Name: 英語跟蹤技術：你在浪費時間嗎？ (Shadowing Technique in English: are you wasting your time?)
Uploaded: 2024-09-16T08:02:44.000Z
Duration: 15 min 35 s

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Today, we are going to talk about how to do the best possible shadowing exercise.

今天，我們就來談談如何做好影子練習。

If you have no idea what a shadowing exercise is, then you are in for a treat because it's really one of the best ways to improve everything about your English, and if you've been doing this for a while, then you might want to stick around as well because you'll learn the biggest mistakes English learners make when doing the shadowing exercise.

如果你不知道什麼是影子練習，那你就大飽眼福了，因為這確實是提高英語水平的最佳方法之一。如果你已經做了一段時間，那你可能也想堅持下去，因為你會了解到英語學習者在做影子練習時所犯的最大錯誤。

And also, I'm going to give you a few tips on how to improve it and optimize it, because I love efficiency.

此外，我還會給你一些如何改進和優化的建議，因為我喜歡效率。

If you're already practicing, it might as well work really, really well for you.

如果你已經在練習了，那就不妨讓它對你非常非常有效。

And this is what this video is all about.

But before that, if you are new to my channel, then hello.

但在此之前，如果你是我頻道的新成員，那麼你好。

I'm a non-native speaker of English, and I am here to help you sound confident, clear, and proud when speaking English.

我的英語母語不是英語，我將幫助您在說英語時顯得自信、清晰和自豪。

Now, pride is not something that you hear, but it's something that you feel when someone else is speaking.

現在，自豪感不是你聽到的，而是你在別人發言時感受到的。

And I want you to be very, very proud of your English, because it's your second language, or third, or fourth, and you should be very proud, no matter what the outcome is.

我希望你們為自己的英語感到非常、非常自豪，因為這是你的第二語言、第三語言或第四語言，無論結果如何，你都應該感到非常自豪。

Now, if you want to find out more about how I can help you, then I highly recommend that you visit my website, hadarshemesh.com, or you can also follow me on Instagram at hadar.accentsway, where I share a new piece of content every single day, so I have a feeling that you're going to like it.

現在，如果你想了解更多關於我如何幫助你的資訊，那麼我強烈建議你訪問我的網站 hadarshemesh.com，或者你也可以在 Instagram 上關注我，網址是 hadar.accentsway，在那裡我每天都會分享一篇新內容，所以我感覺你會喜歡的。

I'm going to put all the links below this video.

我將把所有鏈接放在視頻下方。

Now let's talk about the shadowing technique.

The shadowing technique is basically you shadowing someone else speaking, meaning you're repeating what they are saying.

影子技術基本上就是你跟著別人說話，也就是說，你在重複別人說的話。

Now, you can also call it the imitation exercise, or as I like to call it, the echoing exercise, where you're just like echoing what someone else is saying.

現在，你也可以稱之為模仿練習，或者我喜歡稱之為呼應練習，你就像在呼應別人說的話一樣。

Now, before we get into how to do it and how to avoid the biggest mistake, the reason why it's so good is because first, it helps you develop intuition.

現在，在我們討論如何做到這一點以及如何避免最大的錯誤之前，之所以說這一點很好，是因為首先，它能幫助你培養直覺。

It helps you understand things in English on a deeper level, a level that is not logical or intellectual, but you feel it in your body.

它能幫助你更深層次地理解英語，這種理解不是邏輯或知識層面的，而是你身體的感受。

You feel the rhythm of the words and sounds.

你能感受到文字和聲音的節奏。

And there are things that you can't put in words, or you can't find a logical explanation to why something sounds the way it does.

有些事情你無法用語言表達，或者你找不到合理的解釋來解釋為什麼有些東西聽起來是這樣的。

And when you're imitating someone, it's like when you're singing along or humming along with a melody, you're tapping into different layers that usually don't exist when we just think of the language as spoken language or words.

當你模仿別人時，就像你跟著旋律唱歌或哼唱一樣，你在挖掘不同的層次，而當我們只把語言當作口語或文字時，這些層次通常是不存在的。

The second reason, it can help you understand and listen to sounds in a way that you usually don't listen to, especially if you're paying attention.

第二個原因是，它可以幫助你理解和傾聽通常聽不到的聲音，尤其是在你專心聽的時候。

You also start noticing things like melody, intonation, rhythm, all of which are very, very important when communicating in English, and they give you that extra sense of confidence and ability to express yourself and how you're feeling and your attitude towards things.

你也會開始注意到旋律、語調、節奏等在英語交流中非常非常重要的東西，它們會給你帶來額外的自信感，讓你有能力表達自己、自己的感受和對事物的態度。

Now, if you're only focusing on the words and sentences, then you're losing a lot of the elements that we have in normal speech, things that we don't think about, but we feel and hear when other people speak.

現在，如果你只關注單詞和句子，那麼你就會失去很多我們在正常說話時所擁有的元素，這些東西我們不假思索，但當別人說話時，我們會感覺到並聽到。

And this is why imitation exercises are really, really cool.

這就是為什麼模仿練習非常非常酷的原因。

Also, it's something that you can do on the go while you're driving or doing the dishes or walking your dog.

此外，您還可以在開車、洗碗或遛狗時隨時隨地做這件事。

So it's a very efficient exercise that you can, you know, leverage basically any situation when you're doing something and you don't have a lot of people around you into a practice opportunity, which is also a plus.

是以，這是一種非常高效的練習，你可以在做某件事情時，利用身邊沒有很多人的任何情況，將其轉化為練習機會，這也是一個優點。

Now, before we talk about the biggest mistakes learners make when doing these shadowing exercises, I want to talk about how to do it.

現在，在談論學習者在進行影子練習時所犯的最大錯誤之前，我想先談談如何進行影子練習。

And I want to give you a few tips on how to do it.

我想給你一些建議，告訴你如何做到這一點。

So the first is to just play the audio and then echo the person you're listening to, or shadow the person you're listening to.

是以，第一種方法是直接播放音頻，然後與您正在聆聽的人或您正在聆聽的人形成呼應。

So basically, you're not pausing, you're not doing anything, you're just repeating it a split second after them.

所以，基本上，你沒有暫停，也沒有做任何事情，只是在他們之後的一瞬間重複了一遍。

Now, at the end, I'm also going to give you a few tips on how to optimize this exercise, but for now, I want you to know that this is the first option that you have, right?

最後，我還會給你一些如何優化這項練習的建議，但現在，我想讓你知道，這是你的第一個選擇，對嗎？

And this is something that you can do on the go as you're driving your car or doing the dishes.

您可以在開車或洗碗時隨時隨地做這件事。

Because I have worked a working-class job.

I have waited tables in restaurants, I have ridden the subway, I have walked the streets in New York City.

我在餐館當過服務員，坐過地鐵，走過紐約的大街小巷。

The second option is when you are more concentrated, seated at your desk or on your couch, and ideally, you might want to have the script of the speech that you are shadowing, and what you want to do is to play a line, pause, and repeat.

第二種選擇是在你比較專注的時候，坐在你的辦公桌前或沙發上，理想情況下，你可能希望有你要跟讀的演講稿，你要做的是播放一句話，暫停，然後重複。

So basically, you play a line, then you pause, and don't wait till the end.

是以，基本上是先播放一行，然後暫停，不要等到結束。

Like, you can take a short chunk, and then pause, and then repeat.

比如，你可以取一小段，然後暫停，再重複。

Now, the advantage of this exercise is that you can go deeper, you can pay attention to more things because you're more focused and concentrated.

現在，這種練習的好處是，你可以更深入，可以關注更多的事情，因為你更加專注和集中。

You have more time to listen to things, to repeat it.

你有更多的時間去傾聽，去重複。

是以，這是一個深入研究的好方法。

But the advantage of the first option is that you can do it anytime, and pretty much anywhere.

但第一種方法的優勢在於，您可以隨時隨地進行操作。

Well, not really anywhere, because if you do it while you're at the dentist, or, you know, just at the bank, that would be a little weird, or in the middle of a very important meeting.

其實不是在任何地方，因為如果你在看牙醫的時候，或者在銀行，那就有點奇怪了，或者在一個非常重要的會議中間。

So maybe then you shouldn't be doing the shadowing exercise.

所以，也許你不應該做影子練習。

I mean, you know, it's just a suggestion.

我的意思是，你知道，這只是一個建議。

Now, the biggest mistake you might be making when doing a shadowing exercise is that you do not set an intention as to what you're paying attention to and trying to improve.

現在，你在進行影子練習時可能會犯的最大錯誤是，你沒有設定一個目標，即你要關注什麼，並試圖改進什麼。

The idea of the shadowing exercise is not just a copy-paste or become a parrot of someone else, okay?

影子練習的理念不是簡單的複製粘貼或成為別人的鸚鵡，好嗎？

The idea is to try to follow someone else's speech pattern, voice, intonation, rhythm, melody, and sounds.

其目的是嘗試模仿別人的說話模式、語音、語調、節奏、旋律和聲音。

But also, you want to improve specific things, and you want to pay attention to it.

但同時，你也想改進具體的事情，你想關注它。

The brain filters out a lot of information as you're listening to other people and as you're speaking.

在聽別人說話和說話時，大腦會過濾掉很多資訊。

When you're just repeating someone on autopilot, you're missing out a lot of information when your brain is not paying attention to specific things.

當你只是自動重複別人的話時，由於大腦沒有注意到具體的事情，你會錯過很多資訊。

So, you know, you're just repeating it, but you might not be repeating some of the key sounds that are important to you.

所以，你知道，你只是在重複，但你可能沒有重複一些對你來說很重要的關鍵音。

Or maybe you're not paying attention to that intonation shift that could be beneficial for you to use more.

又或者，你沒有注意到語調的轉換，而這種轉換對你多加使用是有益的。

Because you filtered it out, you did not listen to it.

因為你把它過濾掉了，你沒有聽進去。

Because you're listening to other things, you're very focused on getting the words right, right, or you're, you know, thinking of vocabulary or maybe something else.

因為你在聽其他的東西，所以你會非常專注於把單詞寫對，或者，你知道，你在想詞彙或者其他的東西。

Or maybe you're doing other things and you're really not concentrated, and you have no intention as to what you're trying to improve.

又或者，你在做其他事情，確實沒有集中精力，也不知道自己在努力改進什麼。

So, my biggest piece of advice would be to always set an intention as to what it is that you're trying to improve, in addition to doing the shadowing exercise and all the benefits that I've discussed at the beginning.

是以，我最大的建議是，除了做影子練習和我在開頭談到的所有好處外，還要始終設定一個目標，即你想要改進的是什麼。

And to that, we'll add, you know, vocabulary and flow and connected speech and all of these great things that, you know, are added value when you're doing these shadowing exercises.

除此之外，我們還會增加詞彙量、語流、連貫言語和所有這些很棒的東西，你知道，這些都是你進行影子練習時的附加值。

You want to know what you're listening to and what you are trying to change.

你想知道自己在聽什麼，想改變什麼。

So, for example, if you're working on distinguishing between the sheep-ship vowel pair, right, then when you're listening to someone else during those imitation exercises, you want to detect every time they use either the tense I or the lax I, or especially when they're using tricky words that could be, you know, either, or, like cheap chip or least list, right?

舉例來說，如果你正在練習區分羊-船元音對，那麼當你在模仿練習中聽別人說話時，你要檢測他們每次使用緊張 I 或鬆弛 I 的情況，尤其是當他們使用一些棘手的單詞時，你知道，這些單詞可能是，或者，或者，比如廉價芯片或最少清單，對嗎？

Because when you're mindful of that, so for example, you say, I'm going to, I'm going to listen closely to these two vowel sounds, then you will notice it.

因為當你注意到這一點時，比如說，你說，我要，我要仔細聽這兩個元音，那麼你就會注意到它。

When, usually if you're not setting an intention, you're less likely to notice it, and then when you notice it, you're more likely to do it, and when you're focused on getting it right, that's when you start to change things.

通常情況下，如果你沒有設定一個意圖，你就不太可能注意到它，而當你注意到它時，你就更有可能去做，當你專注於把它做好時，就是你開始改變事情的時候。

That's when you start to rewire your brain.

這時，你就會開始重新連接你的大腦。

That's how you start to get rid of old pronunciation habits, or speaking habits, and you start to acquire new ones.

就這樣，你開始擺脫舊的發音習慣或說話習慣，並開始掌握新的發音習慣或說話習慣。

Not that there is anything wrong about how you used to say it, but if it affects your clarity and you're self-conscious about that pronunciation, then you can shift only with intention and repetition.

並不是說你以前的發音有什麼問題，但如果它影響了你的清晰度，而且你對這種發音有自我意識，那麼你只能通過有意識的重複來改變。

So, paying attention to those things and making sure that you're saying them is going to significantly improve the quality of your practice.

是以，注意這些事情並確保你說了這些話，會大大提高你的實踐品質。

現在，這不僅僅是聲音的問題。

So, let's say you want to improve or vary your intonation patterns when speaking English.

是以，假設您想改善或改變說英語時的語調模式。

So, maybe you might want to pay attention to how this person ends their sentences, whether it's going up or going down.

所以，也許你應該注意一下這個人是如何結束句子的，是上句還是下句。

You want to pay attention to the stressed words only and see how they're being prolonged, or maybe that person raises their pitch, right?

你要只注意重音詞，看看它們是如何被延長的，或者那個人可能會提高音調，對嗎？

Now, of course, you're imitating a whole lot of other things, you know, new words, connected speech, different sounds, but you're paying attention to stressed words.

當然，你還在模仿很多其他的東西，你知道，新單詞、連貫的語言、不同的聲音，但你要注意強調的單詞。

You're paying attention to the intonation pattern at the end of sentences.

你要注意句子結尾的語調模式。

This is gold, because when you do, you might actually make a change in how you say things, and that change will stick if you say it enough times.

這是金子般的東西，因為當你這樣做的時候，你可能真的會改變你說話的方式，如果你說的次數足夠多，這種改變就會堅持下去。

Now, before we wrap up, I want to give you a few more tips on how you can optimize your shadowing practice.

現在，在我們結束之前，我想再給你們一些建議，告訴你們如何優化跟班實習。

First, it's very important that you select a person that speaks in a voice that you like, and even love, that resonates with you.

首先，非常重要的一點是，你要選擇一個用你喜歡甚至熱愛的聲音說話的人，這樣才能引起你的共鳴。

That you want to master a sound similar to their sound.

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