编者按： 我们都知道，要想真正学好英语，坚持很重要。英语学习“不怕慢，只怕站。”而要想改变“哑巴英语“的状况，就要改变学习方式和学习习惯。网络如此发达的今天，很多“早起鸟”已经把各种在线学习资源都利用了起来。家长和孩子足不出户，就可以与世界的另一端进行有趣的对话，这是互联网时代最神奇和可贵的地方。在此，我推荐一个沪江网的学习软件CCtalk，里面有很多免费的外语角和外教公开课，相信只要你愿意花时间，一定会有收获。
对我而言，在非母语的环境下去培养英语思维最常用、有效的方法就是通过结交母语为英语的外国朋友，平时用英文交流思想和分享生活点滴。为了鼓励我的学生们努力学习英语，提高他们的听力和口语能力，每学期伊始，我都会请国外的一些朋友录视频或音频给他们。下面给大家分享的是一位来自美国的男生录制的视频，听听他对学英语这件事有什么看法。
音频视频来源： John（美国）
听译：杨立娟 校译: 一宁
Hello，Mrs. Lijuan’s Class! My name is John Locke. I am originally from Texas, currently residing in Toronto, Ontario Canada, trying to get into the University of Toronto here. I’m a small business owner and manager of Locke Capital LLC, which is a private equity investment management firm.
立娟的学生们，你们好！ 我叫约翰·洛克，来自德克萨斯，现居加拿大安大略省多伦多市，准备申请进入多伦多大学学习。我创办了一家小型私人股权投资管理公司——洛克资本，并在里面担任经理职务。
And your teacher asked me to make this video to encourage you to do well this year in Mrs. Lijuan’s class. Mrs. Lijuan and I are pretty good friends. We’ve known each other for over six years, but only just recently reconnected. And I know definitely that she is probably one of the greatest English teachers you’ll ever have. Her command of the English lexicon is superb. So you should really feel fortunate to have her as an instructor this year for your English class. I want to really encourage all of you to invest yourselves fully in learning English this year because English is one of the pre-eminent languages of the world and fast becoming a universal language. That’s pretty much everyone has to know. So it’s very important that everyone learns English.
你们的老师邀请我录制这段视频来鼓励你们在这一学年里好好学习。我和立娟相识已有六年多，算得上是好朋友了，不过也是最近才重新取得联系的。我敢肯定她应该是你们最好的英语老师之一。她能对英语词汇运用自如。所以今年由她来教你们英语，你们应该感到幸运。在此，我由衷地鼓励你们全身心投入到英语学习中去，众所周知，英语是世界上最重要的语言之一，也在迅速地成为全球通用语言，所以学好英语至关重要。
I’ll have you know, to balance it out, I myself am trying to learn, kind of pathetically, Chinese. I’m not really progressing as quickly as I’d like to, but Lijuan is ever so patient, which I am very grateful for. Ok, so that pretty much sums it up. I just wanted to encourage all of you to try your hard this year in Mrs. Lijuan’s class because English rocks and so does Mrs. Lijuan. So, booya, y’all have fun for the rest of the year. Byebye!
告诉你们吧，在你们学习英文的同时，我也在努力地学习中文，虽然学的不太好。我的进步没有想要的那么快，但是立娟一直以来都对我颇有耐心，对此我深表感激。好了，我要说的就是这些了，借此鼓励你们所有人在立娟老师的课上能够竭尽所能，因为英语真的很棒，立娟老师也很棒。希望你们在接下来的日子里学习愉快。再见！
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