跟读练习: How to Speak English Without Thinking in Your Native Language First - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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Today I'll show you how to speak English fluently without thinking in your native language first.
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Today I'll show you how to speak English fluently without thinking in your native language first.
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Now as a native English speaker,
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I interact with people who don't speak English as a first language literally every single day.
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And I find it very noticeable when I can see them thinking in their native language,
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translating what they're trying to say into English, and then speaking.
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And it it sounds completely unnatural.
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And unfortunately, this is a very common mistake among English learners at the beginner and intermediate levels of English.
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And this bad habit is actually what leads to you speaking very broken English.
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But the good news is that this bad habit can be eliminated and changed,
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and I will show you how.
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Now, first of all, in order to kill this bad habit,
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you need to understand profoundly why it's happening.
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And more importantly, why this bad habit is totally killing your fluency.
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Now, when you translate words in your head from your native language to the English language and vice versa,
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it's creating an extra processing step,
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which will just make you sound completely unnatural when you're communicating.
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By the time you've translated what you were trying to say,
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the momentum of the conversation has already moved on.
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When you do this and exercise this bad habit,
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it sounds like you're speaking in your native language,
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but just substituting the words with English words.
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And of course, this does not work.
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So of course, to get rid of this bad habits,
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we're going to need to eliminate the middle part,
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which is translating from your native language back to the English language.
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Which leads to my second point,
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which is how fluent English speakers who don't speak English as a first language actually think in English.
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Simply put, fluent English speakers do not translate.
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They associate concepts to words,
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phrases, and expressions in the English language.
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The best way to do this is through visualization,
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which essentially just means associating imagery with words in English instead of translating them back into your native language.
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You want to associate the image of this microphone with the word microphone.
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You don't want to translate the word microphone back into your native language.
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When it comes to expressions,
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you want to reference an expression that you've either used yourself
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or that you've heard yourself in a real situation or a real experience that you went through in real life.
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By referencing tangible experiences and referencing imagery,
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instead of translating words back into your native language,
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you are going to develop the English side of your brain
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and you're going to begin to progressively think more in English as a fluent English speaker.
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Fluent English speakers just have a direct link to English or the English side of their brain,
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or you could call it their other personality or their alter ego in English.
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And keep in mind, this is not some sort of talent that people are born with.
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This is a intentionally trained habit.
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This is a trained reflex,
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and it's trained through good habits,
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which comes through repetition, which leads to my third point,
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which is the rewiring method.
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Using visualization, as I described earlier,
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is one of the different ways you can apply the rewiring method to actually directly link imagery
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or tangible experiences with English words or English expressions.
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What this does
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or what any sort of rewiring method does is it builds neural associations in your head with other things
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that you've really experienced, which you are much more likely to remember.
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If you're consuming English media and there's just this one word or this one expression that you really just can't understand,
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look up the definition of it in English.
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Do not look up the definition of it or the translation of it to your native language.
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Look up the definition specifically in the English language.
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If your brain really isn't used to doing this yet,
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you can start small just by thinking about the things that you're doing physically or the things that you are seeing physically.
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Now, applying different rewiring methods actually work best
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when there is english immersion now to immerse yourself in english
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you don't necessarily need to be in an english-speaking region like new york city in america
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or london in england immersing yourself in english could be as
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simple as just putting your entire phone settings into the English language
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or just by labeling everything around you in your head one time per day in English.
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And this leads to my fourth point,
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which are daily exercises or daily things you can actually do to start training your brain
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and getting into the good habits of thinking in English.
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A very easy way to do this is just by narrating your day.
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Just narrate the different actions you take.
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Typically, this works best when you do it aloud because you're actually practicing your pronunciation skills.
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But even if you just do this in your head,
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you're still going to help train your brain to think more and react more in English.
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Also, if you are really,
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really uncomfortable with not translating things back into your head,
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try to actually label every single object
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that you can see on a daily basis in your apartment or your house or the place that you're living.
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By being able to associate everything around you just with English words
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and being able to mentally label them in your head is
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really going to help you immerse yourself a bit more in English.
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As you start to get more in the habit of thinking or reacting first in English,
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then try to just have it be a reflex to react
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to everything in English first before reacting to it in your native language.
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So for example, if you stub your toe,
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you can say ouch in English instead of what you may have said in your native language.
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Or if it's as simple as saying that something is good,
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you can say this is good in English instead of saying this is good in your native language.
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This is going to be a lot easier for those of you who already blend your language with English.
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I know a lot of French people do this.
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I know even some Spanish speakers do it too.
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However, this might be a little bit more difficult if your language is very foreign,
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such as Mandarin Chinese or Japanese, for example.
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However, the principle remains the same.
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With everything that you know how to say in English,
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get in the habit of reacting or communicating in English first,
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and then your native language second, if at all.
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This level of immersion is really what's going to create this new habit in your head,
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and you really need to try to do this with every small opportunity you get,
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as it will make a difference over time.
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And this leads to the final point,
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which comes down to responding faster in conversations.
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Now, it's usually the pressure of spontaneous,
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fast, real-life conversations in English that expose your bad habit of translating English back into your native language.
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Now, when this happens, instead of having the reflex to translate,
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just try to find some filler words or some filler phrases
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that buy you a bit of time to think about your answer and collect your thoughts before expressing yourself.
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This could be as simple as saying,
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hmm, let me think about it,
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or hmm, that's a good point.
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Let me think about it.
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Also, it's completely normal to just say,
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I'm sorry, could you say that again?
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Or I'm sorry, could you repeat that?
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Even me as a native English speaker asked people to repeat things when I didn't clearly hear them.
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And I'm a native speaker.
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So it's completely normal to do this too.
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If you want to buy yourself extra time to process what they are saying.
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And then of course, you can practice impromptu speaking by yourself as well.
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Simply just by asking yourself open-ended questions and then practicing expressing your thoughts as
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if you were talking to a real human being.
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Just by getting repetitions of doing this,
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it's going to help you become a better communicator.
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But more importantly, it's really going to train your brain to start thinking in English first before going back to
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that bad habit of translating words in your head.
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So you're definitely going to see results at least every single month
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if you can do these small habits every single day consistently.
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and you will ultimately be able to speak English fluently without thinking in your native language first.
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Now, if you got any value from this video at all,
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be sure to like it.
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It helps us more than you know
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and leave a comment down below telling me where in the world you're from and what your native language is.
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I'm always very curious to know and I'll see you in the next one.
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日常交流的五个重要短语
- How are you? - 这是一个常用的问候语，可以帮助开启对话。
- Can you help me? - 当需要帮助时，这个短语非常实用。
- What do you think? - 用于征询他人意见，促进交流。
- Let’s take a break. - 可以用来缓解紧张气氛，特别是在长时间的讨论后。
- I’m learning English. - 表达自己的学习状态，有助于建立共鸣。
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具体步骤如下：
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- 逐句沉浸：逐句聆听，然后模仿。如只注意发音和语调，尽量不进行翻译。
- 视觉联想：结合图像或情景来理解词汇，使其不再依赖母语。
- 反复练习：定期练习，逐步培养用英语思考的能力，形成自然的交流习惯。
通过这样的shadow speech练习，学习者将不断增强自己的语言能力，实现更流利的英语口语表达。这不仅是一个简单的技巧，而是通过反复练习，建立在英语思维深层次上的有效习惯。
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