What are the great benefits of learning English? There is no doubt that this is a difficult problem that different people have different opinions. I have sorted out why Chinese people want to learn English. Please refer to it.
Why do Chinese learn English
English has made Ma Yun a big man
In order to learn English, Ma Yun often went out to be a free tour guide for foreigners. This is not enough. Sometimes he even runs to the door of some hotels frequented by foreigners and deliberately yells English with very irregular pronunciation. Foreigners passing by often come and correct him with interest... Ma Yun said that he has tried this method repeatedly.
In this way, he persisted for nine years.
In the year of his teens, an Australian couple paid for Ma Yun to visit Australia for a while in order to thank him for his selfless help during his stay in China. Since then, he has his own English name Jack. After returning home, Ma Yun seemed to be a different person. He seemed out of place to communicate with the people around him and became a different kind. More than ten years later, Ma Yun recalled this experience and said: before going abroad, I always thought China was the greatest country in the world. We want to liberate the world... When I came back, I found that the world wanted to liberate us.. This is the beginning of a change in my world outlook.
Many people know that Ma Yun graduated from Hangzhou Normal University, majoring in English, but how many people know that Ma Yun's English level was already perfect before he went to College (this is a irony to college education). In fact, if it weren't for English, he couldn't have been admitted to college, let alone Alibaba. Because of his poor math, he took the college exam for three years.
Because of his excellent English, Ma Yun was entrusted by the Hangzhou municipal government to go to the United States to collect debts. As a result, a foreigner forced him on the head with a gun... Fortunately, the foreigner just knocked him unconscious with the butt of his gun. But it was this experience that brought him into contact with the Internet for the first time. At that time, the Internet had developed for many years in the United States, but it had just started in China. After returning home, Ma Yun began to invest in the Internet business, first China yellow pages, and then Alibaba...
In fact, it's not just Ma Yun
Li Ka Shing's first pot of gold was earned from his plastic flower business. It seems that it has nothing to do with English. But who knows that he was the first to see the introduction of plastic flowers from an English magazine.
Huo Yingdong's first pot of gold began with an auction and seems to have nothing to do with English. But... At that time, shortly after Japan's defeat, the British Hong Kong government held a large number of seized Japanese warships and other materials, and the Hong Kong government decided to auction them. So the auction announcement was published in an English newspaper, but the Chinese newspaper was ignored. Due to the influence of Japanese aggression, the number of British people in Hong Kong was very limited at that time, and many Chinese did not understand English... Huo Yingdong happened to see the auction news... He got some supplies at a very low price. His first pot of gold is the price difference after reselling these materials.
The world is not as big as English nationality
Despite these people, English is the most popular language in the world. The 53 countries in the Commonwealth headed by the queen of England cover almost all developed regions except Western Europe and the United States. In fact, English is also widely used in the United States and many Western European countries. In a word, English covers almost all the developed regions in the world! There is no doubt that English also carries the most advanced knowledge, technology and culture in the world.
Why learn English from an early age?
We who have been walking on the road of English enlightenment will have doubts in our hearts. Why do we want our children to learn English from primary school? Although some parents have sent their babies to training institutions, they do not have a thorough understanding of the advantages of their children's English from primary school. Every child has extraordinary language talent, but do we parents and teachers protect, dig and make it shine. Over time, children have missed the golden age of language learning, and these gorgeous talents have been erased bit by bit.
So what is the golden age for children to learn English?
From birth, development to growth, there is an age group in which children are more likely to accept and learn language than other age groups. This age group is also known as the "best time" for children to learn English - that is, the age of 4-12!
According to research, there is a special area in the human brain responsible for learning language - Broca's area. Broca area begins to develop rapidly at the age of 2-4 and matures at the age of 10-12. During this period, the language stored by children will be considered as "mother tongue", that is, learning English can help children better accept, master and even quote.
Since then, with age, after the age of 12, the sensitivity of Broca area shows a downward trend, and most people's "Broca" area will be closed. For language learning and use, it is no longer as flexible as the "best period".