跟读练习: Why We Should Draw More (and Photograph Less) - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Whenever something looks interesting or beautiful, there's a natural impulse to want to capture and preserve it.
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Which means, in this day and age, that we're likely to reach for our phones and take a picture.
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Though this might seem like an ideal solution, there's a big problem associated with it.
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We're likely to be so busy taking the pictures, we forget to look at the world, whose beauty and interests prompted us to take a photograph in the first place.
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These problems seem to be very much of today, a consequence of the tiny phones in our pockets.
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But they were noticed right at the beginning of the history of photography, when the average camera was the size of a grandfather clock.
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The first person to notice them was the English art critic John Ruskin.
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He was very impressed by cameras, at first, but gradually he grew very suspicious of them, believing that they blinded us to our surroundings.
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To try to correct this blindness, Ruskin recommended that all of us take up drawing.
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Not with a view to becoming great artists, but simply because through the act of trying to recreate on paper what we see in the world,
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we study it in a way we never do when we simply take a photograph.
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Summing up what he had attempted to do in four years of teaching and writing manuals on drawing, Ruskin wrote, Let two persons go out for a walk,
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the one a good sketcher, the other having no taste of the kind.
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Let them go down a green lane.
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There will be a great difference in the scene as perceived by the two individuals.
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The one will see a lane and trees.
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He will perceive the trees to be green, though he will think nothing about it.
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He will see that the sun shines and that it has a cheerful effect.
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And that's all.
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But what will the sketcher see?
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His eye is accustomed to search into the cause of beauty and penetrate the minutest parts of loveliness.
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He looks up and observes how the showery
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and subdivided sunshine comes sprinkled down among the gleaming leaves overhead till the air is filled with an emerald light.
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He will see here and there a bough emerging from the veil of leaves.
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He will see the jewel brightness of the emerald moss and the variegated and fantastic lichens, white and blue, purple and red,
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all mellowed and mingled into a single garment of beauty.
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Then come the cavernous trunks and the twisted roots that grasp with their snake-like coils at the steep bank,
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whose turfy slope is inlaid with flowers of a thousand dyes.
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Is this not worth seeing?
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Yet if you are not a sketcher, you will pass along the green lane, and when you come home again have nothing to say
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or to think about it but that you went down such and such a lane.
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Thank you.
关于本课
在本课中，你将通过观看一段精彩的YouTube视频，学习如何提高英语口语表达能力。视频讨论了绘画与摄影的对比，强调了观察世界的重要性。通过模仿视频中的语言和语调，你可以在英语影子跟读（shadow speak）中提升自己的口语流利度与表达能力。
关键词汇与短语
- 捕捉 (capture): 捕捉美好事物的冲动。
- 摄影 (photography): 透过相机记录世界。
- 盲目 (blind): 对周围事物的无视。
- 观察 (observe): 细致入微地看待事物。
- 草图 (sketch): 速写的艺术形式。
- 环境 (surroundings): 我们周围的自然与人文景观。
- 美丽 (beauty): Nature's aesthetically pleasing aspects.
- 细节 (detail): 事物的微小组成部分。
练习建议
在观看视频时，尝试使用英语影子跟读（shadowspeak）的方法来模仿视频中的讲解者。注意他们的语速与语调，慢慢跟随他们的语音，确保你不仅仅是在重复单词，而是要理解其背后的含义。建议你开始时以较慢的速度进行跟读，逐渐提高到视频的正常速度，从而帮助你更好地掌握发音技巧与口语表达。
同时，考虑在日常生活中进行更多的观察练习，而非仅仅依赖摄影。试着在散步时进行小型草图创作，使用手中的笔或纸，练习描述你所看到的事物，并将其转化为精准的英语表达。这种练习不仅可以提高你对周围环境的感知，也能丰富你的英语口语练习内容，使你的词汇量增加，并提升你在英语会话中的自信心。
最后，使用这样的时机（如看YouTube学英语）来提升你的英语水平，结合视频内容反复练习，将会对你的口语能力有极大的帮助。
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。