How to improve your English proficiency with an English drama

I have seen many children's shoes discussing whether English learning is useful for American dramas and which American drama exercises are used. Here I want to say that this is just a reference and there is no absolute thing in the world, is it useful to look at people?

 

1. Not all American dramas are suitable for learning English.

If you like watching action movies such as "24 hours", you will be fluent in English, such as "bang" and "ah. if you like to watch highly professional films such as "Doctor Haos", you will basically talk about Jianghu langzhong English, which you don't even understand, such as MRI, CT, tumor, etc. if you see jailbreak, you don't need to raise your hand, and others will know that you are a mafia. not all dramas are suitable. For learning American dramas, there must be a certain amount of conversations, daily lives, and civilian films.

2. There is no future for opening subtitles

Many people like to Open Subtitles and think it will be helpful for reference. In fact, this is dragging you down. just like a lot of people get married and like to find a bridesmaid who is ugly than their own, they think that they have made progress, in fact they have been dragged into the water. chinese is the mother tongue, which is very attractive to our eyes. As long as you are there, you will definitely watch it, just like a beautiful girl in front of us, and a man will definitely watch it, it may be that the wife is at one side, or that his lover is also a man. the average person will never consciously understand English through Chinese subtitles, instead of understanding-memory-repetition.

3. Reading it again is not enough.

It cannot be called English at all, but entertainment at best. if it is for the purpose of learning, you must read and understand the meaning of sentences and words repeatedly. if you read it again, you will be thoroughly defeated by the plot, or you may cry or laugh, repeatedly thinking about what super power you should have

　　

I recommend some of my favorite online series for normal English learning:

1. Beginner: Friends

Friends is a classic story. For beginners in English, it is the best English drama to break through pronunciation and conversation. the whole drama is a conversation between characters. It is very short and has no long sentences. Its vocabulary is very simple and it is basically a model of plain English. I found that my English was significantly improved after watching this drama for as many as ten times.

2. Intermediate: Desperate Housewives

This drama tells the story of the middle class in the United States, so the terms and language are very standard. Compared with friends, it has more long sentences and expressions, and is very suitable for intermediate-level friends to learn.

3. Advanced: the West Wing

This is a political drama about the White House in the United States. The whole drama is basically a dialogue, and the speed of speech is very fast. It is filled with debates and speeches, and the vocabulary is also very advanced. It sounds very difficult. if you can thoroughly understand this drama, thank you for your 18-generation ancestor.

Through watching the TV series, I watched "Desire City" four to five times in two months. The TOEFL listening score rose from the original 20 points to the full score. Her approach is to find a favorite TV drama and read it with Chinese subtitles first. I understood the general plot and satisfied my curiosity about leisure and entertainment. Then, I started to read bilingual Subtitles three times. When I encountered a new word, I stopped to check it, then record. Although it is time-consuming, it is much more vivid than listening to the dictation without interruption. After a period of accumulation, I have recorded a full set of new words and sentence patterns. At this time, I will go back to the fourth and fifth times, completely away from the crutches, without Chinese and English subtitles. After the above accumulation, it is much easier to look at the plot at this time. In addition, you can gain an in-depth understanding of the motives and reasons of each character when talking about this dialogue, and further understand the language itself. At the same time, follow up. For example, when I hear a person's good spoken English and have an elegant pronunciation standard, I deliberately imitate her voice, tone, accent, and rhythm. In this way, the oral level will be greatly improved when the listening is trained. You need to know that the dialogue and narration in the English drama are the best oral learning models.

What do you need to pay attention to when watching American TV dramas learn languages? First, pay attention to pronunciation. Speech is the basis for any language. It not only includes the pronunciation of words, it also includes a series of audio-changing forms such as continuous reading, loss, weakening, turbidity, stress, and contraction of words and idioms in real communication. As for the tone rhythm, It is a lubricant for fluent English expressions. It has never been in contact with authentic foreigners and has never had face-to-face conversations with them, it is very difficult to feel the great role and strong attention of the tone rhythm in expressing thoughts. Therefore, we need to carefully understand the pronunciation and language habits of characters in American dramas. Secondly, understand culture. Language is the carrier of culture. The use of words and sentence patterns directly reflects the degree of understanding of foreign cultures. It can be said that the good pronunciation is just like the American language. If you can grasp the thinking habits and culture of Americans and use American culture to think, you can achieve the effect of God. This is a three-dimensional learning method, and Meiju is the best medium for this learning method.

1. Prepare the pen and paper, place the pen next to the mouse, and place the notepaper between the screen and the seat to pause and record at any time.

2. You can only record the statements that can trigger your inner feelings and resonance and some sentence patterns and syntaxes that conform to your individual characteristics.

3. Do not analyze, think, and try to remember the record. After the entire video is watched, review and organize it in a unified manner.

4. After recording the typical sentences and wonderful conversations in a chapter or movie, be sure to try your best. (For example, you can write a blog or go to the English Corner to practice. If you are attending a training class, do not miss any chance to exercise your speech eloquence .)

5. Tell everyone one more thing: If you find a classic English film that you are not tired of watching, you may wish to extract it from MP3 using the all-around audio conversion software, then download the complete English subtitles on the website, and use the LRC lyrics editor to make it into a synchronous display of the lyrics text, put it in your own MP3 or computer, study at any time, drill everywhere. Without knowing it, the essence of this film can be referenced at any time. To achieve the ultimate goal of English learning through film and television.

 

Many English learners have the following confusions: After learning English for more than 10 years and passing the test, they can fully understand the standard speed of English news broadcast) they do not understand English original movies and TV dramas (without Chinese subtitles), which causes them to doubt their listening ability.
To solve this problem, let's take a look at the differences between news English and film English. First, there is a big difference between the two in terms of style. The former is a verbal form of the written language. It is used for formal communication. It is a standard written language after processing and polishing, therefore, it makes more use of long sentences, compound sentences, and well-structured complete sentences. Its Hierarchical layout and strict logical relationships are its main features. The latter is the colloquial body, which uses daily sessions as the basic form and is generally used for communication between the parties. Therefore, short sentences, single sentences, and ellipsis are usually used. Randomness and incompleteness are its main features. In the process of English learning, the vast majority of Chinese English learners are written English. In English film and TV dramas, verbal language materials are the most important features, specifically the popular expressions, slang and related cross-cultural factors in oral English. Second, there is a big difference between the two in terms of language material output. English news or English stories are usually output by one person. The outsourcers are often trained professionally, with smooth pronunciation and even speech speed. Taking American English as an example, the speech output rate is generally 150 syllables/minute, while there are many roles in film and TV. According to the requirements of the plot, each role has its own unique voice, tone, and speed, coupled with continuous reading and weak reading, which make it far from the listening materials that are familiar with English learning, therefore, it is difficult to understand the original English video.
Therefore, watching the original English film and TV drama is the best way to practice listening and speaking in English. through sound and image, the film and TV drama combines visual stimulation and auditory stimulation effectively, this is beyond the reach of other learning methods. At the same time, it can also arouse the interest in learning English, so that you can enjoy learning.
So how can learners basically understand the original English film and TV series?
First, select film and television materials correctly. In the initial stage, you can choose film and TV materials that are close to your daily life and have a strong storyline, such as soap opera. Do not select film and television materials with many technical terms or strong logical reasoning, such as science fiction, law, medicine, and criminal investigation. It is not recommended to choose a sitepan drama because it is generally fixed in scenarios 1 and 2, and the plot is insufficient, which hinders the learner's understanding of the story. On the other hand, sitescom has many conversations, a large amount of information, and a high degree of intensive information. In addition, rich slang, buzzwords, and cultural background knowledge increase the difficulty of understanding. In addition, do not select cartoons, because the voice and tone of the cartoon's role are exaggerated and hard to understand. We recommend that you use TV series as the entry material. Each episode is short. Generally, it takes about 45 minutes. The plot details are detailed, and the plot develops slowly and is relatively independent for ease of understanding.
Second, use the correct learning method. When watching and learning, you absolutely cannot watch Subtitles (you can hide subtitles). You must force yourself to listen to and understand Subtitles with all your heart, and stick to the principle of going from simple to deep and going step by step. We recommend that you spend at least four times a day watching a set for the first time. The first time is mainly about understanding the story, so you don't have to understand it as much as you can; the second time you watch it with full focus and try to understand it as much as possible; the third time you want to watch it in a targeted manner, for conversations that are hard to understand, you need to listen to them multiple times. If you do not understand the conversation, we recommend that you use the replay dictation software to watch the conversation. This is both convenient and effective. If you can dictate the lines, the effect is better; the fourth time, add this set with English subtitles, and then read it again. After reading the script four times, read the script carefully. Find out the difficulties and keywords, record some good expressions and usages as accumulation, and continuously improve the oral English ability. In addition, if necessary, you can read it twice or three times and use MP3 to listen to it at any time. You can download videos, MP3 files, English scripts, and subtitles from various movies and TV dramas on the relevant sharing websites.
In the first phase of study, you can choose Desperate Housewives (desperate housewife) as the entry material. The show once won the National Championship. It is close to daily life and has a fascinating plot. What's more, its language is relatively simple, standard, and authentic. It does not have as many idioms, buzzwords, and slang as it is in sitesky dramas, at the same time, there are soothing and beautiful female voices that are used to the whole drama, which is particularly helpful for understanding the story. This is also a major feature of the drama. It is very suitable for beginners. Desperate Housewives (Desperate Housewives) now has three seasons, with 23 episodes each. After watching these three seasons, the learner's ability to watch the original English video will be greatly improved.
The second stage of study can adopt Gilmore Girls (seven seasons in total), which is also a life drama. It is especially suitable for young students to watch and Its language is easy to understand. One Tree Hill (Basketball brothers) is also a basketball-related young idol drama for seven seasons.
In the third phase, Sex and the City (Urban desire) can be used for six seasons. The show describes the urban life of four white-collar women. It is also a classic TV series and won multiple Amy awards; or the o.c (three seasons in total), a young idol drama. Through watching and learning the above TV series, your Audio-Visual Comprehension and verbal skills will be greatly improved. If one day you can easily understand all the content of the love drama will & Grace without subtitles, congratulations, your English level has reached a high level, as a material for learning English, it has a higher level than friends. Actors speak faster, have more lines, and have more cultural backgrounds.
The above method is called excellent reading (Listening ). In addition to watching (Listening), you can also perform some generic listening (watching ). First, you can watch TV dramas with few lines or your favorite ones. On the one hand, it can also ease the intense listening and entertain yourself. On the other hand, it can also test the effect. But don't put any pressure on yourself. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it.
At the same time, we should also make appropriate readings to increase vocabulary, idioms, buzzwords, and cultural background knowledge. We recommend that you read more about the language and culture of the United States. For example, Reader's Digest, a popular magazine in the United States, is very close to everyday life. I also want to read some books about popular American oral and slang. This will be of great help in understanding English film and television.
It is not without exaggeration to say that watching an American video is better than living in the United States for ten days. We do not have a language environment for English listening and speaking, but we can create an "English language environment for listening and listening" by watching English movies and TV dramas, so that we can learn authentic English in an immersive way.
In addition, watching (Listening) is only the input of language communication, and the output must not be ignored-that is, when watching (Listening) English movies, take study notes carefully, continue to record and practice useful expressions. In this way, listening and speaking can be effectively combined.
Finally, we recommend you some related websites and books:
1. www.langfly.com has a software that can fly English and has many TV dramas. It can be used to understand the original English TV series. Easy to use. You can listen to each sentence repeatedly for a short period of time. The sentence is displayed and hidden in Chinese and English. You can use reverse dictation to mark new words and Key Sentences. You can generate MP3 subtitle files and import them to MP3 or MP4; test new words or key sentences... (Here I recommend it to everyone)
2. www.verycd.com is a very famous sharing website. You can find almost all English movies here. However, when downloading a TV series, you must note that it has no Chinese subtitles. There are two types of subtitles: plug-ins and embedded. To download external subtitles, the embedded Subtitles have already been written into the video.
3. www.torw.portal.com is a foreign video sharing network.
4. www.shooter.cn is a subtitle website. All Chinese and English subtitles of movies and videos can be found here.
5. www.k555.cn this is an English-language film and television script website. Here you can learn how to convert video files to MP3 files.
6. www.1000fr.com is a movie and television website. Here you can learn how to plug-in subtitles.
7. www.simplyscripts.com is a foreign script website.
8. Edited by Wu Qing and Chi Jie, the contemporary American buzzword, published by the University of foreign economics and trade press.
9. Liu Yan, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, fashion English-American pop culture A to Z.
10. What's up? ---- A Guide to American college speak, by Jamie Drucker, published by Dalian University of Technology Press.

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