองแล้วเทียบกับต้นฉบับ โดยสังเกตคำอย่าง investor, warehouse, acre เป็นพิเศษ

เทคนิค Shadowing คืออะไร?

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

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