跟读练习: Shadowing English: Repeat After Me: Speaking Practice for Pronunciation and Fluency - 通过视频学习英语口语
正在创建课程...
1
Hey, hey, welcome back English practicer.
2
I wake up every morning and make an English lesson for you.
3
Yeah.
4
Hey, I haven't sung that song in a long time.
5
That was fun.
6
All right.
7
Today we're going to break the procrastination cycle.
8
This is kind of a listening exercise.
9
I want you to listen, learn, and shadow me if you can.
10
Try to say it with me.
11
Repeat little chunks of speech that you hear that you want to remember and practice.
12
All right, let's jump into it.
13
Today, we're tackling something everyone deals with.
14
Everyone deals with it.
15
What is it?
16
Procrastination.
17
That nagging habit of constantly putting off important tasks.
18
Putting off.
19
If you put something off, put off, you postpone it.
20
So you're constantly postponing, putting off important tasks.
21
That's procrastination, right?
22
Let's start with the word nagging.
23
It means something that keeps bothering or irritating you.
24
It keeps bothering, irritating me.
25
It's nagging me.
26
Like that little voice in your head.
27
That won't leave you alone.
28
Leave me alone, please, my nagging little voice in my head.
29
So why do we let procrastination get the best of us?
30
Get the best of us.
31
If you say, it got the best of me.
32
That's another way you can say it.
33
It got the best of me.
34
That means it overwhelmed me.
35
I was defeated by it.
36
It got the better of me.
37
I lost control.
38
It got the best of me.
39
It got the best of us.
40
So procrastination can get the best of us sometimes, right?
41
Why does that happen?
42
Let's find out.
43
What exactly is procrastination?
44
It's when we delay important tasks by doing easier, less important things instead.
45
Oh, I do that a lot.
46
We all do it.
47
Cleaning, scrolling on our phones, or binge-watching shows instead of handling something crucial.
48
Here's another word for you.
49
Here's another word for you.
50
Deferral.
51
Deferral.
52
Deferral means postponing something.
53
Procrastination is a kind of deferral.
54
But it's almost always irrational.
55
Not rational, irrational.
56
We know we shouldn't delay the task.
57
But we do it anyway.
58
It's surprisingly easy to trick ourselves into feeling productive.
59
I was productive.
60
Have you ever cleaned your whole room or organized all your files just to avoid doing something more important?
61
That's procrastination at work.
62
It feels like you're doing something useful.
63
But deep down, you know you're just avoiding the real task.
64
Why does procrastination happen?
65
It's not always about laziness.
66
One reason is immediate gratification.
67
Gratification right now, immediate.
68
Which means seeking quick pleasure.
69
Our brain craves instant rewards, like watching a fun video or grabbing a snack.
70
Even though that important task is still waiting, it's still waiting for you, but you got to go see that fun video.
71
You got to grab that delicious snack.
72
You crave it.
73
Here's another term.
74
Cognitive overload.
75
Whoa, big word.
76
Cognitive overload.
77
Cognitive overload is that feeling of being so overwhelmed by a big task that you avoid starting it at all.
78
You avoid starting that big task because it's just overwhelming.
79
It's too much to think about.
80
Cognitive is your thinking about it.
81
Overload, it's just too much.
82
Too much to think about.
83
Cognitive overload.
84
Breaking that task into smaller steps can make it much easier to handle.
85
Here's a tip.
86
Divide a large project into tiny, manageable parts.
87
Small parts that you can manage manageable parts.
88
When you complete a small piece, you feel accomplished.
89
And that motivation can help you keep going.
90
Have you ever made a to-do list and felt a little rush of satisfaction just from crossing something off?
91
Crossing something off?
92
Your to-do list?
93
I did it.
94
That's the power of small wins.
95
Here's one more phrase to remember.
96
Procrastination paralysis.
97
Paralysis.
98
Procrastination paralysis.
99
This is when you're so overwhelmed by procrastination that you freeze.
100
So freeze is our key word here for paralysis.
101
If you're paralyzed, you can't move, you're frozen, so you freeze paralysis.
102
Let me start from the top again.
103
Procrastination paralysis is when you're so overwhelmed by procrastination that you freeze and can't even begin.
104
You don't even begin because you're frozen by procrastination paralysis.
105
It's that moment when delaying leads to total inaction.
106
Inaction is no action.
107
Taking no action is inaction.
108
All right, what's the cost of procrastination?
109
It's not just about putting things off.
110
It also increases your stress.
111
You're building up what's called emotional debt.
112
Emotional debt.
113
the mental load of all the unfinished tasks you carry around.
114
All that mental load, all the thinking about, that's your emotional debt.
115
It's just building up more and more debt, emotional debt.
116
The longer you delay, the heavier that debt becomes.
117
You've got to pay off your debt.
118
Procrastination doesn't just waste your time.
119
It steals your peace of mind.
120
It's like carrying a backpack full of rocks.
121
Nobody wants to do that.
122
Every time you delay a task, another rock gets added to your backpack and it's getting
123
so heavy and you're trying to climb up the mountain and it's getting heavier and heavier.
124
I used to struggle with procrastination too.
125
I'd let tasks pile up until they felt like an impossible mountain.
126
But once I started using time blocking, I saw a big improvement.
127
Time blocking.
128
I began breaking tasks into smaller parts and dedicating just 10 or 15 minutes to each one.
129
It might sound simple, but those small chunks add up quickly.
130
And before you know it, you've made real progress.
131
So, how do we stop procrastinating?
132
One helpful technique is, again, time blocking.
133
This means setting a specific amount of time for a task, like telling yourself, I'll just work on this for 10 minutes.
134
It makes getting started easier.
135
And once you begin, it's much easier to keep going.
136
And don't forget to reward yourself.
137
Once you finish a task, give yourself a small treat.
138
This taps into your brain's craving for immediate gratification.
139
but in a positive way.
140
Yeah, give yourself a small treat.
141
This taps into, if it taps into it, it accesses it.
142
It taps into your brain's craving for immediate gratification.
143
Our brain craves immediate gratification, so let's give our brain immediate gratification by doing the task that we need to do.
144
That's a positive way to deal with it.
145
Rewards don't have to be big or expensive.
146
They can be as simple as taking a short break,
147
having a snack, or watching an episode of your favorite show.
148
These rewards kind of sound like procrastination to me.
149
I don't know about you.
150
It sounds like another form of procrastination.
151
I'm rewarding myself right now, but you're really procrastinating.
152
I don't know.
153
I don't know about this advice.
154
Just make sure the reward doesn't turn into another excuse to procrastinate.
155
That's the point I wanted to make.
156
And that's it.
157
That's it for today.
158
Hey, thank you for practicing with me again.
159
What do you think of this style of lesson?
160
Is it good for you?
161
I hope so.
162
Good workout.
163
Stay persistent.
164
Stay consistent.
165
And if you do so, you are bound to succeed.
166
Keep moving forward one step at a time.
167
And I shall see you in the next English speaking practice video.
语境与背景
在这段视频中，英语学习者被邀请通过重复和模仿来改善他们的发音和流利度。讲述者鼓励大家勇敢地面对拖延症，并同时为大家提供一些实用的技巧，让学习者能够更有效地进行英语口语练习。通过“影子学习”（shadow speaking），学习者能够增强他们的听力和口语能力，在轻松愉悦的氛围中提高英语水平。
日常交流的五个关键短语
- 拖延症 - 这种习惯是指将重要任务推迟，转而去做一些较简单或不重要的事情。
- 使人烦扰的声音 - 内心的那种声音，它不断打扰你的思维。
- 立即满足 - 我们的大脑会追求快速的满足感，从而导致我们对重要任务的拖延。
- 认知超载 - 当面对复杂任务时感到压倒，导致避免一切行动。
- 拖延瘫痪 - 当拖延使你完全无法行动，无法开始任何任务。
逐步影子学习指南
想要通过观看视频提高英语口语能力，可以遵循以下步骤进行影子学习：
- 首先，观看视频并注意发音及语调。务必全神贯注，尽量理解所讲述的内容。
- 接下来，重复影子。可以暂停视频并尝试跟讲述者一起说出所听到的句子。这有助于改善发音和流利度。
- 分段练习，即将视频中的内容拆分成小部分，逐一挑战。反复练习困难的句子，确保你能够流利地说出来。
- 避免拖延，给自己设定时间块，比如每次集中练习10到15分钟。利用这些短暂的时间段提高你的专注力。
- 最后，给予奖励。完成练习后，给自己一个小奖励，例如短暂休息或观看一集喜欢的节目，以保持良好的学习动力。
通过这些技巧，您将能够在看YouTube学英语的过程中，顺利地进行英语口语练习，掌握影子学习（shadowspeak）的技巧，进而改善你的英语口语能力。
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。