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对付中国人来讲，从小到大学英语必定是少不了的。
中国人学外语英语的热忱，也不是近来才有，若是掀开汗青的册页，就会发明晚清民国以来，中国人进修外语的热忱就一向飞腾，这类热忱暗地里有壮大的念头，就是“睁眼看世界”。由于外语是东西，是咱们领会世界的方法和路子。
在中国事情和糊口了30多年的老潘，作为一个母语是英语的“老外”，天然也会碰到不少热忱的中国人，想要跟他进修英语。老潘有丰硕的MBA课程讲授履历，可他却仍是感慨本身是个“失败的”英语教员，这是咋回事呢？
老潘来信全文
Many Chinese seem to assume that any native English speaker can easily teach English but that’s not true, even as not every Chinese can teach Chinese. Teaching is a profession and a skill, and taken to the level of people like New Channel’s David Symington, it becomes an art. I learned from experience that I’m not a good English teacher.
很多中国人彷佛认为所有以英语为母语的人均可以轻松地教英语，实在其实不是如许，就像不是每一个中国人都能教汉语同样。讲授是一种职业，也是一种技术，若是到达像新航道的斯明诚那样的程度，它就酿成了一种艺术。我的履历让我发明我其实不是一个好的英语教员!
斯明诚与孩子们
In the early 1990s, four Xiamen University laborers asked me to teach them English each day at lunch. “I’ve never taught English,” I said. “I don’t know how.”
上世纪90年月初，厦门大学的四个工人让我天天在午饭时候教他们英语。“我从没教过英语，”我说。“我不晓得怎样教。”
“Just follow a textbook,” they said. I hated to disappoint them, so I naively agreed, though I wondered how English would benefit them. You don’t need a foreign language to wield a hoe or a shovel.
他们说：“只要依照教科书的请求授课就好了。”我不想让他们绝望，以是我无邪
地赞成了，但我很想晓得进修英语对他们有甚么益处，究竟结果你不必要一门外语来挥动锄头或铲子。
For over a month, they came to my office each day at noon and we went through the very basic English text I’d bought at the Foreign Language bookstore, but they made very little progress. After about six weeks, the students ended the class, and being polite Chinese, they blamed themselves, not their teacher. “We are sorry that we are such poor students,” they said.
一个多月来，他们天天午时都来我的办公室，咱们一块儿浏览我在外文书店买的根本英文讲义，但他们没甚么前进。约莫六周后，这些学生们决议竣事课程，作为有礼貌的中国人，他们指责本身，而不是指责教员。“对不起，咱们是低劣的学生！”他们说。
I also apologized for being such a poor teacher. For several years, I felt badly about my 4 English students and I wondered what became of them. And 5 years later, one of them showed up on my doorstep with a large gift of Zhangzhou fruits—pomelo, and Tianbao bananas—and invited me to visit a new home he 
had just built for his family in the countryside.
我为本身糟的英语讲授而深感抱愧。曩昔几年，一想到这四位学生，我就心生歉意，不晓得他们过得怎样样了。5年后，他们中的一个带着一大包漳州瓜果，内里有柚子和天宝香蕉，呈现在我的门口，并约请我去观光他在屯子建的新居。
I was astonished at the size and beauty of the home, with its traditional Minnan red brick and stone, and a large courtyard in the center. I wondered how on earth a laborer could afford it, but he explained, “I was a poor English student, but you at least had enough faith in us to try teaching us, and that gave me confidence. I took night classes in accounting, received my certificate, got a job, worked very hard, was promoted several times. And thanks to you, I built this home for my family. We’ve never had a home like this before. So even though I was a poor English student, your time was not entirely wasted.”
我对这座屋子的范围和标致感触诧异，它由传统的闽南红砖和石头组成，在中心有一个大天井。我不晓得一个工人怎样能包袱得起，他诠释说：“我英语很差，但最少您对咱们有足够的信念，对咱们不抛却，这给了我极大的自傲。厥后我加入了夜校的管帐课程，拿到了证书，而且找到了相干的职位，我事情很是尽力，还屡次得到提升。多亏了您，我才能为我的家人制作这个家！咱们还没住过这么好的屋子。以是，虽然我英语没学好，但您曾花在我身上的时候彻底没有挥霍！”
He laughed. “Maybe someday my son can go to college and then teach me English after I retire.”
他笑着说：“或许有一天我的儿子有机遇上大学，等我退休后，便可以跟他学英语了！”
Visiting that young man’s home was one of the biggest highlights of my 36 years in China. And it taught me to never underestimate anyone—especially a Chinese Dreamer! He dreamed of learning English and failed, in large part because he had a very poor English teacher—but that did not stop him from dreaming.
造访这位年青人的家是我在中国36年来最深入的影象之一！永久不要低估任何人，特别是一其中国的空想家！他空想进修英语，但没学会，很大水平上是由于他的英语教员很差——但这并无阻拦他的空想。
It also taught me to not underestimate myself. Even today I can’t teach English—at least not like Englishman David Symington—but I can help people in other ways.
这也教会了我不要低估本身。即便到今天，我也不会教英语——最少不克不及像英国人斯明诚那样。但我可以用其他方法帮忙他人。
A Fujian farmer in a remote valley once told me, “With billions of people in the world, it is 缘分 (fate) that you and I should meet.” How true. Each day, 缘分 brings new people into our lives, and as iron sharpens iron, we can help each other.
一名在遥远山谷里的福建农夫曾对我说：“世界上有几十亿人，你我相遇便是缘分！”说得很对！每天，缘分都让咱们碰见新的朋侪，就像铁片在互相磨擦中会变得尖锐同样，咱们可以在互相帮忙中获得晋升。
不忘初心!
比年来，跟着中国国力加强，国际职位地方正渐渐晋升，进修汉语的外国人愈来愈多。咱们再也不消追赶美国梦，学英语彷佛变得没那末急迫了。
不少人也许更会疑难：“咱们如今学英语是为了甚么呢？”
也许看完老潘的这封信，你会有一个谜底：咱们都是中国追梦人。
之前咱们学英语是为了进修更先辈的理念和技能，但如今，跟着中国的壮大，咱们的糊口更好了，此时的中国青少年更是肩负了一份责任：为中国发声，让世界领会中国。
詹天助曾说“各出所学，各尽所知，使国度强盛不受外侮，足以自主于地球之上”。
今天的中国活着界的话语权仍然亟待提高，若何才能为中国发声，这是中国青少年走出国门，走向世界必需把握的能力。
中国文化就是最有力的兵器，让中国文化经由过程中国故事传布出去：孔子的思惟、中国四大发现的伶俐、《诗经》的魅力、扶贫攻坚的丰富功效、日月牙异的成长、幸福的糊口……
信赖在老潘的影响和动员下，“用英语讲中国故事”的步队将不竭强大，会有愈来愈多的人介入此中，向世界讲好中国故事。返回搜狐，检察更多
