ฝึกพูดภาษาอังกฤษด้วยเทคนิค Shadowing จากวิดีโอ: When a Bf-109 spared a stricken B-17

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It was December 20th 1943 and in the freezing air high above Germany,
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2nd Lieutenant Charles Charlie Brown struggled to keep his mortally damaged American bomber on course.
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Brown had been wounded in the shoulder, his tail gunner Sergeant Hugh Ecke Eckenrode was dead and several other members of the crew were wounded, some severely.
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Their aircraft, B-17 Ye Olde Pub, had been hit twice by flak as it approached its target, the Focke-Wulf plant in the German city of Bremen,
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forcing the crew to shut down one of the engines and throttle back on another.
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This had left it lagging behind the main formation of aircraft from the 379th Bombardment Group, and groups of German fighters had closed in like sharks, sensing blood in the water.
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Up to 15 fighters had attacked the bomber, and the whole tail section was shot to pieces.
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The nose cone was missing.
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The electrical, hydraulic and oxygen systems were damaged.
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The radio was out and the entrails of the crippled bomber flapped in the slipstream through gaping wrecks in the fuselage.
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But B-17s are tough old birds and this one somehow kept on flying despite the damage.
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Brown blacked out for a short time due to pain, loss of blood and a lack of oxygen, and the bomber spiraled towards the ground.
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Brown came to and realized that the B-17 was only a few hundred feet above the ground.
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He somehow managed to get it back under control and turned west towards England in safety, 250 miles away.
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Brown wasn't able to coax the B-17 much above 1,000 feet, and he was vaguely aware that he had passed close to the perimeter of a German airfield.
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Soon after he realized that a German Messerschmitt Bf 109 was flying in close formation beside him.
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It was so close that Brown could see the German pilot as he gestured towards the ground, telling Brown to set the bomber down.
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Most of the B-17's gunners were wounded.
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Only a few guns were still working and none were able to shoot at the enemy fighter alongside.
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Brown could only look on at the German pilot and shake his head.
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For a short time the Messerschmitt flew beside the bomber.
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Then it slid away above and behind.
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Brown waited for the gunfire that must mean the end of the old pub. But nothing happened.
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He realized to his astonishment that the German fighter was flying escort on the B-17.
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As they crossed the coastline and flew out over the North Sea, the fighter remained on station.
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Only when they were well out from the German coast did the fighter slide in again close to the bomber.
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Brown looked across and the German pilot looked back at him, raised a gloved hand in salute and then swung his aircraft away back towards the east.
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Brown managed to put Ye Olde Pub on the ground, not at their home base in Cambridgeshire, but at an air base of the 448th Bomb Group near Norfolk and East Anglia.
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He and all his crew, other than the tail gunner, survived.
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At debriefing, Brown told his story about the German fighter which escorted him.
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It was decided that this should be kept secret.
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The notion of an honorable German pilot choosing not to shoot
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down a damaged American bomber just didn't fit with the message that the US Air Force wanted to give out.
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Charlie Brown survived the war, went home to go to college and then rejoined the Air Force in 1949.
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He served until 1965 when he retired as a colonel.
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It wasn't until much later, in 1986, at a meeting of retired combat pilots called gathering of the Eagles, that he first spoke about what had happened.
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The response was strong, though some questioned whether the whole incident really happened.
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Even Brown began to wonder.
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His memories of that day in 1943 were hazy due to his injuries, exhaustion and the stress of combat.
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Could he be remembering it all wrong?
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Brown decided that he was going to find the German pilot involved, if only to prove that he hadn't imagined the whole thing.
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It took four years, But in 1990, Brown finally received a letter from a man named Stigler, who was living in Canada.
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Stigler explained that he had been the pilot of the German fighter who had escorted Ye Olde Pub.
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On December 20, 1943, Franz Stigler had been a 27-kill veteran pilot.
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He had flown against American bombers in his Messerschmitt Bf 109 G6 that morning, and he was refueling on the ground when Ye Olde Pub passed close by.
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He took off intending to shoot down the American bomber.
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However, as he closed with the limping aircraft, he could see just how badly it had been hit.
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He would later say that he had never seen a more severely damaged aircraft still flying.
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Stigler's commander had told his pilots never to fire an enemy who was descending on a parachute.
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While the crew of the old pub hadn't bailed out, they were clearly no longer capable of fighting and Stigler decided that he could not bring himself to attack.
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Instead he flew alongside and gestured to Brown to land.
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He just simply couldn't imagine that the crippled aircraft could possibly make it back to England.
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When Brown refused, Stigler made an extraordinary decision.
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Instead of shooting it down, he flew close formation with the B-17, hoping that this would deter flak batteries on the coast from firing at it.
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He flew with the bomber well out over the North Sea until it was clear of German airspace
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and then left it to continue towards England.
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Stigler never told anyone about what had happened.
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Sparing an American bomber would likely have led to punishment and perhaps even execution, but he often wondered if it had made it back to base.
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Stigler continued flying fighters throughout the war.
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In 1953 he emigrated from Germany to Canada where he started a successful business.
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When he heard from Charlie Brown in 1990, Stigler confirmed every aspect of his story.
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Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown were astonished to discover
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that they had been living less than 200 miles apart for much of the time since the war.
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Stigler had settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, while Brown was in Seattle, Washington.
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In the latter years, the two men remained close friends, often visiting and talking to other flyers about their shared experiences.
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Thank you.
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คำศัพท์และข้อสังเกตด้านการพูดสำหรับบทเรียนนี้

บทเรียนฝึกพูดระดับ B2 นี้ใช้วิดีโอ “When a Bf-109 spared a stricken B-17” เป็นสื่อ คำที่ถูกพูดซ้ำบ่อยที่สุด: Brown, German, bomber, Stigler, fighter วิดีโอนี้มี 66 ประโยค และ 1070 คำ สำหรับฝึกพูดตาม ช่วงที่มีเสียงพูดยาว 5:51 ผู้พูดพูดเร็ว ประมาณ 183 คำต่อนาที จึงมีการเชื่อมเสียงและลดเสียงค่อนข้างมาก มีเพียง 79% ของคำที่อยู่ใน 3,000 คำที่ใช้บ่อยที่สุดในภาษาอังกฤษ คำศัพท์จึงค่อนข้างยาก

คำศัพท์สำคัญในวิดีโอนี้

คำที่ยากที่สุด 9 คำในวิดีโอ พร้อมคำอ่านและความหมาย:

คำศัพท์คำอ่านความหมาย
bomber คำนาม/ˈbɑmɚ/เครื่องบินทิ้งระเบิด
gesture คำนาม/ˈd͡ʒɛs.t͡ʃɚ/ท่าทาง
retire คำกริยา/ɹəˈtaɪɹ/เกษียณ, เกษียณอายุ
airspace คำนามน่านฟ้า
parachute คำนาม/ˈpæɹəʃut/ร่มชูชีพ, กระโดดร่ม
glove คำนาม/ɡlʌv/ถุงมือ
cone คำนาม/ˈkoʊn/กรวย
intend คำกริยา/ɪnˈtɛnd/ตั้งใจ
freeze คำกริยา/ˈfɹiːz/แข็ง

กริยาวลีที่คุณจะได้ยิน

คำศัพท์ความหมาย
take off คำกริยาถอด

การออกเสียงที่ควรระวัง

ผู้พูดใช้รูปย่อและรูปลดเสียง 6 ครั้ง เช่น hadn't, wasn't, couldn't ให้พูดแบบสั้นตามที่ได้ยิน

  • เสียง “sh” และ “zh”: astonish /əˈstɑnɪʃ/, astonishment /əˈstɑːnɪʃmənt/, fuselage /ˈfjuːzəˌlɑːʒ/, parachute /ˈpæɹəʃut/, notion /ˈnoʊʃən/
  • คำยาว — ลงเสียงหนักให้ถูกพยางค์: astonishment /əˈstɑːnɪʃmənt/, perimeter /pɪˈɹɪm.ɪ.tə/

เสียงที่คนไทยมักออกเสียงยาก:

  • เสียงท้ายคำ — ออกเสียงให้ครบ ไม่เปลี่ยนเป็นตัวสะกดแบบไทย: astonish /əˈstɑnɪʃ/, debrief /diːˈbɹiːf/, refuel /ɹiːˈfjuːəl/, glove /ɡlʌv/, spiral /ˈspaɪɹəl/
  • /v/ — ไม่ใช่ /w/ ให้ฟันบนแตะริมฝีปากล่าง: vaguely /ˈveɪɡli/, glove /ɡlʌv/
  • /z/ — เสียงก้อง ไม่ใช่ /s/: exhaustion /ɪɡˈzɔːs.t͡ʃən/, fuselage /ˈfjuːzəˌlɑːʒ/, freeze /ˈfɹiːz/

วิธีฝึกกับวิดีโอนี้

  1. ฟังวิดีโอให้จบหนึ่งรอบโดยยังไม่ต้องพูด แล้วจดคำที่ยังไม่รู้จัก
  2. เริ่มที่ความเร็ว 0.75× พูดตามทีละประโยค แล้วกลับไปใช้ความเร็วปกติเมื่อเริ่มคล่อง
  3. อัดเสียงตัวเองแล้วเทียบกับต้นฉบับ โดยสังเกตคำอย่าง bomber, gesture, retire เป็นพิเศษ

เทคนิค Shadowing คืออะไร?

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

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