newest lesson. This is of course where you want to be every week if your goal

最新的課程。當然，這也是你每週想要的地方，如果你的目

is to communicate with confidence. This week we're focused on five mistakes you

是以自信的方式進行溝通。本週我們關注的是你的五個錯誤。

might be making and if you are they can hurt your fluency and your confidence in

如果你是，他們可能會傷害你的流暢性和你的信心。

English. So of course we want to stop making those mistakes and we want to do

英語。所以，我們當然希望不再犯這些錯誤，我們要做的是

something a little bit different so that you can start making progress. So if you

有點不同的東西，這樣你就可以開始進步。所以如果你

feel like you are doing everything right - you are practicing grammar and trying to

覺得自己做的一切都是對的--你正在練習文法，並努力做到以下幾點

learn new vocabulary, maybe you're listening to podcasts and reading

學習新的詞彙，也許你在聽播客和閱讀。

English online, you're reading newspapers watching movies and TV shows, if you're

英語在線，你在看報紙看電影看電視劇，如果你是

doing all those things and nothing is working or maybe you really want to be

做所有這些事情，但沒有任何工作，或者也許你真的想成為

fluent in English but you just can't find the time right now or you're

流利的英語，但你現在就是找不到時間，或者你是

worried that maybe you're just not good at learning English, you just can't be

擔心也許你只是不善於學習英語，你只是不能成為

fluent you're never going to be confident like someone else, if any of

流利的你永遠不會像別人那樣自信，如果有任何

those sound like you then today's lesson is a hundred percent for you because you

這些聽起來像你，那麼今天的課程是百分之百適合你的，因為你是

might be making some mistakes that make you feel that way. And the truth is you

可能是犯了一些錯誤，讓你有這樣的感覺。而事實是你

can absolutely become fluent and confident in English. This is what I do

絕對可以成為流利和自信的英語。這就是我所做的

every day and I work with students who like you felt that it was impossible.

每天和我一起工作的學生都和你一樣覺得這是不可能的。

They thought they were doing everything right and nothing was working for them.

他們以為自己做的一切都是對的，卻沒有任何東西對他們有用。

Now before we get started with the first mistake you might be making I want to

在我們開始處理你可能會犯的第一個錯誤之前，我想...

tell you that today's lesson might include a little bit of tough love. When

告訴你，今天的課程可能會包含一點強硬的愛。當

we talk about giving someone tough love in English what we mean is that we might

我們說到給別人強硬的愛，在英語中，我們的意思是，我們可能會。

say or do something that seems strict or too strong

嚴詞奪理

maybe it's harsh, it's something you don't want to hear but we say it because

也許這很刺耳，這是你不想聽到的，但我們說出來，因為。

we want to help you. I'm going to say some things because I want to see you

我們想幫助你。我會說一些事情，因為我想看到你。

succeed I don't want you to stay stuck, I don't want you to feel frustrated, I

我不希望你停留在這裡，我不希望你感到沮喪，我...

don't want you to give up on English. I want you to be successful so I'm going

不希望你放棄英語。我希望你能成功，所以我將

to share a little bit of tough love with you but I'm also going to help you find

與你分享一點堅強的愛，但我也會幫你找到

solutions so that you can stop making these mistakes and start making real

的解決方案，這樣你就可以停止犯這些錯誤，開始真正的。

progress. Mistake number one is doing this same old thing again and again in

進展。錯誤一是老調重彈，在

English and when I say same old thing what I mean is that you're doing the

英語，當我說同樣的老東西，我的意思是，你做的是

same things you did when you first started to learn English -

和你剛開始學英語的時候做的事情一樣

you probably started with a grammar book in a classroom and you did grammar

你可能從課堂上的文法書開始，你做了文法。

activities. You learned rules and you memorized lists of words. All of those

活動。你學會了規則，記住了單詞表。所有這些

things are great as a beginner English learner. You have to create a foundation

作為一個英語初學者，事情是偉大的。你必須建立一個基礎

of course you need to understand grammar rules and you need vocabulary to get

當然，你需要了解文法規則，你需要詞彙量來獲得。

started but as you make progress as you advance you need to change how you learn

但隨著你的進步，你需要改變你的學習方式。

and use English. If your goal is fluency and confidence, those don't come from a

和使用英語。如果你的目標是流利和自信，這些不是來自於一個

grammar book and they don't come from memorizing lists of words. I get a lot of

文法書，而不是靠背單詞表來的。我得到了很多

emails with questions like, Anne Marie do you have a grammar book to recommend to

電子郵件的問題，如，安妮瑪麗你有文法書推薦給

help me speak English better or Anne Marie what vocabulary do I need to speak

幫助我更好地說英語或Anne Marie我需要什麼詞彙來說話。

fluently and the truth is it's not grammar or

流利，而事實是，這不是文法或。

vocabulary. It is speaking and practice speaking that will help you become

詞彙量。說話和練習說話才會幫助你成為

fluent and confident. So if you're waiting to buy the new best grammar book

流利和自信。所以，如果你還在等著買新的最好的文法書。

or if you're wondering what vocabulary to learn so that you can communicate

或者如果你想知道要學習什麼詞彙，以便你能進行交流。

fluently, I want to tell you that the real answer is learning to use English.

流利，我想告訴你，真正的答案是學會使用英語。

So let's try a new way to do that. The first thing I want you to do is put away

那我們就來試試新的方法吧。我想讓你做的第一件事就是收起... ...

your grammar book. Yes grammar is important but we're going

你的文法書。是的，文法是很重要的，但我們要...

to start looking at how grammar is used in real life so what I would recommend

開始研究文法在現實生活中是如何使用的，所以我推薦的是

is that you choose a blog that you're interested in reading in English or

是你選擇一個你有興趣閱讀的博客，用英文或。

listen to a podcast (if you need help I have a great lesson on eleven fantastic

聽一個播客（如果你需要幫助，我有一個偉大的教訓，在11個夢幻般的。

podcasts to listen to in English). So the first step is choosing something to read

播客來聽英語）。)所以第一步是選擇一些閱讀的內容

or listen to in English and that will help you see how we use grammar in real

或用英語聽，這將幫助你看到我們如何使用文法在實際的

life and then the next step, the more important step, is talk about it. You can

生活，然後下一步，更重要的一步，就是談。你可以

talk about it with a friend or maybe someone that you work with or if you

與朋友或與你一起工作的人談論它，或如果你

have no one to practice with you can even practice by yourself. In fact right

沒有人陪你練，你甚至可以自己練。其實吧

now I have a free audio training that you can download where I share three

現在我有一個免費的音頻培訓，你可以下載，我在這裡分享了三個。

strategies to develop the courage and confidence to say what you want in

培養勇氣和信心的策略，以說出你想要的東西。

English and in those strategies I talk about things that you can do on your own

英語，在這些策略中，我說的是你可以自己做的事情。

to practice speaking so you can use those to help you begin to use English

練習口語，所以你可以用這些來幫助你開始使用英語。

in your real life you're improving your listening, you're

在你的現實生活中，你正在改善你的聽力，你是

reading, you're learning to understand how we use grammar and vocabulary in

閱讀，你正在學習瞭解我們如何使用文法和詞彙在。

real life and then you're immediately speaking. You're practicing it. You're

現實生活中，然後你馬上就會說話。你在練習它。你是

using it and that's how you begin to make progress on your fluency and

使用它，這就是你如何開始進步你的流暢性和。

confidence. Mistake number two is closely related it's I'm doing everything but

的信心。錯誤之二與之密切相關的是我什麼都做了，但是

nothing is working so maybe you are already reading blogs and

沒有任何工作，所以也許你已經閱讀博客和。

you're listening to podcasts you watch movies and TV shows you read newspapers

你聽播客 你看電影和電視節目 你看報紙

and yes you still do grammar activities and vocabulary activities you're doing

是的，你還在做文法活動和詞彙活動，你在做什麼？

everything but nothing is working. I get so many emails and questions about this

所有的東西，但沒有任何工作。我收到了很多電子郵件和問題，關於這個

because it's really frustrating to spend a lot of time on English and then still

因為花了很多時間在英語上，但還是很沮喪

feel nervous and shy or worried when you speak. When I get questions like this I

說話時感到緊張害羞或擔心。當我收到這樣的問題時，我

often say you are doing everything but are you speaking? One of the things I

常常說你什麼都在做，但你說話了嗎？其中有一件事我

notice when I see lists of everything you're doing - there's one thing that's

當我看到你所做的一切的清單時，我注意到--有一件事是

missing. It's speaking. I don't see anything like I'm speaking with my

缺少。它的發言。我沒有看到任何東西像我說話與我的。

friends at work or I practice speaking at lunch every day with my colleagues

工作上的朋友，或者我每天中午和同事們一起練習演講。

and that is the key. All of those other things are fantastic and they are

這就是關鍵。所有這些其他的東西都是奇妙的，他們是

absolutely essential to helping you improve your listening, your reading

絕對是幫助你提高聽力、閱讀能力的關鍵。

skills, growing your vocabulary, learning how native speakers communicate and

技巧，增加詞彙量，學習母語人士的交流方式，以及。

different accents, and pronunciation but if you're not speaking you can't grow

不同的口音，不同的發音，但如果你不說話，你就不能成長。

your fluency and build your confidence. I want to use an example for you think

你的流利程度，建立你的信心。我想用一個例子讓大家思考

about when you first learned to ride a bike

關於你第一次學會騎車的時候

you probably didn't read a lot of books about riding a bike

你可能沒有讀過很多關於騎車的書吧？

you probably didn't learn all the rules of a bike or the mechanics of how a bike

你可能沒有學會所有的自行車規則，也沒有學會自行車的機械原理。

works. You didn't watch other people and then immediately get on a bike and ride

的作品。你沒有看著別人，然後馬上騎上自行車，騎著車

it successfully. Instead, one day someone helped you get on a bike and you were

它的成功。相反，有一天，有人幫你騎上了自行車，你卻被

probably super nervous. If you were like me you were off-balance and you

可能超級緊張。如果你像我一樣，你失去了平衡，你。

immediately fell over and maybe that fall was painful and you thought why am

立刻摔倒了，也許那一跤是痛苦的，你認為為什麼我

I doing this? It's crazy! But you really wanted to learn to

我這樣做？瘋了！但你真的想學

ride a bike. Someone was there to help you, they picked you up, they encouraged

騎自行車。有人在那裡幫助你，他們接你，他們鼓勵你。

you, supported you so you got on the bike again you tried it. You did it. You moved

你，支持你，所以你又騎上了自行車，你試過了。你做到了你動了

your legs and you balanced on the bike maybe you fell again and each time it

你的腿和你平衡在自行車上 也許你又摔倒了，每次都是這樣。

was less painful less difficult and it was easier to keep going forward that is

是少了痛苦少了困難，它是更容易繼續前進，這是

exactly how fluency works. And that is what happens when you begin practicing

正是流利的工作方式。這就是當你開始練習時發生的事情

speaking. It is hard at first. It's challenging and you might make some

講話。一開始是很難的。這是一個挑戰，你可能會做一些

mistakes but it's important to keep going forward and the key is that you're

失誤，但重要的是要不斷前進，關鍵是你是

speaking. Now if you are a really shy and nervous English speaker this is the

說。如果你是一個非常害羞和緊張的英語口語者，這是一個非常好的選擇。

hardest part - the idea of making a mistake is terrifying

最困難的部分--犯錯誤的想法是可怕的

it's the one thing you don't want to do so what I recommend is that you make

這是你不想做的一件事，所以我建議你做的是

sure you find someone - a friend a colleague a teacher - that you are

確保你能找到一個你喜歡的人--朋友、同事、老師。

comfortable with, someone that makes you feel comfortable

舒服的人，讓你覺得舒服的人

that supports you and helps you go forward. That is who you want to practice

支持你並幫助你前進的人。這就是你想要練習的對象

speaking with now. You might think Anne Marie this all sounds great but I

與現在說話。你可能會認為安妮-瑪麗 這一切聽起來很不錯，但我。

have no one to practice with, no one near me speaks English. There are a couple of

沒有人可以練習，我附近沒有人會說英語。有幾個

suggestions that I have for you. One you could try to find a language partner

我給你的建議。一個你可以嘗試找一個語言夥伴

online it is a challenge to do that but there are many websites or you could try

網上是一個挑戰，但有很多網站，或者你可以嘗試

something like meetup.com which is a place where people who have similar

像meetup.com這樣的地方，在那裡有類似的人。

interests get together and maybe there is an English-speaking group near you. If

興趣相投的人聚在一起，也許你附近就有一個英語小組。如果

you're not ready to practice speaking with someone you can do some activities

你還沒有準備好練習與人說話，你可以做一些活動。

on your own that will help you make progress. Again I have that free download

在你自己身上，會幫助你取得進步。我又有那個免費下載

that you can listen to and learn those strategies that you can work on by

你可以聽，並學習那些策略，你可以通過。

yourself and still make progress in your fluency and confidence. And my third

自己，還能在流暢度和信心上有所進步。而我的第三個

recommendation is invest in yourself, invest in your

建議是投資於自己，投資於你的

English. If it's important to you, if you have a dream that you want to accomplish

英文。如果它對你很重要，如果你有一個你想完成的夢想

and you need English to do that, invest in it. Find a teacher, a class that you

而你需要英語來做，投資於它。找一個老師，一個班級，你

can take that will give you the speaking practice that you need. Not another

可以採取，將給你的口語練習，你需要。不是另一個

grammar class, not a bunch of vocabulary. You need someone that is going to give

文法課，而不是一堆詞彙。你需要的人，是要給

you speaking and feedback. In fact that is exactly what my Fluency School course

你的發言和反饋。事實上，這正是我的 "流利學校 "課程的內容

is all about. Fluency School was specifically designed for shy English

是的全部內容。流利學校是專門為害羞的英語而設計的。

speakers who want to practice speaking and who want to do it in a really

想練習演講的人，並且想在一個真正的環境中進行演講。

friendly, supportive, and motivating community. So if it's important to you

友好、支持和激勵的社區。所以，如果它對你很重要

then, investing in what you want is also a fantastic option. The third mistake

那麼，投資自己想要的東西也是一個絕妙的選擇。第三個錯誤

that I often see is focusing on the negative,

我經常看到的是關注負面的東西。

believing that you can't. When nothing works and you're feeling stuck after

相信自己不行。當什麼都不奏效，你感覺被卡住了之後

years and years of study you start to think that you just can't speak English

年復一年的學習，你開始覺得你就是不會說英語。

maybe other people can be fluent but you can't, you're just not good at learning

也許別人能說得很流利，但你不能，你只是不善於學習而已。

languages, you can understand English you just can't speak it. Negativity is

語言，你能聽懂英語，只是不會說而已。負面情緒是

powerful. Negative thoughts make us feel unhappy, stressed, and unsatisfied. When we

強大。負面的想法會讓我們感到不快樂、壓力和不滿足。當我們

focus on the negative it often leads us to feeling afraid and ultimately to

注重負面的東西，往往會讓我們感到恐懼，最終導致......。

giving up but I want you to think about those negative thoughts a little

但我想讓你考慮一下那些消極的想法

differently. Of course there is a lot of advice online that says turn negative

不一樣的。當然網上有很多建議，說把負面的

thoughts into positive ones and I don't agree a hundred percent because the

思想轉化為積極的思想，我不完全同意，因為。

truth might be that you can't speak English fluently - yet. It might be true

真相可能是你還不能流利地說英語--還沒有。這可能是真的

that you're not confident in English - yet. It might be true that you don't have a

你對英語還沒有信心。也許是真的，你沒有一個真正的

high level of vocabulary or you can't speak like someone else does in English

詞彙量大，或者說你不能像別人一樣用英語說。

- yet. Did you notice that keyword that I used again and again? The word yet. The

- 然而。你注意到我反覆使用的那個關鍵詞了嗎？這個詞尚未。這個

word yet means up to now or at this point but it also gives us the hope and

意思是到現在為止或在這一點上，但它也給我們的希望和。

the feeling that it can change it might change tomorrow, it might change next

感覺它可以改變它可能會改變明天，它可能會改變下一個。

week. If we work on it we can make progress, there is the opportunity to

周。只要我們努力，就能取得進步，就有機會在

reach our goal. So what I want you to do is to start focusing on the power of yet

達到我們的目標。所以我想讓你做的是開始關注的力量，然而。

instead of thinking I can't and if you're thinking but I don't know what to

而不是想我不能，如果你在想，但我不知道該怎麼做。

do, I don't know how to take a step or make progress, my big hint is follow the

做，我不知道如何邁出一步，如何進步，我的大提示是按照。

tips that I'm giving you today, whether it's finding a language partner, doing an

我今天給大家的建議，無論是找語言夥伴，還是做一個。

activity where you listen to a podcast and then practice speaking about it ,you

在這個活動中，你聽了一個播客，然後練習講它，你

can use the strategies in my free audio download or maybe investing in a class

可以在我的免費音頻下載中使用策略，或者投資於一個班級。

and we'll talk about a few more strategies as we go but all of those are

我們會在走的時候再談一些策略，但這些策略都是......。

great steps to take that mean you are beginning to practice speaking in

採取偉大的步驟，這意味著你開始練習說話在

English which will help you reach your goal of being fluent and confident. The

英語，這將幫助你達到你的目標，成為流利和自信。該

fourth mistake that I often see is believing that you don't have time.

我經常看到的第四個錯誤是相信自己沒有時間。

Remember earlier in this video I said I might give you a little bit of tough

記得之前在這個視頻中我說過，我可能會給你一點強硬的。

love today and this is where I'm going to do it. I often hear people say I

今天的愛，就是我要做的。我經常聽到有人說我

really want to be fluent I just can't find time or I don't have time. And it's

真的很想成為流利的人，我只是找不到時間或者沒有時間。而且

true that when we want to accomplish something we have to commit to it, we

誠然，當我們想完成一件事的時候，我們必須承諾，我們

have to work on it and that takes some of our time. It might be running a

必須在它的工作，這需要我們的一些時間。它可能是運行一個

marathon, participating in a competition, learning to play the piano, joining a

馬拉松、參加比賽、學習彈鋼琴、參加

choir. It might be losing weight and getting fit. Those do require daily effort and

合唱團。可能是減肥和健身。這些確實需要每天的努力和

fluency confidence in English are the same. It

流利性的英語信心是一樣的。它

does require daily effort, it requires some of your time. Now it doesn't have to

確實需要每天的努力，需要你的一些時間。現在不一定要

be hours of time every day, it doesn't have to take over your life. It might be

每天都要花幾個小時的時間，它不一定要佔據你的生活。它可能是

five minutes on Mondays and 20 minutes on Tuesdays but here is the tough love,

週一5分鐘，週二20分鐘，但這裡是強硬的愛。

here's the truth: it's not that you don't have time or you can't find the time. The

事實是：不是你沒有時間，也不是你找不到時間。而是...

truth is you won't. You want to become fluent in English but you won't wake up

事實是你不會。你想說一口流利的英語，但你不會醒悟過來

earlier than normal to do a little bit of studying. You want to be fluent in

比正常情況下更早地做一點學習。你要精通

English but you won't practice speaking with your colleague during lunch. You

英語，但你不會在午餐時與同事練習口語。你

want to be fluent in English but you won't make time in the evening to

想說一口流利的英語，但晚上又抽不出時間來。

practice. That's the tough love. The truth is we make choices about our time and we

練。這就是艱難的愛。事實是，我們對自己的時間做出了選擇，而我們

make choices about our priorities. Now it might be true that right now you do want

對我們的優先事項做出選擇。現在，可能是真的，現在你確實想... ...

to be fluent but it's not a priority. You won't wake up earlier to do it or you

要做到流利，但這不是首要任務。你不會早起去做，或者你

won't find time in the evening and that is absolutely okay. There's nothing right

晚上找不到時間，這絕對沒問題。有什麼不對的

or wrong about your priorities but it's really important to be honest about them.

或對你的優先事項有誤，但誠實對待它們真的很重要。

And here's why it's important: if we only believe that I can't, I can't find the

這就是為什麼它很重要的原因：如果我們只相信我不能，我就找不到。

time, then we get frustrated and upset when something doesn't work or it

的時候，然後我們就會感到沮喪和不安，當一些東西不工作或它的

doesn't happen fast enough, so we start to believe that it's not possible for us,

不夠快，所以我們開始相信，這對我們來說是不可能的。

that no strategy will work for us but that's not true.

沒有任何戰略會對我們有用，但這不是真的。

You absolutely can become confident in English, you absolutely can become fluent

你絕對可以對英語充滿信心，你絕對可以說得很流利。

but it does mean giving time every day and it means speaking practice, it means

但它確實意味著每天都要付出時間，意味著說話練習，意味著

that you are using the language, it means that you create time