A2 English Listening Practice - Soft Skills · Listening Time
本视频讲解A2级别英语听力练习中的软技能，特别是沟通技巧。适合练习听力和提升日常交流能力，帮助理解快速英语和有效表达。
Hey English learners, welcome to this A2 English listening practice video.
嘿，英语学习者们，欢迎观看这个A2级别的英语听力练习视频！
In today's video, I'm going to talk about soft skills.
在今天的视频中，我将讨论“软技能”（即那些非技术性的个人能力）。
Soft skills are the skills that we have that aren't technical, right?
软技能是指那些非技术性的能力，对吧？
In particular today, I want to talk about soft skills related to communication
特别是在今天，我想谈谈与沟通相关的“软技能”（即那些非技术性的、有助于人际交往的能力）。
and how you can use these skills, these soft skills, to improve your communication.
以及你如何利用这些技能（尤其是那些所谓的“软技能”）来提升自己的沟通能力。
And of course, when you speak English, when you speak a foreign language, it's good to have these skills.
当然，无论你说的是英语还是其他外语，掌握这些技能都是非常有帮助的。
They'll make your communication better and more effective in any language that you speak.
无论你使用哪种语言，它们都能让你的沟通更加顺畅、更加高效。
So that's what we're going to talk about today.
这就是我们今天要讨论的内容。
And remember to check out my listening practice seminars.
别忘了参加我的听力练习研讨会哦。
You can join my membership and get access to those seminars to help you understand when native speakers speak fast,
您可以加入我的会员计划，从而获得这些研讨会的观看权限。这些研讨会将帮助您理解母语者说话速度较快时的情况。
okay?
好的？
I know that a lot of you have trouble understanding fast English.
我知道，你们中的很多人很难听懂语速较快的英语。
And that's why I have those seminars to help you train and help you
这就是为什么我举办那些研讨会，目的是帮助你们进行培训并提升你们的能力。
understand different patterns that can be hard to understand when people speak fast.
能够理解各种语言表达模式；当人们说话速度很快时，这些模式往往难以被准确理解。
And also, if you want to start speaking and you need a teacher,
另外，如果你想开始学习语言但需要一位老师的帮助的话……
then I highly recommend that you check out my US conversations podcast.
那么，我强烈推荐你去听听我的《美国对话》播客。
Because in that podcast, I talk to many different English teachers from around the US.
因为在那个播客中，我和来自美国各地的许多英语教师进行了交流。
And so you can hear and listen
因此，你可以听到并聆听这些声音。
to my conversations with those teachers and see if you like them and take a class with one of them.
你可以和那些老师聊聊，看看你是否喜欢他们的教学方式，然后选择其中一位老师的课程来上课。
So those links are down below.
这些链接在下方。
Okay, let's talk about soft skills.
好的，我们来谈谈“软技能”吧。
So as I already mentioned, soft skills are the skills that we have that aren't technical.
正如我之前所说，软技能是指那些非技术性的、我们自身具备的技能。
So both soft skills and hard skills are important in some fields.
因此，在某些领域中，软技能和硬技能同样都很重要。
Hard skills are more important than soft skills.
硬技能比软技能更重要。
But in some fields, soft skills might be equally as important or even more important than hard skills.
但在某些领域，软技能可能与硬技能同样重要，甚至更为重要。
And for me, in my experience,
以我的经验来说，
I don't have a lot of hard skills, okay?
我并没有掌握很多高深的技能，好吧？
I don't have a lot of technical skills except for skills related to language,
我并没有太多技术方面的技能，除了与语言处理相关的技能之外。
writing, linguistics, things like that.
写作、语言学之类的领域。
But I do have some soft skills that have helped me develop my career.
不过，我确实掌握了一些有助于我职业发展的“软技能”（即那些无法用具体数据衡量的能力，如沟通能力、团队协作能力等）。
Specifically, my way of communicating, my way of speaking, these skills have helped me make content for English learners.
具体来说，我的沟通方式、我的说话方式，以及这些语言表达能力，都帮助我为英语学习者制作了相关学习内容。
And people tend to like my way of talking, the way I speak.
人们普遍喜欢我的说话方式。
And so these aren't technical skills.
因此，这些并不属于技术技能（即不需要通过专门的学习或培训来掌握的技能）。
These are soft skills.
这些属于“软技能”（即那些无法通过考试或培训直接掌握的、但对个人成功至关重要的能力）。
But they have been really important for me in my career.
但它们在我的职业生涯中确实起到了非常重要的作用。
And I think that soft skills related to communication are really important.
我认为，与沟通相关的软技能确实非常重要。
And you are a language learner.
而你正是一名语言学习者。
And so you should care about communicating
因此，你应该重视沟通的重要性。
well and having good soft skills that can help you when you interact with other people in English or in any other language.
当然，拥有良好的沟通技巧（即所谓的“软技能”）也非常重要。这些技巧能帮助你在与他人交流时更有效地使用英语或其他语言。
So let me talk about some specific soft skills related to communication
那么，让我来谈谈一些与沟通相关的具体软技能吧。