Watching movies in English. Просмотр фильмов на английском

Будь твердо уверен в том, что во что бы то ни стало достигнешь цели, что у тебя несгибаемая воля и необыкновенные способности к языкам.

Никогда не зубри, не заучивай ничего по отдельности, в отрыве от контекста.

Improve Your Vocabulary with 5 Words a Day

Vocabulary is easy! How many days in a year are there? 365, normally (on Earth).

In fact, 30 minutes of English study once a day is better than 5 hours once a week! Study regularly. Study often.

LITTLE + OFTEN is better than LOT + SOMETIMES.

7. Revise! Revise! Revise!

If you revise, you'll improve your learning by 100%.

What does "to revise" mean? It means "to look again". You should be systematic about this. When you learn something, you should note it. Then you should look at it again, 3 times:
- after 1 day
- after 1 week
- after 1 month

Как развить в себе мотивацию?

1. Занимайся языком ежедневно. Если уж совсем нет времени, то хотя бы десять минут. Особенно хорошо заниматься по утрам.

2. Если желание заниматься слишком быстро ослабевает, не "форсируй", но и не бросай учебу. Придумай какую-нибудь иную форму: отложи книгу и послушай радио, оставь упражнения учебника и полистай словарь и т.д.

4. Выписывай вне очереди и заучивай все "готовые фразы", которые можно использовать в максимально возможном количестве случаев.

5. Старайся мысленно переводить все, что возможно: промелькнувшее рекламное табло, надпись на афише, обрывки случайно услышанных разговоров. Это всегда отдых, даже для уставшей головы.

6. Выучивать прочно стоит только то, что исправлено преподавателем. Не перечитывай собственных неисправленных упражнений: при многократном чтении текст запоминается невольно со всеми возможными ошибками. Если занимаешься один, то выучивай только заведомо правильное.

7. Готовые фразы, идиоматические выражения выписывай и запоминай в первом лице, единственного числа. Например: "I am only pulling your leg" (Я тебя только дразню).

8. Иностранный язык - крепость, которую необходимо штурмовать со всех сторон одновременно: чтением газет, слушанием радио, просмотром недублированных фильмов, посещением лекций на иностранном языке, проработкой учебника, перепиской, встречами и беседами с друзьями - носителями языка.

9. Не бойся говорить, не бойся возможных ошибок, а проси, чтобы их исправляли. И главное, не расстраивайся и не обижайся, если тебя действительно начнут поправлять.

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. 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.

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.

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. 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 else can you do to learn from movies more effectively? The same things that you should do when reading books:

Pay attention to interesting things: new words, phrases, and grammar structures. 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!

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