Natural Learning Method for English

老子說過："人法地，地法天，天法道，道法自然。"所以，我們應(yīng)該樹立這樣的觀念，凡是自然的東西都是好的。我們是自然之子，只要我們順乎自然地發(fā)揮天賦的功能，很多東西就會很容易學(xué)會。如果一種學(xué)習(xí)方法，某人用起來很不自然甚至很痛苦，那么應(yīng)該認為這個方法不適合這個人。他應(yīng)該勇敢地拋棄這個不適合他自己實際情況的方法，然后去嘗試其他方法。

Laozi has said, "Man takes Earth as his model; Earth takes Heaven as its model; Heaven takes Tao as its model; The Tao takes what is natural as its model." So we should set up such an idea that all natural things are good. Since we are children of nature, many things are easy for us to learn well only if we exert our connate functions. If a learning method is used by someone unnaturally even painfully, we should conclude that this method is unsuitable for him. He should abandon this unsuitable method bravely and then try other methods.

絕對不能認為方法是正確的，而這個人太愚笨。這種錯誤觀念貶低了人的天賦和尊嚴。在我心目中，人，才是根本，一切方法都是可以考察和選擇的對象，沒有絕對正確的放之四海而皆準(zhǔn)的方法。一切要以人為本，只能要方法來將就人，而不是相反，這是我討論英語學(xué)習(xí)時貫穿始終的一條紅線。

We shouldn't think the method is right but the learner is too stupid, because this wrong idea deb ases man's endowment and dignity. In my view, only man is the basis for examining and choosing any learning methods, and there isn't such an absolutely correct method being valid everywhere. Man is the measurement of all things, so we shouldn't make man for methods but make methods for man, which is the main thread from beginning to end when I discuss English learning here.

英語作為一種世界語，在現(xiàn)代社會尤其國際交往中起了很重要的作用。我們國家對英語教育應(yīng)該說非常重視，我國學(xué)生在十幾年的學(xué)生時代花了不少的寶貴時間來學(xué)習(xí)英語。很多學(xué)生都為學(xué)習(xí)英語感到頭疼，不知道該怎樣才能學(xué)好英語。學(xué)習(xí)一種語言的樂趣沒有體會到，英語水平很難提高的痛苦煩惱倒是一直伴隨。其效果是有目共睹的，啞巴英語不乏其人。幾乎不能流暢地用英語來表達自己的思想和情感，那就是說，英語的交際功能沒有很好地實現(xiàn)。

As a world language, English plays a very important part in the modern society, especially in our international interactions. Our country thinks highly of English education, and Chinese students spend a lot of time learning English within their student age of ten more years. It's a big pain for them to learn English without knowing how to learn English well. They haven't enjoyed the pleasure of learning a foreign language but have suffered a lot for being stagnant in their English learning. The learning effect is obvious to all, and there's no lack of dummy English learners. They can hardly express their thoughts and feelings in fluent English, that is to say, the communicative function of English hasn't been fully realized.

一些本科生和研究生即使托�？荚嚭虶RE考試成績比較好，但是英語的語言表達能力仍然很糟糕。英語并沒有融入到他們的頭腦和血液中，他們完全不能熟練地運用英語來交際，只是很蹩腳地運用著英語的字詞句在做翻譯練習(xí)。英語沒有成為他們擅長表達自己某些思想情感的一種有力武器，正確流暢不用說了，感情色彩和個性風(fēng)格就更不用提了。他們的頭腦一直在思考該如何把自己的想法翻譯成英語，根本沒有機會把自己的情感灌注到所說的話中去，結(jié)果就是干癟癟地平鋪直敘，缺乏語言表達的動人魅力。

Even some undergraduates and graduates score high in TOEFL and GRE, they fail to express themselves in accurate and fluent English. Without melting English into their mind and blood, they can't communicate skillfully with others in English, and what they can do is only to do translation exercises word by word or sentence by sentence. English hasn't become a sharp tool for them to express some of their thoughts and feelings, so accuracy and fluency is out of their reach, let alone emotional color and personal style in their expressions. They're busy thinking how to translate their thoughts into English without pouring their emotions into what they're taking about, so they just speak in a dull or flat way without any moving charm of language expression.

 

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