Many of my intermediate and advanced students feel that they still lack confidence when it comes to spoken English mainly because they don`t feel that they speak very fast or very fluently.
我的許多中年級(jí)的學(xué)生都有這種感覺,就是他們?nèi)匀粚?duì)開口說英語缺乏信心。主要是因?yàn)樗麄冇X得所得不快或者不流利。
So today I`m going to give eight tips to help you to think in English, and stop translating in your head and this in turn will help you to improve your spoken English speed and fluency。
所以今天我有8個(gè)有助于你英語思考的建議,停止你腦海中的翻譯,而這反過來,將有助于你提高英語口語的速度和流利程度。
And hopefully your overall confidence when speaking English and we`re starting right now.
以及你整個(gè)人說英語時(shí)的自信度。我們開始吧。
The first thing you should do is to start naming objects in your environment in your target language not your native language. So as you go about your day when you see something then rather than thinking ah a hairbrush, a dog, a bus ,an old lady, instead you should think of the world in your target language.
首先你要做的是,開始用目標(biāo)語而非母語說出周圍事物的名字,所以當(dāng)你每天看到一些東西的時(shí)候,然后與其想著,梳子,狗,公交車,老太太,相反,你應(yīng)該用目標(biāo)語來想這個(gè)詞。
If it was Spanish you might say ah Cepill para el pelo, if that`s the right world in Spanish, you might even go a step further, and have a whole sentence, where is my hairbrush? by doing this , you will make the vocabulary come second nature, without having to think about the translation.
如果目標(biāo)語是西班牙語,你可能會(huì)說Cepill para el pelo,如果這個(gè)詞在西班牙語中是正確的,你甚至可以進(jìn)一步說一整句話,我的梳子在哪?這樣做,你會(huì)讓這些詞匯成為習(xí)慣,不用考慮翻譯。
Tip number two when you`re having an English conversation with a native with a teacher or with a student, and try to keep the conversation going, and don`t stop just because you can`t think of the world that you want to use, instead try to work around the word, by finding an alternative word or by finding a way to describe the object that you want to name.
第二個(gè)建議,當(dāng)你在和當(dāng)?shù)厝?,老師或者學(xué)生,進(jìn)行英語對(duì)話交流時(shí),試著讓對(duì)話持續(xù)下去,不要因?yàn)橄氩怀瞿阏f的詞而停下來,相反,試著圍繞這個(gè)詞,通過找到一個(gè)替代詞或者找到一種方式,來描述你想說的東西。
And then perhaps your partner can help you to find the right world, this helps you to exercise confidence in your conversation. And it will also help you to bring up more vocabulary, as you work around that one missing word.
也許你的伙伴能幫你找到合適的詞,這有助于你在談話中鍛煉自信,它也會(huì)幫助你掌握更多的詞匯,當(dāng)你圍繞這個(gè)漏掉的詞語思考時(shí)。
Asking your teacher to only speak in the target language, so this tip is to force yourself into situations, where you cannot use your native language .
要求你的老師只講目標(biāo)語,所以這條建議是強(qiáng)迫你自己進(jìn)入不能說母語的環(huán)境中。
It`s very easy to drop out of using the target language, and just ask a question in your native language, I know because I`m currently learning German, and I always drop out to speak English in order to find out how or what I`m supposed to say or what I`m supposed to do in a class.
放棄使用目標(biāo)語很容易,比如,用你的母語問一個(gè)問題,我知道,因?yàn)槲艺趯W(xué)習(xí)德語,我總是串到說英語上,為了知道我該怎么說或者說什么,或者我在課堂上應(yīng)該做些什么?
But if you are forced to use only the target language,then you`ll be surprised how effective that can be at accelerating your learning, so if you`re taking lessons ask the teacher to only speak in the target language, if you`re practicing with a language buddy a language partner then ask them to for the next half an hour.
但如果你被迫只是用目標(biāo)語,你會(huì)驚訝的發(fā)現(xiàn),著將加速你學(xué)習(xí)的速度,所以如果你在課堂上,讓老師只講目標(biāo)語,如果你和學(xué)習(xí)語言的伙伴一起練習(xí),讓他們?cè)賵?jiān)持半個(gè)小時(shí)。
Let`s only speak in the target language or perhaps get used to speaking to yourself, you might feel a little strange doing this, but actually once you get used to it, it can be another effective way of learning language , by speaking to yourself you are talking out loud.
大家只說目標(biāo)語,或者你可以自言自語,你可能覺得這樣有點(diǎn)奇怪,但是一旦你習(xí)慣了,它將是你另外一個(gè)學(xué)習(xí)語言有效的辦法。自言自語就是大聲對(duì)自己說話。
But then you`re also getting used to asking questions, and responding all at the same time, perhaps don`t do it when you`re near other people though, because they might think you`re a little bit crazy.
那時(shí)你也會(huì)開始習(xí)慣問問題,并作出回答,不過,當(dāng)你和其他人一起的時(shí)候,不要這樣做,因?yàn)樗麄兛赡苡X得你有點(diǎn)神經(jīng)質(zhì)。
If you do struggle with talking to yourself, then a few ideas would be to narrate what you`re doing , so if you are cleaning the house, you might start narrating your activities, therefore you`ll have to pull on your bank of verbs cleaning verbs, particularly hoovering,washing,tidying,folding,putting away, another thing you can do is keep a diary, and at the end of the day talk out loud as if you were telling somebody what you have done today, of course this will really pull on using the past tense which is excellent.
如果你真的在與自言自語做斗爭,然后有一些想法的話,你可以說說你在做什么?如果你在打掃房間,你可以說說你的打掃活動(dòng),因此,你將使用到你懂動(dòng)詞庫里的關(guān)于清潔的詞。例如,吸塵,清洗,整理,折疊,收好,你可以做的另外一件事是寫日記,在一天結(jié)束的時(shí)候大聲說出來,就好象你在告訴別人你今天做了什么一樣。當(dāng)然,使用過去時(shí)也很有用。
And then once you`ve said it out loud, perhaps and write it down and look at your sentence structure, your grammar your vocabulary, perhaps ask someone if they can check it all over for you , to see if you`ve made any mistakes.
一旦你大聲說出來,也許你可以把它寫下來,看看你的句子結(jié)構(gòu),你的語法和詞匯,可以問問別人是否幫你檢查一下,看看你是否犯了什么錯(cuò)誤。
The next tip is also related to what I`ve just said, and it`s speak out loud often, the way to improve your speaking speed is to practice speaking , practice pronouncing and putting together lots of words.
下一個(gè)建議也與我剛才說的有關(guān),經(jīng)常大聲的說出來,提高你的英語語速的方法就是練習(xí)口語,說大量的單詞和詞組。
One of the things that really does slow students down is remembering how a word sounds, or trying to remember the correct pronunciation , or grammatical order sentence structure, and so by speaking out loud often.
真正讓學(xué)生慢下來的事情之一是,記住一個(gè)單詞的發(fā)音,或者試著記住正確的發(fā)音,或語法的順序,句子結(jié)構(gòu),因此要經(jīng)常大聲的說出來。
It will help you to become more familiar with how things sound, but also to make your muscles more familiar with rounding and sounding, all of those words .
它將有助于你更加熟悉詞語的發(fā)音,還能讓你的肌肉更熟悉圓唇音的發(fā)音。還有很多其他單詞。
So one thing you can do it to read out loud, take a publication in English, perhaps a newspaper or a magazine and read it , go online and find an online article or a blog and read it out loud, by doing this regularly you`re really getting into the habit of speaking .
所以你可以做一些事就是大聲朗讀,以英文出版物為例,可以讀一些報(bào)紙或者雜志,上網(wǎng)找一篇在線文章或者博客大聲朗讀出來,經(jīng)常這樣做,你真的會(huì)養(yǎng)成說話的習(xí)慣。
The next tip is to get a dictionary, now not an ordinary dictionary, which translates from the target language into your native language, we can access there types of dictionaries on our phones and on the computers, but actually they don`t really help as a learner`s dictionary.
下一個(gè)建議,有一本字典,現(xiàn)在說的不是一本普通的字典,把目標(biāo)語翻譯成你的母語,我們可以在手機(jī)和電腦上找到這樣的字典,但實(shí)際上他們并沒有學(xué)習(xí)型字典那么好用。
A learner`s dictionary is specifically aimed at helping you, to improve your overall knowledge of a language, and give you a more simplified and well-rounded understanding of words and phrases.
學(xué)習(xí)型字典的目的就是幫助你,提高你對(duì)一門語言的整體知識(shí)。讓你對(duì)單詞和短語有一個(gè)更簡單和全面的理解。
The learner`s dictionary I recommend for British English, is the Cambridge learner`s dictionary, I will put a link to that one and a few others down in the description box below. If you are interested in finding out more。
我推薦的櫻花死英語學(xué)習(xí)詞典,也就是劍橋英語學(xué)習(xí)詞典,我將在下面的描述中貼上這個(gè)和其他的一些鏈接,有興趣的可以點(diǎn)擊了解更多。
so the next tip is to get involved in an English activity every day. This might be watching a movie having a conversation, it might be doing a class, but make sure you incorporate something English into your every single day, by doing this you`ll keep it in your mind, and who doesn`t enjoy watching an English movie?
下一個(gè)建議就是每天參加英語活動(dòng),可以是看部電影,聊聊天,再可能就是上英語課,但是你要確保你每天都在學(xué)習(xí)英語,這樣做,你就會(huì)把它記在心理,誰不喜歡看英語電影呢?
But that brings me on to my next tip , no subtitles, once you`re at an intermediate or advanced level, you no longer need subtitles, and in fact they`re probably holding you back, because you will automatically draw your eyes down to the subtitles, you`re missing all the body language. Missing all the context and actually you`ll then just looking at in your native language and hearing the target language rather than really absorbing the target language.
接下來就引出我的下一條建議,沒有字幕,一旦你達(dá)到中級(jí)或者高級(jí)水平,你不再需要字幕。事實(shí)上,他們可能會(huì)阻礙你,因?yàn)槟愕难劬?huì)自動(dòng)看向字幕,你漏掉理科多有的肢體語言,忽略了多有的上下文,實(shí)際上你只需要用你的母語去看,并聽目標(biāo)語而不是掌握目標(biāo)語。
And thinking about what`s being said, so get rid of the subtitles, if you really struggle without them , at least watch it once without them, see what you can pick up then go back and put in the subtitles.
想一下他們?cè)谡f什么,所以去掉字幕吧,如果沒有他們你真的會(huì)很痛苦,至少去掉一次,看看你能聽懂什么,然后再把字幕放進(jìn)去。
But I would implore you to try without subtitles from now on, no more subtitles.
但是我懇求你從現(xiàn)在開始不要字幕,不要再看字幕啦!
And last but by no means least is to practice common question and responses, there are certain questions and responses that we say every day, and a number of times, and if you can get these questions and responses to be automatic, and it`s going to help the flow of your conversation, and it`s going to help your confidence.
最后一個(gè)是練習(xí)常見的問題和回答,我們每天都會(huì)問和回答一些特定的問題,很多次,如果你能讓問問題和回答變得自如,這會(huì)幫助你交流順暢,并且還會(huì)幫合租你樹立信心。
So for example, hi how are you , I`m really good thank you , or I`m not doing so good, what are you doing what are you doing later? I`m busy at the moments, I`m going to work ,I`m going to school, how about you ? what else could you ask, you could ask what`s your name how old are you ah, I am Anna and I am 21 years old I am, you could ask what are you having for dinner, or what time are you getting hoe from work, what`s your EAT?
舉個(gè)例子,嗨,你好嗎?我很好,謝謝,或者我做的不太好。你在做什么,你稍后要做什么?我現(xiàn)在很忙,我要去工作,我要去上學(xué),你呢?你還能問什么?你可以問,你叫什么名字,你多大了。我叫安娜,我21歲了,你可以問,你晚餐吃什么?或者你什么時(shí)候下班回家,你幾點(diǎn)到?
So go through your day , and think about which questions and responses, are very common on your day-to -day conversations, make a note of them translate them , and then start practicing firing them off , so when you come to have a generic normal common conversation with somebody, they`ll think wow what a confident English speaker you are.
所以過每一天,想想哪些問題和回答,在你日常對(duì)中很常見,做下筆記,翻譯一下,然后開始練習(xí),爆發(fā)你的小宇宙,所以當(dāng)你和某人進(jìn)行正常普通對(duì)話時(shí),他們會(huì)認(rèn)為你是一個(gè)說英語很自信的人。
So there you go , I hope you found that helpful, if you have any additional advice, for students who are struggling to think in English, or any target language, and I`m really translating everything in their heads, if you could help them with that, something I haven`t mentioned please do put it in the comment section below。
好了,我希望這對(duì)你們有幫助,如果你有任何關(guān)于那些努力用英語思考的學(xué)生的其他建議,或者任何目標(biāo)語的,如果你有能幫助他們的話,我會(huì)把他們腦子里所有的東西都翻譯出來,而我還沒想到的一些建議,請(qǐng)?jiān)谠u(píng)論里留言。
Let`s share and care about one another, if you `re new here then welcome, please do click the subscribe button, and the bell notification for more English lessons, if you enjoyed this video , please give it a thumb up. And I`ll see you in the next class.
讓我們互相分享,互相關(guān)心,如果你是新來的,歡迎你,點(diǎn)擊訂閱,打開通知,觀看更多的英語課吧,如果你喜歡這個(gè)視頻,請(qǐng)點(diǎn)贊,下節(jié)課再見。