○  英语演讲:一个获奖者的英语学习之路  ○

after i came back from the “21st century-ericsson cup”7th national english speaking competition with the award of the “most promising speaker”, people kept asking me the same question over and over again. “how did you learn english, especially as a non-english major?” actually i believe that a hundred people would have a hundred of ways to learn english well. however, i would like to share my personal experience of english learning with those who have the enthusiasm for improve their english. since i have set up three mirrors in my prepared speech in hoping that they would guide our young generation on the way to globalization, i would like to maintain three mirrors here to reflect how i learned english.

the first mirror, i assume, should reflect a steady foundation. this involves my first few years of english learning, which i consider as the key factor of all my achievements in the years to follow. at that time i entered the middle school attached to xi’an jiaoton university, i could only say my abcs while others in my class could at least communicate in simple english. all the tales about the frightfulness of learning english then popped up in my mind and made me feel scared. fortunately my first english teacher was very experienced in enlightening her students on english learning. she was a kind woman with a charming smile. but her homework assignments were not easy task: they required us to read after the tape for 20 times and recite the whole text. so it was quite natural that most of my classmates only recited the short essay within a short time and then went to play. but my fear of not being able to say a single word, made me sit down and immerse myself in what the teacher had asked me to do.

before every english class we would have an on duty report to let the students say something according to what they had learned .my first presentation in class was to recite a dialogue. but to my g

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