第七届希望英语高中组选手王艺潼:学习经验

http://www.sina.com.cn 2008年01月25日 16:41   新浪教育

  我是这样学英语的

  Well at the very beginning I’d have to declare that the following opinions could be very personal. It is after all up to you which way to go, because you know what’s best for yourself better than anybody else. You need to build this self-trust before you start learning English. It is not the splendidly advertised courses that will offer you a shortcut to success; you should seek the right access to your destination, not the “said access”.

  To me, learning English is not exactly like learning other subjects, to be frank; I haven’t tried seriously learning it yet. I prefer self-taught though, because a language is not like Chemistry or geography which requires hours in the classroom and a whole lot of textbooks, and most importantly, a teacher there to tell you what to do from one detail to another. I have definitely rejected to follow. I don’t know, I figured that English is more like an art, like symphony or a movie that can’t be understood through the description of another person. This might sound gross but it’s true, you have to be there, try to feel the words and grasp the rules. Just like how you’ve learned to say your first Chinese words. The only difference is that it is not the language everybody around you speaks, you didn’t spend the past 16 years or something getting used to the expressions and tones, so what, it’s just a time problem, you’ve started late but not too late yet, you don’t have to go abroad, it is no way the magic to speaking native English. One thing to remember, English is a language, only that it is not your mother language.

  There’s this one summer when I was at the most boring and wandering age, 14 maybe. I had nothing to do all day except suffering from the hot weather during my vacation. I picked up this VOA tape of my dad’s which was covered up with dust. In the following days I spend much time listening to that tape, for it was what I then thought the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard. There were news about the wars in middle-eastern Asia and instructions of making tofu out of beans. My favorite part was the story of cowboys in the western desserts of America. From what I remember, I chewed each every pronunciation as if they were strawberry gums, they were perfect. I guess I could fall in love for another language such as French or Spanish just like so. There’s a whole wide world hiding behind the scene consisted with letters and words, there’s history, there’s culture, there are pounding hearts. The language itself is alive. That summer is what I call the real gateway to English learning, and that tape is the best English tape I ever owned.

  Later I became addicted to movies and rock music, I guess they are part of the reason why I somehow managed the language in an invisible way. After all, I’ve never taken English as a school subject which bothers me as much as math, (this is the moment when I would desperately ask those math geniuses for help), and just like what we always hear in Hollywood commercial films -- God is fair to everyone.

  Laugh Out Loud.

  家长或老师文章

  兴趣是最好的老师。这是我深信不疑的一句格言。我的孩子擅长英语,家长们向我问的最多的问题就是:“你是怎样教你的孩子学英语的?”“你孩子学英语的秘诀是什么?”。我的回答经常难以让他们满意,因为我总是说:“首先让你的孩子对英语产生兴趣。因为我坚信,兴趣是最好的老师。有了兴趣就已经在向成功的方向前进。”

  我本人也是一名英语爱好者,我没有刻意去制定一套学习方案没,去要求孩子照葫芦画瓢。而是用英语的氛围影响孩子。

  记得在孩子三岁的时候,我接到外国朋友的电话,我们在用英语谈话。孩子则异常兴奋,在房子里激动地蹦蹦跳跳。然后她问妈妈,爸爸在说什么话。妈妈说:“爸爸在说英语。”她马上兴奋地说:“我下次也要说英语,和外国人说话。”我想孩子学英语的兴趣在那一刻就开始了。

  随着孩子年龄的增长,我给她买了英语磁带,讲英语故事,看英语小人书,再到英文电影和小说。一有机会就带着孩子与外国人交流,参加英语角等活动。让她在轻松的氛围里掌握英语。鼓励她独立地参加各种类型的英语比赛,让她在比赛中得到锻炼,增强信心。

  到今天,我的孩子已经成为一个地道的英语使用者。

  (选手家长)

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