Welcome back to English with Lucy. Today I have a spoken English class for you, I have got eight tips that will help you to master spoken English.
欢迎回到Lucy的英语频道。今天咱们来聊聊口语，这儿有8个小窍门 帮你一键提升英语口语。
My first tip is to get to know the parts of your body that you use while speaking English. This might sound a little odd, but trust me on this one.
第一 开口说英文时，充分意识自己的肢体变化。听起来可能有点怪，但是相信我。
If you don't understand which parts of your face, tongue, and throat are used when speaking English, then how will you ever be able to correct your pronunciation mistakes?
当你说英文时，如果不清楚脸部、舌部、喉咙得如何运动，那该如何纠正发音错误呢？
Watch yourself in the mirror while speaking English is a common tip that many teachers give. However, I think you should go one step further than this.
很多老师都建议，对着镜子练习说英语。但在此之前，你还需做一个练习。
You absolutely need to analyse what your lips, tongue, throat, face in general is doing when you speak English. You need to find a close-up video, a zoomed in video of a native speaker, or a speaker that you admire speaking in English.
开口说英语时，你必须先解构自己的唇形、舌部、喉咙和脸部的动作变化。还得找一个，能看清母语者说话的面部大特写视频，或者你男神女神的英文演讲视频。
You then need to record yourself up close preferably at the same distance speaking the same sentence. Analyse the way your lips move in comparison to their lips.
然后，你也模仿录制一个大特写视频。最好在同一个景别，说同样的话，比较你们之间唇形的差异。
Analyse how far they stick their tongue out or maybe they push it right back in their mouth. What are you doing with your tongue?
观察他们说话时，舌尖的位置是完全吐出，还是含在口中？你的舌头又是如何运动的？
Tip number two is to combine reading and listening thus improving your pronunciation. Perhaps you will know by now that a way a word is written in English normally gives very little indication, as to how that word is pronounced in English.
第二点，将阅读和听力融会贯通，以此提高你的发音。或许你的眼睛能第一时间捕捉某个词儿，但一般却很难反应过来这个词的英文发音。
In many languages across the world the way a word is written tells you and shows you exactly how that word should be spoken. Take a book that you have already read in English or a book that you would like to read in English.
然而，世界上大多数语言只要分析单词的写法构成，就能知道这个词如何发音啦！找一本你已经读过的，或是你打算读的一本英文原版书。
And read that book again, but here's the important part whilst listening to the audio book version. Tip number three is another reading one, but it's practise speed reading.
重读一遍，但要注意，边读边听有声书版本。第三点也是阅读训练，记得要练习快速阅读。
This isn't such a common technique, but I think it should be. It's a really good way of improving your fluency, so how fluently you speak English, your velocity, so that's how quickly you speak English.
虽然不是常见的技巧，但灰常实用，能大大提升口语流利度，加快你说英文的语速，让你更加流利。
And also it will help with your connected speech, how you join one word to another or one sound to another in English. Read the text aloud, and time yourself as you're reading it.
也能帮你更好贯穿演讲的各个部分，完成词语或不同声音间的顺畅衔接。边阅读文章，边计时。
Tip number four is a tip that has been massively important for me as a native speaker. So I can only imagine how important it could be for you. It is to prepare your monologues and stories that you are likely to repeat in advance.
第四个技巧，作为一个母语者，对我都很受用哦！所以可想而知，超级实用，准备一段你经常回看的经典台词对白或故事。
I'm talking funny stories you want to tell at a dinner party. I'm talking about your elevator pitch. I'm talking about your answer to what do you do for a living or where do you come from? These common questions that you get asked again and again and again. Prepare your answer.
比如，我会准备一些在聚会中能分享的笑话故事。短时间推销自己的“电梯演讲”材料，还有像“你的工作是啥”或“你来自于哪里”诸如此类的热门话题，准备好你的回答。
Tip number five is focus on pronunciation over grammar. I would say that it's much easier to understand somebody speaking with great pronunciation, but bad grammar than hearing someone speak with perfect grammar but terrible pronunciation.
第五点，比起语法，更注重发音。差劲的语法搭配精准的发音，远比完美的语法搭配糟糕的发音，更容易被听懂。
I'm not talking about having a perfect accent. You don't need a perfect accent. You just need to be clear and understandable when you speak. It will make you feel more confident.
我不是说非要多地道纯正的口音。你不需要练就完美无瑕的发音，你只用保证发音清晰且能被听懂，这会大大提升你的自信心。
Tip number six is to try and think in English. If you want to be able to speak English fluently without even thinking then you need to train yourself to think in English.
第六点，试着用英语去思考。如果你想出口成章，你就必须训练自己的英语思维。
A good way to start doing this is to have a little English narrator in your head have your little chosen person, Emma Watson or whoever it is have your little chosen person, Emma Watson or whoever it is.
分享一个好方法，往脑中塞进一个英文解说员。挑个你喜欢的人，爱玛·沃森...随便谁都可以。在脑海中复述任何你正在做的事。
Another point, still related to the topic of thinking in English is to be constantly on the search for new words new phrases, a new vocabulary. Keep a note app on your phone or a physical vocab book.
要想养成英文思维，还要不断积累新的单词、新短语，刷新词汇量。可以在手机上下载记笔记的APP或词汇书。
Number seven, this tip is very helpful because I know a lot of you just want to learn one specific accent. Well this tip is speak with a variety of native speakers who all have different accents.
第七个技巧也是立竿见影。虽然大多数人都只想学一种口音，但我建议大家跟各种不同口音的人聊天。
The wider the variety of people that you speak with the more flexible your brain will be when it comes to understanding speech.
你接触的口音越多，在与人交流时你的听力理解就会越棒。
And number eight, if you cannot find native speakers with whom to practise then just find like-minded people for finding like-minded people, and for helping each other out.
第八点，如果你找不到母语者陪你练习，那就去找志同道合的人，找到能互相帮助的同道中人。
If you have a question about English, if you want someone to analyse the way you speak. Right, that is the end of my lesson. Those are the eight tips for spoken English.
比如，当你在英语学习过程中遇到问题，或是求教他人评价你的口语发音。好啦！这就是今天的全部内容啦！训练英文口语的8个小窍门。
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