DO YOU EVER KNOW THAT YOU COULD LEARN ENGLISH VIA DOUYIN
Douyin is not only about music, fashion, or dancing. It is about everything including English learning. Every APP could be a perfect tool for you to learn English if you want it. And today I am going to show you how.
As an APP concerning video, Douyin provides us an approach to improvement on English listening and spoken English. Choose some of the suitable accounts to follow, and get yourself exposed to the pronunciation and vocabulary of English, getting familiar with this kind of language to learn it well.
You have the following 11 kinds of accounts focusing on different aspects of English for option.
1.SHORT & BRILLIANT SENTENCES FOR SHADOWING
Shadowing, read after the text, is one of the effective ways to improve one's pronunciation and fluency the way he speaks English. Choose some of the accounts with short sentences and most importantly, pleasant voice and standard pronunciation, and you will find it helpful to make progress on the pronunciation, intonation, liaison, and rhythm sensation of spoken English. You will be familiar with the way how English is spoken when you notice how the pause is made between each sense group, and how the voice is flowing forward on and on like a river different from Chinese in the video.
Here are the excellent accounts I have often been visiting, and I am sure you could find your favorite one among them or beyond.
2.DIALOGUE TO LEARN ENGLISH EXPRESSION IN CERTAIN SITUATION
Language is about conversation, and conversation is dialogue. So that's why you need some dialogue in certain situation to make you have a better understanding of what the certain phrase means in English. You get to have a context to know what's going around, and you do need a dialogue to comprehend what the expression means in a certain condition, especially when the vocabulary in issue has various meanings in a dictionary. Connect the meaning of a vocabulary with the situation in which it is applied then you will understand it well, and that's why dialogue is strongly recommended here.
3.FUNNY VIDEO FOR AMUSEMENT MAKING LEARNING MORE INTERESTING
Learning is not about hard work and heavy tasks all the time, and it could be full of fun if you want. Watch funny video made by people with a sense of humor in a creative way, and you may find something interesting within a language and learn it in a relaxed way. Hope you enjoy the videos of Jiacheng Yang the way I do. Just can't stop laughing every time I witness how he plays it facetiously.
4.SING ALONG OUT LOUD FOR BETTER ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION
If you want to learn a kind of language and you are a music guy, don't miss the songs in that language. We have so many videos in Douyin teaching you how to sing an English song professionally and splendidly. They are easy to learn since the video is short and keeps looping on and on over and over again, and you can just proceed with it bit by bit instead of trapped in it from beginning to the end not knowing where to start and where it leads. The video in Douyin saves us a lot of trouble since the whole song may be divided in several parts, most of them not longer than 1 minute, so you could keep it going on and on to get familiar enough to sing along with the lyrics on the screen.
Some of the video have lyrics divided base on sense group and show the skimming and liaison of certain words, so you may know the secret of how to catch up with the rhythm. English lyrics is hard to be identified the first minute you hear it without text, since some of the parts of a word are left out and not to be pronounced at all, while some of them are spoken out loud in a quick and continued way without stop. And you need to know these tricks in order to sing it as fast as the singer to follow the pace and know what they are singing exactly in the song. You won't have these details highlighted in lyrics in music app, but some video here do this for you.
5.SHORT VIDEO TEACHING YOU HOW TO GET PERFECT PRONUNCIATION
Pronunciation is the name card of your spoken English, so keep it neat and decent to guarantee an impressive communication. To make you learn about the phonetic alphabet and the way English is spoken, here are two accounts for you.
7.PRACTICAL AND USEFUL TIPS FOR ENGLISH LEARNING
Tips are always welcome. Here we go. Read about the books that others find useful, try the ways that others recommend as experience, but first of all, we should know what the others consider worthwhile. That's why the tips count.
8.ENGLISH USAGE AVAILABLE VIA VIVID EXAMPLE
To learn English well, it is not enough to know just the meaning of a certain vocabulary. It matters when we know how to apply it and make it a word accumulated for later flexible application. You need to know the usage of some English phrase and vocabulary to make it.
9.PRACTICE SPOKEN ENGLISH VIA SHORT MOVIE CLIPS
Movie clips taken out from a film is the perfect material for you to shadow. Here are some of the resources available.
10.GET TO KNOW SOMETHING FUN ABOUT ENGLISH VOCABULARY
It will be easy for you to learn the vocabulary by heart if you know what it is all about and why it is spelt in this way. Mr Yang may show you how to explain a word with the structure within it.
11.FIND SOMETHING SUITABLE FOR YOU THE DO INTERPRETATION PRACTICE
You can practice interpreting something short and simple once they flash across the screen as titles. You may find it hard to follow at the very beginning, but it is undoubtedly a test to your reaction toward English. The more you practice, the more you will get from Chinese into English. And once you are good at it, you will find that English can be a piece of cake to you.
You may have a better choice when you click Douyin open next time. Wish you a good English learning journey in this app.
