Hello I'm Emma from mmmEnglish! In this video, we're going to talk about four things that you can do every day to improve your English.

大家好，我是 Emma，欢迎来到美味英语频道！在这个视频中，我们将讨论你每天都可以做四件事来提升英语水平。

I think we can all agree that learning English or learning any language takes time and effort and dedication. But the most successful language learners, they find a way for their language to become a part of their daily life.

我觉得我们应该都同意学英语，或者是学任何语言都需要时间、努力和专注力的投入。但是最成功的语言学习者总会找到一种方式，让语言成为生活的一部分。

It

just becomes a habit like brushing your teeth. If you want to improve, your English practice should become a daily habit.

它就变成了像刷牙一样的习惯一样。如果你想要提升的话，你的英语练习就应该成为日常的习惯。

To help you with this I'm going to share four things that you can and you should be doing every day to improve your English and yes, I am suggesting that you do all four things every day but they're not huge tasks and we're going to talk about how you can make them a bit of fun too so come check it out!

Before I share these four things that you should be doing every day, I want to thank our friends Lingoda who've partnered with us to bring you today's lesson.

为了帮助大家，我要给大家分享四件大家每天可以做，也是应该做的事情来提升英语，当然了，我建议大家每天这四件事情都做，但是它们并不是什么很重的任务，我们现在要讨论一下如何让它们更有乐趣一点点，所以看一下吧！在我分享这四件你们每天都应该做的事情之前，我想感谢一下我们的朋友 Lingoda，是他们的支持才给你们带来了今天的课程。

In particular, I want to share how the

Lingoda Language Sprint offers you daily English lessons plus up to a hundred percent refund on your lesson fees. Lingoda is an online language school.

尤其是，我想要分享 Lingoda 语言冲刺跑是如何为大家提供每日英语课程，以及百分之百退还你们的课程费用的。Lingoda 是在线语言学校。

You take classes with qualified native speaking teachers, class sizes are small and all of the learning materials are provided. Plus Lingoda are now Cambridge certified so you'll get free access to the Cambridge online language test as well.

你和高质量的母语老师一起上课，班级容量很小，提供所有的学习材料。除此之外，Lingoda 拥有剑桥认证，所以你也可以免费获取剑桥在线课程测试。

And in exciting news, the next Language Sprints are starting soon. The Super Sprint is the biggest challenge, thirty classes a month for three months.

令人激动的消息是，下次语言冲刺跑马上就开始了。超级短跑是最大的挑战，每月三十节课程，连上三个月。

When I decide to do something, I like to go hard and that is exactly what the Super Sprint demands of you.

English classes every day for ninety days but here's the thing, if you complete every one of those classes, Lingoda will give you your money back, a hundred percent of your class fees refunded or you can use the credits for even more English classes.

当我决定做某件事情的时候，我喜欢困难模式，那也是超级短跑对大家的要求。每天都上英语课程，连上九十天，不过事情是这样的，如果你完成了每一节课程的话，Lingoda 会返还你们的钱，百分之百返还你们的课程费用，或者你们可以使用这些额度学习更多的英语课程。

Now if that feels impossible for you, then you can choose to do the Regular Sprint, fifteen classes a month for three months. If you complete all of those classes, you'll get a fifty percent refund.

如果你感觉这对你而言不可能的话，那你就可以选择参加常规冲刺跑，每个月参加十五节课程，连上三个月。如果你完成了所有的课程的话，你就可以得到百分之五十的退款。

So are you up to the challenge? You can register for the Sprint promotion right now but registrations close on the 24th of March.

你准备好迎接挑战了吗？你现在就可以注册冲刺跑活动，但是注册三月二十四号就关闭了。

The link is in the description below and if you use this code JOIN1, you'll get ten euros off your deposit. So the very first thing on my list is pronunciation.

链接在下面的描述区，如果你使用邀请码JOIN1的话，押金就可以减十欧元。我的清单上的第一件事情是发音。

Yes, you should be practising your pronunciation every day.?And it's not to try and get rid of your accent but to make it clear enough that others can comfortably understand you when you speak.

是的，你应该每天练习发音。并不是试着去摆脱你的口音，而是把音发清楚，让其他人在你说话的时候能够舒适地理解你。

I can't tell you the number of advanced English students I've had who've had amazing grammar and vocabulary skills but so much trouble communicating because their accent makes it quite challenging for others to understand them. So of course, all of this affects smooth, positive, comfortable conversation.

我不能告诉你我有多少英语水平很高的学生，他们的语法和词汇超赞，但是在交流的时候却有很大的困难，因为他们的口音导致别人理解他们是个很大的挑战。所以当然了，所有的这些都会影响到流利、积极和舒适的交流。

And depending on where you learned English, your teacher may not have focused on pronunciation. It may not have been the priority at the time.

取决于你在哪里学的英语，你的老师可能并不怎么关注发音。它可能并非一直是最优先的事情。

You see, if you learned English at school, your teacher's main aim was probably to get you high marks in your exam.

Pronunciation was probably not their focus at that time but in the real world when you're using English to speak with other people, your pronunciation, your fluency when you speak, it's so incredibly important.

你看，如果你是在学校学英语的话，你的老师最主要的目标可能是让你在考试中的高分。发音可能并不是他们当时的重点，但是在实际生活中，当你使用英语和别人说话的时候，你说话时的发音和流利度都非常非常重要。

Get into the habit of learning and using the correct pronunciation today because it's going to save you lots of headaches and confusion down the track.

Plus, practising your pronunciation every day consistently, it's gonna help you to make noticeable improvements in a short space of time.

今天养成学习和使用正确发音的习惯，因为这将给你们省掉道路上的痛苦和迷茫。除此之外，每天持续练习你们的发音，能够帮助你们在短时间内取得明显的进步。

So how can you start doing this? I recommend that you learn the IPA, the international phonetic alphabet.

那你该如何开始呢？我推荐你学习国际音标。

If you've never heard of it before or you don't know a lot about it, then watch this lesson up here. But learning the IPA will allow you to correctly pronounce every single English word using the correct English sounds.

如果你之前从没有听说过，或者是并不怎么了解的话，那就看看这节课程吧。但是学习国际音标能够让你们正确地发出每个英语单词的音。

Another great way to practise your pronunciation is with my imitation lessons so in these lessons, I help you to copy me and shadow me as I speak.

They're really awesome, quick ten minute videos that you can practise with regularly so add them to a playlist and keep coming back to them and practise with them often.

另外一个很好地练习发音的方式是利用我的模仿课程，在这些课程中，我帮助大家在我说话的时候模仿我，跟着我说。这些课程都是很棒的，非常快速地十分钟的短视频，大家可以有规律地进行练习，所以把它们添加进播放列表中，时不时地回去看看，一起练习吧。

After you've practised a lesson for a few times make a recording of yourself and compare it to my voice. Try to identify some of the mistakes that you're making with your pronunciation.

在你把一节课程练习了几次之后，那就给自己录个音，和我的声音比一下。试着去找出你发音方面的一些错误。

I've added a link to my imitation lessons in the description and I'll add one at the end of this video as well that you can check out. You can also simply read out loud to improve your pronunciation.

我在描述区里挂了我的模仿课程的链接，我也会在这个视频结束的时候放一下，这样你们就可以看一看了。你们也可以只是大声朗读来提升发音水平。

Doing this every day will help your mouth muscles to get working and creating English sounds and get more comfortable doing it.

It's as simple as that and it doesn't need to take you long just five or ten minutes a day is plenty.

每天都这么做会帮助你们的嘴部肌肉一直工作，创造英语发音，在说英语的时候更加轻松自如。就是这么简单，并不怎么需要很长时间，每天五到十分钟就够了。

Just make sure you're doing it consistently. You could even do it by singing English songs.

保证一直持续这么做就好。你甚至可以唱英文歌曲。

Create one opportunity to absorb English every day. To absorb is to take in information so you're like a sponge soaking things up, taking in new ideas, new words, new ways of expressing yourself and you can do this in lots of different ways, so many ways.

创造机会每天都吸收一些英语。吸收的意思是消化信息，就像海绵一样把东西给吸进去，吸收新的思路，新的词汇，新的表达自己的方式，你们也可以以不同的方式做这件事情。

Listening to a podcast or an audiobook, you could watch an English movie or any video on Youtube. Read a book or a blog post.

听播客或者是电子书，你可以看英语电影或者是任何油管上的视频。看书或者是博客推送。

In fact, you probably want to mix this up during the week, right? To keep things interesting.

其实呢，你可能想要每周把这些事情混合起来做，对吧？让事情有趣一点。

A podcast on Monday. Read a book on Tuesday.

周一看播客。周二看本书。

Whatever floats your boat. Now again, this doesn't have to be a huge time-consuming task but it's worth spending some time searching for the right type of content.

你随意。同样的，这并不是非常耗时间的任务，但是花时间找正确类型的内容却是非常重要的。

It must be stuff that is interesting for you. If you're into football or you love makeup tutorials or romance novels or soap operas.

必须是你觉得有趣的事情。如果你喜欢足球或者是喜欢化妆教程，或者是爱情小说，或者是肥皂剧的话。

If you love the idea of sailing around the world, I've been watching a YouTube channel called Sailing La Vagabonde and they vlog about their life sailing around the world on a yacht. In fact, if you're interested, I've added the link in the description below.

如果你喜欢乘帆船环游世界的话，我一直在看一个油管频道叫做 Sailing La Vagabonde，他们会发他们乘帆船环游世界的视频播客。其实呢，如果你感兴趣的话，我已经把链接放在下方的描述区了。

But the point is, find something that interests you and excites you because you need to look forward to doing it every single day. It shouldn't feel like you're doing English practice.

但是重点是，要找到你感兴趣的东西，让你会感到激动的东西，因为你需要每天都期待去做这件事情。不应该感觉你正在进行英语练习。

So I have two little recommendations here. Firstly, you need to find the time that you're going to do it and declare it.

所以我有两个小小的推荐。首先，你需要找你会用来做这件事情的时间，并且表明态度。

That is your daily time to absorb English so it could be on the bus on your way to work or while you're eating breakfast. I've always found that attaching an activity to the task helps you to make it part of your routine.

这是你每日吸收英语的时间，所以可以在你上班工作的公交车上，或者是你吃早餐的时间。我总是会发现将一个活动和任务相联系的话，能够帮助你成为你日常常规的一部分。

And while you're doing it, just keep a notebook handy so that you can write down expressions or new words which you can look up and check later on. Simple as that!

当你在做这件事情的时候，身边放个笔记本，这样你就能记下来一些表达或者是新的词汇，后面的时间就可以回去看看。就是这么简单！

Writing every day has some amazing benefits. But before I talk about that I want to make it clear, I'm not talking about writing an essay, okay?

每日进行写作益处多多。但是在我说之前，我想要声明一下，我说的可不是写论文，好吗？

I'm just talking about writing a few thoughts or a few ideas down. It only has to take a few minutes and nobody ever has to see it.

我说的只是把几个想法啊给写下来。只需要花几分钟就行了，而且没人会去看的。

It's just for you. So there's a few reasons why writing every day is an excellent habit to get into.

只是给你自己的。所以有以下几个原因为什么每日写作是一个很好的习惯可以坚持。

It helps your vocabulary to stick. Writing is one of the best ways to recall new words and expressions that you've come across.

它可以使你牢牢记住词汇。写作是回忆你遇到的新单词和表达最佳方式之一。

When so many of my students have asked me "What is the best way to remember vocabulary?" this is my recommendation.

As you're reading or watching TV shows or books, you come across new ideas and words and you write them down but then you start to use them yourself.

当很多我的学生问：“最好的记单词的方式是什么？”的时候，这是我的推荐。当你在阅读或者是看电视的时候，你会遇到一些新的想法和单词，然后你写下了他们，但是然后呢你开始自己使用这些单词了。

You think of sentences and your own ideas about how to use these words. That way you're producing your own sentences rather than just listening to other people's and it helps it just stick in your mind.

你思考自己的句子，思考如何去使用这些单词。通过那种方式，你是在造自己的句子，而不只是听别人说话，这能够帮助你牢牢记住。

And then you can improve it. Once you've written something, you can do so much with it.

然后你就可以提升了。一旦你写了什么东西的话，就可以在上面大做文章了。

You can copy/paste it into a grammar checker like Grammarly to help you to identify some of the errors that you're making. So Grammarly is free to use, I've included a link in the description below because it's awesome.

你可以把它复制粘贴进语法检查软件里面，比如说 Grammarly，帮助你们看看有没有犯什么错误。Grammarly 是免费使用的，我在描述区放了链接，因为它真的超级赞。

It helps you to see the mistakes that you're making like maybe you're using the wrong preposition or you don't need to use an article when you've written one.

So I really recommend that you take a look to help you see and realise the mistakes that you're making and you can also review your own work.

它帮助你看一下你犯了什么错误，比如说你可能使用了错误的介词，或者是不需要使用冠词的时候却使用了。我真的很推荐大家看一下，帮助你们意识到你们犯的错误，也可以回顾一下自己的作品。

Once you've finished writing, leave it for a few days or a few weeks, come back to it. See if you can make any improvements or if you can use a thesaurus to look up synonyms and replace some of the words with more advanced ones.

你完成写作之后，先把它放个几天或者是几周，然后再回去检查。看看你是不是能有可以提升的地方，或者是能不能使用同义词典寻找同义词，然后把里面的一些词汇用更高级的替代一下。

These are just a few ideas but getting into a daily writing practice creates so many opportunities for you to apply what you've learned or what you've seen or what you've experienced in English and then review it and improve it. Lastly, join an English discussion about stuff that interests you.

这只是一些想法而已，但是养成每日写作的习惯能够为你创造很多机会，应用你所学习到的，你所看到的，或者是你体验到的英语，然后回顾它，提升它。最后呢，参加关于你关心的事情的英文讨论。

Now this sounds serious and may be complicated but it's not, I promise. I'm just talking about joining an active group or online community where there are people interacting.

这听起来有点严肃，可能也有点复杂，但其实并不是，我保证。我说的是参加一个活跃的群体或者是线上社群，大家可以在里面交流互动。

They're sharing their ideas, they're giving opinions and you're able to respond. So you can comment and actually be part of the discussion as it happens.

他们会分享自己的想法，他们会说出自己的意见，你可以进行回应。你可以评论，成为讨论的一部分。

Now this could be in person but it can easily be as part of an online community.

Plus that makes it, you know, even easier to create a daily habit around it because it's simply about checking in and seeing what everyone else has been talking about and giving your two cents worth.

这可能有点点私人，但是成为线上社群的一部分可以是一件很容易的事情。除此之外，那其实更容易培养成每日的兴趣爱好，因为不过就是看看大家在说什么，说说自己的意见罢了。

So how do you find these places? It takes a little work.

那你该怎么找这些地方呢？需要花点时间呢。

You can't just Google 'cooking' and join the first group that you find. Join a few different ones, see which one is the most active, which one has really interesting discussions happening in it.

你不能只是谷歌一下“烹饪”然后加入你找到的第一个群体。参加一些不同的小组，看看哪一个是最具吸引力的，哪个里面的讨论最有趣。

Sometimes nothing gets posted in these groups for days and that's not really helpful for you, right? So I would start by writing down your top five hobbies or interests.

有时候这个小组里面可能很多天都没人说话了，那其实对你是很有帮助的，对吧？所以我以写下最喜欢的五个爱好或者是兴趣开始。

Don't start with English language. What else are you into?

不要从英语开始。你还喜欢什么呢？

Are you into politics or yoga or marketing, photography, sports. I mean you probably already follow people or a part of groups that are like this.

你喜欢政治、瑜伽、市场营销、摄影还是运动呢？我的意思是你可能已经关注了相关的人或者是参加了这些小组。

So all you need to do is commit to checking in once a day and write a comment. It's not more complicated than that.

你需要做的就是每天看看，然后写个评论。就是这么简单。

If someone shared something and they're asking for opinions, don't keep scrolling. It's an opportunity for you to share so stop, think of a way that you can contribute.

如果有人分享了什么东西，他们在询问意见的时候，不要就是滚滚鼠标而已。这是为你准备的进行分享的机会，所以停下来，想想你可以怎么为这个小组做点贡献。

Now I'm gonna add some great, really active and interesting groups in the description below just to give you a few ideas of what I'm talking about but I want to know if you're already part of some lively Facebook groups or other online communities. What kinds of things do you discuss and do you ever contribute?

我会在描述区放一些很棒的很活跃的很有趣的小组，给大家一些想法，但是我想要知道你们是不是已经参加了一些脸书小组或者是其他的线上社群。你们会讨论什么，你又会贡献什么呢？

So if you can bring those four things into your daily routine in some way, you will absolutely, without a doubt improve your English. Remember that it takes a little bit of time to create good habits.

如果你能够把这四件事情融入自己的生活中的话，你肯定可以提升自己的英语水平的。要记住养成好的习惯其实是需要花点时间的。

It's not as simple as deciding you're gonna do it. So I've got a couple of extra tips to help you get started.

不仅仅是决定自己要做什么这么简单。我准备了一些额外的技巧帮助你们开始。

Do your research first. Find a blog or a TV series that will keep you interested so you don't have to look for something to do okay?

先做一些小研究。找找你会一直感兴趣的博客或者是电视剧，这样你就不需要去找其他事情做了，对吧？

Give yourself a week or so to find the right type of community to join and be part of the discussions with.

Then create a regular schedule to help you get started and really I just mean decide when you're going to do these four things so for example, pronunciation practice might be in the bathroom for five to ten minutes every morning as you're getting ready for work.

给自己大概一周的时间，找到正确的群体去加入，成为讨论的一部分。然后建立一个日程表，帮助你开始，确定你在什么时候会做这四件事情，比如说，发音练习可能可以在浴室的时候进行，每天早晨五到十分钟，在你准备去工作的时候。

Then listening to your favourite podcast on your way to work and you're writing down your words on the bus. On your lunch break, might be the time to check a Facebook group and write a group comment.

然后在你去上班的路上听听你最喜欢的播客，在公交车上写下几个单词。在你午餐休息的时候，或许可以利用这段时间看一下脸书小猪，写个小组评论。

Then spend ten minutes at the end of your day writing about what you did or what you learnt before dinner and simply put that on repeat. Very quickly you'll realise that English has become a regular daily part of your routine.

然后在一天结束的时候花十分钟时间写写你做了什么，或者是在晚餐之前学到了什么，然后就这样简单地重复就行。非常快地你们就可以发觉英语已经成为你的日常生活的一部分了。

Thank you so much for joining me today. You can connect with me on Instagram and my Facebook here.

非常感谢参加今天的课程。你可以在 Instagram 和脸书上找到我。

I hope that you found all of these ideas and these suggestions useful. Let me know if you're doing some of these things already or if you're planning to put any of them into practice, let me know how it goes.

我希望你们会觉得这些想法和建议是有用的。如果你们已经做了其中的某些事情，那就告诉我吧，或者是你们计划要付诸实践的话，让我知道进程怎么样吧。

And as promised, here is one of my imitation lessons to help you work on your pronunciation. I'll see you in there!

我保证过的，这是我的其中一节模仿课程，帮助大家练习发音。再见啦！