learn to speak English.

學會說英語。

I’ve been teaching English for over 10 years, but it’s only in the past year that I’ve

我教英語已經有10多年了。 但只是在過去的一年裡，我已經

had the chance to watch my son start to pick up language.

有機會看著兒子開始學習語言。

He’s 20 months and his language skills are exploding.

他已經20個月了，他的語言能力是 爆炸。

I’m going to give you three tricks to help you study the language the way he is working on it.

小編給大家支三招，助你一臂之力。 你研究語言的方式，他正在研究它。

Are you ready to go to play yard Stoney?

你準備好去玩院子裡的石頭了嗎？

Are you ready to go?

你準備好了嗎？

Are you sure?

你確定嗎？

Uh-oh! What did you drop?

啊哦！你掉了什麼？

When a baby is first experimenting with language, it’s babble, la, la, la, ba, ba, ba.

當寶寶剛開始嘗試語言的時候。 這是胡言亂語，拉，拉，拉，巴，巴，巴。

Stoney had almost no sounds developed.

石頭幾乎沒有任何聲音開發。

He had an AH vowel, and he had m, mama, and a B, baba, baba.

他有一個AH元音，他有m，媽媽，還有一個B，巴巴。 巴巴：

What he seemed to be imitating and playing with more than sounds was stress.

他似乎在模仿和玩弄什麼？ 與比聲音是壓力。

So many students get hung up on the sounds.

所以很多學生都會被聲音所困擾。

I actually think stress is more important.

其實我覺得壓力更重要。

Stress relates to rhythm and intonation.

壓力與節奏和音調有關。

These make up the feeling of English more than the sounds do.

這些更構成了英語的感覺 比聲音做。

Somehow, I don’t know how, he got obsessed with the song ‘Mambo Italiano’.

不知道怎麼的，他就迷上了。 與 "Mambo Italiano "的歌曲。

The chorus goes like this: Hey mambo, mambo Italiano.

副歌是這樣唱的："嘿，曼波，曼波。嘿，曼波，曼波 意大利語。

At this point, he can kind of say ‘hey mambo’.

這時候，他算是可以說'嘿，曼波'了。

But he cannot say ‘mambo italiano’.

但他不會說 "曼波意大利語"。

Instead he says something like “Hey Mambo....."

他卻說："嘿，曼波......"

He really gets the intonation and stress down. It matches the song perfectly.

他真的是把音調和壓力都壓下來了。和這首歌完美的匹配。

The sounds aren't there. But the feeling is there. It's the feeling of the sentence.

聲音不在那裡。但感覺是存在的。就是這句話的感覺。

As he gets better with sounds,

隨著他的聲音越來越好。

as he learns them, he’ll go back and fill them in if he's still singing this song.

當他學會了，如果他還在唱這首歌，他就會回去補上。

But for now, it's "Hey Mambo!"

但現在，它的 "嘿，曼波！"

Pretty amazing. A year and a half and he's matching the pitch and the stress.

挺神奇的。一年半的時間，他的球場和壓力都在匹配。

This is something I encourage my students to do.

這是我鼓勵我的學生 要做。

Think about not just the individual sounds but also think about the overall feeling of the sentence.

不要只考慮個別的聲音 但也要考慮到句子的整體感覺。

How are you?

你好嗎？

Uhhh.

呃...

How are you.

你還好嗎？

The feeling is, everything connected, pitch changes smoothly, uuhhh, scooping up then down.

感覺是，一切都連在一起，音調變化平穩，嗯嗯，舀起再放下。

Uuuhhh. How are you?

Uuuhhh.你怎麼樣？

Practicing sentences this way helps you practice the feeling.

這樣練習句子可以幫助你練出感覺。

Uh, how are you?

呃，你怎麼樣？

Uuuhhh

Uuuhhh

Are you willing to practice phrases that are just on ‘uh’?

你願意練習那些只在'呃'上的短語嗎？

Babies are laying a foundation of the feeling of English for months before they put in all the details,

寶寶是打基礎的感覺。 的英語幾個月，才把所有的細節。

the finer pieces of the tongue movements and the sounds.

舌尖 動作和聲音。

I think you should also be practicing English this way.

我想你也應該這樣練習英語。

Sometimes, just practice the feeling of a sentence.

有的時候，就練習一下句子的感覺。

Uuhhhh. How are you?

Uuhhhh。你怎麼樣？

Uuhhhh. How are you?

Uuhhhh。你怎麼樣？

Tip #2: When I’m holding Stoney in my arm and his face is very close to me, it's right here,

技巧二：當我把斯通尼抱在懷裡，他的臉離我很近的時候，它就在這裡。

I’ve noticed something. He looks at me like this.

我注意到一些事情。他這樣看著我

Total concentration, focused in. He's staring right at my mouth.

全神貫注，專注的在。 他正盯著我的嘴。

My mom noticed this too.

我媽媽也注意到了這一點。

She said, he watches my mouth so closely when I speak.

她說，我說話的時候，他很仔細地觀察我的嘴。

He’s curious, he wants the combination of the visual information along with what he’s hearing.

他很好奇，他想把視覺資訊和聽覺資訊結合起來。

I think it can be incredibly helpful to study native speaker’s mouths when learning.

我認為，這可以是令人難以置信的幫助，以研究 學習時，母語者的口。

Every one of my sound videos has close ups of the mouth in slow motion,

我的每一個聲音視頻都有特寫 的嘴裡慢動作。

and lots of my other videos do too, like one I did on linking with the TH.

我的很多其他視頻也是如此，比如我做的一個關於與TH鏈接的視頻。

I’ll put links to those videos in the description.

我會在描述中加入這些視頻的鏈接。

Sometimes I tell students to watch themselves in a mirror or make a video and watch that.

有時我告訴學生要注意自己 在鏡子裡，或者做一個視頻，看那個。

One of my students in my online school just posted a video to our Facebook group where

我網校的一個學員剛 在我們的Facebook群裡發佈了一段視頻，其中

there was very little mouth movement happening.

很少有嘴部動作發生。

And it’s hard for your English to be natural and clear when you’re hardly moving your mouth at all.

而且你的英語也很難說得很自然 和清晰的時候，你幾乎沒有移動你的嘴。

When she went back and looked at it, she saw, oh yeah, I understand, I’m cheating the

當她回去看的時候，她看到。 哦，是的，我明白了，我欺騙了

mouth position of some of the sounds that use more jaw drop or lip rounding.

嘴的位置，一些聲音的 多用下頜下垂或脣部圓潤。

So focus in on the mouth of native speakers

所以要把重點放在母語人士的口中

and then pay attention to your own mouth positions as you're practicing sounds.

然後在練習聲音的時候注意自己的嘴部位置。

Tip #3: What do toddlers do that is incredibly annoying?

技巧三：幼兒做什麼事非常討厭？

They say and do the same thing over and over and over.

他們一遍又一遍地說著同樣的話，做著同樣的事。 並在。

In the park by our house, there’s a play structure with a fake raccoon face carved into a tree.

在我們家旁邊的公園裡，有一個遊樂場。 結構，樹上刻著一張假浣熊臉。

Stoney calls it ‘aa-coon’ and asks for it constantly.

Stoney稱它為 "aa-coon"，並要求。 它不斷。

There are times where he probably says the word 20 times in a row.

有的時候，他可能會說 字連續20次。

Any parent or caregiver out there knows how much children repeat themselves.

任何一個父母或照顧者都知道如何 很多孩子都在重複。

This is part of learning, of building muscle memory,

這是學習的一部分，鍛鍊肌肉的一部分 記憶。

building mastery, developing the fine and subtle changes in mouth position

培養掌握、發展口型的精細、微妙變化

native for speaking a language.

土生土長，因為會說一種語言。

Repetition can not only help adults speak better English, but I would say it’s essential.

複述不僅可以幫助成人說話 更好的英語，但我想說這是必不可少的。

Let’s say your pronunciation isn’t very good.

比方說你的發音不是很好。

You can learn how to pronounce something better, or how something should be pronounced.

你可以學習如何更好的發音。 或某物應該如何發音。

For example, by watching videos on my channel.

例如，通過在我的頻道上觀看視頻。

But knowing something does nothing to change your body and your habit.

但知道了一些事情，卻無法改變 你的身體和你的習慣。

You already have strong muscle memory established as an adult.

你已經建立了強大的肌肉記憶 成年後。

Creating a sound that you don’t have in your native language, or creating a new

創造一個你沒有的聲音，在 您的母語，或創建一個新的

feeling of English is impossible without repetition.

英語的感覺是不可能沒有重複的。

Before I started teaching English, I sang opera.

在我開始教英語之前，我是唱歌劇的。

In practicing, it would make no sense to sing the song from start to finish over and over.

在實踐中，如果唱歌就沒有意義了 這首歌從頭到尾一遍又一遍。

You work in sections.

你要分段工作。

You pick out specific lines that are tricky, and you do them over and over and over.

你挑出具體的線路，是很棘手的。 而你卻一遍遍地做，一遍遍地做。

Maybe you take the text away from the music and you practice that separately. Just sing out loud.

也許你把文字從音樂中帶走了 和你分開練習。就大聲唱出來。

The point is, you break it down, and you work with it over and over and over.

重點是，你把它分解，然後你的工作。 與它一遍又一遍。

You take a break, you sleep, and your body, your mind, does something with that.

你休息一下，你睡覺，你的身體。 你的頭腦，做一些事情與。

It saves it.

它保存了它。

And then the next day you come back and you work again.

然後第二天你回來，你... 再次工作。

So be like a toddler and practice the same thing over and over.

所以，要像幼兒一樣，修煉同樣的 的事情，一遍又一遍。

Let’s say 'comfortable' is a tricky word for you.

比方說'舒服'這個詞對你來說很棘手。

First, learn how to pronounce it.

首先，要學會如何發音。

I have a video on that.

我有一個視頻。

Then play it and say it, play it and say it over and over again.

那就彈一彈，說一說，彈一彈，說一說。 一遍又一遍。

You can use a site like forvo.com, where native speakers have uploaded word pronunciations.

你可以使用forvo.com這樣的網站，那裡的母語人士已經上傳了單詞的發音。

Play the native speaker, say it out loud.

播放母語，大聲說出來。

Play the native speaker, say it out loud.

播放母語，大聲說出來。

Do this 10, 20 times in row.

連續做10、20次。

Once it gets really good, don’t stop.

一旦它變得非常好，不要停止。

That’s when you need to keep going!

這時候你就需要繼續前進!

To solidify the correct, natural way of doing it.

要鞏固正確、自然的方法。

This repetition will help you get better.

這種重複會幫助你變得更好。

So as a teacher of language, I realize I have so much to learn about teaching a language by watching my son,

所以，作為一名語文老師，通過觀察兒子，我才發現自己在語文教學方面有很多值得學習的地方。

a native speaker, learn from the beginning.

母語者，從頭學起。

At one point in this video, I mentioned my online school. It’s called Rachel’s English Academy,

在這個視頻中，我曾經提到過我的。 在線學校。它叫瑞秋英語學院。

and I have thousands of audio files broken up and slowed down

我有數千份音頻文件被破壞，速度變慢了

so that my students can practice little bits of conversation with the play it, say it method.

以便我的學生能用玩一玩，說一說的方法練習小段對話。

It’s amazing. I’ll watch a student doing this, and I don’t even have to tell him what to fix.

這是驚人的。我會看著一個學生這樣做，我甚至不用告訴他該怎麼解決。

Just by playing it and saying it over and over without stopping,

只是通過播放它，並說它在和 不停的過來。

subtle changes happen, and it starts to sound so good.

微妙的變化發生了，它開始變得那麼好聽。

If you’re interested in learning more about the school, please visit RachelsEnglishAcademy.com

如果您有興趣瞭解更多關於 請訪問RachelsEnglishAcademy.com。