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Well hey there I'm Emma from mmmEnglish! Today's lesson is going to focus on five tips to improve your English listening skills.
大家好，我是 Emma，欢迎来到美味英语频道！今天的课程会侧重于提升英语听力的五个技巧。
So often we focus on speaking, don't we? But listening, understanding someone else is just as important if you want to be able to communicate effectively, right?
我们一般比较侧重于口语，对吧？但是，如果你想有效沟通，倾听、理解他人同样重要，对吧？
What makes listening so hard is that the English that you hear is often quite different to the English that you learn. So I want to share five different techniques that you can use to improve your listening skills.
听力困难的原因在于你听到的英语与你学习的英语通常大不相同。所以我想分享五种不同的技巧，你可以用它们来提高你的听力技能。
Perhaps you've already tried a few of them, maybe some of them are new. I definitely hope that you can take a couple of new ideas away and put them into practice after this video.
也许你已经尝试了其中的一些，也许其中一些是新的。我希望你能在这个视频之后收获一些新想法并将它们付诸实践。
When I was preparing for this lesson I asked the members inside my English speaking community Hey Lady! about what they feared most when it comes to listening to someone speaking English, what were the things that worried the most and I got lots of different responses but the top three were:
Not being able to understand words, maybe slang, people talking too fast so of course, that includes linking, contractions and reduced forms.
Thirdly, not being familiar with or comfortable with the accent.
当我准备这节课时，我问了我的 Hey Lady! 英语社区的成员， 问她们听别人说英语时最害怕什么，最担心的是什么，我得到了很多不同的回答，但前三名是：无法理解单词，可能是俚语，人们说话太快，当然了，这包括连读、缩读和简化的形式。
第三，不熟悉或不适应口音。
What do you think? Do you agree?
你觉得呢？你同意吗？
What worries you the most when you have to listen to someone who is speaking in English? Let me know down in the comments.
当你需要听一个说英语的人说话时，你最担心的是什么？在评论中告诉我吧。
Listening to people is something that we do all of the time. You're listening to me right now.
倾听人们说话是我们一直在做的事情。你现在就在听我说话。
We listen to podcasts, we listen to TV shows and movies. All of this is passive listening, you're absorbing the sounds and the words, taking what you know and understanding it, interpreting it.
我们会听播客，我们会听电视节目和电影。所有这一切都是被动聆听，你在听取声音和文字，接受你所知道的和理解的内容并进行解释。
But today I really want to talk about how you can practise and how you can improve your listening skills so that you can feel more confident joining conversations and meeting new people and communicating in English. First up, pronunciation.
但是今天我很想谈谈如何练习以及如何提高听力技巧，这样你就可以更加自信地加入对话、结识新朋友并用英语交流。首先是发音。
One of the best things that you can do to improve your listening skills is to study pronunciation but I'm not really talking about learning and practising individual sounds but rather focusing on the elements of naturally spoken English.
Things like contractions, reduced forms, sentence stress, intonation, all of these things, learning to hear and recognise the sounds of English as it's actually spoken because English doesn't always sound like what you expect, does it?
提高听力技能的最好的方法之一就是学习发音，但我说的并不是学习和练习单个音，而是侧重于自然英语口语的元素。例如缩读、简化形式、句子重音、语调之类的东西，学习听到和识别实际场合的英语发音，因为英语听起来并不总是像你期待的那样，对吧？
Sounds blend together, they change, sometimes they're completely dropped. And it's no wonder that your poor little brain is crying out for help as you're listening to someone speaking English and it's no wonder that you tend to blame your ears and yourself for not being able to hear and understand the sounds but it's not your fault.
不同的音会融合在一起，它们会发生变化，有时它们会完全消失。难怪你可怜的小脑袋在你听别人说英语时大声呼救，难怪你会责怪你的耳朵不能听到和理解这些声音，但这不是你的错。
You haven't been taught to hear 'What do you want to do? ' that's what you expect to hear, isn't it? What you actually hear is something like: Whaddaya wannado?
你并不知道要注意去听“What do you want to do?”，这就是你应该期待听到的，对吧？你实际听到的却是这样的：Whaddaya wannado?
Learning to recognise these sounds and to start associating those sounds with the words 'what do you want to do' is gonna help right and I have the perfect video to help you practise, the thirty most common reductions in English.
The link is up here and I'll add it to the end of the video but if you study and learn the sounds of naturally spoken English, you're going to be in a much better position to actually understand spoken English.
学习识别这些音并开始将这些发音与“what do you want to do”联系起来会很有帮助，我有一个非常合适的视频来帮助你进行练习，这个视频是关于英语中最常见的 30 种缩读形式。链接在这里，我会把它加到视频的结尾，但如果你认真研究和学习一下自然英语口语的发音的话，那就可以在理解英语口语方面有更大的优势。
Next up is reading and listening together. Now this really shouldn't be a new idea because I talk about it all of the time.
接下来是阅读和听力一起进行。这并不是一个新的想法，因为我一直在谈论。
It is one of my favourite techniques to help you improve your pronunciation which I just explained is an excellent way to help you improve your listening skills, right? With this technique, you get to see the word as you read and you also get to hear it as it's being spoken.
这是我最喜欢的帮助你改善发音的技巧之一，我刚刚解释过，这是帮助你改善听力技能的绝佳方法，对吗？这种技巧是这样的，你在阅读时看到这个词，并在说话时听到这个词。
So you start to recognise the sounds and associate it to the words. Hey quick question.
你开始意识到声音和单词的联系。嘿，有个小问题。
Do you use Ted Talks at all when you study and you practise your English? Ted Talks are brilliant resources to help you with your listening skills in English.
你在学习和练习英语时是否使用 Ted Talks 呢？Ted Talks 是可以帮助你提高英语听力技能的超级好的资源。
If you go to their website, every video has an interactive transcript and that transcript allows you to follow the script as the speaker is talking so it's great for learning new words, it's great for hearing the natural pronunciation and you can even use it to pause and to practise imitating what the speaker is saying.
Ted Talks are also a really awesome way to listen to different types of English speakers because there are so many different talks that you can listen to.
如果你去他们的网站，每个视频都有互动字幕，字幕可以让你在演讲者说话的时候跟着脚本走，所以它很适合学习新单词，很适合听自然的发音，你甚至可以用它来暂停来练习模仿演讲者所说的内容。Ted Talks 也是聆听不同类型的英语演讲者的一个非常棒的方式，因为很不同的演讲可以听。
Listening to those different voices, different accents, different paces, all of this is essential to helping you develop your listening skills. So this is my third tip, listening to different accents, different voices and in different contexts.
听一下不同的声音、不同的口音、不同的节奏，所有这些都是帮助你提升听力技巧的关键。因此这是我的第三个建议，听不同的口音，不同的声音，在不同的语境中。
Opening yourself up to different voices and different accents is so important. It's not only about accents but it's also the tone of people's voice, the pace at which they speak and then of course, the context in which you're listening, background noise,
maybe you're really comfortable talking one-to-one but when there's a group and there's multiple people talking, they're talking over the top of each other it becomes more challenging.
让自己接受不同的声音和不同的口音是非常重要的。这不仅仅是口音的问题，也涉及到人们说话的语气，说话的速度，当然，还有你听的环境，背景噪音，也许你很喜欢一对一的谈话，但是如果在团体中有很多人在说话，他们的谈话会重叠，这就变得更加具有挑战性。
So we have all of these different features to play with. Playing with the difference in all of these experiences is something that will help you to develop really strong listening skills.
所以我们有很多不同的功能可以利用。注意其中的差异可以帮助你发展出强大的听力技能。
Now if you choose to listen to different voices, it may be a little harder at the beginning. It's definitely going to be something that pays off for you in the long run because you're going to be able to understand more people and you'll feel less fearful as you meet people who have an accent or a tone of voice that you're not familiar with.
如果你选择听不同的声音，开始时可能会有点困难。从长远来看，这绝对是一件对你有好处的事情，因为这样的话，你将能够理解更多的人，当你遇到有口音或发音你不熟悉的人时，你会感到不那么害怕。
So how do you know when you should look for a different accent or a different type of person to listen to? When you're listening to someone, maybe you're listening to me right now and you're feeling really good.
那么，你怎么知道你什么时候应该寻找不同的口音或不同类型的人的发音来听呢？当你在听别人说话时，也许你现在正在听我说话，你感觉非常好。
I can understand most of what she's saying. I feel relaxed and comfortable.
我可以理解她所说的大部分内容。我感到很放松，很舒适。
I'm kind of pleased with myself actually. Well this is a sign, it's a sign that's telling you you need to shake things up a bit.
事实上，我对自己很满意。这是一个信号，这是一个告诉你你需要把目标定得大一点的信号。
If you're feeling comfortable, then you know it's time to push the boundary of your comfort zone a little. Not a lot, let's not go crazy but a little.
如果你感觉很舒服，那么你就知道是时候稍微突破一下你的舒适区的界限了。不要太过，一点点就行。
And when you feel a little bit of discomfort or that fear when you start talking to someone and you realise that their accent is quite different or maybe they're speaking really quickly, you just want to notice that fear,
that resistance that you have of not being able to understand someone you're worried about it. That is telling you that this is the type of situation that you need practice with.
当你开始与人交谈时，你感到有一点不舒服或恐惧，你意识到他们的口音很不一样，或者他们说话语速非常快，你想注意到那种恐惧，那种你无法
理解某人的阻力，你对它此感到非常担心。这是在告诉你，这就是你需要练习的那种情况。
The more you listen to someone, the more you understand of them, right? So again Ted Talks are really great tools to help you with this because people who are presenting, they're often speaking a little more clearly.
你听得越多，你对他们的了解就越多，对吧？因此，Ted Talks 又是帮助你实现这一目标的非常好的工具，因为演讲的人他们往往讲得更清楚一些。
You have the transcript to help you practise with and you get to ease into different accents, different paces, different tones. Let's get on to my next tip.
你有字幕来帮助你练习，你可以轻松适应不同的口音、不同的节奏、不同的语调。让我们来看看我的下一个建议。
Write what you hear. This is my absolute favourite one.
把你听的写下来。这是我最喜欢的一个。
I can't wait to share it. So we're not talking about sitting down to a YouTube video and writing out the entire thing, everything that you hear.
我迫不及待地想要分享它。我们并不是要说坐下来看一个 YouTube 视频，然后把整个视频写出来，把你听到的一切都写出来。
That is not going to work, it's not going to be fun. It's 
going to take you a bloody long time.
这是不可能的，也不会有什么乐趣。这将需要你花很长时间来完成。
So I have some really specific steps to follow if you want to practise along in this way. Step one is choose a really small section of a video, a podcast or a Ted Talk, just thirty seconds only.
如果你想以这种方式来练习的话，我有一些非常具体的步骤可以遵循。第一步是选择一个视频、播客或 Ted 演讲中非常短的部分，30秒就可以。
Step two is just listening to that section a couple of times. You're not writing yet, you're just listening, you're getting used to their accent, you're getting used to the tone and the pace of their voice.
第二步，就是把这部分内容听上几遍。还没有到写的那一步，你只是在听，你在习惯他们的口音，你在习惯他们的语气和节奏。
You're also becoming more familiar with the topic or the context of the conversation. Step three.
你也越来越熟悉这个话题或谈话的背景。第三步。
Okay now you're ready to pick up your pen and to write. So you want to listen to the first sentence, pause, write down what you hear.
好的，现在你已经准备好拿起你的笔开始写了。听第一句话，
暂停，写下你听到的内容。
Listen to the next sentence, pause, write down what you hear. Now you may want to slow down the speed of the audio a little.
听下一句话，暂停，写下你听到的内容。现在你可能想把音频的速度放慢一点。
It's really easy to do that with Ted Talks, with Audible and on YouTube. We really don't want to make this an impossible task.
Ted Talks、Audible 和 YouTube 要做到这一点很容易。我们真的不想让这成为一项不可能完成的任务。
If slowing down the speed a little helps you to get through the practice there is no harm in doing that at all. So what about when you don't quite catch something, maybe there's a word that you don't recognise, you don't know the meaning of, you can't recognise it, maybe the sounds have kind of all squished together and so it doesn't make a lot of sense to you.
如果把速度放慢一点有助于你完成练习的话，那么这样做其实没有任何坏处。当你没有完全听出来一些内容的时候，也许有一个你不认识的词，你不知道它的意思，你不能认出来它，也许各个音都挤在一起，你根本就听不懂什么意思。
That's fine, leave a gap, keep listening, write down what you do hear. Do this all the way through to the end of that little section that you're listening to and go back to the start, listen again, try to fill in some of those gaps.
没关系的，留下一个空，继续听，写下你所听到的内容。一直这样做，直到听完你正在听的那一小段内容，然后回到开头，再听一遍，试着填补其中的一些空白。
Look at the words around the gap. Can you try and guess what could go there or what should go there?
看一下空缺的地方周围的单词。你能试着猜测一下，什么单词可以放在那里，或者什么单词应该放在那里吗？
So tell me, what is so great about this really simple technique to help you improve your listening skills? Any ideas?
告诉我，这个真正简单的技巧有什么了不起的地方可以帮助你提高你的听力技能呢？有什么想法吗？
Unlike all of the other tips that I've shared today, this one helps you to actually discover what you're not hearing. When you're listening, you are always taking in information.
与我今天分享的所有其他技巧不同，这个提示可以帮助你发现你没有听到的东西。当你在听时，总是在吸收信息。
You're taking in everything that you understand and you're leaving the rest behind but the parts that you don't understand, they're the parts that are going to help you to learn and to grow. So filling in those gaps is going to help you to understand and it's going to help you to improve your listening skills.
你在吸收你理解的一切，其他的你并没有关注，但你不理解的部分才是将帮助你学习和成长的部分。因此，填补这些空白将帮助你理解，并帮助你提高你的听力技巧。
And lastly, watch without subtitles. Okay quick poll.
最后，在没有字幕的情况下观看视频。好的，快速投个票。
Who watches movies or TV shows without any subtitles? Answer honestly here. I really genuinely want to know.
谁会看没有任何字幕的电影或电视节目？诚实地回答一下吧。我真的很想知道。
Share it down in the comments. Watching a movie or a TV show in a language that you're learning without subtitles is really hard work especially if you're sitting down to do it at the end of a long day, you're sitting down to watch your favourite show, you just want to relax.
在评论里分享一下吧。在没有字幕的情况下用你正在学习的语言观看电影或电视节目真的很辛苦，特别是当你在漫长的一天结束后坐下来做这件事时，你坐下来观看你最喜欢的节目，明明只是想放松一下。
Yes watching without subtitles is harder. It's going to teach you how to listen.
是的，在没有字幕的情况下观看是比较困难的。但是它将教会你如何倾听。
When you listen to people in real life, there are no subtitles right, there are no captions in real life so we have to build that confidence and that awareness with our listening skills. You've got your favourite TV show, you have a notebook handy, you've got it sitting next to you on the couch just so every time you sit down to turn on the telly you've got it there ready.
当你在现实生活中听人说话时，其实并没有字幕，对吧，现实生活中没有字幕，所以我们必须建立这种信心和对听力技能的意识。找出最喜欢的电视节目和你的笔记本，可以把它放在你旁边的沙发上，这样每次你坐下来打开电视的时候，它就在那里已经准备好了。
You want to turn off the subtitles and start paying attention. Remember we're just focusing on the first one minute, when you watch that one minute through, pause, take out that notebook and write down a few notes about what you saw or what you heard in the first minute of that video.
你要关掉字幕，开始注意。记住，我们只关注前一分钟，当你看完这一分钟后，暂停一下，拿出笔记本，写下你在这段视频的第一分钟里看到或听到的内容。
So, for example, you might write something about one of the characters. Paul seemed really frustrated by Annie's decision to book a holiday with her friends and not to ask him first.
举例来说，你可能会写一些关于其中一个人物的内容。保罗似乎对安妮决定与她的朋友们一起度过假期而不先问他这件事感到非常沮丧。
So then go back, turn on the subtitles, of course in English, and read them through for the entire minute making sure that you understood everything exactly as you wrote down. The ideas are all clear and true.
然后回去，打开字幕，当然是英文的哦，把一分钟的字幕读完，确保你完全按照你写下的内容理解清楚了。这些想法都是清晰而真实的。
That is the active listening practice that you need to keep improving your skills. So there you have it!
这就是你不断提高技能所需要的积极听力练习。就是这样啦！
They were my five tips, five different techniques that you can use to practise and to improve your English listening skills. Of course, you can do it on your own.
这就是我的五个技巧，五个你可以用来练习和提高你的英语听力技能的不同技巧。当然了，你可以自己去实践啦。
You can do it with a study buddy but I recommend that you just choose one of the techniques we talked about today and put it into practice over a whole week. Try and do it a few times see if it sticks.
你可以和学习伙伴一起做，但我建议你只需选择我们今天谈到的一个技巧，并在一整个星期内将其付诸实践。试着做几次，看看是否能坚持下去。
See if it's something that's working for you, something that you enjoy. I've left some links to some really great Ted Talks down in the description.
看看这是否对你有用，你喜欢不喜欢这么做。我在描述中留了一些特别好的 TED 演讲的链接。
You can use them to get started and if you want to focus on natural pronunciation then check out this video right here, the one about common reductions that I mentioned earlier or this entire course that I made here on YouTube that's about linking and natural pronunciation. I'll see you in there!
你可以用它们作为开始，如果你想专攻一下自然发音的话，那么请看一下这个视频，就是我前面提到的关于常见的缩读的视频，也可以看看我在 YouTube 上制作的关于连读和自然发音的整套课程。我在那里等待着大家！
