(单词翻译:单击)
商务人士用到英语口语的场合比一般人要多,因此口语的提高就变得非常重要。下面的建议可以帮你更好的提高口语水平。当然,一定要坚持才会有效。
(1) If possible, we may read some English tongue twisters loudly and quickly with one or two cakes of candy in our mouth (just as the Chinese cross-talk actors do) to train our oral cavity muscle and tongues suitable for English pronunciation.
如果可能我们也可以大声且快速朗读英文绕口令(就像相声演员练嘴),还可以同时口中含块糖以加大强化训练的力度,这样来使我们的口腔肌肉迅速适应英文发音,使我们的口语相当流利,清晰,而且还有自信。例如:
☆A big black bug bit the back of a big black bear. The big black bear bit back the big black bug.
☆This fish has a thin fin; That fish has a fat fin; This fish is a fish that has a thinner fin than that fish.
(2) Paying more attention to phrases and small words as one major shortcoming of Chinese English (especially Chinese oral English) is that Chinese students tend to use big words in their oral language, but the idiomatic oral English is abundant with short, active and vivid phrases. And most of such phrases are made of small words.
特别注意短语(词组)和小词的运用,中国式的英语尤其是口语一个很大的缺点就是中国学生喜欢用大词,而真正地道的英语口语却是充满短小,活泼,生动的短语,富有生气,而这些短语大部分由小词构成。
(3) Thinking in English. 英语思维的培养。
1. 大量根据图片来了解生词的含义,故事的情节,这是少儿英语中常用的方法,也试用于成人。
2. 习惯于使用英-英字典而不是英-汉字典会起相当重要的作用。
3. 加强听力训练,尤其是听用英语解释英语的课程讲解。
4. 如果没有机会拥有封闭的语言环境的话,就最好尝试一下自我封闭语言环境的创造与训练。如:强迫自己在一周内所有要表达的话,全部用英语表达。只要你能坚持一周,效果就相当明显,而无论你所表达的英语有多糟!
(4) Oral English has its own features, but it is closely combined with other aspects of English, for example, writing may make oral English precise and accurate.
口语虽自有特色,但与英语的其它方面紧密相连,比如,经常练习写作,可使口语更加精准。