加载中…How to learning English by watching movie
(2008-07-01 08:31:07)
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If
you go to learn English by watching movies ,you may have fun ,at
the same time,learn a lot of English.And how to watch English
movies ?One words,you need to understand them even though you may
have to listen them many times till.Because.you can
learn how the native person speak
English.
English learners have a big
advantage over learners of other languages: Hollywood is in America
and it makes English-language movies. So, if you know English and
you like movies, why don't you watch movies in English? You can
have fun and, at the same time, learn a lot of
English.
Why watch movies in English
If you are a fan of movies, you will notice that they are much
better in the original. Watching a dubbed film will never be as
good as watching the original version. Why? Because in the original
version, the actor's voices are real. Everything is just like the
director imagined.
Learning English by watching movies is learning by input. The
learning process is similar. First you get lots of correct English
sentences into your head. Then you can imitate them and you can
make your own sentences. And isn't that why you are learning
English — to be able to make your own sentences? That is why
watching movies (just like reading books) is such a great way to
learn English.
(You can learn more about how getting correct sentences into your head improves your English in our introduction to input.)
Of course, there are important differences between movies and
books. With books, you learn how native speakers write in English.
With movies, you learn how they speak English. You
learn what words they use. When speaking, native speakers use words
and phrases that you often won't find in a book. Spoken language is
different from "book language". For example:
Book: The price of five dollars was acceptable, and I decided to
purchase it.
Spoken: It was, like, five bucks, so I was like
"okay".
In many movies, the dialog is like real spoken English. Movies also
let you learn informal and slang words which are not yet in English
dictionaries. For example, in a movie you might hear Give me the
freaking keys!, but you won't find the word freaking in a
dictionary.
You
learn how they say these words. Movies let you improve your
pronunciation, not only grammar and vocabulary. If you listen to
Americans or Britons speaking English, you can learn to speak like
them.
You learn to understand spoken language. Movies are made for native
speakers, not for learners of English. So the actors talk fast,
just like native speakers talk in real life.
How to learn as much as possible?
You won't learn anything from the movie if you don't understand it.
You probably won't enjoy it, either. :-(
This is one
big problem with movies: They are much more difficult to understand
than books. If you don't understand a word in a book, you can
simply look it up in a dictionary, because the word is written
there (you know its spelling). With a movie, you sometimes hear
something, but you don't know what it is. Sometimes you don't even
know if you've heard one word or two. There are other reasons why
listening is more difficult than reading, and they all mean one
thing: If you want to understand a movie, you have to know a lot of
English words — and not only their spelling, but also their
pronunciation
You can greatly improve your vocabulary by reading books, looking
up words in your dictionary, and repeating them with SuperMemo. But
even if you read 200 books in English, you would still not
understand everything! There will always be some words that you
didn't know before. And some of the dialog will be spoken very
quickly and unclearly. (You should know that sometimes even
Americans can't understand some of the dialog.)
What to do when you don't understand something
If you are playing the movie from tape or DVD, you can stop it
whenever you don't understand a sentence. You can then play the
sentence many times and perhaps you'll be able to understand all
the words in the sentence. If you still don't understand a word or
two, you can try to look them up in a dictionary (which is not
easy, because you have to guess their spelling!).
Most DVDs let you turn on subtitles. With subtitles, there is no
problem with quick or unclear dialog — everything is just written
on the screen. It is also easy to look up difficult words in your
dictionary, because you know their spelling.
The problem with subtitles is that they make you lazy — you stop
listening and concentrate on reading. This is not good if you want
to exercise your listening skills. Therefore, you should probably
try to watch movies without subtitles. Turn subtitles on only if
you're having a hard time understanding the sentences in the movie,
and it doesn't help when you listen to them
repeatedly.
Movie guides
There is a great alternative to subtitles. ESLnotes.com is a
website which has "guides" to popular movies. A guide is a list of
over 100 difficult sentences from a movie with explanations. (Here
is an example guide to The Graduate.)
Now the most
important thing: You first read the explanations; then you watch
the movie. So, when you're watching the film, you already know the
necessary vocabulary!
We think this is the best strategy for watching movies, because:
It feels great
to understand a movie in the original! It's very, very motivating
when you learn a word, and then the knowledge of the word lets you
enjoy the movie. It gives you a lot of pleasure — so you will
want to learn more English vocabulary to understand even
more.
You don't have to stop the movie. (Or you have to
stop it less frequently.) You can simply watch it and enjoy
it.
A guide doesn't explain all the difficult
sentences in the movie. But the explanations in the guide should be
enough to help you understand what's happening in the
movie.
Learning techniques
What else can
you do to learn from movies more effectively? The same things that
you should do when reading books:
1. Pay
attention to interesting things: new words, phrases, and grammar
structures.
2. Use
your dictionary to learn about these interesting things. You can
stop the movie to look up difficult words. You can also write down
all the interesting sentences, and look them up later. But do use
your dictionary!
3. Add
these interesting things to SuperMemo. If there is an ESLnotes
guide to the movie, you can add all the sentences in the guide to
your SuperMemo collection — before watching the film. Later, you
can also add the words that you have written down when watching the
movie.
Why watch movies in English
(You can learn more about how getting correct sentences into your head improves your English in our introduction to input.)
How to learn as much as possible?
What to do when you don't understand something
Movie guides
We think this is the best strategy for watching movies, because:
Learning techniques
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