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Find another way to achieve a better future.
English improvement lecture
Dr Lin Chaolun.
Which industry has remained basically unchanged for 40 years?
English teaching!
1 English thinking is a master's achievement and cannot be set as a requirement for beginners.
(From Chinese to English)
Chinglish is not good at translating Chinese into English, so it is inevitable to think from Chinese.
I don't understand it at all. How can I understand it?
I can't understand all the new words and sentences. How can I understand many difficult sentences? Listening is much more difficult than reading.
Look first, then listen.
It is not recommended to practice listening in news English.
Read it and listen.
News has a special style and common new words. If you want to lose your confidence in hearing, listen to the news.
The most important information is at the beginning of the article. Inverted pyramid structure.
Different from the daily stylistic structure, daily life pays attention to bedding.
We should aim at correctness first.
200 1 When college students and graduate students are in actual combat, don't take authentic as the standard. This standard is too high and difficult, and it is an Olympic standard. I have worked in mainstream social life for many years and have a doctorate in linguistics. I still dare not speak authentic English. I can be said to be well educated.
The first criterion for learning English is correctness. This is actually very difficult. There are no syntactic errors and lexical errors, adjectives are adjectives, adverbs are adverbs, and tenses are not wrong. There is no concept of tense in Chinese, and the concept of time in Chinese is expressed by context or Chinese characters. People in China have no idea about tenses! English tenses are not only tenses, but also semantics. take for example
Did you return the book?
Yes, I did.
I returned the book. What seems to us to be grammar means meaning in Britain.
People in China often make tense mistakes.
The best teachers are China people with good English.
The British and Americans don't know the pain points of China people. They can only solve high-level problems, but he can't solve yours.
Break through English:
Speed, conversion, total amount
1 speed breakthrough
Watching BBC news, three English words per second, while the United States is a little slower. Worked for BBC for many years. This thing gives you 15 seconds to write 45 words.
I didn't expect speed to be the key to teaching and learning, but I thought of more vocabulary, sentence structure and grammar. Most students in China can't say two English words in a second, so they can't listen and watch fast enough. If the brain doesn't process English fast enough, it will soon fall behind. The more backward you are, the slower you will be because of the heavier and heavier burden.
Everyone does this when they listen to English. If you can't keep up, you will feel that you don't understand. Poor hearing, not ears, but slow English reaction.
Read better and take your time.
2. The amount of study has increased.
When training interpreters, it is found that students' knowledge is too small. English major: intensive reading and extensive reading, about 1000 words, too few. Primary school-university, countless hours of investment, the amount is still small, and its own speed is slow.
3 conversion
Learn the conversion between English and Chinese directly, turn Chinese into English, and keep practicing.
English and Chinese have different word orders. Many English attributives are postpositioned, but when it comes to Chinese, they are prepositioned and the word order is reversed. Can this be slow?
A sentence can only be understood if you see it at the end and hear it at the end. Slow down.
Listening is more difficult. It is difficult to keep the sentence order in mind and listen to one more sentence. Learning is painful.
Summarized a set of systems:
If you don't reverse the word order when watching and listening, you can greatly improve the speed of listening and watching. If you can understand it in order, you can understand the speed increase. Train to read 10 thousand words an hour.
Translation: translation+interpretation
Translation: literature, business, AI, subtitles (correct and concise, short sentences, less time for sentences to stay on the screen), law, PPT.
Translation judgment:
1 to whom?
2 To whom?
What's the use of 3?
For whom:
Hong Kong's Return to China
Transfer of sovereignty-for Britain
There are many politically inclined words in Chinese.
Show it to who:
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
GNP
So which one should I use? If the object is financial personnel, use English directly. If it is aimed at the elderly or people with low education, use Chinese.
What's the use:
Visit Macintosh's house.
Visit the former residence of Scottish architect MacIntosh.
In these three dimensions, balance.
"literal translation is not beautiful"
HSBC
World local bank
Global Finance, Local Wisdom (official translation)
Local banks around the world
Doubt-Check-Confirm-Table
Oxford Online www.lexico.com
There will be many examples.
How to determine whether it is used correctly?
Google search method
There are explanations and examples in Daocha method.
"Practical translation" means translating from English to Chinese and vice versa. Double this book.
How to express a new concept
Storm of the Brain
If you want to solve a problem and have a new idea, sit down and write down what you think on white paper. Don't think about it, don't judge it. After 20-25(30) ideas, the idea is basically broken. Then, go back and delete, first choose the best three, and then delete the best one. It takes some time to get used to and practice. Will not be stuck by emerging concepts.
Key points of translation:
English translation/ translator/ interpreter
Translate what is said
Add words
translation from Chinese to English
Translate references
subtraction
English-Chinese idiom translation
Before a painter paints, he already has the image of bamboo in his mind-he has a well-thought-out plan/strategy.
A box full of bamboo.
You can't translate what you say, but what you mean.
Think things over.
Before drawing banboos, picture them in your mind.
My translated version is always inferior to the reference translation?
Distinguish between what and how.
How to translate the word what?
How to translate the word how?
What you have learned is: appreciation of translation results.
You also need to learn: translation production process (word query table)
Writing problem
Poetry bestseller work report business email publicity materials WeChat paper
Different styles, different requirements
Give an example.
How to judge?
writing
For who?
Show it to who
What's the use?
How to express the logical relationship of words? Inter-sentence logic
Every sentence has the content of the previous sentence and is continued by the content.
Improvement of writing level
You can't pour out what you don't have in your stomach, nor can you just pour out what you have.
1 content, you should know.
2 Skills and Steps
Whether writing or translating, practical steps
Put your ideas into action. 123
3 Research, imitation and production
For example, if you work in a foreign company, you can read foreigners' writing reports, templates, structure, beginning and end-imitation-writing, and you can play by yourself if you are skilled.
It's similar to manufacturing.
Write a short story:
1. Opening remarks: Cut to the chase, use metaphors and amazing words.
Don't pave the way, write what is most worth saying. Use metaphors and literary rhetoric in the first or second sentence, and use big words and beautiful words.
2. Development: description and dialogue.
The description of people, the appearance of the protagonist, and the description of the environment. There is a dialogue, 2-3 sentences, which can be added.
3. climax: there is an accident or shock.
4. Ending: the influence and feelings brought to the protagonist.
He fell to the floor. The curtain fell and buried him.
We held our breath. The door creaked open.
Play it by ear vs play it by ear
Input to Google
Business English pays attention to simplicity.
Official documents of the British Ministry of Commerce
Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, British business has been globalized. Britain's immigration system reflects the international diversity of our global economic ties, which is completely correct.
Correct use of tenses, correct use of morphology, simple and clear.
Learn beforehand, learn afterwards, and finish the task on the spot. For example, if you write a report, just write it first.
memorize words
I was afraid of memorizing words when I was in college, but I finally learned it 10 years ago. Close your eyes and think about it.
After studying for more than 40 years, it is understandable and normal not to remember.
There is a way, but memorizing words is not easy to remember, reading a lot and the repetition rate of words is much higher, and you won't forget them after memorizing them for a long time. Learn how to read quickly. If you can read thousands of words in an hour, the repetition rate of words will be high.
Three words per second, 180 words per minute, one hour,
Training method: take the article, process it in 3-4 words, and it will be over when it is finished. Follow the English sentences, don't look back, don't reverse the sentences.
He moves faster than us.
He moves faster than us.
About 10 skills. Practice more articles until you become an instinct. Practice back and forth, pinch the watch. I have worked alone for 10 years, and interpreters in our company are trained in this way. A week 10 days, you can pass the customs.
Children's English learning is not children, but the whole ecological environment supports their learning. What did parents do in the school training class? How to learn more and practice more? how
What materials are suitable for college students to read?
Speed up reading, tens of thousands of words a week, more college time, speed up, improve skills and expand reading materials. Massive reading!
My son goes to a private school. 9 years old, 10 months, reading one million words in English. There is a big gap! Lack of basic skills!
The speed of brain processing English has improved!
Don't be afraid, it will happen.
Machines are good at doing a lot of repetitive work. Translation is difficult! Many industries lost their jobs before translation. The whole world is changing, discovering people's strengths, discovering creative things and discovering high-quality things. Replace low-end translation at first, and go up if you want to be replaced. Just like clothes, tailored, slow and expensive.
What if there is no spoken English environment?
Environment is secondary, and subjective initiative is the most important. Try every means to practice.
Interpreters in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, some of whom have never been abroad.