Practice intensive listening and learn interpreting - why do I like intensive listening?

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In the previous paragraph, there was someone in the General English section who was keen on listening and interpreting. I admired him very much. I saw an article and it turns out that this is called: Listening carefully is a very effective way of learning * Method, share it with everyone! Reprinted from: Educational Life Network Since I was an undergraduate in 1994, intensive listening has been an effective method for me to improve my listening level and even my comprehensive English skills. Over the past 10 years, I have listened carefully to some books and materials, which can be roughly divided into several stages. In 1994, I dictated two thin VOA Special English books by myself. I accumulated basic news listening vocabulary and began to directly challenge Beiwai's Listen to This (Book Three). In my mind, it seemed to be 13 tapes. I dictated it at least 3 times in total. You know the taste of it, the joys and sorrows. At the beginning, a 30-second piece of news may take 30 minutes or even an hour, and many words will be misheard. By the third time, my sensitivity to listening signals, grammatical skills, language sense, etc. have been greatly improved. Basically, I can challenge my short-term memory in units of sentences, and even start to try a few sentences as a unit. I miss and mishear less and less, and I have become very adaptable to materials that speak at a speed of about 200 words per minute. At that time, SISU Library provided a tape loan service, including some unknown tapes without supporting books, novels, fables, fairy tales, etc. I also dictated nearly 20 tapes. I remember using a lot of letter paper at that time. The quality of the paper was mediocre and easily torn. I even still remember the letterhead of the business in my hometown on the letter paper, where my mother worked at that time. It seems that burning optical discs became popular after 1998. There are also more and more news compilations from external stations such as VOA and BBC, and it has gradually formed an industry. I dictated some of the earliest DVDs on DVD, and one of them, BBC, did not have the original text, which was the most helpful to me, because I couldn’t check it after I finished dictating it, and I felt uneasy. I listened to it over and over again, and I became proficient in following it without realizing it, which was the biggest improvement. After the network has a broadband network, listening resources are easier to obtain, and using electronic devices such as MP3 for intensive listening is not as easy to lose as a Walkman. Since discovering the website NPR, it can be said that intensive listening has become an integral part of how I spend my personal time. Compared with other methods, NPR gives me the opportunity to browse first, find topics that interest me, DIY, record myself, and then enter the stage of intensive listening. My laptop has been replaced, broken, and stolen, but luckily, most of my listening data is backed up. When I am in class now, I will show the folder to the students, pull it down quickly, and tell the students that the thousands of MP3 files in it were all recorded by me, and that the original listening texts were all dictated by me verbatim. I have to admit that when I said those words, I was somewhat proud and proud. In 2001, I started teaching intermediate and advanced interpreting with Zheng Junhua at Angli. At that time, he used satellite TV to record a batch of CNN and BBC news interview programs, and then the two of us began to listen carefully word for word. What is different from the past is that in addition to writing it word for word, you also need to plan the teaching process, such as key vocabulary, difficulties in pronunciation phenomena, and cultural background that can be explored, etc. The higher the requirements, the more effort you put in. This also made me more aware of the value of careful listening. Not everyone agrees with listening. Some people think it's too boring and can't sit still. ； Some people think it's too difficult to get started ； Others would rather watch movies and learn English happily. I don't challenge any of these. study * There are many ways and means. I also agree that reading is the most efficient way to absorb knowledge per unit of time, and I have also benefited a lot from reading. But I really like listening. Listening carefully makes me quiet. self compiled by benjamin franklin * * There are 13 virtues listed in the table, one of which is about tranquility, being not disturbed at trifles, or accidents common or unavoidable. Intensive listening can help us find that feeling to a large extent. There are probably very few people who can listen carefully while doing other things, such as watching TV or chatting. So the first thing that intensive listening brings is "forced silence". Humans are strange animals. Once they calm down, even if it is forced at first, they will enter a natural quiet state, and then a few hours will pass. You stretch yourself, massage your face to relieve fatigue, and look at the words you have dictated. At least you can tell yourself that in the past few hours, I have listened very carefully. My ears have been effectively receiving English sound signals. I can sit quietly for several hours without watching TV or playing games. In fact, in this regard, intensive listening is as effective as beautiful music, except that the latter may evoke your memories, stimulate your fighting spirit, heal your wounds, and intoxicate your heart, while the former takes you into a foreign language world that may be strange but that you are looking forward to. Intensive listening gives me more opportunities to appreciate wonderful things and enjoy language. I have always believed that listening carefully * The language points obtained are far less efficient than reading, but the forgetting rate is extremely low, which is in line with the theory of "multiple intelligences". For example, the recent dispute between Britain and Iran, in English * idiomatic * * The capital refers to the country * * , for example, Tehran says that..., I feel particularly "kind" to the word "Tehran" because it was the first time I encountered this word in intensive listening, and no matter how I heard it at the time, it seemed that the word "Iran" was not pronounced clearly before it. Later, I also discovered that I would never forget the new words I learned through intensive listening, which left a deep impression on me. Evening during college * I'm used to listening to the BBC, which teaches you new words. I remember hearing a word at that time, Nimby, which is the acronym for not in my backyard, expressing opposition to the construction of prisons and other facilities in the local area. The announcer at that time reported "not in my backyard" in a pure accent. For a beginner, the feeling of "actually understood" was extremely wonderful. Partly it was an adventure-like surprise, and partly it was also pride for myself, "I am understanding another language. I don't know what to say next. There are too many unknowns, but I may understand it!" " Jingting forces me to do things to the end and learn to persevere. When beginners start to listen carefully, their confidence is often very low, because you can't understand some words clearly no matter how you listen, and you are still not sure "whether this is a new word" or even "whether this is a word". If I didn't listen carefully and write word for word, I'm afraid I would have let it go and not get entangled. But fine listening is different. Looking at the blank space left on the paper or saying hello, "I feel unhappy" and always thinking, "Maybe if I listen to it again, the answer will come out." It is most painful for perfectionists to do intensive listening because they cannot tolerate any omissions. No matter what the final result is, one thing is for sure, there will be more time and energy to focus on listening, and this is enough to ensure the improvement of listening and even the improvement of overall language ability. Jingting taught me to speak English well, the most patient, the best accent, the free foreign teacher. To a large extent, I learned my spoken English from tapes and MP3s. After careful listening, I would summarize, retell, read along, and shadow practice. * Wait, let me have the best foreign teacher. He is authoritative and is the head of the BBC * announcer ； He is patient. As long as you are patient, he can teach you 100 times ； He is free... Jingting taught me that there is no perfection, and I learned to be calm. As mentioned earlier, listening carefully helped me learn to persevere. But the truth of life is that sometimes being too persistent can be tiring. For example, listening carefully. Sometimes I can't hear a word, wander around the room, have no interest in doing anything, and even hinder other things. At this time, you might as well tell yourself that listening carefully requires inspiration, haha. Put it down first and put it aside. It's not giving up, it's shelving. It's like if you encounter a problem and can't think of a solution, just don't think about it too much and let yourself do something else. Maybe looking back, the answer will pop out by itself. The same goes for details. Occasionally, if you don't understand a certain word in a sentence, just leave it alone and allow ambiguity. Maybe you will understand it immediately in the next few sentences. If you treat many things in work and life with this kind of mentality, you will slowly learn to keep things in mind. Intensive listening has taught me to respect differences and learn tolerance. Beginners of any language may go through this stage: When I hear certain pronunciations in this language, I find them particularly ridiculous, fun, and funny. The process of listening carefully, especially the process of imitating and reading, allowed me to understand why the syllables are pronounced the way they are. For example, continuous reading is actually to read quickly, efficiently, and save yourself and others' time. It is very unwise to make fun of people who don't understand. In order to experience "the feeling of listening to an unfamiliar language" and prove the "value of interpretation", I listened to Russian President Vladimir Putin's Russian speech together with my former students in the oral class. Of course I couldn't understand anything. But I no longer laugh, and the syllables flowing through my ears, even if I can't grasp its meaning, seem to have become less intimidating. I like intensive listening, because in the subsequent consecutive interpretation and simultaneous interpretation work, the hard work I put in through intensive listening helped me overcome difficulties time and time again. Once upon a time a foreigner was coming * During the Q&A, he hesitated, glanced at me, and said, Roy, you know the expression "the genie is out of the bottle"? When I nodded and smiled, I could feel him sighing in relief, and he continued happily. Being able to use that phrase freely made him feel much more expressive. As for this phrase, I have written it and looked it up during intensive listening, and I will never forget it. It’s hard for me to imagine how embarrassed I would have been without the hard work I had saved at that time. I am grateful. Because of JingTing, I have more "like-minded" friends, all of whom like JingTing, and enjoy some of the benefits of JingTing. Sometimes students will very kindly but proudly point out that I didn’t hear something, a certain place name, a certain verb, or a certain consecutive pronunciation. I'm happy too. I like Jingting, and because Jingting accompanies me to spend a lot of time alone, I cherish this friend. This post was last written by lihx_Edited by susan at 2009-4-9 20:37 ]