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Well hey there I’m E妹妹a from 妹妹mEnglish! Today’s lesson is going to focus on five tips to improve your English listening skills.
大师好，我是 E妹妹a，接待来到甘旨英语频道！今天的课程会偏重于晋升英语听力的五个技能。
So often we focus on speaking, don’t we? But listening, understanding someone else is just as important if you want to be able to co妹妹unicate effectively, right?
咱们一般比力偏重于白话，对吧？可是，若是你想有用沟通，谛听、理解别人一样首要，对吧？
What makes listening so hard is that the English that you hear is often quite different to the English that you learn. So I want to share five different techniques that you can use to improve your listening skills.
听力坚苦的缘由在于你听到的英语与你进修的英语凡是大不不异。以是我想分享五种分歧的技能，你可以用它们来提高你的听力技术。
Perhaps you’ve already tried a few of them, maybe some of them are new. I definitely hope that you can take a couple of new ideas away and put them into practice after this video.
或许你已测验考试了此中的一些，或许此中一些是新的。我但愿你能在这个视频以后收成一些新设法并将它们付诸实践。
When I was preparing for this lesson I asked the members inside my English speaking co妹妹unity Hey Lady! about what they feared most when it comes to listening to someone speaking English, what were the things that worried the most and I got lots of different responses but the top three were:
Not being able to understand words, maybe slang, people talking too fast so of course, that includes linking, contractions and reduced forms.
Thirdly, not being familiar with or comfortable with the accent.
当我筹备这节课时，我问了我的 Hey Lady! 英语社区的成员， 问她们听他人说英语时最惧怕甚么，最担忧的是甚么，我获得了不少分歧的答复，但前三名是：没法理解单词，多是俚语，人们措辞太快，固然了，这包含连读、缩读和简化的情势。
第三，不认识或不顺应口音。
What do you think? Do you agree?
你感觉呢？你赞成吗？
What worries you the most when you have to listen to someone who is speaking in English? Let me know down in the co妹妹ents.
当你必要听一个说英语的人措辞时，你最担忧的是甚么？在评论中奉告我吧。
Listening to people is something that we do all of the time. You’re listening to me right now.
谛听人们措辞是咱们一向在做的事变。你如今就在听我措辞。
We listen to podcasts, we listen to TV shows and movies. All of this is passive listening, you’re absorbing the sounds and the words, taking what you know and understanding it, interpreting it.
咱们会听播客，咱们会听电视节目和片子。所有这一切都是被动凝听，你在听取声音和文字，接管你所晓得的和理解的内容并举行诠释。
But today I really want to talk about how you can practise and how you can improve your listening skills so that you can feel more confident joining conversations and meeting new people and co妹妹unicating in English. First up, pronunciation.
可是今天我很想谈谈若何操练和若何提高听力技能，如许你便可以加倍自傲地参加对话、结识新朋侪并用英语交换。起首是发音。
One of the best things that you can do to improve your listening skills is to study pronunciation but I’m not really talking about learning and practising individual sounds but rather focusing on the elements of naturally spoken English.
Things like contractions, reduced forms, sentence stress, intonation, all of these things, learning to hear and recognise the sounds of English as it’s actually spoken because English doesn’t always sound like what you expect, does it?
提高听力技术的最佳的法子之一就是进修发音，但我说的其实不是进修和操练单个音，而是偏重于天然英语白话的元素。比方缩读、简化情势、句子重音、腔调之类的工具，进修听到和辨认现实场所的英语发音，由于英语听起来其实不老是像你等待的那样，对吧？
Sounds blend together, they change, sometimes they’re completely dropped. And it’s no wonder that your poor little brain is crying out for help as you’re listening to someone speaking English and it’s no wonder that you tend to blame your ears and yourself for not being able to hear and understand the sounds but it’s not your fault.
分歧的音会交融在一块儿，它们会产生变革，有时它们会彻底消散。难怪你可怜的小脑壳在你听他人说英语时高声呼救，难怪你会指责你的耳朵不克不及听到和理解这些声音，但这不是你的错。
You haven’t been taught to hear ‘What do you want to do? ‘ that’s what you expect to hear, isn’t it? What you actually hear is something like: Whaddaya wannado?
你其实不晓得要注重去听“What do you want to do?”，这就是你应当等待听到的，对吧？你现实听到的倒是如许的：Whaddaya wannado?
Learning to recognise these sounds and to start associating those sounds with the words ‘what do you want to do’ is gonna help right and I have the perfect video to help you practise, the thirty most co妹妹on reductions in English.
The link is up here and I’ll add it to the end of the video but if you study and learn the sounds of naturally spoken English, you’re going to be in a much better position to actually understand spoken English.
进修辨认这些音并起头将这些发音与“what do you want to do”接洽起来会颇有帮忙，我有一个很是符合的视频来帮忙你举行操练，这个视频是关于英语中最多见的 30 种缩读情势。链接在这里，我会把它加到视频的末端，但若你当真钻研和进修一下天然英语白话的发音的话，那便可以在理解英语白话方面有更大的上风。
Next up is reading and listening together. Now this really shouldn’t be a new idea because I talk about it all of the time.
接下来是浏览和听力一块儿举行。这其实不是一个新的设法，由于我一向在评论辩论。
It is one of my favourite techniques to help you improve your pronunciation which I just explained is an excellent way to help you improve your listening skills, right? With this technique, you get to see the word as you read and you also get to hear it as it’s being spoken.
这是我最喜好的帮忙你改良发音的技能之一，我方才诠释过，这是帮忙你改良听力技术的绝佳法子，对吗？这类技能是如许的，你在浏览时看到这个词，并在措辞时听到这个词。
So you start to recognise the sounds and associate it to the words. Hey quick question.
你起头意想到声音和单词的接洽。嘿，有个小问题。
Do you use Ted Talks at 
all when you study and you practise your English? Ted Talks are brilliant resources to help you with your listening skills in English.
你在进修和操练英语时是不是利用 Ted Talks 呢？Ted Talks 是可以帮忙你提高英语听力技术的超等好的资本。
If you go to their website, every video has an interactive transcript and that transcript allows you to follow the script as the speaker is talking so it’s great for learning new words, it’s great for hearing the natural pronunciation and you can even use it to pause and to practise imitating what the speaker is saying.
Ted Talks are also a really awesome way to listen to different types of English speakers because there are so many different talks that you can listen to.
若是你去他们的网站，每一个视频都有互动字幕，字幕可让你在演讲者措辞的时辰随着剧本走，以是它很合适进修新单词，很合适听天然的发音，你乃至可以用它来暂停来操练仿照演讲者所说的内容。Ted Talks 也是凝听分歧类型的英语演讲者的一个很是棒的方法，由于很分歧的演讲可以听。
Listening to those different voices, different accents, different paces, all of this is essential to helping you develop your listening skills. So this is my third tip, listening to different accents, different voices and in different contexts.
听一下分歧的声音、分歧的口音、分歧的节拍，所有这些都是帮忙你晋升听力技能的关头。是以这是我的第三个建议，听分歧的口音，分歧的声音，在分歧的语境中。
Opening yourself up to different voices and different accents is so important. It’s not only about accents but it’s also the tone of people’s voice, the pace at which they speak and then of course, the context in which you’re listening, background noise,
maybe you’re really comfortable talking one-to-one but when there’s a group and there’s multiple people talking, they’re talking over the top of each other it becomes more challenging.
让本身接管分歧的声音和分歧的口音是很是首要的。这不但仅是口音的问题，也触及到人们措辞的语气，措辞的速率，固然，另有你听的情况，布景噪音，或许你很喜好一对一的谈话，可是若是在集团中有不少人在措辞，他们的茶话会堆叠，这就变得加倍具备挑战性。
So we have all of these different features to play with. Playing with the difference in all of these experiences is something that will help you to develop really strong listening skills.
以是咱们有不少分歧的功效可以操纵。注重此中的差别可以帮忙你成长出壮大的听力技术。
Now if you choose to listen to different voices, it may be a little harder at the beginning. It’s definitely going to be something that pays off for you in the long run because you’re going to be able to understand more people and you’ll feel less fearful as you meet people who have an accent or a tone of voice that you’re not familiar with.
若是你选择听分歧的声音，起头时可能会有点坚苦。从久远来看，这绝对是一件对你有益处的事变，由于如许的话，你将可以或许理解更多的人，当你碰到有口音或发音你不认识的人时，你会感触不那末惧怕。
So how do you know when you should look for a different accent or a different type of person to listen to? When you’re listening to someone, maybe you’re listening to me right now and you’re feeling really good.
那末，你怎样晓得你何时应当寻觅分歧的口音或分歧类型的人的发音来听呢？当你在听他人措辞时，或许你如今正在听我措辞，你感受很是好。
I can understand most of what she’s saying. I feel relaxed and comfortable.
我可以理解她所说的大部门内容。我感触很放松，很恬静。
I’m kind of pleased with myself actually. Well this is a sign, it’s a sign that’s telling you you need to shake things up a bit.
究竟上，我对本身很得意。这是一个旌旗灯号，这是一个奉告你你必要把方针定得大一点的旌旗灯号。
If you’re feeling comfortable, then you know it’s time to push the boundary of your comfort zone a little. Not a lot, let’s not go crazy but a little.
若是你感受很惬意，那末你就晓得是时辰略微冲破一下你的恬静区的界线了。不要过分，一点点就行。
And when you feel a little bit of discomfort or that fear when you start talking to someone and you realise that their accent is quite different or maybe they’re speaking really quickly, you just want to notice that fear,
that resistance that you have of not being able to understand someone you’re worried about it. That is telling you that this is the type of situation that you need practice with.
当你起头与人扳谈时，你感触有一点不@惬%rh9mc%意或惧%42SY3%怕@，你意想到他们的口音很纷歧样，或他们措辞语速很是快，你想注重到那种惧怕，那种你没法理解或人的阻力，你对它此感触很是担忧。这是在奉告你，这就是你必要操练的那种环境。
The more you listen to someone, the more you understand of them, right? So again Ted Talks are really great tools to help you with this because people who are presenting, they’re often speaking a little more clearly.
你听得越多，你对他们的领会就越多，对吧？是以，Ted Talks 又是帮忙你实现这一方针的很是好的东西，由于演讲的人他们常常讲得更清晰一些。
You have the transcript to help you practise with and you get to ease into different accents, different paces, different tones. Let’s get on to my next tip.
你有字幕来帮忙你操练，你可以轻松顺应分歧的口音、分歧的节拍、分歧的腔调。让咱们来看看我的下一个建议。
Write what you hear. This is my absolute favourite one.
把你听的写下来。这是我最喜好的一个。
I can’t wait to share it. So we’re not talking about sitting down to a YouTube video and writing out the entire thing, everything that you hear.
我火烧眉毛地想要分享它。咱们其实不是要说坐下来看一个 YouTube 视频，然后把全部视频写出来，把你听到的一切都写出来。
That is not going to work, it’s not going to be fun. It’s going to take you a bloody long time.
这是不成能的，也不会有甚么兴趣。这将必要你花很长时候来完成。
So I have some really specific steps to follow if you want to practise along in this way. Step one is choose a really small section of a video, a podcast or a Ted Talk, just thirty seconds only.
若是你想以这类方法来操练的话，我有一些很是详细的步调可以遵守。第一步是选择一个视频、播客或 Ted 演讲中很是短的部门，30秒便可以。
Step two is just listening to that section a couple of times. You’re not writing yet, you’re just listening, you’re getting used to their accent, you’re getting used to the tone and the pace of their voice.
第二步，就是把这部门内容听上几遍。尚未到写的那一步，你只是在听，你在习气他们的口音，你在习气他们的语气和节拍。
You’re also becoming more familiar with the topic or the context of the conversation. Step three.
你也愈来愈认识这个话题或谈话的布景。第三步。
Okay now you’re ready to pick up your pen and to write. So you want to listen to the first sentence, pause, write down what you hear.
好的，如今你已筹备好拿起你的笔起头写了。听第一句话，暂停，写下你听到的内容。
Listen to the next sentence, pause, write down what you hear. Now you may want to slow down the speed of the audio a little.
听下一句话，暂停，写下你听到的内容。如今你可能想把音频的速率放慢一点。
It’s really easy to do that with Ted Talks, with Audible and on YouTube. We really don’t want to make this an impossible task.
Ted Talks、Audible 和 YouTube 要做到这一点很轻易。咱们真的不想让这成为一项不成能完成的使命。
If slowing down the speed a little helps you to get through the practice there is no harm in doing that at all. So what about when you don’t quite catch something, maybe there’s a word that you don’t recognise, you don’t know the meaning of, you can’t recognise it, maybe the sounds have kind of all squished together and so it doesn’t make a lot of sense to you.
若是把速率放慢一点有助于你完成操练的话，那末如许做实在没有任何坏处。当你没有彻底听出来一些内容的时辰，或许有一个你不熟悉的词，你不晓得它的意思，你不克不及认出来它，或许各个音都挤在一块儿，你底子就听不懂甚么意思。
That’s fine, leave a gap, keep listening, write down what you do hear. Do this all the way through to the end of that little section that you’re listening to and go back to the start, listen again, try to fill in some of those gaps.
不要紧的，留下一个空，继续听，写下你所听到的内容。一向如许做，直到听完你正在听的那一小段内容，然后回到开首，再听一遍，试着弥补此中的一些空缺。
Look at the words around the gap. Can you try and guess what could go there or what should go there?
看一下空白的处所四周的单词。你能试着猜想一下，甚么单词可以放在那边，或甚么单词应当放在那边吗？
So tell me, what is so great about this really simple technique to help you improve your listening skills? Any ideas?
奉告我，这个真正简略的技能有甚么了不得的处所可以帮忙你提高你的听力技术呢？有甚么设法吗？
Unlike all of the other tips that I’ve shared today, this one helps you to actually discover what you’re not hearing. When you’re listening, you are always taking in information.
与我今天禀享的所有其他技能分歧，这个提醒可以帮忙你发明你没有听到的工具。当你在听时，老是在吸取信息。
You’re taking in everything that you understand and you’re leaving the rest behind but the parts that you don’t understand, they’re the parts that are going to help you to learn and to grow. So filling in those gaps is going to help you to understand and it’s going to help you to improve your listening skills.
你在吸取你理解的一切，其他的你并无存眷，但你不睬解的部门才是将帮忙你进修和发展的部门。是以，弥补这些空缺将帮忙你理解，并帮忙你提高你的听力技能。
And lastly, watch without subtitles. Okay quick poll.
最后，在没有字幕的环境下旁观视频。好的，快速投个票。
Who watches movies or TV shows without any subtitles? Answer honestly here. I really genuinely want to know.
谁会看没有任何字幕的片子或电视节目？诚笃地答复一下吧。我真的很想晓得。
Share it down in the co妹妹ents. Watching a movie or a TV show in a language that you’re learning without subtitles is really hard work especially if you’re sitting down to do it at the end of a long day, you’re sitting down to watch your favourite show, you just want to relax.
在评论里分享一下吧。在没有字幕的环境下用你正在进修的说话旁观片子或电视节目真的很辛劳，出格是当你在漫长的一天竣事后坐下来做这件事时，你坐下来旁观你最喜好的节目，明明只是想轻松一下。
Yes watching without subtitles is harder. It’s going to teach you how to listen.
是的，在没有字幕的环境下旁观是比力坚苦的。可是它将教会你若何谛听。
When you listen to people in real life, there are no subtitles right, there are no captions in real life so we have to build that confidence and that awareness with our listening skills. You’ve got your favourite TV show, you have a notebook handy, you’ve got it sitting next to you on the couch just so every time you sit down to turn on the telly you’ve got it there ready.
当你在实际糊口入耳人措辞时，实在并无字幕，对吧，实际糊口中没有字幕，以是咱们必需创建这类信念和对听力技术的意识。找出最喜好的电视节目和你的条记本，可以把它放在你阁下的沙发上，如许每次你坐下来打开电视的时辰，它就在那边已筹备好了。
You want to turn off the subtitles and start paying attention. Remember we’re just focusing on the first one minute, when you watch that one minute through, pause, take out that notebook and write down a few notes about what you saw or what you heard in the first minute of that video.
你要关掉字幕，起头注重。记着，咱们只存眷前一分钟，当你看完这一分钟后，暂停一下，拿出条记本，写下你在这段视频的第一分钟里看到或听到的内容。
So, for example, you might write something about one of the characters. Paul seemed really frustrated by Annie’s decision to book a holiday with her friends and not to ask him first.
举例来讲，你可能会写一些关于此中一小我物的内容。保罗彷佛对安妮决议与她的朋侪们一块儿渡过假期而不先问他这件事感触很是懊丧。
So then go back, turn on the subtitles, of course in English, and read them through for the entire minute making sure that you understood everything exactly as you wrote down. The ideas are all clear and true.
然后归去，打开字幕，固然是英文的哦，把一分钟的字幕读完，确保你彻底依照你写下的内容理解清晰了。这些设法都是清楚而真正的。
That is the active listening practice that you need to keep improving your skills. So there you have it!
这就是你不竭提高技术所必要的踊跃听力操练。就是如许啦！
They were my five tips, five different techniques that you can use to practise and to improve your English listening skills. Of course, you can do it on your own.
这就是我的五个技能，五个你可以用来操练和提高你的英语听力技术的分歧技能。固然了，你可以本身去实践啦。
You can do it with a study buddy but I reco妹妹end that you just choose one of the techniques we talked about today and put it into practice over a whole week. Try and do it a few times see if it sticks.
你可以和进修火伴一块儿做，但我建议你只需选择咱们今天谈到的一个技能，并在一全部礼拜内将其付诸实践。试着做几回，看看是不是能对峙下去。
See if it’s something that’s working for you, something that you enjoy. I’ve left some links to some really great Ted Talks down in the description.
看看这是不是对你有效，你喜好不喜好这么做。我在描写中留了一些出格好的 TED 演讲的链接。
You can use them to get started and if you want to focus on natural pronunciation then check out this video right here, the one about co妹妹on reductions that I mentioned earlier or this entire course that I made here on YouTube that’s about linking and natural pronunciation. I’ll see you in there!
你可以用它们作为起头，若是你想专攻一下天然发音的话，那末请看一下这个视频，就是我前面提到的关于常见的缩读的视频，也能够看看我在 YouTube 上建造的关于连读和天然发音的整套课程。我在那边期待着大师！
