Learn English like a Baby – How to Sound Native

Today you are going to learn tips on speaking English like a native from studying how babies

今天你将学习口语技巧 英语就像一个学习婴儿的本地人

learn to speak English.

学会说英语。

I’ve been teaching English for over 10 years, but it’s only in the past year that I’ve

我已经教英语超过10年了， 但这只是在过去的一年里

had the chance to watch my son start to pick up language.

有机会看到我的儿子开始学习语言。

He’s 20 months and his language skills are exploding.

他已经20个月了，他的语言能力也很强 爆炸。

I’m going to give you three tricks to help you study the language the way he is working on it.

我要给你三个技巧来帮助你 你按照他的方式学习语言。

Are you ready to go to play yard Stoney?

你准备好去Stoney打球吗？

Are you ready to go?

你准备好出发了吗？

Are you sure?

你确定？

Uh-oh! What did you drop?

嗯，哦！你放下了什么？

When a baby is first experimenting with language, it’s babble, la, la, la, ba, ba, ba.

当宝宝第一次尝试语言时， 这是喋喋不休，la，la，la，ba，ba，ba。

Stoney had almost no sounds developed.

斯托尼几乎没有发出声音。

He had an AH vowel, and he had m, mama, and a B, baba, baba.

他有一个AH元音，他有妈妈，妈妈和B，巴巴， 巴巴。

What he seemed to be imitating and playing with more than sounds was stress.

他似乎在模仿和玩耍 超过声音是压力。

So many students get hung up on the sounds.

这么多学生都被这些声音挂断了。

I actually think stress is more important.

我实际上认为压力更重要。

Stress relates to rhythm and intonation.

压力与节奏和语调有关。

These make up the feeling of English more than the sounds do.

这些构成了更多英语的感觉 而不是声音。

Somehow, I don’t know how, he got obsessed with the song ‘Mambo Italiano’.

不知怎的，我不知道怎么样，他迷恋了 歌曲'Mambo Italiano'。

The chorus goes like this: Hey mambo, mambo Italiano.

合唱是这样的：嘿曼波，曼波 意大利语。

At this point, he can kind of say ‘hey mambo’.

在这一点上，他可以说'嘿曼波'。

But he cannot say ‘mambo italiano’.

但他不能说'mambo italiano'。

Instead he says something like “Hey Mambo....."

相反，他说的是“嘿Mambo .....”

He really gets the intonation and stress down. It matches the song perfectly.

他真的得到了语调和压力。它与歌曲完美匹配。

The sounds aren't there. But the feeling is there. It's the feeling of the sentence.

声音不存在。但感觉就在那里。这是句子的感觉。

As he gets better with sounds,

随着声音越来越好，

as he learns them, he’ll go back and fill them in if he's still singing this song.

当他得知他们的时候，如果他还在唱这首歌，他会回去填补他们。

But for now, it's "Hey Mambo!"

但就目前而言，它是“嘿Mambo！”

Pretty amazing. A year and a half and he's matching the pitch and the stress.

相当了不起。一年半，他与球场和压力相匹配。

This is something I encourage my students to do.

这是我鼓励学生的事情 去做。

Think about not just the individual sounds but also think about the overall feeling of the sentence.

不仅要考虑个别声音 还要想一想这句话的整体感觉。

How are you?

你好吗？

Uhhh.

唔。

How are you.

你好吗。

The feeling is, everything connected, pitch changes smoothly, uuhhh, scooping up then down.

感觉是，一切都连通，音调变化平稳，uuhhh，舀起然后向下。

Uuuhhh. How are you?

Uuuhhh。你好吗？

Practicing sentences this way helps you practice the feeling.

用这种方式练习句子可以帮助你练习这种感觉。

Uh, how are you?

呃，你好吗？

Uuuhhh

Uuuhhh

Are you willing to practice phrases that are just on ‘uh’?

你愿意练习只是'呃'的短语吗？

Babies are laying a foundation of the feeling of English for months before they put in all the details,

婴儿正在奠定这种感觉的基础 在他们提供所有细节之前的几个月的英语，

the finer pieces of the tongue movements and the sounds.

舌头更精细 动作和声音。

I think you should also be practicing English this way.

我想你也应该这样练习英语。

Sometimes, just practice the feeling of a sentence.

有时，只是练习句子的感觉。

Uuhhhh. How are you?

Uuhhhh。你好吗？

Uuhhhh. How are you?

Uuhhhh。你好吗？

Tip #2: When I’m holding Stoney in my arm and his face is very close to me, it's right here,

提示＃2：当我把Stoney抱在手臂上，他的脸离我很近时，就在这里，

I’ve noticed something. He looks at me like this.

我注意到了一些事情。他这样看着我。

Total concentration, focused in. He's staring right at my mouth.

总浓度，重点是。 他正盯着我的嘴。

My mom noticed this too.

我妈妈也注意到了这一点。

She said, he watches my mouth so closely when I speak.

她说，我说话时他的嘴巴如此紧密。

He’s curious, he wants the combination of the visual information along with what he’s hearing.

他很好奇，他想要将视觉信息与他所听到的信息结合起来。

I think it can be incredibly helpful to study native speaker’s mouths when learning.

我认为这对学习非常有帮助 母语人士在学习时的嘴巴。

Every one of my sound videos has close ups of the mouth in slow motion,

我的每个声音视频都有特写 慢动作的嘴巴，

and lots of my other videos do too, like one I did on linking with the TH.

我的很多其他视频都是这样做的，就像我在与TH联系时所做的那样。

I’ll put links to those videos in the description.

我会在说明中添加指向这些视频的链接。

Sometimes I tell students to watch themselves in a mirror or make a video and watch that.

有时我告诉学生要看自己 在镜子里或制作视频并观看。

One of my students in my online school just posted a video to our Facebook group where

我的在线学校的一名学生 在我们的Facebook群组中发布了一个视频

there was very little mouth movement happening.

发生了很少的嘴巴运动。

And it’s hard for your English to be natural and clear when you’re hardly moving your mouth at all.

你的英语很难自然 什么时候你几乎不动嘴了。

When she went back and looked at it, she saw, oh yeah, I understand, I’m cheating the

当她回去看着它时，她看到了， 哦，是的，我明白，我在欺骗

mouth position of some of the sounds that use more jaw drop or lip rounding.

一些声音的嘴位置 使用更多的下巴或嘴唇圆角。

So focus in on the mouth of native speakers

所以专注于母语人士的嘴巴

and then pay attention to your own mouth positions as you're practicing sounds.

然后在练习声音时注意自己的嘴位。

Tip #3: What do toddlers do that is incredibly annoying?

提示＃3：幼儿做了什么令人难以置信的烦恼？

They say and do the same thing over and over and over.

他们一遍又一遍地说和做同样的事情 并结束。

In the park by our house, there’s a play structure with a fake raccoon face carved into a tree.

在我们家的公园里，有一个戏剧 结构与假浣熊脸雕刻成一棵树。

Stoney calls it ‘aa-coon’ and asks for it constantly.

Stoney称之为'aa-coon'并要求 它不断。

There are times where he probably says the word 20 times in a row.

有时他可能会说 连续20次。

Any parent or caregiver out there knows how much children repeat themselves.

那里的任何父母或看护人都知道如何 很多孩子重复自己。

This is part of learning, of building muscle memory,

这是学习肌肉的一部分 记忆，

building mastery, developing the fine and subtle changes in mouth position

建立掌握，发展口腔位置的细微变化

native for speaking a language.

本地人说一种语言。

Repetition can not only help adults speak better English, but I would say it’s essential.

重复不仅可以帮助成年人说话 更好的英语，但我会说这是必不可少的。

Let’s say your pronunciation isn’t very good.

假设你的发音不是很好。

You can learn how to pronounce something better, or how something should be pronounced.

你可以学习如何发音更好， 或者应该如何发音。

For example, by watching videos on my channel.

例如，通过观看我频道上的视频。

But knowing something does nothing to change your body and your habit.

但知道一些事情没有任何改变 你的身体和习惯。

You already have strong muscle memory established as an adult.

你已经建立了强大的肌肉记忆力 作为一个成年人。

Creating a sound that you don’t have in your native language, or creating a new

创建一个你没有的声音 你的母语，或创建一个新的

feeling of English is impossible without repetition.

没有重复，英语的感觉是不可能的。

Before I started teaching English, I sang opera.

在我开始教英语之前，我唱歌剧。

In practicing, it would make no sense to sing the song from start to finish over and over.

在练习中，唱歌是没有意义的 这首歌从头到尾一遍又一遍。

You work in sections.

你分段工作。

You pick out specific lines that are tricky, and you do them over and over and over.

你挑选出棘手的特定线条， 而你一遍又一遍地做。

Maybe you take the text away from the music and you practice that separately. Just sing out loud.

也许你把文字从音乐中拿走了 你分开练习只是大声唱出来。

The point is, you break it down, and you work with it over and over and over.

关键是，你打破它，你工作 随着它一遍又一遍。

You take a break, you sleep, and your body, your mind, does something with that.

你休息一下，睡觉，然后你的身体， 你的思想，做一些事情。

It saves it.

它可以节省它。

And then the next day you come back and you work again.

然后第二天你回来了 再次工作。

So be like a toddler and practice the same thing over and over.

所以就像一个蹒跚学步的孩子一样练习 事情一遍又一遍。

Let’s say 'comfortable' is a tricky word for you.

让我们说'舒服'对你来说是一个棘手的词。

First, learn how to pronounce it.

首先，学习如何发音。

I have a video on that.

我有一个视频。

Then play it and say it, play it and say it over and over again.

然后播放并说出来，播放并说出来 一遍又一遍地。

You can use a site like forvo.com, where native speakers have uploaded word pronunciations.

您可以使用像forvo.com这样的网站，其中母语使用者上传了单词发音。

Play the native speaker, say it out loud.

播放母语，大声说出来。

Play the native speaker, say it out loud.

播放母语，大声说出来。

Do this 10, 20 times in row.

这样做10次，连续20次。

Once it gets really good, don’t stop.

一旦它变得非常好，不要停下来。

That’s when you need to keep going!

那是你需要继续前进的时候！

To solidify the correct, natural way of doing it.

巩固正确，自然的方式。

This repetition will help you get better.

这种重复将帮助你变得更好。

So as a teacher of language, I realize I have so much to learn about teaching a language by watching my son,

因此，作为一名语言教师，我意识到通过观察我的儿子，我有很多东西要学习语言。

a native speaker, learn from the beginning.

母语人士，从一开始就学习。

At one point in this video, I mentioned my online school. It’s called Rachel’s English Academy,

在这个视频的某一点，我提到了我的 在线学校。它被称为雷切尔的英语学院，

and I have thousands of audio files broken up and slowed down

我有成千上万的音频文件被打破并放慢速度

so that my students can practice little bits of conversation with the play it, say it method.

所以我的学生可以用戏剧练习一点点对话，比方说吧。

It’s amazing. I’ll watch a student doing this, and I don’t even have to tell him what to fix.

太奇妙了。我会看一个学生这样做，我甚至不必告诉他要修理什么。

Just by playing it and saying it over and over without stopping,

只是通过播放并说出来 不停地，

subtle changes happen, and it starts to sound so good.

微妙的变化发生了，它开始听起来很好。

If you’re interested in learning more about the school, please visit RachelsEnglishAcademy.com

如果您有兴趣了解更多信息 学校，请访问RachelsEnglishAcademy.com