All college students or people who prepared to go abroad must get this advice from English teachers that they suggest students should make note or remember words' meaning in English. Because different language culture make different expression and habits. For example, if we say "apple", the first reflection of Chinese people will thingk that it's "Ping Guo". However,native speaker will think it just a fruit. That's a very simple instance. I want to say too many English learner take more attention on words' Chinese meaning rather than English meaning. We know that languages often bring interpretations. Such as "ambitious" and "aggressive", they all mean people have strong faith to pursue and obtain something beyond his ability. But these two words have some difference. The former is a commendatory word, the latter is a derogatory word. To some degree, when we use "aggressive" to discribe a person, it means he is pushing , quarrelsome and disposes to attack. So he leaves a bad impression to others.
In spite of that, almost all the Chinese people make note in Chinese because it can save trouble and remember presicely in their mind. Yet at the beginning to study English, we could make note in Chinese, then we should wirte in English after we accumulated a quantitative words and phrases. My teacher always advise me to use English-English dictionary in learning English, to remember the English meaning of words and phrases. It's the only road to study English well.
We have no pure English environment, so we should creat English studying circumstance in China. I changed my cellphone into English input to acquaint with mobile telephone English, I use English interface to buy ticket when I take subway every time. I watched new concept English TV program, the teacher explained new words in English, so I wrote the English meaning which can know words' meaning exactly. I sometimes chat in English, think things in English, take message in English, etc.
Now, I begin to make note in English, espcially remember new words. I use English-English dictionary to see the explanation of words. Every English learner can write English article or essay or make a simple chat with foreigners, however, the expression of overwhelming learners are usually in a Chinese style. Although foreigner can understand our meaning, but our sentences are topsy-turvy in their ears. So my teacher told me that I should made English note and recited sentences of good structure or articles.
最后由 crystalblue1900 于 2008-05-08 22:23:26编辑
