The most successful language learners find a way for the language they're learning to become part of their daily life.

最成功的語言學習者會想辦法讓所學語言成為日常生活的一部分。

Just like locking the door on your way out of the house, your English practice is just part of your daily routine.

就像出門時要鎖門一樣，練習英語也只是日常生活的一部分。

No fanfare, no applause, it's just what you do.

沒有大張旗鼓，沒有掌聲，這就是你的工作。

And to help you with this, I'm sharing four simple things that you should do every day to improve your English and you'll soon see that creating daily English habits is easy and your success is inevitable as long as you set yourself up with a simple system to follow and that's what we're doing right now.

為了幫助你做到這一點，我將與你分享四件你每天都應該做的簡單事情，以提高你的英語水平。你很快就會發現，只要你為自己建立一個簡單的系統來遵循，創造日常英語習慣是很容易的，你的成功是必然的，這就是我們現在要做的。

Let's get into it.

讓我們開始吧。

Hey!

嘿！

Today's lesson is brought to you by Hey Lady, an online community for women learning English.

今天的課程由女性英語學習在線社區 Hey Lady 為您帶來。

Hey Lady makes it easy and affordable to meet, make friends and to practise speaking English together in a really safe and supportive online space.

Hey Lady 讓您在一個真正安全和支持性的網絡空間裡輕鬆、實惠地相識、交友和練習英語口語。

When you join Hey Lady, you'll be connected with expert language coaches, interesting conversation topics and a social network of friends to practise with.

加入 Hey Lady 後，您將與專家級語言教練、有趣的會話話題和朋友社交網絡建立聯繫，一起練習。

If you're looking for a more engaging and more enjoyable way to improve your English and to stay motivated to reach your goals, make sure you join our mailing list to get all the latest updates and be the first to know about our special offers.

如果您正在尋找一種更有吸引力、更愉快的方式來提高英語水平，並保持實現目標的動力，請務必加入我們的郵件列表，以獲得所有最新消息，並第一時間瞭解我們的特別優惠。

Plus, you can check out the preview of our Hey Lady platform and download a conversation pack to practise with for free.

此外，您還可以查看我們的 Hey Lady 平臺預覽，並免費下載對話包進行練習。

Our first habit is to listen to English every day and this is a really easy place to start because there are lots of different ways to do this with podcasts, with audiobooks, TED Talks, TV series, YouTube.

我們的第一個習慣是每天聽英語，這其實很容易開始，因為有很多不同的方式可以做到這一點，比如播客、有聲讀物、TED 演講、電視劇、YouTube。

There are lots and lots of different options but to create a successful and simple habit around your English listening practice, make sure you set an achievable amount of time to do it in.

有很多很多不同的選擇，但要想在英語聽力練習方面養成一個成功而簡單的習慣，請確保您設定了一個可實現的練習時間。

Five minutes, ten minutes a day, that's all you need.

每天五分鐘或十分鐘，這就足夠了。

If one day you feel like doing more, awesome, go for it but set your daily goal at ten minutes, right?

如果有一天你想做得更多，好極了，那就去做吧，但把每天的目標設定為十分鐘，對嗎？

Because that's achievable and that's what we want to work towards, it's just something that we can manage every single day.

因為這是可以實現的，也是我們想要努力的目標，是我們每天都能做到的。

I also want you to identify the source of your listening early so don't sit down in the moment, that ten minutes you've got to do your listening practice and think what am I going to listen to?

我還希望你儘早確定聆聽的來源，所以不要在你必須進行聆聽練習的那十分鐘裡坐下來，思考我要聽什麼？

No, find a great book, have a couple of really good podcasts on the go, have a TV series that you're watching that you can come back to again and again.

不，找一本好書，隨身攜帶幾個非常好的播客，看一部可以反覆回味的電視劇。

If you have to think too hard about what you need to do to make that listening practice happen, you'll find an excuse.

如果你不得不費盡心思去想你需要做什麼來實現聽力練習，你就會找到藉口。

It'll become too hard if you pre-plan, pre-prepare what you're going to listen to.

如果你事先計劃好、準備好要聽的內容，那就太難了。

It's going to be much easier for you to just stick with it.

堅持下去對你來說會容易得多。

Hey what are you listening to at the moment?

你現在在聽什麼歌？

I'm very keen for some recommendations, some suggestions from you so add your favourite podcasts, TV series, books, whatever you're listening to at the moment, add it down in the comments below.

我非常希望得到你們的推薦和建議，所以請在下面的評論中添加你們最喜歡的播客、電視劇、書籍，無論你們現在在聽什麼。

Now if you're thinking, do you know what Emma?

如果你在想，你知道艾瑪是誰嗎？

I'm more of a reader than a listener, I prefer to read.

比起傾聽，我更喜歡閱讀。

Well that's great, awesome but I want you to try reading with audio so as you're reading, you get to associate the sounds and the correct pronunciation with the words that you're seeing.

這很好，太棒了，但我希望你能試著用音頻閱讀，這樣你在閱讀時就能把聲音和正確發音與你看到的單詞聯繫起來。

You've probably heard me talk about Audible before, I'm a big fan.

你可能聽我說過 Audible，我是 Audible 的忠實粉絲。

There are thousands and thousands of books there.

那裡有成千上萬本書。

Your favourites are probably already available.

您的最愛可能已經有了。

I've added a link to Audible if you want to check it out.

如果您想查看，我已經添加了 Audible 的鏈接。

You can use it to get a free audiobook and try out this technique for yourself.

您可以用它獲得一本免費的有聲讀物，並親自嘗試一下這種技巧。

The brilliant thing about this listening practice is it gets to inform your pronunciation skills as well.

這種聽力練習的妙處在於，它還能為您的發音技巧提供幫助。

It will help you to recognise the sounds, identify these sounds in English and you'll be able to practise making these sounds yourself which is really great because the next daily habit that you should be doing is your pronunciation practice.

它可以幫助你辨認發音，識別英語中的這些發音，你還可以自己練習發出這些發音，這非常好，因為你每天應該做的下一個習慣就是練習發音。

Yes absolutely, you should be practising your pronunciation every day.

是的，當然，您應該每天練習發音。

It's not to try and get rid of your accent completely, it's to make sure your English is clear enough that others can comfortably understand you when you're speaking.

這並不是要徹底消除你的口音，而是要確保你的英語足夠清晰，讓別人在你說話時能輕鬆地聽懂。

Great grammar skills, great vocabulary skills, they're not enough.

光有高超的文法技能和詞彙技能是不夠的。

Your pronunciation is just as important.

發音也同樣重要。

Do you give the same amount of attention to your pronunciation skills as your grammar and your vocabulary?

您對發音技巧的重視程度是否與文法和詞彙的重視程度相同？

Your pronunciation impacts your fluency, your confidence and your ability to connect with others so it's crucial.

發音會影響您的流利程度、自信心以及與他人溝通的能力，是以至關重要。

So here are my tips to help you get daily pronunciation practice.

是以，以下是我的建議，可以幫助你每天進行發音練習。

A really great place to start is simply by practising with imitation lessons.

一個非常好的開端就是通過模仿課程進行練習。

I've got a whole playlist of them right here.

我這裡有一個完整的播放列表。

You can watch them, do them as often as you like.

你可以觀看它們，也可以隨心所欲地做。

I've also included a link in the description.

我還在說明中提供了一個鏈接。

By practising out loud with me, you'll start to identify some of the sounds that you get a little stuck on.

通過和我一起大聲練習，你會開始辨別出一些你有點卡住的音。

Feel the spots where you get a little tongue-tied and right there, that is a good indication of what you need to focus on.

感覺一下你舌頭有點打結的地方，就在那裡，這就很好地說明了你需要關注的重點。

That sound or that combination of sounds that are difficult.

這種聲音或聲音的組合很困難。

So identifying where you need to do your work is a really important first step for you and it's the type of thing that you can do every morning you know just after you brush your teeth.

是以，確定你需要在哪裡開展工作對你來說是非常重要的第一步，你可以每天早上刷完牙後做這件事。

Practise making those sounds, practise saying those words and build up the muscle memory in your mouth.

練習發出這些聲音，練習說這些單詞，建立口腔肌肉記憶。

Tongue twisters are another really great way to practise.

繞口令是另一種非常好的練習方法。

You could do the same thing, stick them up on the mirror.

你也可以這樣做，把它們貼在鏡子上。

Reading out loud is another really great way to improve your pronunciation.

大聲朗讀是改善發音的另一個好方法。

Doing it daily is going to help to just work those mouth muscles of yours you know and create the sounds that you need for English.

每天堅持練習，有助於鍛鍊你的口腔肌肉，發出你學習英語所需的聲音。

It really doesn't need to be more complicated than that.

其實沒必要這麼複雜。

It doesn't need to take you long, it might be five minutes, it might be two minutes but you just build it into your day.

不需要花很長時間，可能是五分鐘，也可能是兩分鐘，但你只要把它融入到你的一天中。

All right before we move on, I've got a supercharged recommendation.

好了，在我們繼續之前，我有一個超級推薦。

Do this pronunciation practice with your listening practice.

在練習聽力的同時進行發音練習。

Stack the habit together.

把習慣疊在一起。

When you're listening to the audiobooks that you're reading, listen to that for five minutes then press pause then read the same paragraph again yourself while it's fresh in your mind and do your pronunciation practice.

在聽有聲讀物時，先聽五分鐘，然後按暫停鍵，趁著記憶猶新，自己再讀一遍相同的段落，並進行發音練習。

It doesn't have to be a lot, a paragraph a day but that is a really awesome way to combine your listening, your pronunciation along with reading and vocabulary building skills.

不一定要多，每天一段就夠了，但這確實是將聽力、發音、閱讀和詞彙積累技能結合起來的好方法。

Supercharged.

增壓

Daily speaking practice and this is different to pronunciation practice, it's about fluency but my students often see this as a really big hurdle and they say things like but Emma I don't live in an English-speaking country or I don't have any English-speaking friends.

日常口語練習與發音練習不同，它是關於流利程度的練習，但我的學生常常認為這是一個非常大的障礙，他們會說，但是艾瑪，我不住在一個說英語的國家，或者我沒有任何說英語的朋友。

Honestly the world that we live in today makes speaking in English every day completely possible so let's try to stop making excuses and find a way to make it happen.

老實說，我們今天生活的世界讓我們完全有可能每天都說英語，所以讓我們不要再找藉口，想辦法實現它吧。

I've got a few ideas to share with you because there are plenty of places where you can find a speaking partner online.

我有一些想法與大家分享，因為在網上有很多地方可以找到演講夥伴。

There are also lots of places where you can pay a tutor quite affordably.

您還可以在很多地方以相當低廉的價格聘請家教。

There are lots of language exchange apps or you can join an online English community, a community like Hey Lady where you get the support of English coaches plus you get to surround yourself with other English speakers who you can meet with and you can practise with regularly and that really is the beauty of Hey Lady.

有很多語言交流應用程序，或者你可以加入一個在線英語社區，像 Hey Lady 這樣的社區，在那裡你可以得到英語教練的支持，還可以與其他會說英語的人在一起，你可以與他們見面，還可以定期與他們一起練習，這就是 Hey Lady 的魅力所在。

It allows you to immerse yourself in English and to easily access opportunities to practise speaking every day.

它可以讓您沉浸在英語環境中，每天輕鬆獲得練習口語的機會。

So even if you can't make this goal happen every day, that's okay you know maybe you try and do it every second day, maybe twice a week, whatever it is, set the goal and make it consistent, promise yourself that you're going to see it through.

所以，即使你不能每天都實現這個目標，也沒關係，你可以試著每隔一天做一次，或者一週做兩次，不管是什麼，設定目標並堅持不懈，向自己保證你會堅持到底。

Write in English every day.

每天用英語寫作。

Okay so the biggest barrier that I hear from my students is Emma I don't really know what to write about or I haven't got time to write.

好吧，我從學生那裡聽到的最大障礙是："艾瑪，我真的不知道該寫什麼，或者我沒有時間寫作。

Again this is just our brains trying to make some excuses for us to get us out of trouble but the truth is we really just need to find what works for us and we're all different.

同樣，這只是我們的大腦在為我們找藉口，讓我們擺脫困境，但事實上，我們只需要找到適合自己的方法，而我們每個人都是不同的。

Some people are really creative, others are more practical.

有些人很有創造力，有些人則更務實。

Some of us feel like writing might be a bit of a waste of time right so let's play to your strengths.

我們中有些人覺得寫作可能有點浪費時間，那麼就讓我們發揮你們的優勢吧。

I want to give you some really simple ideas that you can use to start building your daily writing practice and I want you just to find one or even two that suit you.

我想給你一些非常簡單的想法，你可以用它們來開始你的日常寫作練習，我希望你能找到一個甚至兩個適合你的想法。

You don't need to do them all and it's totally okay if you just toss a few of them out the window and go I'm never doing that.

你不需要全部做到，如果你只是把其中幾條扔到窗外，然後說我再也不做了，那也完全沒問題。

First idea, write about your dreams in English as soon as you wake up in the morning, keep a notebook beside your bed and write down your dream as soon as you wake up.

第一個想法是，早上一醒來就用英語寫下你的夢，在床邊放一個筆記本，一醒來就寫下你的夢。

Oh so a really cool story from a student of mine.

我的一個學生講了一個很酷的故事。

She was doing this activity, she had a recurring dream.

她在做這個活動時，反覆做了一個夢。

A recurring dream is one that continues again and again night after night and so by writing about this dream over time, the dream started taking place in English so she started dreaming in English through this process which is super cool.

反覆出現的夢境就是夜復一夜地重複出現的夢境，是以，隨著時間的推移，通過書寫這個夢境，這個夢境開始用英語出現，所以她通過這個過程開始用英語做夢，這真是超酷的。

Now if you're a creative type of person, another idea might be to write a poem or a paragraph of a story, one that you can continue writing over time, over the course of a week.

現在，如果你是一個有創造力的人，另一個想法可能是寫一首詩或一段故事，你可以在一週的時間裡繼續寫下去。

You could easily review the TV series that you watched last night or the movie if you enjoyed it.

如果您喜歡昨晚觀看的電視劇或電影，您可以輕鬆地對其進行評論。

What were the characters like?

人物是什麼樣的？

What happened in the story?

故事裡發生了什麼？

Where was it set?

在哪裡取景？

All of these things can prompt your short writing practice the following day.

所有這些都能促使你在第二天進行短文寫作練習。

You could use your writing time to reflect on what happened during the day so at the end of the day, write about what happened, who you met, what you did.

您可以利用寫作時間回顧一天中發生的事情，是以在一天結束時，寫下發生了什麼、遇到了誰、做了什麼。

You could make a plan for what you're going to do tomorrow and write about that.

你可以為明天要做的事情制定一個計劃，然後寫下來。

It really doesn't have to be any more complicated than that.

其實沒必要這麼複雜。

I'm a very practical, purposeful person so I know that writing a story or writing about my dreams is not going to be something that I can stick with.

我是一個非常務實、目的性很強的人，所以我知道，寫故事或寫自己的夢想是不可能堅持下去的。

It just doesn't feel productive, it feels like a waste of time so if I'm going to stick with a habit like starting a daily writing practice, I want to focus on things that are purposeful, planning what I need to do tomorrow, reflecting on what happened today and I know that's the strategy that's going to work and that's the whole point.

所以，如果我要堅持養成一種習慣，比如開始每天寫作練習，我希望把精力集中在有目的的事情上，計劃明天要做的事情，反思今天發生的事情，我知道這才是行之有效的策略，這才是重點所在。

You've got to do what feels right for you and what makes sense to you.

你必須做自己覺得正確的事，做對自己有意義的事。

You focus on a really simple daily habit, five minutes, ten minutes of writing practice, that's it.

你可以專注於一個非常簡單的日常習慣，五分鐘或十分鐘的寫作練習，僅此而已。

So if you can bring those four things into your daily routine in some way, you will absolutely, without a doubt, improve your English.

是以，如果你能以某種方式將這四點融入你的日常生活，你絕對會毫無疑問地提高你的英語水平。

But just remember that it does take time to create these habits, right?

但請記住，養成這些習慣確實需要時間，不是嗎？

I think that's the hardest part, it takes time which is why I say please don't be super hard on yourself if you miss a day.

我認為這是最困難的部分，它需要時間，這就是為什麼我說如果你錯過了一天，請不要對自己太苛刻。

Don't throw your hands up in the air and say see I knew it, I told you, I told you it wouldn't work.

不要舉起雙手說，我就知道，我就說，我就說這行不通。

I can't do a daily habit.

我做不到每天都養成習慣。

My rule is I can't miss more than one day in a row so it doesn't mean that I've ruined my chances of reaching my goal if I miss a day, if I mess up, if I sleep in, whatever.

我的原則是不能連續缺席一天以上，所以即使缺席一天、搞砸了、睡懶覺等，也不意味著我就毀了實現目標的機會。

I can still pick up again the next day and keep moving forward towards my goal.

第二天，我仍然可以重新振作起來，繼續朝著目標前進。

Make sure you keep it short and sweet, okay?

請務必簡短扼要，好嗎？

Ten minutes a day, that's it.

每天十分鐘，僅此而已。

You are much better off spending ten minutes a day every day rather than spending one hour and then not doing anything for a whole week.

每天花十分鐘，比花一個小時，然後一整個星期什麼都不做要好得多。

It's not the amount of time that you spend studying each day, it's the frequency and the consistency of showing up that's going to help you to reach your English goals faster.

每天花多少時間學習並不重要，重要的是學習的頻率和堅持不懈，這樣才能幫助你更快地實現英語目標。

Thank you so much for joining me today.

非常感謝你們今天的到來。

I hope that some of these ideas were useful and that you found something to implement yourself.

我希望其中的一些想法對你有用，也希望你能找到自己可以實施的東西。

Let me know if you are already doing some of these things already and if you're planning on trying any of these suggestions, let me know how it goes.

如果你已經在做這些事情，請告訴我；如果你打算嘗試這些建議，請告訴我結果如何。

As I promised earlier, my full imitation playlist is right here and I've also added the link to check out Hey Lady here at my online community.

正如我之前承諾的，我的完整模仿播放列表就在這裡，我還添加了鏈接，可以在我的在線社區查看《Hey Lady》。

Thank you so much and I'll see you in there!

非常感謝，我們在那裡見！