New year, new wishes! I would like to make wishes. Making wishes is like setting goals or reminding yourself what you want at that particular time of your life.
I bought a French novel last Saturday. Bingo! One of my wishes is to master French. (Of course, I also have other wishes and subwishes.) I remember that my English was improved rapidly after I read a series of books titled "The Famous Five". This is a curiosity-driven way of learning a language. As you keep wondering what happens next in a novel, it pushes you to look up dictionary to find the meaning of those new words. As looking up dictionary is a tiresome job, you will try to remember as many words as possible so as to reduce the frequency of looking up the dictionary. After staying in France for one year, I feel that I am somewhat used to the French grammar although I did not feel comfortable at the beginning. One linguistic professor says that, once you accept a language, you can learn it fast.
I bought a French novel last Saturday. Bingo! One of my wishes is to master French. (Of course, I also have other wishes and subwishes.) I remember that my English was improved rapidly after I read a series of books titled "The Famous Five". This is a curiosity-driven way of learning a language. As you keep wondering what happens next in a novel, it pushes you to look up dictionary to find the meaning of those new words. As looking up dictionary is a tiresome job, you will try to remember as many words as possible so as to reduce the frequency of looking up the dictionary. After staying in France for one year, I feel that I am somewhat used to the French grammar although I did not feel comfortable at the beginning. One linguistic professor says that, once you accept a language, you can learn it fast.
Each time I learn a foreign language, I recall a Chinese great master JI Xianlin's words, "Cultural exchange is the main drive for humankind's progress. Only by learning from each other's strong points to make up for shortcomings can people constantly progress, the ultimate target of which is to achieve a kind of Great Harmony".
So look forward to the day that I can write blogs in French. Bingo! That is one of my subwishes.
