Half of them have their first meal and study for three hours. Take a shower after dinner, start at 9: 30, and study until 4: 30 in the afternoon to have the second meal (usually only two meals in holidays in northern units) and have dinner.
After the activity, it takes more than an hour to seven o'clock, and then study until eleven o'clock, so that you can study for more than ten hours in total; Take a few days off and study on other holidays. For example, during the Spring Festival, we study continuously for four or five days. Everyone's specific situation is different from the English level they want to achieve, so there is no need to study for so long every day. However, the harvest of learning is directly proportional to the labor you pay. Especially in the primary stage, you have to study for at least three hours every day to get to a higher level as soon as possible. While working in Beijing, I didn't live in my work unit. It takes about 70 minutes by bus from home to the office every day, and it takes about three hours to go back and forth. My business work is much busier than when I was in Shenyang. What should I do? I quickly "adapted" and found time to learn English. First of all, after getting up at 5: 20 in the morning, whether you wash your face, make breakfast or eat breakfast, you should listen to tapes, or listen to tapes on your way to work. After arriving at the office one hour in advance, look up the words you don't understand immediately and enter the words you understand into the computer. In this way, I didn't leave English for two and a half hours from getting up to going to work, at least one hour! Listen to tapes on the way back from work and study for two and a half hours from eight to ten after dinner, so that you can study for more than three hours every day. On Sundays and holidays, I studied for more than ten hours, just like when I was single in Shenyang.
1990 single working in Nanjing, with good conditions to learn English. In the past four years, I spent most of my spare time on self-study and tutoring others to learn English, which not only improved my English level, but also accumulated some teaching experience. 1994 After I retired in early 1994, I spent more time learning English. I listen to (record) English radio for two hours every day. Pick up what you don't understand word by word, which not only improves your English, broadens your horizons, but also adds a lot of fun to your retirement.
"Seeing the needle" is to use the free time that most people look down upon. For example, waiting for a bus, having a meeting or waiting for a few minutes or more, queuing for shopping, etc. According to the principle of memory psychology, it is very effective to review foreign languages and other contents mainly based on mechanical memory in spare time.
We should also "adapt", that is, we have the ability to adapt ourselves to the objective environment. With the deepening of learning and the improvement of level, so is English learning.
It will gradually become an indispensable part of your life. You will feel that learning English is a pleasure and enjoyment, and you will always worry about learning English. If you don't study for a day, it seems that something is missing. With this cowardice, we will never emphasize the objective conditions again. When we encounter any unfavorable objective conditions, we will not take it out on others, but will actively adapt to it and use it to make it a catalyst for finding new learning methods and reaching a new turning point. For example, 1985, I was unfortunately in a serious car accident. Fracture of right leg, plaster hit the root of thigh, can't move. I stayed in bed for about three months. Faced with this situation, is it impatient to complain? Or rest in peace and enrich yourself by learning English in bed? I chose the latter. At first, I just listened and didn't write. After a few days, I feel that I have not gained much. I can't sit up if I want to write. What shall we do? I try to tie a backpack strap at the end of the bed. I can sit up with it and write with a thick dictionary on it. In this way, I can dictate for more than ten hours every day, and I can understand and write all English broadcasts for more than two hours every day. Call an interpreter if you don't understand. Therefore, the English level has been greatly improved. When I talked to foreigners after my recovery, they were all surprised to ask me if I had gone to a foreign language college for further study in the past three months. The car accident was really a disaster for me, but it also became a good opportunity for me to learn English, so I named the dictation record of these three months "the end of the disaster". After I recovered, I never dared to listen to tape recordings to learn English on the bus again. A few days later, I felt it was a pity to spend three hours on the road every day. I must find a way to use it, and soon I found a new way to learn English. Other passengers on the bus listened to the Chinese news broadcast on the small radio, so I tried to translate Chinese news back into English. When I meet a word that can't be translated, I look it up in the Chinese-English dictionary immediately after I get home or office. Doing this for a period of time not only makes effective use of time, but also feels that it is a unique English learning method.
Business trip is often the reason why many people stop learning by themselves, but it is also a good opportunity for me to learn English by myself. The first is to make full use of a lot of ride time on the way back and forth. Before leaving, I prepared enough batteries and tapes to listen to on the road. If you don't understand something, it's not convenient to look it up in the dictionary in the car. Just write down the approximate location of the tape and listen to it again when you get to the destination. If you are going to a meeting, as long as you are not the organizer of the meeting, you will be more free than when you are at work. As long as you don't indulge in playing poker and other activities, you will have more time to learn English.
We should not underestimate the role of studying in our spare time and holidays. Every little makes a mickle. Two hours a day is equivalent to six or seven hundred hours a year, which is equivalent to the sum of English teaching time in all middle schools. Isn't it equivalent to going to college in a few years?
Another important way to "see the needle" is to infiltrate English learning into daily life, learn everywhere and learn everything. As long as you have a strong desire to learn English.
And all aspects of work and life can become the second classroom of English learning. Learning English in this way is related to some specific environments, so it is very effective to remember it quickly and firmly. The following are some examples of my second English learning class.
(1) When I need to read reference materials at work, I will force myself to read English instead of Chinese whenever possible, so as to improve my English constantly.
(2) Practice keeping a diary in English. In order to learn English, I began to practice writing diaries in English from 198 1, although all the diaries are written by primary school students.
A running account, but it is still rewarding from the perspective of learning English. In the process of memorizing, you will encounter many English words and expressions that you can't. By consulting a Chinese-English dictionary or
Ask others for answers, so you can learn a lot of English knowledge.
(3) Reading China Daily is a good way to learn English, especially to understand new trends and learn some new English words. With the continuous development of the international situation and the rapid development of science and technology, English neologisms emerge one after another. You can't learn these new English knowledge by reading old dictionaries and books, but they are reported in China Daily in time.
(4) Learn from full-time translators. Besides asking them questions, I also participated in technical exchanges: I carefully compared their translations with my own dictation to see them.
How to translate it? Write it down in the notebook at once. Because I haven't systematically studied spoken English, what I said is either wrong or memorized from books, so I'm not colloquial. Translation is different. Their language is standardized and colloquial. By listening to their translations, you can learn a lot of oral expressions.
Similarly, in technical communication with foreigners, whether you are an interpreter or not, as long as you don't understand something, you should ask the other party to repeat or explain it in order to learn more English, and never pretend not to understand it.
Learn English by watching TV. For example, when watching the international news of news broadcast programs, you can often see some English words and slogans on the TV screen. You should pay attention to your study. If you don't understand, you should look it up in the dictionary at once. If you can't remember it once, watch it again when you replay it. If you are not sure, read and write down when you watch English service, so you can learn a lot of English words.
(6) When you see all kinds of English advertisements and slogans on the road, you should carefully read the English instructions brought by shopping. If you don't understand, look it up in the dictionary.
(7) Even if you help others learn English, you can learn a lot from it. For example, I helped my son learn junior high school English and learned a lot. In addition, you can also start from scratch.
Scholars are inspired by the difficulties encountered and the questions raised in the research, and a lot of contents in my book are accumulated in this way. For example, "Is the dictation correct?" A colleague asked me, "Without guidance, wouldn't you listen to dictation by yourself?" I think he's a good question, so I've always wanted to write a special section.