A Tip for Learning Foreign Language As a language learner, I'm always trying to improve and upgrade my learning approach. Recently, I find an important rule which may make my learning of English (or any other foreign language) more efficiently: strike a balance between INPUT and OUTPUT of the language you're learning. The INPUT of foreign language refers to the learning of any new words, phrases or sentences you read in books or hear in radio or TV programs. The OUTPUT means the practicing that you use the new words, phrases or sentences in your writing or speaking. Keeping a balance between INPUT and OUTPUT means you shall proportionally allocate your learning efforts and time to those two processes, otherwise, you won't achieve high learning efficiency. If you only focus on INPUT, you may know the meaning of those new words and phrases, but you're not able to internalize them as your expression; on the contrary, if you spend too much time on OUTPUT while making light of INPUT, your speaking and writing would not be genuine enough, or in other words, you're thinking in your native language and then translate it into the foreign language. Such translated responses, due to lack of natural expressions, may confuse the native speaker of that foreign language. After years of learning English, I have made many mistakes breaking the balance between INPUT and OUTPUT. So I want to share this tip with anyone who wishes to improve his/her approach of learning a foreign language and hope it would be of help to you. Suni GONG