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Hey what's up, Stefanie the English coach here from EnglishFullTime. com. In this video, I'm going to answer the question "Will reading out loud help me improve my pronunciation and speaking skills?"
嗨，我们好，我是你们的英语教师Stefanie，来自EnglishFullTime.com。在这期视频课中，我会来答复一下这个疑问：“大声朗读会不会协助我前进发音和口语才能呢？”
Now the simple answer is that "yes, it will help in some ways but there are better methods." And I don't recommend that you primarily use this method reading out loud to improve your pronunciation and your speaking skills.
简略来说，“会的，在某种程度上会有所协助，可是还有非常好的办法。”所以说，我并不举荐你一初步就用这种方法来前进你的发音和口语才能。
So I'm going to explain why in this video. Okay, so several mon
ths ago I wrote an email about this to all of my subscribers and one person wrote back.
这次我就来说明一下。几个月前，我给粉丝们写了一封关于这个疑问的邮件，其间有一自个回复了。
And he was so angry and he was like: "how can you say that reading out loud isn't the best method for improving our pronunciation and our speaking skills?" "This is what we've been taught this is what our teachers have shown us, this is what we all do."
他特别生气，说：“怎么能说大声朗读不是前进口语和发音的最佳办法呢？”“这可是从小教师就教咱们的啊，一切人都是这么做的。”
And first of all, I was kind of like "okay, just because that's what everybody does and that's what you're being taught doesn't mean that that's the best method, right?" The reason why reading out loud is not the best way to practice your pronunciation is because words in English, and I say this all the time, are not pronounced the way that they are written.
首要，我觉得，即就是一切人都这么做，即就是教师一向这么教的，也不必定就意味着这是最佳的办法，对吧？大声朗读并不是最佳的办法缘由在于，我常常说到，英语单词的发音，并不是他们写出来那样的。
In fact, words in English often have nothing to do their pronunciation has nothing to do with the way they're written.We have silent letters, we have confusing letter combinations.
实践上，英语单词许多拼写跟发音都完全没联络。咱们有不发音的字母，有令人摸不着脑筋的字母组合。
You know, when we're speaking, we cut off the ends of words, we add sounds, we eliminate sounds. And when you are reading text on a page, that text is flat.
咱们说话的时分，会去掉词尾的一些发音，也会加上一些发音之类的。咱们从书面视点去读的时分，文字只是一个平面。
You can't read what intonation you're supposed to speak with.You can't read what emphasis you're supposed to put on which syllable.
你读不出来需要用啥语调。你不晓得自个该在哪个音节上重音。
You can't read any of that information. So reading the words on a page, you could be reading them incorrectly and who's gonna be there to correct you, right?
这些信息都是你从书面读不出来的。所以只是读书面的这些词，你可以就读错了，而且谁在周围纠正你呢？
Who's gonna be there to say: "Hey, no, you keep messing up right there. You keep doing that, that's not how it's done." If you're just reading out loud, you could be practicing something incorrectly and then practicing it consistently incorrectly.
谁会在周围跟你说：“你读错了，你一向这么读的都不对。”假定你只是大声朗读出来，有可以你读的就是错的，然后一遍一遍重复差错的发音。
And then you're gonna solidify an incorrect language pattern in your mind. Simply put, you cannot read sounds, you can hear sounds.
这样的话，你就有可以把差错发音固定在你的脑际中。简略来说，你无法“读”发音，可是你可以“听”发音。
So if you're trying to improve your pronunciation, you should not be reading and then trying to pronounce. You should be listening and then imitating what you hear.
所以你想要前进自个的发音水平，你不大约只是读。而是听，然后仿照。
Because your ears will not deceive you but your eyes will. You'll read a word and you'll see a silent letter there, and you won't realize it's silent, so you think you have to pronounce it, right?
因为你的耳朵不会诈骗你，可是双眼会。你看到一个词，里边有一个不发音的字母，可是你并不晓得它不发音，还认为它仍是依照正常发音的。
Your eyes are deceiving you. They're making you think that you need to pronounce a word in a certain way when you don't.
你的双眼会诈骗你。他们会让你在不需要发音的时分认为自个需要发音。
So rather you should listen to words, listen to sentences, listen to audio clips and just imitate what you hear, right? Many of you know this as "shadowing".
比起这样，你不如听单词，听语句，听播送，然后仿照你听到的东西。可以许多人都晓得，这种办法叫做“影子练习”。
You're shadowing what you hear, you're saying it as you're hearing it or you're pausing the audio, pausing the video, and then repeating what you just heard. And then replay those audios again and again, listen repeat, listen repeat.
你跟读你听到的东西，然后仿照，听一有些，然后暂停，接偏重复你听到的东西。然后再一遍一遍听，听，重复，听，重复。
And that way, you will learn to start sounding and speaking more like a native speaker and less like a textbook. A lot of foreign speakers when they speak in English they actually sound like a book.
经过这种方法，你就会说的更像一个母语者，而不是像一本教科书。有许多外国人说英语感触就像教科书相同。
Like very choppy, you know, like they're reading one word at a time and pronouncing everything perfectly but nobody speaks like that, right? So reading out loud is not a great method, because your eyes are gonna see separations between words.
非常的不联接，一个词一个词往外蹦，每个词都说得极好，可是没人这么说话。所以说，单纯只是大声朗读并不是一个非常好的办法，因为你的双眼会看到每个单词之间的空位。
They're gonna see the spaces, and it's gonna give you this idea that "oh my gosh, there's a space here between these words. So I need to make spaces in between my words when I speak."
单词之间的空格会让你觉得，“这儿有空格。”“那我大约在我说话的时分也加上中止。”
And that's simply not true. We run all the words together practically. Okay, you guys, we use so many contractions in English.
这完尽是不正确的。咱们会把单词连起来说，咱们用林林总总的连词。
So again, if you're listening and then repeating what you hear, you're more likely to develop a natural sounding English. Now the other reason why reading out loud won't necessarily help you with your speaking is, because the way that sentences are constructed in a book are not the way that they are spoken in conversation, okay?
所以说，假定你多听，多跟读，那么就更有机缘练出天然的发音。还有一个缘由就在于，书里边的语句有时分跟说话并不完全相同的。
And I'm going to give you an example of this. So I have a book here it's called The E-myth Revisited and here on Chapter 3 the very first sentence goes like this.
我来举个比方。这儿有一本书，叫做The E-myth Revisited，第三章第一句话是这么说的。
"It is self-evident that businesses says like people are supposed to grow and with growth comes change." That's a great sentence but it's a great sentence for a book.
"It is self-evident that businesses says like people are supposed to grow and with growth comes change."这是一句很棒的话，可是只是关于一本书来说。
I do not talk like this, okay? So instead of saying "it is self-evident", I would say like, "hey, it's obvious, it's obvious."
我平常不会这么说话。我不会说"it is self-evident"，我可以会说"Hey, it's obvious, it's obvious"。
And instead of starting my sentence like that, I might not even say "it's obvious" cuz when something is obvious we just say it we don't have to say it's obvious. So I would just say "You know, businesses are like people they have to grow."
甚至有可以我连这个都不会说，因为有的时分许多东西十清楚显，所以咱们压根儿就不必偏重“很显着的是”。我可以就说，"You know, businesses are like people they have to grow"。
That's it, that's how I speak. I don't have to speak in this fancy way that this book is written, and this book isn't even that fancy.
我就是这么说话的。我不会像书里这么花里胡哨，或许文绉绉的。
But as you can see from this sentence here, it still has some pretty complex sentences. And again these sentences are very well-written, but nobody talks like that.
细心读一下这句话，你就会发现这句话其实很凌乱。这些都对错常好的语句，可是就是没人这么说话。
So if you want to learn to speak in a natural way, you have to imitate people. And not even people giving speeches, because the way you speak when you give a speech is a lot different than the way you speak in a conversation.
所以假定你想要天然地表达，那就要仿照别人。甚至不需要仿照那些讲演，因为讲演的时分说的话跟你平常说的话也有很大差异。
So in conclusion, reading out loud will help you improve reading out loud, okay? If you want to improve your pronunciation, listen and repeat what you hear.
总结来说，大声朗读只会帮你提巨大声朗读的才能。假定你想要前进的是发音，那么最佳的办法仍是听后跟读。
And if you want to improve your speaking skills, then do that same thing, listen and repeat but engage in conversations with other people where you can practice your speaking skills, and where you can get feedback.
Because in a conversation someone's gonna say, "oh I'm sorry what what do you mean by that?" or "I don't understand what you mean." or "Could you explain that more?" or something like that.
假定你想要前进自个的交流才能，相同，也要听，跟读，可是也要跟别人去对话，而且要得到反应的那种。因为假定你在跟别人说话的时分，对方说，“抱愧，你方才说的啥意思？”或许“我没了解你方才说的话。”再或许“你能说明一下吗？”
That shows you how you're doing. And likewise, if nobody asks that if nobody says "oh what do you mean", if they just carry on with the conversation and keep going, then that confirms to you that they understood you and you're doing great with your English.
这就标明晰你说的怎么样。相同，假定没人提出疑问，正常对话进行下去，那么就阐明他们都完全听得懂，你英语说得也很不错。
Okay so if all of this makes sense, please let me know in the comments. And I would love to do more videos like this, where I answer frequently asked questions.
要是这节课有用，请留言谈论。我也很情愿再做一些类似的的视频。
So if you have a question that you'd like me to do a video about, please let me know in the comments just type it out there in the comments. And if you want to give me some context also that would be really helpful.
假定你有啥疑问想让我录视频答复，请留言。当然要是能介绍一下这个疑问的背就连那会非常好了。
Tell me why you're asking, what you're struggling with, and what your goal is, what you're trying to achieve, okay? Alright, so that is it.
告诉我你为啥问这个疑问，如今遇到的困难是啥，你的方针是啥，想要达到啥样的意图等等。好啦，这节课就到这儿。
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That's it you guys, have a great day and I will see you in the next video. Bye.
就这样，下次见！拜拜！
