English Learning

I remembered that I had write a blog post before in English. While, I forgot the topics that I want to elaborate in that post.

When I started to learn English in middle school, teachers told me that there were four components in English learning, which were listening, speaking, reading and writing.Almost 15 years later, I just found that I only learned how to read and listen English, no barely nothing about talking or writing. 

My plan is that I need to put more time on English speaking. Unlike Chinese characters, English words always have multiple parts on pronunciation. The mouth and tongue should be moved continuously when we are talking. If you speak English in the Chinese way, it would be difficult to understand for your listeners.

The Slient Spring is a book that I want to have a read long time ago. I bought it from Amazon as well as Google Play store. Most of the night I would like to read it loud, hoping that I could correct my English pronunciation in this way.

Speaking of writing, I believe that we should do it like the way we speak, in which a lot of errors exist. We can not wait for a time when no errors can be found in our writings to start write sentence. It would be too late. The more we write, speak, and read, the better we will be.

Before I went to college, my English skill is pretty poor. The evidence is that I never got a score of more than 100 during the time I was in middle school. I was very frustrated by that. While, I did not do much to change. One of the reasons, which seems very stupid now, is that a lot of students hold the opinions that you are smart if you were good at physics, chemistry and maths; it is okay if you were poor at English which needs a good memory instead of smart skills. Being good at English does not prove that you have a high IQ. 

I am not bleam that thoughts now. Kids want to be smart, but in fact they are exactly the opposite.

When I prepared the postgraduate degree entrance exam, I took English very seriously. I spent a lot time in reading. It helped me a lot as well. But, I gave up the speaking and listening skill whatsoever because the exam didn't test those skills, no matter you are good at it or not.

From my experience I concluded that people always worry about the things that matter to them urgently. They are going to learn new knowledge and skills only under the condition that their welfare is depend on that. The incentive of learning new things is so precious and rare. 

On the other hand, you can not sure what is useful and what is not in the future. Therefore, trying you best to learn more is always a good thing. It requires us to have the interest of learning everything. The pressure of daily lives already erases those characteristics gradually to the extent that we do not even remember we had those features before. That is the reason why kids are very cute for the perspective of adults. Being an adult with a kid's mind would be great.