外向or 内向？

译者||十一安

一、性格

-01-性格外向者&性格内向者皆有

First of all I got a confession to make: I am an introvert. What’s introvert? It is kind of a person he actually just prefers to spend a lot of time alone.
But people may misunderstand introvert. They always think that it means shy. They think every introvert is shy. I won’t say I am shy. It just my way of personality is. for me, when I spend time alone that’s kind of like how I get energy. And after I get again I can go outen to world.
首先我要坦白的是，我是性格内向之人。什么是性格内向者？性格内向之人更喜欢花较多的时间独处。可是人们总是误解内向者。人们总是认为性格内向就是害羞。但我不会说我是害羞之人。内向只是呈现我的性格。对于我来说，通过独处使我获得能量。我获得能量后，一样可以出去外面，融入外部世界。

But most people in the world they actually opposite to me. They are extroverts. This means when you are extrovert you just love to be around people all the time that’s what make you feel great basically. So we got some people who are extroverts in the world we got some people who are introverts in the world.
但在这个世界上，大多数的人的性格实际上跟我相反。他们是性格外向者。也就是说当你是外向者时，你喜欢你的周围总是有很多人围绕着，而这也让你感觉很好。所以，在这个世界上，有的人性格外向，有的人性格外向。

-02-了解性格

How’s this related you learning English? Well I think it does because it could really help you know the way you are learning English is right for you or you know you could change it make it better for you.
但这又跟你的英语学习有什么关系呢？我认为英语学习确实跟性格相关，因为这可以帮助你了解你学习英语的方式是否正确，或者是帮助你改善你的学习方法。

But also I would say in general the whole world English learning and teaching kind of forcus more on these guys because actually they have got a great advantages when it comes to learning languages.
但是总体上来说，大多数的英语学习和教学更多的是针对这些外向者的，因为当涉及到学习一门新的语言时，外向者更具有优势。

so we gonna talk a little bit about these guys(extrovert) and give advices for the majorities you watching this video. But we also going to look into the introverts perspective because you know this is something I just found out myself. When I was trying to learn languages I found out that already realized at the time I was just really slow like I had been trying to remember words and really really slow. Everybody else already sat that everybody else already finished but the words came really slow to me. But I always understood a lot.
所以我们要稍微地讨论下外向者并且给予正在看这个视频的人一些建议。我们也会探讨下内向者方面因为这是我从自身发现的。当我尝试着学习语言时，我发现并且意识到我学得非常缓慢，记单词记得很慢很慢。其他人都完成了，做好了我却还没好。但是我的理解能力非常好。

It confuses me because somethimes I just rubish in learning languages but I understood a lot. So my speaking wasn’t soon advance as my other skills in learning languages. No something I realized later until which I see a video like this which helps me to understand why.
这当时让我很是困惑，因为有时候我学语言学得很糟糕，但是我的理解能力又非常好。所以我说的能力没能像我其他方面的语言学习能力一样快速得到提高。直到我观看了类似我现在做的这个视频内容，我才明白为什么会这样。

-03-外向者vs内向者各自特点

一动一静|图片来自网络

Let’s have a look in introvert, the person who like spending time alone all the time. So you could say them the motto is it just me, myself, and I. Happy to be alone. You could also think introvert at a party is more like to be a wall flower. A wall flower is someone who used to not going to start a conversation with anyone, not going to be dancing around having great amazing conversations, the wall flower is going to be a bit shy and they are going to wait for other people to come around to talk with them. And the introvert also likes to have deep and meaningful conversations doesn’t like small talk doesn’t like chatter, chatter, chatter, likes to talk on the meaningful level. So they have got different ways of being.
让我们看一下内向者，这些人喜欢独处。所以你可以说他们的座右铭是：这就是真实的我，这是正常的我，这都是我。喜欢独处的我。你也可以认为内向者在轰趴的时候，经常更像是壁花。壁花就是不会主动跟人交谈的人，不会主动去跟人跳舞，或是夸夸其谈之人。壁花之人有点害羞，并且只会等其他人主动上前来跟他们交谈对话。内向者也偏向于喜欢有深度的，有意义的对话，他们不喜欢闲聊，不喜欢讲个不停，只喜欢在有意义的层次上进行交流。所以他们的行为方式不同。

how’s that related to learning English?
但这又跟学习英语有什么关系呢？

二、性格与语言学习的关系

-01-外向者的优势

Well like what I said earlier, the extrovert really has learning advantages when it comes learning languages because most people when they learn a language , they do because they want to be able to speak, they learn languages because communication is so much about speaking. And great things for you if you are an extrovert, you are so curious and so social. You want to know what happening all the time. You want to be in the middle of things. You want to know what it going on. And that’s great advantages for you because it is talk.
就像我早些时候说的，学习语言时，外向者具有较好的优势，因为大多数的人学语言时，他们希望能够使用新的语言交流，他们学习新的语言也是因为对话交流跟讲息息相关。如果你是名外向者的话，那么你的好奇之心以及善于社交的能力对你来说也是件好事。你想知道发生了什么事，想知道怎么了，这些都有利于你学习语言，因为这都是关于讲。

You talk you take every opportunity to talk. It is a prompt feeling. So you could be in an new situation in a different country or something. But maybe you feel a little shy because you don't want to say something wrong. But your lead to be in conversation is so strong. You are so proactive and you will talk. So that means you get many opportunities to practice. So good for you developing in your English. So if you are an extrovert you will learn languages much more quickly at least as speaking level.
你会抓住每一个机会讲话，所以当你在陌生的情景下，或是不同的国家时，这是种很本能的反应。但是因为你不想说错话，所以你可能会有点害羞。但是你想讲话交流的欲望非常强烈。你很主动，前摄，所以你会去交谈。意思是你会获得更多的机会练习语言。所以这有利于你提高你的英语。所以至少在说的层面上，外向者学习进步得快。

-02-内向者的优势

内向者的优势|图来自网络

They know all in their heads, but they not actually using it. So this could make the progress to the language as quite slow. And also the introvert very often miss opportunities to speak. Because they are hesitant, maybe before they speak they think about what they are going to say. Plus they don't initiate, they don't start the conversation with people. introvert waits for the other people to come and speak to them.
他们只是在头脑里保留知识，没有说出来。因为这样他们学习语言的进程就相当慢。并且内向者经常会错失开口讲话的机会。因为他们通常是迟疑的，可能在他们开口说出之前，他们会先思考下该说什么。并且他们不会跟人们主动交谈。内向者通常是等待别人上前跟他们搭话。

When you are an introvert, you are quite fearful of mistake. You don't to look stupid, you don't want to say the wrong thing. That’s one of the reasons you don't speak to people. so this is not looking very good for you learning a language as an introvert.
如果你是内向者的话，你其实相当害怕会犯错。你不想让人看起来是笨笨的样子，不想犯错误出糗。这也是你不跟人们讲话交谈的原因之一。所以这些看起来对内向者学习语言是不利的。

But it is not all buts because let’s look at the other side of the situation now. if you are an extrovert you might be great at talking, but I know it as a fact, very often, extroverts are not so good at listening.
但是呢，从另一个方面来看的话，如果你是个外向者的话，你可能擅于谈论讲话，但是我知道的一个事实是，外向者很经常并不善于倾听。

Because you just want to be talking and not so much listening to other people are telling you. This is also about a defect for exroverts. It often means they have small passive vocabulary.
因为你只想一直讲话，并没有太注意别人跟你说了什么。这也是外向者的一个缺点。他们的词汇量通常是动词词汇。

You don't actually know that many words. but the words you do know you could use very well you know you could have great conversations with it. So that’s good. On the other hand, the introverts might be not saying much, but they could be great listeners, they could understand a lot more than the extroverts. The extrovert really seems like they know everything and can say everything.
实际上外向者并没有知道很多词汇。但是只有这些词汇，你们也可以运用得很好，所以这挺好的。另一方面，内向者可能不善于说很多，但是他们是很好的倾听者，比起外向者，内向者的理解能力很好。外向者似乎无所不知，无所不谈。

But they don't understand so much. Also the introvert has really wide passive vocabularies. There are lots of words they know. But the thing is it can be a time delay at remembering those words. so very often, you miss opportunities in conversation you know them, but they come to slow to you.
但是他们理解得不多。并且内向者也有广泛的动词词汇量。他们知道很多词汇。但是这往往要花费内向者很多时间来记忆这些单词。所以很经常地，你会错失交谈机会，哪怕你稍后会想道并知道要说什么。

This is one of the reasons the introverts are good at writing in their own language and also in English. Because when you write you have a little bit extra time to rememer what you want to say. Also because introverts very often like to do self by themselves. We could say maybe they have got more time for actually what they study for their work. So very often they have better grammar skills, because they are actually willing to do that kind of work.
这也是为什么内向者擅长用母语和英语写作的原因。因为当你写作时，你有多一些的时间记住你想说的内容。同时也因为内向者经常喜欢自学。我们可以说他们有更多的时间对自己的工作内容进行研究。所以通常内向者的语法技巧更好，因为他们愿意做这样的研究工作。

三、对症下药

So what you can do now you know the strength and weakness via being an extrovert or introvert. I have got some advices for you.
所以通过作为内向者和外向者的优劣势分析，我这里有些建议想分享。

And I think it could help your development when you are learning English basically. So we saw the extrovert. It’s really amazing the extroverts are kind of people who can learn a language or English as you just on the street. They can go to a place and just kind of learn from people they are around. They are so great. For introvert that would be really hard to do because it would take so much courage to make themselves speak in every single opportunity they got.
我想说这能帮你提升你的英语学习。来看下外向者。外向者是那种走在大街上就能学习新的语言或是英语的奇特的人。他们可以通过到一个地方然后从周围的人身上学习语言。他们很厉害。内向者做不到这样，因为这往往需要耗费他们很多的勇气来抓住每一次的谈话交流机会。

They probably won’t do it. So anyway if you are an ectrovert, it is easy for you to take every opportunity to speak, so that’s why doing immersive experiences, travling to other countires, where you could do exchange or sign in different countries that’s great for you. Because again you take every opportunity to speak.
他们可能不会这么做。所以如果你是个外向者，你就可以轻而易举地抓住每个谈话的机会，这就是为什么真实的经历，到国外旅行当交换生或到不同的国家等对外向者学习语言是有利的。因为你会抓住每一次机会讲话发言。

Also traditional toefl classes is also great for you as well because that’s a big class of people, you can swalk, you can talk to many people in the room that’s great for you. So much opportunities for you to practice in traditional classroom situation. What’s not so useful for you? I would say book learning in general. You really like to have your English practiced actively. You like to speaking, you like to be involved, you like to be doing things.
并且传统的托福课程也有利于你，因为班级里有很多人，你可以走来走去地跟同学讲话。你有很多机会练习语言。什么对你来说是没用的呢？总体上我会说课本学习。你比较喜欢主动地练习英语，喜欢讲话，喜欢参与其中，喜欢做事情。

So where you can make sure you have been doing that. Of course, studying is helpful, but for you, you really develop your English just by being in the right situation around the right people. also I hear couple of times when extroverts told me, oh I cant never learn on skype, that’s what I am the person or something because I have to be around more people.
所以在这样的课堂中，你可以做到这些。当然研究型学习也是有帮助的，但对于你来说，你只有在周围有很多人的情境下才会使你的英语真正获得提升。很多次外向者跟我说，我不能用skype学习啊，我就是得处在人群中交谈才能学习的啊。

I mean that’s somethig you have to discover for yourself, could be 1 on 1 situation actually works for you. Just general rules extroverts do like be around a lot of people. so perhaps maintaining, teacher-student interaction as much as hours as not something an extrovert really going to enjoy so much. Also audio learning programmes it could be ok but not fantasic for the extroverts because there is not interaction there for them.
我的意思是，这些你要懂得从自己身上去发现出来。这可能是一对一的会有助于你的学习。总体上，外向者喜欢周边都是人。所以可能持续性的，教师与学生的长时间互动等并不是外向者所能喜欢并享受其中的。音频学习课程也是可以的，但对外向者来说效果并没有很好，因为没有太多互动。

Advices for my introvert friends, fun of being silly but talk to yourslef. Because you don't take opportunity to speak, what you know in your head is often at a much higher level or your ability to actually say it as speakers. So when you try to speak, the words don't come out in the really ince way that you want them to. Just because you haven’t practice on your mouth enough. But when you talk to yourself nothing could go wrong, you could just talk to yourself. So that’s something to try. You can make a friend. Someone you feel real comfortable speaking English with. So you can get a lot of practice with that person feel good about for you doing it. Something would be really scared for you when you come to learning a language and that’s ok.
给内向者的建议是，虽然有点傻里傻气的，但请跟自己对话。因为你不能抓住机会发言，你所知道的、停留在脑海里的内容通常是高层次状态，或者高于你实际的说话交谈能力所以当你试着发言时，这些话并没能按照你所希望的方式很好地表达出来。因为你没有让你的嘴部有足够的练习。但是如果你自言自语的话，你就不用害怕会犯错。所以值得一试。你也可以交个朋友。交一个你与之交流英语的也不会觉得尴尬的朋友。所以你可以跟这个人进行很多交流练习。你开始学习英语时，你会很害怕，但这是没关系的。

For example, as speak from my experience, in a typical TOEFL classroom situation there is an very strong atmosphere on games all the time. Always playing games with this person speaking around things. Moving to another table speaking to another person and it can be straining for an introvert because they are there are many people. there are many small talks, there are many of games. So if you like me went like that. Also big class maybe something you don't like because there are many people that you need to speak to and that maybe shake your confidence a little bit and you might not feel to good. Teaching yourself is one of your strength, so it is ok just do lots of self study.
比如，从我的经验来说，典型的托福教室里总带有很强的游戏氛围。总是跟这个人就某些事物侃侃而谈，然后又移动到下一桌，跟另一个人讲话。对内向者来说这可能是压力很大的，因为这样的教室里有太多的人了，如果你跟我一样的话。可能你也不喜欢大教室，因为你要跟太多的人讲话，这会挫败你的自信心，你会觉得不自在。但是自学是你的优势，你可以自己做很多事。

因为我也是内向者..

译者话
是的！我也是内向者。对比这个视频列举的种种，于我自身而言，我的写作能力和理解能力会比我说的能力要好。

虽然自认为自己不是静得下心的人，但是相对于外向者，我算是坐得住的人。也比较喜欢独处，习惯自己一个人做自己的事，比如看电影，听歌，写作..

至于害羞这一点，对于不熟悉的人，我的表现给人的感觉的安静害羞的 = =但静若次子动若脱兔这一描述也 挺适合我的...跑题了好像。

最主要想说的是，学无定法。在选择学习方法之前，不如先了解下自身优缺点，从而制定出更适合自己的方法也不失为一种选择。

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