[交流] 第六次活动音频~JUST DO IT！已有12人参与

Owing to so many wonderful participator's support, we held the Spoken English Show favorably in YY for the sixth time in 2nd, June. However, here I am still willing to aim at some existing problems and give some suggestions from my own perspective.

I found an phenomenon from the past activities that many participators are too shy to speak it out. Every time when I encounter questions such as how I can improve my spoken English or how I can communicate with others in English. I wonder as well, and I would also like to know the answer. Actually, after a thorough consideration, especially when I took an IELTS oral examination two weeks ago, I finally figure it our. Yes, just speak it out as loud as you can. No matter how you can speak it well or not, firstly, you must make the first step! In addition, no matter how you can write well or just have thoughts in your mind, if you don't express your words by saying it directly, you can't solve the problem.

Let's take swimming for example. You will never learn to swim by just standing the side of the swimming pool with tension and lacking of enough courage to jump into the water. Neither can you know well how to swim by thinking that only when I grasp all the theories and principles of swimming then I can finally begin to swim. Now I have to tell you, it's totally absolute wrong. It's the time for you to change your mind. That is, if you want to learn swimming, you have to go into the water without any hesitation. Similarly, if you want to improve your spoken English, you have no choice but say it. Not in the future, but now! There is no shortcut, just swimming by swimming, speaking by speaking. The most important thing, first of all, is say it out loud, no matter you speak it well or not, here nobody will mock or laugh at you. Only by doing so, can we improve our oral English and make a progress. So important is the oral English and so precious is time that we can not afford to waste any chance of practice.

We are looking forward to your participation and wonderful performance!



非常感谢各位的参与和支持，木虫YY口语第六次活动得以顺利举办。希望以后能吸引更多虫子的参与和关注。在这里我也就口语考试与练习，谈谈我的看法，希望能对大家有所帮助。

作为本版版主，我常常看到虫友发这样的帖子或问题，比如怎样提高我的口语水平？怎样用英语和人交流？诸如此类。其实包括我自己，之前也存在一些误区，直到我前些日子考了雅思。口语不像笔试和听力，虽然都离不开基础的积累，但最重要的一点，你必须说出来，哪怕是自言自语也行，只写在纸上或默想在心里都没有用。

我之前由于紧张备考（只有十几天），没什么时间专门去练习口语，只能每天看看小嶷的十天口语，还有王陆的唇枪舌剑战考官口语书，自己给自己提问、想话题，然后组织回答。当我在考前准备了好几十个常考的话题之后，觉得真正考试时应该能应对自如了。尤其是考口语的那天下午我在那蹲点了十几分钟，出来的人报出考试的话题，基本都没超出小姨的那本书，于是我感觉胸有成竹。但实际上并非如此，真正到了和外籍考官面对面的时候，尤其是在他的快速提问和给我非常有限的回答时间里（前面有几个问题我回答稍长就会被他打断，这样被打断几次之后我紧张了），有些单词平时非常熟悉的，烂熟于心的发音，比如过山车（roller-coaster），我都说错了后面那一半单词，其实我自己也知道说错了，但看到考官的微表情变化，更加让我尴尬和着急呀，于是接下来的Part 2部分的description就磕磕巴巴了。深呼吸几口气稍作镇定了之后，我对考官说了我的感受，表明我有点紧张，幸好那考官很是和蔼啊，还安慰我几句，说来也奇怪，把紧张说出来之后我反而轻松了，之后的Part 3的discussion部分也就比较顺畅了。最后口语拿到的分数很高于我自己的预期。雅思口语考试看重的是表达和交流能力，还有应变能力，有些考生上去就很熟练的背诵之前准备好的，往往难以拿到高分。

总结经验教训，除了紧张，主要还是平时练习太少的缘故，从脑到嘴的过程并不熟练，我想如果真正熟练了之后应该也不会紧张了吧。所以想要提高口语水平的童鞋们，一定要不顾一切的大声开口说出来，就像学游泳，始终只在岸边围观，迟迟不肯下水，那是怎样也学不会的。也甭管说得是好是坏，能表达出你的观点能让人懂就行，只要淹不死，谁管你是狗刨还是高难度蝶泳呢。也像你要学骑自行车，不是从——跑步，锻炼肌肉，做操，锻炼协调，走平衡木，锻炼平衡——开始的，而是直接跨上去骑！然后趴趴摔几下就会骑了；想学会游泳就往水里蹦，呛几口水慢慢也就会了，多扑腾几次慢慢也就提高了；想做同声翻译，立马就给我开始翻！别从练听力，背单词，练写作……开始！要做口译现在就给我开始翻！是现在，是立即，是NOW！再烂也给我开始！因为“开始”真的很重要！想过考试，各种英语考试，立马直接从真题开始做，摸基础打功底，出心得记笔记；练鸭作文，就从写鸭作文开始，而不是从什么背新概念开始，那样绕了弯路，背啊背啊，误了很多时间，绕了远道，却根本没用！不是这么一过程，不是的！这里别误解了，并不是说基础的积累不重要，所谓厚积薄发，你懂的。
只有开始，你才能真正进入角色，才能真正了解自己的优势劣势，也才能在DOING中不断完善和进步。一成功女性说起自己的经历，公司里不鼓励用鼠标而鼓励用热键。换了我一定从背热键，熟悉键盘开始……而这位成功女性说当时听了就直接把鼠标给扔了！看这点震到我了，这就是成功人士的做法，要成功就是要“立即开始”！（thanks seventeen）

与其畏畏缩缩的把自己吓死在起跑点，不如拿出勇气和魄力，JUST DO IT! 看看到底会不会死嘛，答案当然是绝对不会，不仅你获得了提高，某种程度上还能改掉拖延症的坏毛病，you know, the dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself.

写了这么多，无非是想让大家有所借鉴，少走弯路，早修正果。这里我们提供这么好的平台让大家有机会锻炼和提高口语，时间宝贵，机会珍贵，不容错过呀！（汗，我总么感觉自己在推销似滴，好吧，可那也是字字发自肺腑滴啊~）

为了方便大家能有更多时间准备，我们会尽量在每次活动（每周六晚）的至少3天前发布公告和话题，热切期待您的参与和关注！

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