【第二阶段】从高中到大学

其他学校学生涌入 原来我英语没那么差

In high school, the number of students had grown and there were more students from other schools coming into the foreign language school. In this environment, I realized that my English is not bad among peers, which increased my confidence and courage in speaking English. From the freshman year of high school, I not only took the initiative to speak in English class, but I even took exercises more proactively than ever.

和外教侃英语 受益无穷

The most helpful to my English learning was my foreign teachers. Three years in high school, I became friends with them, and after class we often got together to chat, discuss various topics, and sometimes went to see exhibitions and performances.

This had a huge impact on my English learning. First of all, I spoke English more often, which makes progress with the repetition. Secondly, in listening, not only could I understand standard English, I could also began to understand a variety of English with accents. Most importantly, because the need of communication, I acquired words and expressions that were used in common life but not included in textbooks, which made my English more practical and useful in daily life. At the same time, I also take the initiative to use the words I’d just learnt in conversations. Those words I have successfully used, even if they were difficult, I rarely forget them.

走进大学：多途径学英语

Entering the university, because the major I took required us to participate in TEM 8, there were a lot of special training courses of English, including Intensive Reading, Extensive Reading, Speaking, Listening, Writing and Newspaper Reading.

While paying attention to lectures, I also spent a lot of extra time to read Anglo-American news, watch movies and TV shows. With this, not only did I understand the customs of the Anglo-American cultures, but I also learnt a lot of slang and colloquial expressions. More importantly, my listening had had intensive training. I no longer needed subtitles while watching English movies.

In addition, I also made friends with a lot of foreign students learning Chinese in my school. In the process of interaction with them, I learned a lot of knowledge that I couldn’t have learnt in textbooks. For example, some words have special meaning or implications in certain circumstances, and so on.

学以致用是学英语的最佳动力

At this stage, I gradually found the motivation for learning English: to learn more knowledge in English, to communicate with more people, and to look at things from a different perspective. A clear motivation made me more motivated to learn English. The improvement of self-learning capabilities provided feasibility of the learning method.

Looking back to the years of English acquisition process, I think for me, the hardest thing was to build confidence to speak English. Because speaking in English means that others will hear all the mistakes you make, there is the risk of being laughed at, so it is a very awkward process. And how to address this issue and resolve it is essential in the process of acquisition of English, because it also affects other aspects of learning English.

The easiest part is reading. I think the ability to read in a second language is closely related to that of first language. If one can master good reading methods in the first language, these methods will also play a role in reading second language.

后悔当年没有好好学语法

What I regret the most is not paying attention to junior high school grammar lessons, and did not pay efforts in practicing the relative clause and the subjunctive mood. Until now I cannot use these two in writing, which makes me spend more time in correcting syntax errors for the articles I write.

厚积薄发：当奥运志愿者 成就感汹涌而来……

In my whole course of English acquisition, what encouraged me the most was that in the summer of 2008, I became a volunteer of the Beijing Olympic Games and I provided language services for foreign athletes. Since basically all the work needed to be completed in English, this was both a challenge and an opportunity to exercise. When I finished the more than two months of work, I deeply feel the importance of a second language, and also feel a strong sense of accomplishment.

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