dubbing - a good way of learning English (Part 2) Of course dubbing is not the only way of learning English, but comparing to other methods, it has a lot of advantages. Firstly, dubbing is more interesting. In the past, every time when I determined to enrich my vocabulary, I would start with a dictionary, the first word is “abandon”, which means “give up”, unfortunately, I indeed abandoned after a week, because it’s too boring. But in the dubbing, people no longer mug up the words, but know how they were used in sentences. Besides, it’s much more interesting than just reciting a text or phrases in a book. Because when we dub, we are not reciting but acting. Secondly, dubbing is more effective. We all watch movies and TV dramas in English. We thought we can develop our listening comprehension in this way. But actually this hardly works, because even if we watch these videos with subtitles, most part of our attention was focused upon the story itself. We may laugh, we may cry, we may scream following the roles, then one hour has past, we learned only 2 or 3 phrases watching a whole episode. However, the same video would be separated into many parts in dubbing, so that we can learn the phrases more effectively, minimum 10 phrases in an hour. Do you remember how many phrases you commanded in the last English corner? Perhaps you traveled across half the city and just said “hello” to others? So why not try dubbing at home? And the last point, dubbing is more interactive. In an English training course, you have only 10 classmates and 1 teacher who can give you an evaluation. But here, you can make new friends, find dubbing partners, and get a lot of comments. What’s more, in dubbing applications, people make their evaluations not by your appearance, but just by your voice, pronunciation, intonation, and emotion, so they’ll be more objective and helpful to you. In short, dubbing is an interesting, effective and interactive way of learning English, which improves your listening and speaking. Hope you guys enjoy dubbing, and make a great progress in English. Thank you!