我国人为啥要学英语,这是我听过的最佳答复!_the_English_that

我国人为啥要学英语,这是我听过的最佳答复!_the_English_that

关于我国人来说,从小到大学英语必定是少不了的。

我国人学外语英语的热心,也不是迩来才有,假定翻开前史的册页,就会发现晚清民国以来,我国人学习外语的热心就一向高涨,这种热心不和有健壮的动机,就是“睁眼看世界”。因为外语是东西,是咱们晓得世界的方法和途径。

在我国作业和日子了30多年的老潘,作为一个母语是英语的“老外”,天然也会遇到许多热心的我国人,想要跟他学习英语。老潘有丰厚的mba课程教育经历,可他却仍是感叹自个是个“失利的”英语教师,这是咋回事呢?

老潘来信全文

many chinese seem to assume that any native english speaker can easily teach english but that’s not true, even as not every chinese can teach chinese. teaching is a profession and a skill, and taken to the level of people like new channel’s david symington, it becomes an art. i learned from experience that i’m not a good english teacher.

许多我国人如同认为一切以英语为母语的人都可以轻松地教英语,其实并不是这样,就像不是每个我国人都能教汉语相同。教

育是一种作业,也是一种技能,假定抵达像新航道的斯明诚那样的水平,它就变成了一种艺术。我的经历让我发现我并不是一个好的英语教师!

斯明诚与孩子们

in the early 1990s, four xiamen university laborers asked me to teach them english each day at lunch. “i’ve never taught english,” i said. “i don’t know how.”

上世纪90年代初,厦门大学的四个工人让我每天在午饭时刻教他们英语。“我从没教过英语,”我说。“我不晓得怎么教。”

“just follow a textbook,” they said. i hated to disappoint them, so i naively agreed, though i wondered how english would benefit them. you don’t need a foreign language to wield a hoe or a shovel.

他们说:“只需依照教科书的需求讲课就行了。”我不想让他们绝望,所以我单纯地附和了,但我很想晓得学习英语对他们有啥优点,究竟你不需要一门外语来挥舞锄头或铲子。

for over a month, they came to my office each day at noon and we went through the very basic english text i’d bought at the foreign language bookstore, but they made very little progress. after about six weeks, the students ended the class, and being polite chinese, they blamed themselves, not their teacher. “we are sorry that we are such poor students,” they said.

一个多月来,他们每天正午都来我的单位,咱们一同阅览我在外文书店买的基础英文讲义,但他们没啥前进。大约六周后,这些学生们抉择结束课程,作为有礼貌的我国人,他们责怪自个,而不是责怪教师。“对不住,咱们是差劲的学生!”他们说。

i also apologized for being such a poor teacher. for several years, i felt badly about my 4 english students and i wondered what became of them. and 5 years later, one of them showed up on my doorstep with a large gift of zhangzhou fruits—pomelo, and tianbao bananas—and invited me to visit a new home he had just built for his family in the countryside.

我为自个糟糕的英语教育而深感抱愧。曩昔几年,一想到这四位学生,我就心生抱愧,不晓得他们过得怎么样了。5年后,他们中的一个带着一大包漳州生果,里边有柚子和天宝香蕉,呈如今我的门口,并聘请我去赏识他在村庄建的新房。

i was astonished at the size and beauty of the home, with its traditional minnan red brick and stone, and a large courtyard in the center. i wondered how on earth a laborer could afford it, but he explained, “i was a poor english student, but you at least had enough faith in us to try teaching us, and that gave me confidence. i took night classes in accounting, received my certificate, got a job, worked very hard, was promoted several times. and thanks to you, i built this home for my family. we’ve never had a home like this before. so even though i was a poor english student, your time was not entirely wasted.”

我对这座房子的规划和秀丽感到惊奇,它由传统的闽南红砖和石头构成,在中心有一个大院子。我不晓得一个工人怎么能担负得起,他说明说:“我英语很差,但至少您对咱们有满足的决心,对咱们不扔掉,这给了我极大的自傲。后来我参加了夜校的会计课程,拿到了证书,而且找到了有关的职位,我作业非常尽力,还多次获得提升。幸而了您,我才干为我的家人缔造这个家!咱们还没住过这么好的房子。所以,尽管我英语没学好,但您曾花在我身上的时刻完全没有浪费!”

he laughed. “maybe someday my son can go to college and then teach me english after i retire.”

他笑着说:“或许有一天我的儿子有机缘上大学,等我退休后,就可以跟他学英语了!”

visiting that young man’s home was one of the biggest highlights of my 36 years in china. and it taught me to never underestimate anyone—especially a chinese dreamer! he dreamed of learning english and failed, in large part because he had a very poor english teacher—but that did not stop him from dreaming.

造访这位年青人的家是我在我国36年来最深化的回想之一!永久不要小看任何人,特别是一个我国的愿望家!他愿望学习英语,但没学会,很大程度上是因为他的英语教师很差——但这并没有阻挡他的愿望。

it also taught me to not underestimate myself. even today i can’t teach english—at least not like englishman david symington—but i can help people in other ways.

这也教会了我不要小看自个。即便到今日,我也不会教英语——至少不能像英国人斯明诚那样。但我可以用其他方法协助别人。

a fujian farmer in a remote valley once told me, “with billions of people in the world, it is 缘分 (fate) that you and i should meet.” how true. each day, 缘分 brings new people into our lives, and as iron sharpens iron, we can help each other.

一位在悠远山谷里的福建农人曾对我说:“世界上有几十亿人,你我相遇就是缘分!”说得很对!每一天,缘分都让咱们遇见新的兄弟,就像铁片在彼此冲突中会变得尖利相同,咱们可以在彼此协助中得到前进。

不忘初心!

这些年,跟着我国国力增强,世界方位正逐步前进,学习汉语的外国人越来越多。咱们再也不必追逐美国梦,学英语如同变得没那么火急了。

许多人或许更会疑问:“咱们如今学英语是为了啥呢?”

或许看完老潘的这封信,你会有一个答案:咱们都是我国追梦人。

早年咱们学英语是为了学习更领先的理念和技能,但如今,跟着我国的健壮,咱们的日子非常好了,此时的我国青少年更是担负了一份责任:为我国发声,让世界晓得我国。

詹天佑曾说“各出所学,各尽所知,使国家充足不受外侮,足以自立于地球之衫淠

今日的我国在世界的言语权仍然亟待前进,如何才干为我国发声,这是我国青少年走出国门,走向世界有必要掌控的才能。

我国文明就是最有力的武器,让我国文明经过我国故事传达出去:孔子的思维、我国四大创造的才智、《诗经》的魅力、扶贫攻坚的丰盛作用、日新月异的打开、夸姣的日子……

信赖在老潘的影响和股动下,“用英语讲我国故事”的部队将不断健壮,会有越来越多的人参加其间,向世界讲好我国故事。回来搜狐,查看更多

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