Learning Foreign Languages
In schools all over the world boys and girls are learning foreign languages. Many adults are doing so in their spare time. Everybody knows his own language, but to know another is very useful.
Which is the best way to learn a language? We should remember we all learnt our own language well when we were children. If we could learn a second language in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. Think what a small child does. It listens to what people say and tries to imitate what it hears. When it wants something, it has to ask for it. It is using the language. It is talking and thinking in it all the time. If one has to use a second language all the time, he would learn it quickly.
It is important to remember, also, that we learn our own language by hearing people speaking it not by seeing what they write. We imitate what we hear. In school, though you learn to read and write as well as to hear and speak, it is best to learn all new words through the ear. Of course you also learn to read them, spell them and write them.
學(xué)習(xí)外語
世界各地的學(xué)校中孩子們都在學(xué)習(xí)外語。很多成年人在業(yè)余時間也在學(xué)習(xí)外語。每人都懂自己的母語，但知道另一門語言也非常有用。
學(xué)習(xí)外語最好的方法是什么呢?我們應(yīng)當(dāng)記得我們是孩子的時候，自己的母語都學(xué)得非常好。如果我們能以同樣的方式學(xué)習(xí)第二種語言，那看起來就不會這么難了。想想小孩是怎樣做的。孩子聽人們說話然后設(shè)法模仿聽到的東西。當(dāng)他需要什么東西的時候，必須去要。他是在使用語言。他一直在用語言說話和思考。如果一個人必須始終使用第二語言，他就會學(xué)得很快。
而且，記住我們學(xué)習(xí)母語時是通過聽別人說話而不是看別人寫字，這也很重要。我們模仿我們聽到的。 學(xué)校中，雖然你除了學(xué)習(xí)聽說，還學(xué)習(xí)讀寫，但學(xué)習(xí)所有新單詞最好是通過耳朵。當(dāng)然你也要學(xué)會閱讀、拼寫和寫作。
