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为什么要重视新闻英语 -|Hi－Jo 发表于 2008-6-19 10:44:00


对中级水平的学生，我历来推荐使用音频(包括视频）的新闻英语学习、教学。为什么？

首先是听力训练。英语要从耳朵开始，我不知道已经说了多少遍，也许一些读者已经接受。不接受的，以后也要接受。不从这里开始，只有哑巴英语。

第二，新闻容易获得。有电台，有电视，有Podcast，很多都有下载的段落，而且发音地道清晰。有无文字（transcript)，倒在其次。

第三，新闻有连续性、重复性，对语言学习，尤其重要。

第四，有新颖性、兴趣性，容易引起兴趣和讨论。

第五，相对简单，至少结构上，比较简单。

第六，内容信息量大，单词量丰富。

第七，可以学到知识。时事也好，科技、时尚也好，都可以和社会同步。

第八，用mp3或电脑，都方便复习、模仿的训练。

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- Excerpted from http://blog.zhuhai.gd.cn/user1/elmlab/archives/2008/3553.html (now defunct) in around 2008

- Recycled in 2011

The Chinese proficiency of so many native Americans and Canadians who are not Chinese descendants has become so good and native.

Gee.

(Pic from http://goo.gl/iFaRD)

You know what? All those exceedingly complicated organization and interactions of global economic activities belittle individual efforts and undertakings wretchedly.

Another fact is,

a myriad of young people in the U.S. feel wretched about their prospects. They don't think they have a bright future, in the so-called 'land of opportunities'.

As a matter of fact,

last several decades have also seen the CONTINUOUS DECREASING of median annual real income of middle class American workers. Ah, what wretchedness.

In the U.S. and Canada, last several decades have seen that workers' loyalty to their employers becomes wrecked.

Well, but who was disloyal to whom at first?

Microsoft seems to have been banished from the media spotlight.

Christianity and Buddhism are the two most popular religions that the human kind possesses.

The scriptures of the former were written in ancient times in Hebrew and ancient Greek. And the scriptures of the latter were written in Sanskrit and ancient Chinese.

I don't know much about the two religions. And I know nothing about the above mentioned languages, except for ancient Chinese, to a quite limited extent.

Perhaps some bosses, who still hold Chinese citizenship, of Chinese companies not owned by the government will begin to emigrate overseas momentarily.

Farewell, my friend. Good luck.

Have you ever heard those incantatory hymns sung in churches?

They have real effects on people.

"四依四不依"

"所谓四依与四不依，即： (一)依法不依人。(二)依了义经不依不了义经。(三)依义不依语。(四)依智不依识。（了义经，说示究竟显了之义之经典也。不了义经，谓隐覆实义，而为方便之说，不明了开显法性实义经典。） "

- 佛家语

The timeout functionality of the Chrome browser is interesting.

(Pic from http://goo.gl/jAeFZ)

It is said that mobile micropayments will be insinuated, or ushered, into people's daily life in the U.S. and Canada.

Well, Japan leads the league, for years already, certainly.

My impression has been that in the management tiers of big American companies,

every single participant nearly strains every sinew to maintain his position and compete in advancing a career in a vast organization. It's a tough life, actually.

Sigh. I've seen so many people in China having been wrecked by the great changes of the time.