How to love learning English I
                 2006-10-08
            Improving your motivation
　

     Before you start reading, you should know this: Learning English requires action. You may know all the learning tips, but if you don't start doing things, you will achieve nothing. Therefore our method is not just for reading; it is for reading and doing.

     You need two things to learn English well — passion and effective learning methods — and passion is the more important one. Why? Because passion makes you want to learn English; the learning methods only tell you how to do it faster.

If you love learning English:
     You will do it regularly and spend more time on it.
Learning English will be easier for you. It will be easy for you to remember new words and grammar structures. It's because the brain easily remembers information on a subject that you like. (For example, some people like history and know everything about World War II. If you told a "normal person" to memorize all these facts, they would never do it.)
     We know you may not love learning English. And even if you love it, you will sometimes not want to do it. This is how human psychology works — sometimes we are so lazy, bored, and tired that we don't want to do even the things that we like.

Here is what you can do when you don't feel like learning English:

1.Imagine yourself in the future
     Imagine you can talk to native speakers just like you talk in your first language. Imagine other people wanting to speak English as well as you do. Imagine the possibility of writing e-mail to people from all over the world.

2.You should know that it is possible to learn English really well. Just look at other people who have done it.

3.Remember that you are already good
     You already know some English (you're reading an article in English right now). That's a big success! Now it's time for more successes. Time to start using powerful methods of effective learning. Time to gain an impressive knowledge of English.

4.Remember there is a lot that you don't know
     You are good, but your English probably isn't perfect. You probably can't understand English-language TV, read books in English, talk to native speakers easily, write letters without mistakes, etc.
     You should never think your English is perfect. Even if you are the best student in your class, always try to find your weak areas and work on them. When you've learned to speak English well, your problems will be quite small: punctuation, rarely used grammar structures, rare words, understanding "street language". Right now, your problems are probably more basic: mistakes in pronunciation, small vocabulary, grammar problems with the present perfect tense and conditional structures.

5.Use your English whenever you can
     This is very, very important. The more you use English, the more you will want to learn it.

     Because English is so popular, you can use it everywhere. You can use Yahoo to find English-language websites with interesting information, you can watch American cartoons, you can play adventure games on your computer, you can read interesting books in English, or you can do other things that we write about.

     If you do these things, you will not only have fun and learn English. If you see that a new English word lets you understand your favorite TV show (or communicate with people, or beat a computer game), you will want to learn more words. So you will learn English more, use it more, learn it more, use it more... If you also use effective learning methods, your English will grow faster than you can imagine.
　

译文：       怎样喜爱学习英语 (1)

               提高你学习英语的动力
     在你开始阅读以前，你应该知道这个：学习英语要求行动。你会知道所有学习的技巧，但是如果你没有开始做事情，你不会有成绩的。因此我们的方法是不要仅仅为了阅读，而是为了阅读和行动。
     你需要学习好两件事情--热情和有效的学习方法---而且热情是更重要的。为什么？因为热情使你想要学习英语；学习方法只是告诉你怎样做得更快。

如果你喜爱学习英语：
你将会定期地学习，并且花更多的时间在它上面。
学习英语对你来说会更容易。对你来说很容易记住新单词和语法结构。因为大脑容易记着关于你喜欢的某一主题的信息。（例如：有些人喜欢历史，并且知道关于第二次世界大战得所有的事情。如果你告诉你一个“正常的人”去记住所有的这些事实，他们决不会做到。）我们知道你也许不喜爱学习英语。而且即使你喜爱它，有时候你不想学习。这个就是人类心理状态怎样工作--有时候我们是如此得懒惰，无聊，厌倦以至于甚至是我们喜欢的事情我们也不想做。

当你不想学习英语的时候，你可以做什么:
1.设想你自己在未来
    设想你能象你用你的第一语言谈话那样和说母语的人交谈。设想其他的人们想要说英语说得和你一样好。设想给来自世界各地的人写电子邮件的可能性。
　

2.你应该知道真正学习好英语是有可能的。只要看看其他已经做到的    人。

3.记住你已经是好样的了
    你已经知道有些英语,那就是很大的成功！现在是为了更多的成功的时候了,是时间开始使用强力有效的学习方法的时候了,是时间获得一种给人深刻印象的英语知识的时候了。

4.记住有许多你不懂得的地方
     你是好样的，但是你的英语大概不是熟练的。你大概不能理解英语电视，阅读英语书籍，轻松地和说母语的人们交谈，写信没有错误，等等。
     你应该从不认为你的英语是熟练的。即使你在你的班级里面是最好的学生，总是试着去发现你的薄弱区域，继续学习它们。当你已经学习到熟练地说英语，你的问题会变得相当小：标点，很少用的语法结构，不常用的单词，理解“街头英语”。现在，你的问题大概更基础：发音上的错误，小词汇量，现在完成时的和条件句的结构的语法问题。

5.在你能使用英语的任何时候使用英语
    这个是非常，非常重要。你使用英语越多，你就会越想要学习它。
因为英语是如此的流行，你能使用英语在任何地方。你能使用雅虎来找到有令人感兴趣的信息的英语网站，你能看美国动画片，你能在你的电脑上玩冒险游戏，你能阅读有趣的英语书籍，或者你能做我们描述的其他事情。

    如果你做这些事情，你将不只会拥有乐趣，而且你会将英语学得很好。如果你在看你喜欢的电视节目中学到一个新的英语单词（或者和其他人能用英语交流，或者赢得一场英文的电脑游戏），你会想要学习更多的单词.因此你学习的英语越多，使用它越多，学习越多，使用地越多......如果你也使用有效的学习方法，你的英语将会比你能想象的提高得更快。
     同学们，不断努力吧！只要你喜爱英语，建立起对英语的兴趣，你就一定有能力将英文学好！