[BBC learning english] Connecting remote communities (22.8.22)

 

Script

Neil

If you’re old enough to remember the early days of dial-up internet then you’ll know the unforgettable sound of the ‘handshake’, the clicks and squeaks your computer made as it struggled to connect to the internet through the telephone line.

 

*squeaks: 끽[찍] 소리를 내다

 

Sam

Yes, I remember that strange noise! Dial-up internet was slow and websites took forever to load. And because you couldn’t use both the internet and the telephone at the same time, this was usually followed by someone shouting, “Get off the computer, I’m making a phone call!”

 

Neil

In the thirty years since then, the internet has changed dramatically. Fibre optics and broadband have created superfast internet speeds and an interconnected online world, where physical distances between people are no longer a barrier to communication - a situation expressed in the phrase, the global village.

 

*Fibre optics: 광학섬유

 

Sam

But take a closer look and you’ll still find people around the world with a slow connection or no internet at all. In this programme we’ll be finding out how some communities are working together to fix their internet connection problems for the benefit of local people. And, of course, we’ll be learning some new vocabulary too.

Neil

But before that I have a question for you, Sam. We’ve been talking about the early days of the internet, but do you know the name of the first ever internet browser, the engine for searching websites? Was it:

a) AskJeeves? b) WorldWideWeb? c) Yahoo?

Sam

I’ll guess it was c) Yahoo.

 

Neil

OK, Sam. We’ll find out the answer later. You might think its people living in the most remote and isolated places with the greatest difficulty getting online, but that’s not always true. Even here in the UK people struggle to connect, including BBC radio listener, Katie, who explained her problem to BBC World Service programme, Digital Planet:

World Service listener, Katie

Hi, I’m Katie. I live in Dorset in England. Our internet can be quite spasmodic here, and I think that that’s due to most of our underground cabling is very old and somewhat dodgy, tatty, and needs replacing.

 

*spasmodic: 돌발적인, 경련성의

*dodgy: 의심스러운, 위태로운

*tatty: 닳아 해진, 지저분한

 

Sam

Katie lives in Dorset, a rural part of south-west England. She describes her internet connection as spasmodic – suddenly working but only for a short time and not in a regular way.

 

*rural: 시골의, 지방의

 

Neil
She thinks this is because her internet cables are dodgy, slang for bad or untrustworthy.

 

Sam

A dodgy internet connection might be irritating, but in other parts of the world the consequences can be more serious. Aamer Hayat is farmer who lives in the Pakistani Punjab, one of the country’s most fertile regions, but also one of the least connected. His village is a three-hour drive from the nearest town, and he can’t make a phone call, even with 2G.

 

*irritate: 짜증나게 하다, 거슬리게 하다

*fertile: 비옥한, 기름진

 

Neil

For Aamer, basic weather information like knowing when rain is coming can mean the difference between his crops succeeding or failing. Without the internet he doesn’t have a reliable weather report, so the villagers decided to build their own fifty-metre-high telephone transmission tower, linking a network of five villages to the internet. Here is Aamer talking to BBC World Service programme, Digital Planet...

 

*crops: 농작물

Aamer Hayat
We used to do conventional farming like just getting information from word-of- mouth. Now, I’m using the latest technologies to have gadgets available with us and taking information right from the horse’s mouth through internet and the technology we have in our hands. So, this is what I’m doing in my farm practices.

*word-of-mouth: 구두의

*conventional: 관습적인, 평범한

*gadget: 도구 

*horse's mouth: 믿을만한 소식통으로부터

 

Sam

Before the community-built tower brought the internet to his village, Aamer got his weather report by word-of-mouth - information passed on by people telling each other.

 

Neil

Now, there’s stable internet that works thanks to a tower high enough to pick up a telephone signal which it then sends into the villages via solar-powered receivers – a type of gadget, meaning a small, electronic device which does something useful.

 

Sam
This means Aamer now gets his weather report straight from the horse's mouth, an idiom meaning from a reliable source, or from someone who knows what they’re talking about. The internet brings reliable climatic information, which means a good harvest not just for Aamer and his family, but for all the families living in the five connected villages.

 

Neil

It’s a great example of community action, and of people looking after each other – something which may have been lost since the early, idealistic days of the internet. And speaking of the early internet, it’s time to answer my question. Remember, I asked you for the name of the very first internet browser.

 

Sam

I guessed it was c) Yahoo. So, was I right?

 

Neil

You were... wrong, I’m afraid, Sam. Way back before Google, the first internet browser was called the WorldWideWeb - invented by none other than cyber legend, Tim Berners-Lee, who, I think, would be pleased to hear about Aamer’s community internet.

 

Sam

Yes. Right, let’s recap the vocabulary we’ve learnt about internet connections between people living at a physical distance in the modern world, something described as the global village.

 

Neil
If your internet is spasmodic, it’s irregular, stopping then suddenly working for a short time. In other words, it’s dodgy, a slang word meaning bad or unreliable

 

Sam
If you know something by word-of-mouth, it’s been passed verbally from person to person. Whereas if you hear it from the horse’s mouth, it’s come directly from a reliable source of information.

 

*whereas: 반면에 / (영문 계약서 상에서) ~ 라는 사실에 비추어

 

Neil
And finally, a gadget is a small, electronic device with a useful purpose. Once again our six minutes are up. Bye for now!

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VOCABULARY

global village

description of the modern world as a connected community in which people communicate across great distances using technology such as the internet and telephone

spasmodic

happening suddenly for a short time and not in a regular way

dodgy

(informal) bad, not able to be trusted

word-of-mouth

information passed by people telling each other, rather than being written down or sent electronically

gadget

small, modern electronic device or machine which does something useful

(straight) from the horse's mouth

(idiom) directly from the most reliable source, or from someone who has reliable knowledge of it

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Practice

만약 당신이 다이얼 방식 인터넷의 초창기를 기억할 만한 나이라면, 컴퓨터가 전화선을 통해 인터넷에 접속하기 위해 애쓰면서 내는 click & sueaks 소리인 잊을 수 없는 'handshake' 사운드를 알고 있을 겁니다.  

 

If you’re old enough to remember the early days of dial-up internet then you’ll know the unforgettable sound of the ‘handshake’, the clicks and squeaks your computer made as it struggled to connect to the internet through the telephone line.

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다이얼 방식 인터넷은 느렸고, 웹사이트가 로드되는데 엄청 오래 걸렸죠. 그리고 인터넷과 전화를 동시에 사용할 수 없었기 때문에, 보통 이러면 누군가가 소리치는게 이어졌죠. "컴퓨터 꺼, 지금 통화중이야" 

Dial-up internet was slow and websites took forever to load. And because you couldn’t use both the internet and the telephone at the same time, this was usually followed bysomeone shouting, “Get off the computer, I’m making a phone call!”

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그 이후 30년이 지난 지금, 인터넷은 드라마틱하게 바뀌었습니다. 광학 섬유와 광대역은 초스피드 인터넷 속도와 상호 연결된 온라인 세계를 만들어 냈죠. 이 세계에서 사람들간 물리적 거리는 더이상 소통의 장벽이 아닙니다. gloval village 라는 말로 표현되는 상황이죠.

In the thirty years since then, the internethas changed dramatically  Fibre optics and broadband have created superfast internet speeds and an interconnected online world, where physical distances between people are no longer a barrier to communication

- a situation expressed in the phrase, the global village

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그런데 자세히 들여다보면 당신은 여전히 전세계의 느린 커넥션 또는 인터넷이 전혀 없는 사람들을 찾을 수 있습니다. 이 프로그램에서는 어떻게 몇몇 커뮤니티들이 지역 사람들의 편익을 위해, 그들의 인터넷 연결 문제를 고치려고 함께 작업하고 있는지 알아볼 것입니다.  

But take a closer look and you’ll still find people around the world with a slow connection or no internet at all.In this programme we’ll be finding out how some communities are working together to fix their internet connection problems for the benefit of local people

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당신은 아마 그런 사람들이 가장 떨어져 있고, 고립되어 있는 곳에 살면서 매우 어려운 온라인 환경을 겪고 있을 것이라 생각할 것이지만, 항상 그렇진 않습니다. 

 

You might think its people living in the most remote and isolated places with the greatest difficulty getting online, but that’s not always true

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심지어 여기 영국에서도, 사람들은, BBC 라디오 청취자,  BBC World service programm, Digital planet에 본인의 문제를 설명한 Katie를 포함해서, 연결하기 위해 애를 쓰고 있습니다.

 

Even here in the UK people struggle to connect, including BBC radio listener, Katie, who explained her problem to BBC World Service programme, Digital Planet

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저는 잉글랜드 Dorset에 살고 있습니다. 여기의 우리 인터넷은 꽤 불안정합니다. 저는 그 이유가 대부분의 지하 케이블이 너무 오래됐고 뭐랄까, 개판이기 때문이라고 생각합니다. 교체가 필요하죠.

 

I live in Dorset in England. Our internet can be quite spasmodichere, and I think that that’s due to most of our underground cabling is very old and somewhatdodgy, tatty, and needs replacing.

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부실한 인터넷 연결은 짜증나게 할 수도 있습니다. 그러나 세계의 다른 지역에서는 그 영향이 더 심각할 수 도 있습니다. Aamer Hayat 는 파키스탄 punjab 에 살고 있는 농부인데요, 그곳은 그 나라에서 가장 비옥한 지역중 하나이지만, 가장 연결이 취약한 지역중 하나이기도 합니다. 그의 마을은 가장 가까운 시내와 차로 세시간 정도 떨어져 있죠. 그리고 그는 2G 로도 전화를 할 수 없습니다.

A dodgy internet connection might be irritating, but in other parts of the world the consequences can be more serious Aamer Hayat is farmer who lives in the Pakistani Punjab, one of the country’s most fertile regions, but also one of the least connected His village is a three-hour drive from the nearest town, and he can’t make a phone call, even with 2G

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Aamer 에게는 언제 비가 오는지와 같은 기본적인 날씨 정보가 그의 작황에 성공과 실패를 가르는 차이가 될 수 있습니다. 인터넷 없이는 그는 신뢰성 있는 날씨 정보를 가질 수 없으므로, 마을 사람들은 자체적으로 50미터 높이의 (5개 마을의 네트워크를 인터넷에 링크하는) 전화 송신 타워를 짓기로 결정 했습니다. 여기 BBC World service program , digital planet에서의 Aamer의 말이 있습니다. 

For Aamer, basic weather information like knowing when rain is coming can mean the difference between his crops succeeding or failing Without the internet he doesn’t have a reliable weather report, so the villagers decided to build their own fifty-metre-high telephone transmission tower, linking a network of five villages to the internet. Here is Aamer talking to BBC World Service programme, Digital Planet...

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우리는 말로 들려오는 정보를 그냥 받아오는 것과 같은 전통적인 농사를 지었었습니다. 이제 저는 도구들이 이용 가능해져서 최신 기술을 사용합니다 그리고 신뢰성 있는 곳(인터넷과 우리손에 있는 기술을 통해)으로부터 직접 정보를 얻어옵니다. 이것이 제가 농사일에서 지금 하고 있는 일입니다.

We used to do conventional farming like just getting information from word-of- mouth. Now, I’m using the latest technologies to have gadgets available with us and taking information right from the horse’s mouth through internet and the technology we have in our hands. So, this is what I’m doing in my farm practices

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그건 아주 좋은 커뮤니티 활동 그리고 사람들 서로 간에 보살펴주는 예인거 같아요. 인터넷의 초창기 때부터 잊혀져 오고 있는 뭔가. 초창기 인터넷에 대해 말하자면, 제 질문에 답할 시간이네요. 기억하세요. 제가 처음의 인터넷 브라우저의 이름이 무엇인지 물어봣었습니다. 

It’s a great example of community action, and of people looking after each other – something which may have been lost since the early, idealistic days of the internet. And speaking of the early internet, it’s time to answer my question. Remember, I asked you for the name of the very first internet browser.

 

 

Ref: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/oromo/features/6-minute-english_2022/ep-220811

BBC Learning English - 6 Minute English / Connecting remote communities