Help! Can you write captions in your language for our ESL lesson videos?

This video is a request for help. If you'd like to help us help the world learn English

这是部请求帮助的视频。如果你 愿意帮助我们来帮助全世界的人学习英语

and also help people who are deaf or hard of hearing, then this video is for you

同时也帮助那些失聪或有 听力障碍的人，那么这个视频是给你的

First a quick vocabulary quiz. You know when you go to see a foreign film at the cinema...

首先是一个快速词汇测验。你知道，当 你在电影院看外国电影时......

You mean the movies... Yeah and they print the words the people are

你的意思是电影(男此处说movie，之前女说的film)... 是的，电影画布的下方用你的母语

saying in your language at the bottom of the screen. What are those words called?

写着演员们正在说的话。我们怎么说这个词语？

Subtitles. Yeah. OK next question. What about if the movie

Subtitles（字幕）。 对。那么，下一个问题。如果电影

was recorded in English, and then they recorded actors saying the words in your language?

是用英语拍摄的，但是演员们说着 你的语言的话（如中文）？

That often happens with kids movies. Yes. Let's demonstrate it, Jay. OK, imagine I'm the actor

动画片经常是这样的。 是呀。那让我们演示一下吧。 OK，想象我是演员

Hello and welcome to our home in Philadelphia.

你好，欢迎来到我们费城的家 。

Bonjour. Bienvenue à chez nous à Philadelphie. Do you think it worked? Yeah, I think so.

Bonjour. Bienvenue à chez nous à Philadelphie（法语） 你觉得起作用了吗？是的，我是这么认为的。

Sometimes dubbing works and sometimes it doesn't.

有时配音起作用，有时不。

That's what it's called - dubbing. Yeah. When a movie is dubbed, the original audio

这就是 - dubbing（配音）。 是啊。当电影被配音，原始音频

is replaced with your language. OK so there are subtitles and there's dubbing. What about

被替换为你的语言。 OK所以 有字幕且有配音。那么什么是

closed captions? What are they? Aren't they the same as subtitles?

closed captions？那是什么？ 难道和subtitles不一样吗？

Well nearly, but they can contain extra information like a bird flies into the shot or there's

嗯...很接近，但可以包含额外的信息 比如鸟儿飞入的镜头或

an explosion or a big spider falls from the ceiling.

爆炸或大蜘蛛从天花板落在。

OK. Now, under this video, there's a button labelled cc. It stands for closed captions

好。现在，这段视频下方，有一个cc按钮 。它代表closed captions

and when you turn it on and off you'll find English subtitles.

当你打开／关闭，你会发现 英文字幕。

Try it now, if you haven't tried it already - click cc. It's easy, huh?

现在就来试试吧，如果你还没有尝试过。 - 点击cc。这很容易，是吧？

But there's something else about captions that not many people know, and it's very cool.

但这里还有些关于字幕的秘密 没有多少人知道，这是非常酷的。

YouTube can deliver captions in different languages. If you're understanding this video,

YouTube上可以提供不同的字幕 语言。如果你看得懂这个视频，

I'm guessing your English is pretty good. But there are lots of English learners who

我猜你的英语一定是很不错的。 但同时也有很多需要更多的帮助，更多的支持的

need more help, more support. Sometimes they don't fully understand the

英语学习者。 有时，他们并不完全理解

captions in English. They need a translation in their own language, so they can check things

全英文字幕。他们需要一个自已语言的翻译 ，来检查

- make sure they've understood. So here's our request. Can you translate the

- 是否他们理解对了。 因此，这是我们的请求。你能

captions in any of our lesson videos into your language?

把我们的任意视频翻译成你的母语吗？

If so we would really appreciate it. It helps us share our videos around the world which

如果可以，我们将不胜感激。它有助于 我们把视频在全世界范围传播

helps our channel grow, and it helps our viewers who need a bit more help and support with

而且帮助我们的频道成长，帮助我们的观众

their English. Here's how it works. I write captions - English

学习英语。 下面是它如何运作的。我写英语字幕

captions - for all our video lessons. I time all the speech so the captions appear at the

为我们所有的视频课程。我把字幕放在了正确的时间轴

correct time, so you don't need to worry about that. What you'd need to do is type in a translation

，所以你不必为此担心 。什么你需要做的就是为每一行

for each line. There's an autotranslate button that can speed

输入一个翻译。 这里有一个自动翻译按钮，能加速

things up. It uses Google translate so you'll need to review it and fix things and then

你的翻译了。它使用谷歌翻译，所以你 需要对其进行审核，然后

you click submit for review. I'll put a link to a YouTube tutorial video

你点击提交审查。 我把这个YouTube视频教程的链接

about how to do it in the description below, but it looks very straightforward.

和解释放在了下面， 但它看起来非常简单。

So check out the tutorial and play with it, and tell us in the comments if you have any

因此，看看那个教程，并且使用它， 如果您有任何问题，

problems. And there's one more thing I want to tell

请给我们留言。 还有一件事我要告诉

you about. Language learners aren't the only people who need captions. There are 642 million

你一下。语言学习者不是唯一 需要字幕的人。在世界上有6.42亿

people in the world who are deaf or hard of hearing. One of those 642 million people is

人失聪或有听力障碍。这6.42亿人中的其中一个人

the hugely talented Rikki Poynter. She's one of the friends that I made at YouTube NextUp and

Rikki Poynter，她非常有才华。她是我在YouTube NextUp上认识的一个朋友。

she's the person who taught me about captions. She makes deaf education videos and she needs

她是教会了字幕的人。 她制作聋人教育影片，她也需要

people to caption her videos in other languages too. I'll put a link to Rikki's channel in

大家为她的影片添加不同语言的字幕。我把它的链接放在了下面。

the description below You'e gotta check it out. She is amazing.

你可以查看。她很棒。

So thank you all very much for watching. We'll be back with a regular lesson next week.

所以，非常谢谢大家的观看。我们下周的常规课上见。

See you then. Bye!

回头见。再见！