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，如果你選擇一個無趣的電影，你也會感到枯燥。如果你感覺枯燥，那對你而言很難集中注意力…尤其是超過一個半小時的時間。
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.
我記得小的時候，我不得不看幾個小時的老電影來學英語，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，你可以去爛番茄網站，那里有成千上萬的電影，還有許多很棒的影評。
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.
選擇一個符合你英語水平的電影。例如，對英語初學者而言，我通常建議你們看動畫片來學英語。主要的原因是因為里面的英語通常很親切美好，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，你會一頭霧水。莎士比亞式的英語（幾個世紀前使用的英語）很難通過熒幕來理解，即使是高水平的英語學習者。
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。或許我要補充一點——選一個有字幕的電影！所以當你聽到一個你感興趣的單詞時，用字典查一下。因為你理解它會有困難……之后的很長一段時間都會記住這個單詞。
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.
重復短語。有時，你或許會在電影里聽到一些很酷的表達。例如，有些短語或俚語，比如“Hell yeah！”或者“sure thing”，或者“you betcha！”（都表示“當然，沒錯”）在英語中很常用。如果你喜歡它的讀音，多重復會很有幫助。大聲朗讀一會，你能記住更長的時間！這是個很棒又讓人愉悅的聯系——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電影會很有挑戰性。這里是我的推薦。第一次看這個電影時，打開字幕。但如果你有機會再看第二次，盡量把字幕關掉。
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。或者你可以試著看看沒有字幕，自己能理解多少電影的內容。
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。這實際上是我推薦用來在電腦上看電影的一個視頻播放器。這也是我最喜歡的一個工具。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，如果你從網上下載了一個電影并且播放，你知道有時候不理解英語。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!
錯過某些詞沒關系……錯過好了。最后一條，記得我們在開頭說的話嗎？看電影應該是件有趣的事……所以如果你錯過一個單詞，一個短語，甚至許多句子，沒關系！跟著字幕學習就好了。不要讓你自己灰心喪氣……看電影應該是有趣的。
