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来自镜子里的忠告——如何学习英语 CHINESE?is?one?of?the?hardest?languages?on?earth.?I?knew?that?when?l?started?out?learning?it?ten?years?ago.?At?that?time?a?friend?of?mine?who?had?studied?the?language?told?me?that?the?task?of?learning?Chinese?was?"a?five-year?lesson?in?humility."?I?assumed?that?what?he?meant?by?this?was?that?after?five?years?of?hard?work?I?would?have?succeeded?in?mastering?Chinese,?while?learning?humility?along?the?way.?After?five?years,?however,?I?realized?the?true?meaning?of?his?words:?I?still?had?not?mastered?Chinese,?but?I?had?definitely?become?a?more?humble?person.??? 汉语是世界上最难学的语言之一，这一点我在十年前开始学习它的时候是知道的；当时我一个学过汉语的朋友告诉我说，学习汉语的过程是一个“五年谦卑之旅”；我当时以为他说这话的意思是通过五年的艰苦努力在学会谦卑的同时就能掌握汉语了；五年之后我才明白这句话的真正含义：我还没有掌握汉语，但毫无疑问，相比以前我已经谦虚得多了。Now?I?am?in?China?living,?working?and?teaching?English.?Having?grappled?with?Chinese?for?a?decade?or?so,?I?also?have?a?deep?understanding?and?sympathy?for?the?difficulties?faced?by?Chinese?learners?of?English.?When?I?look?into?the?face?of?a?Chinese?person?struggling?mightily?to?construct?an?English?sentence,?it's?like?looking?into?a?mirror?--?I?see?my?own?tortuous?difficulties?reflected?in?theirs.?English?is?awfully?hard,?too,?of?course,?if?it's?not?your?native?language.?Many?of?my?Chinese?friends?have?asked?me?for?advice?on?ways?to?improve?their?English.?What?follows?are?just?some?of?my?observations?and?suggestions?on?how?to?better?study?foreign?languages?based?on?many?years?of?hard?experience?studying?Chinese. 目前我正在中国生活、工作、教英语；在我本人和汉语你来我往地较量了十多年之后，对于中国人学英语所面临的艰难困苦有了更深的理解和同情。每当我看着一个中国人为了说出一句像样的英语那种抓耳挠腮、山穷水尽的样子，我仿佛觉得自己面对的是一面镜子，里边照出来的就是我自己当年所经历的千辛万苦。英语如果不是你的母语，那学起来也难得很；我的许多中国朋友都曾经问过我有什么好办法能帮助他们学好英语，下面就是我在自己多年苦学汉语经验的基础上总结出来的学习外语的规律和建议。Adopt?a?realistic?attitude First?of?al1,?we?all?know?there?are?no?shortcuts.?Despite?the?inflated?claims?of?certain?language?teaching?methods,?language?learning?takes?a?long?time,?and?requires?lots?of?hard?work.?There?is?no?magic?technique,?book,?or?tape?that?will?solve?all?your?problems?for?you.?Shouting?Engl