you must have learned english for at作文

you must have learned english for at作文

I've learned English for at least 10 years. During this period of time, I have s
ome feelings, which I want to share with you. Generally speaking, study itself i
s a long process, and you have to take in things as much as you can and make pro
gress gradually. I just get through such a process.
At first, my basis of English was so poor that I often failed in the tests. To m
e, those English words with different letters in disorder were too hard to memor
ize, which made me almost lose all my interest in this subject. I even thought n
ever could I learn it well. Nevertheless, I tended to believe that I could have
a good command of English so long as I worked hard. Thanks to the English teache
r I met in the last year of junior high. It's she taught me how to cross the thr
eshed of English. She was really a conscientious and strict teacher. We were req
uired to recite all the words and passages in the textbook, and before every cla
ss it must come first the dictation. In her opinion, there's no other good metho
d except reciting at the early stage of learning a foreign language, and the mor
e one keeps in his mind, the more stuff he can use, laying a solid foundation fo
r the fluent and accurate performance in English. It’s of course proved to be t
rue, as the main purpose of learning English is to use it freely in the course o
f communication. In fact, output largely depends on input, as I found it later.
Besides the words and expressions, she also attached so much importance to every
important grammar points we've learnt by urging us to do plenty of follow-up ex
ercises after class, and all of which was done wrong by more than ten students w
ould certainly be explained in the class by her. In addition, she also encourage
d us to ask her questions, and I could still remember one of her pet phrases tha
t student with no question was actually not a good one…with the guidance of her
, I made progress rapidly, helping to gain confidence and interest in English le
arning.
With the relatively solid foundation and those helpful tips, I met quite a few d
ifficulties in the study of English when I was in senior high school, and I actu
ally got to know more methods during this period of time.
First of all, the most useful one was that you should join in all kinds of
practice with high zest in class .At that time, some of the students were too l
azy to take notes in the class, or they were reluctant to stand up to answer the
teacher's questions, but I was not. I tried hard to put down every important de
tail the teacher said, and I could always jump at the opportunities to speak in
English in class.
Then, I got into the habit of collecting all the mistakes I had made in a
certain notebook for reviewing, especially before the examination. I just tried
very hard to avoid making the similar mistake once again in the future study, an
d with this time and energy saving method, I seemed to find the shortcut to Engl
ish learning and had great fun with my English study. Meanwhile, I began to writ
e essays in English. It was usually very short, sometimes only a small paragraph
, but I think that’s all right at that stage.
After the entry to college, I began to learn English systematically, as it's my
major. On the first day, all of us were given a lecture on the requirements we s
hould meet in the coming four years. To be frank, I was almost frightened when h
earing those, as they sounded too strict. I was aware that my past learning is d
eadly insufficient, and studies from that time on turned a new leaf in my life,
and I got all kinds of professional trainings:
The first one was pronunciation and intonation. We had lessons on this, as
we were told it's of great importance. At first, I felt it hard to be at home i
n this class, as I had got so used to pronouncing some phones in a completely wr
ong way. It took me quite a great deal of time to change back to the right ones.
Moreover, we were asked to imitate the tapes such as "New concept English" over
and over again. After one term's intense practice, finally came the pronunciati
on and intonation test. I was so disappointed that I didn't pass it, though I th
ought I had been fully prepared. Afterwards, I paid much more attention to this
aspect through morning reading, and I got a pamphlet handy to jot down every wor
ds, which I had difficulties in pronouncing. No pain, no gain. Later I managed t
o make it in the make-up exam, but I know I still have a long way to run, if I w
ant to speak right the same as those native speakers.
The second one was listening. We got no practice like this in the high sch
ool, as it's not included in the college entrance exam, which brought me great t
rouble. As a freshman, I didn’t have a busy schedule in courses, so I often spe
nt the whole afternoon or evening without lessons in the language lab to listen
to the tapes. At first, my efficiency was sorely low. I only had the phone on, a
nd listened to it mechanically, therefore, I could only grasp the general idea,
but miss the required information in the exercises, so I did badly in the first
listening exam. Thereby I began to make a change to what I used to, I didn't mer
ely listen to the material, but tried to grasp the "related information" as much
as possible, as I had a glance at the exercises first. With such certain aim, I
could do the exercises more promptly and correctly than before. I came to reali
ze that such intensive listening was as important as extensive listening, meanwh
ile I spent plenty time listening to the walkman with all sorts of tapes, such a
s English songs, movies, news, etc. I surprisingly found that to listen in a rel
axed state could also do well to my listening, so I just stick to this up to now
.
The third one was speaking. We had no specialized practice in oral English
in high school either. I was always active in volunteering to make a speech in
high school, but that's far from enough. Little by little, I found my range of t
opic was narrow. I could only make short speech and could hardly make it even lo
nger, especially when I was given a certain topic. This is quite knotty, so I co
nsulted my teacher, and she gave me the suggestion that I should read more and t
hink more in the way of English. I followed her words. I even tried to say somet
hing to myself in English in front of a mirror since no partner for practice was
available, and I read a lot of English articles. Of course, it worked, so I dar
e to make the conclusion here that active thinking and large amount of reading a
re the sources of making a good speech.
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The fourth one was writing. I was asked to write daily journal, calling fo
r great passion and persistence. I really find it hard to keep working on this,
but every time when I didn't want to write, my writing teacher, Mr. Penton's wor
d came into my mind, "a few words is much better than nothing”, hence, I manage
d to be persistent in writing my journal everyday, even though they were not tha
t long. Here I really want to extent my great appreciation to Mr. Penton, this A
merican teacher, as I had learned a lot from him. I was impressed by his lessons
, especially his theory of writing. I could still remember some of his words cle
arly: First of all, we should develop a good attitude towards writing, as "it's
a feeling, a passion insides your heart. You have the interest and desire to wri
te for yourself,” and “you should develop your own ideas and opinions..." Besi
des, “why should you write other countries instead of yours own?” More than on
ce, I felt ashamed of myself, because I really knew little about my city, my cou
ntry, and my culture. As a foreigner, he had taught us to really concern our own
nation and its culture, which was truly more significant than the English learn
ing itself. As the only international language, English is actually in the servi
ce for the international communication, and as a Chinese learner of English, I’
m really obligated to tell the outside world what are China and Chinese culture
like.
The fifth one was translation. I had received instructions from my teacher
. What struck me most were the following points that we should not ignore in the
course of translating.
First came the differences between the two languages, I mean, Chinese and
English. Theoretically speaking, these two languages are completely different,
we can see it clearly in terms of their sentences. English sentences are relativ
ely more complicated just like the grape with stem and other decorations, while
the Chinese ones are like lines. They are relatively short. Many short ones gett
ing together to convey one meaning, therefore, we should try to abide by this ru
le when translating.

Then, translation calls for the understanding of the whole text, that's t
extual environment. We should pay enough attention to the connection between the
sentence and the whole text, and don't translate it as an isolated one.
Next, we should make an attempt to have a good understanding of the styl
e of the article. To make sure what it's like, humorous, serious, sarcastic or s
omething else, and then try to use the same style of Chinese words.
Last, before translating we should read through the whole passage, and af
ter translating, we should read through the version to check.