My Experience of Learning English

 
The mail and question:
大哥。最近挺忙吧?
是这样,我昨天被告知,我可以参CET4考试,还有2个多月的时间吧。
来到大学感觉英语的学习很被动,并且也很郁闷,似乎英语能力还不如高中了。觉得你英语很棒,有没有什么经验可以分享一下?thanks
注意身体

Thanks for your admiration. I feel a little embarrassed about that. To be honest, my English is not as excellent as you say. And that’s why I make this site to be English and write English articles to improve my English. Of course, I’d like to share some my own experience with you about learning English.

When I was a college student in your age, I also faced the same problem as yours. I guess it is a very common feeling the current college students have. Due to my bad NCEE’s score, I had no chance to go to the top universities in China. Even worse, whilst I entered the campus, I threw away the attitude of learning in the high school and just play with other guys in the campus and even didn’t go to class sometimes. I totally lost myself at that time. I didn’t aware of the challenge in front of me until my last year in college. I gradually realized that my poor English, my low scores and my lack of technical expertise. I would be swallowed up by the rat race in modern society of China. So I began to study hard including my English from the very beginning. I participated the programming contest and do some projects with my mentor. I even got the scholarship that year. I did whatever can improve my personal skills actively. After I gradated from university, I made a decision, that is, to leave the city I had been for 4 years, and went to Shanghai to seek the position I want to be indeed and hope one day my dreams come true!

All the words I have said above are just trying to tell you that first and most significant thing you should know is the motility of your studying. English language skill is so important that excellent English skills will give you an edge in today’s job hunting. I know CET-4 is very important test for college students in China, but please remember that it’s not the whole story! Learning English is a long long procedure not just 2 months before the CET-4 test. You will find it is much more important after you graduate. Fluent in English will give you more advantages and opportunities in your career.

I will not say more about how important English is. The method I used to get over the CET-6 is just reading English magazines and newspaper and listening to English tapes as much as possible. In addition, I love to do the following things every now and then:
1. Search around the Internet and download some interesting English stuffs such as video or mp3 file.
2. Enjoy listening to the English songs. I have almost 1 GB English songs in my laptop.
3. Enjoy watching English movies.
4. Go to the hjbbs.com and watch the Studio Classroom online video. It is a very interesting online English Classroom.
5. Check out some of my favorite English blogs.
6. All of my technical documents I have to read are written in English.
7. If your major is Computer Science, I suggested you throw away all your Chinese technical books and make English be your mother tongue through out your technical career.
8. Thinking in English.
9. Make some foreign friends (true friend) and do language exchange if possible.
After all, this is just my way, and may not be suitable for you. I just share what I love to and hope you can succeed in your English learning.

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thanks for this excellent advice.

I could understand this whole page.but i couldn`t write in english optionally.

I will try my best to do it .

hello.
Mr Zhu
honestly your English is so good compare to most of the Chinese student and it's so incredible that you learned from China.
I am Chinese but now i am in Candad, and i am so bother of my English skills and hope that you will add my qq or Msn to have a talk with you and get more experience of yours.

my qq is 406098343 and my MSN is chrissucool@hotmail.com

Hi Chris,

I don't use qq and you are facing the risk of spam by exposing your hotmail account here. My contact information is under the page:
http://www.zhuxinquan.com/about.html

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