How to Learn English

It is somewhat strange that a Taiwan wrote an article like this.

Recently, our department hired a Taiwanese, whose age was 24 or so. She speaks very good English.

I asked her why. She said that after her college graduation, she joined a drama show as a actress to promote Christian in the USA. To let audience understand what she said, she cannot have her own accient. Americans around her taught her a lot about how to speak, how to let American audience understand her.

In order to have a better performance, she also needed to memorize all the conversations. After one year of training and show, she came back to Taiwan.

I heard that why Taiwanese cannot speak as Americans was because no one corrects what you said during your learning. To speak as a native, you need to have "parents" to teach you how to talk like your childhood. When we learn English, we cannot find anyone to teach us like to teach a child. That's why we always have our own accent in speaking English.

2005/08/01