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So today, I'm gonna talk about one of the most common questions that I get,
所以 今天,我要來談論一個最常見的問題之一
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"How to improve my English listening skills?".
如何提升我的英語聽力技巧?
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So, yeah, I got asked this question almost everyday! But I have to say, right from the beginning,
所以 是的! 我幾乎每天被問這問題,但一開始我必須先說
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that I'm pretty sure 70 to 80 percent of the people who watch this video would just
我非常確定70%~80%的人看這部影片只是想要
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stop watching almost immediately.
馬上停止看這視頻
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The reason why is because I'm not going to give you the kind of answer that you want!
原因是我將不會給你 你想要的答案
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So what kind of answer is it people are hoping to get when they ask this question? Or even
什麼樣的回答是大家在問這問題時希望聽的? 甚至
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this kind of question because "improving listening skills", "improving speaking skills" is all
如何增進聽力及口說技巧這類的問題
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basically the same.
基本是一樣的
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The kind of answer people want is a kind of easy, magic solution. They want me to give
這類的人 想要聽到的是一個簡單、神奇的方法
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them some kind of tip or trick which will let them improve their English listening skills
他希望我給他們一些技巧和竅門提升英語聽力技巧
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instantly and easily without making any effort!
快速且簡單地 不需要任何努力
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To be honest? That is a load of rubbish! These tips and tricks, magic methods just don't
老實說 這都是廢話! 這些技巧和竅門 神奇的方法都是不存在的
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exist. They don't work at all. So, I can't give you that kind of answer.
這些根本沒用 所以 我並不會給你們那樣的答案
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It really is a case of just doing it! That is about it. And in fact, I have to be honest,
真正的方法就是去做! 就是如此! 事實上 我必須老實說
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instead of searching for these kind of easy methods, these magic ways to do it easily
與其尋找簡便的方法 容易達到的神奇方法
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and quickly without having to do any kind of hard work.
且快速地 不需任何的努力
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Instead of looking for these things, don't waste your time. Just start doing it. I mean,
與其找這些方法 不要浪費時間了 停止這麼做 我的意思是
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if you want to improve your listening skills, start listening to things.
如果你想要提升你的聽力技巧 開始聽些東西吧
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The only thing that I will say is that you should think about what kind of situation
唯一我想說的是 你必須思考什麼樣的場合
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and what kind of English you're gonna be listening to. And try and target your practice to that.
什麼樣的英語是你想聽的 並嘗試訂出目標且去實踐
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In my newsletter, I have a story about a friend who wanted to learn to play the guitar.
在我的 Newsletter 我有個關於朋友想學習吉他的故事
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And he thought, "Well, listening to music will make me a better guitar player."
他想著 "好吧 聽音樂會讓我成為一個更好的吉他手"
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So, what does he do? He starts to listen to piano music and he listens to piano music everyday, all day!
所以 他怎麼做? 他開始聽鋼琴的音樂 每天都聽鋼琴曲,一整天!
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And of course, his guitar playing doesn't improve.
那當然 他的吉他演奏並沒有提升
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But it's kind of obvious when I put it like that because you know, you want to
很明顯地 如果是類似的事 你想要
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learn to play the guitar, you should listen to guitar music not the piano.
學習彈吉他 你該聽的是吉他的音樂 而非鋼琴曲
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But actually people tend to do this when they are practicing their English listening or something like that.
但事實上 大家都是這樣做 當他們練習英語聽力的時候或其他類似
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If you are having trouble understanding people in conversation,
當你對理解會話有困難的時候
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listening to the news is not going to be that helpful. The reason is because the kind of words that
聽新聞不會有幫助 原因是因為那些單字
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people use and the phrases that people use are quite different.
和人們交談時使用的片語是不一樣的
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And the style of speaking is quite different, as well.
而且說話的風格也完全不同
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So, yeah, if it's conversation that you're having trouble in, try and listen to a lot of conversations.
所以 是的! 如果你對會話有困難 試著聆聽大量的會話
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Even better, make friends and get involved in conversations.
最好的話 廣交朋友 涉足對話
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If, on the other hand, it's listening to a lecture at your University that you're having
如果 另一方面 在大學時當你聽一個講座遇到困難
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trouble with then try to listen to that sort of thing. Get on YouTube, find recordings of lectures
然後嘗試著想聽 上 YouTube 尋找那個講座的紀錄
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and start listening to them.
並開始聆聽
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If you come across words that you don't know, just look them up in the dictionary and then
如果遇到不懂的單字 儘管去查字典
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everytime you find a word that you don't know and you keep on hearing it again and again
在每次查詢你不懂的單字後 你一次又一次的聆聽
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and again, just look it up in the dictionary.
儘管查詢那些單字
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You'll find that the more you do it, the easier it'll get. So,
你會發現你查的越多 你將得到的更多 所以
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instead of worrying about it and looking for some kind of easy, magic solution, just start doing it.
與其擔心和尋找那些簡單、神奇的方法 腳踏實地的做吧
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The more you do it, the easier it will get! The easier it gets,the more you'll want to
你做得越多 你越容易得到 你越容易得到 你將會想要
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do it!
做得更多!!
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So, that is it for today's video lesson. So yeah, as always, if you have any questions
所以 這就是今天的影音課程 是的 一如既往 如果你有任何問題
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of your own just let me know in the comments under this video.
在影音下方留言讓我知道
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Recently, I got a lot of comments on my YouTube videos and I don't know if people watching
最近 我得到很多對我YouTube視頻的評論 我不知道 看視頻的人知不知道
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the videos actually know but YouTube changed the comments system recently
YouTube 最近改變了留言的系統
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and I no longer get these comments sent to my email so I missed a lot of them!
我不能再收到email的通知 所以我漏掉了很多留言
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If I don't reply to your comment or if I don't notice your comment, just keep sending it
如果我沒回應或沒注意到你的留言 儘管在留一次
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again or even better, join my newsletter and ask me them.
甚至更好的方式 加入我的Newsletter 並在裡面問我
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By the way, Congratulations if you are part of the 20 to 30 percent that didn't stop watching
順便一提 恭喜你們是那 20%~30% 沒有停止看這視頻的人
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when I said I was not going to give you some kind of magic tip, magic method. You are one
當我說我將不會給你們技巧和神奇的方法
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of the 20 to 30 percent who will probably get very good at English very easily and very
你們是20%~30%的人將有可能會學好英語 簡單地
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quickly because you know, there is no magic method.
快速地 因為你知道 並沒有神奇的方法
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It's just a case of doing it: work hard, learn English, use English. Easy!
這只是做了一個案例:努力工作,學英語,用英語。很簡單!