"After having studied English for ten years, I still can't use it." Such a sentence could be heard every time I went to the English corner in my university. It sounds ridiculous, but it is true. Are we too dull or too lazy to learn English? Of course, we are not. Then, what's wrong with our English study?
Many people complain that we don't have the language environment, but in my opinion, it is our education system that is to blame. In China, colleges choose students only by their scores on the National College Entrance Examination. As a result, the education system has become an examination-oriented system. Under this system, parents only care what scores their children get instead of how much knowledge they really have. The teachers only teach what is useful for getting high marks. As for English study, in order to prepare for all kinds of examinations, we always recite new words, memorize grammar rules, and do endless exercise, but never use it. That is the reason why we become deaf and dumb when we have to use English. However, it will take a long time to reform our education system. What we should do now is to hold in our mind this: the only purpose of studying English is to use it.
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