成功英语四级学习者走过的路都一样

　　We learn by encouragement and not by criticism.

　　我们是通过鼓励，而不是批评学习的!

　　很多的人都以为，我和学院派是誓不两立的。

　　在过去的近20年当中，大家可能有这样一个印象，经常会有教授跳出来骂我，因为我抢了学院派的风头，夺了学院派的面子，得罪了学院派的教授。其实不然，真正有水平的大教授、名教授是非常欣赏疯狂英语的。他们通常会说：年轻人，加油!你说出了我们想说而没有说的东西!你是一个勇敢的人!而跳出来骂疯狂英语的教授多半是一生不得志的，或是品行、心胸不过关的人。

　　无论是疯狂英语，还是学院派英语，大家强调的都是勤学苦练。唯一的区别就是：疯狂英语非常强调脱口而出，特别注重发音训练，非常反感选择题，教学。话可能说得有点不谦虚，有点太刺激，导致一些人听了不舒服。

　　今天，我偶然看到了我非常崇拜的一位教授谈英语学习的文章，特别转载给大家。

　　杨澜的外语为什么这么好? 何振梁为什么可以掌握多国语言? 李阳的疯狂英语魅力何在?

　　北外胡文仲教授通过跟你情，告诉你一些learning strategies。

　　Be a thinking learner

　　Be a thinking learner. Find strategies suitable for yourself.

　　Constantly reflect on your study and sum up your experience. Improve

　　your strategies. Now from the story that we have heard, that we have

　　related, we can see that good language learners often think a lot

　　while they are learning. They try out different strategies and then

　　they try to find out if it works for them or not. Which one works

　　for them, and which one doesnt. And then they decide on the one

　　that works best.

　　大师强调，我们要做一个学英语的有心人。我们应该在学习过程中不断尝试各种方法，并摸索出最适合自己的一套方法。

　　Beiwais past experience

　　Beiwai has got a lot of experience in training students to learn

　　English well and to communicate. When I was a student here, we used

　　to organise a lot of oral activities. We used to keep a piece of

　　paper in the pocket. And then everybody has a card in the pocket. If

　　you happened to speak Chinese, then Ill write it down. So youll

　　lose a point. And if you speak English, youll gain a point. So a

　　few of my fellow students who were very shy and didnt want to speak

　　would try to get away from people so that they would not speak

　　Chinese . And in class therere often speaking pairs and

　　also small group activities. Reading aloud contests are often

　　organized. And then theres an English evening at the end of each

　　term. As you know, therere are still English evenings organized,

　　but not as often as before. By the way, YangLan used be a hostess of

　　English evenings organized here. So probably YangLan learned her

　　first experience on the stage from hosting the English evenings

　　here. Field work, and also summing up learning methods and exchange

　　experiences.

　　大师回忆了自己在北外的上学经历。口袋里揣着小纸条、小卡片，随时随地寻找练习口语的机会。而大家众所周知的北外毕业生杨澜，在校期间就多次担任英语晚。她的舞台之路应该就是从北外开始的。

　　此外，胡教授的讲座中提到了精通多国语言的中国奥委会名誉主席何振梁先生的成功秘诀。

　　Be a good guesserG7b大学英语四级考试网

　　Be a good guesser. Guessing, in a way, is learning. Why do you

　　guess? Because you are curious. And curiosity, is very important for

　　learning new things. If you are not curious about anything, then

　　probably you cant really learn. So guessing is learning. And

　　curiosity is one of the probably motivating forces for learning. You

　　may make a wrong guess, but you learn in the process. It doesnt

　　matter if you make a wrong guess. But you dont make wild guesses.

　　You use your previous knowledge to make an intelligent guess.

　　胡教授指出，保持强烈的好奇心，并且依据已有的知识做出合理的猜测和推断，是学好一门语言的好方法。

　　Now here Id like to tell you a story about someone whose name is

　　very familiar to you, He Zhenliang. I think this name is familiar to

　　all Chinese now. Because he was ..er..instrumental, he was a great

　　help in getting Beijing win the bid for 2008 Olympics. He used to be

　　a member of the International Olympic Committee, IOC. Later he

　　became vice-president of IOC, next to Mr. Samaranch. In 1976, there

　　was a table tennis championship held in Pyongyang, North Korea, he

　　was one of the leaders of Chinese delegation. And I was a young

　　interpreter working for the World Table-tennis Conference. None of

　　us knew any Korean. The interpreters were provided by North Korea.

　　So when we went anywhere, we would have the North Korea interpreters

　　translate things for us. After the conference, we went sightseeing,

　　we went to金钢山，板门店，and we also went to see various parts of

　　Pyongyang. When it was half way though the trip, one day, Mr. He

　　Zhenliang called the North Korean interpreter to his side and

　　pointed to the Korean characters. He said, Does this character

　　pronounce something like this? And then he said one sound, and the

　　interpreter said yes. Does this sound like this? And the

　　interpreter said yes even more surprised. And what about this, does

　　it sound like this? He said, Yes, so you know Korean! I didnt

　　know you could speak Korean. Mr. He said, No, I do not know But

　　from what you read, I guessed Korean language is an alphabetical

　　language. Therere some consonants and some vowels. So I guessed

　　these are the consonants, these are the vowels. So I made them up

　　and pronounced them. All of us were amazed. Because all of us were

　　with the group all the time and I was a young interpreter and a

　　teacher. But I paid no attention to what the Korean were reading,

　　while they were reading Korean characters. But Mr. He Zhenliang

　　worked out the phonetic system nearly after about ten days. So of

　　course Mr. He Zhenliang was both good at English and French. His

　　first foreign language is French, second foreign language is

　　English. But his ability, his curiosity and also his ability to

　　guess intelligently really astonished us. So no wonder he became

　　vice-president of IOC. I think he has a lot of qualities that we are

　　not aware of. So from this example I really admired him even more.

　　At that time, he wasnt on the IOC. He was only one of the leaders

　　of the Chinese Sports Commission.

　　Dont be shy

　　Dont be shy. Now this Ive learned from LiYang. I used to go to I

　　used to take walks along the little river behind our university. And

　　every morning I would hear a young man shouting something. I

　　couldnt hear clear at first, so I went closer and I listened hard.

　　And I found that he was shouting, Dont be shy! Just try! Dont be

　　shy! Just try... I thought why did he shout like that. I didnt

　　know this came from LiYangs class. Is that right? Thats right,

　　later I found in CCTV program that LiYang told people, Dont be

　　shy! Just try! So here Ive learned from LiYang, dont be shy. Take

　　the initiative to communicate with people. Dont worry about your

　　face, and learn to speak in public.

　　不要害羞，这是我从李阳那里学的。我以前经常沿着我们大学后面的小河散步，每天早晨都会听见一个年轻人在那喊着什么。开始的时候我听不太清，所以我走近一点，努力地听。我发现他嘴里喊的是Dont

　　be shy! Just try! Dont be shy! Just

　　try...。我想，他为什么这样喊呢?我不知道这种方法来自李阳的课堂。这种方法对吗?完全正确!后来，我在中央电视台的节目中看见李阳告诉人们，Dont

　　be shy! Just try!

　　所以，在这儿我要向李阳学习：不要害羞。主动去和别人交流，不要顾虑你的面子，要学会在公众面前说话。

　　最后，胡教授强调大家一定要有强烈的交流欲望。

　　Have a strong drive to communicate.Talk to your fellow student, your

　　teachers, your foreign teachers or anyone who wishes to listen to

　　you. Dont be afraid of making mistakes. If you have no one to talk

　　to, talk to yourself. Of course talking to yourself is very boring

　　or could be very boring. Its not the best method. I don not

　　recommend it highly. I think you should really try to find a

　　partner. There is an English Corner and English Corner and

　　communicate with others.

　　能找伙伴就找伙伴，实在找不到就自己对自己说。

　　Practice as much as you can.

　　胡教授期待我们每个人都成为一个good language learner。