The road of to learning English.

“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.” Lee Iacocca.

As my promise a few day ago, I would like to start writing English. This is my first trial try in this blog. No matter how what difficulties I encounter I really like want to treat this learning journey as for my improvement. A journey is always better when it is shared. With some readers or even feedback gained which we can discuss what you read and bounce ideas off each other. You do feel free to write back to me either English or Chinese.

To be a competent English speaker is has been one of my dreams since my childhood. I still remember that I got only got the nine marks on my English test in F.2. And later on, there were countless failures of in my English learning over the last 30 years. I don’t Not to say that I am very poor on at it now. However, I know I can do it better and wanna want (wanna is slang for "want to") to achieve a professional level – which is my personal pursuit.

Although there were lots of methods I ‘ve tied tried, I don’t haven't given up. If one method gets one consequence, to get a different one should have require a different start. So now I am doing a massive lot of (massive sounds strange in this context) English writing and frequently reading. Then, transferring those ideas to some English speaking tasks, such as Macau Toastmasters meeting ( – English Public speaking Club in Macau) , using more English in my training. “Practice makes better” which is my motto.

As a trainer, I often urge my participants learning some English. Here come the blockers they shared:

l China will be a strongest in the near future, master mandarin is a must, not English.

l I don’t have time.

l Without any English environment

l Why do I need to learn English in Asia?

l Why do I have to say English to Chinese people?

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Indeed, we can create many barriers to stop our forwarding, not only learning English. Recently, I came up my mind one question

“What are major drawbacks when I can master English?”

Sorry, I think nothing, even one disadvantage.

Most of time we are enjoying in a comfort zone, because there is no fear or pressure. To me, escaping to learn English is only a case.


The second question I would like to say – “ Like vs still like “
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Think about it, is there any interest or habit, which you are still keeping over many years? Probablly, not many. I like jogging and reading almost 30 years. When I was 6 year old, my father brought me to a park nearby and forced me to run for 15 minutes. That was a really miserable experience. I h