Why should we learn English?

English is the main international language and the most widely used language in the world. According to the statistics of 1986,

Nearly 400 million people in the world speak English as their mother tongue, and almost one tenth of them speak English. Britain, the United States, Canada and Australia

People in Australia, New Zealand and other countries all speak English. About 20 countries in the world use English as an official language or a second language.

There are about 800 million people. In other words, almost one in five people in the world knows English at least to some extent. If added to the world.

The number of primary and secondary school students learning English in the world, and even more people know English.

② English is widely used. More than 70% of the mail in the world is written in English, or the address is written in English. Broadcast to the world

60% of the programs are conducted in English. Most international materials are published in English. Most international conferences are

English is the first common language and one of the official working languages of the United Nations. In short, in international politics, military affairs, economy, science

English is an important communication tool in the fields of science and technology, culture, trade and transportation.

With the continuous expansion of China's opening to the outside world, the continuous progress of science and technology, and the continuous improvement of international status, there is an urgent need to create a large number of

Professionals who are proficient in foreign languages can accelerate China's "four modernizations" and make China play a bigger and more active role in international affairs. Therefore,

Learning English well is of great practical and far-reaching historical significance for achieving the above goals.

We need to learn from other people's advanced technology.

Earth-shaking changes have indeed taken place in China in recent decades, with rapid development in all aspects. However, there is no doubt that we still lag behind the advanced western countries in many aspects of technology. To develop and make progress, we must master all kinds of technologies in a relatively short period of time. We can't do research on our own, but we must learn from others' advanced technologies. The necessary prerequisite for learning is to master the world-wide language of technical communication, our tool-English. Take computer program development as an example: although the current computer operating system has been published in Chinese, the application programs are still written in English. Most high-tech materials are written in English. Although India is not as developed as China in many aspects, its software development industry is much more developed than China. An important reason for this gap is that the English application level of Indian programmers is generally higher than that of China programmers.

Cooperation with all countries in the world requires English.

While learning from other people's advanced technology and experience, we also need to carry out various technical and economic cooperation with other countries in the world. If you don't know English, you can't communicate with your partners, let alone cooperate. For example, a company has developed world-class products, and if it can open the international market, its future is bright. But it happened that the company staff did not understand English, could not communicate well with foreign customers, and could not show the excellent performance of the products, so it was a heavy loss.

How to learn English well

Knowing the importance of learning English, how can we learn English well?

Learning according to practical application needs

Since we have discussed before that English is actually just a tool, before learning, we must first make clear our purpose of learning English. Is it a literary creation or a practical work? I believe that most people learn English because of work needs, so English is just a tool for us to communicate with western countries and learn advanced western technology. In the past, English education in China focused on reading a large number of literary works, but in fact, this practice did more harm than good for English beginners. For example, a flight attendant only needs to verbally ask the guests what they need, or report the local weather and other simple information. Reading literary works can be said to be of no help to her work. Before we learn English, we should repeatedly emphasize that English is a tool, and we should clearly know what we need to do with this tool. Decide the content and method of learning according to the specific needs. If you are a stewardess by profession, then obviously you don't need to understand Shakespeare's works.

English is China and China is English.

When many people learn English, there is always a hint that English is a foreign language and learning a foreign language cannot be compared with their mother tongue. But in fact, this idea is wrong. Both Chinese and English are just a language and a tool for communication between people. As long as you can speak Chinese well, there is no reason not to speak English well. Many people find it difficult to learn English well only because of time and environment. Think that we have been using Chinese since we were born, whether we are studying, working, playing, eating or even sleeping and dreaming. And we spend relatively little time in English. If we learn to use English as we learn to use Chinese, I believe anyone with normal language ability can learn English well.

Others say that childhood is the best time to learn a language, and then it is difficult to learn a new language. This statement has some truth, but it is not inevitable. Many tens of years old people can communicate fluently in English in just a few years after emigrating overseas, because they have to use English for food, clothing, housing and transportation. Some immigrants stay in Chinatown all their lives and only deal with China people all their lives. Even if they have lived abroad for more than ten years, they may not speak a few words of English. Thus, the key lies in long-term application.

Pay attention to cultivate a good sense of language.

China's English education system has always attached great importance to grammar learning. As a result, I am good at grammar, but I really can't speak a few fluent English. Because when you speak, you can use all kinds of grammar rules in your mind over and over again to see what to say. How can you speak fluent English in this way? China's emphasis on learning grammar led many people to mistakenly think that only grammar can have a language, but in fact there is a language, and after a long time, various usages are relatively fixed, so people summarized these laws into grammar. In fact, most people in English-speaking countries don't know grammar, but they can still communicate with others in English very well. People have natural language ability, which is a feeling, not a rule. This feeling is produced by long-term smearing. Only with this feeling can you express your thoughts fluently in English, and you don't need to waste time thinking about any grammar problems.

Why should we learn English? 2008-09- 13 Saturday 16:04 English has always played a very prominent role in China: in the past, everyone in China had to learn English from junior high school. Now, I have been learning English since primary school. All the way to high school and university, you have to take an English test for graduate students. English education in China has elevated China's position to a ridiculous level. As a result, most people who don't like English drive ducks to the shelves and bite English hard. Even the students of Chinese department have to take English exams for postgraduate entrance examination, and the students of art department and music department also have to take English exams for postgraduate entrance examination.

Why should all people learn English? For what purpose? Is it necessary to train one billion English translators? The English-speaking population in the world adds up to only 300 million. This is ridiculous!

Practice has proved that English education for more than ten years is a complete failure. Students learn "dumb" English, can't speak English, and can't understand English. 99.9% of junior high school graduates and senior high school graduates forget all the English knowledge they have learned as soon as they come to the society after graduation.

Learning English for all is a waste of time and energy. Learning English by the whole people brings a very serious problem: the Chinese language is sluggish and sick. Turn on the TV and watch TV series. Pay attention to the following lines. If it is not a good TV series with a large output, you can find typos or mispronunciations in the 20 lines of the TV series. I like to "catch" typos in TV dramas, and I "caught" several without much effort. There are also mistakes in the lines typed below in the columns produced by TV stations. As for the historical mistakes and plot mistakes in costume TV dramas, there are too many.

Literature has begun to decline. In the past ten years, there has not been a famous great writer or poet. With Lu Yao dead, there seems to be no writer in China. I have only made some achievements in prose. Han Han and Jing M.Guo, two post-80s writers, are hardly recognized by the public, let alone the world.

So far, no one in China has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Some people say that modern literature is dead. Others say it's because the writer's soul is dead. What I want to say is that the root of the decline of China literature lies in the great impact of English, and Chinese is losing ground in front of English.

Chinese is a broad and profound subject. Don't be naive to think that "I can speak Chinese, so I know Chinese." There is a big gap between the high quality of being able to speak Chinese and Chinese. Some people can speak Chinese, but when they encounter unfamiliar words, they make jokes. "Wandering" is pronounced as "discharging ashes" and "Qi Yi Chuang" is pronounced as "Ant Chuang".

How many people remember these idioms, beautiful, romantic and chic, Gao Fushuai's, gentle and sincere, symmetrical and charming, handsome and delicate. Modern people will only say, "Handsome! Cool! " No words.

Language is closely related to thinking. Poor Chinese learning affects people's abstract thinking ability.

Abstract thinking is the thinking that people abstract and classify objective things, form concepts, and judge and reason with concepts. For example, when a person gets up in the morning, he sees the leaves, roofs and streets outside the window are all wet. He thought, "It rained at night." This is a thinking process.

Language and thinking are closely related, but they are two different social phenomena. It is a one-sided view to separate or equate the two.

People's understanding of the essential characteristics and laws of objective reality is manifested in concept, judgment and reasoning. Concepts, judgments and inferences must be formed by words and sentences (simple sentences and complex sentences) in the language. Without words and sentences, human thinking is impossible. Secondly, the results of thinking activities must be expressed in language, which makes the exchange of ideas possible. In a word, language is a tool of thinking. People think in language, and at the same time they exchange ideas in language. Language is the material shell of thinking. Stalin said: "No matter what kind of thoughts will be produced in people's minds, when they will be produced, they can only exist on the basis of language materials and words." He also said: "Language is directly related to thinking. It uses words and word combinations in sentences to record and consolidate the achievements of people's thinking activities and cognitive activities, thus making the exchange of ideas in human society possible. " In other words, language is a tool for thinking, and thinking cannot be separated from language.

The Tang Dynasty was the most prosperous period of feudal society in China, with the most developed culture, the most powerful economy and the most advanced science and technology. Tang poetry is the peak of China's poetry development. The development of literature in Tang Dynasty promoted economic development and scientific progress.

Nobel Prize winner Li Zhengdao introduced the space technology competition between the United States and the former Soviet Union in the 1950s at a "Science and Art Seminar". As a result, the former Soviet Union sent the first artificial satellite into the sky at 1957+0 1. The United States thinks itself to be the largest country in science and technology in the 20th century, which makes the whole country feel ashamed and begin to reflect. 10 years later, some educators put forward the view that American science education is advanced and art education is backward. In other words, the difference in the literacy of scientific and technological personnel between the two countries has led to the backwardness of American space technology. Russians say that they have only contributed one lev tolstoy, and all Russians in the19th century deserve the world, not to mention Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Chekhov. Besides, there are so many painters and musicians. Li Zhengdao put forward:

"I think now everyone can believe that science and art are inseparable. Their relationship is closely related to the duality of wisdom and emotion. Wisdom is needed for both the aesthetic appreciation of great art and the understanding of great scientific concepts. But the subsequent emotional sublimation and emotion are inseparable. Without emotional factors, can our wisdom open up a new path? Without wisdom, can emotions achieve perfect results? They are probably inseparable. If so, art and science are actually two sides of the same coin. They originate from the highest part of human activities and all pursue profundity, universality, eternity and significance. "

That is to say, although artistic culture and scientific culture focus on the distinction between sensibility and rationality, they are both the crystallization of human wisdom. They are basically the same in reversing people's quality. Literature and science are always linked. Literature, like science, participated in the unification process of developing the world. Literature and science are inseparable. Science legislates for nature. Literature and art legislate for life. Scientific culture is the root of nature. Literature and art are the foundation of life. In the face of science, literature and art are by no means dispensable.

It is particularly noteworthy that in the 1980s and 1990s, the literature of the former Soviet Union declined, there were no great writers, the economy gradually declined, and people's living standards were very low, which eventually led to the disintegration of the former Soviet Union.

At least 95% of China people live in China permanently, and at least 95% of China people will not become professional English translators. Why does the Ministry of Education force everyone in China to learn English? What is wasted is the youth of hundreds of millions of people in China.

Except China, no country in the world will give a foreign language such an important position, nor will it force its residents to learn a foreign language. At most, it will advocate it. Learning is voluntary, and it's no use pressing your head if the cow doesn't drink water. The knowledge of English acquired by most China people through compulsory education is useless to society. It won't be long before there are only a few words and sentences left in their minds.

The distance between Chinese and English is as far as that between the North Pole and the South Pole. These are two completely different languages.

Some experts pointed out that English is a hypotaxis language and Chinese is a parataxis language. English needs the harmony of form, and attaches great importance to the integrity of structure and the scientific expression.

For example, when they reach the top of the branch, they will fly to the bottom of the next tree and then spiral up again. When explaining this sentence to a tree, explain the action first, then go down and then arrive. We can say, "I flew under a nearby tree." How simple and clear. Foreigners are puzzled.

Look at two Chinese sentences: "China hits America" and "China hits America". These two sentences have exactly the same meaning. Foreigners don't understand: No matter "victory" or "defeat", it means "China team won". Why can't I figure it out

Chinese is a highly flexible and free language, just like the Monkey King. English is as stupid as a pig. English has temporal changes, but Chinese has no temporal changes. English can only be arranged horizontally, not vertically. Chinese can be arranged not only vertically, but also from right to left. If English is arranged from right to left, readers will feel dizzy.

The square characters reflect a holistic way of thinking of ancient people in China, and everything is in a range and a square. The four tones in Chinese symbolize the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. A good article is a good tune with strong melody.

Most people in the world are amateurs, only interested in one thing, one thing or one industry, and not interested in others. There is no need for all people to spend their time on English, which is a great waste.

In the Tang Dynasty, China was the most economically and culturally powerful country in the world. No one advocated speaking a foreign language at that time. On the contrary, people in other countries are proud of speaking Chinese. Wang Wei, Li Bai and Du Fu have never studied a foreign language. They just learned Chinese well and left immortal poems.

It's like now, China students insist on learning English. There are indeed geniuses in this world. Lin Yutang is good at Chinese and English, so he can write novels in English. The question is, how many China students can reach Lin Yutang's level? How many talents? It is not good for China people to learn Chinese for a while and English for a while. It's confusing. It's strung together.

Chinese is much richer than English, which can be described as extensive and profound. There are three reasons: 1, China has a vast territory, rich products, many provinces and cities, and different customs and habits, so there are many related contents reflected in culture. 2. Civilization takes a long time. China has a history of 5,000 years of civilization, which has continued without interruption. 3. Many people, many scholars. There are many people, and everyone has different personalities, different experiences and more stories. There are many literati in history, leaving a very rich literary heritage.

The Ministry of Education calls for reform every year, but it keeps changing, changing its form and changing its medicine. To reform education, we must start with English reform, put Chinese in an important position, and improve the Chinese level of the whole nation.

According to the present situation, I have drafted an English reform plan, hoping to get everyone's attention.

1. English classes are forbidden in kindergartens and primary schools.

2. Starting from junior high school, students who are willing to learn English and students who are unwilling to learn English will be taught separately, and students will be divided into "English majors" and "non-English majors". Every English major must get at least 60 points in every exam. Students who fail the exam twice in a row must quit the team of English majors. All English majors will be admitted when they recruit.

In senior high school, students are still divided into "English majors" and "non-English majors". In the first and second grades, non-English majors will receive practical English education and pay attention to oral expression. During the examination, the oral test scores account for 60% of the total scores, and the written test scores account for 40% of the total scores. The teaching of English specialized courses should also pay attention to oral expression.

4. In the college entrance examination, non-English majors don't take English exams, only English majors take English exams.

5. Postgraduate entrance examination is mainly specialized courses, without English examination.

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