1. Choose an interesting movie.This probably sounds obvious, but if you choose a boring movie, you’ll be bored. And if you’re bored, it will be difficult to pay attention…for more than one and a half hours!

　　選擇一部有趣的電影。這或許聽起來很容易理解，如果你選擇一個(gè)無趣的電影，你也會(huì)感到枯燥。如果你感覺枯燥，那對(duì)你而言很難集中注意力…尤其是超過一個(gè)半小時(shí)的時(shí)間。

　　I remember when I was a child, I had to watch hours and hours of really old movies like “Singing in the Rain”, “Mary Poppins” to learn English. If you don’t know these films – you’re welcome to check them up – they’re really old! I didn’t exactly hate them, but I didn’t feel excited at all when watching these films.

　　我記得小的時(shí)候，我不得不看幾個(gè)小時(shí)的老電影來學(xué)英語(yǔ)，例如《雨中曲》、《歡樂滿人間》。如果你不知道這些電影，歡迎查詢一下，真的非常古老!我不是討厭它們，但整個(gè)觀影過程真的沒有興奮感。

　　And because of that, I highly recommend you choose movies you like. To do this, you can go to a website called Rotten Tomatoes, which is a website with many great critics and reviews on many tens of thousands of movies.

　　因此，我強(qiáng)烈建議你選擇自己喜歡的電影。如果想選電影，你可以去爛番茄網(wǎng)站，那里有成千上萬的電影，還有許多很棒的影評(píng)。

　　2. Select a movie that matches your current English level. For example, for beginners in English, I usually recommend you learn English through animations. The main reason is because the English is usually very friendly, nice and easy to understand.

　　選擇一個(gè)符合你英語(yǔ)水平的電影。例如，對(duì)英語(yǔ)初學(xué)者而言，我通常建議你們看動(dòng)畫片來學(xué)英語(yǔ)。主要的原因是因?yàn)槔锩娴挠⒄Z(yǔ)通常很親切美好，容易理解。

　　On the other hand, if you try to watch something like “Romeo and Juliet”, you will be very confused. Shakespearian English (which is English used many centuries ago) is very difficult to understand on screen, even for advanced English learners.

　　另一方面，如果你嘗試看《羅密歐與朱麗葉》這類的電影，你會(huì)一頭霧水。莎士比亞式的英語(yǔ)(幾個(gè)世紀(jì)前使用的英語(yǔ))很難通過熒幕來理解，即使是高水平的英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)者。

　　3. Bring your dictionary. Maybe I’ll add point 3.5 too – choose a film with subtitles! So when you hear a word you’re interested in, check it up! Because you went through the trouble to understand it…you’ll be able to remember that word for a long time too!

　　拿著你的詞典?；蛟S我要補(bǔ)充一點(diǎn)——選一個(gè)有字幕的電影!所以當(dāng)你聽到一個(gè)你感興趣的單詞時(shí)，用字典查一下。因?yàn)槟憷斫馑鼤?huì)有困難……之后的很長(zhǎng)一段時(shí)間都會(huì)記住這個(gè)單詞。

　　4. Repeat short phrases! Some times, you might hear something cool in the movie. For example, some short phrases, or slang like, “hell yeah!”, or “sure thing”, or “you betcha!” that are commonly used in English. If you like how it sounds, it really helps to repeat it! After saying it out loud a while, you will be able to remember it for a longer time! It’s a great and enjoyable exercise – one of my personal favourites.

　　重復(fù)短語(yǔ)。有時(shí)，你或許會(huì)在電影里聽到一些很酷的表達(dá)。例如，有些短語(yǔ)或俚語(yǔ)，比如“Hell yeah!”或者“sure thing”，或者“you betcha!”(都表示“當(dāng)然，沒錯(cuò)”)在英語(yǔ)中很常用。如果你喜歡它的讀音，多重復(fù)會(huì)很有幫助。大聲朗讀一會(huì)，你能記住更長(zhǎng)的時(shí)間!這是個(gè)很棒又讓人愉悅的聯(lián)系——我自己的最愛之一。

　　5. Without subtitles. I know it can be really challenging to watch a film in a foreign language without subtitles. So here’s my recommendation. When you watch a film the first time, just turn on subtitles. But if you get the chance to watch it a second time, try turning off subtitles.

　　不要字幕。我知道不帶字幕看一部外國(guó)電影會(huì)很有挑戰(zhàn)性。這里是我的推薦。第一次看這個(gè)電影時(shí)，打開字幕。但如果你有機(jī)會(huì)再看第二次，盡量把字幕關(guān)掉。

　　This way, you already know the story from the first time you watched it. And this time, you can try listening to some individual words that you might have checked up last time. Or you might try to see how much you can understand the film without subtitles.

　　這樣，你已經(jīng)看過一次，知道了故事的梗概。那么第二次你可以試著聽一些上次查詢過的單詞?；蛘吣憧梢栽囍纯礇]有字幕，自己能理解多少電影的內(nèi)容。

　　6. VLC player. This is actually a video player I recommend for watching films on your computer. This is one of my favourite tools. Most people use it just to watch movies, but I use it a little differently.

　　萬用播放器。這實(shí)際上是我推薦用來在電腦上看電影的一個(gè)視頻播放器。這也是我最喜歡的一個(gè)工具。大部分人只用它來看電影，但是我的用法不太一樣。

　　Here’s what I do – if you download a movie online, and you play it, you know how you don’t understand English sometimes? VLC Player allows you to play back movies at half speed or quarter speed. So if there are parts you don’t understand, you can play these back at a slower speed and try again! It’s very helpful to practice your listening.

　　我的做法是，如果你從網(wǎng)上下載了一個(gè)電影并且播放，你知道有時(shí)候不理解英語(yǔ)。萬用播放器可以讓你慢速回放電影。所以如果有你不明白的地方，你可以慢速回放，再嘗試一遍。練習(xí)聽力很有幫助。

　　7. It’s okay to miss words…just let it go.Last of all, remember what we said in the start? Watching movies should be fun…so if you miss a word, a phrase, or even many sentences, that’s okay! Just follow along the subtitles and learn that way. Don’t make yourself feel bad…watching films is supposed to be fun!

　　錯(cuò)過某些詞沒關(guān)系……錯(cuò)過好了。最后一條，記得我們?cè)陂_頭說的話嗎?看電影應(yīng)該是件有趣的事……所以如果你錯(cuò)過一個(gè)單詞，一個(gè)短語(yǔ)，甚至許多句子，沒關(guān)系!跟著字幕學(xué)習(xí)就好了。不要讓你自己灰心喪氣……看電影應(yīng)該是有趣的。