閱讀--學習英語最重要的途徑

What and how to read

如何讀、讀什麼

Reading, the most important way to learn english

閱讀---學習英語最重要的途徑

Before you can start speaking and writing in english, your brain must get enough correct english sentences. You can’t speak english if you have never seen an english sentence in your life. This is obvious. And you can’t speak english well if you have not seen a large number of english sentences. There are two ways to get correct english sentences: listening and reading. Both are good, but reading is usually much easier than listening. With the help of a good dictionary, you will be able to understan english texts much more easily than, for example, english television or movies.

在你開始會用英語講，用英語寫之前，你的頭腦一定積累了不少正確的英語句子。如果你一生中從未見過任何英語句子，你就不會講，這是顯而易見。如果你沒有見過大量的英語句子，你就會講不好。有兩種方法積累英語句子：聽和讀。兩個都好。但是讀通常比聽更容易。有一本好字典幫助，你就比看英語電視、電影，更容易明白英語文章的意思。

What to read

You should always read english texts, which are at the “right level”. What does it mean? There should be some words that you don’t know, because you want to learn something. However, there shouldn’t be too many difficult words, because you don’t want to use your dictionary 10 times in one sentence.

你應該時刻讀一些水平適當的英文版的書。爲何？因爲應該有些你不懂的單詞，因爲你想學一些東西。然而，又不能有太多難懂的詞，因爲你不想一個句子要用上十次字典。

Here are the kinds of texts that you can read in english:

下面是一些值得一讀的英文書籍

A. literature. If normal books are too difficult for you, we recommend the penguin series. They include a lot of famous novels, witten in simple language.

如果平常的書對你來說太難，我們推薦企鵝系列叢書。他們包括很多有名的小說，語言也很簡樸。

B. science books. If you are interested in science, you can get great science books written in english. There are many famous english-speaking authors in many subjects, such as psychology, evolutionary biology, physics, or economics.

如果你對自然科學感興趣，你可以買到很多英文版的科普書。在許多領域，像一些心理學、進化生物學或者經濟、物理學或者經濟學，都有很多著名的英語國家的作家。

C. textbooks. If you’re studying at a college and you textbooks written by engish-speaking authors, you can get the original english versions. If you are learning a new computer language, you can use a book in english. You will learn your subject and english at the same time.

如果你在讀大學，你用的是英語國家的作者寫的課本，你就可以用到英文原版。如果你在學一門新的計算機語言，你可以用英文原版的書。這樣你就可以在學好你的科目的同時學習英語。

D. the web. On the world wide web you are completely free. You can read about every subject in the world, whatever interests you. Because you will often spend many hours surfing the web, you can also learn a lot of english.

上國際互聯網上你就可以完生自由。你可以閱讀世界上任何一個題材---任何使你感興趣的。如果你能花很多時間上網，你就可以學到很多的英語。

How to read

These great results come expecially quickly if you do three things when reading:

Pay attention to interesting things: new words, phrases, and grammar structures

關注那些有趣的事：新單詞、詞組、以及語法結構。

Use your dictionary to learn about those interesting things: the more you use your dictionary, you can write down all the interesting sentences, or you can undersline them in the book with a pencil. You can learn the words and grammar in these sentences later.

用字典去學習這些有趣的事：你的字典用得越多，你的進步就會越大。如果你不喜歡停下來去查一個新單詞，你就可以把這些有趣的句子寫下來，或者你可以在書上用鉛筆畫下劃線。你可以以後再去學習這些句子中的單詞和語法。

Add these interesting things to memo. This will give you everday contact with correct english. With a memo, you will not forget useful words and grammar. Because of this, you can build your knowledge very quickly.

把這些有趣的事抄在備忘錄上：這樣每天你就能接觸到準確的英語。有了備忘錄，你就不會忘記有用的單詞和語法了。由於這樣，你就可以很快增長你的知識了。