Hey what's up, Stefanie the English coach here from EnglishFullTime. com. Recently I got a message on Instagram from a woman who is saying she is really frustrated, because she can't seem to build her vocabulary.
嗨，大家好，我是EnglishFullTime.com的Stefanie。最近我在Instragram上收到一位女性朋友的消息，她很失望，因為覺得自己根本記不住單詞。
And in her native language she loves having deep conversations about all kind of things, her ideas, her beliefs, psychology, etc. But in English she feels like she can't even have this conversations, because again she just doesn't have the words.
用母語說話的時候，她很喜歡一些深入的交流，比如她的想法，她的信仰，心理學等等。但是在英語中她就根本沒法聊這些東西，因為她單詞量不行。
So in this video, I'm going to give you guys one of the most powerful ways to build your vocabulary. Now what am I talking about?
這期視頻，我就會教給大家一些增加詞彙量的好方法。我說的是什麼呢？
I'm talking about reading. It has been proven that people who read more tend to have bigger vocabularies than people who don't read.
就是閱讀。事實證明，大量閱讀的人要比不閱讀的人有更大詞彙量。
And the more you read, the bigger your vocabulary. So this makes a lot of sense.
你讀的越多，你的詞彙量越大。這個確實很有道理。
When you are reading something, there are so many words right there and you are consuming all of them. And if you don't understand what something means, you look it up in the dictionary, so that you can understand the idea of whatever it is you are reading.
你在讀書過程中，會消化非常多單詞。如果你碰到不懂的單詞，你就需要查閱詞典，然後就了解到讀的什麼意思。
And then the more you read the more, you encounter the same words over and over and over again until those words get stored in your long term memory. Remember, the first time that you see a word or the second, the third, even the tenth time the word doesn't necessarily make it's way to your long term memory.
你讀的越多，你就會一遍一遍遇到同樣的單詞，直到它儲存在你的長期記憶裡。要記住，你第一次遇到，第二次，第三次乃至第十次遇到這些單詞，都不一定就能完全記住。
You have to see something and be exposed to it time and time again for you to be able to access that information just like that, OK? So the more you read, the more words you will add to your vocabulary.
你需要一遍一遍地遇到它，這樣才能記住它傳達的信息。你讀的越多，詞彙量就會越大。
Also another thing for you to think about is when writers are writing, the only thing that they have to communicate their ideas is words on a paper. They can't use their tone, they can't use the volume of their voice, they can't use body language, so they are limited. They are highly limited to that to just the words on a piece of paper.
還有另外一件事你要記住，那就是，作家在進行寫作的時候，他們能夠表達自己思想的手段只有紙上的文字。他們不能用聲調、音量、肢體語言來表達，只能被限制在紙面上。
So they have to be very precise with their language. Every sentence is measured.
他們需要仔細斟酌自己的語言。每個句子都是精雕細琢。
They can't have unnecessary words there. They can't have any words that are gonna confuse the reader.
文章裡不能出現廢話。不能出現可能讓讀者迷惑的話。
The words have to be precise, so that they say exactly what they wanna say and how they wanna say it. The sentences have to be precise so that it builds the correct argument or expresses the idea accurately.
每個句子都必須非常準確，作者需要精準的表達自己想要表達的意思。這樣才能準確傳達作者的論點或者表明作者的想法。
Everything has to be logical about what they do, and the more you consume this type of language professional writing written either in books, novels, magazines, etc, the more you are going to subconsciously incorporate that into your own language skills. So again, reading is one of the most powerful ways to build your vocabulary.
作者寫的內容需要合乎邏輯，所以說這種專業文字讀的越多，無論是書籍、小說、雜誌，你就會在潛意識裡學到這種語言技巧。所以說，閱讀是擴大詞彙量的最好方式。
Now I have more that I wanna say about this, but before I do I just wanna introduce you guys to the sponsor of this video. I'm really excited to share this with you, because they can really help you improve your vocabulary through reading books that you enjoy.
我還想聊一些其他的內容，但是在此之前我先介紹一下這個視頻的贊助商。很想跟你們分享它，因為這個應用真的能幫助你通過閱讀提高詞彙量。
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我們來看一下。Blinkist是一款把上千本精品讀物濃縮成15分鐘聽讀材料的應用。
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你每天可以免費看一本書，或者開通會員，就能夠獲得海量圖書，從自學到商業到健康或者歷史。現在你可以利用視頻下面的連結獲得7天免費會員試用。
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前100名還可以獲得7.5折會員年費優惠。只需要點擊Blinkist.com/theenglishcoach就以可以。
Your 7 day trial is completely free and you can cancel at any time. OK, I really hope you enjoy that.
7天試用完全免費，你可以隨時取消。我希望你能喜歡。
Another reason why I like Blinkist so much is because it's just so convenient. I wish I had more time to read but honestly I don't.
我分享Blinkist的另外一個原因就在於，它真的很方便。我希望自己能有更多時間來閱讀，但是說實話，真的沒時間。
At the same time, though I'm trying to learn as much as possible because I believe that the more I learn the more successful I can be in the things that I do. So again you can get a free book every day with this app and you can just study that free book read it, listen to it, highlight the new words.
同時，我也覺得我讀的越多，我也就會在自己的事業上越成功。那麼這款App能夠讓你每天免費讀一本書，你就可以讀書、聽書，然後標記新的單詞。
Write them down, start learning them, and again, the more you read the more vocabulary you are gonna incorporate. Or you can get their premium version and just have unlimited access, that's awesome because when I go for a walk I can listen to 4 different books and I learn so much through doing this.
把它們寫下來，開始學這些單詞，你讀的越多，詞彙量也就越大。或者是直接買會員，就可以無限制讀書，這個真的非常棒，因為我出去散步的時候就可以一下聽四本書，學到了很多東西。
I really love this app you guys and I would not share it with you if I didn't. And with that said, I just want to let you know that I have a big list of book recommendations from their app that I have already listen to and loved, but a few of them are Storyworthy which is about telling stories.
我真的非常喜歡這個app，所以才分享給大家。說到這，我還想分享給你在這app上非常值得讀的書，我已經都聽過了，比如說Stroryworthy，這是一本關於講故事的書。
The Art Of Public Speaking I think everyone should read that one. Never Split the Difference which is about negotiations.
還有The Art Of Public Speaking，我覺得大家都應該讀一下這本書。Never Split the Difference，這本書關於談判。
Essentialism which is about time managing, really great book. And then of course the book that I always recommend to everyone How to Win Friends & Influence people that is a must read.
Essentialism有關時間管理。還有一本書我覺得所有人也應該去讀，那就是 How to Win Friends & Influence people。
So now lets talk a little about fiction versus non fiction. It's been proven that people who read more fiction tend to have a bigger vocabulary than just people who read non fiction.
接下來我們再聊一下關於小說和非小說類文學作品。事實證明，讀小說的人詞彙量要大於讀非小說的人。
Now why is this? Because in fiction books, the author is much more descriptive.
為什麼呢？因為在小說裡面，作者會更喜歡描述東西。
They are describing scenes, they are describing events, they are describing dialog, it's a story. So because of that fiction, in general has a much wider variety of words than non fiction.
他們會描述場景、事件、對話，講述一個故事。因為是小說，所以用詞要比非小說更為寬泛。
With that said, though if you are struggling to have conversations in English, I highly recommend that you start by reading lots of non fiction. Because in fiction, authors are sometimes so descriptive that sentences sound long and poetic, and the words that are used aren't always the words that people use in everyday life.
不過如果你一時讀不懂英文對話的話，我還是建議你先讀非小說內容。因為小說裡面，作者有時候會太喜歡描述了，所以句子會變得非常長，非常富有詩意，而這種表達方式並不是人們常用的。
And if you don't know that and you start incorporating all of that into your speech you might sound a little bit awkward. So I recommend that you start with non fiction, read lots of non fiction about all the things you already know and enjoy and use in your native language.
如果你不知道這點的話，很有可能就會把很多這種單詞放到自己說的話裡面，聽起來會怪怪的。所以我還是推薦你從非小說開始，多讀那些你自己用母語已經非常了解的內容。
And then you can tell other people about what you've read. You can even start a book club if you want or talk to a friend talk to someone else who enjoys the same topics as you, and say "hey, recently I read this book about XYZ," whatever it is and tell them what you've learned.
然後再轉述給別人你讀過的內容。甚至可以組建一個讀書俱樂部，跟朋友們聊一下你讀的內容，告訴他們，「嘿，我今天讀了這本書……」然後告訴他們你學到的東西。
Telling other people what you learned is one of the best ways to incorporate knowledge into you long term memory. If you just read it and consume it, that's not as powerful as reading it, consuming it and then telling someone else about it or sharing it with someone else, OK?
給別人講述你學到的東西是一種把知識轉化成長期記憶的最好辦法。如果你只是讀了記住了，就不如你讀了，記住了，然後告訴別人你學的內容。
Remember that. So when I read books I actually tell my husband Renzo, I say, "OK, I read a book today."
要記住這點。我讀完一本書我就會跟我丈夫Renzo說，「我今天讀了一本書。」
"This is what I learned." And I tell him the points that I thought were really interesting to me, because I know that by telling him and communicating them I'm going over them again in my mind.
「這是我讀到的內容。」然後我就會跟他分享我覺得很有意思的內容，因為我知道通過這種方式我能夠再過一遍這些東西。
And I'm more likely to remember them and I don't want to forget the stuff that I read, because a lot of it is really really powerful so sometimes I even read the same book more than once. Actually I do that now that I have the Blinkist app because before this I literally did not have time.
我想要記住我了解的東西，因為有很多內容確實很棒，有時候我甚至會一本書讀好幾遍。現在我有了Blinkist，以前是真的沒什麼時間。
And the idea of reading one book, I'm also kind of a slow reader. I just would avoid it completely but now that I know hey in 15 minutes I can have a book read.
而且讀書方面，我真的讀的很慢。以前我是乾脆就不讀了，但是現在，我15分鐘就可以讀一本書了。
I listen to books all the time which is good because I really am learning a lot. So it's awesome.
我總是會沒事兒就聽一下，因為確實了解到很多東西。真的很棒。
OK, so that pretty much covers everything that I wanted to talk about but now I wanna hear from you. If you have any other ideas about why reading specifically is so powerful for building vocabulary anything aside from what I've already mentioned, please share it with us in the comments.
好了，我要講的基本都講完了，現在我想聽聽你們的意見。如果你有關於「讀書會提高詞彙量」這個話題的任何想法，我沒提到的，歡迎在評論中分享你的觀點。
I'm sure there are other studies that have been done that I don't know about that explain in even more detail why reading is so powerful for building vocabulary. But yes lets discuss it in the comments, and if you want more help with your English or if you want to learn about my online courses go to EnglishFullTime. com.
我相信肯定有一些我沒了解到的研究，也能說明為什麼讀書能夠提高詞彙量。歡迎在評論區留言討論，同時如果你想要學英語、想要進行線上課程，歡迎到EnglishFullTime.com。
I would also link a guide in the comments. It's a Simple Guide to Practicing Your English with Native Speakers online so that you can practice and improve your English.
我會在評論區留一個連結。在這個網址你可以跟英語母語的人練習提高。
Again everything that I've mentioned in this video all the links are going to be in the description. So be sure to check that out.
我提到的所有連結我都會放到評論區。記得去看看。
Sign up for Blinkist and let me know in the comment what you think about it. OK that's it, and I'll see you in another video bye.
還有，別忘了用一下Blinkist，告訴我感覺怎麼樣。下次見。