学习一门外语时如果没有语言环境的话，当然离不开多听多看了。今天介绍两个很好的网站，一个是专门用来听的，另一个用来看（当然也包括听）。
第一个：Listen and Write
这个网站是专门用来做听写练习的。
举例说明，单击这里打开一个练习，首先会下载音频，完成后应该会跟下图所示一样：
可以看到，有两个播放按钮，第一个（Click play to listen all audio at once下面的）用来听全文。第二个（Click play to start dictation…下面的）用来做听写练习。操作其实非常简单，需要注意以下几点：
开始听写后，你只需在下面的小方框里输入你听到的句子就可以了，不需要输入标点符号（有点不好的是像I’m都只需要输入im，我觉得不利于培养初学者正确的英文输入习惯）
它会自动逐个字母地进行检查，如果输入错了它会自动删掉，如果正确的话会一个单词一个单词地显示在上面的大方框里
查看全文–612 字
我和大家一样，也是在探索怎么好好地利用蹭课网来帮大家学习。我先简单说说我关于用本站学习英语的一个想法。
当 然，等我们的用户多起来了之后，大家可以在“去蹭课了!”找到更多的免费课程或者讲座信息，与朋友们相约一起去学习，我也希望大家一起参与进来，用“发起 ”来分享你所知道的信息，我们一起努力把“蹭课网”打造成在娱乐型社交网站成群的中国唯一一个以学习为特色的社交网站！
选这篇文章也有我自己的个人喜好的因素，这是VOA Special English的新闻播报节目In The News里当时对Michael Jackson的报道。这篇文章也希望同学们仔细听每个细节，尤其是开始不久那里有一段电话录音，那是最真实的英语。我们一般学习英语的过程中是很难接触 到真正的现实生活中的英语的。比如我们大多是从一些英语教学的录音里、电影、电视、收音机等等地方听到的模拟场景的声音，而我们在生活中遇到英语国家的人 的时候，他们给我们说话时经常会不由自主地放慢语速，尽量吐字清楚并且使用简单的词汇及句型。所以这篇文章中的那段电话录音是个很好的材料。在那段录音中 有这么一句"OK, OK. How old is he?"，而实际上我们听到的是"OK, OK. How’di?"这是个很严重的略读现象，并且把is给全省没了，我们要说他发音错了都不为过。而实际上呢，电话另一头的人一点都没有迟疑，立刻回 答"He’s uh, he’s 50 years old, sir."。所以各位同学，请放心大胆地把该省的音省掉，该连的音连起来，该弱读的音就弱读。咱们中国人可能听不明白，但只要你不是乱说的，英语为母语的 国家的人们反而会感觉到听你的英语很亲切！
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.
(MUSIC)
Fans around the world are remembering the man who called himself the King of Pop. Michael Jackson died Thursday in Los Angeles. This was the emergency call from the house where he was living.
CALLER: "We have a gentleman here that needs help and he’s not breathing. He’s not breathing and we’re trying to pump him but he’s not –”
OPERATOR: "OK, OK. How old is he?"
CALLER: "He’s fifty years old, sir."
OPERATOR: "Fifty, OK."
A personal doctor was with him at the house.
Michael Jackson would have celebrated his fifty-first birthday in August. He was just days from launching what he hoped would be a comeback — a series of fifty concerts
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如题。语音课第二次的综合练习是选自VOA Special English的Words And Their Stories节目。在教材里只是那篇文章的片断。这里我把全文及其音频发出来，供各位同学学习：
下面是文本内容：
Words and Their Stories: Pulling a Fast One
Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES.
(MUSIC)
Today I will tell about expressions using numbers. Let us start with the number one. Numbers can be tricky. On the one hand, they are simply numbers. On the other hand, they have meanings. I for one use these expressions a lot.
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点上面的播放按钮可以在线听。下面是文本（选自《空中英语教室》）：
American Parties
By Ruth Devlin
Americans love parties, and most people choose to entertain in their homes. A gathering can be just a small dinner party for friends. Or it may be a big celebration of a special occasion like a birthday or a wedding anniversary.
One special kind of party, called a shower, celebrates an upcoming wedding or birth. Usually only women attend a wedding shower or baby shower. At the party, women “shower” the bride-to-be or mother-to-be with gifts. Everyone plays games, watches the guest of honor open her gifts, and enjoys refreshments.
A potluck is another popular kind of party that can be held for any reason. At a potluck, everyone brings a dish to share. It might be a main dish, salad or dessert. Sometimes the hostess will tell people what kind of food to bring – so everyone won’t bring the same thing.
Whatever the reason for the party, people enjoy sharing food and conversation with their friends.
语音班的同学不好意思，这两天不在公司，所以没有及时把资料发布出来。下面是那节课的音频资料和软件下载地址：
再附上文字：
| ‘Hair’ – More Than a Rock Musical | |
| 02 May 2009 |
Now, the VOA Special English program, WORDS AND THEIR STORIES. A listener named Rita wants to learn about expressions with the word "hair." So we will tell a story. Yesterday when I woke up, I looked in a mirror. I looked very neat and organized. Not a hair was out of place. But today when I woke up, I knew I was going to have a bad hair day. My hair was standing up in all the wrong places. I thought I would be unhappy all day and things would not go well. I work at home so I just hoped that my computer would work right and not have a bad hair day also.
I was very tired because I did not sleep well last night. I made the mistake of watching a horror movie on television. The movie really made my hair stand on end. It was about a house possessed by evil spirits. The thought of having to live alone in a house like that was so frightening it was enough to curl your hair. I will say it another way: watching that movie was a hair-raising experience. I prepared a meal for my children but they were behaving badly. I turned on the television so they would be quiet. I did not want them to be difficult or to get in my hair while I was working on the computer. My children were making so much noise that I could not work. I was getting angry. In fact, I was ready to pull my hair out. I told them to please be quiet or I would punish them. But they knew I would not harm a hair on their heads. I decided to make myself some strong coffee so I could work better. But my drink was so strong that it could put hair on your chest. Finally, I got back to work. I was writing a proposal for a project. I knew that I was very close to finishing the proposal. Success was very close – within a hair’s breadth. My supervisor called me to discuss the project. She wanted to argue about very small differences and unimportant details. But I told her not to split hairs. Later, I got a telephone call from a friend whom I had not seen in a long time. In fact, I had not seen hide nor hair of him in months. So I was glad to know that he was all right. I worked all day and finished my project. So I decided to celebrate, have some fun and let my hair down. I played some old recordings, and my children and I danced around the room. The recordings are from my favorite musical, a show called "Hair." It takes place during the nineteen sixties when many young people wore their hair very long. (MUSIC) This VOA Special English program was written by Shelley Gollust. I’m Faith Lapidus. You can find other WORDS AND THEIR STORIES at our Web site, voaspecialenglish.com.
An advertisement for the musical "Hair"
Expressions With the Word “Hair”
Not a hair was out of place：干净利索，一丝不乱
bad hair day: “头发糟糕的日子”，暗示一整天都不顺利，心情不好。<
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made one’s hair stand on end: 使人毛骨悚然
curl one’s hair：令人惊诧，令人惊恐
hair-raising：令人恐惧
get in one’s hair: 激怒某人
pull one’s hair out：生气，发怒
harm a hair on one’s heads: 不伤某人一根毫毛
put hair on one’s chest: 使人具有男子气概；（饮料）富含酒精的；（食物）使人健康、强壮的
a hair’s breadth：即将来临，指日可待
split hairs：在小事上争论不休，斤斤计较
hide nor hair：踪影，痕迹(hide or hair)
let one’s hair down: 放松
有同学留言如下：
Hey，Richard
在兰州的时候听过老师的课，觉得老师有种内敛的吊~
呵呵 先祝贺下完成了著书，继续加油哦
我是个快步入社会的学生，很迫切的想加强下自己的英语能力 不知道老师有没有什么能推荐的书籍？ 如果想加大自己的词汇量，应该怎么去做呢？
恩，像老师这样自学能力乱强的人，给你一些时间一点机遇，想做的会达成的
哈哈 提前先谢谢老师的帮助
“内敛的吊”，这种夸法实在太有才了。谢谢你！借你的提问我再说说自己对于英语学习的一些拙见。
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学习英语的书还有英文书现在都有无数种，每次当有人让我推荐书的时候我心里都会有点不安。因为：1，从我自身学习的经历，我是不太喜欢一般人们推荐书的方式的（下面详说）；2，就算是我推荐，我也不一定知道真正的好书，因为毕竟还是学浅才疏。 |
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有了这种不安之后，想一想还是得有个答复，所以只能尽目前所知与所经历过的来说一说。
上 面说到我不太喜欢一般人们推荐书的方式。这是什么意思呢？一般人们给别人推荐书的时候会说，你应该看某某书，它是一本如何如何牛的人写的，有多么多么地 好。如此这般。其实我认为一本书好不好，它是得针对特定的人的特定时期的。一本书对某个人会产生很大的影响，看了激动地都不想睡觉了，而对另一个人可能是 用来解决失眠问题的。就算是同一个人也会在不同的时期对一本书有不同的感觉。所以我们怎么能那么主观地向他人推荐书呢？我实在不敢。被迫无奈，不得不招出 几本书的时候我都会啰啰嗦嗦地讲完这个道理，然后在说明我所举的书只是曾经适合了我的前提下，再说出几本书名来。
这次既然是在我的博客上说了，那我就按我的想法来说说了。我不想给你列出书名来，而想要告诉你怎么去找适合自己的书。只要符合以下几个简单的条件就可以了：
一、不要管作者是谁，不要看别人作的序说这本书有如何好；
二、从正文的开头读起。在看完一页之后如果产生了强烈的想要一口气给全部看完的感觉，那就买了吧。否则不论是什么人推荐的，什么牛人写的都不要在乎了；
三、要克服你自己的成见，不要因为听别人说了，就对一本书产生盲目的喜欢和盲目的厌恶，以自己看到它的内容时的真实感受为准；
四、一般我们都认为人无完人，那人写的书就更难有“完书”了，所以读一本书不用强迫自己读完，读到什么时候不想读了那就不要读了；
五、虽然你要从书里面学东西，但是千万不要成为书的奴隶。
简单来说就是“去成见，找感觉”，这样就能找到适合自己的书了。
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词 汇的问题最好解决，我个人的学习过程中几乎没有考虑过词汇。我的方法就是“不要背单词”。我的词汇是在大量的阅读当中以自然筛选的方式积累的。在遇到生词 的时候查，在遇到看着面熟的词的时候不去猜，还是查，只有自己百分之百肯定的词才不用查。但是千万要留心那些你百分之九十九肯定的单词，你可能认为是那样 的，但如果你查一下的话会发现不是那样的。在大量的阅读中，常用的词你就会常见，就会在你的大脑中反复加深记忆，并且在阅读中你是在有上下文的情况下，在 各种不同的恰当的情景中见到这个单词的，所以这样的单词你是真正掌握了它的用法的。 |
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这 里补充一点，也是比较重要的。就是用阅读的方式来掌握单词，会让你把单词的形、义掌握得非常到位。而音的话就不一定了。李敖就是个很好的例子，他被人们称 为大师，自己也经常夸赞自己。他在很多言论中体现出他的阅读量之大，并且对英文单词的把握也特别到位。比如他曾讲过proud这个单词，我们可以查到它有 “骄傲的”和“感到光荣的”两个意思。英文当中有一种说法是“I’m so proud of you.”。有很多人的翻译是“我以你为傲。”或者说”我为你感到骄傲。“李敖说”骄傲“是个贬义词，而这句话是要表达一种褒义。那这种翻译肯定是有问题 的了。 |
我后来也专门查了查，确实 在《辞海》中，”骄“与”傲“两个字在描述一个人的时候都是带有贬义的，有”自高自大“的意思。你说”我以你为傲。“和”我为你感到骄傲。“实际上是等于 说”我以你为自大。“、”我为你感到自高自大。“这是比较荒谬的说法嘛。因此正确的翻译应该是”我以你为荣。“或”我为你感到光荣。“
由此 我们可见李敖在他海量的阅读中对文字的把握有多么准确。但是你听一听他说英文，发音可就很烂了。其实如果他在学习过程中能稍微留点心，他的发音也不会有什 么问题的。我们有很多途径来找到音频资料，只要经常听，经常模仿，我们难道连自己的嘴巴都管不好吗？没有多难的。就一个很简单的办法，人家怎么发音，自己 也怎么发音就可以了。
不知不觉啰啰嗦嗦地写了这么多。希望你有耐心看完，对你有所助益。
At first I thought it would be easier to write this book than the one for BOCOG. But I was wrong. I haven’t been feeling like this for more than 10 years, I guess. It’s just like the last night of my summber vacation when I hadn’t done any homework yet. It happened a lot when I was in primary school. I never finished my home work for the summer vacations and winter vacations since middle school. Cuz since then I didn’t care about it anymore. Now the girls from the publisher call me every now and then to check out the progress. I have to finish the book as soon as I can. Every day these days is just like the last days of my childhood vacations. The only difference is that I can never cry while writing as I did back then. When am I gonna finish it? Oh, God!
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