你好!我叫艾伦。我是芝加哥一名非母语英语课程教师。我在各个不同的英语水平教学上拥有多年的教学经验······
Hello! Ah, my name is Allen. I am an ESL teacher in Chicago. I have many years of teaching experience at all levels...
并且我拥有教育学的资深资历。今天我想和大家谈的是怎样学习英语会话。
...and I also have an advanced degree in education. I’d like to talk to you today about how to learn conversational English.
正如其他任何事情一样,如果你用正确的方法做,你就会事半功倍。但如果你用错了方法,你只能花费太多时间却没有很大进展。
Like anything else, if you do it the right way, you save time. But if you do it the wrong way, you spend a lot of time and don’t advance very much.
首先,我要提醒你的是:人们都很自然地从他们所处的环境中学习母语的…
First of all, I want to remind you that people learn their native language naturally from their environment...
……从他们的父母、学校的伙伴那里,并且他们并不用刻意地去学。
...from their parents, from their peers from school, and they do it without studying.
所以,我希望你们能记在心里:为了学习英语,只要能在讲英语的环境里互动就会有非常好的效果。
So I want you to keep that in mind that it’s very powerful to just interact in an English speaking environment in order to learn English.
但是为更迅速地完成任务你必须着眼于你想要达成什么样的目标。
But you have to concentrate on what it is that you want to accomplish in order to expedite or turbocharge this task.
有一种加速实现这个目标的方法,那就是一遍遍地收看同一个视频……
One way to turbo-charge the task is to watch the same video over and over again...
……并且控制、回放这个视频就像你学一首歌曲那样,依我看,这就是最好的学习对话英语的方法。
...and to be able to control it and play it back and learn it like you would learn a song, is in my opinion, the best way to learn conversational English.
这是我新发现的一个网站:fkenglish.com。它就是一个很棒的英语学习网站。
There is a website that I just discovered called fkenglish.com…F-K-E-N-G-L-I-S-H dot com. This is a terrific website for learning English.
事实上,我期望fkenglish.com拥有教其他语言的能力,这样我就可以学习其他语言了,这种感觉很棒 neat:【美】【口】美妙的,很棒的
In fact, I’m looking forward to them having the ability to teach other languages so I’ll be able to learn other languages, which would be kind of neat.
但是这个网站的妙处是它给你提供··有趣的视频片断,并且它确保你可以很容易的停下来或是重听 clip:1. 剪;修剪[C] 2. 剪下來的東西(如膠片的一段)[C] I'll have to go through all the clips on the event before I can give an opinion. 我在提出看法前先得閱讀關於這一事件的所有剪報。
But the beauty of this website is it gives you a…interesting movie clip, and then it enables you to stop it and rewind it easily...
……同时它对你所见到的提供正确的发音,和文字内容。
...and also get correct pronunciations of what you see, and it’s also got the text.
同时它也得到不同的语言的文字这方面,举个例,比如你可以看到英语和汉语的翻译
And then it’s also got - it gives you the ability to have the text in different languages, so you see both the English and the Chinese, for example.
那不会在很大程度上帮助你学习汉语因为它是用英语表达的,但是他肯定会帮助你学习英语
That won’t help you learn Chinese so much because it says the words in English, but it will certainly help you learn English.
因此那是一个主要的途径,并且我强烈推荐这个网站
So that’s one main way, and I highly recommend that site.
其他原因那是很有趣的,就联网和会见其他人们来说,可以用英语来交流等等,这是一个超级好的网站
It’s fun for other reasons in terms of networking and meeting other people that you can have English exchanges with and so forth. It’s a wonderful site.
另一个途径,可选择的,可以观看视频。你知道,一些视频剪辑象雅虎上面的!新闻,并且重新播放,这将使事情变得非常非常简单
Another way, an alternative, would be to watch, you know, a news clip like on Yahoo! News, and re-play it, and this makes things much, much easier.