
From the article, I know about that learning a language is not an easy thing .The language is not a fixed unchanging thing, we cannot expect to learn it we learn geometry or how to ride a bicycle .we cannot have ultimate success. Maybe we subsequently give up to learn it when we discover that learning a language is a difficult thing .we will find more and more questions when we learn a language ,maybe the different meaning of the word or different user of the language. After reading the article, it makes me think about my experience of learning English .Learning English is the one of the most difficult yet most rewarding experience in my life. Although I spend a lot of time learning English, I think that it was well worth the effort, because I am an English teacher now.
My experience with a foreign language began in junior middle school, when I toke my first English class, I had a kind and patient English teacher who often praised all the students. Because of these positive methods, I eagerly answered the entire question I could, never worrying much about making mistakes. I was at the top of my class for two years.
When I went to senior middle school, I was eager to continue English. However my experience with a foreign language in Senior was vary from before. While my former teacher had been patient with all students, my new teacher quickly punished those who gave incorrect answers. Whenever we answered incorrectly, he pointed a long stick at us, shaking it up and down, and shouted: No, No, No…it did not take me to lose my eagerness to answer questions. Not only did I lose to answer question, but also I totally lost my desire to say anything at all in English.
However, that state did not last long. When I went to college, I major in English education, so English is very important for me, So I seized every chance to speak English in class as well as in free talk. What’s more, I did morning reading every day. I continued working till now. To my great joy, I can speak beautiful English now. The experience is painful but also helpful.
Learning a foreign language has been a most trying experience for me but one that I never traded for anything. Not only did learning a foreign language teach me the value of hard work, but it also gave me insight into another world and my mind was opened to new ways of seeing things. Now that I speak a new language instead of staring into space when English is spoken, I can participate, make friends, and form new and unforgettable friendship. I am able to reach out others when English is being spoken, I can participate and make friends. I am able to reach out others and bridge the gap between my learning language and culture and theirs.
How to learn a foreign language? In my opinion, there are some tips for you:
1) Spend the time!
By far the most important factor is how much time you are immersed in the language. The more time you spend with the language, the faster you will learn. This means listening, reading, writing, speaking, and studying words and phrases. This does not mean sitting in class looking out the window, nor listening to other students who do not speak well, nor getting explanations in your own language about how the language works. This means spending time enjoyably connected to the language you are learning.
2) Listen and read every day!
Listen wherever you are on your MP3 player. Read what you are listening to. Listen to and read things that you like, things that you can mostly understand, or even partly understand. If you keep listening and reading you will get used to the language. One hour of listening or reading is more effective than many hours of class time.
3) Focus on words and phrases!
Build up your vocabulary, you’ll need lots. Start to notice words and how they come together as phrases. Learn these words and phrases through your listening and reading. Read online, using online dictionaries, and make your own vocabulary lists for review. Soon you will run into your new words and phrases elsewhere. Gradually you will be able to use them. Do not worry about how accurately you speak until you have accumulated a plenty of words through listening and reading.
4) Take responsibility for your own learning!
If you do not want to learn the language, you won’t. If you do want to learn the language, take control. Choose content of interest that you want to listen to and read. Seek out the words and phrases that you need to understand your listening and reading. Do not wait for someone else to show you the language, nor to tell you what to do. Discover the language by yourself, like a child growing up. Talk when you feel like it. Write when you feel like it. A teacher cannot teach you to become fluent, but you can learn to become fluent if you want to.
5) Relax and enjoy yourself!
Do not worry about what you cannot remember, or cannot yet understand, or cannot yet say. It does not matter. You are learning and improving. The language will gradually become clearer in your brain, but this will happen on a schedule that you cannot control. So sit back and enjoy. Just make sure you spend enough time with the language. That is the greatest guarantee of success.
