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Well hey there! I'm Emma from mmmEnglish!
Can you believe that we've made it to the end of another year?
大家好哇！欢迎来到Emma的美味英语，我是Emma！
你能相信我们我们又携手走过新的一年了吗？
2018 is almost over! Time flies when you're having fun, doesn't it?
2018马上就要结束啦！
欢乐时光总是短暂，对吧？
Well, I hope that you've been having fun here at mmmEnglish and that you've been learning a few new things along the way.
But before we finish up the year, I want you to tell me which was your favourite lesson of this year and also tell me what lessons do you want me to teach you in 2019.
希望大家在Emma的美味英语频道玩得很开心，也希望你们已经有了一些新的收获。
但是在我们收尾之前，我想让大家告诉我本年度你最喜欢的课程是哪一个，也告诉我你们想让我在2019年教你们的课程。
I've had lots of requests for conditionals and relative clauses which will be fun but necessary and also lots of requests for more common English expressions too.
So let me know in the comments what you want me to teach you in 2019.
我收到了很多条件句和关系从句的请求，这些课程都很有趣，也非常有必要，也收到了很多日常英语表达的请求。
大家在评论中告诉我想让我在2019年教大家的课程吧。
And while you're thinking about the year ahead, let's talk about your study habits because I think that we can improve a few things to make 2019 the year that your English leaps to the next level.
We'll set clear goals in this lesson, we'll optimise your study time and find out if it's your mindset that's been holding you back.
当大家在考虑新的一年的时候，让我们来讨论一下大家的学习习惯吧，因为我觉得我们可以在某些方面进行提升，让大家的英文水平在2019年有质的飞跃。
我们会在本节课程中制定清晰的目标，我们会充分利用你的学习时间，搞清楚是不是你的思维定式在阻止你的进步。
. . . . . . Today I'm going to share some English-learning hacks with you, ones that will help you to make huge progress in the new year.
今天我要分享一些英语学习的技巧，这些技巧能够帮助大家在新的一年取得巨大的进步。
但是在那之前，让我们花点时间回顾一下大家在今年取得的那些进步吧。
But before we do that, let's spend a few moments looking back at the progress that you've made this year. Try to be kind to yourself here.
尽量对自己好点。
大家今年能用英语做的事情，有什么是在2017年不能做的呢？
What's one thing that you've done in English this year that you couldn't do at the same time last year in 2017?
Perhaps you couldn't watch an English movie without subtitles or maybe you couldn't understand a whole lesson of mine.
也许你无法不看字幕看英文电影，也许你不能完全理解我的一整节课程。
也许你过去整整一年都在为语言学校存钱，现在你正计划在一月月底开始。
Perhaps you spent the entire year saving enough money to enroll in a language school and now you're planning to start at the end of January.
Perhaps you've spoken with an English native speaker and you've never done that before.
也许你和英语母语者进行交谈了，而且你之前都没有这么做过。
也许你的雅思分数从七分到了八分。
Maybe you took your IELTS from a seven to an eight. Just tell me one thing that you're proud of about your English.
What progress did you make throughout 2018?
告诉我你对自己的英语哪部分感到自豪呢。你在2018年取得了什么进步呢？
不管你的进步看起来多么地微不足道。现在把它给写下来吧。
It doesn't matter how tiny or insignificant it might seem. Write it down now.
You could also add something that's been quite difficult for you this year, something that you want to keep working on in 2019.
你还可以加上一些去年对你而言比较困难的部分，而你想在今年继续攻克。
如果我能帮上什么忙的话，请一定要让我知道哦。
And if it's something that I can help you with, then let me know.
Now my year has been full of ups and downs, highs and lows and I'm sure that yours has too.
而我的一年充满了各种跌宕起伏，我相信你们肯定也是的。
但是我对即将到来的一年感到非常激动，也希望你们对于来年感到积极乐观。对了，大家一定要订阅我的频道，这样大家就可以知道有什么新改变，以及我们要在2019做出什么新的尝试。
But I'm really excited about what's coming and I hope that you're feeling really positive about the year ahead.
Now make sure you have subscribed to my channel so that you can find out what's changing, what new things we'll be trying in 2019. Just click that red button down there.
点击下面的红色按钮就行。
我已经在油管社区的朋友们进行了一些交谈，讨论了要做什么改变，所以赶快来加入我们一起讨论吧！
I've already been having some conversations with my community here on YouTube to talk about what those things are so come and join us there!
Let's kick off the new year with five steps that you can take to improve your English and your study habits.
让我们用五步开启新的一年，而这五步能够帮助你提升英文，塑造更好的学习习惯。
第一个是：充分利用你的学习时间。
The first one is: maximise your learning time.
What does that even mean?
那是什么意思呢？
意思是要利用好你的时间。
It means make the most of the time that you have.
Take advantage of the time available in your week and get the most out of your study time.
要充分利用你一周中可以使用的时间，充分发挥学习时间的最大效用。
在学习一门语言的时候，我们花费的时间是不同的对吧。
We all have different amounts of time to spend on learning a language, right? We all have different priorities so when it comes to studying English, you need to focus on the time that you have available, what do you have available to you.
我们的轻重缓急不同，所以在学习英语的时候，你需要聚焦于你自己本身能够使用的时间。你拥有的真正的时间有多少。
The realistic amount of time that you have.
Don't go telling yourself that you're going to do twenty hours of study a week when you have a really demanding job and you've got young children to care for, it just won't happen.
当你本身工作强度就很大，还有孩子要照顾的时候，不要告诉自己你要每周学习二十个小时，这是不切实际的。你确凿的学英语的时间有多少呢？
What time do you actually have to study English?
Whatever that amount is, we need to maximise it, make the most of that time.
不管时间有多少，我们都要充分利用，发挥其最大效用。
所以呢，我非常非常推荐大家写下自己的学习计划。现在是不是听起来有点点严肃了呢？
So to do this, I highly, highly recommend writing your own study plan. Now that sounds serious, right? Well, it is!
是的呢！如果你今年没有完成你本来想取得的进步，或者你感觉对于自己应该学习什么有点点迷惑，很有可能你没有花足够的时间在这上面，或者是你学的东西不对，也可能是你的方式不是最有效的。
If you haven't been making the progress that you wanted to make with your English this year or maybe you're feeling a little lost about what you should be studying, chances are you're not spending enough time on it or you're not studying the right things or you're not doing it in the most effective way. You're not maximising the time that you have to study.
你没有充分利用你的学习时间。而一个学习计划能够助你一臂之力。
Now a study plan is going to help you with that.
It's going to help you practise the right stuff and make your practice more consistent.
它能够帮助你正确练习，让你的练习更加连贯。
这会变成一个习惯，变成你日常生活的一部分。
So it becomes a habit, make it part of your daily routine. Here's a super quick hint.
If you watch through until the end of this lesson, in the bonus section, I'll show you exactly how to create your own personalised study plan.
给大家提供一个小窍门。
如果你坚持到本节课程的结尾的话，在额外奖励部分，我会给大家展示如何定制自己的个人学习计划。
如果你每天只有三十分钟可以利用的话，也没关系的。
Now if the best that you can manage is thirty minutes of study each day, that's okay. In fact, that's great! It's really good!
其实已经很棒了！真的很好了！
但是要保证你非常认真地对待这三十分钟，而那在你的计划之中。这是计划好的学习时间。
But make sure that you commit to it and that it's in your schedule. It's scheduled study time.
But what about incidental study time? Extra time that you might have where you could study.
但是零碎的学习时间呢？那些你可以用来学习的额外时间。
比如说可能是在公交车上的时间。
Maybe passing time on a bus, for example. So what can you do?
你能做什么呢？你可以一直在你的脑海中进行练习。
You can practise in your head constantly.
If you haven't been training yourself to think in English this year, then 2019 is the year to do it.
如果你今年还没有训练自己用英语进行思考的话，那么2019年就要这么做啦。
如果你在观看这个视频，不看字幕的话也能够理解大部分内容的话，你的英语可能至少是中等水平，那也就意味着你拥有用英语表达自己的想法的词汇，你只需要在使用它们的时候更加自然娴熟。
Now if you're watching this video and you understand most of it without subtitles, your English level is probably at least intermediate level and that means you have the words and vocabulary to express your ideas in English, you just need to get more comfortable using them.
And while it's not always easy and practical to speak out loud, you are under pressure, you can regularly practise thinking in English.
尽管大声说出来并不总是很容易，有时候也并不实际，你可能感到亚历山大，但是你还是可以经常用英语进行练习思考。
你在任何时候都可以自己这么做。
And you can do this on your own, at any time. It doesn't matter.
没关系的。
我承认一整天都用另外一种语言进行思考需要下苦功，也需要坚定的决心。
Now I'll admit that thinking in another language all day takes a lot of hard work and determination. So start small, start with an hour then two.
所以呢，从小处着手，先从一个小时开始，然后加到两个小时。记住要休息一下下。
Make sure you take a break. I'm still learning to speak Spanish, so for me, this task is painful! It's slow, it's frustrating, it's really tiring.
我还是在学习西班牙语，所以对我而言，这个任务非常艰难！这非常缓慢，时而令人沮丧，也让人精疲力竭。
我每天结束的时候总是感觉我的脑袋爆炸了，我开始把英语和西班牙语混淆了起来，还有一些我在过去学的其他语言。
I always end up finishing the day feeling like my head has exploded and I start mixing up English and Spanish and then some other random languages I've learned in the past too.
By the end of the day, you'll feel like your brain has been fried.
在一天结束之时，你感觉你的大脑被油炸了一样。
起码我是这样的。
At least I do. But this is exactly how you need to feel.
但是你着实需要有这种感觉。
每天精疲力竭、满心困惑，感觉你已经达到了学习的极限意味着你做的超级好。
Exhaustion and confusion and feeling like you've reached your learning limit each day means that you've been doing an amazing job. Okay, so compare it to going to the gym.
好的，把这和去健身房进行一下比较吧。
连续六周每天都去健身房训练之后，你是不是会觉得非常健康呢？
Have you ever felt really fit after going to the gym every day for six weeks? You feel fantastic and you look great.
你感觉超级赞，看起来也超棒。
但是呢，然后你就去吃了一顿大餐。
But then you have a bit of blowout.
You go on holiday, maybe you stop working out because you've injured yourself, whatever.
你去度假了，可能停止继续锻炼，因为你伤到了自己，不管什么原因吧。
你长了几磅，想到要重回健身房训练，突然之间就感到非常可怕。
You put on a few pounds and the thought of going back to the gym is suddenly terrifying. You know that it's going to hurt, right?
你知道肯定很痛苦，对吧？
因为你很久没有每天都锻炼了，已经过去了一段时间，其实学英语也是一样的道理。而这就关系到我们刚刚讨论的一点，那就是持之以恒。
Because you haven't been practising every day, it's 
been a while and this is exactly the same when you're learning English.
So that brings me back to my earlier point about consistency. Creating a routine to make sure that you spend regular times practising English.
创造一种生活习惯，保证你每天都有规律地进行英语练习。
其实你有多少时间没那么重要，重要的是你在学习的时候有多么的持之以恒。
It matters less how much time you have and it matters more how consistent you are when you study.
And although it takes a lot of work and self-motivation to start thinking throughout the day in English, pretty soon it's going to feel like a habit.
尽管这需要非常努力，也需要有很强的动机来开始一整天都用英文进行思考，过了一段时间之后你就会感觉已经形成习惯啦。
这会变得自然且持续起来。
It's going to happen naturally and constantly. My students are always thrilled when they start dreaming in English.
Have you had this yet?
当我的学生开始用英语做梦的时候，他们总是感到超级激动。
你用英语做过梦吗？说到这
，我们的清单上还有一项。
Speaking of which, here is another item on our list. Get a good night's sleep.
好好地睡一觉。如果你每天晚上上床睡觉的时候脑子里面感觉一团浆糊，因为你一整天都在练习英语，那么睡个好觉就十分重要了。这能帮助你的大脑更加有效地工作。
If you're going to bed every night with your brain feeling like mush because you've been practising English all day, then getting a good night's sleep is so important. It helps your brain to work effectively. Now this sounds kind of basic, right?
这听起来很简单，是吧？但是道理很简单。一晚良好的睡眠能够提升你的专注力，能够让你进行更加清晰的思考。
But it's simple. A good night's sleep will improve your concentration and your ability to think clearly.
In fact, eating a clean, healthy diet is also going to help.
事实上，吃一顿简单健康的饭也有所帮助。
如果因为你整晚都在喝酒跳舞，所以早晨醒来的时候感觉到很难受的话，你很有可能不会起床练习英语，对吧？
If you wake up feeling 
hungover because you've been out drinking and dancing all night, you're probably not going to be leaping out of bed to practise English, right?
New Year's Eve is an exception though, you can take me as day off to celebrate.
当然了，新年之夜是个例外，你可以放一天假庆祝一下。
但是说实话，你的睡眠真的规律且良好吗？
But can you honestly say that you regularly get a good night's sleep?
If you don't get enough sleep then your brain feels kind of fuzzy, right?
如果你没有得到充足的睡眠的话，你的大脑就会感觉稀里糊涂的，是吧？
思考问题和专注精神会非常困难。
You have a hard time thinking about problems and concentrating.
Not to mention, you just look like a zombie.
更不用说，你看起来就像个僵尸一样。
除此之外，为什么睡眠这么重要，还有一个更加严肃的原因。
Plus, there's another more serious reason why sleep is important.
Memory consolidation happens while you're sleeping.
记忆巩固发生在睡眠时期。是的。
Yeah. What does that mean? While we're awake, we acquire memories or we make new memories.
那是什么意思呢？当我们醒着的时候，我们获取记忆，或者是创造新的记忆。
我们会学习新的东西，看到新的东西。
We learn things, we see things, we study things. Sometimes we'll forget those things in an instant and others will become cemented in our mind permanently.
有时我们会立刻忘记这些东西，而另一些则会永久地保存在我们的记忆当中。
据说那个过程发生在我们的睡觉的时候。
Now it's believed that that process happens while we're sleeping.
So memories - the things that we learn, become stabilized or more permanent in our brain so that we can access and use that information in the future sometime.
所以呢，记忆——我们学到的那些东西，在我们大脑当中稳定化或者永久化，这样我们就可以在未来的某个时刻获取并且使用那些信息。
你每天学习的所有英文新单词和语法会在你睡觉的时候在大脑中进行巩固。
So all the new words and the grammar that you've been learning in English every day, it gets stabilised in your brain, while you're sleeping.
So if you don't get a good night's sleep, there's a good chance that you won't remember all of the new things that you've learned throughout the day.
如果你晚上没睡好的话，很有可能你记不住那天学习的所有新东西。
所以呢，这里的重点就是不要浪费你的辛勤劳动，是吧？一定要尽量地把睡个好觉当成重中之重。
So my main point here is don't let your hard work and your study go to waste, right?
Make it a priority to get a good night's sleep as often as you can. Another thing I want you to focus on in 2019 is asking for help.
我希望大家在2019年关注的一件事情就是寻求帮助。
我知道，在用英语进行交流的时候犯错误，这可能有点尴尬，有点让人感觉不太舒服，对吧？
Now I get it, it can be awkward, embarrassing, uncomfortable to make a mistake while you're trying to communicate in English, right?
It's hard to admit that you need help.
承认你需要帮助其实还挺困难的。
我希望我不需要在学习西班牙语的时候寻求帮助，我自然而然地就知道，但是我并没有。
I wish that I didn't have to ask for help with Spanish and that I just knew it. But I don't. But you know what?
Getting help from someone at the moment that you are in the middle of a conversation having trouble is the perfect time to ask.
但是你知道吗？当在谈话的时候遇到困难去向别人寻求帮助是最完美的询问别人的时间。
大多数人都很乐意帮助你提升英语。
Most people are happy to help you improve your English. If you're in an English-speaking country and you aren't really sure about something that's on the menu or what something's called in a shop, then ask.
如果你在说英语的国家的话，而你不是很确定菜单上或者是超市里的某个东西到底是什么的话，那就开口问吧。
把这加入到你2019年的计划之中。
Make this part of your plan in 2019. Ask for help.
Now part of the problem and what maybe you feel nervous about is actually knowing the phrases that you need to ask for help.
寻求帮助。你可能感到紧张的部分问题在于了解你需要寻求帮助的短语。
其实呢，我有一节课程是关于用英文寻求帮助的，就在这里。
In fact, I made a lesson about asking for help in English, right here.
But really what you need to do is just learn a handful of phrases like. . . or. . . . practise these questions so that they come out naturally.
但是你真正需要做的事情是学习一些短语，比如说这些，或者是练习这些问题，这样它们就可以自然而然地从你嘴里出来啦。
大多数人都很乐意帮助你，如果他们不愿意的话，那就继续下去吧。
Most people are going to be happy to help you out and if they're not, then move along.
You don't need that in your life, put it behind you and keep going, keep focused on your goal.
你的人生中并不需要它，那就把它抛在脑后，继续前进，继续关注于你的目标。
不幸的是，我们周围总是会有一些愤愤不平的人。
There are grouchy people all around us, unfortunately. There are grouchy people right here writing comments under my lessons on YouTube.
这里就有一些喜欢发牢骚的人，在我油管的课程下面写评论。
我会让他们阻止我每周出现在这里教大家英文吗？并不会。
Do I let it stop me from showing up here every week to teach you?
Not at all. They're not going to stop me!
他们并不能够阻止我！他们不会挡住我的路。
They ain't getting in my way.
Now after you've learned all of these new words and expressions, the next thing you need to do is use what you've learnt.
那既然你已经学习了所有的这些新单词和表达，你需要做的下一件事情就是使用你学到的这些单词。
充分利用你的学习时间，一直用英语进行思考，睡个好觉，还有向其他人寻求帮助，这都是让你的英语不断提升的绝佳方式，但是最重要的是吸收消化你学到的知识，并且真正为我所用。
Maximising your study time, thinking constantly in English, getting a good night's sleep and asking other people for help, these are all really great ways to improve and advance your English but most importantly of all is taking what you've learned and actually using it yourself.
Passive learning, memorising, all of these things could be great ways to learn new vocabulary. You can do this by reading books and watching movies.
被动学习和记忆在学习新单词的时候是非常棒的方式。你可以读读书啊，看看电影啊进行学习。
用英语进行思考是自我练习流畅度的重要方式，但是记忆和自我思考能帮你的也就这么多了。
Thinking in English is a great way to practise fluency on your own but memorising and thinking for yourself can only take you so far.
What we really, really want to do in 2019 is find a way to help you practise and make that practice part of your routine.
我们在2019年真正想做的事情是寻找一种方式，帮助大家练习，并且让练习成为你日常生活的一部分。
如果你并不是生活在说英语的国家，你身边也没有很多人可以帮你练习的话，别担心。
If you're not living in an English-speaking country and you don't have many people around you that you can practise with, don't worry.
There are still so many different ways that you can practise using your English on a daily basis.
你还可以通过很多不同的方式每天使用英语。
你可以寻找一个线上的社群，在这个社群里非母语者互相练习。
So you can look for an online community where non-native speakers practise with each other.
Remember what I said in an earlier lesson? This one about finding the right group and the right speaking partner and how important that is?
还记得我在早先的课程中怎么说的吗？
关于寻找正确的群体和正确的语伴是多么重要的那一节。
我之前也提到了“女士项目”，是一个女性线上互相社群，我运营这个社群是为了帮助女性提升英语技能，而网上其实有很多相似的社群。
大多数城市都有每周的碰面。
I've also mentioned The Ladies' Project before which is an online membership community for women which I run to help women develop their English speaking skills together and there are so many groups like this online.
Most cities have weekly meet-ups.
Maybe at the local cafe where people meet to practise their English skills. Even if you're in a non-English speaking country, there are still others around you who are trying to learn English.
可能就在当地的咖啡厅里，大家碰面练习英语技巧。即使你并不是生活在一个说英语的国家，你身边肯定有其他人也在努力学习英语。
找到他们只需要快速地谷歌一下即可。
So finding them just takes a quick Google search. You might want to hire a tutor either online or in-person to practise your speaking skills and pronunciation with.
你可能想要找一个线上或者是线下的导师，陪伴你共同练习口语技巧。我最喜欢的方式，也是操作起来非常简单的一个方式就是写日记，用英语记录你每天所做的事情。
One of my favourites that's so easy to do is to write a journal, keep track of everything that you did during your day in English. So practise writing sentences using the new words that you've come across throughout the day.
用你当天碰到的新单词练习造句。
如果你有规律、习惯性地进行练习的话，你会发现你的语言进步非常神速。一定要把这件事优先来做。
You'll see so much progress in your language if you practise regularly, habitually. Make it a priority.
Now I know that out of all of these steps that I've shared today, this one is probably the most challenging.
It requires the most thought and energy. It might be difficult to imagine how this will happen but don't let it stop you.
我知道除了我今天分享了这些方法之外，这个是最具有挑战性的。
它需要最多的思考和能量。
可能很难去想象这该怎么办，但是不要让它阻挡你的步伐。这就是新年嘛，对吧？
This is what a new year is all about, right?
Setting new goals for yourself, pushing yourself a little further outside of your comfort zone.
为你自己设立新的目标，督促自己走出舒适区。
我感觉2019年对我们而言将是超级赞的一年，我也希望在接下来的12个月里我能在这里陪伴大家，教给大家新的课程，和大家分享新的发音技巧。
I've got a feeling that 2019 is going to be an excellent year for us and I hope that I can be here with you throughout the next twelve months teaching new lessons and sharing new pronunciation tips with you.
If you're looking to make progress with your English and maximise your study time this year then, these areas that I mentioned during this lesson are a great place to start.
如果你想要在今年提升英语能力，充分利用学习时间的话，我在本节课程中提到的这些方面都是良好的开端。
如果你自己还有什么其他的小窍门想和大家分享的话，那就写在评论处吧。
And if you have any other tips and tricks of your own that you'd like to share with everyone watching then please add them in the comments below.
If you're keen to get some new ideas about how to take your English to the next level, then make sure you check out that lesson right there.
如果你非常迫切地想要了解更多关于如何让自己的英语更上一层楼的点子的话，记得一定要看看这边的课程哦。
如果你再坚持几分钟的话，我会分享一些妙招，帮助大家设计一个2019年英语提升终极计划。
And if you stick around now for a few more minutes, I'll share my tips to help you create a killer study plan to improve your English in 2019. Let's do it!
