my-experience-of-learning-english.docx

Learning English is an very painful experience for me.At the very beginning,it is very harsd for me to express myself in English.Whenever I tried my best to speak English in class, i would be laughed by my classmates. After that I had no cofidence to speak English any more.I suffered a lot in the class because I did not want to lose face in front of my friends.Gradually, I found it had nothing to do with my English study.I had made a fool of myself.I realized that the best way to prove myself is to study harder and caught up with others.So I seized every chance to speak English in class as well as in free talk.Whats 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.When I was a freshman in Guangwai, I was bored with learning English and suffered a lot in the English class. An English movie changed all of this. One day, a friend of mine asked me to watch with her a movie called “Finding Nemo”. I was soon attracted to the cute little clownfish Nemo, and the funny, meaningful plot. After finishing the movie, I began to imitate Nemos pronunciation, which gave me lots of fun. This movie changed my attitude towards English. Soon after that, watching English movies became my favourite hobby, which took most of my spare time. Each time, when I finished the movie, I couldnt help thinking and speaking in English. The feeling I got from imitating the pronunciation of my favourite character in the movie and their famous words was just great! Not long later, I was surprised at my progress - I could understand most of the content of the movie even without subtitles. Wow, that was a wonderful feeling! I was really inspired. Then I became an active student in my English class and began to enjoy learning and using English. Personally, I think, the key to learning English well is to develop an interest in it first and then spend lots of time learning and enjoying what is learned. Ask yourself a question “Do I feel happy when I learn English?” If your answer is “no”, youd better hurry up and find something interesting to you. For example, an English movie, an English book, or an English saloon. Also find yourself a partner to watch the movie or to read the book and then discuss about the story with them. Alternatively, take a willing friend with you when you decide to join in an English activity. My friend Peggy was exactly such a person. She and I watched many English movies together, talked about the English stories we both read, and attended many English speaking activities. I benefited a great deal from Peggys company, her good English, and even more from her inspiration as she always encouraged me and stopped you from giving up when I almost lost heart in front of difficulties and hardships. Thanks to Peggys company and help, I found lots of fun in learning English. Together, we met with many interesting people and made friends with them. This is how I grew interested in English, fell in love with it, and turned myself into a fluent English speaker eventually. All in all, my secret of learning English lies in two things: first to start with something interesting, and then to work with a willing partner. If you follow my example, with the help of these two, you are destined to enjoy learning English and making cheerful progress.When I was at primary school, I was not interested in English at all. At that time, my English was very poor. When I became a middle school student, my mother got back from Australia. She asked me to watch English movies and TV programs, listen to English songs and practise speaking English with her.Now, I do one unit of the reading exercises in Pep Up Your English by the Peoples Education Press every day. Although I have just graduated from junior middle school, I have finished the books for Senior One students and now I am working on the books for Senior Two. The reading materials are quite new and cover a lot of fields, so I like the set of books very much. I think the books have helped me to improve my reading comprehesion a lot. Thanks to Pep Up Your English, I got the standard score 807 in English in the first model examination of Baoan District and A+ in the Shenzhen Senior High School Entrance examination.I had some problems while I was learning English. I was good at spoken English, but poor in written English. I used to make mistakes in spelling. Then, I learned seven words by heart every day by going over them five times within a dayearly in the morning, after lunch, after school, after dinner, before going to bed. As a result, I dont often make mistakes now. Besides, my grammar was poor, so when I had time, I would read my grammar book now and then. Although it was boring to me, after thinking of the goodness it would bring, I didnt feel bored any longerMy experience of learning English tells me that persistence is the biggest problem for me, for my students and for most English learners in China.I dont remember how many plans I had made from the first day I learned English. In those days, Ididnt get the key to English-learning. What I did was some basic things for exam, for example, memorizing new words, getting ideas of grammar, making sentences, or reciting lessons. These are all basical work for English learners. Today, I admit these works are useful, helpful. They do a great job in my English learning. But they are not everything and they are not that important when coming to the problem of using English.Words, sentences, grammar, that happened in the very first days of my English learning, most in middle school. When in high school, thingsgot closer to exams because the only task for high school students is to get themselves enrolled by colleges, which is the only way to success in those days. Understandablly, we, including myself, plugged ourselves into all kinds of exercises for exams, from day to day, month to month, year to year. I didnt remember how many exams I took, but I knew I made progress step by step in handling exams. That is a good news for me because I was getting closer and closer to colleges.At the end of my high school days I took the national entrance examination for colleges and did a good job by getting a high score of 93 when the full was 100. I was happy and got myself enrolled by a well-known university, majoring in English. But I dont think that score means much when I think of that score in later days because it really means nothing compared with the ability of spoken English and written English. Those are the real English, communicative English, while the English for exam weighs nothing in use. You dont speak it. You stutter it. You dont write it. You write simply, with the most simple diction such as run, go, come, do. Except these words, you use nothing more complicated. But no one told me how to solve these problems. And I didnt realize anything. I just did as was told to by the teachers. I was in darkness, groping aimlessly. Nowadays, when I look back upon these days, I realize how stupid I was. I wasted a lot of time in my college. I was wasting my life. But this waste didnt stop when I graduated. It continued. Today, when Isee the English majors learning English, I know they are wasting their life as I did 20 odds years ago. They dont have a method. They dont know the key to English. They even dont realize anything but just follow as are told to, just as I did many years ago.After graduation, I landed a job, working as an editor. That provided me much free time to learn English. Ioftendid it in my office. But is office the right place for study? No. Absolutely not. In an office, you are distracted very often. Sometimes one would come to you for help. Some other times, your boss would come in and you feel sad to let him find you reading something unrelatedto your work. You are disturbed from time to time. But to keep your job, you have to accept this situation.I stayed there for two years and did something half-heartedly.At last, I left the company. I found it a salvation. Working in another place without worrying about being disturbed when learning English is something great. So, in that period, I found myself improved greatly, not only in mood but also in study.Not long after that, I got another job in a college, which is a great change for me. But that is not a change for my English learning. Nowadyas, when I reflect upon those days, I realized teaching English is nor related to learning English. These are two different things. Teaching, in some sense is just to impart some knowledge and methods of learning to the students. It doesnt mean you can improve your English by teaching. The following years teaching proved everything. Its right. You cant improve your English by teaching Englis