Name: 我可以自己在家學英語嗎？(Can I Learn English Alone? Can I Learn English At Home?)
Uploaded: 2018-10-12T21:01:30.000Z
Duration: 13 min 11 s

I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.

我是《和 Vanessa一起學英文》的 Vanessa

情態助動詞 A2

A lot of my students ask me, "Vanessa, can I learn to speak English, without living in

許多學生問我：「 Vanessa，有可能只靠我自己學英文，但是不用住在

the U.S. or another English speaking country?"

美國或是其他英語系國家嗎？」

Thanks so much for watching, I'll see you ... ah, just kidding.

感謝收聽，下次見 ﹍ 哈哈，我開玩笑的

Today I'm going to give you five ways that my students have creatively learned to speak

今天，我要提供五種學英文的方法，這些創意來自我的學生

English naturally, without moving to another country, while they're still living in their

他們可以說出道地英文，卻不用移居至另一個國家，只要在自己居住的

If you want to improve your English speaking skills, which is probably why you're here

如果你想要提升英語口說能力，這也是為何你在這邊

at Speak English with Vanessa, well, you need to speak, right?

收看這節目的原因。你必須要開口說英文，對吧？

The main thing that you need to do to improve your speaking, is to speak, but you don't

提升口說能力的首要事情是必須先開口說，但你不一定

You don't need to pay a private tutor to speak.

你也不用付錢請家教陪你練英文

In fact, you can speak, mostly for free, in your home country.

事實上，你大多時候都可以免費說英文，而且不需要去國外

Today, let's talk about five mostly free ways to start speaking English now.

今天，讓我們來說明最能輕鬆開口說英文的五種方法

My first tip for learning to speak English alone, without moving to another country,

第一個靠自己學英文，而不需要移居到另一個國家的方法是

This is the only tip that doesn't involve leaving your house, so I hope that it will

這是唯一不需要出門學英文的方法，所以我希望這方法

This tip is to take an article, any article, and try to summarize it in your own words.

具體來說就是選一篇文章，任何一篇都可以，然後試著用自己的話做總結

Here you can see I am on the popular news website, npr.com.

現在你看到我正在熱門新聞網站 npr.com 的首頁

Well, let's click on this article about the World Cup.

現在我點選一篇關於世足賽的文章

"The World Cup, 2018: What's Happened So Far?"

When we see the main article, you can see that there are a lot of great expressions,

當我們看到這文章內容，你可以看到文章裡有許多很棒的措辭

a lot of great words that they've used, so we can go sentence by sentence.

使用了許多很棒的單字，所以我們一個句子一個句子慢慢看

"The first week of the World Cup is arguably the best."

「世足賽的首週照理來說應該是最棒的。」

We can summarize this and say, "The author thinks that the first week of the World Cup

我們可以試著總結，例如「作者認為世足賽的第一週是

This way, you have summarized, you've used your own words, but you're also speaking out

這樣一來，你不但用自己的話做總結，並可以大聲地

You can also do this with spoken questions.

I made a video on my channel previously about learning English with stories, so we're going

我先前在我的頻道上拍了一部有關看故事學英文的影片，讓我們現在

You're going to hear me reading a short part of a story, and then asking a question.

你會聽到我閱讀一小段故事內容，然後我會問一個問題

All of the words that you can use to respond, are in that paragraph, are in that section

妳可以利用所聽到的故事內容裡的詞彙來回答我的問題，提示就在

You need to listen accurately, but you just need to summarize and restate, answer the

你必須仔細聆聽，但你只需要統整內容並且換個方式說

This is a great way to practice speaking at home, but let's practice it right now.

這是一個適合在家練習英文的好方法，但我們現在先來練習一次

Sam felt relieved that someone else was aware of the hectic situation outside the airport.

山姆發現還有其他人意識到機場外的堵塞情況時，不禁覺得慶幸

Sam told the driver the name of his hostel, which was supposed to be just 15 minutes away

山姆告訴司機投宿的民宿名稱，這民宿離機場

Where did Sam want to go and how far away was it?

山姆想去的目的地是哪裡，以及多遠才能抵達？

Where did he want to go, and how far away was it?

他想去的目的地是哪裡，以及多遠才能抵達？

So, we need two pieces of information here.

You can make a sentence with this in it, anyway you'd like.

你可以造句，用任何句型都可以

Sam wanted to go to his hostel that was only 15 minutes away.

山姆想要投宿的民宿，那旅館僅距離 15 分鐘

So, we could say this in a couple of different ways.

從剛才句子可得知，我們可以有幾個不同的方式來敘述

You could say, Sam wanted to go to his hostel, and then we could make a new sentence here.

你可以說：「山姆想要去的民宿」，然後我們可以換個方式造句

We've got a lot of choices, but here I chose to combine these with the word "that."

我們有很多方式敘述同一個句子，但這裡我選擇用「that」連結兩個句子

That's just going to give you another kind of sentence structure that you can integrate

那只是給你另一個句型當作參考，這樣你學英文的時候

You can take a look at this full lesson up here or in the description or check it out

你可以點閱這裡或是下方說明連結來看整集影片，也可以等到影片尾聲

My next tip for learning to speak English, without moving to another country, is to use

第二個開口說英文而且不用搬遷到國外也行的方法是

多多利用「meetup.com」的社交網站

I can almost guarantee that no matter where you live across the world, there will be a

我幾乎可以向你保證，不論你住在世界的哪一個角落，總會有一個

meet up in your city or near your city, and there's a high chance that there might be

可以交談的機會，就發生在你居住的城市或是鄰近的城市，那裏也有極高的機率

Let's take a look at the website really quick to see what options are available.

讓我們用很短的時間看一下這個網站首頁，看有哪些不錯的選擇

我們現在就到 「meetup.com」網站

We can imagine that you don't already have an account, so we'll go down to language and

我想你應該還沒有成立帳戶，所以我們先往下搜尋 language and

Well, here we have, whoa, 9,000 people, English speakers.

讓我們來看看，現在有 9 千位英美人士

Of course, the more you speak, the better, but I know that a lot of you are busy, I'm

雖然說你能多講英文是最好的，但我知道很多人都很忙

So, try to do this at least once a month.

所以，我們先試著一個月做一次就好

Use my other speaking tips during the week, all of the other times that you're not going

平日先採用其他說英文的方法，以及你不打算面對面說話的

to physically speak with someone, but if you speak with someone once a month, it really

其他多數時間，但如果你可以一個月和某人說上話一次

increases your motivation and it shows you that real world application of speaking English,

這方法可以強化你開口說英文的動機，也會讓你了解現實生活中實際說英文的方式

being understood, understanding other people, it's so helpful.

人們相互了解對方的想法是一個非常有效的方式

My third tip for improving your English is actually one where you don't need to leave

第三個增進英文的方式是，你不需要離開家裡

your house that much, and it is host an exchange student for a week, a couple of days, a month,

也可以說英文，那就是招待外國學生，可以是一週一次，幾天一次，一個月一次

as long as you want, or maybe even host them for dinner.

只要你想的話，或許每天都招待他們共用晚餐

I've had a couple of students recently send me e-mails and say, "I'm so excited because

最近我有幾個學生寄 e-mail 跟我說：「我好興奮！因為

next week a British exchange student is coming over to my house for dinner and we're going

下周有一位英國交換學生要來我家共用晚餐，然後我們

In fact, I have three examples of this, that are pretty relevant.

事實上，我有三個實例可以證明，這其中的相關性

One of them was one of my Japanese students who invited a 16 year old American student

寫 e-mail 給我的學生中，有位是日本籍，他邀請一位 16 歲美籍學生

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