跟读练习: 7 Smart Ways to Think in English - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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If you can think in English and stop translating,
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If you can think in English and stop translating,
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then you can answer questions more fluently and participate in conversations more easily.
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Let's find out how to do it.
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Hi, this is Keith.
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I run the website, The Keith Speaking Academy and the YouTube channel here, English Speaking Success.
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By the way, if you want to build up your fluency,
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check out my fluency course on Udemy.
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It'll help you naturally use your grammar,
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improve your pronunciation, and help really build your fluency
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so you can move from being a struggling English student to a successful English speaker.
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Now then, talking about thinking in English.
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It's a challenge for some students, right?
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And I think this is because in many schools across the world,
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students are taught with what we call the grammar translation method, right?
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We're taught to translate.
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When I learned Chinese, right?
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The teacher would say, okay,
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Keith, to say hello in Chinese,
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you say, great, to say, how are you?
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You can say, and to say,
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and so on and so on.
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So it seems natural, right?
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And logical at a beginner level,
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you're translating to learn the language.
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However, the problem is this becomes a habit that is very,
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very hard to break as you move up the levels.
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But it's essential that you break this habit because otherwise you're not gonna build up the fluency you need, right?
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When you can start thinking in English,
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then you can really answer questions more easily.
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And in IELTS speaking, that's really important, right?
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So in this video, I'm gonna show you seven smart ways that you can start thinking in English.
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Let's begin.
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So I would say the first step to thinking in English is to surround yourself with English.
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Now that does not mean you have to go and live or visit an English speaking country.
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Although it's great if you can, you don't have to.
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No, you can do this in your own home by giving yourself even just 10 minutes a day of English.
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And you can build up to 20 minutes,
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30 minutes a day, build up slowly.
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And it's important to see this English time as fun and enjoyable,
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not study time, right?
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So I'm talking about things like listening to podcasts,
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listening to the internet radio,
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listening to songs, reading some books,
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novels, magazines, blogs, things that you like,
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maybe watching TV series or films in English, right?
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But having this moment when you are surrounded in English.
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And during this moment, there are three things you can do, right?
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First of all, you can listen passively, that's fine.
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Secondly, you can repeat words that you hear or see.
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Third, you can repeat phrases that you hear or see.
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Now, listening passively is great because when you listen passively,
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you're reducing the stress and the pressure.
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And we know from research,
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this can help us learn more deeply.
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Repeating words and phrases is also fantastic because then you're starting to activate the vocabulary,
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which means you can start to use it more fluently.
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So by, I wouldn't say creating an English environment because that sounds very big, right?
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And very difficult.
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It's very hard to have an English environment in your home.
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I prefer to call it English moments.
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By creating these English moments,
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maybe 10 minutes or 20 minutes,
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then what you're doing is you're enabling yourself to start thinking in English because you're surrounded in English for that moment.
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Great, let's move on to number two.
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Okay, the next one is to only use words that you already know.
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So when speaking in English,
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sometimes students want to express an idea,
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but they lack the vocabulary.
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So they go to a dictionary and they look up the word or they ask somebody the translation, right?
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¿Cómo se dice climatizar en inglés?
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Ah, gracias, right?
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And so you're getting a translation.
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Now that's great for building your vocabulary,
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yes, but it is not good for your fluency, right?
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A great way to improve your fluency
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and to start thinking in English is to only use the words you already know when you're speaking.
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Now I know what you're thinking.
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You're thinking, hang on Keith, come on.
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That's too simple.
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I'm just gonna be speaking simple English.
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Yes, and that is the beauty of it.
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It's simple.
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And you can focus 100% on fluency because you're not translating.
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And so you're starting to think in English.
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Now, if you come across an idea you want to express,
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but you lack the vocabulary when speaking,
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there are two things you can do.
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Not two, two things you can do.
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Number one, you can either try and find a way round it to say it in another way,
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paraphrase it, essential for IELTS speaking, right?
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Or number two, ding, is that you can let the idea go.
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The idea go.
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Say something else.
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Stay with the words that you know.
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Trust me, I've done this with Spanish.
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I've even dreamt, not only thought in Chinese,
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but I've dreamt in Chinese.
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This is a game changer, right?
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Try this one out.
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It seems strange, but try it.
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I think you'll like it.
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Let's move on.
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Right, the next one is to start small and build up.
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So it's probably very hard to try and think in English the whole day long, right?
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Not easy at all.
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So don't think big, start small.
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Just start even thinking single words in English, right?
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And remember to always use words that you already know, right?
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So a common technique is to look at a picture.
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And as you look at the picture,
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you think of the things that you see.
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Try this.
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Have a look at this picture and just don't speak.
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Just think one word of the different things you can see.
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Try this.
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Great.
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Now, you probably all thought different things, right?
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I was thinking yoga, plants, t-shirt, lights, mat, right?
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Those are the things that I thought of.
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This is a great and simple activity, right?
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You can do this anywhere.
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You can just do it for a few minutes when you're waiting in line,
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if you're queuing in the bank or commuting on a train.
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You can use a picture,
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but probably more natural is just to look around you and describe the things that you see in your head, right?
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So, you know, you're queuing in the bank and you look around and you go,
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bank, queue, security guard, gun,
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lights, camera, noisy, and so on,
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just going on in your head, right?
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Very, very simple.
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Remember, with words that you already know,
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the secret is to do this as a daily habit right even just for a minute
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but to do it every day
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and it's starting small right atomic habits have you read
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that james clear come on if you haven't read it go
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and check it out atomic habits
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so you build up this small habit every day right that's the first thing
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and the second thing is to start small and build up
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so in my previous example we started with individual words right
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but then you can move up to collocations right two words
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or three words chunks or phrases so
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when we look at the the yoga situation right whether it's a picture
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or your yoga class you might say yoga mat blue t-shirt bright lights indoor plants right thinking Not saying,
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but you're thinking these.
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And then you can build up and you can start making phrases.
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Oh, there's a yoga mat.
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She's wearing a blue t-shirt.
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Those indoor plants are nice.
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Right, have a go.
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Here's the picture again.
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Either try collocations or short phrases.
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Have a go.
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Right, nice.
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So you can see you're starting small and building up with this daily habit, thinking in English.
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Lovely.
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Next.
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Right, next up is talk to yourself.
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So in the last activity,
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right, start small and build up,
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we were focusing on just thinking,
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right, those words and phrases in your head.
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Now we're going to extend that to actually talking to yourself,
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saying the words out loud.
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Again, the goal is not to build vocabulary, right?
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The goal is to work on fluency.
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The reason for this is I turned to the Russian psychologist and educator Lev Vygotsky, right?
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And he said that the inner voice,
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your thinking, comes from the internalization of your outer voice.
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the speaking, right?
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If you think about it,
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right, that inner voice in your head,
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it's the same voice as when you speak.
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The only difference is your muscles,
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you're not using these muscles.
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So this cycle of thinking,
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speaking, thinking, speaking, through practice,
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we can reinforce it and help us to think more in English.
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Now we're not here engaging with other people, right?
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It's just talking to yourself, right?
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So maybe as you're walking down the street,
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you go, oh, silly hat.
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That's a silly hat.
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What a lovely day.
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I love the sun.
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Oh, I'm getting hungry.
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Right?
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You're saying little snippets, little phrases to yourself and reinforcing that thought in English.
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Okay.
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Some simple activities you can do here are maybe,
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and you may want to do these at home you're not comfortable speaking out loud in the street.
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I mean, to be honest,
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nowadays, lots of people talk to themselves in the street, right?
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Potatoes, carrots, peas.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, I think I've got everything, Julie.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I'll be back home shortly.
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All right, darling.
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Cheers.
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Bye-bye.
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Or so we think.
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I mean, sometimes they're speaking on the phone.
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But if you're not comfortable talking to yourself outdoors,
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just do these at home.
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So for example, in the morning,
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you could talk about your routine for the day or your plan for the day.
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Oh, today I'm going to go shopping.
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I've got to pick up some vegetables, right?
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You can describe an activity you're doing, right?
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For example, I'm cooking, so I need two eggs.
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I need a bit more flour, more salt, I think.
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Or you can just review what you've done today, right?
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So today was a good day.
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In the morning, I did this and that,
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and ooh, that was a good idea.
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And so you can do simple things where you're actually just talking to yourself and reinforcing this thinking as well.
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Right, let's move on.
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Next is to write in English.
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So when it comes to thinking in English,
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I think the active skill of writing
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compliments the active skill of speaking in helping you create this English environment
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or what I called English moments throughout your day that will help you think in English.
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Now, of course, the way that we speak and write are very different, right?
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And I do not, do not encourage you to speak the way you write.
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They are two separate forms of communication.
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However, there is some research that suggests that writing and speaking are connected and actually influence each other.
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So I think by writing things in English,
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we can also help start thinking in English.
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Remember, only use the words that you know and start small and build up as before.
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Some simple activities could be, right?
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Writing your shopping list in English.
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Leaving a message to the family,
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pick up John at six o'clock, right?
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Or putting a post-it, a post-it?
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No, a post-it on your computer.
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Remember to email Udemy.
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And you can build up, right?
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Maybe then you write a diary in English or a blog post or a complete blog in English, right?
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But all of these are creating moments of English that are gonna help you start thinking in English.
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Let's move on.
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Now, listen, we have an expression in English,
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which is the proof is in the pudding,
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which means you can say the pudding or the dessert is delicious,
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but only when you taste it,
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do you know if it's delicious?
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The proof is in the pudding, right?
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So only when you do something,
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can you know if it works?
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So, so far, we've been looking at thinking in English to yourself,
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talking to yourself, writing notes to yourself.
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It's all about you, right?
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Next is to practise with others,
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because you need to be able to think in English when you're communicating with other people as well.
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So I think it's really important to practise speaking with others.
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And as you're doing that,
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to practise this thinking in English as you're doing it, right?
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In fact, the more you engage in conversations in English with your teacher,
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friends, students, colleagues, the more you're gonna have the chance to practise thinking in English as well.
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And when you're practising, Have some conversations where you just focus on thinking in English, right?
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Keep it simple, use the words that you know, simple conversations.
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You may want to tell the other person you're actually practising thinking in English
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so that they've got patience with you and have specific conversations just focusing on that.
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Try it out and see.
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Let's move on.
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My next and final tip is to be monolingual.
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Monolingual, let me explain.
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So one of the biggest game changers for me
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when I was learning French in particular was to move from using a bilingual dictionary,
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so French, English, to using a monolingual dictionary, French, French.
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So when I went to look up a word in French,
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it didn't translate to English.
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It gave me a definition in French.
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Mind-blowing, game changer, absolutely brilliant.
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This was a critical step because it forced me to start thinking in French.
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Yes, it was more difficult.
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Yes, it took more time.
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It was an effort, but really the change over several months was huge.
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Now, another expression we have in English is There's no such thing as a free lunch, right?
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Meaning that really you have to pay to get some benefit, right?
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So like using the monolingual dictionary,
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it's hard, it takes effort,
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but by paying, using that time and effort,
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you get the benefit and you get big, big rewards.
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So you won't make the change or transformation from thinking in your native tongue to thinking in English overnight, right?
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It just won't happen overnight.
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It takes time, it takes effort,
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and, but the rewards are huge.
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And I think the monolingual dictionary is a great one to do.
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All of the steps above,
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I think can be really, really useful.
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Try them out and let me know in the comments down below which ones work for you,
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or any other tips that you may have.
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Do remember, check out my fluency course if you want to improve your fluency
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and help you thinking more and more in English.
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In the meantime, turn on the subscriber button.
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turn on the notification button.
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And I look forward to seeing you very, very soon next time.
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Take care, my friend.
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Bye-bye.
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在视频中，Keith提到了一些关键性语法结构和表达方式，以下是几个例子：
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- 被动语态的应用：在谈到“被包围在英语中”的时候，他用到了被动结构，强调环境对学习的影响。
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常见发音陷阱
在视频中，Keith的发音清晰而流利，然而对于学习者来说，有些词汇可能会成为发音上的挑战。例如：
- "fluent"（流利）：注意“fl”的音节，许多非母语者常常将其发音不清。
- "translate"（翻译）：发音时的重音位置要准确，否则会让听者感到困惑。
- "participate"（参与）：注意尾音的清晰度，这是常见受教育层次不同的学生容易忽略的细节。
通过“shadow speak”方法重复这些句子，学习者可以克服这些发音陷阱，提升说话的流利度和准确性。不断练习这些内容，也可以帮助他们更自然地使用语言，从而更自信地进行交流。
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