想練好英文，你需要有怎樣技能、心態 (If you want improve your English, what kind technique and attitude you require? ）
If you would like to improve your English ability, only thing you need to do is learn the everything in English and stopping translating everything from your mother tongue.
Except this concept, there are 4 steps I would like to recommend for your English learning path.
Firstly, you should do self evaluations and the second is that train your self-awareness. Thirdly, step the short term goal and long term goal. Finally, speaking loudly and speak proudly when you make more mistakes you are learning more.
Tip 1 : Self Evaluation ( 自我評估 )
Think of which part of your English is not good not.
Take listening as an example : let’s start from evaluation to if you have the problems from words limits, accents, unfamiliar with topics or speeds.
- Words : you have find word limits and then read the scripts first and try to know guess the meaning of words or do some research before listening otherwise you waste your time
- Accents : try to realize the rules of how they pronounce
- Topics : understanding background of speakers or google the theory or context you are going to watch first
- Speed : Play the video with 0.5 and then 1 time then
Or …. You are freaking afraid people laugh at you and resulting in no confidence in yourself ?!
Questions : How correctly train your listening with English videos？
Objective: Every day find out 1 — 2 minutes video you are interested in and watch 5 times. ( recommendations for beginners and if you are intermediate level you could start from the step 2 )
There are four steps as followed :
Step 1 : The first and second time, you may watch it with Chinese subtitles. The reason is that understanding of the meaning of video is truly important. You should learn knowledge from this video instead of only training your listening only. Focusing on learning English will make your learning process tedious and inefficient. You figure out what you are passionate.
Step 2 : The third and fourth time, watching the video with English subtitles is helpful to map or connect the Chinese context remained inside of your brain. And you may learn it more naturally.
Step 3 : Finally, please watch the video without subtitles. You may focus on the listening and thinking of why speaker will organize his or her speeches in this way. After having watched several videos, you could start to find the pattern of how the understanding speakers organize or structure their contexts.
Why you should repeat one video so many times because sometimes you may see some words are repetitively showing somewhere but you never learn. How about learn carefully and hard from this video ?
Step 4 : But wait.. not done yet. Please start to do shadowing which means you need to repeat what speaker said loudly and proudly. The most important thing is to RECORD YOUR VOICE to find out the way of the improvements. It doesn’t matter how awful your pronunciation is at the beginning. The purpose of this is to train your muscles every day. Trust me you will be getting better and better day by day.
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Tip 2 : Self- Awareness ( 自我認知 )
The reason why I mentioned the self awareness is that every single word coming out of your skull is meaningful. You may think of what you are saying and it is necessary to take responsibility of any words coming out from your mouth. That is to say, you will remember what you said before unconsciously while you are reading the articles, you may link to back your memory and ask yourself more questions.
- Why native speaker use the different terms or words seems like we are trying to explaining the same thing ?
- Why they use the different sentence structure?
- Why this term used in the daily and academic article means different ?
For example how will you say “ 我要告你，我律師會聯繫你”
You may say “ I will sue you and my lawyer will contact you !”
But native speaker may say “ I am gonna sue you, you will hear from my lawyer “
Try and error, try and error, if you ask more you can acquire more knowledge!
Tip 3 : Set up your learning goal ( 設立短、長期學習目標 )
Short Term Goal
- List how many hours you have every week
- How many hours for learning English
- At least speaking 5 mins every day
- Write one essay every week
- Join foreign hangout every week or once a month
Long Term Goal
- Work abroad 1 year…
- Study Abroad after 1 year..
- Talk business with overseas company after 6 months
Tip 4 : Speak Loudly and Proudly ( 勇敢大聲說出來)
Do self talk everyday. You could talk about your story within 1–3 mins. If you don’t use the definite word and just try to use other ways to explain first. Unless you don’t know the technical terms, you may look up the dictionary.
Give yourself training once a week. Pick up one video you are really interested in and please take the note while watching it as you finished please try to speak out the short summary and your personal statement in 1 min or 2 mins. You might use the words you gained from the videos.
And forget to record your voice !!!
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