How to Improve Your English Speaking Skills (by Yourself) · EngFluent
这个视频教你如何通过自我模仿来提高英语口语技能，无需他人陪伴。只需听后模仿对话、故事或演讲，就能改善发音、语法、句式、词汇和表达能力。视频中介绍了从简单短语到完整演讲的逐步练习方法，称为'easy-to-hard imitation'，基于渐进式训练。适合所有英语学习者，尤其是初学者，帮助你自信地用
I think you already know that if you want to improve your English speaking skills, you have to practice, right?
我想你已经知道：如果你想提高自己的英语口语能力，就必须多加练习，对吧？
You have to speak.
你必须说出来。
Studying grammar will never improve your speaking.
仅仅学习语法是无法提高你的口语水平的。
Listening to English alone will never improve your speaking.
仅仅听英语是无法提高你的口语水平的。
You have to actually speak.
你真的必须开口说话才行。
But what if you don't have someone to talk to in English?
但是，如果你没有可以用来用英语交流的人该怎么办呢？
How can you practice then?
那么，你该如何进行练习呢？
Well, there's a technique that allows you to learn to speak English by yourself.
嗯，有一种方法可以帮助你自学英语。
No speaking partner is required.
无需寻找对话伙伴（即无需与他人进行面对面的交流）。
This technique can help improve many aspects of your spoken English: your sentence structure, your grammar, your vocabulary,
这种技巧有助于提升你英语口语的多个方面：句子结构、语法以及词汇量。
and most importantly, your ability to express your thoughts and ideas effectively.
最重要的是，你能否有效地表达自己的想法和观点。
So what is this technique?
那么，这种技术到底是什么呢？
Well, here's what it is...
好吧，事情是这样的……
Learning to speak English through imitation.
通过模仿来学习说英语。
When I say imitation, I'm not talking about repeating after native speakers using the exact same words to improve your pronunciation.
当我提到“模仿”时，我并不是指简单地跟着母语者重复他们说的话（同时使用完全相同的词汇），以此来提高自己的发音能力。
I'm talking about something a little more advanced than that.
我指的是比那更高级一些的东西。
Here's how it works: you listen to
具体操作流程如下：你只需聆听即可。
a conversation, a story, or some kind of speech, and then try to deliver that speech in your own words.
先听一段对话、一个故事或某种形式的演讲，然后尝试用你自己的话来复述这段演讲内容。
Let's see this technique in action: When I was a child When he was a child my parents liked to pretend,
让我们来看看这种技巧的实际应用吧：在我小时候，我的父母就喜欢一起假装各种场景。
like many other parents his parents liked to pretend, like many other parents that Santa Claus would bring us presents at Christmas.
和其他许多父母一样，他的父母也喜欢假装——他们相信圣诞老人会在圣诞节给我们送礼物。
His parents liked to pretend that Santa Claus would bring them presents at Christmas.
他的父母喜欢假装圣诞老人会在圣诞节给他们送礼物。
So when my siblings and I would
那么，当我和我的兄弟姐妹们一起……
wake up on Christmas morning So when he and his siblings would wake up on Christmas morning there'd be a bunch of presents,
在圣诞节早晨醒来……每当他和他的兄弟姐妹们在圣诞节早晨醒来时，总会看到一堆礼物。
from supposedly Santa Claus, sitting in front of the fireplace.
据称这是圣诞老人发来的消息，他正坐在壁炉前。
there'd be a bunch of presents, from supposedly Santa Claus, sitting in front of the fireplace.
壁炉前会放着一堆礼物，据说是圣诞老人送的。
So that's how it works.
这就是它的运作方式。
But that's just one way to do it.
但这只是实现目标的一种方法而已。
There're other ways too.
还有其他方法也可以。
For example, instead of imitating small portions of speech like phrases and short sentences, you can imitate larger portions of speech.
例如，你可以模仿更长的语言片段（如短语或完整的句子），而不仅仅是模仿一些简短的词语或短语。
So in this case, you wait until the speaker completes a thought or an idea, then pause and try to express that idea yourself.
在这种情况下，你应该等到演讲者讲完一个观点或想法后，再暂停，然后尝试自己表达这个观点。
Another approach is to simply listen to the whole speech and then try to deliver that entire speech yourself.
另一种方法是先完整地听一遍演讲内容，然后再尝试自己复述整个演讲。
So there are several ways to go about it, but what I recommend is to combine them all together,
因此，有多种方法可以来实现这个目标，但我建议将所有这些方法结合起来使用。
and I call this approach easy-to-hard imitation.
我将这种模仿方式称为“从简单到复杂的模仿过程”。
Easy-to-hard imitation is based on the concept of progressive training.
从简单到复杂的模仿过程，其实是基于“渐进式训练”这一理念的。
The idea is that you start with something easy and then increase the difficulty of the activity, forcing yourself to get better.
这个方法的核心思想是：从简单的事情开始，逐渐增加活动的难度，从而迫使自己不断提高自己的能力。
A number of studies have found this kind of training to be very effective.
多项研究发现，这种培训方式非常有效。
Here's how you can apply this concept: start by imitating small portions of speech first like phrases and short sentences,
你可以按照以下步骤来应用这个概念：首先从模仿语言中的小片段开始，比如短语和简短的句子。
then move on to imitating larger portions of speech like long sentences or even groups of sentences, and finally,
然后逐步尝试模仿更长的言语片段，比如长句或句子组；最后，
try to deliver the entire speech on your own.
尽量独自完成整个演讲。
This technique offers many benefits.
这种技术带来了许多好处。