Today I just wanted to do a really quick video and talk about a Chrome extension

今天我只是想要做個快速的影片，講講一個我最近用來學習語言的

That I've been using for language learning recently.

Chrome 擴充功能

Now if you don't know what Chrome extensions are,

以免你不知道什麼是 Chrome 擴充功能

These are small little add-ons, little tools that you can add to your web browser in order to give you more

這些是小小的添加工具，你可以把它們加進你的瀏覽器裡，你的瀏覽器就會有更多功能

functions on your web browser and that's assuming that you're using the web browser Google Chrome because if you're using

不過那前提是你用的瀏覽器是 Google Chrome ，因為如果你在用的是

Safari or Firefox

Safari 或是 Firefox

or God forbid you're still using Internet Explorer you need to get with

或是老天啊不知怎麼地你還在用 Internet Explorer ，你必須跟上 2018

2018 because you are left behind in the last century.

因為你已經落後了一個世紀了

So anyways,

總之呢

The extension that I am talking about here is called

我在這裡要講的擴充功能叫做

Transpose-Pitch-Speed-Loop and it is an extension that I use a lot in

Transpose-Pitch-Speed-Loop ，它是我常用來

order to affect the speed of my YouTube videos.

調節 YouTube 影片速度的擴充功能

The main purpose that I use this is to slow down videos of people speaking foreign languages when they're speaking too quickly

我用它的主要目的是為了把那些說外語說太快的影片速度調慢

for me to understand.

好讓我理解

There is a bit of an art to this because you do want to slow it down in order to be able to

這裡有一點要注意，你想把影片速度調慢

Understand what they're saying better,

你才能更好理解他們在說什麼

but you don't want to slow the videos down

但你也不會想把它調得太慢

Too much or they'll become too distorted and you still won't be able to understand what they're saying.

不然太它們就會變得太過扭曲，你就還是沒辦法了解它們在說什麼

Let me show you this YouTube video. Here we have this Despacito.

讓我示範這支 YouTube 影片。這裡我們有 Despacito

Most of you probably know this song.

你們大多數人應該知道這首歌

And they sing pretty fast here. I'll show you an example.

他們唱得頗快的。我給你聽個示範

So, one thing that you can do is use the built-in

所以，你可以做的一件事是用 YouTube 內建的

YouTube speed function, which is right here, and it's okay.

調速功能，就在這裡，還算堪用

It gives you a few different speeds that you can play your videos at but it's very

它給你幾個不同的影片播放速度，但是很局限

Limited because it only gives you a few different

因為它只給你幾個不同的

increments to play your video at.

影片播放速度

What I do is I use this Chrome extension up here.

我做的是用上面這裡這個 Chrome 擴充功能

I already downloaded it and I have it up here in my web browser in the upper right hand corner and it

我已經下載好了，它就在我瀏覽器右上角這個地方

Has this little slider that allows you to change the speed of your video to whatever you want

它有小小的滑標，讓你想怎麼調你影片的速度都可以

You can speed it up really fast. You can slow it down really slow for songs

你可以把它調得非常快。你可以把歌調得非常慢

I find a good speed to play it at is about 90% and all you need to do is

我發現一個適合的播放速度是大約 90% ，你只需要

Move this little slider and your video will automatically play at that speed. You can also fine-tune it with little buttons up here

移動這個小滑標，你的影片就會自動以這個速度播放。你也可以用上面這裡的小按鈕微調

So now that I have it at 96% let's play the song.

所以我現在調成了 96% ，我們來放歌

And you can tell that the song is now a little bit slower

然後你可以發現歌現在比較慢了

And you can probably hear a little bit of distortion in there because it's not playing at the speed

還有你或許會聽出來其中有一些扭曲，因為它不是

It was designed to be played at, but it's not distorted too much where it makes the song

以它該有的速度在播放，但它也沒有扭曲得太過頭，使歌變得很難聽

Unenjoyable to listen to. Let me slow it down a little bit further and show you what I'm talking about.

讓我把它調得更慢，讓你聽聽我指的是哪樣

We'll slow it down to about 50%. We'll do 55% and play it now.

我們把它調慢到 50%。我們在 55% 放看看好了

See now it's not even enjoyable to listen to it's not even a song anymore.

你聽，現在它甚至都不好聽，甚至不是一首歌了

It's just noise almost.

多半就只是噪音

So the trick is to find the right spot on this slider in order to listen to your songs,

所以訣竅就是找到滑標上對你的歌來說正確的點

Listen to your videos at the perfect speed that's gonna help you understand what you're listening to

用能夠幫助你了解內容的完美速度去聽影片

But not destroy the quality of it.

但也不要破壞了它的品質

I recommend 90 you might be able to get away with a little bit lower than 90

我建議 90% ，你或許可以再調得更低一點

Let's see here

來聽看看

But once you get much lower than 90 maybe 85 the quality of the song is gonna start to deteriorate.

不過一旦你調得低於 90%，比如 85%，歌的品質就會惡化

Fortunately this extension is not only

幸運的是，這個擴充功能不止限於歌曲

for songs. You can use it for regular spoken words and here I have a

你也可以把它套用到一般說話，這裡我有一個

comedian speaking in French, and so let's listen to him speak.

說法語的喜劇演員，我們來聽他說話

[Speaking French]

[說法語]

All right, you can hear him speaking relatively quickly

好，你可以聽到他說得非常快速

difficult for a non-native speaker of French to understand so I'm gonna slow him down not only to

對於非法語母語人士來說很難理解，所以我要把它調到不止 90%

90% will slow him down to about

我要把它調到大概

70 percent

70%

up to 70

到 70

And you can hear that even though it's still at 70 percent

然後你能聽出來，即使在 70%

It has been slowed down and it's been distorted a little bit.

它已經放慢了，而且有一些扭曲了

You can tell that it's not his actual normal voice.

你可以聽出來那不是他真正的正常聲音

But it's not distorted so much that you can't understand what he's saying.

但也不是太過扭曲，導致你不能理解他在說什麼

As a matter of fact,

實際上

it's slowed down just enough that it makes it easier to understand what he's saying than if you were playing at the full

它被調慢到剛剛好，相比它在原速度播放時，你更能夠理解他在說什麼

100% speed. In fact, we could probably go even slower.

事實上，我們還可以調得更慢

I bet you could play this at 60% and still be able to understand what he's saying.

我想你可以調到 60% ，還是能夠理解他在說什麼

So basically the point that I'm trying to make here is you have to be able to find the right speed for you.

所以基本上，我的重點就是你要找到適合你的速度

So I definitely recommend playing around with different speeds and different

所以我絕對推薦試著用不同的速度和設定去播放看看

Settings and finding what's right for you. You could listen to the whole

找找哪個適合你。你可以用 60% 的速度去聽整部喜劇小品

Comedy skit at 60% and probably be able to understand quite a bit. It might be too slow. Maybe you set it at

或許就能理解頗多了。它或許太慢。或許你能把它調到

70, 75 you have to find the speed that is best for you for understanding

70 或是 75，你要找到最適合你的速度

whatever video you're listening to.

無論你在聽哪支影片

Really quickly, if you've never used Google Chrome extensions before, this is a free extension and basically what you're gonna do is

很快說一下，然後你從來沒用過 Google Chrome 擴充功能，這是一個免費的擴充功能，而且你基本上

You're just going to go to Google or your search engine of choice. And you're gonna type in Google Chrome

只需要到 Google· 或是你選擇的搜尋引擎，然後輸入 Google Chrome

extensions.

擴充功能

And you're gonna come to the Google Chrome Web Store.

你就會來到 Google Chrome網路商店

I'll also include a link to this extension in the description of this video

我也會在這支影片的描述放進這個擴充功能的鏈接

so if you don't want to do all the searching you can just click on the link below and

所以你要是不想搜尋，你可以直接點擊底下鏈接

Once you get to the Google Chrome Web Store, you're gonna type in... what was the name of it again?

一旦你進到 Google Chrome 網路商店，你就輸入 ... 那叫什麼？

Transpose pitch. All right, you're gonna type in

Transpose pitch 。好的，你要輸入

transpose pitch...

Transpose pitch ...

and you can see it's the first one here

你可以看到是這裡第一個

And this is the Chrome extension that you're looking for

這就是你在找的 Chrome 擴充功能

It's gonna have this logo it's called transfer transpose pitched loop. You can see that I've actually already

它的標誌長這樣，叫做 transfer transpose pitched loop 。你可以看到我其實已經

Added it to my google chrome. So that's why it has this little green banner there. It's green

把它加進我的 Google Chrome 了。那就是為什麼我這裡是綠色封條，是綠的

What you're probably gonna see is this blue button, and it'll have a plus sign and it'll say add to Chrome.

你會看到的應該是藍色的按鈕，會有一個加號鍵，它會說加入到 Chrome

You're just gonna click that.

你就點下去

If you want more information about the add-on.

如果你想要更多擴充功能的資訊

You can just click on the box itself and you'll see all the different details about the add-on.

你可以點擊這裡，你就會看到有關擴充功能的各種不同細節

It's free, but there is a paid version

它是免費的，不過有一個付費版本

of it. I don't use the paid version.

我不是用付費版本

I just use the free version and it works just fine for me

我只用免費版本的，那對我來說

to do all the functions that I need it for. And once you add this to your Chrome browser

我需要的所有功能都有了。然後一旦你把它加進你的 Chrome 瀏覽器

It'll show up up here in the list of little add-ons you just click on it

它會顯示在這個擴充功能清單中，你可以按它

and then it'll give you all the settings and that's all you need to know.

然後它就會跑出所有的設定，這些就是你需要知道的了

So I hope this video has just given you one more little tool that you can use for learning your languages more efficiently.

所以我希望這支影片讓你知道了又一個用來有效學習語言的小工具

Thanks for watching the video and we'll see you guys in the next one.

謝謝觀看這支影片，我們下次見