Is it hard to speak fluent English?
流利地说英语难吗？
In fact, learning how to speak better English is simple and fun!
事实上，学会如何更好地说英语简单而有趣。
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Do you have English trauma?
你有过英语创伤吗？
Trauma：(a) severe emotional shock and pain caused by an extremely upsetting experience
创伤：由极度痛苦经历造成的情感打击。
我有一个口语高铁的学员，曾经当着面被老师撕破英语作业本。这就是英语创伤。
Belief & deep & repetition
信念&深度&重复
Yes, that is another belief, a very common belief, English is difficult. Or, English is complicated. Well, that’s just a belief. For teacher Victor, English is very interesting, because I love English, so I practice a lot.
是的，英语很难或英语很复杂是一种非常常见的看法。但这只是一种想法。对于Victor老师来说，英语非常有意思。因为我热爱英语，所以我经常练习。
Just like everybody here can speak fluent Chinese, just because you practice Chinese everyday, right? So you might say “English is so difficult,” and I would say “No, English is super easy.”
就像在座的每一位都能说一口流利的中文一样，这是由于你每天都练习中文，对不对？ 所以也许你会说“英语好难。”但是我却说“不，英语超级简单。”
These are just beliefs that come from our experiences. The problem is these limiting beliefs limit us. They in fact do limit us. They stop us from getting better.
这些都是来源于我们经历的看法。问题是这些限制性的信念会限制我们。
They cause a lot of problems for us as students, as learners of English. You have a lot of these limiting beliefs that let you realize “Oh, English is so difficult.” English is complicated, just look at the writing system. It’s so different from Chinese.
它们确实会限制我们。你有太多这样的限制性信念，它们让你觉得“噢，英语太难了！ 英语好复杂。看看英语的书写系统，它和中文区别太大了。”
And these beliefs hurt your motivation. They lower your energy, and in fact they’re wrong. They’re not true. English does not have to be difficult, it does not have to be complicated.
这些信念会破坏你的积极性，它们降低你的学习精力，但事实上它们都是错误的，而不是真的。英语不必有多难，不必有多复杂。
A small child in China could learn English very easily. And the reason is, the number one reason is, they don’t have the limiting beliefs. They can sing songs and play games and enjoy the language, and they’ll learn it so quickly, so easily, they’ll say “English is easy.” Well, it’s the same with English with you.
中国的小孩子能够轻松地学会英语，原因是，第一原因是：他们没有限制性信念。他们能唱英语歌，玩英文游戏并且享受这门语言，所以他们能够如此快速、轻松地学会英语。他们会说“英语非常简单。”这点就英语与你来说是一样的。
You learned in a very painful, difficult way in the past. And so you developed, you created these beliefs in your head. English is difficult. English is boring. English is painful. I’m not good at English. I’ll never speak excellent English. These are just beliefs.
你在过去用痛苦、困难的方法进行学习，所以你在你的脑中建立、造成了这些信念，英语很难，英语很无聊，英语是令人痛苦的，我英语很差，我永远也无法说一口优秀的英语...... 这些都只是信念而已。
So how do you eliminate these beliefs? Okay, you have these beliefs. You know they’re negative, you know they’re not helping you. But we have to figure out, how can we get rid of the limiting beliefs?
那么我们如何消除这些信念呢？好的，你拥有这些信念，你知道它们是消极的，你知道它们不会帮助你。但是我们必须知道，我们如何来消除这些限制性信念。
That’s the first step, you have to weaken them. You have to make them weaker and weaker and weaker. You have to cut them down. Well beliefs get stronger from an experience or a memory.
这是第一步，你必须弱化它们。你必须让它们变得越来越弱，越来越弱，你必须要削减它们。想法会通过一段经历或者记忆变得更强。
Sometimes it’s just something you imagine, actually. But it’s a specific experience or a specific imagination, a specific moment, that makes the belief stronger or weaker.
而事实上有时它只是你的想象而已。但是是一段特定的经历，一份特定的想象或者一个特定的时刻让你的信念变得更强或更弱。
So, for example, you have this idea “English is painful and boring.” And when you think of this belief, where does it come from?
就比如说，你有“英语是令人痛苦且无聊的”这样的看法。你想想这样的看法是来自哪里？
Well, you think of all these past experiences.You think of the time in middle school where your teacher corrected your mistake and you felt terrible.
你想到你过去的所有的经历，你想到你中学时老师纠正了你的错误而你感到非常糟糕。
And you think of maybe the bad grades you got on the test or all the red marks on your English papers. And you start adding more and more and more memories, more of these negative experiences, these negative references.
你也许会想到考试取得的低分和你英语试卷上的红色分数。接着你便会不断添加越来越多这样的记忆，越来越多这样的消极经历，负面参照。
And if you get enough, you will develop a very, strong, deep, powerful belief “English is difficult. English is painful. I’m not good at English.” So to weaken these, you just have to question the experiences.
如果你积累足够多的这样的想法，你将建立一种非常强烈、深刻而强大的信念“英语很难，英语是痛苦的，我英语非常糟糕。”所以要弱化这样的信念，你只要审问自己过去的经历。
Take the power away from the experiences. And an easy way to do that is just to ask questions about them. For example, let me ask this question.
将过去经历的力量夺去。一个简单的方法便是询问关于它们的问题，比如说，我想问问。
Your past English schools, were they excellent?Were they just fantastic English schools with fantastic, amazing, fun, positive English teachers? Did you have a great time every day?
你以前的英语学校够好吗？它们是有着优秀、风趣、积极的英语老师的很棒的学校吗？你在那每天都过得很开心吗？
Well, I know for most of you the answer is no. So that’s interesting, so if your schools were not excellent, maybe the school was the problem. Maybe it’s not you. Maybe your English is not great because you did not go to great schools. And did they use proven methods?
我知道对于你们大部分人来说，答案是否定的。所以很有意思的是，如果你的学校并不怎么样，也许是学校的问题，而不是你；也许你的英语不够好是因为你没有去一家很好的学校。而他们又是否使用了经过验证的方法呢？
Did they only use the best methods? Or did they just use the textbook that everybody else uses? Well, I know from my experience as a Chinese learner of English, most schools just use the same textbooks.
他们是只使用最好的方法，还是只使用其他人都用的教材？作为一名中国英语学习者，从我自己的经验来看，大多数学校都是使用相同的教材。
But they’re not choosing the very, very best methods. They’re not choosing the very, very best books. And so maybe the reason you believe English is difficult is because you used difficult methods in the past, or your teachers did.
而且他们没有选择最棒的教学方法，最好的教材。所有也许你觉得英语很难的原因是因为你以前使用了难的方法，或者你的老师这样做了。
Maybe you think English is boring because in the past you used boring methods. You went to boring schools. You had boring teachers.
也许你觉得英语无聊是因为过去你使用了无聊的学习方法，你念的是无聊的学校，你的老师很无聊。
Maybe English isn’t the problem. Maybe it was these past experiences. Maybe it was the way you did it or where you did it. Ask yourself these questions. Think about them in detail. Weaken your limiting beliefs. Challenge your limiting beliefs.
也许问题不在英语，而在于你过去的经历，也许在于你过去是如何学习的和在哪学习的。问下自己这些问题，仔细地思考一下。弱化你的限制性信念，挑战你的限制性信念！
Another question, in school did you learn deeply? For example, did you take one chapter in your book and learn it for a long time so that you totally mastered it, so that you knew it completely, 100% and never forgot it?
另一个问题是，你在学校有深度地进行学习吗？例如，你有没有将书中的一个章节进行长时间的学习，然后将它百分百地彻底掌握，再也不会忘记呢？
Probably not, most schools I have ever seen, it’s quite the opposite. The teachers go very, very, very quickly. You learn one chapter in your book, boom, after one week on to the next one, and the next one. Each chapter has so many new words, so much new grammar.
大概没有，我见过的大部分学校，都是完全相反的。老师的上课节奏非常快，你刚学习一个章节，紧接着，下周便马上进入下一个章节，再下一个章节。而每个章节都有很多的新单词，新语法知识。
For example, my experience with English in high school, you may know that I’ve had a total of four years of English study in high school, because I was failed for the first time for College Entrance Examination.
再比如我高中学习英语的经历，你可能知道我在高中学习了整整四年的英语，因为我第一次高考失利了。
So I’ve had a total of four-years study in high school. But I almost forgot it all at that time. Because we never learned deeply. The teachers just tried to make us learn as many words as possible, a lot of words, a lot of grammar, very, very fast.
所以我在学校学习了整整四年。但是我几乎已经完全忘记那时学的内容了。这是因为我们从没有深度地学习过。老师只是试着让我尽可能多地学习单词和语法知识，而且速度非常快。
And then take a lot of examination, of course, I forgot everything. How about you? Did you learn deeply in your schools? If not, maybe that was one of the problems. Maybe English feels difficult because you never learned deeply. Maybe English is not the problem. When I start to learned it deeply, my English improves very fast.
接着便是大量的考试，我当然会什么都记不住。那你呢？你在学校有深度地学习吗？如果没有，也许那也是问题之一。也许你觉得英语难是因为你从来没有深度地学习过。也许问题并不在英语。在我开始进行深度地学习之后，我的英语便迅速地提高了。
Finally, did you learn with a grammar translation method? Did you study a lot of grammar rules? Did you take a lot of tests? Did you feel good about that? Again, maybe the method was the problem. Maybe the school is the problem, not English.
最后，你使用了语法翻译法进行学习吗？你学习了很多的语法吗？你参加了很多的考试吗？你对此的感觉是好的吗？再一次，也许问题在于学习方法，也许问题在于学校，而不在英语。
So think about these questions and think about them every day. Think about them a lot. I want you to think about these questions again and again and again. And really be honest about it.
所以思考一下这些问题，每天都思考一下。经常思考一下这些问题。我想让你反复、再反复地思考这些问题，而且要对此完全坦诚。
And start to destroy these limiting beliefs. Get rid of them. They’re wrong. English is not difficult. English is not painful. English is not boring. It’s only a belief. It’s only a past experience. You can change that now and in the future.
接着摧毁这些限制性信念，清除它们。它们是错误的，英语不难；英语不使人痛苦；英语不无聊。这一切只是一种信念，只是一种过去的经历。你可以现在改变它们，并且在将来也能做到。
So let’s do that. Let’s talk now about empowering beliefs, the positive side. So to empower, the verb, to empower means to make stronger. It means to give power to another person.
那么让我们这样做。现在让我们谈谈激励性信念，积极的那一面。“激励”，这个动词，意味着使之变得更强，意味着将力量给予另一个人。
Or in this case, it means the beliefs give you power.An empowering belief is a belief that makes you feel powerful, that gives you power.
也或许在这个情况中，意味着信念给你力量。一个激励性信念是一种让你感到强大，给你力量的信念
Something that is empowering makes you more confident and makes you feel that you are in control of your English learning. That’s the kind of beliefs you want and you need to choose them.
是一种让你变得自信，让你觉得自己将英语学习掌握在手的东西。这才是你想要的信念，而你需要选择它们。
You must decide which beliefs will make you stronger. For example, here’s an empowering belief. You can replace your old limiting belief, add this one instead.
你必须决定什么样的信念会让你变得更强大。例如，有一种激励性信念，你可以用它替换掉你旧的限制性信念，取而代之，将这个信念加进去。
You can say “My brain is a natural language learning machine.” Because that’s what all of the scientific research shows, our brain naturally learns languages.
你可以说“我的大脑是一个自然的语言学习机器”因为所有的科学研究显示，我们的大脑会自然而且地进行语言学习。
It is designed to learn language. It should be easy. It should feel good. We learned our native language that way. It wasn’t difficult, was it? Everybody now can speak fluent Chinese. Chinese was easy for us to learn, because we did it in a totally natural way.
它的构造就是用来学习语言的。学习英语应该是简单的，应该是让人感觉良好的，我们就是这样学会我们的母语的。我们学习母语并不难，不是吗？每个人都能流利地说中文。中文对于我们来说是很容易学习的，因为我们是用一种完全自然的方法做到的。
And the more naturally I tried to learn Korean, for example, the easier it feels（说韩语自我介绍）. So this is a new belief and you should write it down, think about it. Write down this belief “My brain is a natural language learning machine.” Think about it every day. Decide to choose that belief.
我越自然地进行韩语学习，我越觉得韩语容易。所以你应该将这个信念写下来，思考一下它。把这个信念写下来“我的大脑是一个自然的学习机器。”每天思考这点，下决心选择这样的信念。
Do you like it? English, Korean, Cantonese, all the same thing.
这你喜欢吗？英语、汉语、普通话，都是一样的。
Here’s another belief you might decide to choose “English can be fun.” That’s an empowering belief and it’s also true. You can think of a lot of examples for this. Take English songs for example.
有另一个你可以下定决心进行选择的信念“英语可以是有趣的。”这是一种激励性信念，而且它也是真实的。为此你可以想到很多例子。英文歌就是一个例子。
They’re fun. They’re stupid, sometimes. They’re crazy, sometimes. But they’re not serious. English can be fun. That’s an empowering belief you want to choose and you want to remember it every day.
英语歌非常有趣，有时它们有点愚蠢，有时还有点疯狂，它们不是非得是严肃的。英语可以是有趣的，这是你想要选择的激励性信念，而且你需要每天都记得它。
What’s really interesting for me is that these are the same beliefs that all of my best students have. They all have these same ideas. The best students, the ones who learn the fastest, the ones who have the best test scores, the ones with the best speaking, they all believe these things. They all believe that English is fun and interesting. They all believe that language learning is natural.
对我来说有意思的是这些是我最出色学生都共同拥有的信念。这些最好的学生，这些学习速度最快，得分最高，口语最好，这样的学生，他们拥有同样的信念，都相信这些事情。他们都相信英语是好玩而有趣的，他们都相信语言的学习是自然而然的。
Another belief they have is that you must learn language naturally and you must focus on meaning. So in other words, they don’t focus on the grammar. They are not focusing on boring textbooks. They’re reading interesting things that they enjoy. They’re listening to interesting things that they enjoy. So, for them, language learning is interesting.
他们拥有的另一个信念是，你必须自然而然地进行语言学习，而且你必须专注其含义。换言之，你不是专注于语法。他们不是专攻无聊的教材，他们看自己感兴趣的书，听他们喜欢的有趣的东西。所以对于他们来说，语言学习是有意思的。
So if you want to be like these successful people, you need to think like them. You need to have the same beliefs as them.
所以如果你想像这些成功的人一样，你需要和他们一样思考，你需要拥有和他们一样的信念。
So here’s what I want you to do. Here’s your homework for part 1. What I want you to do is write down two, three or four empowering beliefs, beliefs that give you power about English.
那么这里是我想让你做的事情，这里是第一部分的家庭作业。我想让你写下两到三条或者四条激励性信念，能让你对英语充满力量的信念。
Maybe “I am a language genius. My brain is a natural language learning machine.” Maybe “English can be fun and interesting.” Maybe “English is beautiful, I love English.” I don’t know, write down, two, three or four empowering beliefs about English.
也许是：“我是一名英语天才。我的大脑是一台天然语言学习机。”也许是：“英语可以是好玩有趣的。”也许是：“英语是美丽的，我爱英语。”只要写下两到三条或是四条关于英语的激励性信念。
And you’re going to say that out loud every day. These are beliefs that you are going to repeat again and again and again every day.
而且你要每天大声将其说出来，每天将这些信念一遍又一遍地重复。
As you’re getting ready for the English lesson, you’re going to repeat this out loud. You’re going to say “English can be fun and interesting.”
在你准备上课时，你要大声进行重复，你要说“英语可以是好玩有趣的。”
You’re going to say it with some emotion. Say it with feeling so you’re smiling, you’re breathing deep, you’re moving your body, and now you’re also saying these strong beliefs.
你要带着情感地说，带着感觉地说，这样你才会面带微笑、深呼吸、晃动你的身体，现在你要说出这些激励性信念
English can be fun and interesting. You repeat it again. English can be fun and interesting. And then you say it again. English can be fun and interesting.
英语可以是好玩有趣的。你要反复重复：英语可以是好玩有趣的。然后你再次重复：英语可以是好玩有趣的。
You can do this in your room and its fine. You can do it outside and make everyone look at you and think you’re crazy. Why not? It’s better than being bored, right? I promise you will learn so much faster if you do this.
你可以在你的房间做这件事情，你也去外面让每个人都看着你认为你是个疯子。这为什么不可以呢？这总比无聊强，不是吗？我向你保证，如果你这样做了你会学得快很多。
So do it every day just before you do a lesson. Get peak emotional state, and then say it out loud. English can be fun and interesting. English can be fun and interesting. Then you’re ready to learn.
所以每天在课前都要这样做。达到情绪顶峰后大声地将其说出来。英语可以是好玩有趣的，英语可以是好玩有趣的。接下来你就准备好进行学习了。
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