Because of the siesta, I have no drowsiness though it is mid-night now. With a faint light filtering through the curtains, I can see everything in the room. Bovi must be having a nice dream, and his breath is calm.
I changed my user name of QQ into 牛儿红 yesterday. Three days ago, we quarreled about his old apartment, which is small and filthy. I really don't understand why he chose such a house. He always doesn't know how to take care of himself. It makes me worried about him all the time when I am not staying with him. I felt a little depression, so I went out and took a walk. Bovi followed up immediately. I tried to be quit of him, but he kept breast with me. "你就像一坛老酒!" he said. I knew it was an appreciation. My tears could not be gulfed any longer. That night, I had a new nickname--牛儿红. Bovi has been calling me 牛牛. There is a famous spirit named 女儿红 in China, which is earthed by the parents when the daughter is born and unearthed when the daughter gets married.
4.14.2009
RELOAD OS
When I was a sophomore, computer addicted me. I spent a lot of time on computer hardwares, and I refurbished a computer by myself. Later, I bring the computer home. Though the computer was not a very good computer, it could play most of computer games at that time and it was my treasure.
Two years flied, and the computer is out, I refurbished a new one for my father last November, and the old one, I wanted to reload OS as my study computer with which I can practise writing and reading. But when I opened the hosts, I found it was not my computer. The motherboard was changed and one of memories( it should be two, 256M*2) was gone, and all hardwares were not at the right positions. I was very angry. My father said it could only be Mr.Dou who is my father's colleague. He had brought the hosts home and fixed it when the computer was down the lastest time. It have been an old computer, my father said, just forget it! But I cannot forget it. It was not the business of old and new!
And in January, my father said the new computer was down, and my father did not know how to fix it at all. So he asked for Mr.Dou again. At that time, I was in Guangzhou, and I could do nothing. So though I was unhappy, I could say nothing. Later, my father told me the computer could work, though it looked not so well.
I checked the computer yesterday. All the hardwares were loosened, and all my back-up files was deleted, including the system backup and my softwares( I cannot understand why he deleted my files at all. Is it good for him or bad for me? I can download all of them from the Internet and make up the back-up files again. Waste my time? He was without reason, right?)! The drivers were all wrong. I must reload OS or the computer could not work regularly. How could my father and sister use it all these days! And my father was with me all the time when I was reloading OS. I knew my father was very sorry and unhappy. He wanted to learn how to fix a computer and not to be cheated again.
3.19.2009
Something About English Education In China
I never thought about that learning English would cost all my time one day. But now it does. These days, I am studying English from day to night, remember vocabulary, write in English, think in English, read in English, surf English sites, everything is about English. I am very happy. Usually I feel difficult to express myself, because I am so accustomed to think in English that I don't know how to speak in Chinese, and I cannot speaking English either for nobody understand and my oral English is still very poor. Many educators criticize that it is dumb English. Perhaps, but I really don't think so.
Some would like to give an example that a 5-year-old English native child can express himself clearly. Why? Because they listen and speak in English all the time. As a consequence, we should listen and speak in English the more the better when we are learning English, then we can keep away from dumb English, no matter remember vocabulary or not. It sounds right, but in my opinion it is absurd. Let's think about how a baby learn its mother tongue. From the day a mother bore a baby on, the parents speak to the baby day by day. Cite a Chinese baby for an instance, when it is 7~8 months, it can pronounce Papa or Mama, and begin to say some single charators such as "灯" when it is one year old. A baby can only say some single charators while its parents speak to it all the time. We can find that a 3-year-old child usually make some mistakes in word usage, a 5-year-old child can not write. Even if they can not write, all these years,all these communications are processes remembering vocabulary which we usually ignore.
In China, English education begins from the 3rd grade while children are about 10 years old without any English words accumulation. A student is required to have 800 words in hand in 9th grade, 3000 words before university, and 4000 words when graduate from a university. I am very curious how can a graduated person expresses himself with 4000 words, and these 4000 words are all independent. I can imagine that a 10-year-old English native child to express himself clearly must have at least 3000 words in hand though he can not read and write them, he really know them and know how to use them. It seems that we can use the words we know to express what we can express. But quickly you can find how absurd it is to express what we can express. Can a graduated student speak like a pupil? Would they have the same interests as a pupil?
Once I red a composition written by an primary school's English teacher of which the title is WE CAN NEVER LEARN THE REAL ENGLISH. It mentions that we can not offer the children an English environment that they can listen and speak enough, because not all parents can speak English. It sounds that if the parents can speak English, the children can learn real English. What is real English? Being able to speak and listen? Being able only to read and write in English is not real English? I can consider that the teacher doesn't know English at all. No matter what we learn, we must accumulate many fundamental knowledge, and then the theory, finally we can use it smoothly. Before we know enough words and grammar, we can not speak and write clearly.
Some would like to give an example that a 5-year-old English native child can express himself clearly. Why? Because they listen and speak in English all the time. As a consequence, we should listen and speak in English the more the better when we are learning English, then we can keep away from dumb English, no matter remember vocabulary or not. It sounds right, but in my opinion it is absurd. Let's think about how a baby learn its mother tongue. From the day a mother bore a baby on, the parents speak to the baby day by day. Cite a Chinese baby for an instance, when it is 7~8 months, it can pronounce Papa or Mama, and begin to say some single charators such as "灯" when it is one year old. A baby can only say some single charators while its parents speak to it all the time. We can find that a 3-year-old child usually make some mistakes in word usage, a 5-year-old child can not write. Even if they can not write, all these years,all these communications are processes remembering vocabulary which we usually ignore.
In China, English education begins from the 3rd grade while children are about 10 years old without any English words accumulation. A student is required to have 800 words in hand in 9th grade, 3000 words before university, and 4000 words when graduate from a university. I am very curious how can a graduated person expresses himself with 4000 words, and these 4000 words are all independent. I can imagine that a 10-year-old English native child to express himself clearly must have at least 3000 words in hand though he can not read and write them, he really know them and know how to use them. It seems that we can use the words we know to express what we can express. But quickly you can find how absurd it is to express what we can express. Can a graduated student speak like a pupil? Would they have the same interests as a pupil?
Once I red a composition written by an primary school's English teacher of which the title is WE CAN NEVER LEARN THE REAL ENGLISH. It mentions that we can not offer the children an English environment that they can listen and speak enough, because not all parents can speak English. It sounds that if the parents can speak English, the children can learn real English. What is real English? Being able to speak and listen? Being able only to read and write in English is not real English? I can consider that the teacher doesn't know English at all. No matter what we learn, we must accumulate many fundamental knowledge, and then the theory, finally we can use it smoothly. Before we know enough words and grammar, we can not speak and write clearly.
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