Since enertering this beautiful, humane and unlimited world,swimming in the sea of English, being cared by so many warm-hearted and accomodating cyberfriends,i feel i was carried away to a paradise.Thankks to this beautiful language i can able to have so many friends who i can share with them every piece of my happiness and sorrowness and even secrets bore in my mind which i feel guilty and sick for many years.in reality, we are restricted by many limitations and tend to hide our true feeling from others even to our parents, couples and so we spend much time and energy try to find someone we can understand each other. That is why there is a very famous saying "Understading is everlasrting!" in chinese.THe great revolutionist LUXUN exclaimed,"it is very satisfying to have a true friend in a life time!".oh! it seems i have betrayed my main topic too far.All above i say just want to show my thaksfulness and gratitude to my friends here.After reading so many high qaulity articals about how to improve english i am here trying to share some experience of mine in studying english. of cause i know what i am doing sounds like teaching my gradmother to suck eggs before so many top learner of English. In fact for quite a long time i even was hostile to this language. I was proude of the five thousand tradtional culture of my country.If were not the experience four yewars ago, i am sure to be still the ignorant and arrougant guy. Four yeas ago, when i started to spend my last summer holiday in college(i did not intend to continue to study for my master degree then), i happened to meet with a Australian young man whose name is Jonson( it is not very popular name in his country).I am a very easygoing person and always try to communicate with any people around me.But with Joncon, i have nothing to do but smile at first because i have never got any experience to speak in English with anyone, let alone to a foreinger. I have always dreamed to be a communicationlist but at that moment i came to know that foreign langusge is quite essential to reaize my dream.Fortunately, Jonson knew a little chinese so that we can exchange something simple and not spoiling the whole travel. WE try our best to use his poor Chinese and body language to deal everything all the way.After the travel i began to review my ignorant prejudice about English and at last made my decision to master this language. To be frankly, lacking of interest in learning is really a headachy work.Although i was a junior then, i only passed CET-4 with a narrow margin.And i also attended CET-6 but failed with a very pity score.YOu can imagine how many works i have to do .To expand my vocabulay, to get more knowledge of grammer and the most diffculty is to correct my pronounciation and listening.In fact,the most tragedical stroke on me in study English happened in the first lesson in my college life.In the lesson, my teacher named me to read a paragraph, and once i opened my mouth ,my classmates bursted into laughter so vehemently that i thought some of them might dropped their theeth in this dramatical action.Since then i seldom attended any english.At that time i knew the importancy of a good teacher for a student.Once i made my decision i registered a primary english class.My! i found that all what i have learned in my past years was so different with the foreign teacher tought that i had to forget them all and started to learn in pronunciation comp;ertely. I never overestimated the diffculty in the learning of the language. After making the decision, i spent much time and energy to consult many teachers and students whose english i thought are far better than mine.And i regarded it as a project to actualize myself and to prove my potentiality, and also i need to rebuild my self-confidence lost in the first english lesson two years ago.All this activities make the goal very clear and also very practical.Then i spent about one week in working out a very detailed plan. The first month was very dull and tedious. From dawn to midnight,in both dream and sober time, i was seizing every seconds to cram more new knowlegde into my minds.Hard work always finish with harvest.Today when i make a dialogue with a foreinger or just to be an part-time interpreter for my lab and my tutor, i feel very selfindence, just like what Cancuk says,"i am good at speaking".Of cause i know i am a little proude, but in western, which is regared as confindence and to be the key element for the road to success. i have got up very early every morning, working very hard.Each day, i feel i have to improve. Hard work, determination....i;ve got keep pushing myself.At that time my idole, the greatesst and most capitavating basketball player Jordon accepted a cover and relased a very famous speech about his experience of success which stirred me evry sad and even desparted moment.Napolan once contriburted his success to strond will in this way" I succeeded because i willed it, i never hesitated.". Here i want to remind you of the importancy of good enviroment, i do not mean language enviorment.Although i got up very early resulting disturbing the sound sleep of my chums, they never showed and anxious to me.Every time when my poor walkman was out of woprk, it was them to extend their hands sincerly.In the Eve of graduation, half drunk and half soberly,they said," if i have been granted anohter time to live my college life, i never chose you to be my dorm-mate, i want sleep too much every morning but alawys was awoke up by you!". Oh! my dear friends! After the training, about two months later, i began to feel the beauty of this magic language, and especially i have made my first the progress in practicing this language by espeaking.We everyone know that the language is the vechile of thought and is used as a tool in communciation.What we learn this language for? Of cause we wnat to communicate with this tool--to understand and to be understood.Since childhood we are told the story of learning swimming again and again.Just reading books and watching others swimming, we can not be a good swimmer.We can not just think and talk about english: it is something we have to do.But what is the best way of doing it? It is for communicaiotn and aslo out of communication, to use it in communication.I never think a wordless people can speak a good forsign language.How can you think a timid and shy chinese can speak good english? Language is very compex unit,although we generally divide it into four parts : reading ,writing , listening and speaking,in fact these four parts are a indesperable union.No one can master one or two parts of them well while know noting about the rest.personally, according the natrural law of learning language, listening and speaking goes first ,then follows reading and writting.So i spend more time and energy on improving speaking and listening, i want to make use of these two skills to improve the other two.In the class i have attened first , i fond the classroom was crammed in the fisr lesson but gradually,more and more people because of losing face in speaking, quitted and even some left developed a bad habit of keeping silence on every topic from the teacher.So to overcome the fedual idea of "losing face' is the first task in speaking.And also the first thing to understand about the wester society is this:westerners respect and help people who try--no matter how many errors they make;they have no respect for those who do not try for fear of making errors.That is also why Cancuk left his motherland to be here to stay with us. Going to English corner is the unchanged part of my life for quite a long time. No matter what happens to me,i will try my best to be there.I still remember last winter,when i finished the task by my boss(in graduste school,a tutor is often cakked as a boss by his students) and , it was almost dark, i declined the earnest detainment of the client and took a long-distance bus without any hesitation.When i came back nanjing i dashed to the english coner without even serving any food and dressing more cloth even it was very cool.i was in such an enthusiam in the learning of english. Also i want to add is the importancy of chosing a good textbook for especially a self-taught learner.A good textbook is just like a good teacher for a student will direct you smoothily and effectively while a bad book maybe makes you more and more purplexed. After you can express yourself and hold a simple dialogue with this language, the next step is to polish your langauge ability. Knowing happens only in contacts.we must start active and extensive reading and also writting.I do not prefer extensive reading in the beginning stage which is time-comsuming task and beacuse your limitation of the language,we can not get much by doing that but wasting much precious time.Two years ago,namely the first term of my master days,although my english was not ery good, i tried to persuade the dean of my department give me a part-time job as the interpreter in my department.Only after several times to dealing with foreign experts visting to my university, i made a great progress on English and most important i began to think, to reflection in order to find the differiences and similar of chinese and english.I began to to understand why many great scholars regarding thinking as the soul of learning. Facing the complimment and hearing of "your english is very good!", i feel then i was a little proud and i began to satisfy what i have achieve in the past two and half years.I Knew i must add some new motivation to myself.After about a month huntering job, i got an part-time job as an assisstant oral english teacher.The beginning days i was very tired and tight. Sometimes in order to make a well preparation for my students and also to finish the task by my boss, i often lighted midnight oil. ... It is never exaggarated to say that those self-taught english speakers are outstanding and will be sure to make somthing of life.They really possess every piece of ability to be a effetive learners and can overcome the difficulties that other people can not even think of.LUNXUN has also left us a golden saying."i have no talent, i just make use of time which others serve coffee."
o be continued)
