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怎样学好英文</STRONG>
 
Now before I start, I’d like to say that this article is not one of those one-shot magic potions (as you might think) that can turn you from a complete novice to mastering English by the time you finish reading. In fact this article doesn’t even come close. I’m writing this because many of my readers are curious of my English abilities and wonder constantly how I managed to achieve this degree of accomplishment in my second language. This article would not perhaps answer all of your questions, but if it could inspire any of you to put more effort into learning English then this article has achieved its goal.
在我开始之前，想先说明一下，这篇文章并不是学习英文的灵丹妙药。看完这篇文章并不会把你从一个英文盲立刻变成一个老外。这篇文章的目的不是为了教英文，而是回答你们读者可能有的有关学英文的问题。有很多人都想从我这里知道，我的英文是如何学到这个地步的。这篇文章可能无法回答你们所有点问题，但如果能鼓励你们学英文的话，那么这篇文章就达到了它的目的。
 
When I first came to New Zealand, one of the hardest things I have anticipated that I had to go through was to memorize individual English phrases and try pronouncing them correctly. I was wrong. The hardest thing to do was in fact to stop speaking Chinese and try speaking English. My family had to rent a home and the owner of the house and her family was Chinese and of course it was placed right into an Asian environment where really there was little chance of me getting in contact in the locals because we didn’t even know our way.
我在来新西兰之前，想像着到新西兰来我要克服的最大难题是什么。我一直以为是背单词、背语法和如何把一个单词念好。事实上最大的困难是不讲中文多讲英文。我们一家刚来这里的时候是租房子，房东是一个广东人，结果还是没有跟任何老外讲英文，直接栽到了中国人圈子里。
 
Perhaps this would provide a better example of the state I was in back then. In chemistry, potassium is stored in glass jars filled with paraffin oil because once it gets in contact with air it combusts and would burn fiercely. Just imagine you are that hunk of potassium and that the air is the English-speaking society all around you and the paraffin oil is the symbol for the various blockades that you have to go through. In order for the potassium to start burning you have to burn through it with a Bunsen burner (which you probably already worked out denotes your English teachers, your friends and 阅读全文>>