Well hey there! I'm Emma from mmmEnglish!
Have your English teachers ever told you to read as much as you can in English?
大家好啊！我是Emma，歡迎來到Emma的美味英語！你的英語老師是不是告訴過你要多用英文閱讀，能讀多少就讀多少？
Have they told you that it's a great way to build your vocabulary?
And to see how words are used in context in English?
他們是不是告訴過你那是超讚的積累詞彙的方式？能夠明白這些單詞是如何在英文語境中使用的？
Well, I absolutely agree! But what can you do to improve your reading skills in English so that you can become a better reader and actually start enjoying it?
好的，我完全同意！但是你能夠做什麼來提升英語閱讀技能呢，這樣你就可能成為一名更優秀的讀者，並且開始享受閱讀的過程呢？
That is exactly what this lesson is all about! Now there are a ton of benefits to reading English texts.
這節課會告訴大家答案的！閱讀英文文本益處多多。
You're going to build your vocabulary, right? As you learn new words.
你可以增加詞彙量，對吧？而且可以學習新的單詞。
But you'll be learning those words together in chunks, right?
Together in sentences so that you can learn how to use them correctly and the words that they're often used with.
但是你需要以組塊的形式學習那些詞彙，對嗎？在一個句子當中學習，這樣你就可以學習如何正確使用它們，以及它們經常和哪些單詞搭配使用。
You'll also experience how words express tone and feeling through the interactions between characters.
So tone in writing is the author's attitude and this is an incredibly useful way to learn how to choose the right words to express feeling and emotion in English.
你也會通過角色之間的互動，體驗到詞彙如何表達語調和情感。所以呢，寫作中的語調就是作者的態度，這是學習如何選擇正確的單詞用英語來表達情感的超級有用的方式。
So my first question for you today is do you like reading English texts?
If your answer's yes, what English text do you like to read?
我今天想問大家的第一個問題就是：你們喜歡閱讀英文文本嗎？如果你的答案是「是」的話，那你喜歡閱讀什麼英文文本呢？
Or even better, what English book are you reading right now? I'd love to see some recommendations in the comments so if you've got a good one, share it below!
But if your answer to this question is no, well why do you think that is?
或是更棒的是，你現在正在讀什麼英文書呢？我希望在評論處看到大家的一些推薦，所以如果大家有什麼好看的話，就在評論區分享一下吧！但是如果你這個問題的答案是不的話，那就想一下其中的原因吧。
Maybe you don't really love reading even in your own native language. Well then, reading in English is probably going to be even more painful, right?
或許你並不喜歡閱讀，即使是用自己的母語進行閱讀。好的，那麼用英語閱讀可能會更加痛苦，是吧？
But maybe you prefer watching movies or listening to podcasts—something like that. Perhaps you get frustrated because you feel like reading's a chore.
但是可能你更喜歡看電影或者是聽播客——諸如此類。也許你會感到沮喪，因為你會覺得閱讀是件苦差事。
And you really need to improve your skills before you can start actually enjoying reading. Fair enough!
那你真的需要在真正地開始享受閱讀之前提升一下自己的技能。非常公平！
Maybe you're an active person and you just don't like sitting still and reading a book, right?
Well that's not really an excuse because Audible allows you to listen to books wherever you are.
也許你是一個非常多動的人，你只是不喜歡靜靜地坐著看書，對吧？好的，那並不是什麼原因，因為Audible可以讓你不管在哪裡都可以聽書。
I listen to my books now because I don't like to sit still either! So I listen when I go for a run.
我會聽書，因為我不喜歡靜靜地坐著！我出去跑步的時候會聽。
If you want to try listening to English books instead then I've added a link below in the description to help you get your first audiobook free from Audible.
The link's down there if you want to check it out!
如果你想要嘗試一下聽英文書的話，那我會在描述區放一個連結，幫助大家從Audible獲得第一本免費的有聲書。連結就在下面，如果你們想看一下的話！
But today I want you to stick around all the way through to the end of this video.
I'm going to be sharing some really useful tips to help you improve your reading skills.
但是今天呢，我想讓大家一直看到視頻的結尾處。我會分享一些非常實用的技巧，幫助大家提升閱讀技巧。
Hey guys! Just in case you haven't heard yet, I'm doing the Lingoda Language Marathon this year.
Definitely going to be my biggest language challenge of two thousand and nineteen.
大家好啊！只是以防萬一大家還不知道，我今年正在進行Lingoda語言馬拉松。這肯定是我2019年最大的語言挑戰。
And maybe yours as well! But I've created a private Facebook group just for mmmEnglish language students who are completing the marathon and want to come and join me.
But you've got to use the link that's in the description below this video to join.
也許也是你的！但是我為美味英語正在進行馬拉松的學生創建了一個私人臉書群組，以及那些想要加入的人。但是你需要使用視頻下方描述區的連結來加入。
In that group, I'll be sharing videos about my experience and tips and motivation to help you keep going all the way to the end of that marathon.
So if you're ready for the challenge, come and join me!
在那個群組中，我會分享關於我的經驗的視頻，以及一些小技巧，也會激勵大家，來幫助大家堅持到馬拉松結束。所以如果你準備好迎接挑戰的話，那就來加入我吧！
Enrollments close on the thirteenth of May. That's this Monday!
五月十三號之後就不能加入了哦！就是這個周一！
So you better be quick! Check out that link right there for the full details.
所以大家最好是快點！看一下這裡了連結，獲取更多細節吧。
Before we get started, a little reminder to turn on the subtitles if you need to—just down there.
I write subtitles for every lesson on the mmmEnglish channel so you can turn them on at any time!
在我們開始之前，要提醒大家如果需要的話可以打開字幕——就在下方。我為美味英語頻道的每節課程都寫了字幕，所以大家無論什麼時候都可以打開！
And some of my amazing students here help me to translate these lessons into their own native language so that more people can share and learn from them as well!
So if you're up for the challenge to add subtitles in your native language, there's a link in the description that will help you to do that.
我有一些超讚的學生，他們會幫助我將這些課程翻譯成他們的母語，這樣更多的人就可以分享學習啦！所以如果你們也準備好迎接添加自己母語字幕的挑戰的話，描述區有一個連結，可以幫助大家。
Your name's going to get shown in the description too as a thank you! My first tip is to read more!
你的名字也將會出現在描述區，作為感謝！我的第一個技巧呢就是多讀！
Alright that one might seem completely obvious but I had to say it! You're not going to improve your reading without reading, right?
好的，這一點可能看起來非常明顯，但我還是得說！不閱讀的話，你沒法提升自己的閱讀能力，是吧？
That's the same for so many things in life, right? The more you do it, the easier it gets.
生活中的很多事情也是這樣的，對吧？你做的越多，這件事情就會變得越簡單。
Now this might take you a little effort at first, right? To get to that point, you might need to say to yourself:
剛開始的時候可能需要付出一些努力，是吧？為了達到目標，你可能需要對自己說：
Alright every day, at six o'clock in the evening, I'm going to spend fifteen minutes reading. So you do it every night.
好的，每天晚上六點鐘，我要花十五分鐘閱讀。你每天晚上都這麼做。
You know what they say? It takes twenty-one days to make something a habit, right? So if you do it consistently for twenty-one days you'll have a good chance of bringing daily reading practice into your life.
你知道他們說什麼嗎？養成一個習慣需要二十一天，對嗎？所以如果你堅持做二十一天的話，你就有很大的機會將每日閱讀納入到自己的生活當中。
And it can help you know, to create a little ritual around the activity, so do it on the train on the way to work or go and lie in the sunshine. That's what I do!
如果創造一種儀式感的話是非常有用的，所以可以在去上班的車上，或者是在陽光下躺著讀書。我就是那麼做的！
I've got a couple of Spanish readers and I always go down to the beach and practise there and it is so relaxing, it's one of my favourite times of day.
Now there's a good chance that you're thinking: But what should I read?
我有一些西班牙讀本，我總是會去沙灘，在那邊練習，非常放鬆，是我一天中最喜歡的時光。你很有可能在想：那我到底應該讀什麼呢？
Well choose what you read carefully. The easy part of this decision is just choosing topic or a genre that you like, right?
呃，要認真挑選讀的東西。最簡單的做決定的方式就是選擇一個你喜歡的主題或者是體裁，對吧？
If you love reading soppy, romantic novels—do it! Quit thinking that something has to be educational for you to learn, right? It's just not true.
如果你喜歡讀多情善感的言情小說的話——那就讀唄！不要覺得一定要讀對你的學習而言能有很強教育性的東西，好嗎？並不是這樣的。
If you love reading comics, that's fine too! Well, try and choose a comic that's got a little more text in it, right? A little more reading.
如果你喜歡看漫畫的話，那也沒問題的！好的，試著選一本文字多一點的漫畫書，好嗎？多讀一點。
Or choose one of those really awesome illustrated books for teenagers, I've made some recommendations in the comments below.
But the story lines in those books, in those types of books, are often fun and entertaining and there's images that help you to kind of engage in the story as well.
或者是選擇專門為青少年量身定製的插畫書，我在評論處給了大家一些推薦。但是那些書裡面的故事線都挺有趣的，很具有娛樂性，還有一些圖片可以幫助你們更加融入到這個故事。
It's going to make your reading practice much less of a chore, right?
Nobody wants to drag themselves through a book or a novel—a massive novel.
這會讓你的閱讀練習不那麼像是例行公事，對吧？沒有人希望拖拖拉拉地去讀一本書或者是一本小書——一部大部頭。
Especially one that they don't like. Or that's boring, right?
尤其是他們不喜歡的。或者是很無聊的，是吧？
There's just so much material out there for you to read that there is absolutely no reason to be reading something that you're not into, right?
Pick something that interests you, whether it's the sports section of the newspaper or a mystery novel or a nonfiction book about plants, it doesn't matter at all.
But what does matter is that you enjoy what you're reading so that it encourages you to do it more, right?
有那麼多材料可以選擇閱讀，為什麼要選擇自己不喜歡的呢，是吧？選擇你喜歡的，不管是報紙的體育板塊，還是懸疑小說，或者是關於植物的紀實文學，沒什麼關係的。但是重要的是你很享受你閱讀的東西，所以那會鼓勵你讀的更多，對吧？
One really common problem that I see among my students is that they're too ambitious with their reading material, right?
A pre-intermediate student reading Jane Austen novels, I mean, I think that's really a form of torture.
我的學生中很常見的一個問題就是他們對自己的閱讀材料過於雄心勃勃了，對吧？一位中低級水平的學生閱讀簡. 奧斯汀的小說，我覺得那是一種折磨。
Right? 'Pride and Prejudice' has extremely advanced vocabulary and sarcasm and complex sentence structures.
It could be really hard work to try and get to the end of a book like that.
對吧？《傲慢與偏見》裡面有很多高級詞彙，還有一些反諷和複雜句子結構。要看完整本書的話確實挺難的。
So you need to be looking at texts that are the right level for you, that help you to get through them.
And if you're a Jane Austen fan, well, I've got some recommendations in the description because her novels are so popular that they've been adapted for teenage readers and intermediate level students as well, so this could be perfect for you.
所以你需要尋找符合你的水平的閱讀文本，這能夠幫助你順利讀完。如果你是簡.奧斯汀的粉絲的話，我在評論區有一些建議，因為她的小說太出名了，所以有青少年和中等水平讀者改編版本，那對你來說應該是非常完美的。
I'm going to add the link in the description. And to be completely honest, the vocabulary in books written for teenagers and younger people is usually extremely useful for everyday English use, right?
我會在描述區放上連結。講真，針對青少年和年輕讀者的書裡面的的單詞對於日常英文而言非常有用，對吧？
So don't let your ego get in the way between you and a fantastic read, right? Now I also want to mention to be true to yourself here.
所以不要讓你的自尊心成為阻擋你進行閱讀的阻礙，好吧？我還想提一下要對自己忠誠。
If you just can't stand reading pages and pages of text in a novel, that's cool! Read a daily blog post instead or a magazine article.
如果你不能一頁頁地讀完一部小說，那也沒事的！那就讀每日播客或者是雜誌的文章。
It really doesn't matter what you read, as long as you're enjoying it.
Now if you like to read but you don't want to lug around a notebook or a dictionary with you, then an e-reader is a really good option, right?
你讀什麼其實並不重要，只要你享受閱讀過程。如果你想要閱讀，但是不想一直隨身攜帶筆記本或者是詞典的話，那電子閱讀器是一個很好的選擇，對吧？
I just have Kindle downloaded on my phone so all of my books come with me everywhere that I go. And this makes your practice really easy, right?
我手機上下了kindle的軟體，所以無論我去哪裡，我的書都一直跟著我。這會讓你的練習非常簡單，是吧？
You've got books with you all the time. And the cool thing is that e-readers help you to translate words or things really simply, just by touching the word on the screen.
你一直帶著你的書。很棒的一件事情就是電子閱讀器能夠很簡單地幫助你翻譯單詞或者是文本，點擊一下屏幕上的單詞就可以。
So that could be a good option and make it a little easier to get into a reading practice.
As I've mentioned, I've got a list of book recommendations in the description below and if you still don't know what to read, then here's another one of my favourite tips.
那會是一個很好的選擇，而且會讓進行閱讀練習變得非常簡單。正如我之前提到的，我在評論區有一些書籍推薦，如果大家還是不知道要讀什麼的話，那我還有一個小技巧。
Read a book that you've already read in your own language. Right?
Reading a book that you've already read once or even a few times in your own language can eliminate a lot of the hard work, painful work, when you're reading a book in English, right?
讀一本你已經用自己的母語讀過的書。對吧？讀一本你已經用自己的母語讀過一次甚至是很多次的書能夠減少很多當你用英語閱讀的時候繁重痛苦的工作，對吧？
Firstly, you already know that you'll like the book, right?
And secondly, you don't have to worry about misunderstanding something or words that you're unsure of, it doesn't mean that you have to stop reading and look them up so that you understand the story, right?
首先，你已經知道你會喜歡這本書的，是吧？其次，你不需要擔心誤解了你不確定的什麼內容或者是單詞，這就意味著你並不需要停止閱讀，然後進行查閱才能理解這個故事，對吧？
You'll be able to fill in the gaps in your understanding from your previous knowledge. You already know the story, you won't get stuck on the details, right?
你能夠運用先前的知識來填補理解的空缺。既然你已經知道這個故事了，你就不會被細節所困住，對吧？
You'll be able to focus on learning new words and expressions without having to look up all of the in-between words which is really great for morale.
And generally just makes the experience a bit more enjoyable which is what we're all about!
你可以專注於學習心得單詞和表達，不需要查閱中途遇見的詞彙，這會讓你的士氣大振。總的來說，這會讓整個體驗更加的令人享受，而那就是我們所追求的！
And you don't have to get stuck on the details. It's great to test yourself and to look up words and to read out loud sometimes.
你不需要被細節所纏身。有時候測試一下自己，查閱單詞，然後大聲念出來是非常好的方式。
If you try to understand every single word in the book, you might never finish it, right? It's going to be a lot of work to get there.
如果你想要理解書裡的每一個單詞的話，你可以永遠也無法讀完，是吧？要讀完的話，得付出很多的努力。
You know, you want to make sure that you understand the main story line, and if you aren't sure of a word or two, but you understand the general idea of the sentence, then you can try and guess the meaning of the word and move on, you don't have to know absolutely everything!
And that's true, even when I read books in English, there will be words that I don't recognise or words that I don't use that often, words that are used by Americans that we don't really use that much here, but I don't have to stop and look up the meaning of every word.
你懂得，你想要確保你理解了主要的故事線，如果你不確定其中的一兩個單詞，但是理解了整個句子的大概的意思的話，那你就可以試著去猜一下單詞的意思，然後繼續閱讀，不需要知道一切的！那是真的，甚至是當我讀英文書的時候，都會有我不認識的單詞，或者是不怎麼經常使用的單詞，美國人可能會使用那些單詞，但是我們這裡並不怎麼經常使用，但是我並不需要停下來查每個單詞的意思。
I just, you know, read through the story, try to piece it together. Unless it's something that is really, really, crucial or important to the story, I don't need to know the exact meaning.
我只是讀完整個故事，試著將信息拼湊起來。除非這對於故事情節非常非常重要，我並不需要確切的意思。
Now for you as an English learner, if there are too many unknown words on the page, and you really don't have a good idea of what's happening in the story, then it's possible that this text is too advanced for you.
So try reading something with less unknown words first.
對於你——一個英語學習者而言，如果一頁上有很多生詞的話，你真的不知道這個故事發生了什麼的話，很有可能這個文本對你而言太難了。那就試著讀一些裡面生詞少一些的文本吧。
Right? If a word seems really important or really interesting, but you've still got a bit of an idea of what's going on in the story, then just circle it and move on, you can come back to it and look it up later. Don't let it stop you.
Okay so the first tips that we went through will help you to get started, I want you to just commit to reading and to dive into a book and to really just focus on enjoying the journey. As we said before, reading in general is already going to be improving your English skills, right?
好吧？如果一個單詞看起來非常重要，或者是非常有趣，但是你已經懂了一點點故事情節發展的話，那就圈出來，然後繼續閱讀，你可以回來再查閱這個單詞的。不要因為這而停止。
好的，所以我們說的第一個技巧會幫助大家邁出第一步，我希望大家要認認真真地閱讀，全身心沉浸在一本書裡，然後專注於享受整個過程。正如我們之前所說過的，閱讀能夠提升你的英語技能，對吧？
But if you want to take a more proactive approach to reading, then the next few tips are going to help you to push your English skills a little further. Read out loud.
但是如果你想要採取更加積極主動的方法進行閱讀的話，那麼接下來的幾個技巧將會幫助你的英語技能更上一層樓。大聲閱讀。
One of the most effective ways to learn anything is to combine different styles of learning right? This is how we supercharge learning.
So for example, if you are reading something while listening to it, so choosing your favourite book and then finding it on Audible.
學習的非常有效的方式之一就是結合不同的學習方法，對啊吧？我們可以深化學習的效果。比如說，如果你在讀的同時又聽了的話，那就可以選擇一本你最喜歡的書，然後在Audible上面尋找一下。
Audible's got over two hundred thousand books there so the chances of you finding your favourites is pretty high. But then you could take it one step further.
Read it while you're listening to it and say the words at the same time.
Audible上面有超過20萬本書，所以你很有可能找到自己喜歡的。但是你可以更進一步。在聽的時候大聲讀出來，同時說出那些單詞。
Doing all of this is supercharging your learning. There are so many good things that are happening here at once.
Your mind's taking in information in multiple ways, your muscles in your mouth are remembering how to pronounce or how to make the sounds correctly because you're listening to them at the same time.
同時做這些能夠深化你的學習效果。有很多有益的事情在同時發生。你的大腦在以不同的方式吸納信息，你嘴部的肌肉在記憶如何正確地發音，因為你同事也在聽。
Now this might not be the best option if you are reading in a quiet library or on a bus on the way to work, that kind of thing. But you'll find a way to make it work! I'm sure of it.
如果你在安靜的圖書館或者是去工作路上的公交車上讀書的話，這可能不是最好的選擇。但是你總能找到可以這麼做的方式的！我敢打包票。
My last tip is to test yourself. I've given you quite a few tips already today but I want to give you a tip that's going to help you take your reading from pleasure into study.
我的最後一個技巧呢就是測試一下你自己。我今天已經給了大家很多技巧，但是我要介紹的技巧能夠幫助大家將閱讀從快樂進階到學習。
And there's a time and a place for this, right?
Sometimes we just want to relax and unwind, but other times you might be ready to like roll up your sleeves and really dive in and understand how the language is being used.
總會有合適的機會這麼做的，是吧？有時我們只是想放鬆一下，但是在其他的時候你可能準備好捲起袖子，將自己完全沉浸其中，理解語言是如何使用的。
So when you're in the mood, test yourself.
Even if you're not reading next to a teacher it doesn't mean that you can't pause to ask yourselves questions about the text and check that you've understood it correctly, right?
當你在沉浸在那種情緒的時候，測試一下自己。即使你並沒有在老師旁邊閱讀，也並不意味著你不能停下來問自己幾個關於文本的問題，檢查一下你是不是理解正確了，對吧？
So one way to do this is to open a book at a random page, read a paragraph, close the book, write down some of the key points that you remember from that paragraph and then go back and study it in detail. Did you miss anything important?
其中的一種方式就是隨便打開一本書的某一頁，讀其中的一段，合上書，寫下你記憶中關於那段的關鍵點，然後回去詳細地檢查一下。你是不是忽略了什麼重要的信息？
This is a really good way to practise your comprehension skills, even if you're on your own, it is possible for you to do this.
There might be a word that you've not have heard of before.
這是練習理解技能的非常有用的方式，即使你自己一個人，也可以這麼做。可能有一個你之前都沒有聽說過的單詞。
You don't know the meaning of it. But instead of looking it up straight away, look at the words around it and try and guess what the meaning is before you check.
你不知道是什麼意思。但是你可以先不直接去查這個單詞，而是看看周圍的單詞，試著猜猜到底是什麼意思。
Maybe you know the word, but you haven't seen it used in that context before, right? So look it up.
可能你認識這個單詞，但是你沒有見過在這樣一個語境中進行使用，對吧？那就查一下吧。
Try writing a sentence with this new definition. These types of questions that you ask yourself are going to help you check your understanding and then also go a little deeper into the text.
試著用這個新的定義造一個句子。問自己這些類型的問題能夠幫助你檢查你的閱讀理解，而且能夠更加深入地理解文本。
And really make sure that you've understood it correctly.
Well I hope that the tips that I shared in this lesson have given you some inspiration to keep working on your reading skills because there are so many benefits to regularly exposing yourself to English through text.
一定要保證你理解的是正確的。好的，我希望本節課程分享的小竅門能夠給大家一些繼續提升自己閱讀能力的啟發，因為經常閱讀英語文章其實益處頗多。
And through different types of text as well. And above all else, I really want you to have fun with your English reading skills, right?
閱讀不同類型的文本也是。最重要的是，我真的希望大家享受提升英語閱讀技能的樂趣，好嗎？
I've added a whole bunch of recommendations in the description below, plus the link to Audible so if you want to supercharge your reading practice by listening, as well as reading, then check it out—your first book's free.
Other than that, have a wonderful day ahead!
我在評論區添加了很多推薦，還有Audible的連結，如果及大家想要除了閱讀之外，通過聽力深化自己的閱讀練習的話，那就看一下吧——你的第一本書是免費的。
除此之外，祝你今日愉快哦！