Guys, that was last century.

夥計們，那是上個世紀的事了。

I see students who succeed and students who don't ever reach their goals.

我看到有的學生取得了成功，有的學生卻永遠無法實現自己的目標。

In my online courses at Rachel's English Academy, of course, we want all our students to succeed so often.

當然，在瑞秋英語學院的在線課程中，我們希望所有學生都能經常取得成功。

As a team, we get together and talk about what makes a student successful and how can we make all students successful.

作為一個團隊，我們會聚在一起討論怎樣才能讓學生成功，怎樣才能讓所有學生成功。

I'm Rachel and I would love to give you my free course, The Top Three Ways to Master the American Accent.

我是瑞秋，我很樂意為您提供我的免費課程《掌握美式口音的三大方法》。

Please visit rachelsenglish.com free to enroll.

請訪問 rachelsenglish.com 免費註冊。

Today, I'm going to introduce you to the seven habits of highly successful students.

今天，我將向大家介紹成功學生的七個習慣。

This is what I've noticed from my own thousands of students, people who want to improve their spoken English, their American This one seems obvious, but too often we make a goal, we want to reach it, but we don't plan how we will.

這是我從自己成千上萬的學生中注意到的，他們都希望提高自己的英語口語和美語水準。 這一點似乎顯而易見，但我們常常會制定一個目標，希望達到這個目標，但卻沒有計劃如何實現。

I actually get emails from my academy students almost every day asking how can I stay motivated and do this.

實際上，我幾乎每天都會收到學院學生的郵件，問我如何才能保持動力，做到這一點。

My most successful students are the ones who make practice a part of their daily schedule.

我的學生中最成功的是那些將練習作為日常安排的一部分的學生。

They prioritize it.

他們會優先考慮。

It's not an afterthought, something they'll squeeze in later if they can.

這不是事後的想法，也不是他們在可能的情況下擠出來的東西。

For a lot of them, they practice at the same time every day.

他們中的很多人每天都在同一時間練習。

Planning it in consistently removes the stress of needing to find time for it every day.

持續地制定計劃可以消除每天都需要抽出時間來做這件事的壓力。

I talk about my student Chow a lot because she's just a great example of what you can get when you do a little every day.

我經常提到我的學生周，因為她就是一個很好的例子，說明每天做一點事情就能得到什麼。

I've been recommending to a lot of friends, they've been noticing that, oh, I think you're speaking better, more natural, and stuff like that.

我一直在向很多朋友推薦，他們注意到，哦，我覺得你說得更好了，更自然了，諸如此類。

So I introduce every time, I will tell, that's Rachel's English.

所以我每次介紹時都會說，那是瑞秋的英語。

Can I ask you a question?

我能問你一個問題嗎？

How much time on average would you say you've spent working on your accent?

您認為自己平均花了多少時間來練習口音？

I think every day, 10 minutes.

我想每天都是 10 分鐘。

That is not much, guys.

這並不多，夥計們。

That is not much.

這並不多。

I was thinking you might say like a half hour or an hour, but it's the consistency of doing it every day.

我在想，你可能會說半小時或一小時，但這是每天堅持的結果。

Yeah.

是啊

Well, Chow, I think you're an inspiration to a lot of students.

周，我認為你激勵了很多學生。

You just sound absolutely fantastic.

你聽起來真是太棒了。

I appreciate that.

我很感激。

I always think you as an inspiration for us.

我一直認為您是我們的靈感源泉。

Thank you so much.

非常感謝。

And I always think you guys are because you're actually out there doing the work.

我一直認為你們是這樣的，因為你們確實在外面工作。

So you sound just amazing.

所以，你聽起來棒極了。

I see Jombo here is commenting 10 minutes a day.

我看到這裡的 Jombo 每天都會發表 10 分鐘的評論。

He can't believe it.

他簡直不敢相信。

When she first joined the academy, her speech was a little choppy and she was a little hard to understand.

剛進學校時，她說話有點不利索，有點難懂。

Not now.

現在不行

Now her English is so natural and easy to understand.

現在，她的英語非常自然，通俗易懂。

Make a schedule right now.

現在就制定一個時間表。

Think of a 10 minute chunk of your day that you can set aside.

想一想，你每天可以留出 10 分鐘的時間。

Just try it for a month.

試一個月就知道了。

Once you're in the habit, it's easy.

一旦養成習慣，就很容易了。

Number two, the method.

第二，方法。

Now, if you make time to study 10, 20, 30 minutes a day, but you're not using the right method, you won't get too far.

現在，如果你每天擠出時間學習 10 分鐘、20 分鐘或 30 分鐘，但卻沒有使用正確的方法，那麼你也不會取得太大的進步。

And the changing your accent involves a lot of repetition.

而改變口音需要反覆練習。

After all, it's not a concept you're learning.

畢竟，這不是你要學習的概念。

That's easy.

這很簡單。

But speaking, that's a physical habit, a physical skill that you're building.

但說起來，那是一種身體習慣，是你正在培養的一種身體技能。

That takes time.

這需要時間。

Think of a classical pianist learning a new piece or an athlete practicing a move over and over.

想想古典鋼琴家學習一首新曲子，或者運動員反覆練習一個動作。

This is how my student Adrian described it.

我的學生艾德里安是這樣描述的。

When you're doing like a session, like let's say you're working on a soundboard, how many times in a row will you do the same audio file?

當你在做一個會話時，比如說你在做一個音板，你會連續做多少次相同的音頻文件？

I try to repeat like maybe a million times.

我試著重複了無數次。

Do you spend a month on one sentence?

你會為一句話花費一個月的時間嗎？

One soundboard.

一塊音板

Yeah, one soundboard usually.

是的，通常是一塊音板。

Because that would be boring.

因為那樣會很無聊。

Yeah.

是啊

It might be boring, but it works.

這可能很無聊，但很有效。

I know.

我知道

I know.

我知道

That's what I always try to tell people.

這就是我一直試圖告訴人們的。

I'm like, there's nothing boring about getting better.

我想，變得更好並不無聊。

And yes, it's repetition and we kind of, we're not used to having to learn that way, you know, as adults, we learn something and then we know it.

是的，這是一種重複，我們不習慣以這種方式學習，你知道，作為成年人，我們學習一些東西，然後我們知道它。

But when it comes to your body and your accent, it is repetition.

但說到你的身體和口音，那就是重複。

But yeah, you sound awesome.

不過，是的，你聽起來很棒。

And like I said, people in the class, they're hearing it and they're loving it.

就像我說的，班上的同學聽了之後都很喜歡。

So thank you for sharing how you work.

是以，感謝您分享您的工作方式。

Repetition gets the sound that you want into your body.

重複練習能將你想要的聲音融入你的身體。

It's how you learned your first language.

你就是這樣學會第一門語言的。

And even though it's not how we're used to working on things as we get older, it's very effective.

儘管隨著年齡的增長，我們不習慣用這種方式來處理事情，但它非常有效。

So my most successful students are the ones that just repeat, dedicate and repeat.

是以，我最成功的學生就是那些不斷重複、不斷投入、不斷重複的學生。

Adrian mentioned working on a soundboard.

阿德里安提到了音板的工作。

In my academy, I have hundreds, actually maybe over a thousand at this point of these soundboards.

在我的學院裡，我有幾百塊，實際上現在可能有一千多塊這樣的音板。

So you can play a same word or phrase 20 times in a row.

是以，您可以連續播放同一個單詞或短語 20 次。

You go through the whole soundboard, you do the same soundboard for a month.

你要把整個音板看一遍，一個月做同樣的音板。

That is the method.

這就是方法。

You put in this time and it accumulates into something sounding like this.

你投入了這麼多時間，積累下來的東西聽起來就像這樣。

I sign up to just sound better and more natural.

我報名只是為了讓聲音更好聽、更自然。

That was my first goal.

這是我的第一個目標。

Right now I live in Miami.

現在我住在邁阿密。

So, and I use English every day.

所以，我每天都在使用英語。

So I just want to sound more natural.

所以，我只想讓自己聽起來更自然。

That's the main goal.

這就是主要目標。

Really good, smooth, easy to understand English.

英語非常流利、順暢、易懂。

By the way, soundboards are also a part of the free course that you can get at rachelsenglish.com slash free.

順便說一下，音板也是免費課程的一部分，你可以在 rachelsenglish.com 上免費獲得。

Yet another reason to try it out.

這又是一個值得一試的理由。

The third habit of my most successful students is developing the right mindset.

我最成功的學生的第三個習慣是培養正確的心態。

This is one that gets ignored way too often.

這是一個經常被忽視的問題。

But as I've worked with students, I've realized they have a mindset, whether or not they know it.

但當我和學生們一起工作時，我意識到，無論他們是否知道，他們都有自己的思維模式。

And often it's a negative one that makes their progress much slower.

而這種負面影響往往會使他們的進步更加緩慢。

I remember a conversation I had with Tom, the head teacher here at Rachel's English, when we were trying to figure out why some students progressed so much slower than others.

我還記得我和瑞秋英語學校的校長湯姆的一次談話，當時我們正試圖弄清楚為什麼有些學生的進步比其他學生慢得多。

And we decided a lot of it has to do with mindset.

我們認為這在很大程度上與心態有關。

Some people are more open to real change than others.

有些人比其他人更樂於接受真正的改變。

Changing your accent means changing your voice.

改變口音意味著改變聲音。

And that can be scary for some people.

這可能會讓一些人感到害怕。

So we let our students know to sound natural in American English, they're probably going to have to change something fundamental about their voice.

是以，我們讓學生知道，要想用美式英語說得自然，他們可能必須從根本上改變自己的聲音。

One student said, I have my Spanish voice and I have my American voice.

一位學生說，我有我的西班牙嗓音，也有我的美國嗓音。

And I thought, that's brilliant.

我想，這真是太棒了。

You allow yourself to develop something totally different and you approach it positively.

你允許自己發展完全不同的東西，並積極地對待它。

Others really do want to change, but in their mind, they're saying, I can't have this kind of conversation, or I have a big problem with this kind of sound, and so on.

還有一些人確實想改變，但他們心裡卻在說：我不能進行這樣的對話，或者我對這樣的聲音有很大的意見，等等。

They say this to themselves, even as they practice.

他們一邊練習，一邊自言自語。

And the practice doesn't work as well.

而這種做法並不奏效。

Try saying this to yourself instead.

試著這樣對自己說。

I have a wonderful American R sound.

我有美妙的美式 R 音。

I can think quickly and express myself the way I want to.

我可以快速思考，用我想要的方式表達自己。

Successful students change their image and their mindset about themselves and the improvement is great.

成功的學生會改變自己的形象，改變對自己的看法，他們的進步是巨大的。

So you have to have your method, but you have to address your mindset as well.

是以，你必須有自己的方法，但也必須解決自己的心態問題。

And this is what some of my most successful students do.

我的一些最成功的學生就是這樣做的。

I have a course that helps students with their mindset and approach in my academy, but I also have one of the lessons free here on YouTube.

我在我的學院裡有一門幫助學生調整心態和方法的課程，但我在 YouTube 上也有一門免費課程。

I'll put a link to that video in the video description.

我會在視頻描述中提供該視頻的鏈接。

Fourth.

第四

Okay, now the next habit gets you so much bang for your buck, record yourself.

好了，現在下一個習慣會讓你物超所值，那就是記錄自己。

There are actually two different great exercises for this, and I'll describe both for you.

實際上有兩種不同的練習方法，我將為你一一介紹。

One, free talk.

一，自由交談。

Record yourself talking every day, not long, maybe a minute, maybe less.

錄下自己每天的談話，時間不要太長，也許一分鐘，也許更短。

Then go back and listen to it.

然後再回去聽。

You'll notice the words that were difficult for you.

你會注意到那些對你來說很難的詞。

The more you study the American accent, the more you'll notice things like sounds that are unclear or flow that's choppy.

你對美國口音研究得越多，就越能注意到發音不清晰或語流不流暢等問題。

You'll actually be able to become a pretty good coach for yourself with this practice.

實際上，通過這種練習，你就能成為自己的好教練。

As you notice words or phrases or connections between words that need work, do them slowly.

當您注意到需要練習的單詞、短語或單詞之間的連接時，請慢慢練習。

Maybe find examples of that online.

也許可以在網上找到這方面的例子。

You can go to Youglish, type in your word.

您可以登錄 Youglish，輸入您的單詞。

Let's say it's interesting.

比方說，它很有趣。

And you can hear lots of examples of native speakers saying this word.

你可以聽到很多以英語為母語的人說這個詞的例子。

Maybe you start to notice that it's not as complicated as you thought.

也許你會發現，事情並沒有你想象的那麼複雜。

It's not interesting, but inch-ruh-sting.

這不是有趣，而是寸步難行。

Interesting.

有意思

Interesting.

有意思

Interesting.

有意思

You start to collect so much knowledge about American English, then you practice it over and over.

你開始收集大量有關美式英語的知識，然後反覆練習。

Interesting.

有意思

Interesting.

有意思

Then before you know it, the words that were the hardest for you to pronounce are now easy.

然後，不知不覺中，那些對你來說最難發音的單詞現在都變得簡單了。

The second recording method is to record yourself repeating with a native speaker.

第二種錄音方法是錄製自己與母語人士的複述。

This allows you to hear things that you might not have heard in the moment, and that's going to get your sound closer to natural.

這可以讓你聽到你當時可能沒有聽到的聲音，從而讓你的聲音更接近自然。

One of our students in the academy posted a video of her practice session with the soundboard to our community for other students to see.

我們學院的一名學生將她使用音板練習的視頻發佈到我們的社區，供其他學生觀看。

Along.

一起去。

Along.

一起去。

Along.

一起去。

Along.

一起去。

Also.

還有

Also.

還有

Also.

還有

Also.

還有

Recording yourself and listening to it will make you an expert in your own accent and the tweaks that you can make to sound more natural.

錄製自己的聲音並聆聽，會讓你成為了解自己口音的專家，並能做出調整，讓自己的聲音聽起來更自然。

The fifth habit of highly effective students is taking notes and tailoring studies to their own situations.

高效學生的第五個習慣是做筆記，並根據自己的情況進行學習。

This ties back to recording yourself.

這又與記錄自己有關。

If you record yourself talking about your day or talking about your favorite book or what you think about a current event, you're going to be finding words and phrases that are relevant to you.

如果你錄下自己一天的生活，或談論自己最喜歡的書，或對時事的看法，你就會找到與自己相關的單詞和短語。

Maybe you can even record yourself in conversations, a conversation with a colleague or someone at dinner or at the grocery store, record a voice memo, delete it when you're done with your lesson so it's not weird that you recorded someone, but you can use this.

也許你還可以錄下自己的對話，比如與同事的對話、與某人吃飯時的對話或在雜貨店裡的對話，錄製一段語音備忘錄，上完課後將其刪除，這樣就不會讓人覺得你錄下了某人的對話，但你可以使用這個功能。

Listen back later and find the phrases where you struggled to express yourself.

稍後再回聽，找出你在表達時費力的語句。

Now you don't have the pressure of the conversation, you can stop and you can think, how could you have said that better?

現在，你沒有了談話的壓力，你可以停下來想一想，你怎樣才能說得更好？

Maybe there's a particular English word that you didn't know, look it up, learn it.

也許有一個特別的英語單詞你不知道，那就查一查，學一學。

Or maybe there was a phrase that didn't seem quite right grammatically.

或者有一句話在文法上似乎不太對。

See if you can work it out, do a search on the phrase or key words from the phrase and see if you can find examples that make the grammatical structure clearer or show you a different word that might be even better.

看看你是否能解決這個問題，搜索一下這個短語或短語中的關鍵詞，看看你是否能找到讓語法結構更清晰的例子，或者告訴你一個可能更好的不同的詞。

Memorize this phrase, these words, keep a list of your words and phrases that you're discovering you need to know because of your own conversation.

記住這個短語、這些單詞，把你在交談中發現需要掌握的單詞和短語列成一個清單。

Six, the sixth habit is simply speaking.

六、第六個習慣是簡單地說。

Speaking with others, don't wait for perfection.

與他人交談時，不要等待完美。

It's through speaking and making mistakes that will make the most progress, the fastest progress.

通過發言和犯錯，才能取得最大的進步，最快的進步。

For some people, it's just not in their personalities to speak up or to try something out before it's perfect, but those students who aren't afraid to try, who aren't waiting for perfection, are the students who make the most progress.

對有些人來說，他們的個性就是不願意大聲說出來，也不願意在事情還沒有完美之前就去嘗試，但那些不怕嘗試、不等待完美的學生，才是進步最大的學生。

So please, challenge yourself.

所以，請挑戰自己。

You can even track this as part of your practice plan.

您甚至可以將其作為實踐計劃的一部分進行跟蹤。

Today, I tried speaking with John when I passed him in the hall, even though I wasn't feeling totally comfortable and confident.

今天，當我在大廳與約翰擦肩而過時，我試著和他說話，儘管我感覺並不完全自如和自信。

And every time you find yourself writing something like that down, dang, take a moment, congratulate yourself.

每當你發現自己在寫類似的東西時，當，花點時間，祝賀一下自己。

That is not easy to do, challenging yourself out of your comfort zone, speaking English.

要做到這一點並不容易，要挑戰自己，走出自己的舒適區，說英語。

You did that.

你做到了

Seven, the last thing my most successful students do is find a practice partner to speak with on a regular basis.

七、我最成功的學生所做的最後一件事就是找到一個練習夥伴，定期與之交談。

Just last month, I was teaching a student from the Academy in our live class and she told me, even though she lives in the US, she mostly just speaks her own native language of Thai, but she found some practice partners through the Academy's community and that has really helped.

就在上個月，我在現場課堂上給一位來自學院的學生上課，她告訴我，雖然她住在美國，但她大部分時間只說自己的母語泰語，但她通過學院的社區找到了一些練習夥伴，這對她的幫助真的很大。

Well, on the speaking partner part on the community.

好吧，關於社區發言夥伴的部分。

Yeah.

是啊

Where do those two speaking partners live?

那兩個演講搭檔住在哪裡？

One of them live in Texas and I asked him to join, to watch me in this live video.

其中一位住在德克薩斯州，我邀請他一起觀看我的直播視頻。

Oh, good.

哦，很好

Oh, that's awesome.

太棒了

I love that.

我喜歡這樣。

Where's the other one?

另一個呢？

The other one is in Canada.

另一個在加拿大。

Okay.

好的

That's so great.

太棒了

I'm so glad that you've connected with people and it's just so good to practice thinking and speaking and like all at once, all at the same time.

我很高興你能和大家建立聯繫，同時練習思考、說話和喜歡，這實在是太好了。

I also reached out to a student who's actually not in the Academy anymore.

我還聯繫了一位實際上已經不在學院的學生。

He used to be, he went through all the practice materials and really transformed his sound into something smooth and natural.

他曾經是這樣，他翻閱了所有的練習材料，真正將自己的聲音變得流暢自然。

But I remembered that he coordinated several conversation meetups and worked really hard with other students.

但我記得，他協調了幾次對話聚會，並與其他學生一起非常努力地工作。

So I asked him to share how he did that and what he got out of it.

是以，我請他分享一下他是如何做到這一點的，以及他從中得到了什麼。

Hi, this is Shakar and this is a brief account of how I found my speaking partners, how we trained and what I gained from this effort.

大家好，我是 Shakar，下面簡要介紹一下我是如何找到我的演講夥伴的，我們是如何訓練的，以及我從這次努力中收穫了什麼。

It was really about three things, motivation, accountability, and feedback.

這其實就是三件事：激勵、問責和反饋。

Initially, I trained by myself going through the modules and working on the feedback I got from the instructors, but eventually it dawned on me that I don't have do this alone.

起初，我自己一個人學習各個模塊，並根據導師的反饋意見進行訓練，但最終我意識到，我不需要獨自完成這項工作。

I could accelerate my progress if I trained with other members who were just as serious as I was.

如果我和其他和我一樣認真的成員一起訓練，我就能加快進度。

So I reached out to some members who were quite active in the community.

於是，我聯繫了一些在社區中相當活躍的成員。

I engaged with their posts, offered some feedback, and built some rapport with them.