my experience of learning english

写一篇关于学习英语的英语作文

full was 100. I was happy and got myself enrolled by a well-known university, majoring in English. But I don’t think that score means much when I think of that score in later days because it really means nothing compared with the ability of spoken English and written English. Those are the real English, communicative English, while the English for exam weighs nothing in use. You don't speak it. You stutter it. You don't write it. You write simply, with the most simple diction such as run, go, come, do. Except these words, you use nothing more complicated. But no one told me how to solve these problems. And I didn’t realize anything. I just did as was told to by the teachers. I was in darkness, groping aimlessly. Nowadays, when I look back upon these days, I realize how stupid I was. I wasted a lot of time in my college. I was wasting my life. But this waste didn't stop when I graduated. It continued. Today, when I see the English majors learning English, I know they are wasting their life as I did 20 odds years ago. They don't have a method. They don't know the key to English. They even don't realize anything but just follow as are told to, just as I did many years ago.

After graduation, I landed a job, working as an editor. That provided me much free time to learn English. I often did it in my office. But is office the right place for study? No. Absolutely not. In an office, you are distracted very often. Sometimes one would come to you for help. Some other times, your boss would come in and you feel sad to let him find you reading something unrelated to your work. You are disturbed from time to time. But to keep your job, you have to accept this situation. I stayed there for two years and did something half-heartedly.

At last, I left the company. I found it a salvation. Working in another place without worrying about being disturbed when learning English is something great. So, in that period, I found myself improved greatly, not only in mood but also in study.

Not long after that, I got another job in a college, which is a great change for me. But that is not a change for my English learning. Nowadyas, when I reflect upon those days, I realized teaching English is nor related to learning English. These are two different things. Teaching, in some sense is just to impart some knowledge and methods of learning to the students. It doesn't mean you can improve your English by teaching. The following years' teaching proved everything. It's right. You can't improve your English by teaching English.