跟读练习: Psalm 103:14 || Reflection - 通过视频学习英语口语

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Good morning, SPA family.
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Sorry about that technical difficulty.
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How are we doing?
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Good.
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Glory be to God indeed.
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We are in a season.
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We're always in a season.
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But what season are we in right now?
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We talked about it briefly.
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I know last week we didn't have an explanation.
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SPA holiday.
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How are we recovering from that?
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Was that a good holiday?
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How are you guys feeling?
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It's been a week.
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It's been good?
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Glory to God.
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I mean, I'm not going to lie.
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Sunday night I got home, I slept until Thursday.
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I didn't come back until Thursday.
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But yeah, so we are currently in the season of rain.
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We talked about it for the first week, two weeks ago, and now this is a very much an important season where we have said bye to Holy 50.
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We have said bye to talking about the ascension and the resurrection and the Holy Spirit descending upon the disciples.
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And now we're talking about rain.
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You may be thinking, is the Orthodox Church like an environmentalist church?
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Why are we talking about rain?
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Why are we talking about the ground?
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No, we're talking about it Because we see, and Sanyadi speaks about it in these hymns for this entire season,
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is that the Lord chose his love for mankind through how he sustains us through rain, right?
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There's a consistent thing seen from the old times of the Israelites to this day.
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It's the truth.
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That rain down from the heavens.
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It's from the sky.
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And so people always saw rain as a divine providence from God, God providing for his children, for mankind.
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And rain is very important because, though we live in 2026 now, where we just go to Whole Foods or Lidl or Aldi to get our, you know, food.
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There used to be a time where if you wanted to go to get food, you have to go to your backyard and pray to God that there was enough rain that had, you know, nurtured your crops so you could be able to eat, right?
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So rain was very important because it showed that it also provided for food and for sustenance.
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So David says in today's psalm, he causes the grass to grow for the cattle and herb for the service of man, that it may bring forth fruit out of the land.
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And so this Psalm 104 is a psalm really pondering on Genesis,
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where the psalmist speaks about and recounts the account of creation, how God created everything, and He created it for the providence and the love that he has for mankind.
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So, a very important thing is that with a without man, God provides grass to sustain his creation, right?
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And this is what the commentary says, and they really emphasize that.
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We ought not to overlook every small little thing God does for us.
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Even like how we are able to go to our car in safety, or go to work in safety, and all these things.
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Like, God is, there's a reason we call the Lord in our divine theology, we call him the Pantocrator, which is like the almighty, ultimate governor of the universe, right?
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There's not a single atom, a single molecule, a single raindrop, a single anything, a single hair on your head that is God, that does not happen without his permission and without him knowing, right?
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So, Him providing for us through rain and through all of these things,
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it points to the fact that mankind relies on the Lord for life.
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He is our very life.
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And really, not just that we feed on food or we need the crops that are sustained by rain,
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but that it points to a deeper thing.
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That we feed on the divine lotus that is the Word of God.
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Similarly to how the crops and the cattle, they wait for the season of rain.
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Because before rain, the ground is dry.
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There's no crops.
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There's no grass.
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There's nothing for them to feed on.
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And then when rain comes, we see, again, the grass grows for the cattle.
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Once the rain comes, the cattle can go into the mountains and graze.
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We talked about it in two weeks.
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We talked about how we are mountains.
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We're supposed to be grazed upon, right, by the faithful.
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They feed on the Word of God through in our souls, right?
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And similarly so, the cattle come from the rain to go and graze and eat.
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And so it points to how we also feed on the divine logos.
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And that, yes, it's very important to give thanks to God for the fact
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that He gives us very intimate and very literal things.
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Like food, water, a house to live in, four walls, clothing, all of these things.
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But it's all supposed to point to the greatest thing, and that Christ is the one who we feed on the most.
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So the question we're asking is, do you feel as though you are fed by the Lord?
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Do you feel as though you are fed by the Lord?
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Every single morning, I mean, fasting season is over, so I don't know if people are going back to eating breakfast.
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I kind of just forgot to do it, but they're eating lunch or dinner, whatever you're doing.
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Every single day, because you're hungry, you go to a certain plate.
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You go somewhere, you order something, you do something and you eat because your body craves, it needs, right?
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And without it, some things may happen.
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You may get hangry, you may get cranky, you may get angry, like I need food, I need food.
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You're thirsty, you need water.
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You crave for certain things and it's a consistent everyday thing, right?
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Similarly so, how do you crave for the Lord?
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How do you crave for God?
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Cattle and mankind itself looked for the rain because they know from the rain they would get nourishment for food, right?
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And this is going to be like, you're going to hear me say this 80 million times for the next, because this season goes all the way until New Year, not January, not January.
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New Year meaning September, our New Year.
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So this is going to be a consistent theme where we see cattle loves the rain.
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Mankind loves rain because it comes and brings forth nourishment.
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How are we nourished by the Lord?
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Do we look into the iconography of our church?
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Do we see the icon of Christ?
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And is our soul satisfied?
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We wake up in the morning to go to our prayer corner?
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Do we even go to our prayer corner?
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What is, because it's not even just about are you going to Him, but also why are you going to Him?
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The same exact way, it's not about are you eating?
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You could be eating, but your health could still be horrendous.
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You could just be eating junk food and nasty stuff.
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Okay, you're eating, but what are you eating?
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What foods are you eating?
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Are you eating like a balanced diet?
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That matters also.
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So then, are you coming to the Lord?
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And why are you coming to Him?
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To what extent are you fulfilled by Him?
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Are you like the Israelites who in the time of Moses, came to him, yes, but they came to him only for monetary gain.
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They came to him only to gain something.
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And then they left.
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And then they forgot God.
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And then they came back because the Egyptians are coming.
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And they came back because they needed manna and they came back
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because they wanted quails and they came back because because
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because were they satisfied by the Lord even the Psalms say David said they were satisfied
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but not in the way in
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which God wanted to satisfy them they're satisfied in the way they wanted to be satisfied
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so are you fed by him in the way he wants to feed you?
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That's the question we have to ask ourselves.
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Because we move from glory to glory to glory
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and the beautiful thing about our bridegroom and that he is Christ is
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that he has a certain vision and how he wants to really fulfill his creation
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and fulfill every single one of our souls
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and heal every single one of our traumas and wipe away every single one of our tears, right?
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But he has a way of doing it.
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A lot of the time, we have like a small 1% image of what that is.
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God solved this as a financial problem, or God do this.
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But he wants to continue to show his love upon us forevermore.
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It doesn't stop there.
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So similar to how cattle and mankind, when they saw the rain, they were happy to see the rain.
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And they were fulfilled by the rain, and that they were able to continue living from the nourishment they got, right?
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Similarly so, we have to look into ourselves.
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The rain is here, what am I using the rain for?
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God's hand is upon me.
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He's stretching His hand out to provide for me.
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He's stretching out with multiple solutions.
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Am I only taking two that I like and leaving the other infinity behind?
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How am I really taking advantage of this undeserving, graceful hand that is Christ?
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So I pray that just like cattle.
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Yes, believe it or not.
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We can learn from the cattle.
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We can learn from cows and sheep.
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just like the cattle and the sheep and those who are grazing on the mountains and also look to rain for nourishment.
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I pray that we all look toward Christ for nourishment and for the rain.
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Glory to God.
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Let's call up choir.

本课的词汇与口语要点

这节 B2 级别的口语课以视频“Psalm 103:14 |”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有:rain, cattle, eating, Lord, mankind。 这段视频共有 142 个句子、1638 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 8:12。 说话人语速较快,每分钟约 200 个词,会出现较多连读和弱读。 87% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词,词汇容易理解。 全部 142 个句子中有 42 个是问句,适合练习疑问语调和简短回答。

视频中的重点词汇

视频中最难的 15 个单词,附发音和释义:

单词发音释义
cow 名词/kaʊ/牛母, 母牛
mankind 名词/mænˈkaɪnd/人類 /人类, 芸芸眾生 /芸芸众生
satisfy 动词/ˈsætɪsfaɪ/滿足 /满足
nourishment 名词/ˈnɝɪʃmənt/營養 /营养
crave 动词/kɹeɪv/渴望, 熱望 /热望
graze 动词/ɡɹeɪz/放牧
fulfill 动词/fʊlˈfɪl/履行
crop 名词/kɹɑp/作物
psalm 名词/sɑm/詩篇 /诗篇
sustain 动词/səˈsteɪn/维持
providence 名词/ˈpɹɑvɪdəns/天意, 眷顧 /眷顾
sheep 名词/ˈʃiːp/мянён, ён
ascension 名词/əˈsɛnʃən/上升, 提升
bridegroom 名词/ˈbɹaɪdˌɡɹuːm/新郎, 新郎官
disciple 名词/dɪˈsaɪ.pəl/弟子, 門徒 /门徒

视频中出现的短语动词

单词释义
come back 动词回來 /回来, 返回

值得反复跟读的句子

视频中简短而完整的句子,可以直接用在日常对话里:

  • How are we recovering from that?
  • How are you guys feeling?
  • Why are we talking about rain?
  • Why are we talking about the ground?
  • Do we look into the iconography of our church?

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
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么,而不是谁做的are sustained · be grazed · are fed
定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物Pantocrator, which is · one who we · those who are
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have said

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 17 次缩略和弱读形式,例如 we're, you're, didn't。请按听到的简短形式来说。

  • “th” 音: thirsty /ˈθɝs.ti/, theology /θiˈɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/, faithful /ˈfeɪθ.fl̩/
  • “sh” 和 “zh” 音: nourishment /ˈnɝɪʃmənt/, sheep /ˈʃiːp/, ascension /əˈsɛnʃən/, nourish /ˈnʌɹ.ɪʃ/, resurrection /ɹɛzəˈɹɛkʃən/
  • 长单词——注意重音位置: forevermore /fɔːɹˈɛv.ɚ.mɔːɹ/, iconography /ˌaɪkəˈnɒɡɹəfi/, undeserving /ˌʌndɪˈzɝvɪŋ/, resurrection /ɹɛzəˈɹɛkʃən/, infinity /ɪnˈfɪnɪti/

中文母语者容易读错的音:

  • /v/ — 不要读成 /w/,上齿轻触下唇: crave /kɹeɪv/, providence /ˈpɹɑvɪdəns/, forevermore /fɔːɹˈɛv.ɚ.mɔːɹ/, undeserving /ˌʌndɪˈzɝvɪŋ/, overlook /ˈoʊ.vɚˌlʊk/
  • 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚,后面不要加元音: mankind /mænˈkaɪnd/, nourishment /ˈnɝɪʃmənt/, crave /kɹeɪv/, graze /ɡɹeɪz/, crop /kɹɑp/
  • /r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: graceful /ˈɡɹeɪsfʊl/, literal /ˈlɪt(ə)ɹəl/

如何用这段视频练习

  1. 先完整听一遍视频,不要开口,记下不认识的单词。
  2. 先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟读,熟练之后再回到正常速度。
  3. 录下自己的声音并与原声对比,特别注意 cow, mankind, satisfy 这类单词。

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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