每個人天生都擅長外語學習，就看你方法用對了沒（二）

每個人天生都擅長外語學習，就看你方法用對了沒（一）每個人天生都擅長外語學習，就看你方法用對了沒（三）

5

像傻子一樣練習

Being self-conscious is your biggest enemy. You cannot speak a foreign language without feeling stupid at some point. You have to get over that. You have to twist your mouth into strange new shapes that make you feel like a caricature; you will speak and not be understood and you will listen and not understand. a lot. It's really okay and in fact necessary to learning. If you think about it, what's the big deal? So you look stupid. Who cares?過于關注自我是你最大的敵人。如果不在某種程度上感到自己很傻，你是不可能學好一門外語的，你必須克服它。你不得不使自己的嘴巴變成各種奇怪的形狀，你要說出來并且不要指望別人能聽懂，你要仔細聽即使聽不太懂。

這個過程需要許多。看起來很傻真的沒什么，而且對學習是必須的。你想想，有什么大不了？即使你看起來傻，又有誰在乎？

If you instead give yourself credit every time you feel stupid you can turn this around. Give yourself a little mental gold star each time you feel stupid because those moments are learning moments. Feeling stupid is actually a sign of progress, or the moment just prior to progress.

如果每次在感到自己很傻的時候給自己一個獎勵，就可以把這種窘迫感倒轉過來。每次你感到自己很笨的時候，給自己一點精神獎勵，因為這些時刻就是你學習的時刻。感到很笨實際上是進步的標志，也是進步之前的標志。

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了解自己的水平

I strongly advise you measure your level using CEFR levels (CEFR Levels - The Common European Framework of Reference for languages) as these are now standard across Europe.大家可以使用CEFR標準來定位現有的英語水平，因為這在整個歐洲都是通用的。

從下圖可以看出雅思考試分數與CEFR各個能力等級的對應程度：

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設定目標

Goal setting (and measuring progress against those goals) is one of the most effective tools in your learning arsenal. I highly recommend setting short term and longer terms goals.設定目標（并且以這些目標來衡量學習進步程度）是語言學習中非常有效的工具。推薦大家設定短期目標與長期目標。

Short term goals can be as simple as how many hours of study you will do each week. If you (say) want to study one hour a day then write seven boxes on a sheet and every hour you study, check a box. It feels good and you're measuring progress which is visible to you even when you don't feel like you're progressing.

短期目標可以僅僅是你每周要達到的學習時間數。如果你像每天學習1個小時，那么你可以在紙上畫7個小方格，每次你學完1個小時就畫一個勾。衡量進步程度會讓你感覺良好，即使當你感覺不到自己在進步時。

Set longer terms goals like passing a specific CEFR level.

長期目標則可以定義為達到CEFR某一等級，或是雅思、托福等語言考試的一定分數。

8

重復、重復、重復

Repetition is absolutely vital to learning most things but especially important when learning a language. It sounds boring but it doesn't need to be. More on this in a moment. One more time, just in case you didn't get it: repetition is vital to learning.重復在大部分學習中都很重要，尤其對語言的學習。這點聽起來有點無聊，但不得不做。再說一遍，怕你記不住：重復對學習至關重要。