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!



非常感謝各位的參與和支持，木蟲YY口語(yǔ)第六次活動(dòng)得以順利舉辦。希望以后能吸引更多蟲子的參與和關(guān)注。在這里我也就口語(yǔ)考試與練習(xí)，談?wù)勎业目捶�，希望能�?duì)大家有所幫助。

作為本版版主，我常常看到蟲友發(fā)這樣的帖子或問(wèn)題，比如怎樣提高我的口語(yǔ)水平？怎樣用英語(yǔ)和人交流？諸如此類。其實(shí)包括我自己，之前也存在一些誤區(qū)，直到我前些日子考了雅思。口語(yǔ)不像筆試和聽力，雖然都離不開基礎(chǔ)的積累，但最重要的一點(diǎn)，你必須說(shuō)出來(lái)，哪怕是自言自語(yǔ)也行，只寫在紙上或默想在心里都沒有用。

我之前由于緊張備考（只有十幾天），沒什么時(shí)間專門去練習(xí)口語(yǔ)，只能每天看看小嶷的十天口語(yǔ)，還有王陸的唇槍舌劍戰(zhàn)考官口語(yǔ)書，自己給自己提問(wèn)、想話題，然后組織回答。當(dāng)我在考前準(zhǔn)備了好幾十個(gè)�？嫉脑掝}之后，覺得真正考試時(shí)應(yīng)該能應(yīng)對(duì)自如了。尤其是考口語(yǔ)的那天下午我在那蹲點(diǎn)了十幾分鐘，出來(lái)的人報(bào)出考試的話題，基本都沒超出小姨的那本書，于是我感覺胸有成竹。但實(shí)際上并非如此，真正到了和外籍考官面對(duì)面的時(shí)候，尤其是在他的快速提問(wèn)和給我非常有限的回答時(shí)間里（前面有幾個(gè)問(wèn)題我回答稍長(zhǎng)就會(huì)被他打斷，這樣被打斷幾次之后我緊張了），有些單詞平時(shí)非常熟悉的，爛熟于心的發(fā)音，比如過(guò)山車（roller-coaster），我都說(shuō)錯(cuò)了后面那一半單詞，其實(shí)我自己也知道說(shuō)錯(cuò)了，但看到考官的微表情變化，更加讓我尷尬和著急呀，于是接下來(lái)的Part 2部分的description就磕磕巴巴了。深呼吸幾口氣稍作鎮(zhèn)定了之后，我對(duì)考官說(shuō)了我的感受，表明我有點(diǎn)緊張，幸好那考官很是和藹啊，還安慰我?guī)拙�，說(shuō)來(lái)也奇怪，把緊張說(shuō)出來(lái)之后我反而輕松了，之后的Part 3的discussion部分也就比較順暢了。最后口語(yǔ)拿到的分?jǐn)?shù)很高于我自己的預(yù)期。雅思口語(yǔ)考試看重的是表達(dá)和交流能力，還有應(yīng)變能力，有些考生上去就很熟練的背誦之前準(zhǔn)備好的，往往難以拿到高分。

總結(jié)經(jīng)驗(yàn)教訓(xùn)，除了緊張，主要還是平時(shí)練習(xí)太少的緣故，從腦到嘴的過(guò)程并不熟練，我想如果真正熟練了之后應(yīng)該也不會(huì)緊張了吧。所以想要提高口語(yǔ)水平的童鞋們，一定要不顧一切的大聲開口說(shuō)出來(lái)，就像學(xué)游泳，始終只在岸邊圍觀，遲遲不肯下水，那是怎樣也學(xué)不會(huì)的。也甭管說(shuō)得是好是壞，能表達(dá)出你的觀點(diǎn)能讓人懂就行，只要淹不死，誰(shuí)管你是狗刨還是高難度蝶泳呢。也像你要學(xué)騎自行車，不是從——跑步，鍛煉肌肉，做操，鍛煉協(xié)調(diào)，走平衡木，鍛煉平衡——開始的，而是直接跨上去騎！然后趴趴摔幾下就會(huì)騎了；想學(xué)會(huì)游泳就往水里蹦，嗆幾口水慢慢也就會(huì)了，多撲騰幾次慢慢也就提高了；想做同聲翻譯，立馬就給我開始翻！別從練聽力，背單詞，練寫作……開始！要做口譯現(xiàn)在就給我開始翻！是現(xiàn)在，是立即，是NOW！再爛也給我開始！因?yàn)椤伴_始”真的很重要！想過(guò)考試，各種英語(yǔ)考試，立馬直接從真題開始做，摸基礎(chǔ)打功底，出心得記筆記；練鴨作文，就從寫鴨作文開始，而不是從什么背新概念開始，那樣繞了彎路，背啊背啊，誤了很多時(shí)間，繞了遠(yuǎn)道，卻根本沒用！不是這么一過(guò)程，不是的！這里別誤解了，并不是說(shuō)基礎(chǔ)的積累不重要，所謂厚積薄發(fā)，你懂的。
只有開始，你才能真正進(jìn)入角色，才能真正了解自己的優(yōu)勢(shì)劣勢(shì)，也才能在DOING中不斷完善和進(jìn)步。一成功女性說(shuō)起自己的經(jīng)歷，公司里不鼓勵(lì)用鼠標(biāo)而鼓勵(lì)用熱鍵。換了我一定從背熱鍵，熟悉鍵盤開始……而這位成功女性說(shuō)當(dāng)時(shí)聽了就直接把鼠標(biāo)給扔了！看這點(diǎn)震到我了，這就是成功人士的做法，要成功就是要“立即開始”�。╰hanks seventeen）

與其畏畏縮縮的把自己嚇?biāo)涝谄鹋茳c(diǎn)，不如拿出勇氣和魄力，JUST DO IT! 看看到底會(huì)不會(huì)死嘛，答案當(dāng)然是絕對(duì)不會(huì)，不僅你獲得了提高，某種程度上還能改掉拖延癥的壞毛病，you know, the dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself.

寫了這么多，無(wú)非是想讓大家有所借鑒，少走彎路，早修正果。這里我們提供這么好的平臺(tái)讓大家有機(jī)會(huì)鍛煉和提高口語(yǔ)，時(shí)間寶貴，機(jī)會(huì)珍貴，不容錯(cuò)過(guò)呀�。ê�，我總么感覺自己在推銷似滴，好吧，可那也是字字發(fā)自肺腑滴啊~）

為了方便大家能有更多時(shí)間準(zhǔn)備，我們會(huì)盡量在每次活動(dòng)（每周六晚）的至少3天前發(fā)布公告和話題，熱切期待您的參與和關(guān)注！

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