Hello I'm Emma from mmmEnglish! In this video, we're going to talk about four things that you can do every day to improve your English.
大家好，我是 Emma，歡迎來到美味英語頻道！在這個視頻中，我們將討論你每天都可以做四件事來提升英語水平。
I think we can all agree that learning English or learning any language takes time and effort and dedication. But the most successful language learners, they find a way for their language to become a part of their daily life.
我覺得我們應該都同意學英語，或者是學任何語言都需要時間、努力和專注力的投入。但是最成功的語言學習者總會找到一種方式，讓語言成為生活的一部分。
It just becomes a habit like brushing your teeth. If you want to improve, your English practice should become a daily habit.
它就變成了像刷牙一樣的習慣一樣。如果你想要提升的話，你的英語練習就應該成為日常的習慣。
To help you with this I'm going to share four things that you can and you should be doing every day to improve your English and yes, I am suggesting that you do all four things every day but they're not huge tasks and we're going to talk about how you can make them a bit of fun too so come check it out!
Before I share these four things that you should be doing every day, I want to thank our friends Lingoda who've partnered with us to bring you today's lesson.
為了幫助大家，我要給大家分享四件大家每天可以做，也是應該做的事情來提升英語，當然了，我建議大家每天這四件事情都做，但是它們並不是什麼很重的任務，我們現在要討論一下如何讓它們更有樂趣一點點，所以看一下吧！在我分享這四件你們每天都應該做的事情之前，我想感謝一下我們的朋友 Lingoda，是他們的支持才給你們帶來了今天的課程。
In particular, I want to share how the Lingoda Language Sprint offers you daily English lessons plus up to a hundred percent refund on your lesson fees. Lingoda is an online language school.
尤其是，我想要分享 Lingoda 語言衝刺跑是如何為大家提供每日英語課程，以及百分之百退還你們的課程費用的。Lingoda 是在線語言學校。
You take classes with qualified native speaking teachers, class sizes are small and all of the learning materials are provided. Plus Lingoda are now Cambridge certified so you'll get free access to the Cambridge online language test as well.
你和高質量的母語老師一起上課，班級容量很小，提供所有的學習材料。除此之外，Lingoda 擁有劍橋認證，所以你也可以免費獲取劍橋在線課程測試。
And in exciting news, the next Language Sprints are starting soon. The Super Sprint is the biggest challenge, thirty classes a month for three months.
令人激動的消息是，下次語言衝刺跑馬上就開始了。超級短跑是最大的挑戰，每月三十節課程，連上三個月。
When I decide to do something, I like to go hard and that is exactly what the Super Sprint demands of you.
English classes every day for ninety days but here's the thing, if you complete every one of those classes, Lingoda will give you your money back, a hundred percent of your class fees refunded or you can use the credits for even more English classes.
當我決定做某件事情的時候，我喜歡困難模式，那也是超級短跑對大家的要求。每天都上英語課程，連上九十天，不過事情是這樣的，如果你完成了每一節課程的話，Lingoda 會返還你們的錢，百分之百返還你們的課程費用，或者你們可以使用這些額度學習更多的英語課程。
Now if that feels impossible for you, then you can choose to do the Regular Sprint, fifteen classes a month for three months. If you complete all of those classes, you'll get a fifty percent refund.
如果你感覺這對你而言不可能的話，那你就可以選擇參加常規衝刺跑，每個月參加十五節課程，連上三個月。如果你完成了所有的課程的話，你就可以得到百分之五十的退款。
So are you up to the challenge? You can register for the Sprint promotion right now but registrations close on the 24th of March.
你準備好迎接挑戰了嗎？你現在就可以註冊衝刺跑活動，但是註冊三月二十四號就關閉了。
The link is in the description below and if you use this code JOIN1, you'll get ten euros off your deposit. So the very first thing on my list is pronunciation.
連結在下面的描述區，如果你使用邀請碼JOIN1的話，押金就可以減十歐元。我的清單上的第一件事情是發音。
Yes, you should be practising your pronunciation every day.?And it's not to try and get rid of your accent but to make it clear enough that others can comfortably understand you when you speak.
是的，你應該每天練習發音。並不是試著去擺脫你的口音，而是把音發清楚，讓其他人在你說話的時候能夠舒適地理解你。
I can't tell you the number of advanced English students I've had who've had amazing grammar and vocabulary skills but so much trouble communicating because their accent makes it quite challenging for others to understand them. So of course, all of this affects smooth, positive, comfortable conversation.
我不能告訴你我有多少英語水平很高的學生，他們的語法和詞彙超讚，但是在交流的時候卻有很大的困難，因為他們的口音導致別人理解他們是個很大的挑戰。所以當然了，所有的這些都會影響到流利、積極和舒適的交流。
And depending on where you learned English, your teacher may not have focused on pronunciation. It may not have been the priority at the time.
取決於你在哪裡學的英語，你的老師可能並不怎麼關注發音。它可能並非一直是最優先的事情。
You see, if you learned English at school, your teacher's main aim was probably to get you high marks in your exam.
Pronunciation was probably not their focus at that time but in the real world when you're using English to speak with other people, your pronunciation, your fluency when you speak, it's so incredibly important.
你看，如果你是在學校學英語的話，你的老師最主要的目標可能是讓你在考試中的高分。發音可能並不是他們當時的重點，但是在實際生活中，當你使用英語和別人說話的時候，你說話時的發音和流利度都非常非常重要。
Get into the habit of learning and using the correct pronunciation today because it's going to save you lots of headaches and confusion down the track.
Plus, practising your pronunciation every day consistently, it's gonna help you to make noticeable improvements in a short space of time.
今天養成學習和使用正確發音的習慣，因為這將給你們省掉道路上的痛苦和迷茫。除此之外，每天持續練習你們的發音，能夠幫助你們在短時間內取得明顯的進步。
So how can you start doing this? I recommend that you learn the IPA, the international phonetic alphabet.
那你該如何開始呢？我推薦你學習國際音標。
If you've never heard of it before or you don't know a lot about it, then watch this lesson up here. But learning the IPA will allow you to correctly pronounce every single English word using the correct English sounds.
如果你之前從沒有聽說過，或者是並不怎麼了解的話，那就看看這節課程吧。但是學習國際音標能夠讓你們正確地發出每個英語單詞的音。
Another great way to practise your pronunciation is with my imitation lessons so in these lessons, I help you to copy me and shadow me as I speak.
They're really awesome, quick ten minute videos that you can practise with regularly so add them to a playlist and keep coming back to them and practise with them often.
另外一個很好地練習發音的方式是利用我的模仿課程，在這些課程中，我幫助大家在我說話的時候模仿我，跟著我說。這些課程都是很棒的，非常快速地十分鐘的短視頻，大家可以有規律地進行練習，所以把它們添加進播放列表中，時不時地回去看看，一起練習吧。
After you've practised a lesson for a few times make a recording of yourself and compare it to my voice. Try to identify some of the mistakes that you're making with your pronunciation.
在你把一節課程練習了幾次之後，那就給自己錄個音，和我的聲音比一下。試著去找出你發音方面的一些錯誤。
I've added a link to my imitation lessons in the description and I'll add one at the end of this video as well that you can check out. You can also simply read out loud to improve your pronunciation.
我在描述區裡掛了我的模仿課程的連結，我也會在這個視頻結束的時候放一下，這樣你們就可以看一看了。你們也可以只是大聲朗讀來提升發音水平。
Doing this every day will help your mouth muscles to get working and creating English sounds and get more comfortable doing it.
It's as simple as that and it doesn't need to take you long just five or ten minutes a day is plenty.
每天都這麼做會幫助你們的嘴部肌肉一直工作，創造英語發音，在說英語的時候更加輕鬆自如。就是這麼簡單，並不怎麼需要很長時間，每天五到十分鐘就夠了。
Just make sure you're doing it consistently. You could even do it by singing English songs.
保證一直持續這麼做就好。你甚至可以唱英文歌曲。
Create one opportunity to absorb English every day. To absorb is to take in information so you're like a sponge soaking things up, taking in new ideas, new words, new ways of expressing yourself and you can do this in lots of different ways, so many ways.
創造機會每天都吸收一些英語。吸收的意思是消化信息，就像海綿一樣把東西給吸進去，吸收新的思路，新的詞彙，新的表達自己的方式，你們也可以以不同的方式做這件事情。
Listening to a podcast or an audiobook, you could watch an English movie or any video on Youtube. Read a book or a blog post.
聽播客或者是電子書，你可以看英語電影或者是任何油管上的視頻。看書或者是博客推送。
In fact, you probably want to mix this up during the week, right? To keep things interesting.
其實呢，你可能想要每周把這些事情混合起來做，對吧？讓事情有趣一點。
A podcast on Monday. Read a book on Tuesday.
周一看播客。周二看本書。
Whatever floats your boat. Now again, this doesn't have to be a huge time-consuming task but it's worth spending some time searching for the right type of content.
你隨意。同樣的，這並不是非常耗時間的任務，但是花時間找正確類型的內容卻是非常重要的。
It must be stuff that is interesting for you. If you're into football or you love makeup tutorials or romance novels or soap operas.
必須是你覺得有趣的事情。如果你喜歡足球或者是喜歡化妝教程，或者是愛情小說，或者是肥皂劇的話。
If you love the idea of sailing around the world, I've been watching a YouTube channel called Sailing La Vagabonde and they vlog about their life sailing around the world on a yacht. In fact, if you're interested, I've added the link in the description below.
如果你喜歡乘帆船環遊世界的話，我一直在看一個油管頻道叫做 Sailing La Vagabonde，他們會發他們乘帆船環遊世界的視頻播客。其實呢，如果你感興趣的話，我已經把連結放在下方的描述區了。
But the point is, find something that interests you and excites you because you need to look forward to doing it every single day. It shouldn't feel like you're doing English practice.
但是重點是，要找到你感興趣的東西，讓你會感到激動的東西，因為你需要每天都期待去做這件事情。不應該感覺你正在進行英語練習。
So I have two little recommendations here. Firstly, you need to find the time that you're going to do it and declare it.
所以我有兩個小小的推薦。首先，你需要找你會用來做這件事情的時間，並且表明態度。
That is your daily time to absorb English so it could be on the bus on your way to work or while you're eating breakfast. I've always found that attaching an activity to the task helps you to make it part of your routine.
這是你每日吸收英語的時間，所以可以在你上班工作的公交車上，或者是你吃早餐的時間。我總是會發現將一個活動和任務相聯繫的話，能夠幫助你成為你日常常規的一部分。
And while you're doing it, just keep a notebook handy so that you can write down expressions or new words which you can look up and check later on. Simple as that!
當你在做這件事情的時候，身邊放個筆記本，這樣你就能記下來一些表達或者是新的詞彙，後面的時間就可以回去看看。就是這麼簡單！
Writing every day has some amazing benefits. But before I talk about that I want to make it clear, I'm not talking about writing an essay, okay?
每日進行寫作益處多多。但是在我說之前，我想要聲明一下，我說的可不是寫論文，好嗎？
I'm just talking about writing a few thoughts or a few ideas down. It only has to take a few minutes and nobody ever has to see it.
我說的只是把幾個想法啊給寫下來。只需要花幾分鐘就行了，而且沒人會去看的。
It's just for you. So there's a few reasons why writing every day is an excellent habit to get into.
只是給你自己的。所以有以下幾個原因為什麼每日寫作是一個很好的習慣可以堅持。
It helps your vocabulary to stick. Writing is one of the best ways to recall new words and expressions that you've come across.
它可以使你牢牢記住詞彙。寫作是回憶你遇到的新單詞和表達最佳方式之一。
When so many of my students have asked me "What is the best way to remember vocabulary?" this is my recommendation.
As you're reading or watching TV shows or books, you come across new ideas and words and you write them down but then you start to use them yourself.
當很多我的學生問：「最好的記單詞的方式是什麼？」的時候，這是我的推薦。當你在閱讀或者是看電視的時候，你會遇到一些新的想法和單詞，然後你寫下了他們，但是然後呢你開始自己使用這些單詞了。
You think of sentences and your own ideas about how to use these words. That way you're producing your own sentences rather than just listening to other people's and it helps it just stick in your mind.
你思考自己的句子，思考如何去使用這些單詞。通過那種方式，你是在造自己的句子，而不只是聽別人說話，這能夠幫助你牢牢記住。
And then you can improve it. Once you've written something, you can do so much with it.
然後你就可以提升了。一旦你寫了什麼東西的話，就可以在上面大做文章了。
You can copy/paste it into a grammar checker like Grammarly to help you to identify some of the errors that you're making. So Grammarly is free to use, I've included a link in the description below because it's awesome.
你可以把它複製粘貼進語法檢查軟體裡面，比如說 Grammarly，幫助你們看看有沒有犯什麼錯誤。Grammarly 是免費使用的，我在描述區放了連結，因為它真的超級贊。
It helps you to see the mistakes that you're making like maybe you're using the wrong preposition or you don't need to use an article when you've written one.
So I really recommend that you take a look to help you see and realise the mistakes that you're making and you can also review your own work.
它幫助你看一下你犯了什麼錯誤，比如說你可能使用了錯誤的介詞，或者是不需要使用冠詞的時候卻使用了。我真的很推薦大家看一下，幫助你們意識到你們犯的錯誤，也可以回顧一下自己的作品。
Once you've finished writing, leave it for a few days or a few weeks, come back to it. See if you can make any improvements or if you can use a thesaurus to look up synonyms and replace some of the words with more advanced ones.
你完成寫作之後，先把它放個幾天或者是幾周，然後再回去檢查。看看你是不是能有可以提升的地方，或者是能不能使用同義詞典尋找同義詞，然後把裡面的一些詞彙用更高級的替代一下。
These are just a few ideas but getting into a daily writing practice creates so many opportunities for you to apply what you've learned or what you've seen or what you've experienced in English and then review it and improve it. Lastly, join an English discussion about stuff that interests you.
這只是一些想法而已，但是養成每日寫作的習慣能夠為你創造很多機會，應用你所學習到的，你所看到的，或者是你體驗到的英語，然後回顧它，提升它。最後呢，參加關於你關心的事情的英文討論。
Now this sounds serious and may be complicated but it's not, I promise. I'm just talking about joining an active group or online community where there are people interacting.
這聽起來有點嚴肅，可能也有點複雜，但其實並不是，我保證。我說的是參加一個活躍的群體或者是線上社群，大家可以在裡面交流互動。
They're sharing their ideas, they're giving opinions and you're able to respond. So you can comment and actually be part of the discussion as it happens.
他們會分享自己的想法，他們會說出自己的意見，你可以進行回應。你可以評論，成為討論的一部分。
Now this could be in person but it can easily be as part of an online community.
Plus that makes it, you know, even easier to create a daily habit around it because it's simply about checking in and seeing what everyone else has been talking about and giving your two cents worth.
這可能有點點私人，但是成為線上社群的一部分可以是一件很容易的事情。除此之外，那其實更容易培養成每日的興趣愛好，因為不過就是看看大家在說什麼，說說自己的意見罷了。
So how do you find these places? It takes a little work.
那你該怎麼找這些地方呢？需要花點時間呢。
You can't just Google 'cooking' and join the first group that you find. Join a few different ones, see which one is the most active, which one has really interesting discussions happening in it.
你不能只是谷歌一下「烹飪」然後加入你找到的第一個群體。參加一些不同的小組，看看哪一個是最具吸引力的，哪個裡面的討論最有趣。
Sometimes nothing gets posted in these groups for days and that's not really helpful for you, right? So I would start by writing down your top five hobbies or interests.
有時候這個小組裡面可能很多天都沒人說話了，那其實對你是很有幫助的，對吧？所以我以寫下最喜歡的五個愛好或者是興趣開始。
Don't start with English language. What else are you into?
不要從英語開始。你還喜歡什麼呢？
Are you into politics or yoga or marketing, photography, sports. I mean you probably already follow people or a part of groups that are like this.
你喜歡政治、瑜伽、市場營銷、攝影還是運動呢？我的意思是你可能已經關注了相關的人或者是參加了這些小組。
So all you need to do is commit to checking in once a day and write a comment. It's not more complicated than that.
你需要做的就是每天看看，然後寫個評論。就是這麼簡單。
If someone shared something and they're asking for opinions, don't keep scrolling. It's an opportunity for you to share so stop, think of a way that you can contribute.
如果有人分享了什麼東西，他們在詢問意見的時候，不要就是滾滾滑鼠而已。這是為你準備的進行分享的機會，所以停下來，想想你可以怎麼為這個小組做點貢獻。
Now I'm gonna add some great, really active and interesting groups in the description below just to give you a few ideas of what I'm talking about but I want to know if you're already part of some lively Facebook groups or other online communities. What kinds of things do you discuss and do you ever contribute?
我會在描述區放一些很棒的很活躍的很有趣的小組，給大家一些想法，但是我想要知道你們是不是已經參加了一些臉書小組或者是其他的線上社群。你們會討論什麼，你又會貢獻什麼呢？
So if you can bring those four things into your daily routine in some way, you will absolutely, without a doubt improve your English. Remember that it takes a little bit of time to create good habits.
如果你能夠把這四件事情融入自己的生活中的話，你肯定可以提升自己的英語水平的。要記住養成好的習慣其實是需要花點時間的。
It's not as simple as deciding you're gonna do it. So I've got a couple of extra tips to help you get started.
不僅僅是決定自己要做什麼這麼簡單。我準備了一些額外的技巧幫助你們開始。
Do your research first. Find a blog or a TV series that will keep you interested so you don't have to look for something to do okay?
先做一些小研究。找找你會一直感興趣的博客或者是電視劇，這樣你就不需要去找其他事情做了，對吧？
Give yourself a week or so to find the right type of community to join and be part of the discussions with.
Then create a regular schedule to help you get started and really I just mean decide when you're going to do these four things so for example, pronunciation practice might be in the bathroom for five to ten minutes every morning as you're getting ready for work.
給自己大概一周的時間，找到正確的群體去加入，成為討論的一部分。然後建立一個日程表，幫助你開始，確定你在什麼時候會做這四件事情，比如說，發音練習可能可以在浴室的時候進行，每天早晨五到十分鐘，在你準備去工作的時候。
Then listening to your favourite podcast on your way to work and you're writing down your words on the bus. On your lunch break, might be the time to check a Facebook group and write a group comment.
然後在你去上班的路上聽聽你最喜歡的播客，在公交車上寫下幾個單詞。在你午餐休息的時候，或許可以利用這段時間看一下臉書小豬，寫個小組評論。
Then spend ten minutes at the end of your day writing about what you did or what you learnt before dinner and simply put that on repeat. Very quickly you'll realise that English has become a regular daily part of your routine.
然後在一天結束的時候花十分鐘時間寫寫你做了什麼，或者是在晚餐之前學到了什麼，然後就這樣簡單地重複就行。非常快地你們就可以發覺英語已經成為你的日常生活的一部分了。
Thank you so much for joining me today. You can connect with me on Instagram and my Facebook here.
非常感謝參加今天的課程。你可以在 Instagram 和臉書上找到我。
I hope that you found all of these ideas and these suggestions useful. Let me know if you're doing some of these things already or if you're planning to put any of them into practice, let me know how it goes.
我希望你們會覺得這些想法和建議是有用的。如果你們已經做了其中的某些事情，那就告訴我吧，或者是你們計劃要付諸實踐的話，讓我知道進程怎麼樣吧。
And as promised, here is one of my imitation lessons to help you work on your pronunciation. I'll see you in there!
我保證過的，這是我的其中一節模仿課程，幫助大家練習發音。再見啦！