跟读练习: How to Remember Everything You Read - 通过视频学习英语口语

Here's the scenario.

You have a book in front of you.

It doesn't matter whether it's interesting or not.

It's full of important facts and arguments.

And you want to remember those.

You close the book.

And in 15 minutes you completely forgot everything you just read.

Annoying, isn't it?

If you want to solve this problem once and for all, there's just one thing you have to do.

Alison Preston says, nothing happens in isolation.

When you are learning something new, you bring to mind all of the things you know that are related to that information.

In doing so, you embed the new information into your existing knowledge.

So, have you ever heard about the 6 Thinking Hats method?

This approach was created by someone called Edward de Bono, who invented this method to have a tool for critical thinking.

So each colored hat represents a way of thinking, a mindset that you can use to analyze a question, a problem, or a specific part of the text.

With the blue hat, you focus on controlling your thinking and managing the decision-making process.

So you do things like asking for summaries, asking for an agenda and trying to reach a conclusion.

The green hat represents creative thinking.

When you're wearing this hat, you try to explore a wide range of ideas and different solutions to the same problem.

The red hat represents emotions, so when you're engaging this type of thinking,

you try to express your feelings regarding the problem without having to justify those feelings and those problems logically.

With a yellow hat, you look at issues with the most positive light possible.

You try to underline the benefits and the good things about the specific question

and any kind of added value that could come from your ideas.

When you're wearing the black hat, you try to be cautious and you try to assess your risks by using critical judgment

and explaining exactly why you have concerns.

With the white hat, you want to do some information gathering.

So you're thinking about the knowledge and the insights that you've already collected, but the information you're missing as well and how you can get to it.

The six thinking hats technique is a great manifestation of that one thing, that one principle I was talking about,

and that is getting more involved with your reading materials.

However, being involved in your reading process is more of a shift in mindset than the employment of a specific reading technique.

Your brain is wired to connect your emotions to your memories.

Basically, it connects your personal interpretation to the facts you're actually reading.

So when you establish an emotional or intellectual connection, you have a better chance of retrieving those memories in the first place.

That's why things like class discussion, writing papers, mind mapping the structure of a book

or teaching a chapter to a friend are things

that maximize your chances of remembering the content of the things you're reading for a long time.

It's not simply because you're reading those passages from the book for a longer period of time.

You're getting involved, you're creating your own critical thinking as you're reading the book, you're creating your notes, you are marking some of the pages,

you're creating this kind of brain to emotions connection with the book.

Let's look at a basic example.

This is my version of Atomic Habits.

This is a book I've read twice already

and the second time I read it everything stuck to me

and that's because I spent enough time making sure I was asking the right questions as I was reading the book.

So I was taking care to only highlight the sentences that stuck out to me, marking pages from the best passages of the book,

rewriting some of the sentences on the margin, posing questions, writing down my own conclusions and thoughts on the margin as well.

And if you think that this whole process takes a long time, think twice.

You know, quality is way more important than quantity, so reading a book like this one time may be better than skimming through the book three or four times.

And another great way to get involved with the content of a book is using the so-called mental models, and there are so many of them,

but I want to underline the importance of three different mental models.

You have confirmation bias, availability bias, and utilities as the most common and useful ones.

However, getting involved with a book is important of course, but repetition is also important.

But what we're looking for is active repetition and not passive repetition.

As your brain revisits the same subject, it's easier to form connections, and that's because when you're introduced to a new topic everything is new

so your brain has to work a lot to grasp the full amount of information you're being presented to

and then make the required connections between all new concepts and topics

so try to read your material twice

and use the same kind of critical thinking and active reading techniques

that we've discussed earlier the second time you're reading the book

you've already read it for the first time you've already highlighted some passages

and written your thoughts in the margin

so you can anticipate a little bit of what's coming next

and that means you can look at information next with a brand new perspective

so as you're doing your second reading you're trying to look

through the clues trying to understand new meanings about the same

passage of the book instead of just skimming through the information again and accepting whatever you're reading.

And you know who actually did this and tried to get involved with dozens and dozens of books?

The guys at Shortform who are kindly sponsoring today's video.

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Instead of just summarizing the books, Shortform actually goes beyond that, adding interactive exercises to help you apply the ideas you've just learned, as well as smart insights,

connecting ideas from different books and different items, allowing you to connect the dots and understanding everything at a deeper level.

Sometimes I find it really hard to find time to read all the books I want to read, and while I love to cozy up with a good novel,

I find it's hard to split my reading time between novels while also reading every self-help book available.

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When I read a guide in short form for a book I think I'll really enjoy, I then purchase a physical copy for a deeper analysis.

This was how I got introduced to Getting Things Done by David Allen very recently.

That way, I already know it's going to be good and I look forward to the full experience.

However, I can always go back to short form to at least remember the key points,

especially when I'm trying to revisit productivity concepts from a bunch of different titles and want to know how these concepts interact.

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为什么读完书就忘？关键原因在这里

你是否有过这样的经历：读完一本满是重要内容的书，合上书15分钟后就几乎全忘了？视频中提到，这是因为我们的大脑需要将新信息与已有知识建立连接，才能真正记住。而建立连接的核心，就是主动参与阅读过程，而非被动接收。

提升记忆的实用技巧：六顶思考帽

视频中介绍了爱德华·德·博诺提出的“六顶思考帽”方法，能帮你在阅读时更深入思考。每顶帽子代表一种思维方式：

蓝帽：掌控思考过程，比如总结内容、制定阅读议程、得出结论。
绿帽：激发创造力，探索不同想法和解决方案。
红帽：表达情绪，无需逻辑证明自己的感受。
黄帽：积极思考，关注内容的好处和价值。
黑帽：谨慎判断，评估风险和潜在问题。
白帽：收集信息，梳理已知和未知内容。

这些方法不仅适用于阅读，也能锻炼批判性思维，对雅思口语练习很有帮助——当你需要针对某个话题展开论述时，用不同“帽子”的视角分析，能让表达更全面。

用Shadowing法强化记忆与口语

除了主动思考，视频还暗示了“影子跟读法”（shadow speech）的有效性。这种方法通过模仿音频内容，同步跟读，能提升听力和口语的反应速度。对于阅读后的记忆强化，你可以尝试用影子跟读法复述书中的关键内容：先播放自己录制的阅读音频，然后立即跟读，同时加入自己的思考（比如用六顶思考帽的视角点评）。这样既锻炼了口语，又通过多感官参与加深了记忆。

想要找到合适的shadowing site？其实无需复杂工具，用手机录制阅读片段，反复跟读即可。记住，关键是“质量重于数量”——认真读完一本书并通过思考和跟读内化，比快速浏览多遍更有效。

现在就拿起一本书，试试这些方法吧！主动思考+影子跟读，让你既能记住内容，又能提升英语能力。

视频中的语法

说话人最常用的结构，并附上视频中的原话：

结构	视频中的用法
现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事	you've already collected · I've read · we've discussed
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的	are related · was created · being involved

什么是跟读法？

跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。

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