《新概念英語》之父為聽懂地道英語支招

L.G.Alexander(1932.1.15-2002.6.17)生于英國。世界著名的英語教學(xué)專業(yè)，曾任歐洲現(xiàn)代語言教學(xué)委員會理事。其著作為交際教學(xué)法奠定基礎(chǔ)，其中一些已成經(jīng)典教材。他和何其莘教授主編的《新概念英語》 成為英語學(xué)習(xí)經(jīng)久不衰的經(jīng)典教材。

亞歷山大先生潛心研究英語教學(xué)法，結(jié)合實際教學(xué)經(jīng)驗(他曾在歐洲多所大學(xué)任教)，就廣大教師和學(xué)生廣泛關(guān)注的教學(xué)和學(xué)習(xí)問題，提供了專家指導(dǎo)和建議。

What is the best strategy to get used to listening to natural English? It is impossible for me to understand every word.

聽懂很地道的英語的最佳策略是什么呢? 對我來說，要聽懂每一個詞是非常困難的。

How often I have heard the lament: I can understand my teacher’s English, but I can’t understand anyone else’s! I can only suggest a few tips for improving your listening comprehension:

1) Try to extend the range of English you listen to. This means listening to as much native-speaker English as you can (varieties of British and American English) and different varieties of non-勃native English (Spanglish, Frenglish, Gerlish, etc.). The BBC World Service is an excellent source of native-speaker English, as are films on video.

2) When listening to English (whatever its source) don’t try to puzzle out the meaning of individual words. Try to get the gist of the whole, by listening for the global meaning and ignoring words you haven’t fully heard or understood.

3) Remember, that native speakers in particular take a lot of short cuts when speaking and you have to get used to them. For example, something that sounds like‘Wodjasay?’would be ‘What did you say?’when written out in full.

4) One of the biggest barriers to understanding is the failure to recognize word boundaries, so that you can’t tell, when English is spoken at speed, where one word ends and another begins. If someone quickly says‘You shouldn’t’ve done that’it may sound like a single word, whereas it is actually six separate words. A good way of training yourself to distinguish word boundaries is to listen to recordings of English, while silently reading the printed text at the same time. There are whole libraries of books on tape, so that you can listen and read at the same time to train the ear and the eye simultaneously.

That’s enough to be getting on with, for the time being, and good luck!

我聽過這樣的抱怨已經(jīng)不止一次了：我可以聽懂我的老師說的英語，但我卻不能理解別人說的英語!這里，我只能就如何提高你的聽力理解提幾點建議：

1) 盡可能擴大你聽英語的范圍。這就是說盡可能多聽說英語的本族人的談話(英國英語和美國英語，等等)。同時也要多聽非英語國家人們的談話(西班牙英語、法國英語、德國英語，等等)。英國廣播公司(BBC)的面向世界的廣播是聽地道的英語的極好來源，觀看電影錄像也是如此。

2) 在聽英語時(不論其來源)，先不要為個別單詞的意思犯愁。一定要先抓住所聽的內(nèi)容的大概意思，即先聽懂內(nèi)容的全貌，忽略個別你沒有完全聽懂或理解的詞。

3) 請你記住，說英語的本族人在說話時，通常省掉一些詞，以求省事，你必須習(xí)慣他們的說話方式。例如：你若聽到他們說Wodjasay?，那么寫全了就是What did you say?

4) 對英語學(xué)習(xí)者來說，聽懂英語的最大困難還有一個，即他們不能正確地辨出詞與詞之間的界線。這就是說當(dāng)別人在快速說英語時，你不能分辨一個單詞在哪兒結(jié)束，一個單詞在哪兒開始。如果有人以很快的速度說You shouldn’t’ve done that(你本不應(yīng)該做那件事)，這句話聽起來就像一個詞一樣，但實際上它卻是由六個單獨的詞組成的。訓(xùn)練你自己分辨詞與詞之間界線的最好方法是一邊聽英語錄音，一邊默讀與之對照的課文。類似這類的材料可說是汗牛充棟，你可以以這種方法同時訓(xùn)練眼和耳。

眼下，你可以開始試試，祝你好運!