New vision of English learning

For the sake of my work, I always go to an American restaurant in the night near to West Nanjing road named Malone's- where shanghai expats gather with main purposes to meet potential customers and enlarge my network. However, things go not following my assumation. Instead, my presence there is more about adjusting my usual state of mind and learning English. The long past life background makes me very hard to join the expat community and their gatherings. I need some changes from my inner part. Though my english is not good enough to fully communicate with expats and I am disappointed each time after I return home, I still insist going there regularly, for my future.

Once I met a Swiss guy at Malone's. He works in shanghai as a lawyer in one of the top law offices. Coincidentally, his working place is just beside my company. We talked a lot that time. He introduced his past experiences in different countries which I admire so much. And he told me his interests in different subjects. In his words, "Life is interesting. We can try a lot of things". Quite insightful words! I asked if he has his girlfriend. He said no and gave the reason that it's hard to find out a suitable one. On this point, we have a lot of ideas in common. And the following meet was quite pleasant, though we were all in heavy mood.

That's a memorable experience also for his language capability. He can speak 5 languages and is interested in more! Gosh! How I adore him. To me, it appears so hard to master the new language English which is said to be the easiest one to learn among forerign languages for us. Whenever I think of that, I feel striked and also motivated. I can learn English well and should remember the striking words that life is interesting and the fact we can speak not just 2 languages.

It's my goal to grasp English. And I never give up studying it though sometimes I take some breaks as many others always do. To find out good ways to achieve that, I never stop practicing my English and consulting English speakers their techniques whenever I have chances. What I have told includes reading original English books, watching English programs/ movies and simulating them, talking to English speakers and trying to write english articles, and so on. Some of the above I have tried some of the above before. And the rest must be useful, I believe.

Yesterday, I Got a chance to talk to a guy who speaks good Chinese and especially English. He pointed out the way our Chinese students are taught to learn English- formal English that's to memorise words one by one. Ir's not a good way. We should learn both formal and slang English through phrases and sentences. Though it seems hard at the beginning, we will be relieved for the result when we will grasp English quicker and our English will be much more idiomatic. Thoughtprovoking words! It's probably the effectivest way for us who have some English knowledge to achieve our goal to be an easy English speaker. I will try it since today on.