Stephanie, the English coach here from Englishfultime.com.

來自 Englishfultime.com 的英語教練 Stephanie。

Today, I have a really fun exercise for you to help you improve your English.

今天，我為大家準備了一個非常有趣的練習，幫助大家提高英語水平。

We are going to do shadowing.

我們將進行影子教學。

This is something that I wrote.

這是我寫的東西。

It's actually an email that I sent my email subscribers, I don't know, like a week ago.

實際上，這是我一週前發給我的郵件訂閱者的一封電子郵件。

I'll show it to you.

我拿給你看。

But it's a story.

但這是一個故事。

It's a personal story about something that I went through, something really embarrassing, actually.

這是一個關於我個人經歷的故事，實際上是一件非常尷尬的事情。

And here's what we're going to do.

這就是我們要做的。

I'm going to read it for you.

我讀給你聽。

And then you can actually go check a link in the description and download the story so you can follow along.

然後，你可以查看說明中的鏈接，下載故事，這樣你就可以跟讀了。

And I'm going to include another link where you can listen to just the audio because right now we're going to have the story audio mixed in with my YouTube video.

我還會附上另一個鏈接，在那裡你可以只聽音頻，因為現在我們要把故事音頻和我的 YouTube 視頻混在一起。

And if you just want to analyze this story, then, and just the audio, which I highly recommend you can go download that.

如果你只想分析這個故事，那麼，我強烈推薦你去下載音頻。

But what we're doing here is a shadowing exercise.

但我們在這裡做的是影子練習。

We're going to help you practice your speaking, your pronunciation, reading out loud.

我們將幫助你練習口語、發音和朗讀。

But the best way I believe to do this is to first listen to somebody read something, right?

但我認為，最好的辦法是先聽別人朗讀，對嗎？

And then analyze the way that they read it.

然後分析他們閱讀的方式。

Listen, listen, listen, listen again, listen a lot, really get your ears adjusted to all of the different sounds and how the words link together.

聽、聽、聽、再聽、多聽，真正讓你的耳朵適應所有不同的聲音以及單詞是如何連接在一起的。

And then practice reading yourself.

然後自己練習閱讀。

And when you practice, you want to try to match the way that the person read whatever they read.

在練習時，無論對方讀什麼，你都要儘量與之匹配。

If you're doing the shadowing exercise, the way it should be done, you want to match the intonation.

如果你在做影子練習，按照應該的方法，你要配合音調。

You want to match the rhythm.

你要配合節奏。

You want your reading to sound as close to my reading as possible.

你希望你的朗讀儘可能接近我的朗讀。

Now, this is an exercise that my students have done so many times in all of my online courses.

在我所有的在線課程中，我的學生們都做過很多次這樣的練習。

And it's so cool because sometimes they literally sound exactly like me by the time they finished doing the exercise.

這很酷，因為有時他們做完練習後，聲音真的和我一模一樣。

And some students have even trained themselves to do this by being blindfolded, which I thought that was a really incredible way of learning how to imitate somebody, right?

有些學生甚至蒙著眼睛訓練自己這樣做，我覺得這真是一種學習如何模仿別人的不可思議的方式，對嗎？

They would blindfold themselves so that they weren't actually looking at the words, but they were just listening, really focusing on hearing everything accurately.

他們會矇住自己的眼睛，這樣他們就不會真的去看文字，而只是在聽，真正專注於準確地聽到每一句話。

And when the students did that, oh my goodness, like the way they were able to read and recite whatever it was that we were studying, they sounded exactly like me.

當學生們這樣做的時候，我的天哪，就像他們能夠朗讀和背誦我們正在學習的內容一樣，他們聽起來和我一模一樣。

So anyways, I thought this would be really fun.

總之，我覺得這一定會很有趣。

It's kind of personal.

這有點私人。

It's different.

這是不同的。

We haven't tried something like this on my channel yet.

我們還沒有在我的頻道上嘗試過這樣的東西。

So I guess just listen to the story first, and then you can download everything and get to work.

所以我想先聽故事，然後就可以下載所有內容，開始工作了。

Okay, so here we go.

好了，我們開始吧。

Remember, this is an email that I sent that now I'm using here as content for us to study.

記住，這是我發出的一封電子郵件，現在我把它作為我們學習的內容。

So it starts off like this.

所以一開始是這樣的。

Did I ever tell you my super embarrassing ballet story?

我告訴過你我超級尷尬的芭蕾故事嗎？

It happened when I was in 12th grade.

事情發生在我十二年級的時候。

First of all, I don't know if you know this, but ballet is super difficult.

首先，我不知道你是否知道，芭蕾舞是超級難的。

Professionals make it look easy, but it takes years and years of training to get good.

專業人士會把它說得很簡單，但要想做好卻需要長年累月的訓練。

I guess I didn't know that when I was 17 years old though, because I thought I could totally skip ballet one and jump to a ballet two class, despite never having taken a single dance class in my life.

我想我 17 歲的時候還不知道這一點，因為我以為我完全可以跳過芭蕾舞一班，跳到芭蕾舞二班，儘管我這輩子從沒上過一堂舞蹈課。

In my mind, the idea of taking ballet one with a bunch of children was boring and beneath me.

在我看來，和一群孩子一起學芭蕾舞是一件很無聊的事，而且也不配。

I wanted something difficult.

我想要一些困難的東西。

I wanted a challenge.

我想要挑戰。

So I asked the teacher if I could skip ballet one and join the ballet two class.

於是，我問老師我是否可以跳過芭蕾舞一班，參加芭蕾舞二班。

Actually, I insisted.

事實上，我堅持要這麼做。

She, being the professional that she was, graciously obliged.

作為專業人士，她欣然應允。

Come to class on Monday with the ballet two students, Stephanie.

週一和芭蕾舞二班的學生 Stephanie 一起來上課。

She said, you can give it a shot and we'll go from there.

她說，你可以試一試，然後我們再繼續。

I was so excited.

我太激動了。

But then Monday came and I will never forget the humiliation of trying to keep up with an advanced class that I was totally unprepared for.

但是，星期一到了，我永遠也忘不了在完全沒有準備的情況下努力跟上高年級課程的屈辱。

The music was too fast.

音樂太快了。

My feet were too stiff and my muscles were too weak.

我的腳太僵硬，肌肉太虛弱。

At that point, I didn't need the teacher or anyone else to tell me what was so readily apparent.

那時，我不需要老師或其他人告訴我什麼是顯而易見的。

I clearly was not ready for ballet two.

顯然，我還沒準備好跳芭蕾舞二。

And it was naive of me to ever think I could skip the fundamentals.

我還天真地以為可以跳過基礎知識。

I still cringe to this day when I remember that story, but I learned something I will never forget.

時至今日，每當我回憶起這個故事，仍會感到後怕，但我學到的東西卻永遠不會忘記。

And that's this.

這就是

It doesn't matter how much of a hardworking overachiever you are.

無論你有多麼勤奮好學，都沒有關係。

If you want to master a skill, you cannot skip the fundamentals.

要想掌握一門技能，就不能跳過基礎知識。

Mastering the basics gives you a solid foundation on which you can build.

掌握了基礎知識，就打下了堅實的基礎。

And then, as you learn, practice, and train diligently, advancing becomes natural and inevitable.

然後，隨著你勤奮地學習、練習和訓練，進步就變得自然而然、不可避免了。

Every expert was once a beginner.

每個專家都曾是初學者。

Every skilled craftsman was once an apprentice.

每個能工巧匠都曾是學徒。

Every great artist was once a novice.

每一位偉大的藝術家都曾是一名新手。

And yet, I often see so many English students wanting to practice fast connected speech in English when they still haven't mastered their vowel sounds in English, or the TH, or the R.

然而，我經常看到許多英語學生想要練習快速的英語連讀，而他們還沒有掌握英語中的元音、TH 或 R。

That's unwise and impractical because poor pronunciation strung together quickly in a sentence will simply result in spoken English that is difficult to decipher or simply unintelligible.

這是不明智的，也是不切實際的，因為在句子中快速串聯不標準的發音只會導致英語口語難以破譯或根本無法理解。

So here's my advice.

我的建議是

Take the time you need to completely master every sound of the English language according to the accent you aim to master.

根據你要掌握的口音，花必要的時間完全掌握英語的每一個音。

Once you achieve this, your English will shine with clarity and your eyes will beam with confidence.

一旦你做到了這一點，你的英語就會熠熠生輝，你的眼睛就會充滿自信。

If you would like me to help you with this, go here to see what I have for you.

如果您希望我幫您解決這個問題，請點擊這裡查看我為您提供的服務。

Wishing you all the success in the world, Stephanie.

祝你成功，斯蒂芬妮。

This was an email actually that I wrote to promote one of our courses.

實際上，這是我為宣傳我們的一門課程而寫的一封電子郵件。

This is my Amazing American Accent Sound Bank course, where I go in depth into every single sound of my American accent.

這是我的神奇美式口音音庫課程，我將深入講解美式口音的每一個音。

So if you're still struggling with sounds in English, and you want to improve your pronunciation, this course would be great for you.

是以，如果您還在為英語中的發音而苦惱，並希望改善自己的發音，本課程將非常適合您。

But anyways, back to the email.

不管怎麼說，還是回到郵件上來吧。

This is the email.

這是電子郵件。

I hope you enjoyed this story.

希望你們喜歡這個故事。

I hope you enjoyed hearing about my embarrassing ballet experience.

希望你們喜歡聽我講述這段尷尬的芭蕾經歷。

That was actually a really crazy experience, because I really did think that I was such a hard worker, and I would be able to do it, you know.

這其實是一次非常瘋狂的經歷，因為我真的以為我是一個非常努力的人，我一定能做到，你知道的。

So I begged and asked that teacher, can I please skip the ballet one class, go to ballet two, like I wanted something hard, I wanted something difficult.

所以我懇求老師，能不能讓我跳過芭蕾舞第一課，去上芭蕾舞第二課，就像我想要一些艱苦的東西，我想要一些困難的東西。

And she was so nice.

她人很好

And so just like, okay.

就這樣，好吧。

And sometimes it takes going through an experience to learn.

有時，需要經歷一段經歷才能學到東西。

Like you won't always learn just if somebody tells you the truth.

就像不是有人告訴你真相，你就一定能學會一樣。

Sometimes you actually have to go through an experience to learn yourself.

有時，你必須親身經歷才能學到東西。

And that's exactly what happened to me.

這正是我的遭遇。

When I did the ballet two class, I was like, whoa, I do not belong here.

當我上芭蕾舞二班時，我就想，哇，我不屬於這裡。

Like, and it also gave me so much respect for people who do ballet and dance and all kinds of things that I had never done before.

比如，這也讓我對那些跳芭蕾舞和舞蹈的人以及各種我以前從未接觸過的事物充滿了敬意。

Like, people that are good at something, they make it look easy.

比如，擅長某件事情的人，他們會讓這件事看起來很容易。

But that doesn't mean that it is easy.

但這並不意味著這很容易。

And that also doesn't mean that they didn't put hours and hours and hours and years and years of hard work and effort, blood, sweat, and tears into what they have done, right?

這也並不意味著他們沒有為自己的工作付出數小時、數小時、數年、數年的辛勤勞動和努力、血汗和淚水，不是嗎？

When you see somebody make something look easy, that is how you know, they are really good at it.

當你看到有人把一件事做得很簡單時，你就會知道他真的很擅長做這件事。

Okay.

好的

So anyways, here's what you can do.

總之，你可以這麼做。

Again, go to the link in the description, download this, this document so you can read it, so you can study the vocabulary.

請再次訪問說明中的鏈接，下載此文檔，以便閱讀，學習詞彙。

And then I'm also going to attach a file where you can listen, an audio file where you can listen to the story.

然後，我還會附上一個文件，你可以在那裡聽，一個音頻文件，你可以在那裡聽故事。

And then I want you to practice listening and reading out loud yourself.

然後，我要你們自己練習大聲聽和讀。

And if you want, you can come back to this video to the part where I read out loud here, and you can slow it down.

如果你願意，可以回到這段視頻中我大聲朗讀的部分，你可以放慢速度。

You can use the features inside YouTube, the settings, or you can add an extension to your browser that will allow you to slow down the story.

您可以使用 YouTube 的內部功能、設置，也可以在瀏覽器中添加一個擴展，讓您可以放慢故事的播放速度。

So you can really hear how I'm connecting those words.

所以，你能真正聽出我是如何把這些詞聯繫起來的。

But this is an exercise in just listening.

但這只是一次聆聽的練習。

Okay.

好的

You have to listen.

你必須傾聽。

You have to do the work.

你必須做這項工作。

I'm not going to break every little last thing down.

我就不一一細說了。

I've taught a lot about connected speech in my other videos.

在我的其他視頻中，我已經講授了很多關於連貫言語的知識。

So now it's time for you to get analytical and really try this on your own.

所以，現在是時候讓你自己分析並真正嘗試一下了。

Let me know how it goes in the comments.

請在評論中告訴我進展如何。

Let me know if you enjoy this exercise.

如果你喜歡這個練習，請告訴我。

I really hope you do.

我真的希望你能做到。

Yeah.

是啊

Hopefully you enjoy the material that we're working with too, because it's about me and it's kind of personal.

希望你們也能喜歡我們正在使用的材料，因為它是關於我的，是一種個人風格。

But anyways, that's not the point.

但不管怎麼說，這不是重點。

The point is just listening and shadowing and imitating and just trying to amazing American accent sound bank course in the description in case anybody wants to check that out.

重點在於聆聽、模仿和模仿，以及嘗試令人驚歎的美國口音。

And of course, if you have any questions about it or anything, you can always email me or just hit me up in the comments.

當然，如果你有任何問題，可以隨時給我發電子郵件，或者在評論中提問。

I will talk to you later.

稍後再聊。

Take care.

保重。

Bye.

再見。