跟读练习: Learning to Speak ... Again - 通过视频学习英语口语
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It's well known that between the ages of approximately one and five, the offspring of Homo sapiens, slowly and at times lopsidedly,
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do something called learn to speak.
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They acquire some key words, lunch, cat, mummy, fart, assemble some basic grammar and are, by the time they're the size of a chair,
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well on the way to one of the key markers of human competence.
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Except for one thing, shortly after they learn to speak, children also learn, as it were, not to speak.
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At first, they aren't very good at not speaking, which is why, for a precious time, they're very funny indeed, as well as occasionally rather excruciating.
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They use their newfound linguistic skill to come out with utterances like, Granny smells under her legs, Jane looks a bit like a giraffe,
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and can you put a poo back in your bottom once it's come out?
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Then, sure enough, to the mixed relief of the adults around, children learn not to speak.
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They become careful custodians of their more charged insights.
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Out go the large questions, rude observations and naked confessions.
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By eight, they know how to say, I'm very well, thank you, how are you?
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By eleven, they might tell you, I don't mind that my parents are getting divorced, I get to go to Disneyland.
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And by seventeen, pretty much all of the wonder
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and pain of being alive has ceased to make it out of their lips.
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Something evidently goes astray, so much so that we might posit
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that becoming a true adult might rely on going in the opposite direction, on a process of remembering how to speak once again,
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in emotional rather than grammatical terms.
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We accede to genuine maturity
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when we can dare to once again take people into the phenomenal mystery and agony of being ourselves,
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with all the fear, joy, questions and doubts implied.
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It can take a while to realise just how much we've grown used to not saying.
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Silence on the key areas tends to become our second nature.
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It isn't just that we're deceiving others, we've lost the thread even within ourselves, omitting so much as to notice all the anger,
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terror or joy coursing through us at subterranean levels.
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Imagine therefore a somewhat bold experiment, in its way as challenging and rewarding as taking up a new sport or mastering a new recipe.
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Imagine if we attempted to undo three
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or five decades of experience to travel back to the raw state we knew in our original home.
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We would of course have to take some precautions
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but it's part of the incoherence of adult social life to picture ourselves unable to do so.
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We don't in reality face such a stark choice between honesty and ostracism.
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There are well-worn ways of being at once true and kind, honest and unfrightening.
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We can wrap our moments of candor in levity and good sense.
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Imagine if we said, for example, forgive me but as much as I want to be kind here there's something I might be a bit furious about, which is obviously crazy, but bear with me.
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Or, it's not that I don't like you, I'm scared that you're going to reject me, which probably explains why I've been behaving like a bit of a weirdo these past days.
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Or, I'm not just gazing out of the window, I'm actually worrying that you're going to find me bad in bed later.
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Or, I'm not really grumpy, I'm actually going out of my mind with anxiety.
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We've picked up the message that such truths are extremely dangerous to share.
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no one could get a view of our actual levels of pain, worry, desire and still be on our side.
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But that's to forget a bedrock fact that we're all beneath a layer of social subterfuge, longing for reassurance that there are echoes of our intimate,
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bewildering experiences in the minds of others.
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We're all mad, sick with worry, entirely lost and desperately anxious about our appearance, achievements and likability.
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We become more charming when we speak up because
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so much of what makes us unpleasant is related in the end to our unwitting deceitfulness.
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Not only don't we want to have lunch, we see no option but to pretend that we would like to.
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Not only do we leave relationships, we can't bear to own up to our wish to do so and therefore come across as sentimental and confusing.
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How much better if we have the confidence that we, like small children except more so because we have greater self-control and tact,
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are at our most beguiling when we can stick as close as possible to how things actually are.
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When we can say, this is lovely but I don't want to take it any further, I'm so sorry.
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Or I'm really furious, there's a part of me that wants to scream and sob on the floor.
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Or I make no assumptions at all but I really do find you attractive, I hope it's okay to tell you.
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Or I'm so worried that I failed in your eyes, I do apologise.
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We'll learn to properly live when we stop being so morbidly embarrassed of our reality.
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No one asked us to be alive, no one asks us to suffer as we do, we're not responsible for how peculiar it is to be ourselves.
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What is in our power is to be unfrightened by the contents of our minds
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and to use our artfulness and intelligence to share as much of it as possible with those we come across.
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We will, in the process, reassure them of their normality, deepen our friendships and feel less peculiar about our natures,
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we'll get a little closer to experiencing life as it actually is.
为什么要通过这个视频练习口语？
在学习英语的过程中，口语表达的能力至关重要。这个视频展示了语言学习的自然过程，尤其是儿童如何学习说话。通过观看这个视频，您不仅可以提高您的表达能力，还能理解自己内心深处的情感和想法。这些内容对任何希望提高英语口语能力的人来说，都是一个极好的机会。这种学习方法被称为shadow speech或shadowspeak，可以帮助学习者在实际交流中更加自信和流利。
语法与表达在语境中的运用
在视频中，有几个关键的语法结构和表达方式特别值得注意：
- 现在进行时：如“我在担心”，这种结构可以帮助学习者表达当前正在进行的状态。
- 条件句：例如“如果我说，我其实很生气”，这些条件句的使用能让对话显得更加丰富和真实，同时也可用于表达复杂的情感。
- 反身代词：在句子中使用“自己”这个词汇，可以增强句子的情感表达，帮助学习者更好地理解如何在英语中表达自己的内心感受。
理解这些语法结构和表达方式，有助于您在现实生活中更准确地沟通。
常见的发音陷阱
在这个视频中，有一些词汇和口音可能会给学习者带来挑战。例如：
- 单词“furious”（愤怒的）中的“u”需要明显的发音，可以与其他类似的词区分开。
- 句子中的连读现象，如“want to”通常会被快速发音成“wanna”，学习者需要注意这种流行用法。
- 发音时需要轻声的短音节，尤其是在快速对话中，习惯了普通水平的发音的学习者可能会因此而产生误解。
通过专注于这些常见的发音陷阱，学习者可以有效地提高自己的英语发音和听说能力，从而在与人交谈时更加自信。
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。