這是之前出國時，跟一些日本朋友分享的學習英文心得。
認識我有一段時間的人，應該知道我以前英文有多差，雖然多益破900分對我周遭很多人真的不算什麼，但對我來說，是過去一個很難相信自己能達到的水平。
而那次的學習經驗，也讓我對學習語言有很進一步的想法，或許能對某些人有幫助。
<正文> 中文版
哈囉我是Rum，還剩下一周的時間，我想分享一些學英文的技巧，其實之前我曾跟takuma聊到這些件事，或許對你們有些幫助吧，或許吧。
首先，我建議到越早改用英文字典越好，到一定階段後，越早用英文去學習英文是十分重要的，這跟大腦的神經細胞是如何運作有關，想像一下神經的觸突總是把掌管英文和日文部分的細胞（對我來說是中文）連接在一起，並且以此建立渠道和連節，多數學生把學習英文和學習翻譯給搞混了，他們在背誦新單字時使用母語來連接，在想說話的時候在翻譯回去，所以常常說話速度很慢，因為他們必須經過二次翻譯，Ａ是學習英文新單字時把原有的英文單字翻譯成母語記憶，Ｂ是要使用的時候再在腦內建構完整的母語句子後才翻譯成英文，每次他們使用英文或是學習英文，在Ａ階段他們背了一個新的英文單字，然後同時背誦和復習了一堆母語的句子和單字（在註釋上），同理也是出現在Ｂ階段，在真正使用英文的時候，他們活化和加深印象的卻一半是母語細胞，舉例來說，假設有新單字蘋果，他們背誦的方式不是把蘋果跟真正生活的蘋果結合，還是蘋果跟“蘋果”結合，然後要使用時，使用我最喜歡吃蘋果在腦袋中成型，再翻譯出來。
要讓思緒開始聯貫，你必須用英文去連接英文，就像是學習母語一樣，每次你思考一個單字的同時，你都是同時在復習與此單字有所相連的其餘十幾個母語，並且以此在腦神經中建立堅固的渠道。
筆記本和單字書或卡也是，有些背單字的書我都不敢恭維，必須思考一下，當你在當你學習一個新的英文單字或是記錄時，那些書是不是習慣性讓你一般學英文的時候一邊用日文思考和理解，而你是不是在筆記本上，習慣在一個英文單字旁邊，反而寫下一串日文單字和句子。
當然雖然我這麼說，這其實實施上會有種不舒服感和焦躁感，人討厭自己不能理解事情，喜歡用自己的方式，最快的速度去理解各種不知名事物，他們覺得自己用母語去查詢和搞懂英文是最快速的做法，但這在對整體英文的學習上，真的會比較快嗎？或許有些人會說每次看英文去解釋英文的字典，都有種讓人意思不清楚的感覺很煩躁，但本來用文字去理解和解釋文字就有期限度，如車輪，這是車輪英文字典對車輪的解釋，但如果你沒看過車輪，那麼你怎麼聽車輪的描述，都不會有真正的連接感，常常必須真正看過，才真的會讓你腦袋接受你能夠認知這東西，所以就像很多老師所做的，用google收尋圖片來理解是好方式，而若你真的覺得自己程度還不能完全用英文字典，那麼就查母語字典，但記載在筆記本的方式，用英文去做。
第二點，我個人認為學習分成三個部分，20%理論，60%實踐，20%feedback。你可以沒有理論，你可以沒有feedback，但你不能沒有實際操作的部分，而這邊的實踐，並不是指上課所作的練習，在上課中的學習，我認為大多只是理論階段，因為你不是在使用英文，而是在學習如何使用英文，這兩者之間有很大的差別，大腦記載東西的方式常常是跟情緒有所聯結的，有人說過最好學習語言的方式是在沒有人會說你母語的地方好好生活，ＷＨＹ？因為你把你生活中真正的情緒與語言做了連接，我不相信有人會把在上課中的學習當作重要的回憶牢牢記在腦中，相反的，若你不知道diving這個單字，而我們一起去diving，那麼這個字就會牢牢記載你腦海中，想忘也忘不了，過去我曾試過無數種背單字的方法，其中最優秀的方法就是把怎麼背也背不會的單字叫不認識的美女念給我聽。
除此之外，在上課中的那些練習和對話，你根本不需要承擔對話失敗的後果，那並不是實際操作，所謂的實際操作是你真正必須為了有所目的而使用語言，就像是你要去看醫生，如果你不會講你的問題，那麼你就必須承擔病痛的後果，又或是如果你真正跟一個不會你母語的人溝通，如果你不會某些單字，你就無法達到你要溝通的目的，這些行為背後是有目的和後果的，而不是在課堂上的練習，你就算說錯了，也有人糾正你，並且也不會搞砸你的目的（因為你根本沒有目的）。記住，大多的課堂上，只能算是理論階段，理論只有20%。
最後，我認為學習最重要的前提是搞清楚自己的動機，並且把自己變成目標取向，不斷質疑自己學習的流程，詢問自己每堂課的存在意義，同時學習的三個階段都是有其必要性的，在課堂的理論階段建立理論和操作方法，在真正生活上操作階段實際演練，在feedback階段如考試等等搞清楚自己的程度和離目標的差距，並且藉由這些資訊回去調整原先自己建立的理論，然後把循環不斷重跑一次，你跑完這個循環的速度越快，你進步的速度也就越快，自己建立的理論也會更完善，別人的理論不見得適合你，以上說的也只是我的理論。
據說日本人通常不會說自己的意見，但我可不是有禮貌的日本人，哈哈哈哈，文法很差，見諒。
Rum
English version
Hello, I’m Rum. Just
one week left, I would like to share some tips for learning(or of learning) English,
I talked to takuma about these things before, perhaps some of them are useful
for you.
First of all, I
would suggest you to use to English dictionary instead of mother-language
dictionary and the sooner the better. Using English to learn English is very
important, it is related to how the brain's nerve
cells work in the operation. You could imagine
nerve synapses that always connect the English and Japanese parts of the cell
(for me is Chinese) together, and establish channels and links between both. Most of the students confuse about learning English and learning
to translate, they use mother language to understand English when reciting new
words of English. They usually speak slowly, because they need to translate two
different languages in their mind two times. Frist time is when they are
learning new words, they translate English words into mother language and then remember them. Second time is when they need to use new words in speaking,
they construct a complete mother language sentence in the brain and translate it
into English. Every time they use English or learn English, they learn a new
English word, then simultaneously review a lot of mother language sentences and
words (in a comment of dictionary). It also happens in speaking, they speak English
but they think them with mother language at the same time. Thinking about nerve
cells, what nerve cells’ channels and links will become in this situation? For
example, I assume that there is a new word “car” that they don’t understand,
the way they recite is not combining car with car image in real world, but
combining “car” with "車"(as the same
meaning in Chinese and Japanese haha).When they want to use it,
they build the mother language sentence ”我想乘車”（車に乗りたい）in their mind first, then translate it to English ”I want……”.
If you want to be
coherent with your thoughts, you must use English to connect English. Like when
you learn your mother language, every time you are thinking of a word, at
the same time you are connecting and reviewing a dozen words of your mother
language at the same time, and establish a solid channel in the brain nerve.
It is also
important to think about the way you record on your notebook and the book you
learn for new words, don’t write one English vocabulary and ten mother language
words nearby, it’s weird because you are learning English, not your mother
language.
Of course, it
must be little discomfort and restlessness, people hate the feeling that they
don’t understand, they like to understand unknown things in their own way as
soon as possible. The fastest speed to understand unknown words is combining
with their native language, but it’s is it really the fastest way to
learn English? Perhaps some people would say that every time they try to use
the English dictionary to understand new words, they feel unclear and upset,
but it’s because there is a limit in using words to understand words, such as
wheels, the English dictionary explains it as “a circular frame or
disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery”. If you have never seen wheels in real life, how can you
understand them just by comments of dictionary? You are thinking WTF when you
are reading it. That’s why we feel more confortable when using mother language
to learn English, because we combines English to mother language first, then combines
mother language with your real experience in your life, and then you can
imagine it easily. So, try to combine English with your real life. For example,
like many teachers said, using google to find pictures is a good way to
understand words, and write ALL English in your notebook.
Second, I
personally think that learning is divided into three parts, 20％theory, 60％ operation (little
different with practice), 20％ feedback. You
can have no theory, you can have no feedback, but you can’t have no actual
operation. Operation is not what we do in our class, because in the class, we
are learning how to use English, not are actually using English, one is
“learning to use”, another is “use”. The way that things are often recorded in
our brain is linked with emotion, it’s why many people say that the best way to
learn a language is living in the place where no one understand your language,
why? Because you combine your language learning with a real emotional
connection of real life, I don’t believe that anyone would think learning how
to memorize in class is a very important thing in their life . On the contrary, if you don’t know this word “diving”, and we go
diving, then the word will be firmly remembered in your mind, I have tried many
kinds of words-recite methods, the best way that I found is to ask beautiful strangers who you don’t know to pronounce the unknown word for you. Trust me;
you will never forget this word.
Don’t study in English, LIVE in English.
In addition,
those exercises and dialogues in the class, you don’t need to take the outcome
of the failure of the dialogues, that is not the actual operation. The
so-called operation is what you really need to use English for the real
purposes, just like you see a doctor, if you don’t know how to speak your
problem, then you need to bear the outcome of the illness, or you could
talk with someone who really doesn’t understand your native language. If you
don’t know how to say, you can’t achieve the purpose of communication, there is
a purpose and consequences behind these acts and communication. Learning in the
classroom is not like it, even if you say something wrong, your teachers will
correct you and they will not mess up your purpose (because you don’t have any
purpose). No purpose, No emotion connection, No outcome of acts. Something that
you do in the classroom mostly can only be regarded as theory establish, and
theory part, only 20 %.
Finally, I
believe that the most important part to learn is to figure out your motives, establish
the specific target, and let yourself become target-oriented. Constantly
question your learning process, and ask yourself the meaning of existence of
each class. Three stages of learning are necessary, the first one is to establish
the theory and the second one is the method of operation in classroom, and the
last one is to operate your theory in real life. The outcome or consequence of
these operations will become your feedback (and also by exams). Feedback is more
important than we usually think, it can let we know what the position now we
are at now and figure out the gap between ourselves and what the targets
that we want. Also it’s necessary to use the feedback to adjust our
theory we built at first, then re-run this loop(theory、operation、feedback), the
faster you run and finish this cycle once, the faster you improve your learning
efficienctly, finally your theory will become better and better. Well, it’s
they’re just my theories, maybe they’re not suitable to others, but anyway, I still
believe everyone should build their own theory to learn Engilish by themselves.
There’s a saying
that the Japanese do not usually say their opinions, but I'm not a polite and
modest Japanese hahaha……I have poor grammar in English, please forgive me.
Rum
以上英文版，感謝 周正峰 幫我修正我超破的文法。
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