英语听力口语进阶方案：你只需要一套贴合兴致的视频

作者: enjune310 | 来源:发表于2019-01-09 19:20 被阅读10次

ENGLISH VIDEOS BRINGING YOU A BLOOM IN LISTENING AND ORAL ENGLISH

Have you felt dizzy when you pick up a phone and find that the voice from the order side is going on in an unexpectedly high speed in English? Have you been numb with tension the moment you have a conversation face to face with foreigners with all kinds of accents, which sounds not so friendly as that standard English in VOA or BBC? If you are in this case, this article may bring you some solution by recommending videos in all levels that you could improve your listening skill and spoken English with.

There are far more options beside TED speech and TV series. And there are four levels for us to go before we could finally reach the top, watching them without subtitles no matter what kind of accent the speakers have. The tip is that we should watch videos from a wider range concerning all parts of daily life. Think about what the native speakers may watch in their leisure time, then you may have more choices available.

英语听力口语进阶方案：你只需要一套贴合兴致的视频

START FROM VIDEOS WITH CHINESE AS EXPLANATION

There are a lot of videos made by Chinese people or foreign teachers who are fond of English, and they are funny and interesting for beginners. Things will be explained in both English and corresponding Chinese to make it easy to follow and friendly to understand. If you fail to get the meaning of English, the Chinese explanation following will make it up to you, so you won't get confused or feel it boring as you have no idea what it is about.

英语听力口语进阶方案：你只需要一套贴合兴致的视频

WATCH VIDEOS WITH BOTH ENGLISH AND CHINESE SUBTITLES

Once we are comfortable with the first level, we could take a further step to the second level, videos with both English and Chinese subtitles. Documentaries and videos showing how to do certain things in Bilibili are the best choice. Watch it without subtitles for the first time, mark down the part you can't follow. Then you would get to know the general meaning by the Chinese subtitle for the second time, then you may focus on the English one to get to know the wording of it, what vocabularies or phrases it applies, what's the corresponding English expression of the certain meaning in Chinese, what's the word you fail to identify when you watch it without subtitles. The English subtitles may show you everything you need to know to see how the story is telling in English.

英语听力口语进阶方案：你只需要一套贴合兴致的视频

TRY VIDEOS WITH ONLY CHINESE SUBTITLES

Start it without subtitles, then get to know the meaning that escaped you just now via Chinese subtitles. Finally, have the corresponding English expression in mind when you watch the video, with English in your ears and Chinese subtitles in your eyes. The more practices you do like this, the more familiar you will be with the matchup between these two languages.

英语听力口语进阶方案：你只需要一套贴合兴致的视频

MOVE ON TO VIDEOS WITHOUT SUBTITLES BUT WITH PICTURE OR VISUALIZED DATA FOR REFERENCE

Have some videos without subtitles but with illustration via picture or data easy to understand. Videos on science and psychology topics may have charts, graphs, cartoons or data on the screen, making the abstract concept concrete, visualized and detailed enough to understand. Remove the subtitles and start with something easy to comprehend, especially with something that you could understand even if the English narration was taken away. So you won't feel it a burden to be without subtitles. If these kind of videos are with subtitles, we could cover them with paper to go along with the practice.

英语听力口语进阶方案：你只需要一套贴合兴致的视频

BE WITH ANY VIDEOS WITHOUT SUBTITLES

Once you get familiar with how English sounds, get to know the words by pronunciation, understand most of content without subtitles, you can feel free to watch videos on daily experiences shared by cyber celebrities. It is cool since it feels like watching DOUYIN in English. And people with different accent in English may improve and sharpen your ears to English spoken by different kind of people around the world. Choose the topic you like and the area you are eager to know more about. That's the motivation to get you keep watching it frequently and randomly as a native speaker does.