to a chinese, the task of learning english well is not easy. so i, like many other english learners, have met with difficulties in learning english during the past seven years. but i managed to overcome them and made much progress.
the spelling and meaning of words can be said to be the first difficulty i met as a beginner. but i found our my own way to deal with them. as to spelling, i never copied a new work again and again to remember it, but tried to find its relevance to the sound. in fact, as long as i can read the word out, i can write it out. as to the meaning, i rarely recite its chinese translation but often put the word into the sentence to learn its meaning. moreover, if you use a word quite often, its spelling and meaning will be no problem. after all, we are learning english in order to use it.
grammar and idioms may be another difficulty. but i have also got over it. i have not read lots of grammar books. but i spent much time reading the articles written by native speakers or specialists in english. by doing so, i came to gain “a sense of english language”. i began to gain a feel for which sentences are “good english” and which are not.
finally, i want to say that overcoming all these difficulties requires perseverance. in the past seven years i spent at least an hour on english each day. i believe this is an important reason why i am able to make progress in learning english.
