Small Talk on English Learning. Also a Reply to Zhy4562000
Dear Zhy,
Having read quite a couple of your essays, I decide I have something to share with you concerning English learning.
My environment, I mean, linguistically, isn't much different from yours. That is, English isn't really required in my daily life. Neither during nor off work.
Yet I am one of the avidest learners around this forum who have made obvious progress over the past years. I don't enjoy bragging, but it's indeed something
for which I can grow a bit of proud of myself.
My story is nothing complicated. Though not necessarily an ambitious person, I
didn't feel good monkeying around doing nothing or simply indulging myself in computer chitchats or games. English bailed me out of the confusion. Not really
having the goal of becoming someone someday -- no, not even now -- I simply started over from the simplest vocabulary memorizing and reading. And I found I enjoyed the daily work with English, so I continued.
Were it not for this forum, though, I might have relinquished further study, too
, as have very many others. No words can describe my appreciation of the help and encouragement I am offered by superior members of this big family. This earlier essay written by our dear friend and teacher Dove is simply one of them. This not-that-famous Canuck's Comments is by no means just any forums you see over
the Internet. By constant reading and writing in this plain forum, frustration
and pressures can be alleviated, and in the meanwhile you begin to sense the improvement you make. This daily visit to Canuck's Comments can help keep, and intensify, your interest in this language, and get you in a benign circulation. I
am improving, and I enjoy this feeling, so why should I stop?
Many may take it as an excuse for giving up halfway that they unfortunately lack
what is said to be critical, an English-speaking environment. It's a lame one,
though. This is an age of Internet and wireless communications. The former alone provides its users with magical opportunities for communications among people from all cultures, literally and vocally alike. Isn't it what they call the real language environment?
My suggestion for those who are suffering from desperate confusion with English
learning is you stop seeking for help without doing your homework. Be a down-to
-earth learner and stop dreaming of becoming an English expert over night. Learn to enjoy the sense of samll accomplishments of a few new words and several new
expressions a day. Review them once in a while, and practise them as often as
possible. Within one year, you'll find English in your blood.
Just enjoy.
Pan.
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