跟读练习: I learned English to a C2 level, so you can just copy me - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
C2
This video is brought to you by Squarespace.
241 句
如果句子过短或过长，请点击 Edit 进行调整。
1
This video is brought to you by Squarespace.
2
I learned English to a C2 level,
3
and you can just copy what I did.
4
Seriously.
5
No secret formulas, no complicated methods,
6
just a system that works.
7
And the best part, you can adjust it to your own life.
8
And to make it super easy for you,
9
I put together a free guide with all of my best strategies.
10
You'll get a daily immersion checklist,
11
a structured system to follow,
12
and the biggest mistakes that slow you down so that you can avoid all of them.
13
The guide is totally free and you can get it right now by clicking the link in my description.
14
So let's begin our conversation by talking about why traditional classes just didn't work for me.
15
Like most people, I started learning English in a classroom when I was in elementary school.
16
Then I went to middle school,
17
high school, and obviously when I was a kid,
18
I wasn't really interested in learning English.
19
If somebody were to come up to me when I was like 10 and tell me,
20
Veronica, you know that one day you would be speaking English and Spanish in your everyday life?
21
I would be like, what are you saying?
22
Like, I actually hate foreign languages and I don't want to study them.
23
I am sure I will not need them.
24
And I didn't have to wait too long for my words to be proven wrong,
25
because when I turned 14,
26
15, I realized that if I wanted to go to college,
27
I actually needed English.
28
And so I started thinking about how I was being taught this language
29
and how I would actually want to learn it because I wanted to enjoy the process of language learning.
30
I wanted to stop hating English as a subject.
31
I remember when I was in high school,
32
I attended all of my English classes.
33
I did all of my homework,
34
studied all of those grammar drills,
35
but my listening skills were absolutely horrible.
36
In fact, I was probably the worst in my class when it came to listening.
37
I would pass all the written tests,
38
but if somebody were to actually speak to me in English, I would freeze.
39
It honestly wasn't until I got to college that I realized that if I wanted to be fluent,
40
I needed to make English a part of my daily life.
41
I needed to live and breathe English 24-7.
42
And confidence in communication isn't just about speaking,
43
it's also about how you present yourself online.
44
Whether you're building a personal brand,
45
showcasing your portfolio, or starting a business,
46
how you show up matters.
47
And that is where today's sponsor Squarespace comes in.
48
Squarespace is the all-in-one platform for creating a professional presence online.
49
Whether you're starting a blog,
50
selling digital products, or launching a brand.
51
And the best part, it's incredibly easy to use,
52
even if you're not tech savvy.
53
I've been using Squarespace's cutting-edge design tools,
54
and I love how flexible they are.
55
Their Blueprint AI Builder helps you create a unique,
56
professional-looking website in minutes, and their drag-and-drop editor makes customization effortless.
57
Another feature that I love is equity scheduling.
58
It's perfect if you offer consultations, coaching, or freelance services.
59
It lets you schedule appointments,
60
accept payments and manage everything from one place.
61
And if you're looking to grow your audience,
62
Squarespace email campaigns make it easy to stay connected,
63
automate emails and drive traffic to your content, all within your website.
64
So if you're ready to launch your passion project,
65
go to squarespace.com slash Veronica for a free trial.
66
And when you're ready to go live,
67
use code Veronica for 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain.
68
Now let's talk about the actual system that got me to C2 in English.
69
You can honestly just follow these steps and adjust them to your life.
70
Step one is flood your life with English.
71
What I did is I surrounded myself with English by watching TV shows and also reading books.
72
That was honestly my foundation and I also remember that I was constantly on Reddit.
73
That was another little tool that helped me produce the language because I was actively commenting,
74
messaging with people on Reddit and just writing my own posts.
75
And I know that you know that watching shows and reading books is amazing,
76
but not just any shows or any books because I believe that comprehensible input is key.
77
And comprehensible input is exactly something that made my foolproof method foolproof for me.
78
Because if I was watching shows that I could not understand,
79
you know, I would turn on the show and I would be like,
80
what is happening here?
81
Like, I have no idea what they're saying.
82
The same thing with books.
83
If I was reading very complicated books,
84
I would give up because that would not be comprehensible input.
85
And by comprehensible input, if you're new on my channel,
86
what I mean is it has to be information that you can mostly understand.
87
Like your current level plus one.
88
Just plus one.
89
Not plus 20, 30, 100.
90
Basically when you're reading something or watching something,
91
I think it's best to understand 95% of the information.
92
At least that's what I did and this is something that worked great for me.
93
Because the thing is, if something is too hard,
94
and you're constantly looking up words,
95
you'll get frustrated and quit.
96
And we don't want that.
97
We want you to enjoy it.
98
And if you notice that you get bored because it's too complicated,
99
like the book is too complicated,
100
or the show is too complicated,
101
then it is too complicated for you.
102
Find something easier.
103
So when I was in high school,
104
I was probably already at this intermediate level and the show that I started watching was Desperate Housewives.
105
Like these two shows were something that helped me so freaking much because they were fun,
106
they were interesting, I could understand most of the information and the information that I couldn't understand.
107
It was not too complicated, you know?
108
I was actually interested in understanding that information.
109
I would pause the show,
110
I would look up the idiom or the phrase,
111
and I would save it to my Anki deck,
112
and this is basically how I progressed.
113
And for books, I chose young adult fiction,
114
because the language was engaging, but not too childish.
115
And that is why I always talk about young adult fiction on my YouTube channel.
116
It is something that is perfect if you're at this intermediate level,
117
if you are experiencing this intermediate plateau and if you feel like everything is too boring,
118
everything is too complicated, but you're not interested in watching Peppa Pig
119
because it is also too boring because it's too simple, you know?
120
The material can be too boring because it's either too simple for you
121
or too complicated or if you're just completely not interested in it
122
when it was my first year in college and I had to take a train from my apartment to my university,
123
it was probably like 45 minutes to go there and also 45 minutes to go back.
124
What I would do is I would read this series,
125
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children.
126
It's a book series that is a mix of fantasy,
127
mystery, and adventure with a dark and eerie vibe.
128
And guys, let me tell you,
129
I was so freaking obsessed with those books
130
that sometimes I would be reading the book so intently that I would just miss my stop.
131
I like those books that much.
132
The story in that series follows Jacob Portman,
133
a teenager who discovers a hidden world of peculiars,
134
children with strange and supernatural abilities,
135
living in a time loop led by Miss Peregrine, a shape-shifting headmistress.
136
And reason why this series became so known is for its creepy vintage photographs.
137
Like, if you're actually gonna buy the books,
138
you will see those interesting photographs and they inspired the story.
139
Obviously, the language in those books was really informal, was really fun.
140
I remember learning so many amazing expressions,
141
so many amazing words, because there was a lot of dialogue in the books
142
and usually the dialogue is how people actually speak.
143
So that is why if you're right now stuck in this intermediate plateau,
144
if you want to read something in English,
145
I highly, highly recommend this book series.
146
You have to make English your default mode.
147
What I mean by that is that I basically imagined that I was a native speaker already.
148
Like, let's play pretend for a second, okay?
149
I switched all of my tech to English.
150
My phone, my laptop, my social media, everything was in English.
151
That is the first step,
152
that is the most basic thing you can do.
153
I'm a huge proponent of journaling,
154
so I would journal exclusively in English.
155
If there was something that I wanted to write in Russian in my native language,
156
obviously I would do that,
157
but most of my writing was done in English.
158
I would also write my grocery lists in English.
159
Like today, I have to go grocery shopping and here is what I have to get.
160
Like literally guys, it is so easy to do in English instead of your native language
161
and most of us go grocery shopping maybe every week or maybe even more than once a week.
162
And I also planned my day in English,
163
like everything I had to do today,
164
maybe my workout plans, the videos I was watching to help me work out,
165
to do yoga, maybe like a gym workout plan,
166
like all of those things,
167
they were all in English.
168
And also, whenever I had a free moment,
169
I consumed content in English instead of my native language.
170
Of course, I still lived in Russia, right?
171
So I didn't live in an English-speaking country.
172
So I would still talk to people outside in Russian,
173
I would hear Russian outside,
174
I would talk to my family,
175
my friends, only in Russian,
176
but everything I had control over,
177
I would do that in English.
178
And the final step, step number three,
179
is understanding the difference between active learning and passive learning.
180
Because for a while, I was only relying on passive learning,
181
and I couldn't really see results,
182
especially when I hit that intermediate plateau.
183
I was like, what is happening?
184
I don't see any results,
185
even though I'm watching stuff in English,
186
TV shows, movies, I'm listening to podcasts,
187
but I'm still not improving.
188
Like, what do I do?
189
And the thing is, watching shows is great,
190
but for me, it wasn't enough.
191
I had to be actively engaging with the material.
192
Let's say I'm watching a show and instead of just kind of like watching it,
193
being on my phone, responding to messages and at the same time listening to the show a little bit,
194
I switched this approach and I became a hundred percent focused on the show I was watching.
195
I would pause, I would practice shadowing,
196
I would repeat the sentences after the speakers and yes,
197
this approach makes your movie watching experience a little bit different because instead of just flopping on your couch and relaxing,
198
you kind of have to study,
199
like you're watching a show in this nerdy way.
200
So for movies, to recap,
201
what I did was I would replay scenes,
202
I would mimic accents, and I would try to understand the conversation first with subtitles,
203
and then I would turn the subtitles off,
204
and then I would replay the same scene again to make sure that I could understand what they were saying without subtitles.
205
And for books, I would read and listen at the same time.
206
And then I would actually read the book out loud.
207
I would use Audible.
208
Honestly, I still use Audible.
209
Like when I read books,
210
I prefer to listen and read.
211
I'm kind of reading my book and I have my audiobook playing and I kind of read with my eyes,
212
if you know what I mean.
213
But if I really want to practice my pronunciation,
214
if there are some words I'm not sure how to pronounce,
215
I would pause the audiobook and I would read the sentence out loud.
216
This approach, when you are reading and listening at the same time,
217
when you're trying to read the sentences out loud,
218
helps you internalize all of the structures,
219
all of the new words,
220
all of the grammar you're learning by reading this book.
221
So yes, I was practicing exposure.
222
I was exposed to the language by reading books and watching shows,
223
but it was a little bit more than that.
224
I was actually absorbing the language like a sponge.
225
And guys, you probably know that I'm a huge organization nerd and organizing all of my materials,
226
my study sessions, keeping track of all of the new vocabulary is also something
227
that helped me so much with my English learning journey.
228
I have a notion template that I use for all of my languages,
229
so if you want to check it out,
230
I will leave a link to the Notion template in the description.
231
So I think it's going to be it for today's video.
232
If you liked it, please don't forget to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my YouTube channel.
233
I know that a lot of language learners also want to improve their accents,
234
and as you can hear,
235
I did change my accent from a very typical Russian accent to a more American one.
236
And I did it consciously because I really wanted to sound more American.
237
But in this process, there were a lot of moments that made me feel like I was losing a part of myself,
238
a part of my identity.
239
And that is something that I actually talked about in this video right here.
240
So if you want to see my experience,
241
just click right here and keep on watching.
下载应用
AI 为你说出的每个句子打分
TRENDING
热门
为什么要通过这个视频练习口语？
通过这个视频练习口语可以让你在真实的语境中学习英语。视频中的发言者通过个人经历分享了学习英语的旅程，让我们了解到学习过程中遇到的挑战和解决方案。这种方式不仅能帮助你提升听力技能，还能在模仿发言者的同时增强口语表达能力。采用英语影子跟读的方式，能有效提高你对语音语调的敏感度，帮助建立自信。无论是日常对话还是正式场合，你都能从中获得宝贵的经验。
语法与表达方式分析
- 句型结构：发言者使用了许多复合句和从句，这样的结构有助于表达复杂的想法。例如，“我在学习英语的过程中发现，如果我想流利地说英语，我需要将英语融入我的日常生活中。”通过这样的句子，学习者能掌握如何将不同语法点结合使用。
- 重点表达：使用“live and breathe English 24-7”这样的表达，可以帮助你理解如何用地道的短语表达对某事的投入。这种表达式让人易于理解，并更有感染力，非常适合在非正式场合中使用。
- 主动与被动语态：发言者多次使用了主动语态，使句子更加生动、直接，例如“我开始考虑如何学习这门语言”。这种表达方式能让你在说话时显得更有自信，同时也能提升语言流畅度。
常见发音难点
在视频中，发言者的某些词汇发音可能对部分学习者来说较为困难，例如“actually”和“reason”。注意这些词汇的重音部分和连音，这对语流的自然性至关重要。此外，视频中的美式英语发音中有一些音节可能会比较模糊，学习者可以反复模仿以提高自身的shadowspeak技能。
通过看YouTube学英语及shadow speak练习，你将能在愉快的环境中不断提升口语能力。选择适合自己的材料进行跟读，并结合以上分析，逐步克服发音与表达中的难点，最终让你的英语口语更具自信与流畅度。
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。