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1、來自鏡子里的忠告——如何學(xué)習(xí)英語CHINESE?is?one?of?the?hardest?languages?on?earth.?I?knew?that?when?l?started?out?learning?it?ten?years?ago.?At?that?time?a?friend?of?mine?who?had?studied?the?language?told?me?that?the?task?of?learning?Chinese?was?"a?five-year?lesson?in?humility."?I?assumed?that?what?he
2、?meant?by?this?was?that?after?five?years?of?hard?work?I?would?have?succeeded?in?mastering?Chinese,?while?learning?humility?along?the?way.?After?five?years,?however,?I?realized?the?true?meaning?of?his?words:?I?still?had?not?mastered?Chinese,?but?I?had?definitely?become?a?more?humble?pe
3、rson.???漢語是世界上最難學(xué)的語言之一,這一點我在十年前開始學(xué)習(xí)它的時候是知道的;當(dāng)時我一個學(xué)過漢語的朋友告訴我說,學(xué)習(xí)漢語的過程是一個“五年謙卑之旅”;我當(dāng)時以為他說這話的意思是通過五年的艱苦努力在學(xué)會謙卑的同時就能掌握漢語了;五年之后我才明白這句話的真正含義:我還沒有掌握漢語,但毫無疑問,相比以前我已經(jīng)謙虛得多了。Now?I?am?in?China?living,?working?and?teaching?English.?Having?grappled?with?Chinese?for?a?decade?or?so,?I?also?have?a?dee
4、p?understanding?and?sympathy?for?the?difficulties?faced?by?Chinese?learners?of?English.?When?I?look?into?the?face?of?a?Chinese?person?struggling?mightily?to?construct?an?English?sentence,?it's?like?looking?into?a?mirror?--?I?see?my?own?tortuous?difficulties?reflected?in?theirs.?Englis
5、h?is?awfully?hard,?too,?of?course,?if?it's?not?your?native?language.?Many?of?my?Chinese?friends?have?asked?me?for?advice?on?ways?to?improve?their?English.?What?follows?are?just?some?of?my?observations?and?suggestions?on?how?to?better?study?foreign?languages?based?on?many?years?of?hard
6、?experience?studying?Chinese.目前我正在中國生活、工作、教英語;在我本人和漢語你來我往地較量了十多年之后,對于中國人學(xué)英語所面臨的艱難困苦有了更深的理解和同情。每當(dāng)我看著一個中國人為了說出一句像樣的英語那種抓耳撓腮、山窮水盡的樣子,我仿佛覺得自己面對的是一面鏡子,里邊照出來的就是我自己當(dāng)年所經(jīng)歷的千辛萬苦。英語如果不是你的母語,那學(xué)起來也難得很;我的許多中國朋友都曾經(jīng)問過我有什么好辦法能幫助他們學(xué)好英語,下面就是我在自己多年苦學(xué)漢語經(jīng)驗的基礎(chǔ)上總結(jié)出來的學(xué)習(xí)外語的規(guī)律和建議。Adopt?a?realistic?attitudeFirst
7、?of?al1,?we?all?know?there?are?no?shortcuts.?Despite?the?inflated?claims?of?certain?language?teaching?methods,?language?learning?takes?a?long?time,?and?requires?lots?of?hard?work.?There?is?no?magic?technique,?book,?or?tape?that?will?solve?all?your?problems?for?you.?Shouting?English?se
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