让英语流利的三种方式 3（Ways to Become MORE FLUENT in English）

Well hello! I"m Emma from mmmEnglish!

I"m super excited to share this video with you today.

大家好，我是Emma，欢迎来到Emma的美味英语！

今天和大家分享这个视频我超级激动的呢。

I want to challenge your thinking about fluency.

What does it mean to be fluent in English?

我想挑战一下大家对于流畅度的看法。

英语说得很流利意味着什么呢？

And are you actually more fluent than you think? . . . . . .

你真的比你想象的更加流畅吗？

Before we get started I just want to thank the sponsor of today"s lesson, Skillshare.

Now I mentioned Skillshare a few weeks ago, in this lesson here.

在我们开始之前，我想首先感谢本次课程的赞助商，Skillshare。

我几周之前就提到过Skillshare，就在这节课程中。

They"re an online learning platform with lots of free classes but through their Premium Membership, you can access thousands of amazing classes taught by expert teachers across so many different areas.

It"s mind-blowing really, just how many different courses there are.

它是一个在线学习平台，有很多免费的课程，但是如果你成为他们的高级会员的话，成千上万超级赞的课程就可以任君挑选，这些课程都是由各个领域的专家老师教授的。

非常令人大开眼界，各种各样的课程真的是五花八门。

I"ve taken three classes already.

I took one in productivity because I need as much help as I can get in that area.

我已经参加了三门课程了。

我参加了一门创造力的课程，因为我需要在那个领域非常需要帮助。

But I"m completely hooked on baking.

I"ve never baked my own bread before but I"ve taken two classes about bread-making on Skillshare and I"m getting pretty good at it now.

但是我着实爱上了烘焙。

我从来没有自己烘焙过面包，但是我已经参加了Skillshare上面两节面包烘焙的课程，我现在已经非常擅长做面包了。

I learned so much about the baking process and it"s actually easier than you think.

Now, taking a course relating to your interest in English is an awesome way to build your fluency around topics that you love and Skillshare is the perfect place to do that.

我学到了很多烘焙过程的知识，真的比你想象中更加简单。

好的，上一节和你的兴趣相关的用英语教授的课程是提升你喜欢的话题的流畅度的超赞的方式，而Skillshare就是一个完美的平台。

It"s super affordable, a premium membership will cost you as little as ten dollars a month on their annual plan.

But Skillshare have given us a special deal today.

而且真的超级便宜，高级会员如果是年费的话，每月才花十刀。

但是Skillshare今天给了我们一个折扣。

The first five hundred mmmEnglish viewers who sign up with a credit card using the link in the description will get two whole months of premium access to all their courses.

It"s unlimited!

You can take as many classes as you want!

前五百名美味英语的观众通过下方的链接用信用卡购买的话可以获得两个月的会员，可以看到所有的课程。没有限制的！

你想上多少课就可以上多少！

We"re so grateful to Skillshare for offering this deal and giving you yet another way to practise your English skills.

So quickly! Get down there and grab that link before someone else does!

非常感谢Skillshare提供给我们这个优惠，也提供给大家另一种练习英语技能的方式。

超快的！在其他人行动起来之前点击下方获取链接吧！

All right. Back to the lesson.

Today I"ve got three ways to increase your English fluency, but first and this is a very important question.

好的。回到我们的课程。

今天我准备了三种方式提成大家的英文流畅度，但是首先有一个非常重要的问题。

What does fluency mean to you?

Now it"s tricky because if I asked five of you, I"m sure I"d hear five completely different answers.

流利对你而言意味着什么？

这个问题并不简单， 如果我问你们其中五个人的话，我敢肯定肯定会听到五个完全不同的回答。

What does it mean to be fluent in English? What do you think?

英语流利是什么意思呢？你觉得呢？

I want you to write me a comment below.

Tell me your opinion about this question.

For some people, fluency is being able to have a normal conversation with a native speaker.

我想让大家写在下方的评论处。告诉我你们对于这个问题的想法。

对于有些人来说，流利就是能够和母语者进行正常交谈。

Small talk, general topics like work, where you"re from, your family - that kind of thing.

But for others, fluency relates to tests and exams.

随意的聊天，比如说像工作、你来自哪里、你的家庭这种类似的一般话题。

但是对于其他人而言，流畅是和考试挂钩的。

A certain level that you need to achieve before you can enter a university or apply for a visa. And that"s okay too!

在你进入大学或者是申请签证之前需要达到的某一个特定水平。那也没问题！

But it"s really important that you answer this question.

When you say "I want to be fluent in English" what do you actually want to be able to do?

但是重要的是你要去回答这个问题。

当你说“我想让自己的英语变得很流畅”的时候，你是想拥有什么能力呢？

Really think about your answer.

I"m pushing you to do this.

要认真考虑一下你的答案。

我在敦促大家做这件事情。

I want you to join in on this discussion, be part of the conversation today here my friend.

Don"t just watch, I want you to participate.

我的朋友们，我很想让大家加入这个讨论之中，成为今天这个对话的一部分。

不要只在一边默默地看，我想让大家进行练习。

. . . . . . So for me, fluency is a mix of ability: reading, writing, listening, speaking skills and confidence.

那对于我而言呢，流畅是一系列的能力：阅读、写作、听力、口语技巧和自信。

有信心有英语进行对话。

Confidence to stay in an English conversation.

To me, fluency doesn"t mean that you"re an advanced English user.

对我而言，流畅并不意味着你是高级英语使用者。

当然可以是这样的，但是并不一定是那个意思。

It could but it doesn"t necessarily mean that. In my opinion, someone who"s fluent in English can maintain a conversation and feel reasonably relaxed while they"re doing it.

在我看来，英语流畅的人可以与人对话，而且在对话的时候感觉非常地放松。他们的语气和速度都很舒适。

Their tone and their pace is comfortable.

They don"t hesitate too often.

他们不会经常犹豫。

他们可以用言语，也可以用面部表情来传达他们的情感。

They should be able to speak words and also express their feelings through their facial expression.

And importantly, they should be able to talk themselves around their mistakes, correct themselves if they need to.

重要的是，他们应该可以谈论自己的错误，如果需要的话会进行纠正。

一个人的英语越流利，他们就会感到越放松，对吧？

The more confident that someone is speaking English, the more relaxed they are, right?

They"re comfortable in the language even if it"s not a hundred per cent perfect.

他们对这门语言感到非常舒适，即使并不是百分之百的完美。

所以按照我对流利的定义，中等水平的学生可以英语很流利，因为流利是拥有那些你需要进行自然有效交流的技巧，而非一定是完美的程度。

So with my definition of fluency, someone who is an intermediate level student, could be fluent in English because fluency is about having the skills that you need to communicate comfortably and effectively but not perfectly.

So I wonder if our ideas of fluency are slightly different.

我在想你对于流利的想法是不是有点不同。

你可能和我的观点背道而驰，但是没关系的，只要你知道英语流利度对于你而言意味着什么就可以。

You might completely disagree with me and that"s okay as long as you know what English fluency means to you.

Okay we"ve all agreed that your own definition of fluency is completely acceptable here.

好的，我们都同意你对于流利的定义是完全可以接受的。

既然你已经了解了定义，是时候让我们来谈论一下提升流利度的一些方式了吧。

And now that you know that definition, it"s time for us to talk about some ways that you can increase your fluency.

Firstly, I want you to worry less about accuracy.

首先，希望你不要太担心正确性。

对于你们其中的某些人而言，这可能并不是什么新鲜事。

Now for some of you, this might not be such a new idea.

Maybe you don"t worry too much about your mistakes and that"s perfect.

你可能对于自己的错误并不那么担心，那就太棒了。

但是要继续听下去哦，因为我这节课的后面还有其他的一些策略。

But stay with me because I"ve got some other strategies coming up later in the lesson.

But for most of you, this idea might seem a little crazy especially if you"ve studied English at school or at a university.

但是对于你们中的大多数人而言，这个想法可能有点点疯狂，尤其是如果你在学校或者是大学里面学习过英语的话。

我们所接受的教育就是要说对，如果不对的话，就是错的。

Everything that we are taught there is about getting it right and if it"s not right, it"s wrong. You have to prove your ability by passing an exam.

你必须提升自己的能力通过考试。好的，生活并不是一场考试，所以我希望大家在思考流畅度的时候，忘记这些东西。

Well, life is nothing like an exam so I want you to forget all of that when you"re thinking about fluency.

As your teacher, helping you to become more confident as an English speaker, you need to change the way that you think about accuracy when you"re speaking in English.

作为你的老师，帮助你成为更加自信的英语学习者，你需要改变你说英语的时候对于正确度的看法。

我现在谈论的不是英语写作，而是英语口语。

Now I"m not talking about writing in English here, I"m talking about speaking.

You know that there are many different ways to say the same thing, right?

你知道可以有很多不同的方式来说同一种事情，对吧？

如果你说话的时候犯了错误的话，你只需要学习如何回到这个话题，然后改掉这个错误就行啦。

And if you make a mistake when you"re speaking, you just need to learn how to loop yourself around in that conversation and fix it.

You don"t need to feel worried or ashamed, it happens to me, to native speakers all the time too.

你不需要担心或者是感到很羞耻，我也会有这种情况的，所有的母语者也都会犯错误。你需要做的就是充满信心，相信自己能够改掉你犯的那些错误。

All you need to do is feel confident that you can fix the mistakes that you make.

If you"re too focused on the mistakes that you"re making and you"re constantly questioning yourself in your head during your conversation, this is going to hold you back because if you"re too afraid or you"re too worried to even start speaking, how are you supposed to get any practice, right?

如果你太关注你犯的错误的话，你就会在对话的时候在脑海中一直问自己，而这会对你造成阻碍，因为如果你太害怕或者是太担心以至于不敢开始说话的话，你怎么能进行练习呢，是吧？

所以试着少关注你犯的那些错误，将注意力放在清晰地传达信息上。

So try to focus less on the mistakes that you"re making and focus more on communicating your message clearly. This is going to help you to relax and focus on the positives of your conversation.

这能够帮助你放松，并且关注对话中的积极方面。

是的，我现在在谈论的就是思维定式。

Yes I am talking about your mindset here. I"m talking about changing the way that you think about yourself.

我说的是改变你认识自己的方式。

当然了，说得好总比做得好简单，我知道，但是我想让大家改变对于正确性的观念模式是因为你需要开始让自己接触真实情境中的英语，对吗？

Now that is easier to say than it is to do, I know but the reason why I want you to shift your mindset on accuracy is because you need to start exposing yourself to English in real situations, right?

So that you can get comfortable being flexible with the language.

这样你才能对这门语言感到更加地轻松自如。

而母语者们一直都是这么做的，对吗？

It"s what native speakers do all the time, right?

We make up words to express our ideas we end and we twist the tenses a little if we make a mistake but it doesn"t really affect the meaning of our sentence.

我们用词汇来表达我们的想法，如果我们犯错了的话，就回去进行一下修改，但那并不影响我们句子的意思。

我们可能并不想费事去修改，谁会在意呢，尤其是你在和朋友或者是家人对话的话，所以不要太被正确性所桎梏。

Well we might not bother to fix it, who cares when you"re speaking to, you know, friends and family in particular so don"t get too caught up on accuracy.

Now the next thing I want you to think about is focus on the English that you need to use.

我想和大家讨论的另一件事情就是关注你需要使用的英语。关于这个问题，有两种不同的思考方式。

Now there"s two different ways to think about this.

The first way is to think really broadly about English as a language.

首先是非常宽泛地将英语看作是一门语言。

英语或者是其他任何一种语言的现实就是它们其中包含着成千上万的单词，只有一部分在日常的对话中会使用地比较频繁，我说的是英语母语者，不是英语学习者。

The reality of English or any language is that there are thousands and thousands of words yet, only a percentage of those are used frequently in daily conversation and I"m talking about native English speakers here, not English learners.

An average native English speaker actively uses around ten to twelve per cent of English words.

一般的英语母语者只会使用大概百分之十到十二的英文单词。

那是他们的积极词汇，当他们写作和说话的时候就会用这些单词表达自我。

That"s their active vocabulary, words that they use to express themselves when they write and they speak. Now this is the full vocabulary that they use out in the world but satisfies their need to communicate in every part of their life.

这就是他们使用的全部单词，但是却能够满足他们日常交流的所有需求。

这些普通的英语母语者大概有百分之二十三到二十四的单词是消极词汇，也就说这些单词他们在阅读和听力的时候能够理解，但是自己却不怎么用。

Now this same average native speaker keeps about twenty-three to twenty-four per cent of English words in their passive vocabulary which means that, you know, their words that they read and they listen to and they understand but they don"t really use them themselves.

There is a percentage of English words that you need to know and understand and I invite you to focus on more specific and useful parts of English rather than feeling completely overwhelmed by this really huge and complicated language.

有一部分英语单词你需要了解并且理解，所以我希望大家专注于特定的、更加有用的那部分，而不是被这庞大复杂的语言而吓坏了。

简单来说，如果你知道十分之一的英文单词的话，你就和英语母语者水平差不多好了。

To put it simply, if you know ten per cent of English words, you"ll be as good as a native English speaker. So break that down for yourself, you know.

自己把那些单词进行划分吧。先专攻前一千个单词，然后转移到另外三千个单词，五千个单词。

我在描述区分享了一些非常有用的链接，所以如果你想要获得单词表和最常用的单词的话，那就点击描述区的链接吧。

Focus on the first one thousand words then move on to the next three thousand, five thousand.

I"ve shared some really useful links about this in the description box below so if you"re interested in getting word lists and the most common uses of words, grab the links in the description.

Now the second way to think about this is to think more specifically about how you use English.

好的，那第二个方式就是更加明确地考虑你如何使用英语。在英语的某个特定领域变得流畅。

So become fluent in that particular area of English. Be an English expert in the space that you need to use it.

成为你需要使用的那部分的英语专家。如果你是一个自由平面设计师或者是网页开发者的话，你想要和国际客户进行合作，那你就需要在那个领域做到流畅，在你专业的领域。

So if you"re a freelance graphic designer or a web developer and you want to work with international clients, you need to become fluent in that area, in your area of expertise.

What are the conversations that you"re going to have with those clients?

你要和那些客户进行什么对话呢？你们需要讨论什么话题？

What topics do you need to discuss? What words do you need to express your ideas?

你需要使用哪些词汇来表达你的观点？

这就是你需要专攻的英语，当然也可以直接转化为你的兴趣和爱好。

Now this is exactly the English that you need to focus on and this translates directly into your interests and your hobbies as well.

If you"re passionate about photography or growing vegetables or flying drones, you want to be able to talk about those things in English too, right?

如果你对摄影、种植蔬菜或者是无人机超级感冒的话，你想要用英语来谈论这些话题，对吗？

你想要遇见其他的说英语的人，他们也对这些东西感兴趣。

You"ll want to meet other English speakers who are also interested in those things. So focus on the vocabulary and the expressions that you need to do this.

专注于你需要使用的那些词汇和表达。你需要找到你的同伴，那些和你一样充满激情的人。

You need to find your people, others who are as passionate as you are. You need to join online groups and communities or even meet up in person if you can.

你需要加入线上群体，如果可以的话甚至可以见个面。去试用一下Skillshare吧，我在本节课程开始的时候提到过的。

Grab the Skillshare trial that I mentioned at the start of this lesson.

Just take all of the courses in photography, learn as much as you can about the things that you love.

参加所有的摄影课程，尽可能多地学习关于你喜欢的事情的一切。

你可以听母语者谈论这些话题。

You"ll be able to listen to native speakers talking about the topic.

You"ll learn new words and expressions and ways of talking about your interests, right?

你将会学到新的词汇和表达，还有讨论你的兴趣的方式，对吗？

你需要让自己接触特定某种类型的英语。

当然，毫无疑问的是提升流利度的最快方式就是住在说英语的国家，就可以被英语所包围，帮自己沉浸其中，但是如果你没有这样的机会的话，我们可以退而求其次，通过上课、节目和社群来让自己被英语所包围。

You need to expose yourself to that particular type of English.

Now the fastest way to increase your fluency is undoubtedly, to live in an English-speaking country where you"re surrounded by it, where you can immerse yourself but if you haven"t got that opportunity to do that, well the next best thing is to surround yourself with English through courses, through programs, through communities.

Now if you really want to improve your fluency in a particular area, then find a tutor to work with you and specifically ask them to practise roleplays.

如果你真的想要提升自己在某个领域的流畅度的话，那就找一个老师和你一起，尤其是要让他们和你进行角色扮演。

角色扮演就是你假装在某个特定的情境之下。

Now a roleplay is when you pretend that you"re in a particular situation. It"s like you"re acting, you pretend that you"re doing something, you"re speaking the English that you would need to use in that situation.

就像你在表演一下，假装你在做某件事情，你在说你在某种情境中用得到的英语。

我的未婚夫Shah在我们学习西班牙语的时候就做得很好。

Now my fiance Shah, did this brilliantly when we were studying in Spain.

All he really wanted to be able to do in Spanish was speak to the butchers at the markets about the jamón, the regions, the pigs, what they were fed, what problems the farmers faced - that kind of thing.

他就是想要西班牙语来和市场的小贩子说话，讨论一下火腿啊， 地区啊，猪猪啊，喂他们什么，农民面临着什么问题——就是这些。

他需要知道如何谈论非常特定的话题，所以他让他的老师和他一起进行角色扮演。

He needed to know how to talk about very specific topics so he asked his tutor to roleplay with him.

She had to pretend that she was the butcher and have conversations with him about pigs and they practised again and again and again.

她要假装自己就是小贩子，和他讨论猪的话题，他们一直在这样进行训练。

他的导师超级赞，但是我敢肯定她绝对觉得他疯了。

His tutor was wonderful but I"m sure she thought he was crazy. But after six weeks of practising, Shah went from being basically a beginner to being fluent in butcher Spanish which is completely hilarious but seriously, thinking about how this strategy could supercharge your English in a particular area, could be a really useful tool for you.

但是在六周的练习之后，Shah的西班牙小贩语言已经从入门者水平达到了流利水平，这听起来还蛮好笑的，但是说实话，想一下这个策略真的能够迅速提升你在某一个领域的英语水平，这真的是一个非常有用的工具。

我的意思是你可以把这个策略应用到任何的领域。

I mean you can apply this to any area. If you work at a hotel, and you need to be able to speak to customers who are staying at the hotel in English, you really need to be fluent in a few very specific things.

如果你在酒店工作的话，你需要能够用英语和住在酒店的顾客进行交流，那你就需要在一些特定的话题达到流利的程度。

你需要流利地进行指路。

You need to be fluent in giving good directions.

You need to be fluent in offering assistance, you need to be fluent in helping them to pay their bill, that kind of thing.

你需要流利地提供帮助，你需要流利地帮助他们付账带，诸如此类。

你不需要知道很多关于经济、金融和农业的词汇。

You don"t need to know a whole lot of vocabulary about economics and finance and farming.

It"s absolutely possible to be fluent in the English that you need.

在你需要的那部分英语达到流利水平是完全可能的。当然也是非常迅速的。

如果你能专攻你需要变得流利的那部分英语的话，那就是你需要努力的方向，对吗？

And reasonably quickly too.

If you can focus on the English that you need to be fluent in and that is what you should be working towards, right?

So I guess what I"m trying to say is that shifting the way that you think about fluency can make it seem more achievable, right?

所以我猜我想要说的就是改变你对于流畅度的看法能够让其看起来更加容易达成，对吗？

现在我想要大家在评论中告诉我你想自己哪个部分的英语变得流利起来？

Now I want you to tell me in the comments what do you want to be English fluent in?

What specific areas?

哪个特定的领域？

I might be able to make some extra vocabulary lessons to help, particularly if lots of people are asking around those topics.

我或许可以再出几节课程来帮助大家，尤其是如果很多人都觉得这些话题需要帮助的话。

I really hope that this lesson was helpful for you.

我真的希望这节课能够帮到大家。

I hope that you kept your mind open and we stayed curious through the lesson, allowing yourself to think of some of these different ideas, even if they sound a little different and I really encourage you to keep these different ideas in mind if you want to increase your fluency in English or in any language, then you need to think specifically about what you need and take action.

希望大家能够敞开心扉，在本节课程的过程中一直保持好奇心，允许自己考虑一下不同的观点，尽管它们听起来可能有点点不同，我非常鼓励大家把这些观点内化于心，如果你真的想提升自己的英语流利度或者是任何语言的流利度的话，那你需要仔细思考自己到底需要什么，然后采取行动。