[分享] 為什麼台灣覺得英文難

[Kare112233 (鋼筆)]

Hi there I am Kare
I am a Taiwanese oversea student currently studying in Singapore
I am here to share some observation that I have made for the past 7 years

English like Chinese is one of the most widely used language of around the wor
ld
But Taiwanese seems to struggle with it, I had not only heard once or twice th
at my friends' complaining  about the difficulty of English and having trouble
 to soak it into the mighty brain of ours

Here are some reasons I think as of why.

1. Difficulty in defining words

In English we have to Define what we say
Especially a specific word we use. For example " I am Home ", base on this sen
tence you cannot fully explain where am I, I could be at airport of my homelan
d or at my own house or at where I was born, and because I did not define "hom
e" or elaborate on the sentence result in a chaotic confusion.
When there is a Confusion we would try not to touch it, try not to understand
it

Despite that in Chinese we also have to define word but unlike English, Chines
e word usually have a more specific meaning attach to the word, which we could
 have a picture of it when we think of it, but English is a language that was
formed from many different civilization considering that English is not a nati
ve language. This is the main different

More in Chinese we describe big as 大 but in English?
Etc : Humongous, huge, gigantic, large. All these words is replacement of big.
 And you have to know at least a few so that when you need to explain them you
 know what it is

After talking about the cause I need to define "define"
I believe, in English, to define is to explain and elaborate a meaning of the
word.

Especially in an argumentative,
If I give a title : Should Student have a boyfriend and girlfriend relationshi
p?
In this case you have to define 3 things : students, girl-boy friend , relatio
nship so as to talk about it, but the problem lies here how do we define in En
glish?

To tackle this kind of confusion you can solve it by understanding English, wh
ich is understand the meaning and know how to use but not just memorize what i
t means and how it was spelt
You have to know if a word is a noun，verb，adjective or adverb. Trust me more
 than 50% of the people cannot identify it.

2. Pronunciation / Afraid of Speaking Eng / Non- English Speaking background

To learn a Language it not simply just to memorize it, this category falls at
oral skill,  to proudly say that you speak a certain tongue you must have the
ability to write and speak and even understand that language. But in Taiwan or
 I should Chinese English Learner we are afraid and not capable of speaking En
glish. I summed up a few points

A. We are afraid we pronounce some words wrong and we would get mocked with
B. We are not sure if our Accent is some sort of funny
C. We do not speak English at home at School or at any other places

And in Taiwan oral skill has been neglected which is a big blockade in Learnin
g a language. Imagine the word 美麗 and imagine you do not know how to read th
at word but you know the word base on the look itself, trust me, you are not g
onna go far in learning Chinese. Project it to English the word beauty if you
only know the look of it but you don't know how it is Pronounced you gonna hav
e problem in a conversation. Language is something you can use quite often in
real life unlike Sin Cos Tan. If you cannot use a language that you learnt in
real life you do not need to consider yourself learning, perhaps a reader who
does not know what he himself is reading

To tackle this problem is the hardee it requires high amount of effort and bas
ic memorizing use a dictionary on how every alphabet is pronounced and practic
e it everyday until you get it to the tip of your finger and then start to lea
rn how to pronounce a full word and slowly build up the speed of learning woul
d directly proportional in a increasing manner.

3. Chinese way of thinking

We are too used to Chinese writing style that we will often brought it into En
glish for example 現在幾點 we might say " what time is it?", but the correct w
ay of speaking is saying " What is the time now?"

To tackle this little problem just remember the way you write your English Ful
l Name
Let say if my name is 張小華 to write my name in English it is Xiaohua Zhang/C
hang
So project it back 現在幾點
現在 - now
幾點 - time
And it become : what is the time now

English is a worldwide language if you can hold it in your hand, a higher chan
ce that you would do great and have a bright future

Thank you for your attention

以上皆是個人觀點

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→ DarkD: Maybe redo proofreading and layout...
Sorry has a rush on posting it
was sleepy
推 jjump: 謝謝分享,我覺得主要問題出在教育方式,當台灣國高中英文課
→ jjump: 永遠只是著重在背單字,文法與重閱讀,聽寫說都被忽略了...
→ jjump: 只要我們的教育模式與思想不改,真的很難進步,因為學語文到
→ jjump: 最後,都變成了要應付考試,國高中6年天天碰英文,老實說程度
→ jjump: 應該不會這麼差才是...
When I read what my friend is writing
I found out that
They have a knowledge on English
But they do not know how to use a word correctly
and when I try to teach them to speak english
Problems appear
They cannot get a pronounciation right
or at least I have to keep on repeating it
→ DarkD: 不同意...如果連字彙跟閱讀都沒有基礎，聽說寫也很難好
→ DarkD: 奇時真的很難衡量。每個人天賦，投入，目的都不同
To talk about this
I have to admit
Yes you need a certain amount of Vocab
however just vocab is not enough
A lot of Discipline is needed
it not like any other subject
that you can Memorize a formula
and use it Everywhere
推 kee32: 一樓讚！
推 kee32: And, please something real about language teaching and
→ kee32:  learning. don't just think you know it
→ kee32: read something real
I believe experience is a good teacher
推 chromium123: 小朋友就像海綿一樣，教啥就會啥，學不好，當然是老
→ chromium123: 師和教材爛。結果他們卻賴到學生
→ chromium123: 不努力。拜託，臺灣學生很用功的。
→ Kare112233: 我只是在說在學習上缺失的東西 導致學英文的困難
→ Kare112233: 我是手機拍版-。-
→ Kare112233: Kee32 這就是在說少教了哪些
→ Kare112233: 語言是很難教 我不否認
→ Kare112233: 但是台灣也懶的想方法教
→ Kare112233: 就是單字ㄧ直背 sentence structure 爛到爆
→ wohtp: I mostly do not object to what you said here, but
→ wohtp: please learn to properly punctuate your sentences...
→ wohtp: People are very quick to dismiss you when they see that
→ wohtp: you can't even use comma properly.
Handphone layout is a B1tch
推 kee32: 你在第一線看過，觀察過，再講這些還不遲
推 priv: 想當然爾很容易，台灣英文教育不算差，真的
→ priv: 很現實就是台灣不說英文，再怎麼提倡都有個極限
→ priv: 教材、老師再好只能領進門，學生願意花的時間就那樣
→ priv: 現在學生要學的東西很多，你說英文重要，每科也認為自己很重
→ priv: 要
→ priv: 台灣英語程度從來就不是學校教育的問題，問題在你下課後還願
→ priv: 意花多少時間，畢了業還願意花多少時間
→ priv: 語言作為一種技能，是培養出來的，本來教不是說上完幾堂課就
→ priv: 一定有多強的能力
語言是極需Self-Discipline的
不管甚麼語言都是
我了解你說的
我承認錯想了台灣教育
我其實應該把這篇分享那些在外學英文的華人
而不是台灣本土
→ Kare112233: 其實我在文章裡也有提到 non-english speaking fam
※ 編輯: Kare112233 (111.240.218.164), 12/17/2014 23:12:24
→ kee32: 我實在不知道,學哪樣東西,Self-Discipline不重要?
→ kee32: 你把學習的通則,拿來套到學英文或學語言上,就明顯是外行
→ kee32: 你乾脆說,學語言是需要花時間的.廢話,學哪樣東西不需要?
推 andrenvq57: 看不下去 超爛文法 還handphone勒
推 DarkD: 我覺得可能系統英文沒學到ㄧ定程度，然後英文大部分是從生
→ DarkD: 活和對話中擷取，文章只部份片語貌似道地，但其實似是而非
→ DarkD: 句構，或者我們說的grammar更是導致你這篇文不讓人信服
→ DarkD: 很多地方的謬誤不是手機PO文能解釋的...
推 kee32: 講難聽點，就是喝過點洋墨水的孩子以為自己是英語教學專家
→ kee32: 。
推 god1200102: 只有abc或是國外長大的敢說英文好吧。後來學的根本上
→ god1200102: 就很難完美。
推 kee32: 把目標放在完美,就不用學了
推 Navarro: 讀起來有點像高中作文練習應該能拿18.5/20
→ iamsolotrave: 就完全是看有沒有願意與努力學而已
→ iamsolotrave: 就像我們的國語&中文那麼難  還是有以英語為母語的
→ iamsolotrave: 美國人學得很好
→ iamsolotrave: 也有美國人在台灣超過十年了  就是不學
→ iamsolotrave: 台灣人學習英語的情況也差不多啦
→ iamsolotrave: 有的人就是不願意好好地學
→ iamsolotrave: 有的人沒去過英語系國家  英語聽說讀寫都精通
→ iamsolotrave: 所以  完全是看個人
→ kee32: 歸因於個人努力，等於是廢話