How To Improve Your English · Listening Time
视频讲解如何通过正常语速练习提升英语水平，适合练习听力和口语。内容涵盖三个主要提升方法，适合英语学习者参考。
Let's talk about how you can improve your English.
我们来谈谈如何提高你的英语水平吧。
This is another video that I'm making in which I'm speaking at normal speed,
这是我又制作的一个视频，在这个视频中我以正常的速度进行讲话。
so I'm not slowing down.
所以我不会放慢速度。
This is just me talking normally.
这只是我在正常地说话而已。
You guys really liked the last one that I did,
你们真的很喜欢我上次制作的那个作品。
and I'm not going to guarantee that I'm going to make videos like this all the time.
我不能保证我会一直制作这样的视频。
Like I said before, if you want my material where I speak at normal speed or I speak fast,
就像我之前说的，如果你想获取我在正常语速或快速语速下讲话的录音材料，
make sure to sign up for my advanced podcast episodes.
请务必注册收听我的高级主题播客剧集。
I release a lot of those, and so if you want regular practice with this,
我会发布很多这样的资源；因此，如果你想定期进行相关练习的话……
that's your best bet.
这是你最好的选择。
That's the thing you can do to get my material in which I speak fast.
这就是你可以采取的方法，以便让我那些说话速度很快的素材能够被顺利呈现出来。
But today, I want to make another video in which I speak at normal speed like this,
但今天，我想制作另一个视频，在这个视频中我会以正常的速度进行讲话。
and I want to talk about how you can improve your English.
我想谈谈如何提高你的英语水平。
This is a really broad topic.
这是一个非常广泛的话题。
This is very vast.
这个范围非常广泛（或：这个领域非常庞大）。
There are so many things that could be said, of course, but I just want to talk about three main points.
当然，有很多事情可以说，但我只想谈谈三个主要观点。
I want to talk about three things that you can focus on
我想谈谈三件你们可以重点关注的事情。
that will help you improve your English and reach a higher level than what you have right now.
这将帮助你提高英语水平，达到比现在更高的水平。
By the way, I'm wearing these sunglasses again because I'm sitting outside and it's really cold and I want to be in the sun,
顺便说一下，我又戴上了这副太阳镜——因为我现在坐在户外，天气非常寒冷，而我却想晒晒太阳。
and so I'm not just trying to look cool.
所以我这么做，并不仅仅是为了看起来很酷而已。
I've got these sunglasses on just so I can record this in the sun.
我戴着这些太阳镜，就是为了能在阳光下录制这个视频。
So let's talk about three different things you can do in order to improve your English.
那么，让我们来谈谈你可以做的三件不同的事情，以帮助提高你的英语水平。
And what I want to do is I want to talk first just about how we improve in any area.
我想先谈谈的是，我们如何在任何领域取得进步。
Because that's really what I'm going to focus on.
因为这确实是我接下来要重点关注的内容。
Like what three things do we do in order to improve in any domain, any skill that we have,
那么，为了在任何领域或任何我们拥有的技能上取得进步，我们需要做哪三件事呢？
anything that we're trying to improve, what is it that we need to do?
对于任何我们试图改进的事情，我们需要做些什么呢？
Not just language learning, but anything in life.
不仅仅是语言学习，生活中的任何事情都是如此。
Well, number one, we need repeated practice so that we can get comfortable with that thing that we're doing.
首先，我们需要反复练习，这样才能熟练掌握我们所做的事情。
So for example, I think of one of my first jobs that I had, I worked at a deli.
比如说，我想起我最早的工作之一：我在一家熟食店工作。
A deli is a place that sells sandwiches in the US.
在美国，Deli（熟食店）是一种专门出售三明治的店铺。
And so I remember making sandwiches at a deli, and that was one of my first jobs.
我记得自己曾在一家熟食店制作三明治，那也是我的第一份工作之一。
And the way that I got better at my job was just doing it repeatedly.
我之所以能在工作中表现得更好，就是通过不断重复去做同样的事情来提升自己的能力。
At the very beginning, I was terrible at making sandwiches.
一开始，我做三明治的技术非常糟糕。
I did not know what I was doing.
我不知道自己在做什么。
And if you've listened to me talk in different episodes of mine about this subject, you know that in general,
如果你在我之前的节目中听过我谈论这个话题的内容，那么你应该知道：总体而言……
I'm not good with my hands.
我的动手能力不太强。
I have a big weakness when it comes to using my hands to build things, create things, manipulate things.
当我需要用双手来建造东西、创造东西或操作某些物体时，我确实有一个很大的“弱点”（或者说，我对此非常着迷）。
I just can't do it well.
我就是没办法把这件事做好（或者说：我就是无法达到预期的标准）。
That's always been one of my weaknesses.
这一直是我最大的弱点之一。
And so you can imagine when I first started making sandwiches, it took me a while to get the hang of it.
你可以想象一下，当我刚开始制作三明治的时候，花了好一段时间才掌握了制作技巧。