Advices to English Learner.
Up to the time writing this article, I have learned English for total 11 years(4 years of Grammar School, 3 years
of High school and 4 years of college). That sounds like a pretty long time, to my shame and to your surprise, I
cannot speak fluent English yet, and I am still a English learner. Those years, I have tried many English Learning
methods, and I have worked hard and turned loose to learning. Here are some some advices to English learners based
on summarizing of my own learning experiences.
1. If you want something, work for it.
No pains, no gains. Trust me, there is nothing that you can get it without
paying any efforts. This is the same to there is no such thing like free lunch. If you wanna speak fluent English
you have to pay much more efforts than you ever thought and than you ever saw.
2. Culture gap is the biggest obstacle to master English.
Perhaps you have a impressive vovabulary, perhaps your pronunciation is perfect. But before you can think in
the way which westerns do, you have not mastered English yet. Language is the vehicle of human thoughts. Language
is the tools of communications, language is the representative of culture. The foreigners would feel rather
weird if you ask them about their salaries, their parents, or they might be offended, though you use the standard
American tone.
3. Pronunciation is everything.
4. Recite some arctiles, some is enough, don't be many.
Use the standard tone, standard pronunciation, starndard innotation to recite some articles. That benifits you
more than tens of text books and examnation couches.
5. Listen music and watch movies with your heart.
Those are best learning materials. They are most real thing. You can learn a lot of things from them, including
pronunciation, innotation, culture, idioms and words. Try to remember some well written lyrics or movie scripts
and show it off to your arounds.
6. Immerse yourself in a full English environment.
Try to use english computer operating systems, use english software, read english books, visit english
websites. Make yourself in english world as much as possible.
7. After you have made some progresses, you can change your learning strategy.
You can try use english rather than learning them solely. If you are learning some new topics or skills you can
try english version text books.
8. Talk to yourself are the best way to practice.
There is no other campanion which is better than yourself. There is no other guy who knows better of you than your-
self. You are the best partner to practice. And you are the most loyal guy to trust.
9. Learn with your heart and full attentions.
This is a general rule for learning. Concentration can improve your productivity.
10. Thinking why always.
Almost everything on this planet are connected in some ways. The relationships between objects are sutle
and interesting. When you saw a phrase on some advertising tab or in a movie, think why it is created that way.
Try to summarize somethings that is general. And you can apply it to other aspect of languages, or even other
things in life.
你可能沒有注意到， 我們能應用的東西只有在我們腦子中已經被啟用的。比如說英語， 如果說一個單詞在你的腦子中已被告啟用， 那麼你可隨時隨地地說出來， 翻譯它， 聽懂它和寫下它。很多人的詞彙量大的驚人，但是他仍然不能聽懂， 不能寫下， 不能翻譯。因為他是在機械地去記憶單詞， 這些單詞雖然被記住了， 但是從來沒被啟用， 所以你聽不懂， 寫不出， 翻不了， 也說不出。因此我們在學習英語的時候，要努力去增加腦子中的活動詞彙量。光有單詞也是不夠的， 還要多增加些英語句子，成語等。外國人從不像我們那樣辛苦的學習英語， 但是他們的英語都很好， 他們能說的出， 寫的下， 聽的懂很多很多。所以在學習英語的時候， 我們要調動心眼耳手嘴。每學習一個新單詞， 新句子都要達到說的出， 聽的懂， 寫的下，譯的來。這樣的有時也會忘， 還有一個關鍵的步驟就是用，可能是聽， 說， 寫或譯。一旦你在真實情況下用成功子， 那你真正掌握了這個單詞， 這個單詞也真正的被啟用了， 它會一直在你的腦子中， 你可以隨時調出來用。怎麼才能用呢， 一定要真實的環境才會有好的效果， 有三種方法，到外國去或找外國人；自己練，自己說給自己聽， 自己寫給自己， 自己譯給自己；另一種方法就是看原聲電影， 最好看二遍， 第一次看難免會被電影情節吸引，第二次看你才有可能去學習英語， 盡量先聽， 自己譯，然後再去看字幕， 如果遇到一個詞或句子， 你好像見過， 卻又說不清什麼意思， 這就是以前學習了但還沒有被啟用的， 馬上再學一遍它就被啟用了！
